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"The power of the spirit ring is washing over me, making my physique even stronger, but that isn't the most important part." Su Wen carefully experienced the changes within himself, guiding his spirit to absorb the spirit ring and sensing the process of the ring naturally merging with it.
For Spirit Masters, absorbing a spirit ring was like a fundamental law of nature. Once their spirit reached the corresponding level, they would use their spirit to draw in the spirit ring from the spirit beast they had slain, and the absorption process would begin.
The spirit power stored within the spirit ring circulated through Su Wen's body, tempering his physical form.
He couldn't perceive any particularly special changes just from this.
However, Su Wen, relying on his unique talent, possessed an extraordinarily strong perception of his own self. Even in a normal state, he could sense the existence of his own spirit space.
Now, during the process of absorbing the spirit ring, Su Wen's senses were even clearer. His perception within his spirit space had even reached the same level of precise control he normally had over his own body!
"The spirit ring's spirit power is, in the end, still the spirit ring's. For it to become mine, it must first accept the characteristics bestowed by my spirit."
Within his spirit space, wisps and strands of spirit power were merging into the space. This was the spirit ring's spirit power, having already circulated once through Su Wen's body.
"This is only a small portion that's managing to seep in, but it seems I can accelerate this infiltration speed."
Su Wen didn't rush to act. He first needed to understand the complete details of the spirit ring absorption process before he would apply his own interference.
Otherwise, if his actions were to interrupt a critical part of the process, the situation could become uncontrollable.
"Is this the origin of the spirit ring?" A unique aura was merging directly into his spirit space, carrying a presence that felt extremely familiar to Su Wen.
"The formation of a spirit ring absorbs the spirit beast's origin. The spirit beast's origin is the very foundation of the spirit ring's existence."
As this origin surged into his spirit space, Su Wen could finally confirm that all the essential steps had begun.
"The spirit ring's origin merges with the spirit, strengthening it. Meanwhile, the spirit power from the ring roams through the meridians of the body. Tempering the body is likely just a side effect; the real reason is that this power cannot easily merge into the spirit space, so it accumulates in the body. Once the volume of this spirit power becomes too vast..."
Once the spirit power contained within the spirit ring is too immense, the Spirit Master's meridians will be unable to withstand the impact, and they will explode and die!
He made an attempt. Su Wen 'ferried' even more of the spirit ring's spirit power into his spirit space.
"There's no negative impact!"
The rest was still circulating in his body, not because it needed to, but because it simply couldn't get in.
Su Wen opened his spirit space wide, painstakingly forcing more of this spirit ring spirit power to squeeze inside.
"It's too much! No more can come in!"
Su Wen promptly stopped the operation and attempted to mobilize this new batch of spirit ring spirit power now inside his spirit space.
This spirit ring's spirit power was not the origin spirit power he had cultivated himself, nor was it the spirit power that his spirit had refined and imbued with its characteristics. He had no direct control over it. He could only rely on his own origin spirit power and the preliminary connection he had just established with the spirit ring to crudely direct it.
"Time to try it."
Su Wen mobilized his origin spirit power, using his most meticulous control to merge it into his spirit, which was currently in the process of fusing with the spirit ring's origin. This was to prevent any mistakes.
As his origin spirit power merged into the process, Su Wen's heart pounded with growing excitement.
It works!
The origin spirit power he fed into it was becoming nourishment for the spirit's metamorphosis!
"No, I can't merge any more." Su Wen halted the infusion of his origin spirit power. "First, I must use up the spirit ring's spirit power, then I can add more of my origin spirit power."
He still needed his origin spirit power to control the spirit ring's spirit power, so naturally, he couldn't exhaust his own supply first.
His origin spirit power merged into the spirit itself. The spirit ring's spirit power, directed by Su Wen, was instead merged into the spirit ring's origin, acting as the energy source for the spirit ring's transformation of the spirit.
"The spirit ring's transformation of the spirit also consumes energy. Under normal circumstances, this energy is drawn from the spirit ring's origin, and a great deal of it is consumed during the transformation. The small amount of the spirit ring's spirit power that slowly seeps in accounts for a tiny fraction."
"By actively diverting more of the spirit ring's spirit power to penetrate the spirit space and feeding it into the transformation process, I'm using it as fuel for the transformation. This leads to less 'pointless' consumption of the spirit ring's origin, and it can also transform my spirit to a much greater degree."
His spirit was strengthening bit by bit. Su Wen felt a joy rising from the depths of his heart, and in his excitement, he began to summarize the entire process.
"The transformation from the spirit ring's spirit power is cruder. The transformation from the spirit ring's origin is more fundamental. I must infuse my origin spirit power into the spirit to help it withstand this transformation."
Not all spirits, after all, can necessarily endure such a metamorphosis.
At this moment, his origin spirit power played its role, acting as a reserve energy source to help the spirit persevere.
Time flowed by.
Two hours later.
"It actually took this long!"
Generally speaking, a Spirit Master absorbing their first spirit ring would finish within half an hour.
Su Wen had now exceeded two hours.
"Don't worry. Little Wen's aura has been continuously strengthening, and I can sense that his spirit is undergoing a metamorphosis. This is a good thing." Sisi observed with meticulous care. "This spirit ring... it's perfectly suited for him!"
By now, Su Wen had consumed the vast majority of the origin spirit power within his spirit space.
"A spirit's metamorphosis has its limits. It has reached its limit now."
Simply put, it was stuffed to bursting.
Even if he continued to infuse his origin spirit power for support, he couldn't push it any further. Otherwise, the spirit would be 'stuffed' to the point of breaking.
"There is still some origin spirit power and spirit ring spirit power left over."
The spirit's metamorphosis was complete, and Su Wen also felt his own bottleneck shatter.
His origin spirit power began to circulate, merging with the spirit power in his body.
The remaining spirit ring spirit power that had been circulating in Su Wen's body also began to seep into the spirit space, where it was refined and then merged back into Su Wen's own power.
Little by little, Su Wen refined all of the remaining spirit power.
Another half an hour passed.
When Su Wen opened his eyes, it felt as if a lifetime had passed.
His feelings at this moment were complex beyond description.
He had succeeded!
Absorbing the first spirit ring was just the most basic part.
For Su Wen, the truly exciting part—the part that finally let the great stone that had been weighing on his heart for so long fall—was the metamorphosis of his spirit!
"My theory was correct!"
The joy of personally validating his own theory filled Su Wen with elation.
"Little Wen, how's the first spirit skill?" Su Yuntao could tell from Su Wen's expression that it wouldn't be bad, but he asked anyway.
However, he didn't directly ask for the specifics of the skill's effect.
"Brother Tao, the skill's effect is very good!"
A Spirit Master's spirit skills were private, and one generally wouldn't reveal them to others unless the relationship was exceptionally close.
However, Su Yuntao and the others had helped him hunt this spirit ring, so Su Wen naturally wouldn't conceal it completely.
"My spirit skill is an amplification-type skill."
"An auxiliary-type?" Su Yuntao's eyes lit up.
He had always felt that the auxiliary path was a better direction for Su Wen than others. Learning the type of Su Wen's spirit skill, he felt genuinely happy for him.
"Brother Tao, wait for me to finish," Su Wen interrupted helplessly.
Brother Tao, you're celebrating too soon.
"It is indeed an enhancement-type skill, and it is auxiliary in nature... but this skill's effect is applied to my own spirit."
(End of this chapter)