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Su Wen was very satisfied with the effect of his first spirit ring.
First, while this spirit ring had transformed and upgraded his spirit's quality, the spirit skill it granted also possessed a passive effect that could strengthen his spirit.
However, this passive effect was not very pronounced.
Of course, these weren't the most important aspects. The main thing was that when this spirit skill was actively cast, it could substantially enhance Su Wen's spirit.
It was a direct strengthening at the fundamental origin level.
It was equivalent to granting Su Wen's spirit an out-of-nowhere metamorphosis.
"This is a spirit skill that was born from my development path of using origin spirit power to strengthen my spirit."
Su Wen was now certain that his theory—developing one's spirit to guide the acquisition of a corresponding spirit skill—was correct.
"Aside from the spirit skill's effect, the spirit ring's enhancement of my spirit—beyond the significant increase in its fundamental quality—was most obvious in the improvement of my spirit's hardness and resilience. This is clearly related to my usual development methods."
The yellow spirit ring shimmered with a bright light.
Su Wen activated his first spirit skill.
Instantly, he felt his spirit power rapidly drain, as if merging from thin air into his spirit space and fusing into his spirit.
The spirit power seemed to be returning to its source as it merged into the spirit.
Furthermore, the effect was even more pronounced than the enhancement from his origin spirit power; the magnitude was significant.
"Many of the Book Spirit's inherent characteristics were also drawn out by this metamorphosis."
This was unrelated to the type of spirit ring; it was purely because Su Wen's spirit had undergone a minor evolution and now intrinsically possessed some of the Book Spirit's characteristics.
"This effect... I can call it—Clarity!"
Su Wen felt his brain working at high speed, his mind exceptionally clear.
A glint of wisdom flashed in his eyes as he looked at the book in his hands.
As his Book Spirit merged with the book, his speed of comprehension and "digestion" also increased substantially.
After just one minute, he had completely digested a thick volume of information.
"It's not that it made me inherently smarter. Rather, it allows me to think more rationally and with greater clarity, and my brain simply processes information faster."
Thinking about more things in a shorter amount of time.
It wasn't about reaching the correct answer faster with the same line of thought.
Understanding everything at a single glance?
Su Wen's current state wasn't like that. Instead, he could think more in a short period, allowing him to use sheer volume of thought to compensate for any lack of efficiency.
"This is more than enough for me."
It had consumed about ten percent of his spirit power.
He continued reading the materials.
Ten minutes passed.
Su Wen's spirit power was completely exhausted, yet his mind felt incredibly vigorous.
"This efficiency is astonishing."
And this was only in the aspect of pure learning.
"The first spirit skill is an all-around enhancement. This means it can also be applied as an all-around enhancement in combat."
In those ten minutes, rather than saying he was experiencing the effect of his first spirit skill, it was more accurate to say Su Wen was experiencing the new characteristic his spirit had awakened after its evolution.
Even with his spirit power now depleted, Su Wen could still feel that his base learning speed far surpassed what it was before he obtained the spirit ring.
"The most important aspect of this characteristic for me is that it allows me to interact with spiritual power much more easily."
Su Wen was certain that a spirit characteristic like this was definitely related to spiritual power.
The moment he sensed this change in his spirit, he already had a clear direction for his second spirit ring.
A spiritual attribute!
After laying a solid foundation, there was no rush to consider combat-oriented abilities.
"Falling slightly behind on the first and second spirit rings isn't a major issue. As long as I can seize these two opportunities to build my foundation properly, then by the time I get to thousand-year and ten-thousand-year spirit rings, I will have a superior foundation to obtain superior skills. At the same time, I'll be able to better unleash the effects of those skills."
In the blink of an eye, the seven-day vacation passed.
Su Wen returned to Nuoding City's Primary Spirit Master Academy.
"My current cultivation speed has also seen a huge improvement. I'm hopeful I can reach level 20 within two years."
Su Wen's cultivation speed hadn't been slow from the start. Due to his strong spiritual power, his speed of refining the world's energy had never been lacking.
Coupled with his external physical training and the increasingly refined spirit power circulation pathways he had mapped out, his cultivation speed was already exceptionally outstanding among his peers.
Now, with his spirit's evolution, his fundamental aptitude had improved, making the advantage of his spiritual power even more pronounced.
"The development of my internal and external cultivation techniques must also be accelerated."
Fortunately, joining Spirit Hall had given Su Wen a true reserve of knowledge. His theoretical research was no longer based on pure conjecture followed by validation; he now had actual data to support him and a wealth of 'common knowledge' he could apply directly.
After returning to the academy, Su Wen once again entered his cultivation mode. This continued until Tang San broke through to level 20 and prepared to acquire his second spirit ring.
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Dormitory 7.
"Little San, isn't your cultivation speed a bit too fast?" Wang Sheng and the others exclaimed in amazement.
He had been at Nuoding Academy for just over two years. By careful calculation, Tang San was only eight, not even nine years old yet.
An eight-year-old Grand Spirit Master!
Wang Sheng's eyes were filled with deep envy.
His gaze shifted to Su Wen, who was still clearly in deep meditation, and he sighed.
"Su Wen's cultivation speed isn't slow either. He should also be close to breaking through to level 20."
Su Wen was two years older than Tang San, making him at least ten years old now.
Compared to the shock of Tang San being an eight-year-old Grand Spirit Master, Su Wen seemed much more ordinary...
Of course, Tang San had yet to obtain his second spirit ring, so he wasn't technically a Grand Spirit Master yet.
"Xiao Wu, I'm going with Teacher tomorrow to hunt a spirit ring. You'd better not cause any trouble at the academy," Tang San reminded Xiao Wu, his tone doting.
"..."
"Su Wen, we're going to celebrate. Want to come along?" Wang Sheng walked over to Su Wen and asked.
Opening his eyes, Su Wen shook his head.
"Alright then."
Wang Sheng and the others left, leaving Su Wen alone in the dormitory.
"Two years... Two years have passed since I obtained my first spirit ring, and my spirit power has also broken through to level 20."
He had obtained his first spirit ring about half a year later than Tang San. After absorbing it, Su Wen was only level 12, whereas Tang San had reached level 13.
And yet, Su Wen's breakthrough to level 20 had occurred at almost the exact same time as Tang San's.
"It was the Blue Silver Grass spirit that slowed Tang San's pace, not a sign of my own excellence." Su Wen reminded himself. "My talent still has room for improvement. I can go even further."
Given the results from last time, Su Wen similarly had no plans to rush acquiring his second spirit ring.
In Grandmaster's theory, the maximum age limit for a second spirit ring was 764 years.
"That number... it's just a conservative figure to avoid being proven wrong."
After all, different Spirit Masters have different physical conditions, and the type of spirit beast the ring comes from also has an impact.
Therefore, 764 years is simply the limit that an average Spirit Master can absorb without their body exploding.
"My spirit isn't suited for body tempering, but I myself have been constantly training my body. By cultivating both internally and externally, my body is extremely strong in all aspects."
Most importantly, he had discovered a technique during his first spirit ring absorption that could raise his limit for the age of the spirit ring he could withstand.
"All things considered, even if I can't absorb a thousand-year spirit ring for my second one, I can at least withstand nine hundred years!"
A nine-hundred-year ring, combined with his 'guidance' technique and a sufficient accumulation of origin spirit power...
The enhancement to his spirit from this second spirit ring would be in no way inferior to that of a thousand-year ring!
"Therefore, I can graduate early."
(End of this chapter)