Controlling a specially made battle-soul instrument and soul-tool devices, Chen Fu ran experiments while recording his observations.
"Why do soul rings have colors?"
"First attempt at a spiritual-force impact, increasing intensity…"
"Trying mixed soul power… adjusting the ratio…"
"Detected fluctuations, recording."
"Unknown gaps appearing in the fluctuation data."
After hundreds of trials and errors, Chen Fu,his face pale,felt he had grasped a faint clue.
Soul rings were linked to the spirit. Using his own soul ring for experiments consumed some spiritual energy. But after self-testing confirmed that the consumption was manageable, he continued working within safe limits.
"It should be that hypothesis. The color of the first soul ring is fading."
Chen Fu continued operating the specialized spiritual-impact device. First, he injected his own spiritual power into the device, then mixed it in a specific ratio with the primordial soul power inside the Ark Core. The semi-fused mixture struck the soul ring at high speed.
Since the soul power in the Ark Core was his own, and the spiritual power was also his, theoretically the shock,identical in frequency and attribute,should pass through quickly and harmlessly.
However, in this half-fusion state, the soul ring also needed to possess the same spiritual-soul frequency as his true body to remain completely unharmed. Even a close match would cause slight damage.
Adjusting the fusion ratio did not affect his own body but could trick imitators who weren't very smart.
If the ring remained intact, it meant the soul ring was truly part of himself. If there was consumption, then the "attachment" was still an external object,highly influenced, perhaps, but ultimately different from the original essence.
"In traditional soul-ring colors,white, yellow, purple, black, red,the soul beasts' intelligence varies dramatically. From my analysis, intelligence is affected by the soul, not the spirit. Spirit can arise from the soul, but it isn't the soul."
"So then, the soul determines color, and spirit determines soul skill type and strength?"
"And part of the soul power is injected into the soul ring according to a certain ratio, while the remainder returns to the world?"
"So the darker the color, the stronger the oppressive feeling?"
"If this is really the case…"
Chen Fu recorded rapidly on the custom battle-soul instrument and set the laboratory to seclusion mode.
"If completely removing it, what about soul skills?"
"This shortcut is… far too much of a shortcut!"
"So it really is that fragments of unconscious residual souls reside inside soul rings…"
"Can a Seizer's control truly suppress these remnants completely?"
"If so… does that mean it's possible to activate… delete this record!"
[Record deleted]
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"He's been shut inside for a month?"
Ma Xiaotao, looking like a fiery fairy, stared at the large hamster blocking the door.
"He said no one is allowed to disturb him during seclusion."
Mo Ling was afraid Ma Xiaotao would force her way in; that would be impossible to explain.
"Doesn't he have monthly orders?"
"Young master finished them all on the same day."
Old Fu, who had rushed over after hearing noise, added the explanation.
Ma Xiaotao's gaze paused briefly on Mo Ling's wrist. She let out a cold snort and turned to leave.
After waiting half a day in Lin Pavilion and seeing no movement from the room, she finally chose to return to her cultivation.
"Let me know when he finishes his seclusion."
Three days later, the tightly shut metal door finally opened.
A man with a pale face and weary expression, but eyes full of energy, staggered out.
"Young master!"
Old Fu, who had been keeping watch since hearing noises, hurried forward to support him.
Mo Ling, meanwhile, called for the cook to prepare food and brewed tea for Chen Fu.
Seeing Chen Fu eating without saying a word, the two felt anxious but dared not ask.
Finally, after Chen Fu had eaten and drunk his fill, Mo Ling couldn't help asking:
"What did you do to yourself? Why do you look like this?"
"It was fine at first. But near the end I ran out of dry rations. After finishing the last experiment, I was so hungry my head was spinning."
After a month of gnawing on hard dry rations, Chen Fu now leaned contentedly on the armchair the hamster girl usually used to slack off.
Everything had gone smoothly,until the very last experiment, when his food ran out. He had to force himself to finish anyway, nearly fainting from hunger.
But the harvest from this month was immense. He had basically figured out soul rings.
He identified three uses: the crudest and weakest was "ring detonation," followed by the storage ring, and finally complete ring dissolution.
The first offered a brief explosive boost. The second, a commoner-unfriendly energy-storage ring. The last involved nourishing the ring with one's own body.
Chen Fu still didn't know the upper limits of the last two, but ring detonation had clear documentation.
The theoretical upper limit of a storage ring was the soul power reserve of a soul beast,or beyond.
Ring dissolution removed the residual soul from the ring and linked it to the body's meridians, enhancing physique and recovery.
Dissolution and storage could coexist, but most people could not sustain both.
He also formed two preliminary theories about obtaining soul rings.
The first was the difficult self-attachment method, similar to how soul beasts in human form could create their own soul rings. Though difficult, the theoretical success rate was high.
Soul beasts could self-condense rings because they had ten thousand years of accumulation,soul, spirit, and soul power combined, imprinting their abilities.
As for why transformed soul beasts couldn't self-attach rings after the sixth ring, Chen Fu simply felt that ten-thousand-year soul beasts were too dumb,they didn't study or accumulate properly.
He racked his brain but couldn't understand why, after ten thousand years, soul beasts were still so stupid,immense soul power, yet as foolish as an oaf.
However, ferocious-beast-level soul beasts were much smarter. Theoretically, if such a beast transformed, its deep accumulation in wisdom and skill should break the so-called "transformed soul beasts cannot break through Soul Sage on their own" nonsense.
The second soul-ring acquisition method was simpler,still using soul beasts, but not killing them.
Unlike the traditional method of slaughter, soul-ring formation required only a small amount of the beast's soul, along with injected spiritual power and soul power. The soul could be withdrawn afterward, degrading quality, or left intact for a true beast ring. And throughout this process, there was no need to kill the beast or endure its final spiritual attack.
Both methods remained theoretical and needed experimental verification.
But the future looked promising.
After resting for an afternoon, Chen Fu spent the next day completing the month's orders and restocking ordinary soul tools.
At this moment, the cultivation fanatic from next door arrived.
After a month, she had advanced another level. Without the worry of evil fire, Ma Xiaotao cultivated with extreme passion.
"Xiaotao, come here! I'll show you a big treasure!"
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