Long Xiaoyao was not idle either. He reached out and felt around the Titan Snow Demon. The production rate of soul bones was inherently low, especially since this Titan Snow Demon had only a thousand years of cultivation.
Lady Luck did not favor Long Xiaoyao. Unsuccessful, he was not discouraged. He stood up and glanced at Wang Lin, who was absorbing the soul ring.
He was about to go check the Ice Jade Scorpion's corpse, but with just that one glance, Long Xiaoyao retracted his extended right leg. He turned around, his pair of black eyes staring intently at the purple soul ring circling around Wang Lin.
His brows furrowed. Long Xiaoyao, an Ultimate Douluo, wore a look of confusion at this moment.
Wang Lin, who was fully focused on absorbing the soul ring, did not know that the patterns on the Titan Snow Demon's soul ring circling around him were slowly fading, just like when he absorbed the previous two soul rings.
Time passed minute by minute. As the patterns on the purple soul ring completely disappeared, the brilliant purple soul ring instantly integrated into Wang Lin's body.
Wang Lin opened his eyes, exhaled a wisp of white air, his sharp eyes carrying helplessness and confusion.
The helplessness was because Long Xiaoyao's large face was now extremely close to him, almost touching him.
The confusion was because the soul skill granted by this soul ring was yet another passive amplification soul skill.
"No, Master, why are you so close?" Wang Lin shrank backward, saying helplessly.
"What soul skill did your soul ring bring?" Long Xiaoyao's pair of black eyes stared intently at Wang Lin.
"Uh, passive spiritual power amplification of about twenty-five percent. What's wrong, Master?" Wang Lin felt a bit uneasy under his gaze.
"Passive amplification?" A confused expression appeared on Long Xiaoyao's face. He said in a deep voice: "Summon all your soul rings."
Wang Lin nodded and honestly summoned his soul rings. Three soul rings, one yellow and two purple, slowly rose from beneath Wang Lin's feet.
Long Xiaoyao looked at Wang Lin's first and second soul rings, which also had no patterns, and asked: "What are your first and second soul skills?"
"Passive spiritual power amplification of six percent, passive spiritual power amplification of... ten percent." As he spoke, Wang Lin realized the abnormality himself.
Three soul rings, three different soul beasts. Although all were mental attribute, why were the granted soul skills exactly the same, and all were passive spiritual power amplification?
"Little Linzi, have you ever considered that your soul rings might not have any soul skills?"
Long Xiaoyao said in a deep voice.
"Ah?" Wang Lin was stunned, clearly not understanding Long Xiaoyao's meaning. If there were no soul skills, why did his spiritual power increase after absorbing the soul ring?
"But my spiritual power received a genuine increase."
"Look, this is a normal person's soul ring!" Long Xiaoyao said. A yellow soul ring appeared in his hand. He pointed to the patterns on the soul ring, and then pointed to Wang Lin's soul rings.
Wang Lin looked at Long Xiaoyao's soul ring, then looked at his own soul rings, and found the blind spot.
Long Xiaoyao's soul ring had a faint layer of patterns, but Wang Lin's soul rings were clean as new, like round yellow crystal bracelets, clear and pure.
"Look closely!"
Saying this, Long Xiaoyao activated his soul ring. Wang Lin noticed that the faint patterns on the soul ring lit up first, followed by the entire soul ring.
Rich darkness aura surged out from Long Xiaoyao's body as the soul ring lit up, condensing into a black dragon head in the air.
"Did you see it?" Long Xiaoyao raised his hand to disperse the black dragon head and asked in a deep voice.
"Uh, I saw it." Wang Lin tried to activate his own soul ring. The yellow soul ring shook twice up and down.
Whoosh!
Nothing happened.
"So I have no soul skills, rather than passive amplification soul skills?" Wang Lin asked confusedly. He had previously thought that after the sealing of his Spiritual Sea was removed, he would have normal soul skills.
Now, his soul skills were completely gone.
"Yes." Long Xiaoyao nodded.
"But my spiritual power received a genuine increase." Wang Lin couldn't figure it out.
"It should be due to the mutation of your martial soul. The Brain martial soul might have transformed the soul ring into a container similar to the Spiritual Sea. This should be the reason for the increase in your spiritual power."
Long Xiaoyao pondered for a while and spoke. "Tell me the age of your first soul ring?"
"A little over six hundred years." Wang Lin answered truthfully.
"Is the increase one percent per hundred years?" Long Xiaoyao compared the age of Wang Lin's three soul rings with the data of the increase.
"Master, does this mean that if I absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, my spiritual power can receive a thousand percent increase?"
Thinking of this, Wang Lin suddenly felt that having no soul skills was a good thing.
"Mn, it should be." Long Xiaoyao nodded, but his face showed worry. "Does your spiritual power amplification increase only at the moment of absorbing the soul ring, or does it increase along with the elevation of your spiritual power?"
"It increases along with the elevation of my spiritual power." Wang Lin answered. This was also the main reason why Wang Lin previously thought he had soul skills.
As soon as these words came out, Long Xiaoyao's already furrowed brows deepened.
"Master, isn't this a good thing?" Wang Lin noticed Long Xiaoyao's expression. His cultivation was still low now, but this kind of increase would show a greater disparity as his cultivation became higher.
"This is certainly not a good thing!" Long Xiaoyao shook his head. "Are you thinking that when you reach Titled Douluo, you can achieve invincibility in terms of spiritual power with this amplification?"
"Yes." Wang Lin nodded.
"Then have you considered that you might not reach Titled Douluo? With this kind of increase, your physical body will collapse before you reach Titled Douluo, unable to bear the load."
"The spirit and the physical body are two important planes of human structure. They are intertwined and mutually supportive, forming the integrity of a person."
"If either side is too strong or too weak, it will affect the other side."
Long Xiaoyao said sternly.
"Then is there a solution?" Wang Lin understood Long Xiaoyao's meaning and realized the problem.
"Yes. One is to train your body so that your physical body can keep up with your spirit. The second is to find your limit, control the absorption of soul rings, and pay attention to the age limit."
Long Xiaoyao spoke. Wang Lin's brows furrowed slightly. If he controlled the age limit, would he become a weirdo whose eighth and ninth soul rings were hundred-year soul rings later on?
"You don't need to worry about this now; you are still young." Long Xiaoyao noticed the change in Wang Lin's expression. "How about I send you to the Body Sect? The Body Sect should have a solution."
"No, Master." Wang Lin shook his head. He didn't know why this old fellow Long Xiaoyao kept wanting to send him to others, first Shrek Academy, and now the Body Sect.
Ignoring Long Xiaoyao's thoughts, Wang Lin mentally called out "Attribute Panel."
A crude blue square box appeared in his field of vision.
Name: Wang Lin
Martial Soul: Brain (Mutated)
Cultivation: Level 38 [56%]
Spiritual Power: Level 42 [34%]
Techniques: Secret of the Body Sect—Brain Rank 2 [23%], Eight-Part Vajra Skill (Proficient) [49%], Bone Refining Fire Rank 1 [98%], Bone Control Rank 1 [36%]
Soul Rings: Yellow (642 years), Purple (1000 years), Purple (2489 years)
Soul Bone: Ice Silkworm Exoskeleton Shedding—Spiritual Mimicry
Artifact: Magic Staff Rank 1 [78%]