For an ordinary Rank 80-level soul hunting team, the Light Holy Dragon's powerful physique and sturdy dragon scales would make it a true walking fortress—one that couldn't be broken through without high-year strong assault soul skills.
However, to Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow, whose strength under battle armor could rival that of a Title Douluo, this Light Holy Dragon was nothing more than a tougher elite monster with a long health bar. It couldn't be easily defeated, but it was still within their capabilities.
After a long battle, under the relentless burning of Iceflame Fire, the Light Holy Dragon, still frozen in ice, finally lost all signs of life. Golden light particles spread throughout the air as a pitch-black soul ring gradually condensed.
Seeing this, Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow ceased its attack. Then, with a flash of ice-blue light, Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow vanished, revealing the figures of Mu Yang and Shui Bing'er.
"Go ahead and absorb the soul ring to advance."
Beside them, Shui Yanyu, who had already retracted her martial soul, waved her hand.
"Mm."
Mu Yang nodded slightly, then summoned his Iceflame Immortal Jade Ginseng martial soul and stepped forward to guide and refine the soul ring.
Back when he advanced to his fifth ring, his fifth soul ring was nearly 50,000 years old. Logically speaking, a 60,000-year-old sixth soul ring should not match his level.
However, that logic only applied to ordinary 60,000-year soul rings, and did not include soul rings from powerful bloodline beasts like the Light Holy Dragon.
While the age was slightly lower, the actual effects of this soul ring were comparable to those of an 80,000 to 90,000-year-old soul ring.
Of course, that wasn't the main reason. The biggest factor was that Mu Yang had recently used his deduction talent to test the feasibility of a certain secret technique.
To ordinary soul masters, their soul ring's age was unchangeable—what they absorbed at the time of binding was what they had for life.
To a select few soul masters, however, soul ring age was not an absolute limit. Through God Trials, they had the opportunity to receive rewards that enhanced their soul ring age.
But to Mu Yang, there was more than one way to enhance soul ring age—it wasn't limited to God Trials and their rewards.
For example, there was the widely known method among transmigrators—Tian Meng, stat allocation!
Unfortunately, he didn't have Tian Meng. The only cheat-like ability he possessed was his deduction talent.
If uncertain about something, just deduce it.
Recently, Mu Yang had a bold idea—could a special secret technique be developed to enhance soul ring age?
In the original work, Tang San's fifth innate soul ring from Blue Silver Grass could automatically increase in age as his physique improved.
In later generations, soul masters in the Spirit Ascension Platform could increase their soul ring age by killing soul beasts and absorbing their energy.
These two cases proved that the laws of the Douluo Continent did not restrict soul ring age enhancement solely to divine power.
As expected, after a series of test deductions, Mu Yang's deduction ability confirmed that, in theory, a secret technique for enhancing soul ring age could exist.
As for how long the deduction process would take and what the exact effects of the secret technique would be? That was still unknown.
It wasn't that Mu Yang didn't want to explore it further, but rather that priorities had to be set. Right now, his deduction ability's primary focus was still on metal forging and battle armor crafting.
Unlike Tian Meng-style stat allocation cheats, his deduction ability couldn't instantly grant him a 100,000-year or even 1,000,000-year soul ring. Even if the secret technique was deduced, he would still need an unknown amount of time to cultivate it.
Since there was no clear timeframe, Mu Yang naturally chose to prioritize deductions that would boost his strength more immediately.
Time passed slowly. The sun set, and the moon rose.
By the time it reached the early hours before dawn, inside the forest, on the towering branches of an ancient tree, Shui Yanyu released her spiritual power, keeping a constant watch on any activity within a kilometer radius.
Below, by a small campfire, Shui Bing'er, looking bored, absentmindedly poked at the flames with a tree branch.
Every now and then, she glanced toward Mu Yang, who was seated cross-legged near the massive corpse of the Light Holy Dragon, refining his soul ring.
Suddenly, a surge of soul power erupted from Mu Yang's body. His aura skyrocketed as he successfully refined the Light Holy Dragon's soul ring, breaking through his previous limit and advancing to Sixth Ring Soul Emperor.
Moreover, due to the soul ring's age surpassing the typical optimal limit, the moment he advanced, his soul power level immediately reached Rank 62.
"It's a pity that two-word battle armor hasn't been developed yet. Otherwise, with my current foundation alongside Bing'er, we could undoubtedly reach the peak of the Eight-Ring level."
"If we then activated our martial soul fusion skill… even if Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo stood before us, as long as we excluded the Extreme Static Domain, could I confidently say—one chrysanthemum, one little ghost?"
Opening his eyes, Mu Yang glanced at the Iceflame Immortal Jade Ginseng before him. Upon its ginseng-like body, next to the existing red, orange, yellow, green, and cyan patterns, a new blue pattern had now emerged.
He couldn't help but muse to himself.
"No time for arrogance. In the Soul Master world, there are many stronger than Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo—some can even defeat them in a single move."
"Not bad, not bad! Mu Yang, you've caught up to my level again! Quick, show me your sixth soul skill!"
As soon as Mu Yang awoke, Shui Bing'er hurried over, smiling eagerly.
Nodding slightly, Mu Yang activated his sixth soul ring. As soul power surged, a Indigo light flashed, and a three-inch-long, leafless Indigo ginseng suddenly materialized in his hand.
"Here, have a taste~"
Mu Yang handed the freshly manifested soul power ginseng to Shui Bing'er.
Taking the Indigo ginseng, Shui Bing'er immediately popped it into her mouth. As she circulated her soul power, the Indigo ginseng transformed into a stream of light, instantly merging into her abdomen.
In that instant, Shui Bing'er's aura surged significantly.
"This… is a ginseng that boosts strength?"
Smacking her lips, Shui Bing'er asked in surprise.
"Indigo Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng."
"After consumption, it increases all attributes by 40%. The effect lasts for half an hour, and during this period, you become immune to all negative status effects."
Mu Yang smiled as he explained.
The Indigo Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng had two major effects:
Enhancing attributes
Granting immunity to negative effects
The attribute boost was within Mu Yang's expectations.
After all, dragon-type soul beasts were symbols of immense power, so gaining a buff-type soul skill from absorbing a Light Holy Dragon's soul ring was completely reasonable.
However, the negative status immunity effect caught Mu Yang slightly off guard.
Upon deeper thought, though, it made sense—the Light Holy Dragon possessed a light attribute and emitted a faintly divine aura. In that case, it was natural for the resulting soul skill to grant such an effect.
One thing was certain: with all other factors equal—such as soul ring type and age—the more effects a soul skill had, the weaker each individual effect would be.
Logically, if Indigo Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng had only provided attribute enhancement, then the boost would be far higher than 40%—it could have reached 50% or more.
Even so, the continuous negative status immunity was still a powerful effect.
At first glance, it seemed similar to his third soul skill Yellow Jade Detoxifying Ginseng, but in reality, they were completely different.
Yellow Jade Detoxifying Ginseng: Upon consumption, it removes all abnormal status effects, including poison.
Indigo Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng: Grants continuous immunity to all negative effects for half an hour.
For instance, if a poison-type soul master attacked Mu Yang with toxic mist, and he only used Yellow Jade Detoxifying Ginseng, it wouldn't help much.
Since poison mist lingers, even if he removed the toxins inside his body, he would immediately get poisoned again unless he escaped the mist's range.
And in the heat of battle, there might not always be time to repeatedly consume soul power food.
But the Indigo Jade Rising Dragon Ginseng was different.
Once consumed, it granted half an hour of continuous immunity. During that time, there was no need for repeated consumption—a single bite was all it took.
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