91: Chapter 89 Grafting and Ring-Raising Method

In truth, the principle behind this Grafting Soul Ring Method wasn't overly complex when laid bare.

Simply put, it involved finding a high-age Spirit Beast sharing the same source as an existing spirit ring, then sending its Soul into the interior of the spirit ring to let it spontaneously condense a new Soul imprint.

After that, only this new Soul imprint would be retained; to eliminate pollution and rejection, all remaining remnant Souls and broken spirits had to be completely purged.

Next, once the newly formed Soul imprint was guided into the Soul Skill Rule Space, it required the power of Divine Sense to perform precise micro-interventions.

During this process, one could not simply let this newly formed Soul imprint and the original imprint stack and aggregate together haphazardly.

Instead, one had to first use the power of Divine Sense to warp a memory of Reincarnation into the original Soul imprint.

Specifically, it meant making the original low-age Spirit Beast reincarnate after its death into the later high-age Spirit Beast.

This way, the memories in the newly formed Soul imprint could be grafted over naturally and logically.

As the memories of the two connected and their "existences" overlapped, the strength of the Soul imprint would naturally be enhanced as a result!

After completing the most crucial and difficult step of strengthening the Soul imprint, the rest was simple.

One only needed to replenish sufficient pure Soul power and Soul Power into the first two layers of the spirit ring's structure.

Then, the three-layer structure of the spirit ring would spontaneously resonate and continue to evolve. At that point, the ring upgrade was successfully completed.

As for why a Spirit Beast of the same source had to be chosen for memory grafting, it was naturally because under the same source, the resistance during memory warping was at its lowest, and the rejection after Fusion was also at its weakest.

According to their experiments, if the grafted memory came from a Spirit Beast of a different source, not only would the resistance multiply exponentially during memory warping,

but even if forcibly grafted with success, the two spliced memories would experience slight rejection, releasing fine memory fragments that would pollute the Spirit Master's Soul.

Although this bit of pollution was almost negligible compared to the Holy Spirit Cult's ring upgrade method, a slight flaw remained nonetheless.

Thus, to be safe, as long as a Spirit Beast of the same source and species could be found, it was best to use a same-source Spirit Beast to complete the ring upgrade.

This was precisely why Lin Yan's third spirit ring had not yet undergone a ring upgrade.

The Withered-Prosperous Fire Dragon was already rare to begin with, and high-age ones were even scarcer.

However, he had already entrusted the search for the dragon to Elder Gong Changlong.

With Shrek's vast influence, news would surely come before long.

As for the Spirit Beast Lin Yan chose for his first spirit ring's upgrade this time, it was a Fire-Swallowing Demon Wolf with an age of up to seventy thousand years!

This meant that the age of his first spirit ring had now leaped to a terrifying seventy thousand years!

The direct effect it brought was that the Law fragment—which had originally been restricted by the age of the spirit ring and unable to release its full power—was finally further liberated.

Reflected in his Spirit Ability, Lin Yan's refining capability and speed for beast flames and even Heavenly Flames had undergone a qualitative leap.

With faster refining speed, not only would the evolution of the Emperor Flame be further accelerated,

but even the all-attribute boost percentage provided by his first Spirit Ability could grow much faster along with it.

Originally, as the Emperor Flame continuously evolved and the boost percentage kept climbing, swallowing low-tier beast flames had already yielded significantly diminished returns in increasing the percentage.

For instance, when Lin Yan first obtained his first Spirit Ability, swallowing a hundred-year beast flame could still yield nearly a 5% increase in the boost percentage.

But as the boost percentage grew higher and higher, the gain brought by swallowing hundred-year beast flames became increasingly minuscule.

In fact, after the boost percentage broke through 500%, swallowing hundred-year-tier beast flames had virtually no effect on raising the boost ratio anymore.

Now, with the jump in spirit ring age and the surge in refining speed, relying on swallowing massive amounts of flame could pull that plummeting percentage growth rate back up through sheer "quantity."

As for the seventy-thousand-year Fire-Swallowing Demon Wolf Lin Yan used this time, it naturally came from Shrek's Beast Pen.

After all, if he had gone to hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest, how could he have found a suitable target and completed the ring upgrade in such a short time?

In truth, it was quite a coincidence.

Back when Shrek deduced that Lin Yan's ridiculously powerful first Spirit Ability originated from a Fire-Swallowing Demon Wolf,

they immediately sent people to the Star Dou Great Forest to capture a batch of them.

That seventy-thousand-year Fire-Swallowing Demon Wolf was the oldest among them.

Since Lin Yan frequently visited the Beast Pen, he naturally knew of its existence.

Therefore, once the Grafting Soul Ring Method was perfected, he directly used the thirty-thousand-year fire-attribute Spirit Bone he had obtained from Principal Yan Shaozhe to trade for it from Elder Gong Changlong.

In Lin Yan's view, trading a dust-gathering Spirit Bone that he couldn't use for a seventy-thousand-year Spirit Beast was in no way a loss.

But Elder Gong Changlong did not think so.

In his eyes, a Spirit Beast was something he could just catch again from the Star Dou Great Forest with a little effort and time.

A Spirit Bone, however, was something one could only come across by chance and never seek out.

What's more, it was a top-quality fire-attribute Spirit Bone that perfectly matched his own attributes!

So in his eyes, Lin Yan undoubtedly suffered a huge loss in this exchange.

Precisely because of this, when Lin Yan brought up the matter back then, he stubbornly insisted on compensating Lin Yan with additional items.

Unable to dissuade him, Lin Yan had no choice but to take the opportunity to entrust him with finding a high-age Withered-Prosperous Fire Dragon.

At the same time, seventy thousand years was also the absolute limit of age that Lin Yan could currently withstand.

According to his deductions, it would take reaching Rank 50 and successfully condensing a Spirit Core before he could truly withstand a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring!

At that time, he would finally be able to set about completing his fourth spirit ring!

In fact, back when he returned from the Far North, Lin Yan had thought about completing his fourth spirit ring.

However, considering the existence of the Heavenly Flame spirit ring, his Soul Power Rank progression was not bottlenecked, so he wasn't in a rush to set off.

Later on, once he understood the structure of spirit rings and truly confirmed that Acquired ring upgrading could not yield new Law fragments for anchoring, he became even less inclined to hastily complete his fourth spirit ring.

After all, if he could directly absorb a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, it meant he could anchor two Law fragments at the moment of absorption!

When the time came to fuse it with the Heavenly Flame spirit ring... he didn't even dare to imagine how outrageously powerful that Spirit Ability would become!

This was also the primary motivation behind why he had modified the third version of his Body Refining Art to be so brutal back then.

All so he could bear a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring as soon as possible.

Pain?

Merely a bit of wind and frost!

...

Just as Lin Yan's thoughts were surging, the stunned crowd finally managed to calm themselves down slightly.

In the very next moment, Ma Xiaotao, standing opposite him, grit her teeth hard and barked, "Just put on a show!"

A second later, before her voice even faded, the first spirit ring beneath her feet suddenly lit up!

A scorching deep-red beam tore through the air, shooting straight for Lin Yan's face!

"Phoenix Fire Wire!"

However, facing this fierce strike, Lin Yan didn't even make any extra movements.

He merely raised his palm gently, and the blue-green interwoven Emperor Flame instantly turned into an incomparably dazzling screen of fire across his front.

Immediately after, the fiery beam capable of melting gold and splitting stone slammed into it, yet it was like a mud cow entering the sea, failing to raise even a single ripple.

At that exact instant, the pitch-black first spirit ring beneath Lin Yan's feet suddenly shone bright.

The aura around his body exploded, surging wildly like a volcano dormant for ten thousand years suddenly erupting!

First Spirit Ability—Flame Swallowing!

All-attribute boost—720%!

Extreme high temperatures, carrying a terrifying pressure so scorching it almost stagnated the air, surged in all directions like a tsunami.

Feeling the heat wave rushing at them, Dai Yueheng and the others at the edge of the arena involuntarily stepped back several paces, their expressions growing increasingly solemn.