In this era of the Douluo Continent, there was still no proper classification for spiritual power, and its applications were at an extremely crude level.
Not to mention the detailed divisions like Spirit Origin, Spirit Connection, Spirit Sea, etc., that would appear tens of thousands of years later.
At this time, increases in spiritual power basically relied on passive growth from soul power cultivation.
Lin Yang, having lived three lifetimes, had spiritual power stronger than his peers. This could be seen from his immunity to charm control.
But exactly which stage he was at, even he couldn't say for sure.
However, he could roughly divide spiritual power into these stages:
The first was ordinary people, who only had the most basic spiritual power that couldn't be utilized—corresponding to the Spirit Origin realm.
Next, after awakening a martial soul, as one continuously cultivated and obtained soul rings, spiritual power would passively grow imperceptibly.
At this level, soul masters could only use spiritual power crudely for perception and detection, without any substantial influence on reality.
This roughly corresponded to the Spirit Connection realm.
Because there were no dedicated spiritual power cultivation methods, let alone the concept of soul spirits.
Therefore, the vast majority of soul masters were at this level—even Soul Kings, Soul Emperors, and even Soul Sages remained in this range.
The difference between them was nothing more than higher-cultivation soul masters having larger perception ranges and longer detection distances.
When spiritual power took another step forward, one could introspect their spiritual world and interfere with a target's spirit or soul power.
This corresponded to the early Spirit Sea realm.
Using Tang San's Purple Demon Eyes as a benchmark, it should be called the "Mustard Seed" stage!
Currently, Lin Yang should belong to the early Spirit Sea level.
As for the "Shame of Soul Sages"—Shi Nian, a soul master specializing in spiritual power.
His spiritual power was already enough to interfere with others' spirits and could easily pull people into illusions.
That level should correspond to the mid-to-high segment of the Spirit Sea realm.
If he hadn't been so reckless, the Douluo Continent might have truly produced a spiritual-type Title Douluo.
It was a pity that he not only became a complete "clown" but also personally delivered a precious head soul bone to someone else.
As for the later Spirit Abyss realm, it was probably only reachable by those few ninety-ninth-level Limit Douluos.
Not to mention the even later Spirit Domain and Divine Origin realms.
This wasn't due to a lack of talent, but the limitations of the era.
Without the boost from soul spirits, relying solely on one's own spiritual power to break through the upper limit was as difficult as ascending to heaven!
He had gone a bit far off topic.
But no matter what, the breakthrough in spiritual power was ultimately a good thing for Lin Yang. It might bring some unexpected changes.
After exiting the spiritual world, Lin Yang quickly seized the time to refine the soul ring.
Because of the Demon God Body's autonomous action, most of the energy within the soul ring had been "eaten" by it to prepare for nurturing the third soul ring.
The residual energy left for him was only enough to barely push him a bit further past level thirty-one.
One could imagine that the soul ring nurtured by devouring so much energy would definitely be a ten-thousand-year soul ring.
But this conflicted somewhat with Lin Yang's future plans.
Therefore, he decisively had the Demon God Body martial soul "spit out" most of the energy used to nurture the third soul skill and redirect it to elevating the year limit of the first soul ring.
The originally three-thousand-year first soul ring rapidly increased.
Four thousand years… five thousand years… seven thousand years… ten thousand years.
When it broke through the ten-thousand-year threshold, the first soul ring suddenly changed from deep purple to a profound black. It slowly floated around him, emitting an intangible pressure.
Lin Yang continued using the remaining energy to raise the year limit until the first soul ring of the Demon God Body reached eleven thousand years, then stopped.
At the same time, because of his favoritism, the third soul ring nurtured by the Demon God Body was only a pitiful two-hundred-year soul ring.
It stood alone, emitting a faint yellow light.
The third soul ring that could have been the "big brother" had instantly become the weakest among the weak.
Such a huge gap—thinking about it somehow felt inexplicably pitiful.
Actually, it wasn't that Lin Yang was biased. The third soul skill of the Demon God Body was called "Skeletal Manipulation."
Just from the name, it was clearly a combat-type skill. To him, it was merely an additional means of attack.
The Heavenly Dou City he was heading to next was not suitable for exposing his second martial soul.
Similarly, it was not suitable for exposing the soul rings attached to the Nichirin Blade martial soul.
A configuration of one yellow, one purple, and one black—far beyond ordinary understanding—would definitely attract the attention of the Spirit Hall and those powerful sect experts once exposed.
At that time, how would he deal with these powerful forces?
Would he have to expose the secret of the whale glue?
That would be the stupidest choice.
So he had unhesitatingly raised the year limit of the Demon God Body's first soul ring precisely to strengthen the "Blindfold" skill.
As long as he was careful, even a Soul Douluo wouldn't be able to clearly see his true soul ring configuration.
After absorbing the soul skill, six soul rings revolved around Lin Yang: two black, two purple, and two yellow.
In terms of the number of soul rings alone, he was already on par with a Soul Emperor, not to mention that he also had a hundred-thousand-year soul bone and an external soul bone.
He dared to guarantee that even a real Soul Emperor wasn't as wealthy as him!
After absorbing the Golden Lion Tiger Beast's soul ring, the Nichirin Blade's martial soul origin strengthened once again. The pitch-black blade body faintly glowed with a pale golden light.
Facing the blade edge, even he could feel a bone-chilling sharpness—extreme sharpness!
Lin Yang raised an eyebrow, held "Hizama" vertically, then released it.
"Hizama" fell freely.
"Shua!"
Without the slightest sound, the blade of Hizama effortlessly stabbed into the ground, leaving only the hilt exposed.
Keep in mind that Hizama had only been about ten centimeters from the ground earlier. He hadn't used any force at all—it had pierced the ground purely by its own sharpness.
Pulling Hizama out from the ground, Lin Yang gripped the hilt and casually swung forward.
A sharp sound of breaking air rang out, leaving a faint golden glow in the air.
Clang!
That faint golden glow directly detached from the blade tip and embedded into the rock wall of the stone cave, leaving a smooth slash mark.
Seeing this scene, Lin Yang was somewhat astonished. He recalled the golden glow the Golden Lion Tiger Beast had spat out earlier.
Could it be that the Nichirin Blade had also inherited this characteristic?
This should be called "blade glow"!
Immediately after, an irrepressible smile appeared on his face. Now that he could slash out blade glows, it meant his attack range had expanded.
In the future, he would also have large-scale area attacks.
Afterward, he tested his third soul skill.
As his first ten-thousand-year soul ring, the soul skill was also very straightforward and brutal. It was likewise an attribute amplification soul skill.
Third soul skill: Edge!
Greatly increases attack attributes, up to a maximum of 300%!
One slash with triple the attack!
Fellow bros, can you withstand it?