Over another month, Qiangu Zhangting traveled back and forth between Aolai City and Huaguo City.Work, life, and cultivation—none were neglected.
He stayed by Naer's side to improve his mental force and cultivated spirit power at the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters in Aolai City.
From time to time, he would go to Tang Wulin's house to scrounge a meal, seeing if he could scrounge up any possibility of physical enhancement.
The result... how should he put it? It was better than nothing.
As for increasing physical strength, he could only rely on the blood drawn from Tang Wulin.A portion was sent back to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
Combining modern soul tool technology, they researched scientific methods to enhance the physique.
Another portion was sent to the Body Sect.Relying on the Body Sect's ten-thousand-year accumulation and the collective wisdom of the sect's body-tempering experts, they innovated a fantasy-version Body-tempering Method.
mental force realm, physical strength, and spirit power level.Among the three, the first to have a substantial breakthrough was the spirit power level.
In one month, his spirit power successfully broke through to rank sixty.
This time, he didn't get stuck like he did at rank fifty spirit power.Because the Evil Eye Tyrant soul spirit, Iks, had completed his breakthrough to the Vicious Beast level at the same time.
His cultivation years had completely crossed the 200,000-year threshold.
Another elemental attribute merged into Qiangu Zhangting's sixth spirit ring.The color of the spirit ring changed from a vibrant red to a radiant orange-gold.
Six orange-gold spirit rings rose, representing Qiangu Zhangting's complete establishment in the Spirit Emperor realm.
However, he didn't show joy immediately.Instead, he held his breath and looked up at the sky.
His Two-Word Battle Armor and All-Spirit Refined Purple-grade Mecha were linked and equipped.His spirit power pressure rose to the level of a Titled Douluo.
"Will there be a Great Beast Tribulation?"
In the Spirit Pagoda's ten-thousand-year history, there was no precedent for a soul spirit undergoing a Great Beast Tribulation.
From what Qiangu Zhangting knew.When the Ice Empress, ranked seventh among the top ten Vicious Beasts, became the Spirit and spirit ring of the Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao, she did not undergo the 400,000-year Great Beast Tribulation.
Yet, she successfully broke through to the 400,000-year cultivation level, providing a red spirit ring with a 400,000-year limit.
The only million-year Spirit Beast on the continent.It once became the First Intelligent Spirit Ring of the Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao.
By taking the opportunity to become an Intelligent Spirit Ring, it crossed the insurmountable gap of the Soul Beast Clan—the million-year threshold.
There were other examples dating back twenty thousand years.The era of the Spirit Hall.
The ninth spirit ring of Tang San's second Spirit, the Clear Sky Hammer, was a spirit ring produced by the 990,000-year-old Deep Sea Demon Whale King.
After absorption, it became a million-year crimson-gold spirit ring.
Still, no tribulation belonging to Spirit Beasts descended.
Past examples proved that no matter what state a Spirit Beast merged with a human Spirit Master, the tribulation would always mysteriously vanish.
Of course, this was just a high-probability guess.Preparations still had to be made.
The location Qiangu Zhangting was in was not a dedicated cultivation room, but above the boundless ocean.
Not only was Qiangu Zhangting prepared, but the soul spirit Iks was also in a combat-ready state.
Twenty-two ink-black tentacles, carrying mental force, rippled incessantly, causing the boundless ocean to churn.
The two of them were suspended between the sky and the sea.
"My Lord, it seems there is no tribulation."
After a long time, clouds rolled and unrolled in the sky, but no sign of a tribulation appeared.
"Yeah."
Seeing Qiangu Zhangting nod, Iks immediately withdrew his mental force.
The twenty-two tentacles that were just waving invincibly retracted twenty in an instant, leaving only two stray tentacles floating outside.
He was still so... cautious.Even though he had truly become a Vicious Beast now, it was the same.
Ignoring his sickly act, Qiangu Zhangting said to him:
"A natal soul spirit providing six spirit rings—on the path of a limit single soul spirit, the two of us have reached the end of what is recorded in historical records."
"The historical records of that Spirit Pagoda predecessor who provided six spirit rings with a natal soul spirit have become flawed and distorted over the long passage of time."
"Do you have any special feelings?"
"Or rather, what level of cultivation is needed to provide the seventh spirit ring?"
Hearing Qiangu Zhangting's words, the sickly Iks explained his own feelings:
"There shouldn't be a specific cultivation year limit."
"The limiting factor lies in a substantial breakthrough in strength and realm."
"Ten years of cultivation provides one ten-year white spirit ring; a hundred years provides two yellow spirit rings; a thousand years provides three purple spirit rings; ten thousand years provides four black spirit rings; a hundred thousand years provides five red spirit rings; two hundred thousand years of Vicious Beast cultivation provides six orange-gold spirit rings."
"Beyond that, there are no clear realm divisions."
"But there are still divisions in strength."
"Analogous to the human Spirit Master cultivation system, it's the jump from Super Douluo combat power to Limit Douluo combat power."
"For a soul spirit or Spirit Beast, crossing the Limit combat power Heavenly Chasm can be done by some at 500,000 years of cultivation, some at 400,000, and some at 300,000."
"Iks feels that at 300,000 years of cultivation, he can cross the threshold of Limit Douluo combat power."
"It's just..."
Speaking of this, Iks blinked his large single eye, and the exquisite eyelashes manifested by his mental force trembled.
"My Lord, can you do it?"
"With your talent, it will take about two years to break through to rank seventy spirit power."
"At that time, can your body withstand the pressure of Iks's skyrocketing cultivation?"
Qiangu Zhangting's lip twitched—a rare sight—and he flicked his finger, snapping off the long eyelashes Iks had created with mental force as a symbol of beauty.
He patted him: "Iks, let me teach you something."
"In the human World, never tell a man he can't do it."
"Besides, there's one more thing!"
"If you want to experiment with Pupil Techniques on me, fine, but don't mess around with 'colored contacts,' okay?"
Iks blinked his eye:
"Based on Iks's understanding of My Lord, My Lord has a Fetish for the opposite sex."
"For example, feet, hands, legs, eyes, and so on—all are possible."
"And it's hidden and unexpressed."
"Iks must, of course, experiment to find the specific sensitivity points of My Lord's Fetish."
"To take precautions against it."
"Otherwise, if an enemy discovers the specific sensitivity points of My Lord's Fetish, it would be an infinitely fatal weakness."
He spoke with such logic and reason that it gave one a sense of having to believe him.
Qiangu Zhangting glanced at Iks suspiciously.
He always felt that Iks had some ulterior motive for testing his Fetish sensitivity points.
It felt like Iks himself wanted to know.
However, Qiangu Zhangting didn't waste too much thought on this issue.
In any case, it was beneficial to him.
He returned to the most crucial question.