Ryū didn't bother with the rest of the team V and team VI, he rather deal with configuring his spirit essence since it had some form of evolution or mutation.
Aside from the ability to replicate weapons, it now has the ability to replicate beasts, though limited to what he absorbed.
It might be his mentality that recognizes the beasts as some kind of weapon as well after considering that players (spirit masters) kill monsters (beasts) in order to get loot (spirit bones, rings, and their bodies to be processed into weapons or tools).
For him, it is another ace hidden under his sleeves, but one that he can show without fear of being killed given that he goes under an entirely different identity.
After some celebration, the two teams were made to mobilize under the order of the old man since they've wasted too much time fighting the beast in his eyes.
Again, Ryū was made to scout ahead but this time, he was tasked to head further while the other three are made to be his communicator to the main group.
He didn't follow the intended route though and made some twist and turns much to the team annoyance but in good reason.
They avoided the territory of some of the big shots of spirit beasts that are above the thousand year range, and the other reason is that he's still figuring out the movement and instinct of the beast soul he received.
His spirit energy is constantly consumed for developing his bones and, anytime as long as he wills it, the spirit energy consumption can be doubled which creates the Bone Armor.
So to say that it is a spirit skill that is not used but to be treated as a beast-type ability that is ingrained into beasts of their category.
He had to acquire his split souls (the existing clones) and distribute only the bare minimum of soul percent for their bodies to function as he would use what is left to reprogram the subconscious.
[ Ryū I reporting for duty with the purpose of storing and analyzing namely anything that is connected to the "spirit/soul". ]
[ Ryū II reporting for duty with the purpose of storing and analyzing namely anything that is connected to the "body". ]
These two are his two souls connected to his subconscious that knows everything about him more than he, the conscious self, do in their domains.
[ Ryū I, report. The beast soul, "Bone Armored Rhino" has been successfully integrated into the subconscious. Optimizing and calibrating with the human aspect as the base... ]
[ Ryū II, report. Established communication with Ryū I, calibration complete. ]
[ Ryū I, report. A log has been made for the main to view the recent changes and the ins and outs of the existing data. ]
He felt a huge amount of difference upon the creation of Ryū I and Ryū II as the flow of his energy changed down to the finest detail.
He was not leaking even a single hint of spirit energy and life energy, instead they were used efficiently for upgrading his bones.
The old man, who is at a faraway distance, stared at him with cold eyes for a moment, and stared at him the next moment with eyes filled with greed.
'Hmmm? This suppressing force? A Titled Douluo?!' he ran back the moment his spirit energy came into contact with the source.
When he regrouped with the teams, he was holding onto a red scarf and the team leaders immediately knew what it signified.
Seeing the old man's pale face after he (old man) sensed the foreign energy signature, he (Ryū) attempted to infiltrate the old man's soul space which came up as a success, barely.
A man in a cloak arrived in a flash as he gave the old man the coldest gaze the old man felt, surpassing that from the Supreme Pontiff!
"This energy?! Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao?!"
The cloaked man didn't even summon his essence but his pressure alone disintegrated the trees right beside the old man, as if to warn that he could kill him anytime he wants.
"Speak. What is a elder of Spirit Hall doing with a bunch of kids?"
The old man summoned a cauldron spewing out extremely hot blue flames and readied to retaliate but answered, "You don't deserve to know!"
Tang Hao's eyes shone when his eyes laid upon the cauldron and the rings.
Two yellow rings, two purple rings, and four black rings, but what he's intrigued about is the strange feeling he has when a blue silver grass attempting to touch it.
He immediately arrived in front of the old man and punched him in the face, turning his old brain into mush and killed him with ease.
"He just made my job easier..." Ryū didn't know what to say as he took over the soul space as soon as the human soul which he coins as the owners left.
[ Ryū I, report. "Concentrated Flame Cauldron" with a 022400 configuration detected with no owner. Absorbing stronger form of spirit energy into soul space. ]
[ Ryū I, report. Claiming "Concentrated Flame Cauldron" ownership would cause the body to explode from overload. Destroying existing spirit rings to evolve essence recommended. ]
[ Ryū I, report. Received confirmation from the main... Converting spirit rings into spirit energy... Theorizing evolution paths... Image completed. Proceed to evolution. ]
In the soul space of the old man, everything turned black leaving only the cauldron with blue flames concentrated with spirit energy.
He felt a bit of his life energy fed and connect with the cauldron, though not to the point that he would lose his lifespan.
[ Ryū I, report. Process successful and spirit evolved into "Heavenly Medicinal Flame" with the basic ability "Turning Ingredients into Medicine" and "Heat that Melts even Ten Thousand Year Beasts". ]
Within his soul space, aside from the crystal floating above a pedestal made of wood that which is surrounded by trees, a mountain formed and a cave present where a pale white flame floats about a cauldron.
"Ryū I makes my soul space become most suitable to the essence that enters to provide maximum synchronization with me, the user. Even their pressures are contained within the essence themselves which they continuously nurture."
He smiled before resting his body on a small platform and closed his eyes in meditation as he left for reality.
He saw a cloaked man staring at him with a tired gaze and he could feel the pressure the cloaked man was exerting but strangely, he does not seem to be affected by it.
"You have a grudge on Spirit Hall. Right?"