In fact, not only Mirror Image Beasts possess Replication-type Spirit Skills, but there is also another type of Spirit Beast called Yin Yang Beast.
However, Su Wen doesn't believe that his ability can locate the Yin Yang Beast.
Moreover, if we simply look at the effects, the Yin Yang Beast only replicates Spirit Skills, while the replication of the Mirror Image Beast seems to be more extensive.
The only flaw is actually the inability to fully unleash the true effects of the Spirit Skills.
However, this is not a problem for Su Wen. He is good at development in the first place. If he really replicates some powerful Spirit Skills, he also wants to develop in this direction. He can completely engrave them on his Martial Spirit and develop ways to compensate for the shortcomings of replicated Spirit Skills.
Compared to planning to replicate other Spirit Skills, Su Wen is now ready to prioritize another research project.
"Spirit Ring's age is still very important."
Even though he is only a Spirit Grand Master now, Su Wen has already felt the benefits brought by the Spirit Ring's age.
"A thousand years old Spirit Ring is much easier to develop than a hundred-year-old Spirit Ring, and the assistance and mobilization of the Spirit Ring itself are also higher."
The change in color signifies a qualitative change.
One hundred years old, one thousand years old; even for the third ring, attempting a ten-thousand-year-old one directly is not advisable.
In other words—
"I need to waste at least three Spirit Ring slots."
Just by experiencing a thousand years old Spirit Ring, just by knowing that absorbing a ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Ring adds a Soul Shock Test, Su Wen can imagine the power of a ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Ring.
It might even be exceptionally powerful.
Perhaps, a ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Ring could be considered a truly powerful Spirit Skill.
I can't gamble on God trials."
Not all God trials bring benefits.
Su Wen even doubts whether God trials were originally meant to provide benefits. Perhaps, the God of the Sea became God in a short time, distributed fewer benefits, but had more reserves.
The God of the Sea isn't suitable for Su Wen.
"But if there's wool to be sheared, it must be sheared."
Although Su Wen has the idea of improving the Spirit Ring's Age through the trial of the God of the Sea, he still has no intention of gambling.
"Just getting to the God of the Sea Island itself is a big problem."
By the time there's an opportunity to go there, who knows what period it will be.
"If I can find a way to improve the Spirit Ring's Age on my own, then I'd rather do it myself. This way, I can shear more wool in God trials."
For example, with Su Wen's combination of one yellow, two purple, and three black Spirit Rings, would the benefits be the same as those from a combination of six black or even five black and one red Spirit Rings?
"God of the Sea, are you willing to take out those few hundred years to support beggars?"
Of course, Su Wen also needs to choose the right timing. It's best if he's the only one undergoing the trial at the same period, or at least the only participant at his level.
As the moment of contemplation ends, Su Wen's thoughts returned to the present.
"In the original work, Tang San sacrificed the first four Spirit Rings, then directly absorbed the same type of ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Rings, all of which were over fifty thousand years old."
Regardless of whether there is the God power assistance of the God of the Sea, this can prove one thing: this method of replacing Spirit Rings is feasible!
"If there's a Formation-type Spirit Skill to regulate it in the center, maybe it can minimize the loss from the Spirit Ring explosion and let me withstand that kind of injury."
The technique of Ring Explosion is also quite important.
There's no time to delay.
So.
Su Wen's gaze focused on a certain direction, the direction of his hometown.
"If nothing unexpected happens, I should be able to make it to that node."
At level twenty-six already, set a small goal: reach level thirty within six months.
Then, aim to reach level forty as much as possible within two years.
To achieve this goal, Su Wen can only start with practicing the Source Soul Power cultivation method.
"After trying for so long, I've only managed to accumulate a trace of Source Soul Power. But with this trace of surplus, it seems like accumulating further will be much faster."
The Martial Spirit Space is just Su Wen's definition. It's not a closed space; it's just a concept created for ease of understanding.
"The way it operates similar to Soul Power seems to be effective."
This is somewhat comforting for Su Wen.
At least he doesn't need to aimlessly figure out the operational routes from scratch.
You see, there's no meridian restriction inside the Martial Spirit Space for the flow of Source Soul Power. It's entirely up to how one wants to operate it. Figuring out a route beneficial for Source Soul Power cultivation would require a lot of effort.
However, this is also a major advantage of the Martial Spirit Space.
It's not constrained by the pathways of meridians!
"Using the circulation route of Soul Power as the initial template, I also have a guaranteed Source Soul Power Circulation Route. Based on this foundation, I can explore the operational structures that I couldn't attempt on the Internal Strength route, gradually developing techniques more suitable for Source Soul Power."
...
Time passes.
Su Wen's pace is very steady.
He's practicing both the Spirit Fusion Method and the Rings Fusion Technique.
In addition to this, he's also developing his own Martial Spirit, exploring Spirit Skills, and regular Soul Power cultivation.
Source Soul Power has begun to accumulate. Once it starts circulating within the Martial Spirit Space, Su Wen is progressing almost every moment, pushing against the limits of his current Martial Spirit aptitude.
The medicinal baths provided by Ning Fengzhi, along with the nutritional supplements from the academy have completely optimized his training, bringing it to its peak state.
Six months later.
Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
Soul Power surged within Su Wen's body, and a wave of Soul Power fluctuations spread out, causing a layer of outwardly expanding airflow ripples to appear around his body.
He opened his eyes, sensing the surge of Soul Power within him.
"I finally broke through level thirty!"
At twelve and a half years old, level thirty.
"Xiaowen, don't you want to check your body condition?" Xiao Zhan's expression was filled with concern.
A four-level increase in half a year?
What kind of unbelievable feat is this?
Even though he had convinced himself before that Su Wen was enjoying some conditions of higher-level Spirit Masters in advance, he still found this too unbelievable.
You see, there's the threshold of going from level twenty-nine to level thirty in all of this!
"Uncle Zhan, there's no need to be so surprised; you're overreacting." Su Wen smiled faintly.
"My fusion with the Martial Spirit is too high. Even the bottlenecks in cultivation have been greatly weakened because of it."
Merely in terms of fusion, Su Wen is already higher than the average Spirit Saint, so the bottleneck of just level thirty poses little hindrance to him.
"The cultivation of Soul Power can be divided into major bottlenecks and minor bottlenecks. Before reaching a multiple of ten levels, it's a major bottleneck, requiring a significant amount of time and effort to break through, and it may even become a threshold that a Spirit Master cannot cross in their lifetime.
In addition to this, every breakthrough in Soul Power actually has minor bottlenecks.
Breaking down the cultivation of Soul Power into stages, each level actually consists of an accumulation period and a bottleneck period for Soul Power.
And I happen to be unaffected by these bottlenecks.
Even for geniuses, the time spent in the bottleneck period is not lower than that in the accumulation period.
Uncle Zhan, you can think of it as me skipping half of the cultivation time. In reality, this could be considered as advancing four levels in a year."
Su Wen attempted to help Xiao Zhan understand his cultivation speed.
"Isn't advancing four levels in a year a bit too abnormal?"
"You think that's normal, you little brat!"
Xiao Zhan glared, almost shouting out.
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