Chapter 251 - Cultivation
After leaving the meeting room, Du Qianjue naturally didn't know what Long Aotian had done. At the moment, he was sitting face-to-face with Xiao Xiao and Tang Ya, observing a mix of nervousness and anticipation on their faces. They too desired soul bones!
Du Qianjue frowned slightly as he looked at the two girls. The soul bones he would give them needed to be exceptional, especially for Tang Ya, whom he hoped would play a pivotal role in his plans, including confronting Tang San.
Xiao Xiao's original soul bone, a ten-thousand-year-old Sky Clear Demon Leopard's left leg bone, was substandard—truly garbage for a twin-spirit genius like her. Du Qianjue felt speechless about her current soul bone arrangement. Despite her dual spirits, she had poorly chosen soul bones and even a hundred-year spirit ring for her second spirit…
Thinking about Xiao Xiao's decisions often left Du Qianjue feeling suffocated.
"Xiao Xiao, I don't have a suitable soul bone for you right now, but I can help enhance the age of your spirit rings," he said after a long moment, seeing Xiao Xiao looking distressed and sweating. His statement nearly made her fall off the sofa.
"Enhance... the age of spirit rings?!" Xiao Xiao stared at him, her big green eyes filled with naive disbelief. She was utterly confused.
"Of course, this isn't difficult for me," Du Qianjue remarked casually, then released his eight spirit rings, displaying them without hiding their colors: six hundred-thousand-year rings, one golden, and one black-gold.
Xiao Xiao felt dizzy just looking at them, and even Tang Ya held her breath, her face turning bright red with shock.
Deciding to enhance Xiao Xiao's spirit ring ages was a well-considered move by Du Qianjue. Honestly, her current spirit ring setup was rather poor. Her dual-spirit configuration significantly lowered her standard compared to Vina, making Xiao Xiao seem like a country girl by comparison.
Moreover, there were still two seals on the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm that Du Qianjue could use, but they weren't much use to him anymore since his spirit rings were already at their maximum potential.
His power was already at the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent, and even without further enhancements, few could withstand his soul skills. Once he ascended to godhood, he planned to fuse his spirit and rings into his being, making the control over his skills dependent on his mastery rather than the age of his spirit rings. Whether he absorbed these seals or not wouldn't make much difference to him now.
Breaking one seal to enhance Xiao Xiao's spirit rings could easily boost her to the rank of Limit Douluo. With just a little help from him, reaching godhood wouldn't be too difficult for her.
No sooner said than done.
After advising Tang Ya to cultivate on her own for a while, Du Qianjue led a dazed Xiao Xiao to his bedroom. The fully grown Xiao Xiao blushed upon seeing the layout, not because of any inappropriate adult items, but simply because it was Du Qianjue's room.
This was her first time in a boy's room, and given her special feelings for Du Qianjue, she couldn't help but think waywardly while alone with him, her cute face turning even redder.
"Alright, Xiao Xiao, sit down. Just concentrate on refining the power I transfer to you," Du Qianjue instructed as they sat down cross-legged on his usual cultivation carpet, his hands positioned on her back.
Feeling the warmth of his hands, Xiao Xiao suppressed her embarrassment and nodded obediently.
"Brother, I understand. You can start."
This was clearly not the time for inappropriate thoughts. Xiao Xiao understood how much upgrading her spirit rings would help her, and her desire to become stronger helped her set aside any distractions.
As a dual-spirit soul master, she was also a self-acknowledged genius, not inferior to anyone in her thirst for strength.
'Once I'm stronger, I can help brother,' she thought silently.
Du Qianjue had nothing but praise for her, and Xiao Xiao had always been grateful to him. However, she couldn't keep up with his rapid progress and had only been able to watch from behind for a long time.
She too wanted to be able to assist him.
"Focus your mind, release your spirit!" Du Qianjue commanded softly.
Xiao Xiao took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and visualized a small ancient cauldron in her delicate hands, with her five perfectly matched spirit rings appearing around her.
At this moment, Xiao Xiao was at the fifty-seventh rank, a Spirit King, not a slow progress for her age. She was only seventeen, three years younger than twenty, and if she could attach spirit rings to her second spirit early like Vina, her cultivation level would not be much less.
'Heavenly Dream, it's up to you now!' Du Qianjue spoke to the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm in his spiritual sea.
"Hehe, don't worry, leave it to me! I've helped you enhance spirit ring ages so many times, this is a piece of cake for me now!" the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm chuckled, a golden sun beside it suddenly shattered, transforming into a pure spiritual essence that flowed through Du Qianjue's hands into Xiao Xiao.
The surge of energy filled Xiao Xiao, giving her a sense of being filled up, and she couldn't help but moan softly in satisfaction.
Under the control of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, the spiritual essence methodically entered the Tri-Soul Cauldron in Xiao Xiao's hands, then was absorbed by the brands of her spirit rings.
The first to change were the two front spirit rings, which turned from yellow to purple almost instantly. The fourth ring also darkened in color.
As time passed and Xiao Xiao continued to absorb the energy, her spirit rings, previously two yellow, two purple, and one black, all turned into black ten-thousand-year rings.
Xiao Xiao's five spirit rings, totaling about twenty thousand years, had consumed about eighty thousand years of spiritual essence, upgrading all to the twenty-thousand-year level.
There was still about twenty thousand years' worth of spiritual essence remaining.
"Switch to your second spirit!" (End of Chapter)