"Could it be that Tang San withdrew all the support he was giving to Shrek and the Tang Sect and directly channeled it to assist Tang the Hammer instead?"
Ignoring the feeling of being watched, Su Ming pulled Xu Yuan's spiritual body into his Sea of Consciousness.
"Kid, what's the situation with the Clear Sky Clan in this era?"
"Why should I tell you? Outsider Evil!"
Xu Yuan's hostility towards Su Ming was evident.
As a determined youth aspiring to join the War God Hall and resist the Abyssal invasion, he, Xu Yuan, had actually been possessed by an outsider.
It was simply a disgrace.
Therefore, Xu Yuan had been cultivating fiercely these past few days, hoping only to achieve success early and slay this evil.
Su Ming was rendered speechless by Xu Yuan's label of "Outsider Evil."
"You just wait."
After focusing for a moment, Spirit Rings began to appear around Su Ming.
"I'm also a native of the Douluo Continent. I also have a Martial Spirit and Spirit Rings," Su Ming explained, pointing to his three purple, one black, and two red Spirit Rings.
Xu Yuan exclaimed.
"Impossible!"
Two red?
Six rings?
Do you think I'm stupid?
"In fact, these are my Spirit Rings. And I'm not dead. The specifics are hard to explain clearly, but you just need to know I'm not an outsider."
"Moreover, if you really don't believe me, I can give you the benefits first to prove my identity."
"Trying to bribe me?" Xu Yuan snorted coldly.
I, Xu, will never accept bribes!
Su Ming was speechless. Was the random person he picked really this principled?
He tried something; his Spiritual Domain should be able to bring the Light Sphere over. So, his main body coordinated, had the Light Sphere prepare, and then pulled it into this parallel world.
"Where is this?"
The Light Sphere felt dizzy.
It was different from Su Ming. Su Ming overlooked the Long River and projected his consciousness into a parallel world. Although he also felt disoriented, he didn't experience temporal vertigo.
The Light Sphere, however, had to endure an indescribable feeling of "River sickness."
"First, help him condense a Spirit Ring, around a thousand years is enough. Use the Five Elements: metal, wood, water, fire, earth."
Su Ming's Elemental Control included the Five Elements. It's just that water, fire, earth, and wind were more common on the Douluo Continent, and while the Five Elements cycle seemed powerful, it was too operationally intensive.
Great Five Elements Divine Light, Five Elements Divine Light Shield, Five Elements Rotation...
Just listen to those names; are these self-created Spirit Skills that a normal person could develop?
In the early stages of cultivation, wasn't it more cost-effective to frequently spar and freely copy Gu Yue's water-fire-earth-wind series of techniques?
"Huh?"
Hearing that his Spirit Master wanted him to condense a Spirit Ring for another Spirit Master, the Light Sphere was immediately unwilling.
"How am I supposed to condense a Spirit Ring for him?"
Seeing the Light Sphere's reaction, Su Ming sighed.
"Light Sphere, it's time you grew up a bit too. You're not just my Spirit Soul; you're the God of Spirit Souls. There are many techniques you should master. Condensing an ownerless Spirit Ring out of thin air is something you should have tried to grasp long ago."
The Light Sphere's body turned bright red.
"Su Ming! You've gone too far!"
The demands were getting more and more outrageous.
"It's actually not difficult. You'll know once you try. His Martial Spirit itself has the aptitude for the Five Elements attributes. Also, you only need to condense a Spirit Ring of around a thousand years."
"..."
Su Ming began teaching on the spot.
Although he had never manually created a Spirit Ring before, he had long contemplated the idea. Now, teaching the Light Sphere, he found it surprisingly familiar.
Xu Yuan watched Su Ming and the Light Sphere Su Ming had summoned, listening to them discuss how to condense a Spirit Ring out of thin air, a look of confusion on his face.
"Understand now?"
After finishing the lesson, Su Ming looked at the Light Sphere with an encouraging gaze.
The Light Sphere looked utterly helpless.
Su Ming had explained the principle to him from start to finish.
It all sounded reasonable.
But achieving it was very difficult.
"You can absorb the Spirit Soul faith here freely," Su Ming said.
"Huh?"
The Light Sphere was initially indifferent, but as Su Ming said this, it extended its perception and found the Spirit Soul faith here was a bit too dense, and it was extremely compatible with him!
"Damn!"
The Light Sphere exclaimed.
How could there be such dense Spirit Soul faith?
And why did it feel so... delicious?
The Spirit Soul faith before didn't feel like this.
"Before, it was all standard version faith. Now, this is the custom-made version. It's different," Su Ming said with a smile.
The faith in his True Future was undirected faith without a fixed target. The faith in this parallel world was different; this was all the faith of the Su Ming from Douluo 2. And the Light Sphere's God of Spirit Souls "level of being" was completely inherited from Su Ming, so this faith was tailor-made for the Light Sphere.
He sent a mental message, only now explaining to the Light Sphere that this was a parallel world, a brand-new world.
"I'm surprised too. The faith here is almost tailor-made for you, which is why I pulled you over. Show this Xu Yuan what you can do, then we'll figure out how to explore this world to maximize our gains."
The Light Sphere was tricked into a daze by Su Ming.
"Mission guaranteed!"
He was motivated now.
The Light Sphere floated before Xu Yuan and, under Xu Yuan's confused gaze, began to exercise the abilities of the God of Spirit Souls.
The petal-like mark on the Light Sphere's forehead glowed. The elements of water, fire, earth, wind, light, and dark within it faded away, replaced by the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, ultimately forming a petal mark in these five colors.
Then, his expression turned serious. He mobilized the Spirit Soul faith and replicated the feeling he had when bestowing Spirit Rings upon Su Ming, imprinting his own comprehension of the Five Elements onto the Spirit Soul faith.
Su Ming assisted from the side, helping him form the framework of the Spirit Ring.
Finally, with the cooperation of the one human and one spirit, a white halo took shape.
The Light Sphere poured Spirit Soul faith into it, taking over two and a half hours to elevate this white halo to yellow.
"Uh..." The Light Sphere turned to look at Su Ming. "How about we lower the requirements a bit?"
Because the condensation process took so long, Xu Yuan had already left his Sea of Consciousness and started practicing his spear techniques.
"Just improve it slowly. This kid doesn't need his fifth Spirit Ring right now anyway."
"I would never fuse with a thousand-year Spirit Ring for my fifth ring."
Xu Yuan was constantly monitoring the changes in his Sea of Consciousness.
Although shocked that Su Ming's Spirit Soul could actually condense a Spirit Ring out of thin air, he still didn't want to fuse with the one Su Ming had created.
"This Spirit Ring of mine can still be upgraded in the Spirit Ascension Platform. Furthermore, with me and the Light Sphere here, breaking through to ten-thousand years and even a hundred-thousand years for this ring won't be a problem."
The Light Sphere, listening nearby, rolled its eyes.
Stop bragging.
I'm not even ten-thousand years old myself yet.
"And, our deal still stands. I can keep increasing the number of years of your Spirit Ring for you, roughly a hundred years per month. How about that?"
Su Ming's words tempted Xu Yuan.
A hundred years per month meant twelve hundred years in a year.
In ten years, it would have ten-thousand years of cultivation.
Moreover, who knows how long Su Ming might stay in his Sea of Consciousness.
"You have to help me raise this Spirit Ring to ten-thousand years before I reach Spirit King."
Although tempted by Su Ming's promise, Xu Yuan still made a further demand.
"My fourth Spirit Ring is already ten-thousand years. My fifth ring can't possibly fall back to a thousand years, can it?"
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