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Su Wen stepped forward, looking at the Void Silver Moon Tapir.
The silver scales of the Void Silver Moon Tapir, which possessed an illusory texture, emitted a transparent fluctuation that was captured by his Illusion Spirit Pupil.
"Is this the power of space?" Su Wen guessed that this might be the fluctuation of spatial energy.
The Illusion Spirit Pupil was clearly unable to directly capture this kind of fluctuation normally.
Therefore, the answer was obvious.
The scales of this Void Silver Moon Tapir were inherently extremely attuned to the spatial element, so much so that they could cause such obvious spatial fluctuations.
Su Wen grew even more expectant of the changes the Void Silver Moon Tapir's soul ring would bring to him.
A mass of airflow continued to rotate in his right hand, forming a sharp wind blade.
Walking to the space left for him by Dugu Bo, he swung the wind blade in his hand and stabbed it in. The softest part of the Void Silver Moon Tapir's abdomen was pierced through by the wind blade.
The airflow scattered, turning into tiny wind blades that sliced through its internals.
The Void Silver Moon Tapir resisted violently, but it was firmly bound by Dugu Bo's serpent body and could not make any waves. Ultimately, it died unwillingly after its internal organs were completely shredded by the internal airflow.
A pitch-black soul ring emerged.
Above this black soul ring, there was a strange texture that made the entire ring appear slightly illusory and mysterious.
Su Wen was somewhat surprised.
When a soul ring could manifest unique traits of the soul beast, it meant the beast had something truly extraordinary about it.
Without the slightest hesitation, he sat cross-legged beside the corpse and began to absorb the Void Silver Moon Tapir's soul ring.
That black soul ring, carrying its illusory and mysterious texture, settled around Su Wen's body.
The Void Silver Moon Tapir's cultivation age was forty-five thousand years.
For Su Wen, this should not have posed any problem.
However, the moment the soul ring settled upon him, Su Wen felt an explosive surge of soul power crashing into his limbs and bones.
His meridians throughout his entire body cracked instantly, and his flesh and blood were somewhat broken down by the impact of this soul power.
Unfortunately, in this current state, he could not utilize soul skills; otherwise, he would have immediately used various healing skills to treat himself.
At this moment, he could only mobilize his soul power to force the soul power from the Void Silver Moon Tapir into the Martial Soul Space.
After the explosive soul ring energy entered the Martial Soul Space, it gave Su Wen a similar sensation of explosion. It merged into his Martial Soul, crudely reconstructing Su Wen's Martial Soul under the guidance of the soul ring's origin.
Su Wen's face twisted in agony, as if he were enduring immense pain.
At the same time, above his Sea of Consciousness, an illusory figure condensed.
It was precisely the Void Silver Moon Tapir.
Completely different from the remnant thought when Su Wen absorbed the twenty-thousand-year Mirror Image Beast last time, the Void Silver Moon Tapir at this moment seemed very complete.
Waves of resentment radiated out, and Su Wen's Sea of Consciousness surged with monstrous waves.
The Void Silver Moon Tapir seemed to still retain consciousness at this moment, actually mobilizing its own abilities. It was even able to use the power of its remnant soul to trigger mutations in Su Wen's Sea of Consciousness.
What a strong mental attribute!
Su Wen was shocked in his heart.
He hadn't expected the mental attribute of the Void Silver Moon Tapir to be so powerful that it could leave behind such a formidable remnant soul after death.
He estimated that the massive soul power impact in his body was also caused by this conscious remnant soul of the Void Silver Moon Tapir, which had compressed even more soul power into the soul ring.
This was far more soul power than what was contained in a naturally condensed soul ring.
Su Wen had never seen a similar description in any records; these were things he deduced in an instant, and he had no time to verify them.
All of his energy was currently focused on dealing with this Void Silver Moon Tapir.
Since the Soul Ascension Method was developed by Su Wen himself, he could even compress the soul ring's energy or suck it into the Martial Soul Space without the specific circulation of the method. Following the first wave of the eruption, the impact of the soul ring power he endured every second would only decrease.
As long as he resolved this remnant soul, the absorption of this soul ring would be worry-free.
"Weak human, what right do you have to absorb my soul ring!"
The Void Silver Moon Tapir was furious. It was enraged that a soul master who was only Level 50 dared to target it.
And it was precisely because of such a loathsome, arrogant brat of a soul master that it, the great King of the Void, had fallen.
Unforgivable!
Su Wen's Sea of Consciousness continued to be in turmoil. A surge of mental power even invaded Su Wen's consciousness, causing him to fall into an illusion.
Su Wen mobilized his mental power to activate the Illusion Spirit Pupil, yet he was actually blocked by the Void Silver Moon Tapir. Both sides were now fighting for control over the Illusion Spirit Pupil.
"Damn it, is this the hardship of absorbing high-level soul rings?" This was the first time Su Wen had directly experienced the greatest difficulty of absorbing a soul ring over ten thousand years.
Perhaps, the absorption of a hundred-thousand-year soul ring would involve facing such a situation.
The Void Silver Moon Tapir continued to stir up trouble in Su Wen's Sea of Consciousness.
Su Wen also launched a counterattack.
The visualization technique manifested. An illusory book floated quietly, its pages unfolding. Mountains and rivers manifested, suppressing Su Wen's entire Sea of Consciousness.
The Sea of Consciousness that had been stirred by the Void Silver Moon Tapir immediately calmed down.
The spring eyes of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well manifested, and the Void Silver Moon Tapir let out a shrill scream. An artistic conception of interwoven ice and fire power appeared, causing it to suffer the dual torture of the ultimate powers of ice and fire.
Su Wen took the opportunity to seize control of the Illusion Spirit Pupil, regaining full control over his own mental power.
At this moment, he felt the condition of his body; it was a total mess.
While he was trapped in the illusion just now, he could still intervene in the situation within his Sea of Consciousness, but the situation inside his physical body had become a wreck.
The soul ring energy had battered his internals, leaving cracks everywhere.
Outside.
Seeing cracks constantly appearing on Su Wen's body and a large amount of blood flowing out, making him look like a person made of blood, the expressions of Dugu Bo, Gu Rong, and the others changed drastically.
"Brother Wen!" Ning Rongrong cried out, looking at Su Wen's condition with extreme worry.
"Calm down. Xiao Wen's mental fluctuations are still intact, and his physical endurance is very strong. Although it looks disastrous, his body hasn't exploded instantly, so there is still a chance. Don't forget that the Soul Ascension Method was developed by him in the first place," Dugu Bo stabilized the group.
However, even he was filled with worry at this moment.
Su Wen, you cannot fall during a soul ring absorption...
Su Wen regained perception of his body and immediately diverted a large amount of soul ring energy into his Martial Soul Space.
The accumulated Source Soul Power also guided this energy to join the soul ring origin's transformation of the Martial Soul.
Through the initial transformation under Su Wen's unconscious control, Su Wen's Martial Soul had already gained a layer of illusory color, possessing a hint of mystery.
At the same time, when Su Wen's perception expanded to the Martial Soul Space, he discovered another thing.
Through the Martial Soul Space, along with the absorption of the Void Silver Moon Tapir's soul ring, a peculiar energy was also slowly penetrating, entering his Sea of Consciousness!
The Martial Soul was the middle bridge between the soul and the physical body.
This was a theory Su Wen had proposed long ago and was the basis for his original opening of the Sea of Consciousness.
Now, with the Martial Soul Space as the bridge, a power was entering his Sea of Consciousness following the absorption of the soul ring.
(End of Chapter)