Half a month later.
Sunset Forest.
Su Yu ventured into the poisonous miasma inside the Sunset Forest.
Kuang Tie was still active within the miasma. Although, with Su Yu's assistance at the time, he quickly found his target.
However, as he moved within the miasma, he also discovered its effects.
It could temper one's Spiritual Power using the miasma.
Kuang Tie's Martial Soul was originally the Fine Steel Hammer, and later mutated into the Soul Suppressing Hammer, which not only had a suppressive effect on souls and Spiritual Power but also inherently possessed Spirit Attributes.
This was why he was currently searching for traces of Medusa.
For Soul Masters with Spirit Attributes, not absorbing a Soul Ring with Spiritual Attributes was a waste of their Spirit Attributes, and Kuang Tie's mutation was a late occurrence, so the first four Soul Rings he absorbed prior to the mutation were not of Spiritual Attribute. After the mutation, due to the needs of his Sect, in order to quickly enhance his strength, he only managed to find a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with Spirit Attributes by chance for his sixth Soul Ring.
However, it was precisely because of this that Kuang Tie realized how rare Spiritual Attribute Soul Beasts are.
Therefore, the Seven Rings Kuang Tie wasted a lot of time trying to find a Spirit Attribute Soul Ring in the critical position of his Seventh Soul Ring, ultimately delaying quite a bit of time.
After absorbing the Seventh Ring, Kuang Tie, unwilling to give up, decided to seek out Spiritual Attribute Soul Rings he would need in advance.
After all, after he broke through to become a Soul Saint, the Iron Blood Sect had firmly established its footing, allowing him more time to seek opportunities alone.
Medusa, this was the Spiritual Attribute Soul Beast that Kuang Tie deemed suitable for his Soul Suppressing Hammer Martial Soul, one he might possibly find.
After all, the dangers of the Sunset Forest were far lower than those of the Xingdou Great Forest.
There definitely were high-year-span Spiritual Attribute Soul Beasts within the Xingdou Great Forest, but Kuang Tie would never dare to enter the Xingdou Great Forest outside of Soul Ring acquisition times.
Everyone knew that within the Xingdou Great Forest, there were at least five entities with a cultivation of over 200,000 years.
The number of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts there might exceed double digits.
Should any of these formidable creatures leave the core circle to hunt for food, he could be in grave danger. Furthermore, the long-term search and tracking of target Soul Beasts he required meant the likelihood of encountering such accidents was high.
In contrast, the Sunset Forest was relatively much safer.
With Kuang Tie's strength, he was confident he could handle encounters with Soul Beasts of 60,000 to 70,000 years.
"This miasma can even corrode Spiritual Power, but my Soul Suppressing Hammer is no joke."
Kuang Tie possessed an Ice Crystal, holding it in his mouth could temporarily isolate him from the ordinary toxins within the miasma.
But as he ventured deeper, there came potent toxins that even the Ice Crystal could not shield against, affecting him.
As he explored, he found that these toxins could even erode Spiritual Power. Initially, Kuang Tie was apprehensive, but as the toxins ate into his Spiritual Power, his development of the Soul Suppressing Hammer advanced further.
Suppress!
With the traits of his Soul Suppressing Hammer, he could, while the toxins corroded his Spiritual Power, use their power to temper his own Spiritual Power, enhancing its quality.
Furthermore, the enhancement of Spiritual Power quality passively increased its total volume.
However, most Soul Masters enhance the volume of Spiritual Power first, increasing quality as a result of accumulated volume. In Kuang Tie's case, proactively enhancing quality in turn boosted volume.
Moreover, by using Spiritual Power to enhance his physical body, he leveraged the slight toxins within, using it as a form of pressure to temper his physique with his Soul Suppressing Hammer Martial Soul.
Having discovered this additional use of his Martial Soul, Kuang Tie no longer feared the toxins within the miasma. Instead, he ventured deeper, using the toxins of the miasma to refine his Spiritual Power and body.
Over nearly a year, Kuang Tie's Spiritual Power and physique rapidly improved.
He arrived at the vicinity of the valley where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye was located.
One more step forward and he would be within the poison range of the Green Phosphorus Seven Extremes Flower.
Kuang Tie had once tried absorbing the colorful poison gas and realized his hubris after doing so.
It took him a full three months to completely expel the colorful poison gas he had absorbed from his body.
However, fortunately, during those three months of being entwined by the colorful poison gas, his Spiritual Power and body experienced significant tempering.
Yet, the experience of being on the brink of death made Kuang Tie wary of recklessly absorbing such poison gas again.
Let alone entering the area shrouded by the colorful poison gas.
Su Yu appeared in the center of the poisonous miasma.
He happened to cross paths with Kuang Tie.
"Is it you?"
Kuang Tie recognized Su Yu's Soul Power fluctuation and was shocked that Su Yu was able to reach such depths.
Su Yu was likewise curious that Kuang Tie had managed to reach such deep areas.
Furthermore, Kuang Tie was right at the edge of the area shrouded by the poison of the Green Phosphorus Seven Extremes Flower, where the poison's concentration was already extremely low, yet Kuang Tie was capable of withstanding it.
"Not bad at all, being able to make it here." Su Yu had a thought, choosing not to leave immediately and instead began a conversation with Kuang Tie.
Among other things, the fact that Kuang Tie's Iron Blood Sect had occupied the Tang Sect's former site gave Su Yu a favorable impression.
This could be considered the formidable figure who had essentially annihilated the Tang Sect!
"Well, senior..." Kuang Tie struggled with whether it was appropriate to call Su Yu senior, as he looked at Su Yu's youthful appearance.
Previously, Su Yu had not revealed his face, and Kuang Tie felt the threat emanating from Su Yu, as well as Su Yu's free movement within the miasma. Out of respect, he referred to Su Yu as senior. Now, seeing Su Yu's youthful face, he found it difficult to continue addressing him as such without feeling awkward.