The thousand-year spirit ring pushed Mu Yuan’s Soul Power directly to level twenty-two.
“How is the second Spirit Ability?” Du Busi asked.
Mu Yuan sensed it carefully and gave his answer.
“The second Spirit Ability, Power of Heavenly Thunder!”
By fusing with the spirit ring of this mutated Deep Sea Demon Octopus, Mu Yuan had successfully inherited its ability to control the Power of Heavenly Thunder.
As Mu Yuan’s spirit rings rose beneath his feet, one yellow and one purple, the purple spirit ring emitted a dazzling brilliance.
A powerful force erupted from within Mu Yuan’s body, and a phantom silhouette appeared behind him.
The silhouette’s face could not be seen; it only had an upper body, with its arms exceptionally solid.
The Power of Heavenly Thunder flowed within them, and the thick, thunderous power, like sturdy pythons, roamed wantonly, accompanied by constant rumbling sounds.
He raised his right hand, and the phantom behind him simultaneously raised its right hand.
The fierce Power of Heavenly Thunder leaped upon his palm, flickering incessantly.
“With the Power of Heavenly Thunder, my physical fitness increases by one hundred percent, my injury recovery speed accelerates by two hundred percent, and I can summon the phantom of the Heavenly Thunder to wield it.”
This Power of Heavenly Thunder also had an augmentation effect.
According to Mu Yuan’s sensation, it could perfectly stack with his first Spirit Ability.
If the first Spirit Ability, Vajra Demon Body, used Vajra Power and demonic energy to fiercely augment the physical body, causing a short-term explosion in physical strength, then this Power of Heavenly Thunder stimulated cellular activity, using vigorous vitality to enhance his own foundation.
The two complemented each other and stacked perfectly.
However, the Power of Heavenly Thunder could not yet be directly converted within Mu Yuan’s body.
Firstly, he could not yet precisely control this Power of Heavenly Thunder; secondly, his body could not withstand the destructive nature of the heavenly thunder.
Unlike ordinary thunderous power, the Power of Heavenly Thunder possessed only endless violence.
It was extremely rigid and masculine; upon contact with the body, it could easily destroy the human body’s structure directly.
As for the effect of utilizing the body’s vitality within the Spirit Ability, it was not the result of the heavenly thunder stimulating the cells, but the effect of the Spirit Ability itself, which originated from the terrifying life force of the Deep Sea Demon Octopus.
Du Busi, watching the manifestation of the Heavenly Thunder phantom behind Mu Yuan, resembling a thunder god descending to the world, couldn’t help but exclaim: “With only two spirit rings, you already possess a portion of the miraculousness of a second awakening.”
As the Sect Master of the Body Sect, he naturally knew that Mu Yuan had not undergone a second awakening, and this was far from being considered a second awakening.
The so-called second awakening was not a gradual process; it was an eruption.
It was breaking through the limits of the human body, truly transcending physical restrictions, and evolving the Spirit to an extraordinary step.
Similarly, for a Spirit Master with a Body Martial Soul, the second awakening of the Spirit was also an augmentation secret technique similar to the Martial Soul True Body.
What Mu Yuan showed now was still just his normal state.
It was just that the miraculousness displayed was similar to the forms of many Body Martial Souls after their second awakening.
“Perhaps you really can create that so-called Dharma Image phantom of yours before the second awakening,” Du Busi sighed with emotion.
If one possessed the miraculousness of a second awakening before the second awakening, would the second awakening be in vain?
It would not.
The deeper the foundation, the stronger the eruption would be.
Du Busi felt a surge of emotion.
At this moment, his mind was actually active, and he wanted to take on an apprentice.
Mu Yuan’s performance was simply too good.
However, considering that Mu Yuan had been in the Sect for so long, his Spirit was only his arms, and the path he was walking really did not match his own, Du Busi dismissed this idea.
Whether or not there was a master-disciple relationship was, in fact, just a title.
Du Busi would not neglect Mu Yuan just because he didn’t take him as an apprentice.
This could be seen from the experience of him taking Mu Yuan to hunt for a spirit ring this time.
He gave the crimson spirit bone directly to Mu Yuan.
The Deep Sea Demon Octopus had the potential to condense a Spirit Bone, so he tortured the Deep Sea Demon Octopus day and night, tormenting its emotions until it was near collapse to increase the probability of producing a Spirit Bone.
Everything that should be done, he was doing.
Long Aotian was taken as a disciple when he first entered the Sect because his innate Soul Power was high and his Body Martial Soul covered his entire body, making him compatible with him.
It was only after obtaining his spirit ring that he realized their paths were different; Long Aotian did not follow the path of the Poison Technique.
As for Wei Na, it was because of her background; when he took her as an apprentice upon her entering the Sect, it was also to improve relations with the Heavenly Soul Royal Family.
Du Busi truly felt that the Body Sect having no fixed abode was a major drawback, and he intended to establish a true mountain gate to make it convenient for families of those with Body Martial Souls to find the Sect.
“Let’s go, it’s time to return to Heaven Dou City.”
Mu Yuan nodded, said nothing, activated the spirit tool ship, and headed towards the mainland.
What made Mu Yuan happy was that, seemingly feeling that his previous persuasion made sense, Du Busi tried his hand at this spirit tool engine during the last leg of the journey.
Watching Du Busi, who had become addicted to driving the ship, from the side, Mu Yuan reminded him: “Sect Master, you have deviated from the route; we have sailed an extra two hours’ worth of distance.”
“This Sect Master knows what he is doing.”
Seeing this, Mu Yuan no longer tried to persuade him further.
This was a good thing.
Some things, once experienced, become addictive.
In the original work, Body Sect Spirit Masters did not equip themselves with spirit tools for combat, but it was not that they didn’t use spirit tools at all.
For example, when they ambushed Mingde Hall, that tunnel was clearly drilled using spirit tools.
One could only say that even without Mu Yuan, according to normal development, the Body Sect would gradually accept the concept of using spirit tools in daily life.
Mu Yuan guessed that this would likely be completed by Wei Na.
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East Sea City.
Du Busi seemed to still be lingering in the excitement of driving the ship.
When passing by the village slaughtered by Evil Soul Masters, the two stopped their footsteps.
Ahead, having detected the fluctuations of their Soul Power, three streaks of light were rushing over at high speed.
Of these three streaks of light, two were crimson red, and one was white-gold.
When the three streaks of light landed, Du Busi’s gaze became gloomy.
“Yan Shaozhe, you have quite the nerve to dare to block my path.”
Hearing this, Mu Yuan had a guess about the identities of the three people in front of him.
The old man leading them was Yan Shaozhe, so the young man and woman beside him were—
The one with long, fiery red hair, whose body was filled with violent flames, and even faintly had a wisp of black, was Ma Xiaotao.
The one with a faint ‘King’ character marking on his forehead, and who was faintly emitting tiger roars, was likely Dai Yueheng.
Associating this with the tragic state of the village earlier, it was not hard to guess that this was Yan Shaozhe leading these two inner court disciples to execute a mission for the Inspection Team.
Thinking this through, Mu Yuan sneered in his heart.
How long had it been since the Evil Soul Masters massacred this village, and only now had the Inspection Team arrived.
With this kind of efficiency, it was no wonder the Holy Spirit Cult was rampant in the Sun Moon Empire, and Shrek Academy didn’t even know of this organization’s existence.
Yan Shaozhe’s gaze was grave.
He scrutinized Du Busi and Mu Yuan.
“Du Busi, this village was massacred by Evil Soul Masters, and there are traces of your Poison Technique left at the scene.
What relationship do you have with those Evil Soul Masters?”
Yan Shaozhe immediately slapped a huge accusation on him.
Listening to this, Mu Yuan broke into a cold sweat for this guy.
Where did he get the confidence to do that?
The next moment, Mu Yuan knew.
Being intercepted halfway, and with the other party immediately slapping such a huge accusation on him, Du Busi attacked directly.
Nine spirit rings emerged from his body.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, red, red, red!
With three blood-red spirit rings appearing in the air, Yan Shaozhe’s body slumped slightly.
At this moment, a cold snort came from afar.
Listening to this voice, Mu Yuan felt it sounded familiar.
“Old Monster Du, stop being so presumptuous!”