Truly facing a ten-thousand-year soul ring, Huo Wu inevitably felt some nervousness, but Huo Wu had been preparing for this moment for years.
While nervous, she also felt a little excited.
The soul energy body, after death, dissipated like smoke, leaving nothing behind except for the scarred ground.
Huo Wu looked around, calmed her mind, and then, after taking a deep breath, began to absorb the soul ring.
The black soul ring enveloped her Fire Shadow Martial Soul, and in just an instant, pain swept through her entire body.
The energy of the soul ring, like a vast river, surged into Huo Wu's body.
Her body, tempered through arduous cultivation and ten-thousand-year-level soul beast meat, displayed powerful resilience under the pressure of the fifteen-thousand-year soul ring.
Learning from her experience in absorbing the third soul ring, Huo Wu went all out from the beginning, controlling her soul power to circulate according to the meridian routes she had planned.
Under Huo Wu's well-trained mental power, the soul power circulated along the most efficient soul power circulation route at this stage.
Huo Wu initially mastered the first stage of soul ring absorption.
The energy output of the soul ring had phased changes. The first stage was a relatively gentle stage. As long as she could withstand the initial impact of soul power, the subsequent absorption process would be relatively smooth.
The second stage was the peak stage of soul power output.
From the initial gentleness, the soul power output would gradually reach its peak. For those who absorbed ordinary soul rings, even if the soul power output reached its peak, their meridians could fully withstand it.
However, for those who absorbed soul rings exceeding their limit, their meridians would expand to their limit from the first stage. At this time, even a little more output would put a great burden on the soul master's body.
Moreover, what was even more terrifying was that the duration of the second stage was longer than the first stage.
Since Huo Wu began absorbing, two hours had passed. Huo Wu took advantage of the peaceful period of the first stage to absorb as much energy as possible.
Huo Wu's meridians emitted bursts of swelling pain, but it was still within Huo Wu's control. However, in the next moment, the energy of the soul ring further erupted.
The meridian circulation maintained by Huo Wu fell into chaos.
"Hmm!"
Huo Wu made a sound for the first time because of the pain.
Seeing Huo Wu's situation, Huo Wuxie's heart couldn't help but tighten.
His arms, which were folded across his chest, also bulged with veins due to excessive force.
Quan Yi's heart was also very tormented. This was the first time he had seen someone he cherished taking such a risk.
Even though Quan Yi had deduced countless plans and countermeasures in his heart, there were always unexpected events, which made Quan Yi understand the feelings of family members.
Huo Wu, who let out a muffled groan, had not completely lost control of her soul power.
However, she could only hold on for half an hour at most. After that, the out-of-control soul ring energy would fill Huo Wu's meridians.
This made it impossible for Huo Wu to speed up the absorption, even if she wanted to.
Quan Yi noticed Huo Wuxie's situation and comforted him, "Uncle, don't worry too much. Xiao Wu and I have already planned for this situation."
Huo Wuxie was surprised again, "What other way is there to deal with this situation besides resisting it head-on?"
The Fire Shadow Martial Soul entered a blazing white state. With the Second Awakening of the Martial Soul, Huo Wu's body was further strengthened.
Huo Wu's mental power and physical strength were strengthened, and Huo Wu once again mastered the control of the soul ring's energy.
However, this time, Huo Wu changed her original soul power circulation method.
Although her Martial Soul Second Awakening was very strong, the Second Awakening could only be maintained for half an hour at most, even if Huo Wu didn't consume soul power.
A short half an hour was far from the long soul ring absorption time.
Even if she could persist now, after the Martial Soul Second Awakening was lifted, Huo Wu would instead fall into a more dangerous situation due to weakness.
To avoid this situation, Huo Wu had to change her strategy.
Huo Wu controlled the massive energy and transported it to her lower abdomen.
This part was where the meridians were cut off. When the energy came here, it could neither advance nor retreat.
However, it was this barrier that had been cut off that actually produced cracks after being impacted by the massive energy.
"Crack!"
A non-existent cracking sound entered Huo Wu's mind.
In the next moment, the majestic soul power actually broke through the solid barrier and entered an unfamiliar meridian passage.
Starting from the lower abdomen, passing through the lower abdomen, crossing the tail vertebra, and then going up the back of the human body, passing through the back of the neck, entering the brain, reaching the Baihui acupoint at the top along the midline of the head, and then going down the forehead, the tip of the nose, the philtrum, and finally arriving at the Yin Jiao acupoint located in the middle of the upper teeth.
This meridian running trajectory was exactly the same as the Du Meridian that Quan Yi had opened up in the past.
That's right, what Huo Wu was doing was using massive energy to continuously break through all the obstacles of the Du Meridian.
Finally, under Huo Wu's control, the entire Du Meridian was suddenly connected.
The majestic energy also consumed most of it in the process of passing through the Du Meridian.
The pain in Huo Wu's mind also turned into a feeling of pleasure.
This feeling of the body and soul seeming to be one made Huo Wu slightly lose her mind.
However, Huo Wu quickly realized that she was still in the process of absorbing the soul ring, and she immediately concentrated her mind and accelerated the absorption of the soul ring's energy according to the Du Meridian soul power cultivation method that Quan Yi had explored.
The whole process lasted for more than two hours.
The Silver-level Awakening had dissipated half an hour ago, and the blazing white Fire Shadow had turned back to orange.
However, Huo Wu's state had also gradually eased during this time, and finally entered the most peaceful third stage of soul ring absorption.
Seeing Huo Wu's relaxed expression, Huo Wuxie was completely relieved.
"Is this the plan you were talking about?" Huo Wuxie asked.
Quan Yi nodded with a relaxed expression.
Huo Wuxie wanted to continue asking, but in the end, he didn't say it.
This kind of secret method was generally a family secret. Being able to tell Huo Wu was already a great advantage. If he continued to ask, he might offend Quan Yi and the Quan family behind him.
However, being able to pass the secret method to Huo Wu, Huo Wuxie knew how sincere Quan Yi was to Huo Wu, and he was very gratified by Quan Yi.
After another two hours, Huo Wu finally completed the absorption of the fourth soul ring safely.
Huo Wu opened her eyes, saw the two men who loved her the most in front of her, and showed a beautiful smile, saying: "I succeeded!"
Huo Wu stood up, flew over, put her arms around Quan Yi and Huo Wuxie, and released the joy in her heart.
Quan Yi and Huo Wuxie smiled at each other and hugged Huo Wu together.
After a long time, Huo Wu broke free from the hug and said: "Do you want to hear about the effect of my ten-thousand-year soul skill?"
Huo Wu's mouth was itching unbearably, and she couldn't wait to tell the effect of her ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring.
