Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

The soul ring, drawn by the soul power, suddenly enlarged upon contact with the martial soul floating in front of Long You, transforming into a large ring that directly encircled Long You.

At this moment, Long You clearly felt that the gravity acting on him had increased significantly, and his chest, which was being squeezed by gravity, also felt suffocating.

Sensing that his brain was about to disconnect due to lack of oxygen, Long You quickly gathered his thoughts and focused his consciousness entirely on his sea of ​​consciousness. Here, Long You could "see" that his martial spirit was being surrounded and squeezed by an earthy yellow energy.

Long You had a feeling that his martial soul was groaning under that intense gravitational pressure. Without time to think, Long You followed his instincts and connected his consciousness with his martial soul. He used his will and mental strength to help his martial soul fight against the burden imposed on him by the spirit ring.

Resisting the test of spirit ring energy on the body and martial soul is undoubtedly a difficult task. At this moment, Long You had to admit that his will was not exactly firm.

There was no way around it; in his previous life, Long You, while not exactly living a life of luxury, certainly had no worries about food and clothing. Furthermore, he hadn't experienced the harsh realities of society before transmigrating, so he had never endured hardship or toil.

The living conditions in this life are a level higher than in the previous life. Long You, who grew up in this environment, can be said to have no tolerance for pain, but it is not particularly strong either.

Fortunately, Long You possesses a special ability. When the suffocating and oppressive feeling becomes unbearable, Long You can project his consciousness into the Pearl of Imagination. Here, his weary spirit can be quickly restored.

In just about a minute, Long You will be able to leave the Pearl of Imagination with renewed vigor and withstand the test of the Soul Ring energy together with his Martial Soul.

After an unknown amount of time, Long You emerged from the Pearl of Imagination once again and felt the gravitational pressure on his martial soul and the suffocating sensation within his body significantly subside. He was immediately overjoyed; this was a sign that the soul ring absorption process was nearing its end.

"Click"

Just as the oppressive gravity surrounding him was about to dissipate, a sound like shackles being released rang out in Long You's mind.

At this moment, Long You felt a thick and warm soul power flowing into his meridians. After this soul power flowed into his dantian, it quickly assimilated the other soul power in his dantian.

As if struck by inspiration, Long You consciously guided the soul power within his dantian, following the path he usually followed during meditation, and quickly completed a full cycle.

Opening his eyes, Long You took a deep breath of the forest air filled with the scent of plants, and a big smile spread across his face.

"How did it go, Xiaoyou? Did you succeed? Is there anything that feels uncomfortable?"

The moment Long You opened his eyes, his mother, who had been fiddling with the stove in the corner of the tent, appeared in front of him almost in a flash.

Seeing the almost overflowing anxiety in Long's mother's eyes, Long You felt a warm current flow through his heart. His already excellent state, which had improved due to breaking through the bottleneck in his soul power, became even more positive under the care of his family.

"Of course it was a success. Your son is now a proper one-ring Soul Master."

He suddenly rushed into his mother's arms, gave her a hug, and said the words above with a rather smug air.

Of course, Long You didn't forget to show off his martial spirit. With a slight thought, Long You, who had already struck a pose, transformed from the spoiled little boy who snuggled into his mother's arms into a handsome young master from the Republican era, holding a book and wearing glasses.

The bright yellow spirit rings floated up and down. Connecting his consciousness with the spirit rings, the book in Long You's hand automatically rose and turned its pages. It was clearly visible that the Book of Witness, which originally looked like an ordinary paper book, now had two extra special pages.

Long You had a feeling that as long as he focused his Insight Glasses on a soul skill that was being released, one of the two special pages would record the locked soul skill.

Without hesitation, Long You's father, who had been keeping watch outside, heard the noise from inside the tent and came in. Long You then let his father unleash the first soul skill recorded in his Book of Records.

Inside the small tent, two books were glowing, and a barely perceptible glint flashed across the lenses of the vision glasses, indicating that the process of releasing and recording soul skills was underway.

Long You was already very familiar with the process of analyzing skills using the Insight Glasses. It was precisely because of this familiarity that Long You keenly discovered the role that his spirit rings, or rather, his spirit skills, were playing.

While not necessarily entirely accurate, Long You felt that the spirit rings attached to his martial soul seemed to primarily serve to accelerate the transformation. This effect made analyzing spirit skills with the Insight Glasses no longer as sluggish as before, but rather as easy as analyzing ordinary skills.

In five seconds, one-third of Long You's soul power reserves were consumed, and his first soul skill was finally successfully recorded.

This soul skill is a century-level earth-attribute Glory Shield soul skill. The pages of the Martial Soul Book, which records this soul skill, are now filled with various patterns and symbols. If you look closely, these patterns and symbols are interconnected, vaguely forming the image of a tall and sturdy tower shield.

"Shield of Glory!"

Of course, we should use the recorded soul skills to see what they are like.

After reciting the name of his soul skill in a low voice, Long You's soul rings shone brightly once more, and a large, thick tower shield with a pointed top slammed heavily onto the ground, enveloping Long You completely.

A flash of light, and the heavy shield landed. Theoretically, this should have been a rather cool display of a soul skill. However, theory is theory, and reality is reality. This is not...

"Dad, help me! Quickly move this shield away!"

Long You, completely enveloped by the heavy tower shield behind him, let out intermittent groans. The overconfident child, after expending double his soul power, unleashed the full power of the Glory Shield soul skill.

Unfortunately, the shield was too heavy and he was too small. Lacking strength, Long You could only barely support the tower shield in front of him with his own shoulders, preventing it from crushing him.

Realizing their son was in danger, Long You's parents rushed to support the Shield of Glory, which was still tilting backward. Sweating profusely, Long You was finally able to retreat from the Shield of Glory's pressure.

Don't ask why Long You didn't just cancel his soul skill. The reason is that in the instant the Shield of Glory fell backward, Long You concentrated all his soul power into his shoulders and calves to increase his strength in order to avoid being crushed to death.

It's impossible to separate soul power to communicate with the soul rings or dispel the already formed soul skills.