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Generally speaking, if a Charming Fox were to cultivate from the state of one tail to three tails, its cultivation would typically be over a thousand years.
Therefore, the Charm Heart Fox with over four hundred years of cultivation from back then must have possessed a three-tailed bloodline level from birth—meaning at least one of its parents had reached the three-tailed realm.
From a bloodline perspective, the level of a three-tailed Charm Heart Fox significantly exceeded the origin level of the Charming Fox Martial Soul.
Thus, when Hu Liena absorbed her first soul ring, she underwent Fusion Evolution. Not only did her Martial Soul origin power increase tremendously, but it also underwent a transformation, evolving into a two-tailed state.
Had she used the Devouring Evolution method, it would have taken her at least until the two-ring stage for her Charming Fox Martial Soul to manifest its second tail.
Subsequently, Hu Liena decided to follow a Dual-Fusion Stream. Specifically, she would use the Single-Attribute Fusion method to fuse the Fire attribute into her Charming Fox as a second attribute.
While maintaining the soul's inherent Spirit attribute, she would combine it with Fire, pursuing a Dual-Attribute Fusion Stream that was primarily Spirit System supplemented by the Agility Attack System.
As the most complex and difficult cultivation path in the world of Soul Masters, the Dual-Fusion Stream places extremely high demands on soul ring absorption.
Not only must the soul beast's characteristics be compatible with the Charming Fox Martial Soul, but the addition of the second attribute must not suppress the soul's original Spirit attribute.
At the same time, the power of the second attribute must reach a certain intensity—it cannot be too weak compared to the primary attribute. Beyond that, there are specific requirements for the effects of the soul ring's soul skill.
For Hu Liena, on top of the Dual-Fusion Stream, she also had to account for the Nine-Tails development path. In terms of the difficulty of cultivating a Martial Soul, it is unlikely that anyone in the entire Douluo Continent could stand as an equal to her.
Since Hu Liena's first soul ring was a Spirit-attribute Charm Heart Fox, her Martial Soul's inherent spiritual power had already grown once.
Therefore, the second soul ring was the perfect opportunity to fuse the Fire attribute and develop her Agility Attack System capabilities.
For fusing a second attribute, the best choice would naturally be a superior race of the Flame Fox clan—specifically, a Flame Fox with many tails whose bloodline had transformed multiple times.
After all, if one is choosing a higher-level bloodline beast to absorb for a second attribute fusion...
If the beast belongs to the same "Fox" category, the fusion effect after absorption is naturally the best. Unfortunately, they could not find a Flame Fox with both a suitable cultivation age and bloodline level.
This was not hard to understand; among all soul beast species, fox-type beasts are relatively weak until they cultivate to six tails. They cannot compare to tiger or bear types, and they even appear weaker than wolf types, resulting in smaller numbers.
At that time, the Flame Fox they spent days searching for—one with a cultivation age suitable for Hu Liena's second soul ring—only had two tails.
Under these circumstances, even if the age was right, the bloodline level of a two-tailed Flame Fox was not strong enough, as Hu Liena's own Charming Fox Martial Soul had already transformed to the two-tailed realm.
If one were to compare the strength of their origins, Hu Liena naturally could not match a two-tailed Flame Fox with higher cultivation, but the level of their origins was roughly the same.
Thus, the conditions for Fusion Evolution were not met.
Even if she absorbed it, the Charming Fox Martial Soul would only devour the soul ring's power to strengthen its own Spirit-attribute origin based on its current foundation, slowly evolving toward three tails.
At most, the second soul skill would be a Fire-attribute skill due to the bloodline power within the Flame Fox's ring.
While this would achieve the goal of evolving toward the Nine-Tails, it would fail the requirements of the Single-Attribute Fusion Stream for fusing a second attribute.
It would not successfully integrate the Fire-attribute power of the Flame Fox clan into the Charming Fox Martial Soul.
On the other hand, those Flame Foxes with three or more tails often had cultivation ages of over a thousand years, which exceeded the limit of what Hu Liena could absorb for her second soul ring.
It must be noted that the Charming Fox is primarily a Spirit-attribute soul supplemented by Beast traits; its physical augmentation is far inferior to top-tier Martial Souls like the Flame Lord or the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
Even if it were otherwise, the standard limit for a second soul ring is 760 years. For a Soul Master with a mid-tier Martial Soul, the limit for the second ring fluctuates around this standard, usually not exceeding 800 years.
Even for a Soul Master with a top-tier Beast Martial Soul, the limit remains within this range if they find a top-tier soul beast of the same level as their own soul.
In reality, because top-tier soul beasts are rare and naturally powerful, they often have a century of cultivation from birth. Under the protection of their parents, their cultivation grows by leaps and bounds.
Trying to capture a top-tier soul beast below a thousand years means contending with at least one adult top-tier beast. It was just like when Chrysanthemum Douluo captured that Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear of over four hundred years for Ling Xiao.
Therefore, for Soul Masters with top-tier Martial Souls, the second soul ring is usually from a high-tier soul beast; this allows the age limit to float upward, but at most, it only reaches slightly over 900 years.
It still cannot exceed a millennium, just as it was when Ling Xiao obtained his second soul ring. For the Charming Fox Martial Soul, fusing a second attribute is an absolutely essential step for the Dual-Attribute Fusion Stream.
At the same time, in the process of a Soul Master's cultivation, one can only absorb nine soul rings at most. With such a limited quantity, none can be wasted, and none can be casually abandoned.
Thus, Chrysanthemum Douluo spent several more days with Hu Liena. Although they still didn't find a multi-tailed Flame Fox with the right bloodline and cultivation, they did find a suitable alternative.
It was a Scarlet Shadow Marten with nearly 800 years of cultivation.
This soul beast belongs to the high-tier rank and is of the Fire attribute. While its combat power isn't outstanding among high-tier beasts, its speed is staggering—few high-tier beasts can match it.
Being both Fire-attribute and a high-tier soul beast, it met the requirements of the Single-Attribute Fusion Stream. Moreover, although it wasn't as perfectly compatible as the Flame Fox clan, this species shared many similarities with them.
It possessed Fire power and extreme speed.
Compared to a four-tailed or five-tailed Flame Fox, the Scarlet Shadow Marten was slightly weaker in raw combat power but superior in speed, fitting Hu Liena's requirement of supplementing her path with the Agility Attack System.
Although its nearly 800-year cultivation slightly exceeded the standard for a mid-tier Soul Master's second ring—especially considering its high-tier bloodline—Hu Liena was no ordinary Soul Master.
As the personal disciple of Pope Bibi Dong, she had enjoyed plenty of soul beast meat, as well as pills and medicinal baths to strengthen her physique.
Furthermore, several years ago, Bibi Dong had used a secret medicinal bath from the Medicine King Valley—featuring the Tier 7 Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Forging Pill—to improve Hu Liena's physical aptitude.
Although it couldn't compare to Ling Xiao's use of the Sovereign Heaven Bone-Refining Pill to directly forge an innate skeletal structure, it was a massive improvement for her physical potential.
Both her growth rate and current physical strength had been greatly enhanced.
Coupled with the fact that while the Scarlet Shadow Marten is ranked as a high-tier soul beast, its "Beast" nature is not particularly overbearing compared to other high-tier beasts, it remained a suitable choice.
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