"Fusion Ring, this thing is quite interesting."
Looking at Huo Wu who was erupting in the Soul Fighting Arena, Mo Hui rubbed his chin and murmured.
Fusion Ring is a talent ability that only a very small number of soul masters can master. Its effect is to allow multiple of one's soul rings to work simultaneously, thereby strengthening the power of a certain soul skill.
This effect reminded Mo Hui of the Haotian School's Great Sumeru Hammer. Mo Hui even strongly suspected that the Great Sumeru Hammer was created by a soul master based on the principle of the Fusion Ring talent, and gradually formed into its current state through generations of improvement by the Haotian School soul masters.
Immediately after, Mo Hui carefully watched Huo Wu's Fusion Ring for a while, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "So that's how it is."
The so-called principle of Fusion Ring is actually very simple, but ordinary soul masters cannot do it at all because it involves the essence of soul rings.
Ever since transmigrating to this world, Mo Hui had been thinking about what the essence of soul rings truly was. After years of contemplation and personal experience, Mo Hui arrived at his answer.
For a soul master himself, the essence of a soul ring is a soul power circulation circuit condensed from energy.
The quantity and quality of the condensed soul ring energy determine the level of the soul ring, while the difference in the soul power circulation circuit determines the soul skill contained within the soul ring.
Why are hundred-year soul rings inferior to thousand-year and ten-thousand-year soul rings?
Besides the soul power circuit contained within them, which is the soul skill, there is another key factor.
That is, the upper limit of soul power output that a hundred-year soul ring can provide is not as high as that of thousand-year and ten-thousand-year soul rings!
This is also the main reason why hundred-year soul rings become increasingly weak later on. The soul master's own soul power volume increases, but the output port of the hundred-year soul ring doesn't expand much, so its power naturally falls behind.
The Fusion Ring talent ability, on the other hand, is to strengthen a soul ring by calling upon the soul power output of other soul rings. It's equivalent to several soul rings simultaneously outputting soul power to supply the release of one soul skill, thus naturally greatly increasing its power.
In Mo Hui's view, this is a move with obvious advantages, but also equally obvious disadvantages.
Since other soul rings are used as channels for soul power output, it means that the soul skills contained within those soul rings cannot be used at this moment, limiting one's ability to react.
Furthermore, there is a loss when soul power is transmitted from other soul rings to this one. This way, compared to normally releasing a soul skill, the consumption is even greater. If one's soul power reserves are insufficient, they might not be able to withstand it after only a few uses.
However, despite these drawbacks, Mo Hui still believed Fusion Ring was a good move because it broke through the soul power output limit of a soul master's current level, showing Mo Hui a whole new possibility.
The self-created soul skills that Mo Hui had previously created, whether it was Air Blade Multi-Merge or Cutting Wind Wheel, were essentially external soul power circulation circuits extended and built by Mo Hui based on the fundamental soul power circulation circuit of the first soul skill, Wind Blade.
More powerful circuits granted the ultimate moves greater power. The increase in the number of soul skill releases broke free from the soul power output limit of a single soul skill release.
Therefore, the two soul skills created by Mo Hui were not greatly restricted by the age of his own soul rings. Theoretically, as his control over wind-attribute soul power deepened, they could reach the level of hundred-thousand-year, million-year, or even higher-level soul skills.
Of course, theory is just theory. In reality, for other soul masters who learn these two ultimate moves of his, the upper limit is generally around ten thousand years. It's unlikely they can reach one hundred thousand years.
Because soul skills have cooldown periods, in actual combat, others won't give you that much time to stack Wind Blades. Being able to stack the Wind Blades released by the soul skill twice is already ideal; stacking it a third time is simply unrealistic. In most cases, you have to release it after stacking it at most once.
Not everyone's soul skills are like Mo Hui's first soul skill, where the cooldown is almost nonexistent, allowing for rapid multiple releases of Wind Blades and then stacking them.
After all, self-created soul skills are ultimately created by the user based on their own circumstances. Others using them will more or less encounter incompatibility issues.
Compared to Mo Hui's intricacy, the Fusion Ring ultimate move is very simple and crude. It doesn't require strong soul power control ability to enhance the power of a soul skill. It doesn't even require specific conditions, just having other soul rings is enough. This requirement is too low.
"It seems I need to find some time to study Fusion Ring," Mo Hui thought to himself. "If I can add the soul power output of the second and third soul rings to the first soul ring, then the power of Air Blade: Four-in-One can reach the current power of Air Blade: Twelve-in-One."
Mo Hui thought to himself.
The Five Elements Academy Exchange lasted for a total of seven days. It was only the first day now, so he could observe Huo Wu's Fusion Ring more to provide data for his future research.
During the battles between the students of the Five Elements Academies, the sun gradually set, and the first day of the exchange meeting also came to an end.
After the exchange meeting ended, Mo Hui originally wanted to leave, but Feng Qingcang called out to him. Reluctantly, Mo Hui had to suppress his urge to go to Hurricane Gorge and came before Feng Qingcang.
"Mo Hui, this is Huo Yangyan, the dean of Blazing Academy. Huo Wu, who fought with you earlier, is his daughter."
Seeing Mo Hui arrive, Feng Qingcang pointed at Huo Yangyan and introduced him.
"Hello, Dean Huo."
Mo Hui glanced at the dean, who was close to fifty, as well as Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang behind him, and greeted him.
Huo Yangyan looked at Mo Hui with an admiring expression in his eyes and said, "Truly a young talent. You and Wu'er, Wushuang are close in age. You should become close in the future."
"This is Shui Yueruo, the dean of Skywater Academy! By the way, you kid really don't know how to cherish and protect women. Why don't you apologize to Dean Shui?"
Saying this, Feng Qingcang gave Mo Hui a look.
Hearing this, Mo Hui was first taken aback, then reacted. Just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by what Shui Yueruo said next.
Shui Yueruo waved her hand and said, "No need. I'm not that petty."
Immediately after, Shui Yueruo looked at Mo Hui with interest and said, "You're Mo Hui, right? To be able to use such a self-created soul skill, you can definitely rank among the top three geniuses I've seen. On a related note, that little girl Bing'er has a pretty good impression of you. You can exchange ideas in the future, you know."
"Dean!!!"
Hearing this, Shui Bing'er, who was behind Shui Yueruo, couldn't stand it first and shouted with a slightly red face.
"Dean Shui is very generous. I will if there's a chance in the future."
Mo Hui nodded in reply.
Next, Feng Qingcang introduced Yu Hengyu and Hu Yandong to Mo Hui. Both of them smiled and nodded at Mo Hui, having a favorable impression of this newly emerging genius.
At this moment, Feng Qingcang glanced at the geniuses behind the few people and said, "I don't think we need to wait until later. Xiaotian, Mo Hui, you two take these students to tour Divine Wind Academy and exchange feelings. Our Five Great Elements Academies are connected like branches of the same tree; this connection cannot be broken in your generation."
The other deans nodded upon hearing this. With a wave of their hands, Mo Hui followed the outstanding students behind them to go out and exchange feelings.