Chapter 179 Ruby Demon Spirit_3
Looking at the Starlight Ruby, Li Xiu smiled wryly and murmured to himself: "I originally thought of using my Spiritual Sense and Seed Spirit Technique to transform ordinary gemstones into Demon Spirit Gemstones, but now it seems impossible. It turns out that Seed Spirit Technique requires not only Spiritual Sense but something else. If my Spiritual Sense completely occupied and assimilated the Ruby Demon Spirit, the Ruby Demon Spirit would be useless."
Li Xiu sensed this issue, so he stopped midway, not letting his Spiritual Sense fully replace the Ruby Demon Spirit; otherwise, this Starlight Ruby would crack.
Although unable to fully control the Demon Spirit within the Starlight Ruby, it absorbed some of Li Xiu's Spiritual Sense, creating a special bond with him, allowing Li Xiu to influence it through his Spiritual Sense, which was sufficient.
This was somewhat similar to the advice given by the Unparalleled King; however, Li Xiu didn't need to sacrifice others' lives, only some Spiritual Sense.
Glancing at the Starlight Ruby in his hand, Li Xiu swallowed it directly.
Inside the Starlight Ruby, with Li Xiu's Spiritual Sense, he could sense something immediately surrounded it from all sides when the Starlight Ruby entered his body.
That thing was like a super powerful vacuum, frantically extracting something from the Starlight Ruby.
Strangely, the extracted thing was neither the energy nor the soul of the Ruby Demon Spirit.
Li Xiu couldn't figure out what was being extracted.
But he could roughly judge that it might be the Demon Spirit embryo doing this.
As the substance was extracted, the Starlight Ruby gradually melted into a liquid form.
Once that substance was completely drawn out, the now-liquid Starlight Ruby began to solidify again, permeating Li Xiu's body, drifting towards his fingers.
Li Xiu knew this should be the process of transforming the Demon Spirit Gemstone into the Demon Spirit Ring.
Oddly, the previous Ruby Demon Spirit had not appeared.
The situation was different from Li Xiu's expectations; it seemed the Demon Spirit embryo did not clash with that Ruby Demon Spirit.
Just as Li Xiu was puzzled, he suddenly felt something entangling the liquid Starlight Ruby.
Li Xiu sensed a fiercely ruthless consciousness frantically entangling and devouring the Starlight Ruby.
He immediately realized this must be the previous Demon Spirit Ruby, which had long been drained by the Demon Spirit embryo, becoming liquid.
For some unknown reason, it didn't continue to transform into a Demon Spirit Ring after liquefying but hid dispersedly in his body, so it couldn't be found.
Now, tempted by the Starlight Ruby, it couldn't hold back any longer, emerging to devour the Starlight Ruby and the Demon Spirit within.
Fortunately, the Starlight Ruby Demon Spirit had Li Xiu's Spiritual Sense support; the Demon Spirit within wasn't helpless.
The two Ruby Demon Spirits frantically entangled and devoured each other within Li Xiu's body, soon surprising him as the Starlight Ruby Demon Spirit couldn't resist the Ruby Demon Spirit.
"Such a formidable Demon Spirit!" Li Xiu couldn't afford to observe anymore and immediately summoned the Evil Spirit Token and Forbidden Spear.
On the table were two small piles of gemstones: one pure sapphires, one half rubies, half sapphires.
Li Xiu placed the Forbidden Spear on the sapphire pile and the Evil Spirit Token on the half ruby, half sapphire pile.
The Forbidden Spear and Evil Spirit Token immediately emitted light, and the energy in the gemstones rapidly flowed into the two Symbiotic Contracts.
The red-masked figure on the front and the blue-masked figure on the back of the Evil Spirit Token both lit up. After absorbing the sapphire's energy, the blood pattern on the Forbidden Spear changed from red to blue, strengthening the glow on the two Symbiotic Contracts.
"Hurry up!" Li Xiu felt the Starlight Ruby Demon Spirit within his body was increasingly overwhelmed, almost completely consumed, feeling urgent inside.
Now, he had no other method; the Starlight Ruby couldn't withstand much Spiritual Sense. If more was added, perhaps it could eliminate the Ruby Demon Spirit, but now it could only barely hold on, unable to endure for long.
Crack! Crack!
The energy-absorbed rubies and sapphires shattered one by one, while the glow on the Symbiotic Contracts grew stronger, making the Forbidden Spear and Evil Spirit Token tremble.
Li Xiu could feel they were about to break through.
Boom!
The gemstones below the two Symbiotic Contracts suddenly exploded, and the Forbidden Spear and Evil Spirit Token transformed into streaks of light, returning to Li Xiu's body.
Li Xiu was overjoyed; the Forbidden Spear and Evil Spirit Token released energy within his body, fortifying it, signaling a promotion.
However, soon after, Li Xiu suddenly felt the energy released by the Symbiotic Contracts was sucked away.
"Damn it!" Li Xiu's expression slightly changed.
The Starlight Ruby Demon Spirit could no longer be sensed, likely completely devoured by the Ruby Demon Spirit.
Now, the Ruby Demon Spirit was absorbing the energy released by the Symbiotic Contracts, clearly the culprit preventing him from advancing to D-level.
Although Li Xiu knew what was happening, he was powerless to stop it, only watching as the energy was depleted without any means to intervene.
With the energy absorbed, Li Xiu also lost the chance to advance to D-level. As he lamented, he unexpectedly felt something surging towards his finger.
Crystalline blood-red liquid seeped from the skin, coalescing on the finger, gradually forming into a ring shape.
Just different from previous Demon Spirit Rings, which were pure circles without protrusions or indentations, nor any decoration.
But this Demon Spirit Ring resembled a gem-set ring, the protruding gem on the band not being set but integrated with the band, like a blood-red crystal sculpture.
On the gemstone, there was a star-shaped pattern like the Starlight Ruby, but the star lines were blood-red.