Even cobbled-together Rings can reach a hundred thousand years? Then I'm invincible!

Meanwhile, Snake Lance Douluo Yu Long stood on a tree branch, using his spiritual power to sense the presence of Soul Beasts around him.

All of a sudden.

"Boom-!!"

A deafening blast erupted from the distant forest, and a terrifying shockwave, faster than sound, came barreling indiscriminately toward the two of them.

"W-what the fuck is that thing?!"

Snake Lance Douluo Yu Long cried, his face draining of color.

"Not good! Don't you dare harm my master!!"

In an instant, he moved in front of Xue Qinghe and raised his Snake Lance Martial Soul to block the dreadful shockwave.

The wind howled from every direction.

"Whoosh-!!"

Snake Lance Douluo Yu Long stood like a towering wall, blocking nearly all of the shockwave as a relentless gale roared past both sides of his body.

"There's not even a trace of Soul Power in this gale!"

Xue Qinghe's eyes slowly widened. She could feel the fierce wind scraping past her cheeks, especially the razor-sharp force hidden within it, sharp enough to make her skin sting.

Could it be...

Is this the power of nature?

It really is a little frightening.

If Uncle Yu weren't here today, I'm afraid even I'd be sent flying by that savage force.

"Elder Snake Lance, are you all right?"

While they were out in public, Xue Qinghe had to address Snake Lance Douluo as elder, so she couldn't call him Uncle Yu.

"Don't worry, young master. An attack of this level couldn't harm a single hair on this old man's head."

Snake Lance Douluo Yu Long slung his Snake Lance Martial Soul over his shoulder, looking utterly confident. Yet as he gazed in the direction the shockwave had come from, a trace of shock appeared in his eyes.

What kind of creature could cause such an impact? Even a trace of its residual force possessed terrifying power comparable to that of a human Soul Saint.

He couldn't help feeling somewhat astonished.

"Elder Snake Lance, look behind you..."

Xue Qinghe said, pointing at the towering trees behind them that had been bent slightly by the wind.

"What overwhelming power."

Snake Lance Douluo Yu Long's expression grew grave. By rights, he shouldn't have lingered here any longer, but taken Xue Qinghe out of the Star Dou Great Forest.

But from the residual force, he had sensed the presence of a light-attribute Soul Beast.

This was a case of wearing out iron shoes in a fruitless search, only to find it at last!

"There's no harm in taking a look first. If there really is a Titled Douluo-level existence, it won't be too late to leave then."

Snake Lance Douluo Yu Long told Xue Qinghe as much; after all, he couldn't make the decision for his young master.

After hearing him out, Xue Qinghe hesitated for a moment before decisively agreeing.

She understood that danger and opportunity went hand in hand.

"Time waits for no one. Let's hurry."

Yu Fan was preparing to absorb the ten-thousand-year Light-Winged Mantis's Soul Ring, but at that crucial moment,

the system displayed a notification.

[Ding! The host is about to absorb a ten-thousand-year Light-Winged Mantis Soul Ring with light as its primary attribute and sharpness as its secondary attribute. The system will unlock the Refinement Function for the host!]

Refinement Function?

What the fuck is that?

[Refinement Function: The host can use Morality Points to refine Soul Rings. As the name implies, this refines their attributes, retaining only absolute sharpness or the ultimate light attribute!]

Looking at the system's explanation,

Yu Fan was dazed for a moment.

Holy mother of thunder and cannons!

Wasn't this a cheat?

"System, don't tell me you can fuse Soul Rings too!"

[Ding! The Refinement Function includes Soul Ring fusion. If the Soul Ring absorbed this time is ten thousand years old, fusing it to twenty thousand years will cost one thousand Morality Points!]

[Host's current Morality Points: 10000]

Those ten thousand Morality Points were the fruit of Yu Fan's six years of painstaking preaching, plus all kinds of swindling and trickery...

Pah! That was the imparting of morality!

Only after all that had he obtained these ten thousand Morality Points!

Aside from the protagonist's group and the characters who had appeared in Douluo Continent, the rest of those nobodies simply couldn't provide enough Morality Points for him to stockpile.

So Yu Fan had done quite well to get ten thousand.

"Twenty thousand years costs one thousand Morality Points, so ten thousand Morality Points plus marrow cleansing..."

Yu Fan counted on his fingers.

"Damn, so there won't be a single point left."

"System, fuck your mother!"

The damned system had him completely figured out.

If he could raise a Soul Ring's age and freely refine its attributes,

why would he have to go to all the trouble of finding a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?

He could fuse Soul Rings to cobble together a good Ring, making one of hundred-thousand-year quality!

"Then it looks like I can't start with this ten-thousand-year Soul Ring."

"Light-Winged Mantis, you really died a miserable death."

Yu Fan looked at the Light-Winged Mantis's corpse.

The more he said, the more tears he'd shed.

"In that case, Little Black, eat it."

"Don't you Soul Beasts devour each other to quickly raise your age?"

"Even if you don't have the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's talent, you should at least be able to raise it a little, right?"

Listening to Yu Fan's talk of chowing down,

the ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger began gnawing on the Light-Winged Mantis, only half understanding.

The more Yu Fan thought about it, the more something seemed off.

"Fuck, so because I hadn't encountered a Soul Ring before, my Morality Points were useless, and the system didn't unlock Soul Ring fusion and refinement for me."

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got.

Though even if it had unlocked them earlier, it wouldn't have helped.

"If only I could find someone to ask for directions. Failing that, they could at least teach me a few tricks for using spiritual power from a distance..."

Yu Fan glanced at the Ghost Tiger gnawing on the Light-Winged Mantis. The fellow was so blissed out on his meal that he no longer knew heaven from earth.

He couldn't help sighing.

"With only this ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger, who's as stupid as a pig, how long will it take me to find an old Soul Beast?"

"If all else fails, I'll have to find Da Ming and Er Ming and ask them where that Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is."

Just as he was about to jump up and look for the Lake of Life,

he suddenly sensed an extremely powerful surge of Soul Power rushing rapidly toward him.

He couldn't help exclaiming in surprise,

"Now that's getting exactly what I wished for."

A golden, snake-patterned spear suddenly plunged down, embedding itself at an angle in the ground before him.

"Could you make it any more obvious?"

"I can fucking tell who it is just by looking at this lousy spear."

Yu Fan declared himself an expert.

As a fan of the original Douluo novel, he was beside himself with joy.

One piss is thirty-six degrees!

Ten pisses are three hundred and sixty degrees!

"Hm? Why is it a little bra-"

Yu Long had only just glanced at Yu Fan, but that one glance left him unable to look away.

Wait, what?

Where the fuck did a kid this brawny come from?!

"Could it be an illusion?"

Yu Long looked warily around, but after scanning the area with his spiritual power again and again,

he finally confirmed it.

This was just a kid who happened to be built like a tank!

"Elder Snake Lance, why does he look so strange?"

Xue Qinghe asked curiously.

"Well..."

Yu Long shook his head.

"Even this old man has never seen anything like him."

A Soul Master even a Titled Douluo had never seen the likes of truly piqued Xue Qinghe's curiosity.

Could his appearance be a mutation caused by a Mutated Martial Soul?