"H-how many? One hundred and ninety thousand years?"
Dugu Yan's eyes went wide, and she spoke in disbelief. Even as Dai Yao's wife, hearing him say that still sent a numbing shock across her scalp. And it was not just her—Zhu Zhuqing and the others were fiercely shaken as well.
"You heard me right. Around one hundred and ninety thousand years."
Dai Yao explained with a smile.
In truth, after reaching one hundred and ninety thousand years, Dai Yao still had not hit his limit thanks to the recovery abilities of the Primal Chaos Cyan Lotus and the Blue Silver Emperor.
However, when a One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring broke through to two hundred thousand years, the ring's quality would undergo another fundamental transformation. Dai Yao had calculated it and believed there was a strong chance he would not be able to withstand the tidal wave of soul power from a two-hundred-thousand-year soul ring. Although his body had not reached its absolute limit, it was already not far off. So after pondering for a moment in the end, he chose to give up.
"So far, aside from two External Soul Bones, I've only absorbed one Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone. If I absorbed one or two more soul bones, I'd have the confidence to challenge two hundred thousand years. It's just a pity..."
Dai Yao thought with some regret.
Still, if he inherited the Sea God's position, the fifty-thousand-year age reward granted to each soul ring would allow his Seventh Soul Ring to break through two hundred thousand years. This was also one of the important reasons Dai Yao chose to give up.
In the original work, Tang San successfully absorbed a One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring right from the start—Bo Saixi had said so herself. For nearly