"Master, I'm not at the point where I can absorb two ten-thousand-year Soul Rings yet. Why are you giving me another forty-thousand-year Soul Ring?"
Zhang Ning looked at the forty-thousand-year Soul Ring that had been forcibly placed in her hands and asked Ye Lei in confusion.
"This Soul Ring came from a forty-thousand-year Explosive Magma Beast. Its age is a little low, only forty thousand years, but it is an excellent fit for your future sixth Soul Ring."
"This Soul Beast was the first one I killed after arriving at the Forbidden Land of Fire. However, the Beast Soul it produced has already been absorbed by me, so I can't give it to you."
Zhang Ning was not upset over the lack of a Beast Soul corresponding to the forty-thousand-year Explosive Magma Beast's Soul Ring. Instead, she already felt deeply satisfied.
Core Area of the Forbidden Land of Fire.
An active volcano continuously spewed scorching magma. Halfway up its slopes stood a massive cave, and inside that cave, a young man with a head of red hair sat arrogantly upon a throne built from the bones of bovine Soul Beasts.
The red-haired man looked at the massive throne beneath him, built from a gigantic dragon's head, and slowly murmured.
"At last, I climbed to the top over your dead body, Dragon Emperor. Enjoy your life below on your own. The empire you built belongs to me now!"
"Lord Wolf King, three Human Soul Masters have entered our territory again. Shall your subordinate take care of them?"
Outside the cave, a Magic Flame Earth Bear with cultivation of around a hundred thousand years rushed in, then prostrated itself a hundred meters before the throne as it looked toward the lofty king atop it, a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
"Oh? The