"Not going? Why?"
Tang San was puzzled. His plan had been to hunt for a Soul Ring suitable for himself in the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest once he reached level ten.
Preferably a venomous snake-type Soul Beast like a Mandala Snake, or perhaps a spider-type Soul Beast.
Yet this attendant was telling him not to go hunting for a Soul Ring?
"It's like this, sir. You may not know since you've only just arrived in Shrek City, but two months ago, the Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest stopped producing Soul Rings.
"No, rather, the Soul Rings dropped by every Soul Beast only last for around ten minutes before rapidly disappearing. Quite a few Soul Masters have only absorbed half a Soul Ring before it dissipated.
"I heard that a powerful Soul Emperor who had just broken through recently began absorbing a Soul Ring, only for it to suddenly vanish. That Soul Emperor's sixth ring ended up being just a ten-year Soul Ring."
As a Soul Emperor, he would naturally have wanted his sixth Soul Ring to be powerful. He had happily hunted down a Soul Beast and absorbed its Soul Ring, only to end up with one that had a ten-year cultivation.
That Soul Emperor probably wanted to die.
The attendant shook his head and sighed softly, seemingly pitying that Soul Emperor's tragic fate.
Tang San, however, fell into thought.
Soul Beast Soul Rings could dissipate? How could that be? Could it be... the World Will was behind this?
It knew that this fragment of my remnant soul had descended into the lower realm. It feared that I would become a Deity again and use heaven-shaking power to kill it, so it directly altered the world's laws?
Tang San pondered it. In his view,