"But since your cultivation was hard-earned, I can agree to let you become my Fifth Soul Ring while retaining your consciousness, becoming a Soul Spirit like them."
"When I ascend to the higher realm in the future, you will be reborn. Whether you agree is up to you."
After Tang Lan finished speaking, he merely looked quietly at the creature before him.
Two phantom Evil Spirit Orcas soon emerged above Tang Lan's soul rings.
They first swam slowly around Tang Lan, then nodded from afar in the Dragon Turtle's direction.
Yet the Dragon Turtle still showed no reaction, as though it had no interest whatsoever in Tang Lan's proposal.
Tang Lan said nothing and simply waited in silence.
After a long while, the creature let out a low roar before slowly closing its eyes.
A blood-red soul ring began condensing above its head.
Tang Lan could tell that this creature was likely a two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year-old Dragon Turtle Baxia.
As for the Flame Domain Jellyfish King, it appeared to be a three-hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast, capable of summoning the entire Flame Domain Jellyfish clan to fight for it.
Baxia had suffered precisely because of that ability.
Tang Lan nodded at the sight, then summoned his Overlord Spear martial soul and flew toward Baxia.
The Overlord Spear did not attack Baxia. Instead, it hovered above Baxia's head and began merging with its martial soul.
Half an incense stick later, Tang Lan slowly rose from the deep sea in a cross-legged position. Baxia, now reduced to several zhang in size, floated around him.
The creature now appeared in its Soul Spirit form and had completely lost its previous weakness.
At the same time, Tang Lan had also fused with Baxia's palm bone, gaining Baxia's power to command the earth and seawater.
Tang Lan named this