Given Gu Yi's current physique, soul, and strength of will, he could absorb even a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
Among the known Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, only the Blue Silver Emperor suited his Blood Martial Soul.
Yet there were only two Blue Silver Emperors in all of Douluo Continent. One had been brought by him to the Nine Heavens Continent and had cultivation inferior even to a hundred-year soul beast.
The other was nearing two hundred thousand years in age, but it was far away on the overseas Sun Moon Continent and could not be obtained for the time being.
Thus, when Gu Yi selected soul rings, suitability was his standard. He wanted to obtain the soul skills he needed.
And Ghost Tiger happened to possess a soul skill Gu Yi desired.
It was Zhu Zhuqing's fourth soul skill from the original work: Nether Shadow Clone.
Gu Yi had always wanted a cultivation art, martial skill, or ability capable of creating clones.
Since he was going down the path of blood, he naturally needed divine abilities such as Blood God Child.
Moreover, clone-type abilities could not only strengthen him, but also allow him to pursue multiple paths at once and operate in several worlds without worrying about exposure.
That was why Gu Yi so desperately coveted the Three Lives Scripture within the Dual Emperor Tomb beneath the Cloud Sea Sect.
However, opening the Dual Emperor Tomb was impossible without the strength of a Martial Emperor.
And it could not be done by a single Martial Emperor—it required eight of them working together.
Gu Yi was still very far from becoming a Martial Emperor.
But Douluo Continent was different. This world's Soul Ring System could grant soul masters certain special soul skills.
Although Gu Yi knew that this Shadow Clone soul skill merely