While the soul beasts racked their brains for ways to deal with Shrek, Shrek's people were anxiously recovering the soul rings beneath the city walls.
The soul beasts killed in the second beast tide assault had generally been of a high level. Thousand-Year and even Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings were everywhere. Moreover, Xuan Ziwen had stockpiled quite a few Soul Ring Collectors early on, and he was now leading the students around in Soul Guidance All-terrain Vehicles to gather soul rings.
As long as the internal structure of the Soul Tool that killed a soul beast had undergone special modifications to erase its own aura, the soul ring produced after the soul beast's death would be ownerless.
Once stored in a Soul Ring Storage Device, it could be absorbed by any Soul Master who needed it.
Even Thousand-Year Soul Rings were valuable treasures to disciples of Shrek Academy's Outer Courtyard. As for Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, there was even less need to mention them.
The academy itself did not have too great a demand for them. After all, if students reached a bottleneck in their cultivation while studying at the academy, the academy would support them in obtaining soul rings as quickly as possible.
But things were not so simple for the Shrek City Defense Army.
The Shrek City Defense Army had three thousand Soul Masters. Most of them had graduated from Shrek Outer Courtyard or been eliminated from it.
Many had stayed in Shrek City to build up their credentials in the Shrek City Defense Army.
Among three thousand Soul Masters, quite a few had reached cultivation bottlenecks.
They all came from Shrek and naturally carried some pride in their hearts. Their soul power cultivation would grow with accumulated training, so they were not in too much