All Members Break Through

"What's wrong? You don't want it?"

Seeing Shao Xin's dazed expression, Lin Hanye couldn't help but find it amusing.

"No, it's just that I'm surprised! Is it really okay to give this Immortal Herb to me?"

Shao Xin scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

"Then consider it payment for my future invitation for you to join the Soul Master Guild. If you refuse, I can take it back right now."

Lin Hanye gave him an out.

Hearing this, Shao Xin froze for a moment before reacting. He accepted the Immortal Herb from Lin Hanye. "Don't worry. As long as you don't find me lacking when the time comes, I'll definitely join. I'll brave fire and water without hesitation."

"Then it's settled."

The two exchanged smiles, understanding each other without another word.

A moment later, Shao Xin also entered a state of refining the Immortal Herb.

Lin Hanye likewise found a corner, sat cross-legged, and took out the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid to refine.

The night passed without incident.

Perhaps because he had refined whale glue and absorbed his First Soul Ring and Second Soul Ring beyond their limits, his physique was far stronger than Liu Erlong's and Shao Xin's. Thus, he was the first to awaken.

However, he did not stand up. Instead, he took out the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and began refining it.

As for the Frigid Ice Jade Dew nurtured by the other Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, his martial soul was already Extreme Ice. Continuing to absorb it would have little use beyond increasing his soul power, so he could save it for when he needed to break through a bottleneck in the future.

When Lin Hanye opened his eyes, the entire room suddenly brightened. His Ice Element martial soul emerged on its own, and his entire body was filled with an ice-blue chilling aura. At the same time, when he summoned his martial soul, the white frosty mist that should have risen from his eyes had now completely turned ice-blue.

That dazzling radiance was being emitted from his eyes. Originally, the white frosty mist rising from his eyes after summoning his martial soul could only enhance his dynamic vision. But now, Lin Hanye vaguely felt that his eyes seemed to have gained something more.

As for what ability it was, he would have to explore it himself in the future.

If I refine those two pieces of Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue, it'll be more than enough for my Third Soul Ring to withstand ten thousand years. But Soul Shock is still a problem. After all, I haven't cultivated anything like the Purple Demon Eye, and refining the medicinal power deposited in my body by the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew won't happen overnight. It seems I can only wait until my Fourth Soul Ring to get a ten-thousand-year one. As for my Third Soul Ring, I'll try to get as close to ten thousand years as possible.

Lin Hanye murmured inwardly.

At the same time, Liu Erlong and Shao Xin, who had long since finished refining their Immortal Herbs, were struck by the blue light from Lin Hanye's eyes. Their vision turned completely white, and they could see nothing at all.

When they opened their eyes again, Lin Hanye had already stood up. The light in his eyes had faded, and he looked much the same as before. Only those clear dark blue eyes seemed even deeper and sharper, making people afraid to meet his gaze.

"How do you feel?" Liu Erlong came forward to greet him. Since the two had more or less confirmed their relationship, she had become even more attached to him. Wrapping her arms around Lin Hanye's neck, she hung from his body, the love in her eyes completely undisguised.

"I'm in pretty good condition. How about you two?"

Lin Hanye asked.

Hearing this, Liu Erlong rubbed against Lin Hanye before letting go and retreating several steps. She summoned her Fire Dragon Martial Soul and showed off, "I'm already Level 30. Hehe, what do you think? Impressive, right?"

Shao Xin also smiled. "My soul power is still Level 30, but according to what you said, once I obtain my Third Soul Ring, I should be able to gain another five or six levels. Maybe even more."

"There's no rush to set out tomorrow to obtain the soul rings. Before that, there's something more important. Do you know my soul ring configuration?"

Lin Hanye teased them.

The two were stunned. Seeing Lin Hanye's mysterious expression, Liu Erlong subconsciously said, "Isn't it the same as ours? Two Yellow Soul Rings?"

Shao Xin seemed to think of something and swallowed hard. "Your Second Soul Ring... it couldn't be a thousand-year one, could it?" After all, the power of Lin Hanye's Second Soul Skill, Mysterious Ice Bind, had seemed astonishingly great.

Even Tang Zhan of the Clear Sky Sect had failed to shatter it in one blow with the Clear Sky Hammer's Third Soul Skill, Sun-Piercing Blazing Sun.

There had been a full ten Soul Power Levels between them.

No matter how special Lin Hanye's martial soul was, it should not have been so overwhelmingly powerful.

"You're only half right." Lin Hanye stopped hiding it and immediately released One Yellow and One Purple Soul Ring from beneath his feet.

"It really is a Thousand-Year Second Ring."

Shao Xin's pupils suddenly contracted. Although he had long suspected it, disbelief still filled his face.

"You're amazing."

Liu Erlong took every chance she had to press herself against him. With a face full of admiration, she threw herself into his arms.

"My First Soul Ring came from an Ice Bamboo over seven hundred years old, while my Second Soul Ring came from a fifteen-hundred-year Mysterious Ice Turtle. The reason I was able to absorb soul rings beyond my limit, aside from focusing on training to improve my physique, is inseparable from this."

Lin Hanye smiled lightly and took out the three pieces of Thousand-Year Whale Glue he had bought along the way from his Storage Soul Tool. This time, he did not keep them guessing and directly explained the effects of whale glue.

Upon learning that whale glue could strengthen a Soul Master's physique and increase soul ring age, Liu Erlong's admiration for Lin Hanye, the "discoverer" of whale glue's effects, rose to even greater heights.

Shao Xin, meanwhile, felt fortunate about his original choice—fortunate that he had followed Lin Hanye. Otherwise, let alone obtaining Immortal Herbs and learning about whale glue, he might still be in the Great Soul Arena of Suotuo City, painfully saving Gold Soul Coins and trying to find someone to help him hunt his Third Soul Ring.

"Erlong, this piece, which is of six-thousand-year quality, is yours. Shao Xin, these two are yours."

Lin Hanye gave the highest-quality piece among the three Thousand-Year Whale Glues to Liu Erlong. The other two, which were only one or two thousand years old, went to Shao Xin.

"What about you?"

Seeing Lin Hanye give all three pieces of whale glue bought along the way to them, Liu Erlong looked at him expectantly.

"I prepared my own long ago." Light flashed from the Soul Tool Ring in Lin Hanye's hand, and a larger, higher-quality, golden-yellow crystalline substance appeared before them.

"How are we supposed to eat this? It's so hard. It looks like it can't be swallowed at all."

Seeing that Lin Hanye had prepared some for himself as well, the two finally smiled in relief. Liu Erlong asked.

"The three pieces in your hands are only thousand-year grade. Just roast them with your Fire Dragon flames until they soften. But the one in my hand is ten-thousand-year grade. I bought it at the Heaven Dou Auction House back then. A low-level soul master's flames won't work; it has to be heated in the Blacksmith Association's Forging Furnace."

Lin Hanye said.

"No wonder you brought us thousands of miles out of our way to Gengxin City."

Liu Erlong and Shao Xin finally understood.

A Moment Later, Lin Hanye went to their rooms separately, summoned his martial soul, and made a vat of Ice Water for each of them to help them refine the Whale Rubber.

After watching them both take the Whale Rubber, he closed their doors and headed to the Blacksmith Association.

PS: Second Update.