Mass Frenzy

"Xiao Ao." Seeing the concern in Oscar's eyes, Meng Yiran felt warmth fill her heart.

"How do you feel now?" Oscar asked.

"Pretty good. It hurt a little at first, and the evil serpent's will fought back like mad, but the Transforming Serpent helped me, so I managed to pull through," Meng Yiran said.

The teachers standing guard nearby came over, and the others heard the commotion and woke up one after another.

Chen Feng asked curiously:

"You said the Transforming Serpent helped you?"

Meng Yiran nodded. "That's right. When the evil serpent's lingering will kept fighting back, the Transforming Serpent's will helped me resist it. That was how I had the energy to focus on absorbing the Soul Ring."

Absorbing a Soul Ring involved a process divided into four steps: breaking the ring, battling the ring, transforming the ring, and taking in the ring.

Of these, breaking and battling the ring required sufficient soul power and involved dealing with the Soul Ring itself.

Transforming the ring, meanwhile, was the process of dissolving the Soul Beast's will within it, which required a certain amount of mental power.

Of course, as the vessel bearing the Soul Ring, the Soul Master's own physical fitness could not be lacking either.

The reason the optimal Soul Ring configuration in the past had been yellow, yellow, purple, purple, and black was precisely because of those three limitations: soul power, mental power, and physique.

The Ring Expansion Method Chen Feng had pioneered was impressive precisely because it skipped the process of transforming the ring and also reduced the difficulty of breaking and battling it, naturally raising the optimal Soul Ring age considerably.

But now that Meng Yiran had returned to using the Hunting Ring Method, she needed to go through all four steps.

The evil serpent