The air seemed to freeze in that instant, as though an invisible hand had seized everyone by the throat.
The moment the first Soul Ring rose, the entire Demon Whale Palace fell silent.
"A... a golden Soul Ring?" Lan Fozi's eyes widened. The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the Demon Empress also seemed unable to react, but before their minds could reboot—
Golden radiance enveloped Ning Rongrong once more.
A dazzling golden Soul Ring slowly rose, like the morning sun emerging from the depths of the sea.
"Another golden... Million Year Soul Ring!?" The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's mind had only rebooted halfway when she saw the golden rings around Ning Rongrong, her voice filled with utter shock.
Unlike Lan Fozi, she knew the colors of Soul Rings very well.
That was the foundation accumulated over three hundred thousand years of life.
Even if she had not known, she had learned some things earlier from the Star Dou Great Forest.
Yet this was what puzzled the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
Normally, golden Soul Rings only appeared after humans became gods—the final God Ring above the Ninth Soul Ring, representing transcendence beyond the mortal realm.
For example, Sea God Poseidon, who had become a god twenty thousand years ago, had a golden Tenth Soul Ring.
But it had never been this outrageous.
It was not that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King did not know the level of Ning Rongrong's Soul Rings. She indeed had two Million Year Soul Rings, but they were definitely not her first and second Soul Rings.
"How... how did you do it?"
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King felt her scalp tingle. Humans truly were unfathomable!
"Take a guess?" Ning Rongrong replied casually. Sitting upright in her chair, another golden Soul Ring rose