God-level Soul Ring

With anticipation he hardly dared believe, Zhou Chen opened his attribute screen:

Name: Zhou Chen

Class: Dimensional Traveler

Race: Human

Trait: Handsome

Spirit: Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor

Strength: Great Perfection of Qi Refining (Level 30 Soul Power)

Cultivation Method: Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic

"It really is Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor!!"

With confirmation from his personal status panel, Zhou Chen could barely suppress the excitement in his heart. His blood boiled!

With such a Supreme Spirit backing him, who in this Douluo Continent could possibly stop him?

Who else?

Only after quite a while did Zhou Chen barely calm down. His gaze swept across the attribute screen again, and he immediately discovered another earth-shattering change:

"This is... Level 30 Soul Power?"

Although Zhou Chen knew his Innate Soul Power had to be extremely high, far beyond Level 10, he had never expected it to reach Level 30!

One had to know that even the legendary god-bestowed spirits—the Six-Winged Angel and Sea God spirits, directly inherited from the God Realm First Class God Angel God and the Sea God—only possessed Level 20 Innate Soul Power!

Yet his spirit's Innate Soul Power was actually ten levels higher than a god-bestowed spirit's!

Just as Zhou Chen immersed himself in the strength of his Innate Soul Power, the System suddenly spoke:

"Ding... The host's spirit has fully awakened. In light of our cooperative relationship, this System has decided to match the host with a first Soul Ring for free!"

"What?"

Hearing this, Zhou Chen was somewhat dumbfounded. On the Douluo Continent, didn't one need to personally hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings? What did matching mean?

Why not put me in ranked matches while you're at it?

Crack!

Before Zhou Chen could finish complaining, a massive golden bolt of lightning descended from the heavens with blinding speed, striking him and turning him into a shining humanoid figure.

"Ding... Beginning Soul Ring matching. Energy gathering..."

As the System spoke, a white ring of light slowly emerged from beneath his feet in the next instant!

"This is... a Soul Ring?"

Watching the white halo continuously pulse up and down around him, Zhou Chen guessed.

On the Douluo Continent, Soul Ring grades were distinguished by color. White, yellow, purple, black, and red corresponded respectively to Ten-Year, Hundred-Year, Thousand-Year, Ten Thousand-Year, and Hundred Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

If the ring surrounding him was truly a Soul Ring, then white... clearly meant the lowest-grade Ten-Year Soul Ring!

System, I'm a paying player, damn it. Fine if you won't give me a matched Soul Ring, but matching me with a Ten-Year Soul Ring? Are you insulting the power of money?

As if it had heard Zhou Chen's thoughts, the white Soul Ring turned yellow in the next second, then purple, then black, then red... until it became a pure, dazzling brilliant gold!

"Red represents a Hundred Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Gold... seems to be a God-level Soul Ring?"

Relying on the powerful composure of a Dimensional Traveler, Zhou Chen suppressed his excitement and thought calmly. In his recollection, only direct inheritance from a god or the hunting of a million-year Soul Beast could yield a God-level Soul Ring!

For example, Huo Yuhao, the protagonist of the Douluo sequel Peerless Tang Sect. That kid's protagonist aura had erupted, earning him the favor of the million-year Soul Beast Tianmeng Iceworm. His very first Soul Ring had been a God-level Soul Ring!

As expected of a pay-to-win System—it could even obtain the kind of Soul Ring every protagonist needed!

Damn System, I'll never dare curse you again.

"Ding... Soul Ring matching successful."

"Ding... Danger! Danger! Host, please focus and steady your mind to resist the impact of Soul Power!"

"Impact?"

Zhou Chen was initially confused, but then his expression froze and his face changed drastically!

As a rule-based creation unique to the Douluo Plane, Soul Rings contained Soul Power, and the greater a Soul Ring's age, the more Soul Power it contained!

Thus, when Soul Masters absorbed Soul Rings, their Soul Power levels often increased. Take Tang San, for example. In the original story, when he obtained his first Soul Ring, its age was close to the 432-year limit, allowing his Soul Power to leap from Level 10 to Level 13.

But extremes reversed themselves. If the age of an absorbed Soul Ring was too high, the excessive Soul Power would cause one to explode and die! According to the theory proposed by Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang in the original story, Soul Masters below Level 30 could absorb, at most, a purple Soul Ring no older than 1,700 years!

Yet Zhou Chen was now absorbing a million-year God-level Soul Ring! Even a Titled Douluo would face certain death if they rashly absorbed a God-level Soul Ring!

At that thought, Zhou Chen's face instantly went pale.

Boom!

Amid the endless surging within his body, the vast Soul Power flooding in from the Soul Ring instantly packed Zhou Chen's body full. It seemed that in the next second, he would explode and die!

"System, save me!"

Terrified, Zhou Chen instantly cast aside all dignity and begged the System for help.

"Ding... Host, please remain calm. This System is guiding the excess Soul Power and releasing it from the host's body in an orderly manner!"

Before the words had even faded, Zhou Chen felt the System forcibly guide the endless energy within him. A dense beam of light suddenly burst from the top of his head!

This beam contained a million years' worth of Soul Power from a God-level Soul Ring. Its power was so immense that it blasted the previous Golden Light Pillar back into the sky, pierced the clouds, and spread outward, dyeing the skies within ten thousand li completely gold!

Such a phenomenon was clearly visible across nearly half of the Douluo Continent!!