Thousand-Year Soul Ring

"It seems we'll have to wait quite a while to find a suitable Dancing Winter Rabbit for me."

Zhou Qing snapped out of his reverie, picked up the Dancing Winter Rabbit, and prepared to skin and remove its Dancing Winter Rabbit to taste its meat.

Mu Bing suggested, "Then let's go inside the tent; there's a stove ready."

Zhou Qing has no objection.

After the thousand-year-old Dancing Winter Rabbit was skinned, its tendons removed, washed clean with snow, and coated with grease, it was placed on the stove to roast.

This furnace is Soul Tool, and the flame temperature can be evenly distributed over the meat of the Dancing Winter Rabbit.

With the sizzling sound of oil, the meat of the Dancing Winter Rabbit is ready to eat.

Zhou Qing sprinkled some salt on the rabbit, turned it over and roasted it for a while before taking the rabbit meat off and sharing it with everyone.

Blowing on the hot meat, Zhou Qing took a bite. The tender meat bounced in her mouth, and even after chewing and swallowing, she could almost feel the bits of meat covered in saliva hitting and bouncing against her stomach wall until her stomach started secreting gastric acid, which finally calmed her down.

Before long, the six of them had devoured the thousand-year-old Dancing Winter Rabbit.

Afterwards, the group found several more dead Dancing Winter Rabbit, some a hundred years old and some ten years old, and cleaned them thoroughly before roasting them.

However, the meat of the ten-year and hundred-year-old Dancing Winter Rabbit was so tender that Zhou Qing, Tang San, Romantina Dancing Winter Rabbit not satisfied with their meal.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and left the tent, they saw thousands of Dancing Winter Rabbit walking and gliding on the Ice Lake, all in pairs.

This was a grand ball!

The green and blue aurora Aurora, like Goddess's Veil, is the neon light that adorns this ball!

However, this ball was also cruel; in order to choose the lead dancer, countless Dancing Winter Rabbit, some hundreds or even thousands of years old, perished at the hands of their own kind...

Countless Dancing Winter Rabbit have perished at the hands of predators and humans lured by this ball...

Even as the ball officially began, the pairs of Dancing Winter Rabbit to collide with those that were seriously injured or dead and unable to move, pushing them out of the ball...

Moreover, even so, throughout the winter, other Dancing Winter Rabbit will still join, and other Dancing Winter Rabbit hiding in the snow will be eyeing one of the Dancing Winter Rabbit couples, challenging them to take their place as dancers!

Great!

Magnificent!

Yet it is cruel!

Watching the thousands of pairs of Dancing Winter Rabbit running along specific tracks on the Ice Lake, their limbs radiating varying degrees of ice and Water Element power, Zhou Qing seemed to sense something. He nudged Romantina's shoulder, signaling her to use her Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing skills.

Romantina did as she was told.

However, their Spiritual Power was insufficient to cover the entire Ice Lake.

Left with no other choice, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm made its appearance.

When it really matters, you still have to rely on me!

Instantly, the entire Ice Lake appeared before Zhou Qing and Tang San—

On that nearly circular ice surface, thousands of pairs of Dancing Winter Rabbit left behind pale blue traces of ice and water elemental energy as they ran about.

Although it will dissipate over time or blend into the ice surface, the traces that have not completely disappeared form a pattern that resembles Soul Tool Core Formation.

Especially in the perception of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the ice and water-attribute Heaven and Earth Energy around the Ice Lake began to surge slightly.

[I never imagined that Soul Beast like the Dancing Winter Rabbit would possess such an ability!]

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm didn't know much about the Dancing Winter Rabbit. In the past, in this Far North area, it just ate and slept, and never bothered to find out why the Dancing Winter Rabbit would "dance" in winter.

"Qing Ge, this should be the Soul Tool Core Formation, right?" Tang San said.

"Maybe."

Zhou Qing looked at Romantina, hoping that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could describe to him what kind of effect Dancing Winter Rabbit's behavior would specifically cause.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm understood and transmitted its message:

Based on my assessment, this thing is used to draw upon the Elemental Power ice and water in the universe, creating a peculiar pressure that seems capable of slightly distorting space... Theoretically, when this pressure reaches a certain level, it can cause the energies of ice and water to fuse.

Perhaps, Dancing Winter Rabbit is doing this to evolve her bloodline.

However, the legend Mu Bing spoke of—the simultaneous killing of a pair of Dancing Winter Rabbit, causing their two Soul Rings to fuse and form a single Soul Ring —would, under the influence of this slightly distorting space, affect the world's rules to some extent. Two Soul Beast of the same species that died together could potentially converge and be judged by the world as originating from the same Soul Beast.

[You humans should understand this better, after all, rules, while sounding quite sophisticated, are actually very rigid.]

Zhou Qing agrees with this.

Based on this, it is possible that the Secret Method Soul Bone in Douluo II were created by hunting more than a hundred Soul Beast of the same species and drawing their Secret Method Soul Bone Soul Ring. This was probably because some Soul Master or sect disciples noticed the phenomenon of fusion of Soul Ring similar to the Dancing Rabbit under special circumstances and carried out experiments.

Perhaps initially, the Soul Master who discovered this phenomenon intended to use it to create a Secret Art to produce high-limit Soul Ring. However, perhaps due to unforeseen circumstances, or perhaps because they didn't understand some key aspects, they failed to produce high-limit Soul Ring and instead created something like Soul Bone.

Then, Zhou Qing instructed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to record the traces left by the Dancing Winter Rabbit as it ran, which resembled Soul Tool Core Formation. He then decided not to wait any longer, found the pair of Dancing Winter Rabbit in the very center, and prepared to attack the male one.

Just as Zhou Qing approached the ice, a pair of Dancing Winter Rabbit, each about nine hundred years old, rushed onto the ice from the snow. Moreover, these two Dancing Winter Rabbit had a very clear target and almost simultaneously collided with a pair of Dancing Winter Rabbit that were about six hundred years old.

The six-hundred-year-old Dancing Winter Rabbit couple were suddenly ambushed, their chests and spines shattered, and they landed right in front of Zhou Qing.

"They're not going to make it." Zhou Qing squatted down, looking at the two Dancing Winter Rabbit, preparing to end their suffering and give everyone an extra meal.

The moment Zhou Qing's hands touched the two Dancing Winter Rabbit, they died instantly.

Then, Sisi of yellow light appeared on the two Dancing Winter Rabbit. Instead of forming Soul Ring directly, they moved closer to each other and eventually merged together to form a light purple Soul Ring.

"The legend is actually true!"

Mu Bing stared in disbelief at the scene, her mouth agape. "The Soul Ring of these two Dancing Winter Rabbit have merged into one, forming a thousand-year-level Soul Ring!"