Absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring!

Absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring!

The Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast seemed to have sensed Xuan Zi's aura and deliberately tried to lure something over.

It wanted to use this method to have Xuan Zi deal with the threat behind it.

But who was Xuan Zi? A Rank 98 Super Douluo, the Taotie Douluo!

Once he saw through the Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast's intentions, his fiery temper flared at once.

What he hated most was being used—especially by something that was not even human, but merely a soul beast.

Xuan Zi shielded Ye Chen behind him and unleashed his powerful aura. With a casual palm strike, he sent the Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast flying to the ground.

Although this soul beast possessed a powerful bloodline and extraordinary talent, it had only cultivated for fifteen hundred years.

After being effortlessly struck down by Xuan Zi, its aura immediately withered. It was barely drawing breath, with no breath left to exhale.

Perhaps its greatest mistake had been underestimating Xuan Zi's temper.

It had originally wanted to redirect disaster toward someone else, but it had not expected that true calamity would fall upon itself instead.

After throwing that palm strike, Xuan Zi kept Ye Chen protected and stared toward the direction from which the Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast had come as if facing a formidable enemy. He mobilized all the Soul Power in his body.

He had only acted because he was confident he could take Ye Chen and retreat no matter what they faced. Yet all his attention was now fixed ahead, as he made every possible preparation.

Because even he could only flee with Ye Chen if two or more of those beings from the Star Dou Core Area appeared at once.

Ye Chen was somewhat nervous as well. He remained in the safe area behind Xuan Zi, staring unblinkingly ahead.

Yet after they remained locked in place for some time, there was still no movement. Neither of them could sense even the slightest trace of a soul beast's aura.

While Xuan Zi found this strange, his vigilance rose sharply.

"Xiao Chen, let's withdraw first. We can discuss the Soul Ring later." To be safe, Xuan Zi still intended to leave first.

He feared the situation he worried about most would come to pass.

It would not be an exaggeration to call Ye Chen Shrek Academy's future. He could not allow himself to make the same mistake twice. If he personally buried the academy's future, even dying ten times would not be enough to cleanse the self-reproach in his heart.

"Wait, Drunkard Grandpa. Take that half-dead soul beast with us too!" Ye Chen suddenly said before they left, a sharp glint flashing through his gem-bright eyes.

Though Xuan Zi was puzzled, he did not ask any questions.

Holding Ye Chen in one arm and the weakened Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast in the other, he flew toward Shrek City at tremendous speed.

After the two left, three large golden eyes blinked curiously several times in the direction from which the Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast had come, then vanished into the dense forest.

Beside the road between Shrek City and the Star Dou Forest, on the leaf-strewn ground of a dense grove.

An old man and a young boy sat cross-legged, while a soul beast in a state of suspended animation lay beside them.

"No! Absolutely not!" An agitated voice rang out, startling several crows roosting in the woods into flight.

This person was Xuan Zi, who had just brought Ye Chen out of the Star Dou Forest.

"It'll be fine, Drunkard Grandpa. Just let me try. I'm confident in my physical strength!"

Ye Chen rose and came to Xuan Zi's side, tugging on his hand and shaking it repeatedly as he begged him to agree.

In truth, Ye Chen wanted to absorb this Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast as his first Soul Ring.

Although this Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast had cultivated for fifteen hundred years—far exceeding the known limit for a first Soul Ring—he still wanted to give it a try.

Two months had passed since his Martial Soul Awakening.

Perhaps because he possessed two top-tier Martial Souls, Ye Chen's physical strength had been improving every day at a pace he could clearly feel.

Before awakening, his six-year-old body had struggled even to hold the Milk Bottle Gong Changlong had given him. Now, however, he could lift the three-hundred-jin soul tool table in Qian Duoduo's room.

And that was without using his Martial Souls.

Both his physical strength and sheer power now surpassed those of Outer Court students in their second or third year.

Now that he had an opportunity to become stronger, there was no way he could let it slip away.

Moreover, he knew that the legendary Fusang Divine Tree possessed the ability to purify all resentment. If he was not mistaken, he would not be affected by a soul beast's resentment while absorbing its Soul Ring.

That would allow the Soul Ring's age limit to increase considerably.

"Still no. If anything happens to you, how am I supposed to answer to everyone?" Xuan Zi said firmly.

He had never imagined that Ye Chen wanted him to bring along the half-dead Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast so that he could absorb it as his first Soul Ring.

In his understanding, the maximum age a first Soul Ring could withstand was around five hundred years. Yet this Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast had cultivated for fifteen hundred years—three times the known limit!

If Ye Chen really absorbed it, would that not be treating his life like a joke?

"Just let me try. I know my own condition. The Fusang Divine Tree can purify a soul beast's resentment, and I won't gamble with my own life!" Ye Chen said solemnly.

Although he could not be certain that the Fusang Divine Tree truly had this ability, he could only say so in order to persuade Xuan Zi.

Sure enough, after hearing Ye Chen's words, Xuan Zi began to hesitate.

He knew very little about Ye Chen's Martial Souls, but upon careful thought, it did not seem impossible.

When he had helped Ye Chen undergo Martial Soul Awakening, that ultimate light had seemed capable of purifying all evil in the world, leaving an exceptionally deep impression on him.

With that thought, Xuan Zi nodded almost as if possessed.

Perhaps he also understood Ye Chen's personality. Ye Chen was probably not the sort to do something so suicidal.

But he overlooked one thing: Ye Chen was only a six-year-old child. Even though a soul in his twenties resided within him, he could not avoid having a trace of youthful recklessness.

"Yay!" After receiving Xuan Zi's approval, Ye Chen leaped up happily and planted a loud kiss on Xuan Zi's cheek, making Xuan Zi shake his head helplessly.

Xuan Zi did not know whether his decision was right, but for some reason, Ye Chen's words carried a strange persuasive power that inspired even him with strong confidence.

Ye Chen walked over to the Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast and took a soul tool dagger from the ring Qian Duoduo had given him. He aimed at the artery in the beast's neck and viciously drove it in.

The Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast had already been half-dead. With Ye Chen's strike, its miserable fate finally came to an end.

A moment later, the Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast's life force had completely drained away, and a purple Soul Ring condensed above its corpse.

Ye Chen took a deep breath and sat cross-legged, focusing all his Spiritual Power on the Fusang Divine Tree Martial Soul within his body.

At the same time, following the method Mu En had explained to him, he released his Soul Power and guided the purple Soul Ring down above his head.

To be honest, he was still somewhat nervous, unsure what kind of outcome awaited him.

There were only two possible results: either he would fuse with it successfully and possess an unprecedented thousand-year first Soul Ring.

Or he would simply explode and die, his body and soul extinguished, having come to this world for nothing.