Su Xiao put away the Sacred Oak. He would greet the Ancient God Oak later, but for now, improving his own abilities was more important.
He took out a piece of equipment called the Hunter's Ring. It could forcibly strip gems socketed in other equipment and socket them intact into the Hunter's Ring. Four Broken Soul Shadow Stones were already embedded in it.
He took out the last Broken Soul Shadow Stone and socketed it into the Hunter's Ring as well. He then activated the five Broken Soul Shadow Stones and began synthesizing them.
Five crisp sounds rang out in succession as the Broken Soul Shadow Stones were stripped from the Hunter's Ring.
Yes/No. Synthesize the Soul Shadow Stone. After this synthesis was completed, the Soul Shadow Stone would change from a socketed gem into an ability inheritance stone. The inherited ability would be "Soul Severing Shadow."
There were two ways to perform this synthesis: free synthesis and paid synthesis.
Tip: Free synthesis had a certain chance of failure, while paid synthesis was guaranteed to succeed.
Paid synthesis required 5,790 Soul Coins.
After collecting the Soul Shadow Stones for so long, Su Xiao was naturally willing to spend the Soul Coins. After searching across several tiers, choosing free synthesis just to save money and then failing would have put him straight onto Apocalypse Paradise's Top Ten Annual Brain-Dead Incidents list.
Don't laugh. They really had such a list over there, and it was highly popular.
As the Soul Coins were consumed, the five Broken Soul Shadow Stones pieced themselves together. They did not fit perfectly; instead, they formed an irregular shape.
Su Xiao discovered that the five Broken Soul Shadow Stones had not come from the same complete Soul Shadow Stone. Five stones were needed to synthesize a complete