Supreme Grand Elder Injured

About two hours later, the Black Soul Spirit Fruit stuck to Ye Zhen's fingertips had turned into a clump of shriveled skin. As the last trace of Black Soul Spirit Liquid was drawn out, that layer of dry skin, made of some unknown material, silently crumbled into flying ash.

At the same time, it signified that Ye Zhen had completely refined a Black Soul Spirit Fruit containing Soul Power equivalent to that of a ninth-layer Palace Opening Realm King.

And it had taken only two hours!

The reason it had been so fast was related to the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

The power within this Black Soul Spirit Fruit had ultimately been directly refined by the Mirage Dragon Pearl. It was different from the Innate Soul Light of the Palace Opening Realm Kings Ye Zhen had imprisoned. Those Palace Opening Realm Kings' Innate Soul Light carried deeply embedded imprints of their original owners' auras, so Ye Zhen had needed to use the Soul Refining Spirit Stealing Art to absorb them bit by bit.

Moreover, the Black Soul Spirit Fruit had condensed into a physical object, allowing it to be refined by the Mirage Dragon Pearl. The Innate Soul Light of those Palace Opening Realm Kings, however, could not be directly refined by the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

Only because the Black Soul Spirit Fruit could be directly absorbed and refined by the Mirage Dragon Pearl could the process be completed within two hours.

Though two hours was a short time, Ye Zhen's soul cultivation had not surged forward as wildly as he had expected.

Within those two hours, Ye Zhen's soul cultivation had merely shot from the second layer of Innate Soul Light to the third layer, then from the third layer to the fourth layer, and stopped there.

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