Inside a hotel in the Sun Moon Empire, Lin Feng, who had toiled away for an entire day and night, did not cultivate today. Instead, he played with a pair of soft, pale mounds while planning what to do next.
His original plan had been to visit the Earth Dragon Gate after parting ways with the two women and retrieve the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. After that, he would loot the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well from the Dou Er era, raise Dragon Duke's strength, complete his Three-Character Battle Armor, and slowly wait for the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife auction to see when he could get his hands on it.
Only after preparing all of that would Lin Feng head to Heaven Dou City to meet Qian Renxue.
By then, Lin Feng would possess a million-year Martial Soul Avatar, Three-Character Battle Armor, Extreme Ice, and four-hundred-thousand-year soul skills. Together with fusion and Exploding Ring, even if an unexpected confrontation with Qian Daoliu arose, he would be able to retreat unharmed.
At that point, he would only need to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from Xue Ye, use it to disguise himself, and make the six-hundred-thousand-year Sea Princess believe he was Sea God's successor. Then, a six-hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring and head soul bone would be secured.
Once he possessed a six-hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring and head soul bone, with at least level eighty-five Soul Power, Three-Character Battle Armor, a million-year Martial Soul Avatar, Extreme Ice, and a pile of high-level soul skills, even if Qian Daoliu stood before him, Lin Feng would have enough strength to make Qian Renxue tie up her hair.
As for whether the Sea Princess would be willing to sacrifice herself and whether Xue Ye would be willing to hand over the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, the former only required making the Sea Princess believe he was Sea God's successor and showing her the examples of Tian Meng and the Ice Empress. Her faith in Sea God and curiosity about the land would be enough to make her agree.
As for the latter, if Xue Ye refused, Lin Feng could simply have him beaten into a pulp, make it look like suicide, and replace him with someone willing to give it up.
Lin Feng merely tried his best to be a good person. Tried his best—not that he was actually some kind of good person.
When his future was involved, Lin Feng's moral bottom line could be adjusted a little.
However, Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo's sudden appearance had disrupted Lin Feng's plans somewhat.
The later matters were not much of a problem, but the priority of some earlier tasks needed to change.
The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow was not particularly urgent. At the very least, it could wait a few days.
For now, he could first improve Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo's strength.
With that thought, Lin Feng released those pale, snowy mounds and sat up.
"What is it?" Han Ruoruo asked sleepily when she saw Lin Feng sit up.
"Ruoruo, Lexuan, absorb these two soul bones."
After glancing at their breathtaking bodies, Lin Feng took out Nightmare Douluo's hundred-thousand-year head soul bone and the hundred-thousand-year Golden Hawksbill Turtle torso soul bone from his Storage Soul Tool.
"Th-this... hundred-thousand-year soul bones!"
The moment they saw the two soul bones Lin Feng had taken out, Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo were completely awake.
Hundred-thousand-year soul bones were top-tier treasures even in Dou Er. Even Huo Yuhao, the child of fortune of that era, had not possessed a full set of hundred-thousand-year soul bones. That showed just how precious they were.
Moreover, the two Lin Feng had brought out were the most precious types among soul bones: a skull bone and a torso bone. Even among hundred-thousand-year soul bones, they ranked among the finest. How could the two women not be shocked?
"Absorb them. Ruoruo, take this head soul bone. Lexuan, fuse with this hundred-thousand-year torso soul bone."
"This torso soul bone came from a hundred-thousand-year Golden Hawksbill Turtle. Its soul skill will most likely include an Invincible Shield. A hundred-thousand-year Invincible Shield combined with your Soul Power should make it no problem for you to protect yourself against anyone below a Limit Douluo."
"Even though I came first, you still like Lexuan more, don't you?" Han Ruoruo said sourly.
Lin Feng smiled. "How could that be? You are both my wives. There is no difference in how much I like either of you. Absorb the soul bones first. Later, I'll get you a seventh soul ring. I guarantee you'll be satisfied."
At those words, Han Ruoruo fell silent. Her eyes dimmed as though she had recalled something unpleasant. "I'm not in a hurry for a soul ring. I want to wait a while first."
Seeing Han Ruoruo's despondency and how Zhang Lexuan's joy at receiving a hundred-thousand-year soul bone had faded, Lin Feng immediately understood what was going on.
"It's fine. If you don't want to go to the Soul Beast Forest, then don't go. I can bring the soul beast to you. The same goes for you, Lexuan. If neither of you wants to enter the Soul Beast Forest, you don't have to. I still have the ability to capture a hundred-thousand-year soul beast alive and bring it before you."
Hearing Lin Feng's reassuring words, the two women could not help but lean against him, quietly feeling fortunate about their choice.
After gently comforting them for a while, Lin Feng stood guard beside them. With their cultivation in the seventieth to eightieth ranks, it did not take long before they finished absorbing their soul bones.
After they had finished, Lin Feng took out an ordinary-looking white flower.
Seeing the flower in Lin Feng's hand, Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo looked at him questioningly.
"Lovesick Heartbreak Red, the finest among Immortal Herbs. I probably do not need to explain much else. Lexuan, this Immortal Herb can make up for your damaged foundation."
Before Zhang Lexuan could say anything, Han Ruoruo was already greatly alarmed. "Lexuan, your foundation is damaged?"
Feeling Han Ruoruo's gaze, Zhang Lexuan gave a bitter smile. Whether it had been forcibly stimulating her body's potential before reaching the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo realm so she could unleash an attack capable of killing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, desperately fighting when facing that hundred-thousand-year soul ring, or confronting the Nether Poison Wolf afterward, Zhang Lexuan had repeatedly forced her body to stimulate Soul Power when she had long since reached her limits.
How could such relentless overexertion not damage her foundation?
Normally, whether it was her soul ring configuration of two yellow, two purple, and five black rings, or the fact that other soul masters possessed a hundred-thousand-year ninth soul ring, their future cultivation would not be below level ninety-five.
Yet the damage that hundred-thousand-year soul ring had inflicted upon her body made Zhang Lexuan feel that she might not even be able to reach the Super Douluo realm.
The excessive strain on her body had damaged her foundation too severely and had even exhausted her talent. She did not know how many years it would take for her to reach the Titled Douluo realm in the future.
Zhang Lexuan looked at Lin Feng. "How did you see it?"
How had he seen it? A soul master who had reached level eighty at twenty-four taking six years to go from level eighty-three to level eighty-six—her foundation would have to be seriously damaged for that not to be obvious.
That was what Lin Feng thought, but he did not say it. "I just happened to notice."
"Just happened to?" Zhang Lexuan repeated. Then she thought of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and the torso soul bone that was better than Han Ruoruo's. Her face flushed, and no one knew what she was thinking.
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