The Pitiful Yu Xiaogang, The One Favored by the World

Shrek Academy.

Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and the others were collectively struck speechless.

The lifelong pursuit of every Soul Master is to obtain a Hundred Thousand Year Red Soul Ring.

A Million Year Soul Ring, something never heard of before, had appeared before them so abruptly.

This completely shattered their understanding—or rather, the understanding of all Soul Masters.

"A Million Year Soul Ring..."

Looking at the Golden Soul Ring on the Sky Curtain, even Mu En, whose emotions had leveled out after over two hundred and fifty years of life, could not help but feel a slight sense of awe at this moment. "Is this the Daughter of Destiny!"

"I never imagined that a Million Year Soul Beast could actually exist in this world!"

After drawing a sharp breath, Beast King Douluo Gong Changlong muttered to himself with fiery eyes, "You have to realize, even the Beast God Di Tian is only at eight hundred and ninety thousand years."

"Indeed! I originally thought that was the limit for the Soul Beast Clan."

Hearing this, Elder Song also nodded with an expression of disbelief. "After all, unlike us humans, they must face a Heavenly Tribulation every one hundred thousand years."

"To have a first Soul Ring that is an unprecedented million years—this can truly be called something that has never been seen before, and likely never will be again."

Yan Shaozhe looked up at the sky and whispered, "Even he is likely far inferior to this."

Because Tang San had deliberately hidden it, the world did not know that his final Soul Ring before becoming a god was a Million Year Soul Ring.

This led to the current misunderstanding.

"The only thing that puzzles me is, how did they kill that Million Year Soul Beast?"

"And how did that little girl manage to successfully absorb a Million Year Soul Ring?"

At this moment, Xian Lin'er asked two questions in succession, her face full of confusion. "Even if she is the Daughter of Destiny, it shouldn't be this..."

When she reached this point, she suddenly stumbled over her words, not quite knowing how to describe it. After struggling for a long moment, she finally spat out two words: "Absurd!"

The absorption limit of a Soul Ring is related to two aspects: physical strength and Spiritual Power.

The physical constitution and Spiritual Power of different Soul Masters vary, so it is impossible to have a unified standard for Soul Ring limits.

Countless facts have proven that the theory of Soul Ring absorption limits proposed by Yu Xiaogang ten thousand years ago was, in fact, incorrect.

Because of this matter, the upper echelons of Shrek at the time had to pay a significant price to suppress the issue.

If it weren't for the fact that Yu Xiaogang was not only one of the founders of Shrek Academy but also the teacher of the Sea God Tang San, the leadership of Shrek Academy at that time would have long since kicked him to the curb and drawn a clear line between them.

After all, that guy Yu Xiaogang was truly a disaster.

Who would have believed that the once-renowned master of theory on the continent, the man who proposed the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul and was hailed as invincible in martial soul theory, was Yu Xiaogang?

Most of the theories he proposed were simply riddled with loopholes.

As for the remaining parts that were relatively correct, they had already existed long before him.

They were merely summarized and synthesized by Yu Xiaogang, turned into his own property.

Of course, that is the polite way of putting it.

In reality, it was plagiarism.

Because of these matters, Shrek Academy had to clean up after Yu Xiaogang more than once.

Otherwise, Yu Xiaogang would not have gone down in history as a legend, but would have been infamous for ten thousand years.

This also resulted in the image of the Sea God Tang San becoming increasingly lofty and magnificent in the minds of Shrek Academy's upper echelons.

With a mediocre teacher like Yu Xiaogang who misled his students, the fact that Tang San could still become a god perfectly illustrated the sheer value of the man himself.

Even Mu En, after learning of these matters, felt quite disgusted with this ancestor of his.

Only someone like Bei Bei, who did not know the truth, would hold Yu Xiaogang in such high regard.

Returning to the main topic, theoretically, as long as these three factors are excellent enough, even a first soul ring of one hundred thousand years is possible.

Of course, this is only theoretically.

Not to mention a one hundred thousand year soul ring, even a thousand or ten thousand year soul ring is impossible to serve as a soul master's first soul ring in this current era.

Even Mu En, who is hailed as the strongest person in Shrek Academy in the last thousand years, only possessed a hundred-year soul ring as his first.

One can imagine how incredible it is that Huo Yutong has a Million Year Soul Ring as her first soul ring.

"Setting aside all impossibilities, only one possibility remains."

After pondering for a moment, Mu En spoke slowly.

"Sacrifice?" Cai Mei'er raised her willow-leaf eyebrows and blurted out the word.

"That's right. As long as a soul beast voluntarily transforms into a soul ring, regardless of the soul master's strength or whether they have reached the level required for that soul ring, the fusion will succeed."

"Don't forget, the word 'advance' was mentioned above. Perhaps this was already an opportunity belonging to the Child of Destiny, and he simply accelerated the arrival of this fortune."

Mu En nodded slightly, and an unprecedented light bloomed in his aged eyes: "This can also explain the anomalies he displayed in the previous images."

"Elder Mu, are you saying that he can see the future?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Xing's expression shifted slightly.

In fact, Shi Xing had harbored this thought long before.

However, as the possessor of the Time-Space Silver Disk Martial Soul, he understood better than anyone just how terrifying the great power of time truly was!

That was simply not a power that humans could control.

Precisely because of this, Shi Xing had dismissed the notion in an instant.

"That can only be said to be one of the greatest possibilities."

Mu En shook his head slightly, gazing up at the Sky Curtain above the firmament, and voiced his own conjecture:

"Judging from the information exposed by the Sky Curtain so far, our world possesses its own consciousness.

"And that little girl is the Child of Destiny chosen by the World Consciousness, the one favored by the world.

"The Child of Destiny is akin to the Imperial Auspicious Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest, only the fortune gathered upon her is even more astonishing; it is the fortune of the entire world, far beyond what that Imperial Auspicious Beast could compare to."

Having said this, Mu En paused and asked in return, "Under such circumstances, do you think that something as inconceivable as being sacrificed to by a million-year soul beast could not happen to her?"

Star Luo Empire, Imperial Palace.

"A... a million-year soul ring!"

Xu Jiawei's pupils contracted sharply, and even his breathing seemed to stall for a few seconds.

"Xiao Tian, why didn't your future self obtain that million-year soul ring yourself?"

After a moment, Xu Jiawei finally reacted and asked Gu Tian with some confusion.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present turned to look at him as well.

"I am not him, so how would I know what he was thinking?"

Facing the gazes of the crowd, Gu Tian's expression remained unchanged; he merely shrugged.

"However, I think this must be the favor of the world, an opportunity exclusive to the Daughter of Destiny that no one else could snatch away."

Immediately following this, as if he had thought of something, he added this sentence.

Although everyone here was trustworthy, and several were Titled Douluo who already had their nine soul rings filled, one could never be certain that an accident wouldn't occur.

Therefore, it was necessary to speak clearly in advance.