Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo

In the blink of an eye, four months passed.

The Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team did not follow the script Xue Ye had written. A team of seven, with seven Soul Ancestors—five of them even high-level Soul Ancestors—had suffered a crushing defeat.

Before the final, they encountered the Spirit Hall Team.

A dramatic scene unfolded. High-level Soul Ancestors were defeated by Soul Elders due to mistakes, while others were knocked off the stage by Soul Ancestors because of poor decisions. Of course, that was not the most important part.

The Heaven Dou Royal Team actually erupted into internal conflict during the finals and was ultimately utterly defeated by the Spirit Hall Team's Soul King.

In the end, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team became a complete laughingstock. The teams in the final were the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, the Exotic Beast Academy Team, and the Spirit Hall Team.

Even with the Heaven Dou Empire pulling strings behind the scenes, none of its teams made it into the final. For a time, the people around them dared to laugh but not speak.

The Heaven Dou Royal Team had become a complete joke, and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy had thoroughly proven the rumors true.

Aside from its resources, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy only cultivated noble trash among its students.

The Heaven Dou Royal Family lost all face. Even with Xue Ye's decades of composure, when it came time to announce the champion's reward, he still had Crown Prince Xue Qinghe appear in his place.

The results of this All-Continent Advanced Elite Soul Master Competition were like a resounding slap across the Heaven Dou Royal Family's face, yet Xue Ye had nothing to say.

At the end of the month when the All-Continent Advanced Elite Soul Master Competition concluded, Xue Ye, in his capacity as the principal of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, invited numerous Advanced Soul Master Academies to convene at the academy and discuss plans for Soul Master training.

No one knew what they had discussed, much less what had been discussed at a meeting that took three days of travel to reach yet lasted less than an afternoon.

They only knew that after this meeting, the major Advanced Soul Master Academies became wealthier, and their enrollment ranges were no longer limited to their respective cities.

At the same time, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's internal organizational structure underwent enormous changes. Due to its failure in the All-Continent Advanced Elite Soul Master Competition, Vice Principal Prince Xue Xing voluntarily resigned. The academy's internal affairs would now be jointly managed by an organization called the Education Committee, formed by the three directors who had originally overseen enrollment, logistics, and teaching.

Education Committee member Bai Baoshan, the Defense System Soul Douluo responsible for enrollment.

Education Committee member Zhi Lin, the Control System Soul Douluo responsible for logistics.

Education Committee member Meng Shenji, the Control System Soul Douluo responsible for teaching.

The day after the three Education Committee members assumed office, they issued a summons to the principals of numerous Intermediate Soul Master Academies.

At the same time, they announced special measures regarding adjustments to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's faculty. One of them was that the academy's teachers would no longer be restricted by noble status.

Thus, a storm of reform for Advanced Soul Master Academies throughout the Heaven Dou Empire swept across every corner of the land.

Meanwhile, inside the volcano of Mountain Fire Academy.

Wang Qi stepped on the lava and appeared in a vast cave inlaid with countless red crystals and filled with incomparably dense fire-elemental energy.

At the center of the cave stood a platform formed from half of a massive tree that seemed to have been severed by some great power. It was crystal-clear, as though carved from red jade.

On that jade-like platform rested a treasure Wang Qi had long dreamed of: a not-yet-fully-developed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

"Finally, I found you. It's truly hard to imagine that such a heavenly refuge exists within lava where fire-elemental energy is so violent. I just don't know whether this is my good fortune or your misfortune."

As Wang Qi approached the Soul Beast Embryo, a familiar Simulation Panel appeared before his eyes.

Mutated Soul Beast Flame Swallowing Beast Embryo (severely damaged), age: one hundred thousand years, absorption probability: 0%, compatibility: 98%, greatly increases cultivation talent.

The attributes were still the same. The only difference from before was that the compatibility had risen by one point. Its condition had not changed at all.

Inside the embryo, an infant curled into a ball, its brows twisted tightly together as though it were enduring immense pain.

"A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo... There probably isn't an easier opportunity in this world to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone."

"If I didn't want more from you, I'd really like to kill you with one stroke right now."

Watching the Hundred-Thousand-Year Mutated Flame Swallowing Beast Embryo, Wang Qi sat before it and muttered to himself.

Wang Qi did not believe the infant inside the embryo could hear his voice. He did not understand how Soul Beasts transformed into humans, but he understood the condition of an infant in the womb.

Before Wang Qi was born, his consciousness had always been hazy. He could sense his surroundings, but he retained no impressions of them.

It was like a dream. Once he woke up, he could not remember anything that had happened in it.

This Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo was now almost exactly the same as Wang Qi had been when he was reborn on Douluo Continent.

After opening the Attribute Panel and checking the status of the "severely damaged" entry, Wang Qi was surprised to discover that this Hundred-Thousand-Year Mutated Soul Beast had lost its original consciousness. Or rather, because it was so severely damaged, its subconscious was in a deep slumber, leaving only instinct within its body.

It would instinctively awaken its martial soul, instinctively condense Soul Rings, instinctively grow, instinctively age, and eventually die, becoming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

And all of this would happen inside the embryo. It could be said that this Mutated Flame Swallowing Beast's fate for its entire life was to sink into oblivion. The moment the embryo was severely damaged, the Mutated Flame Swallowing Beast had already died.

Upon realizing this, Wang Qi truly wanted to burst into laughter. There was no better research material in the world than this Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

Wang Qi could observe how this Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo condensed Soul Rings and imprinted soul skills. This was extremely important to him.

With the Simulation Eye, Wang Qi knew that no Soul Ring in this world could be absolutely, one hundred percent compatible with its owner. Nor was there any Soul Beast that could be one hundred percent compatible with a Soul Master.

To surpass the limit, one first had to reach the limit. One hundred percent was not mere obsessive perfectionism; it was truly necessary.

Wang Qi's original plan had been to find the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo and attempt to make a deal with it if it had consciousness. Before entering the cave, he had even prepared several contingency plans for this. He had not expected that this severely damaged Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo would achieve his goal without him needing to do anything.

Wang Qi realized that ever since leaving Nuoding City, after Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor bloodline had been devoured by the Medicine Refining Furnace, his luck had been exceptionally good.

When searching for his third Soul Ring, he had encountered a Fire Spirit. When searching for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, he had discovered an environment that simulated an increase in Soul Ring Age. When he wanted to break through his own limits, he had encountered this Hundred-Thousand-Year transformed embryo whose subconscious was asleep.

Things had gone too smoothly—so smoothly that Wang Qi was astonished. If he had not been certain that Qian Renxue was the protagonist of this generation, he might have subconsciously believed that he was the protagonist of this era.

"Judging from the embryo's condition, it's only a little over one year old at most. In five years, I might be able to witness the process of condensing Soul Rings and imprinting soul skills."

"Why am I actually a little excited?"

Wang Qi's eyes gleamed as he looked at the infant inside the embryo, a smile spreading across his face.