8 Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings

Could such immense energy truly be something he could control, let alone absorb?

Damn it! Why did she agree to his terms back then, promising not to pry into his secrets...

Thinking of this, she still wanted to try and ask, to see if she could coax his intentions out of him.

"Your request isn't a big problem, but what do you need so many soul rings for?"

"Are you planning to absorb the energy of all these soul rings for your own use?"

One must know that commoner soul masters struggle their entire lives, often unable to even touch the threshold of absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring.

Take, for instance, a certain "youngest soul emperor in the history of the continent" from Shrek; his fifth soul ring was still only a purple thousand-year-level one.

Bibi Dong's questioning was within Chen Xing's expectations, but he did not want to answer her.

Since she had already agreed to his terms, he adhered to the principle that saying too much leads to mistakes; there was no need to lie at all.

Besides, what kind of lie could justify him possessing eight soul rings?

Therefore, remaining silent was the best answer.

Once he became strong enough, no one would dare to question him again...

A moment later, at the entrance of the Worship Hall.

Qian Renxue, who was currently venting her emotions, suddenly saw Gui Mei streak across the sky, with the figure of a young boy beside him.

Looking closely, who else could it be but Chen Xing...

What happened?

Why was Gui Mei taking Chen Xing away?

Where were they going?

With tears on her face, Qian Renxue watched their retreating backs, her heart filled with confusion.

Driven by curiosity, she chose to follow them.

The soul bones within the Angel God Set allowed her to perfectly conceal her aura. Although Gui Mei was a Title Douluo, his speed while carrying Chen Xing was not particularly fast.

Qian Renxue flew at full speed, barely managing to keep up.

"That is... the Soul Hunting Ground of the Martial Soul Hall?"

"Why are they going there? Could it be that Chen Xing has broken through again?"

Before long, under Qian Renxue's puzzled gaze, Gui Mei brought a ten-thousand-year soul beast before Chen Xing.

Chen Xing, however, was unceremonious. With the Purple Imperial Bamboo in hand, he unleashed a sword beam, and the ten-thousand-year soul beast ceased to breathe.

Immediately following this, the most bizarre scene unfolded.

Black specks of light in the arena slowly condensed from the soul beast's corpse. Within moments, a ten-thousand-year soul ring exuding terrifying power had taken shape.

In Qian Renxue's shocked and suspicious line of sight, Chen Xing stepped forward and lightly touched the black ring. In the blink of an eye, only two figures remained in the arena.

That ten-thousand-year soul ring, which commoners wouldn't even dare to dream of, had simply vanished.

"What is going on? Where did the soul ring go?"

"This... what on earth just happened?"

"Chen Xing..."

The intense emotional fluctuation nearly caused her to expose herself; all of this was simply too inconceivable.

In the history of the Douluo Continent, no one had ever been seen with such an ability; it wasn't even mentioned in ancient texts!

Where did the vanished soul ring go? Was its energy absorbed by Chen Xing?

Six years old! Level 32!

And he possessed a martial soul comparable to the Six-Winged Angel.

What other secrets were hidden within him?

Could it be that he truly gained his cultivation by plundering other lives?

Chaotic thoughts lingered in her mind. Under Qian Renxue's horrified gaze, Gui Mei continued to capture several more ten-thousand-year soul beasts.

Without exception, they were all slaughtered by Chen Xing.

Their soul rings all vanished in that same eerie manner.

Until the eighth one...

Under Qian Renxue's witness, the boy below had used that strange method to "absorb" a total of eight ten-thousand-year soul rings.

After finishing this, Chen Xing's expression looked extremely excited, as if he were about to obtain a supreme treasure.

Inside the forest.

After filling his System Inventory, Chen Xing felt completely secure.

Barring any accidents, if these nine soul rings were refreshed every day, even with the worst luck, he would randomly obtain a god-level soul beast's soul ring within five years.

At that time, as long as he attached the soul ring to his second martial soul's empty slot, he would awaken a god-level martial soul!

Heavenly Snow Woman, Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear...

Just thinking about them is enough to get excited.

However, Chen Xing most hopes to awaken a Martial Soul that glows, so he wouldn't be afraid of the dark...

"Ghost Elder! I've really troubled you this time."

"Once I become strong in the future, I will definitely repay you well."

The sincere smile on the young boy's face left Gui Mei momentarily stunned.

"Repay me well?"

He had originally thought this was just a mission, forgetting that the person before him was only a six-year-old child.

Ever since he awakened his Ghost Shadow Martial Soul, it seemed like it had been a long time since anyone had spoken to him like this...

The boy's innocent gratitude touched his heart slightly; the ghost face within the black shadows seemed to let out a laugh, though it didn't sound quite real to Chen Xing.

"Is there anything else you need? Would you like to go for a stroll in the city?"

Whether it was Chen Xing's imagination or not, there was a hint of kindness in Gui Mei's tone.

Go to the city... that sounds pretty good.

Since taking human form, he had only stayed in Suotuo City for a few days, and even then, only inside an inn.

Now that he had arrived at the bustling Martial Soul City, he really should take a good look around.

Thinking of this, he immediately agreed to Gui Mei's suggestion.

And so, the two of them, one large and one small, rose into the air once again under the gaze of Qian Renxue...

On the other side.

Bibi Dong had already returned to her bedchamber.

At this moment, she was lying on her side on the soft, large bed.

Her purple hair intertwined with the dark red blanket, making her neck appear even whiter.

Her eyes were hazy as she stared at the wound on her arm, lost in thought.

A purple aura seemed to linger around her body, causing the entire room to be cast in a layer of gloom.

"Truly interesting..."

"Is it possible to store Spirit Rings?"

Faced with the request Chen Xing had made, even if he hadn't said it himself, Bibi Dong could roughly guess the truth.

Needing eight Spirit Rings at once was clearly not for the purpose of absorption.

Eliminating the impossible, there was only one explanation that made sense!

Storing the Spirit Rings to call upon their energy later to increase his strength.

It was just a matter of whether this method had any drawbacks...

Six years old! Level 32 Spirit Power!

That was likely how it was achieved.

It must be said that to be able to sit in the position of Pope of Martial Soul Hall, Bibi Dong's intelligence was truly remarkable.

However, since Chen Xing dared to make the request, he had already anticipated that the other party would follow the clues and vaguely guess his intentions.

It didn't matter...

Compared to a god-level Martial Soul, these drawbacks could be ignored.

It would be possible to hunt thousand-year Spirit Beasts himself now and place them in his reserve slots.

But since his first Martial Soul already had three thousand-year Spirit Rings, and he now possessed the ability to absorb ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings, how could he be content with attaching a purple thousand-year Spirit Ring to his god-level Martial Soul!

Chen Xing even felt that Spirit Rings just over ten thousand years old weren't high-grade enough.

But there was no help for it; he couldn't absorb anything higher than that at the moment.

If he were to wake up one day and find a Spirit Ring he truly desired, only to have his body burst from the sheer age of it, that would be a loss that outweighed the gain.

Ultimately, at this stage, the value of eight Spirit Rings was far greater than the risk of exposing the fact that Chen Xing could store them.