After Ah Yin absorbed the motes of light, her condition was clearly much better than before.
Faced with the Blue Silver King's question, she directly conjured a phantom in human form.
A woman in a blue dress slowly appeared. Her features were gentle, and a faint sorrow showed in her azure eyes, lending a trace of desolation to her originally noble and elegant bearing.
"Blue Silver King! Have the clan members been well all these years?"
The moment she spoke, all the blue motes of light became even denser.
There was no other reason. Ah Yin, their emperor, had a tremor in her voice.
Tears rolled down the cheeks of her phantom form.
Like a child who had finally returned home after being away for so long, throwing herself into her family's embrace.
"Your Majesty, what exactly have you experienced all these years...?"
Seeing Ah Yin in such a wronged state, the Blue Silver King's aged face filled with endless sorrow.
A blue orb of light emerged from his body and slowly flew toward Ah Yin.
But this time, Ah Yin rejected every mote of light.
"I have let the clan down. Many things have happened over the years."
"Now that I have returned, I no longer have the face to meet all of you."
"Let someone new take the throne."
"You need not continue providing me with your origin essence..."
"Your Majesty..."
"Let me finish!"
Without waiting for the Blue Silver King to refuse, Ah Yin continued.
"Back then, I ignored the advice of so many clan members and insisted on taking human form to cultivate anew. Then I married a human man."
"Who would have thought that I would ultimately be harmed by villains!"
"These years..."
"I have let everyone down!"
"If not for this benefactor, I fear I never would have been able to return."
As her final words fell, Ah Yin was already sobbing uncontrollably. The Blue Silver King turned his gaze toward Chen Xing.
"Thank you, benefactor! But... what exactly happened...?"
Seeing Ah Yin crying too hard to speak and in an extremely unstable state, Chen Xing could only tell him about Ah Yin's sacrifice and how Tang Hao had planted her in a cave.
The Blue Silver King flew into a rage after hearing this.
With fifty thousand years of cultivation, his fury carried a truly terrifying presence.
Fortunately, he knew how to restrain himself, so Chen Xing was not caught up in it.
After the Blue Silver King vented his emotions, he turned his gaze to Chen Xing again.
"Benefactor! If you ever have need of the Blue Silver Grass Clan in the future, please do not hesitate to say so. As long as it is within my power, I will not refuse even at the cost of my life."
Chen Xing did not immediately refuse the Blue Silver King's offer.
He had taken considerable risks to bring Ah Yin back. He truly deserved some benefits.
Still, he had to say a few polite words on the surface.
"Actually, I am also a Soul Beast who took human form. As fellow kin, it is only natural for us to help each other."
"Besides, Ah Yin has already promised me a reward."
As he spoke, he removed the ring that concealed his aura.
The instant he took off the ring, the Blue Silver King sensed the Soul Beast aura around Chen Xing and revealed a surprised expression once more.
"So you truly are a Soul Beast who took human form, and a Solitary Bamboo brimming with vitality at that..."
"In that case, I have thought of a way to repay you, benefactor."
Before Chen Xing could react, the blue motes of light and the orb that Ah Yin had rejected earlier gathered toward him.
Chen Xing only felt countless streams of cool Soul Power slowly flowing into his meridians. Along with them, his Soul Power Level steadily rose.
Level 24, Level 25, Level 26...
"No... wait!"
"Don't do this. My strength has already been improving fast enough lately. There's really no need for this..."
However, once this energy was absorbed, it certainly could not be extracted again.
[Detected that the host's Soul Power Level has reached Level 30] [Hextech Quality Draw is now unlocked]
It was the familiar system prompt, followed by the familiar roulette wheel.
This infusion of energy had actually allowed Chen Xing to reach Level 30 directly.
Seeing this, Ah Yin immediately floated over as well.
With a gentle tap of her slender finger, another strange sensation arose within his body.
The Solitary Bamboo Martial Soul was automatically summoned.
The originally emerald-green bamboo body began to transform. Golden patterns gradually spread from its roots to its tip.
Then the green slowly deepened, turning dark green, then deep brown, before finally settling into purple.
This was the bloodline power of an "emperor" among plant-type Martial Souls.
At that moment, Chen Xing felt his entire body suffused with warm energy.
This was an evolution of his very life level!
The golden light faded, revealing the outlines of Chen Xing's body and Martial Soul.
The current Solitary Bamboo had completely changed in appearance.
Its bamboo body was deep purple, carved with mysterious golden patterns. Just one glance made it seem incomparably regal.
Ah Yin had not broken her promise. She had indeed passed part of her Imperial Bloodline within her Martial Soul to him.
Now, his Martial Soul had evolved into—Purple Imperial Bamboo!
At the same time, the effects of both his Soul Skills had evolved as well.
[First Soul Skill: Purple Bamboo Sword Qi] [Status enhancement skill. Upon activation, Soul Power is attached to the Purple Imperial Bamboo Martial Soul, increasing attack power by 200%. Striking an enemy inflicts a 30% armor-piercing effect on the target.] [Second Soul Skill: Purple Bamboo Sword Domain] [Domain-type skill. Expands a domain, increasing speed by 200% and reducing the defense of enemies within range by 60%.]
The original base attributes had doubled outright, while the second effect had also increased by 50%.
The effects of these two skills were now comparable to certain ten-thousand-year Soul Skills.
While he was still delighted by the changes to his Martial Soul and Soul Skills, the system had already presented its options.
[Late-Game Expert] Upon reaching Level 90 Soul Power, obtain 33,333 Gold Soul Coins. [Transformation Recombiner] Raise all current Soul Rings on the body by one level. Soul Ring skills will be randomized. [Pandora's Bench] Acquired Soul Rings can be stored in the system space. The effects of Soul Ring skills are rearranged daily.
Three silver Hextech options!
The first, Late-Game Expert, would grant him thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins when he advanced to Title Douluo.
Chen Xing was speechless. By then, he would already be a Title Douluo. Who needed this pittance...
The second one was just as hard to judge.
After choosing it, his two purple thousand-year Soul Rings could become ten-thousand-year ones, at the cost of randomizing their skill effects.
If he were an ordinary Soul Master without the ability to choose Soul Skill effects, that would be one thing.
But these two Soul Rings, which he had painstakingly condensed, were supposed to be used for a lottery?
As for the third one!
Could it be understood this way: as long as he first obtained a Soul Ring and placed it in the Preparation Bench, then waited for it to randomly become the Soul Ring of a divine beast, he could directly let his Second Martial Soul absorb it.
At that point, as long as he checked each day which Soul Beast the randomized Soul Ring came from, he could obtain Martial Souls without needing to hunt Soul Beasts.
If that was truly the case, things would become interesting.
There were only a handful of top-tier Soul Beasts on this continent that could be hunted.
Unless he found those Fierce Beasts to sacrifice themselves for him, his Second Martial Soul might not even compare to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
But now that he had Pandora Preparation Bench, every Soul Ring in the System Inventory would be randomly rearranged. What if he randomly got the Dragon God's Soul Ring?
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