Five-Thousand-Year Soul Ring Beyond Expectations (Please Save, Recommend, and Vote!)

Although Dongyang City was a major northern city of the Sun Moon Empire, it had no rare natural treasures and was not involved in any main plotline.

So, for the next period of time, Xu Tianming obediently cultivated the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art within the City Lord's Mansion.

Although the energy from the fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber had greatly improved his first-level Kan-Li Foundation Establishment,

he was still quite far from reaching mastery.

There was no helping it. Daoist cultivation methods emphasized gradual progress and painstaking effort.

However, throughout this cultivation process, Xu Tianming could also clearly feel his physical strength growing ever more formidable.

"Tianming, the things prepared for you have arrived."

Just as Xu Tianming was so immersed in cultivation that he lost all sense of the world around him, Kong Yue's voice sounded outside the door.

"Mother!"

Xu Tianming opened his eyes and hurried over to open the door to his room.

"You child, cultivation is important, but everything must be done in moderation."

Kong Yue reached out and lightly tapped Xu Tianming's head a few times, a pained expression appearing on her face.

She had watched Xu Tianming cultivate almost without eating or sleeping these past days. As his mother, she naturally felt distressed for him.

"Mother, cultivation isn't hard at all. It's actually very interesting."

Xu Tianming took Kong Yue's hand, an ingratiating smile appearing on his face.

In his previous life, he had been an orphan and had never experienced the love and care of parents.

But in this life, he had truly experienced the deep affection parents held for their children.

Of course, he had not lied about cultivation either.

The clear sensation of growing stronger through cultivation truly made it difficult for him to stop.

"You always have so many excuses!"

Kong Yue shot Xu Tianming a glare, but her expression immediately turned serious.

"The first Soul Ring your father prepared for you has arrived. It's in the back garden. He sent me to call you."

"Alright, Mother!"

A flash of delight crossed Xu Tianming's eyes. After greeting Kong Yue, he ran toward the rear courtyard.

He had already been in this world for six years.

Now that he could finally obtain his first Soul Ring, he was naturally overjoyed.

He jogged all the way to the back garden, and with his excellent eyesight, Xu Tianming immediately spotted his father.

Of course, he also saw the enormous metal cage not far in front of Xu Xiang.

"Father!"

Xu Tianming slowly walked over to Xu Xiang's side, but his gaze remained fixed on the metal cage.

There was no other reason. The Soul Beast inside the cage was simply too visually shocking.

Inside the cage was a gigantic eye over five meters in size, covered all over with countless slender tentacles. Just looking at it inspired fear.

For some reason, however, this Evil Eye Tyrant's eye was closed, and quite a few of its tentacles had been severed.

Thick crimson blood was splattered everywhere inside the cage.

"This is an Evil Eye Tyrant?"

Xu Tianming swallowed. This was the most sanity-draining Soul Beast he had seen since coming to this world.

"That's right. This is a five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant."

Xu Xiang nodded.

"To capture this Evil Eye Tyrant, those Soul Beast Hunters even lost a fourth-tier Soul Engineer."

A fourth-tier Soul Engineer was roughly equivalent in strength to a four-ring or even five-ring Spirit Master.

Yet such a powerful expert had died at the hands of an Evil Eye Tyrant that was only five thousand years old. This showed just how powerful Evil Eye Tyrants were.

"Within our Sun Moon Empire, Evil Eye Tyrants are practically the highest-quality land-based Soul Beasts."

Xu Xiang continued speaking, but his tone grew increasingly solemn.

"Ordinary Spirit Masters would not even dare absorb a five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Ring as their fourth Soul Ring..."

"Tianming, are you sure you want this five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant to be your first Soul Ring?"

The Martial Souls of Spirit Masters in the Sun Moon Empire were far inferior in quality to those of the original Three Douluo Kingdoms, which was why they had developed technology such as Soul Tools.

But it was precisely because they relied too heavily on Soul Tools that the quality and age of Soul Rings among Spirit Masters in the Sun Moon Empire were generally low as well.

"Father, let me try."

Xu Tianming spoke softly.

"If I truly can't absorb this Evil Eye Tyrant's Soul Ring, you should have a way to keep me safe, right?"

When a Spirit Master could not absorb a Soul Ring, timely intervention by a powerful external force could indeed interrupt the absorption process.

However, such an action was extremely risky.

Even if it succeeded, the Spirit Master whose Soul Ring absorption had been interrupted would need to recuperate for at least half a year.

Xu Xiang remained silent.

As a father, he naturally hoped his son would make history by absorbing a five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant as his first Soul Ring.

But as a father, he was equally worried about his son's safety.

Wanting his son to succeed while worrying for his child was the helplessness of being a father.

"Father, don't you believe in me?"

Seeing that Xu Xiang remained silent, Xu Tianming could only speak again.

"Since that is the case, give it a try."

Xu Xiang slowly exhaled, then heavily patted Xu Tianming on the shoulder.

"Be careful in all things. Do not force yourself."

After a pause, Xu Xiang spoke again.

"This Evil Eye Tyrant's weakness is its large eye."

"Absorb it quickly before your mother arrives."

Xu Tianming froze for a moment, then nodded firmly.

Taking the loaded Soul Ray Gun from Xu Xiang, Xu Tianming aimed at the Evil Eye Tyrant's closed eye.

Buzz...

The Soul Ray Gun in his hand trembled lightly, and then an exceptionally bright beam as thick as a finger shot from its barrel.

Xu Tianming had no idea what level of Soul Tool this Soul Ray Gun Xu Xiang had given him was, but the beam it fired directly pierced through the five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant.

"The future still belongs to Soul Tools."

Watching the Evil Eye Tyrant collapse inside the cage, twitch twice, and then fall still, Xu Tianming sighed inwardly.

At the same time, a purple Soul Ring rose from the Evil Eye Tyrant's corpse.

"Be extremely careful. If you can't absorb it, give up decisively."

Xu Xiang stepped back and spoke in a deep voice.

"I understand."

Xu Tianming took two deep breaths, then sat cross-legged on the ground.

With a slight beckoning gesture, the purple Soul Ring, drawn by his Soul Power, immediately settled around his body.

At that very instant, Xu Tianming's body suddenly shuddered, and his entire face twisted into a ferocious expression.

It was swelling!

Swelling terribly!

Xu Tianming only felt an extremely cold energy rampaging through his body. It was as though his internal organs had been struck by a Giant Hammer.

Caught off guard, he immediately spat out a mouthful of crimson blood.

This sight instantly changed the expression of Kong Yue, who had just entered the back garden.

"Xu Xiang, the child can't hold on anymore, and you're still standing there like a corpse?"

Xu Xiang ignored his wife's furious rebuke. He merely stared fixedly at his son and said, word by word:

"The first wave of Soul Ring energy is the strongest. As long as he endures the first wave, he still has a chance to absorb this five-thousand-year Soul Ring."