Above the Ring Sea, at the center of Sea God Island.
Within the space sealed off by a golden barrier of divine power, Tian Ling's Spirit Ring absorption had entered its final stage.
Just as Qian Xunji had said earlier, absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring brought an extraordinary amount of pressure.
Tian Ling had yet to truly reach the Spirit Emperor realm. Even with the strange Spirit Ring produced by the system helping her, sparing her the risk of her body exploding,
the process still would not be completed in a single step. It remained a brutal ordeal that tested her willpower.
Tian Ling sat cross-legged, her clothes long since soaked through with sweat.
Just as she was about to exhaust the last of her strength, the blue-white energy enveloping her suddenly contracted inward.
"Humm-"
A dazzling blood-red ring rippled out from beneath Tian Ling's feet, seeming to send a visibly discernible ripple through the surrounding air.
As the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring stabilized, a miniature great white shark, barely a foot long and translucent all over, swam out of the blood-red Spirit Ring.
She darted up and down around Tian Ling's shoulders, trailing a blue-white wake.
Tian Ling opened her eyes and let out a long breath of mist. Watching the miniature shark swimming back and forth before her, she reached out, pinched the back of the shark's neck, and held her in her palm like a toy.
"Ow! Gently! Gently!"
The little great white shark trapped in her palm thrashed her tail desperately and spoke in a human voice.
Only then did Tian Ling realize what she had done. She hurriedly loosened her two fingers and shook her wrist a little sheepishly.
"Hehe, sorry about that. Your Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring really is powerful.