Soul Ancestor!
Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu exchanged a glance.
They were only one Soul Ring away from becoming Soul Ancestors.
But even if they absorbed Soul Rings and stepped into the Soul Ancestor realm, they could never be as powerful as Gu Linyuan.
Without even releasing his martial soul, he had shattered a Wolf King with one punch!
What terrifying strength!
Was this truly strength?
Shui Bing'er lowered her head to look at her hands, suddenly feeling dazed.
"No wonder Ye Lingling was so..."
"So strong!"
She had to admit that her heart had truly been shaken.
That shock was not merely reverence for strength, but something deeper.
In this world where the strong preyed upon the weak, a man's strength was itself the deadliest attraction.
If Gu Linyuan truly was a Soul Ancestor—a Soul Ancestor who could blow apart a Soul Beast nearing ten thousand years with a single punch—how terrifying was that?
And if Gu Linyuan was not a Soul Ancestor, could he be a Spirit King, or even a Soul Emperor? If he had cultivated to such a level at his age, that seemed even more frightening.
Whether Gu Linyuan was a Soul Ancestor was not important.
What mattered was that this man was undoubtedly an unparalleled prodigy!
Compared to men, women were actually more pragmatic.
Men could, and sometimes even would, actively seek out women weaker than themselves as partners and still devote themselves wholeheartedly to them. But it was difficult for women to develop feelings for a man weaker than themselves and sincerely treat him well.
Therefore.
When they had seen Ye Lingling's attitude toward Gu Linyuan before, they had felt somewhat unhappy. In their eyes, what kind of man was worthy of Ye Lingling's attention, to the point that she seemed almost ingratiating