Two People Obtain Soul Rings Simultaneously

Because neither he nor Ye Guyi had broken through yet, they had not reached the level required to absorb a soul ring.

After the freshman tournament concluded, everything proceeded as normal.

In the blink of an eye, half a year passed.

During these six months, aside from researching Soul Tools and cultivating, he had been doing everything in his power to accelerate the growth of ten-thousand-year medicinal herbs.

The herbs he had previously requested the sect to search for were successfully found, and they were also added to his acceleration project.

Beyond that, both he and Ye Guyi successfully broke through, reaching the point where it was time to absorb their soul rings.

His fourth soul ring came from an 18,000-year-old Diamond Mammoth, used to increase the strength of others.

He planned for his fifth soul skill to be absorbed from a Jade Demon Bird of over 30,000 years. This was a very rare gem-type soul beast; despite its name being only one character different from the notorious Emerald Demon Bird, the two were worlds apart.

The Jade Demon Bird inhabited a mine in the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, feeding year-round on the jade marrow found within the ore. It was incredibly beautiful in appearance and possessed impressive speed and lethality.

For this type of soul beast to evolve to the hundred-thousand-year level, it needed to sleep in a special location for a thousand years to take the next step, making it extremely rare.

This was why he had been so attentive when he learned the Star Luo Royal Family possessed a hundred-thousand-year Jade Demon Bird soul bone.

It was simply too rare.

That was the benefit of coming from a major power; one only needed to state their requirements, and there would naturally be people to run errands and hunt for soul beasts.

Shortly after their breakthrough, the Title Douluo of the sect had already helped bring back the required soul beast.

Thus, Ning Que and Ye Guyi left Shrek Academy, headed to their Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's commercial firm in the city, and went directly into the underground secret chamber.

Two soul beasts were imprisoned here.

One was the Jade Demon Bird that Ning Que needed, with an age of 38,000 years.

This was the most suitable age among those Jade Demon Birds for Ning Que, and capturing it alive had required the direct intervention of two Title Douluo.

As for the other soul beast, it was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

To be precise, it was a 190,000-year-old soul beast, though its aura was extremely withered, making it appear to be only around 50,000 years old.

It was the Golden Hawksbill Turtle, the very soul beast that served as a soul spirit for Xu Sanshi in the original story and had stolen the Gold of Life from the Lake of Life.

"Guyi, go and persuade it to offer a sacrifice. If it refuses, with your current physique and mental power, you are more than capable of killing it outright and forcibly absorbing the soul ring."

Ning Que had long coveted this soul beast. He had originally intended to find it and have it sacrifice itself to be Guyi's fifth soul ring. Regrettably, he had never been able to locate it; after struggling for several years and even losing disciples of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect in the process, they had finally succeeded in finding it.

As for tricking it into sacrificing itself, Ning Que felt it wouldn't be much of a problem.

Because of the issue with the Gold of Life, its lifespan could not last much longer. Furthermore, with Guyi possessing a god-level soul bone, promising to resurrect it after becoming a god should be sufficient.

Of course, it was better if it could be persuaded to sacrifice itself willingly. After all, this creature was half a beast of good omen; if he killed it, unpredictable accidents might inevitably occur the next time he entered the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ning Que had already begun absorbing his soul ring.

A 38,000-year fifth soul ring was indeed somewhat difficult, but for someone carrying two hundred-thousand-year soul bones, it was not a major issue.

If one of his soul bones had been a torso bone, Ning Que would have even dared to attempt a 50,000-year fifth soul ring.

Although there were some difficulties, fortunately, the absorption process went smoothly.

It took one day for Ning Que to successfully absorb his fifth soul ring.

The soul skill obtained from the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda martial soul was nothing out of the ordinary—it was an auxiliary boost, and he successfully obtained the desired boost to speed.

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about changing the soul beast he absorbed to gain a special soul skill, or using a mutated soul beast to defy the rules of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect's martial soul.

The sect had tried; it was useless.

The fundamental rules could not be changed.

He had no choice but to pour all his efforts into martial soul evolution.

This time, to his surprise, he had rarely managed to trigger a soul bone drop.

It was a 38,000-year right arm bone.

It belonged to the very precious category.

After all, the difficulty of a gem-type soul beast dropping a soul bone was too high.

Otherwise, given the foundation of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, they would have already gathered a full set of the required hundred-thousand-year soul bones for him.

Of course, this was not his greatest gain.

His greatest gain was that the phantom of the eighth layer of his martial soul had become a bit more solid.

According to Ning Que's estimation, if he absorbed another gem-type soul ring beyond the age limit for his sixth soul ring and fused a hundred-thousand-year gem-type soul bone, he would be able to push his martial soul a step further.

It sounded very easy, but the amount of effort and funds consumed to achieve this was something outsiders simply could not imagine.

On the other side, Ye Guyi had also completed the martial soul sacrifice.

Clearly, she had successfully persuaded the Golden Hawksbill Turtle.

Fortunately, this was a cultivation chamber built at great expense by their Nine Treasures Glazed Sect; otherwise, the commotion of a soul beast sacrifice would have long since attracted the attention of countless people.

"In two days, I will research martial soul simulation and craft a Soul Tool for you to conceal your soul rings and aura."

Ning Que looked at Ye Guyi's bright red hundred-thousand-year soul ring, feeling a faint sense of worry.

Given the scale of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, they could naturally protect against normal enemies, but the problem was that Ye Guyi's martial soul possessed the holy attribute and such immense talent that her sixth soul ring was already a hundred-thousand-year one; how could the Holy Spirit Cult possibly allow her to grow up?

"Thank you for your hard work. I will study soul ring control with the Senior Sister recently, and unless absolutely necessary, I will only display the first five soul rings."

Ye Guyi's heart was still filled with excitement at this moment.

Even if she had anticipated it long ago, how could one not be pleasantly surprised to obtain a hundred-thousand-year soul ring at the sixth rank?

The two successfully absorbed their soul rings, and Ye Guyi's soul power reached the peak of level 64; with a little more effort, she would easily break through to level 65.

In comparison, Ning Que's strength was slightly inferior, with his soul power only reaching level 53.

"This is the torso bone provided by the Golden Hawksbill Turtle. You should put it away first. If you really cannot find the gemstone-type soul bone you need, I think this soul bone might have unexpected effects for you."

Ye Guyi gave that one-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year torso bone to Ning Que.

Since she possessed a complete set of god-level soul bones, she naturally had no use for this one.

Ning Que did not stand on ceremony and put it away.

If he truly had no other choice, he would consider it, but if he could find the soul bone he needed, he would leave this one for Jin Sheng.

He was confident that he could make Jin Sheng's martial soul evolve into the Golden Crocodile King when he reached the Soul Saint cultivation level.

Even in this current era, the Golden Crocodile King martial soul was still exceptionally capable in a fight.

Ten thousand years ago, was the performance of Golden Crocodile Douluo poor?

Although his spirit was dampened during the battle with Tang Hao, that did not mean Tang Hao could kill him.

It was merely a matter of old age and declining vitality; if it had truly come down to a life-or-death struggle, even if Tang Hao had used Ring Detonation, the final result would have been nothing more than Tang Hao dying and Golden Crocodile being crippled.

Beyond that, he had swatted away the divine artifact Trident with a cultivation of level 98 and withstood the attacks of the god-level Hell White Tiger and Phoenix martial souls head-on.

At level 98, his defensive power had already reached the god-level tier.

One must realize that this was while he was old and frail; had he been thirty years younger, he truly could have beaten those so-called fellows to a pulp.

In the end, he was even able to self-destruct to save Qian Renxue.

Therefore, Ning Que was very invested in the reappearance of the Golden Crocodile King.