No one knew how much preparation they had made or how much hardship they had endured to successfully seize this opportunity.
After purifying the Soul-Devouring Fierce Blade with the sacred attribute, Ning Que sought out the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's Grand Consecrator, Mountain-Prop Douluo, and begged him to help Ye Guyi forcibly open her Sea of Consciousness.
Had it not been for the god-grade skull soul bone and the Gold of Life, Ye Guyi's spiritual world might have collapsed on the spot.
Fortunately, hardship gave way to sweetness, and everything succeeded.
The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's guardian Douluo also benefited from the Gold of Life. Not only were his hidden injuries healed, but he also broke through from Rank 97 Title Douluo to Rank 98 in one stroke.
With Mountain-Prop Douluo advancing another step, they had such a pillar of support and could finally go all out.
By then, Huo Yuhao's conversation with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had also ended.
The moment he opened his eyes and saw Sister Guyi and her fiancé, Huo Yuhao instinctively felt guilty.
"It's fine. Just tell the outside world that this is a ten-year soul ring. We'll keep it secret for you."
Seeing Huo Yuhao's nervous, guilty expression, Ning Que spoke calmly.
There was no need to hide such a matter at all.
With the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual power, he could naturally sense what had happened earlier.
Setting everything else aside, after shedding the restraints of his soul beast body, that big bug's control over spiritual power had improved somewhat instead.
If Ning Que remembered correctly, other than Long Xiaoyao, no one in the original story had detected the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual perception.
"Yu Hao, you must not offend this Sister Guyi of yours. If possible, try your best to befriend her. I sensed the aura of a god from her."
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao within his Sea of Consciousness.
"A god!"
Hearing Brother Sky Dream say this, Huo Yuhao was greatly shocked.
Before today, he had not even known what a god was.
Unexpectedly, he had first met Brother Sky Dream, who wanted to help him become a god, only to discover that someone he had met not long ago was also connected to gods.
"Thank you, Sister Guyi!"
Huo Yuhao tried hard to steady himself before speaking softly.
"Little fellow, just call me Sister Guyi or Senior Sister Ye from now on. Stop saying 'Sister Guyi' over and over; your Brother Ning gets quite unhappy hearing that."
Ning Que was genuinely displeased.
Any man would feel uncomfortable hearing someone address his fiancée that way.
Besides, Ning Que knew all about Huo Yuhao's succubus-like appeal.
"Brother Ning, I'll remember that."
Huo Yuhao hurriedly stated his position.
He was truly somewhat afraid of this Brother Ning.
Just as they had settled on their story and firmly agreed that Huo Yuhao had accidentally fused with a ten-year soul ring after falling unconscious, Bei Bei and Tang Ya woke up!
"Yu Hao, how did you end up obtaining a ten-year soul ring?"
Upon learning that Huo Yuhao had unexpectedly fused with the soul ring of a ten-year Wind Baboon while they had been unconscious, Tang Ya was filled with regret.
She had just promised Little Yu Hao that she would help him hunt a hundred-year soul ring, only for him to end up with a ten-year one. It was far too embarrassing.
"Maybe my luck is just bad!"
Huo Yuhao wore an aggrieved, dejected expression. At this point, he still cared about his dignity. He felt terrible about lying to Sister Xiao Ya, but he could not reveal Brother Sky Dream's existence, so this was the only thing he could do.
Tang Ya then comforted Huo Yuhao and invited him to join the Tang Sect.
Ning Que had no interest in that matter. At the moment, he was sensing the improvement in his own spiritual power.
As early as several years ago, relying on the spiritual power of a 190,000-year soul bone, he had reached the realm of half-illusory, half-solid. Over the years, he had continued cultivating diligently, strengthening his spiritual power and delving deeply into Heart Separation Control. His spiritual power had come infinitely close to the realm of tangible yet immaterial.
The three days and three nights of drawing diagrams a few days ago had completely exhausted his spiritual power. After sleeping and waking, his spiritual power advanced another step amid that relaxation.
Just now, guided by the spiritual essence that had overflowed during the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sacrifice, his spiritual power improved again. He was only half a step away from reaching the tangible yet immaterial realm, a level comparable to a Title Douluo's spiritual power.
Of course, he knew that this step would be difficult to cross.
He was only fifteen years old and merely a Rank 48 Soul Ancestor.
His accomplishments naturally stemmed from the fact that he had lived two lives and possessed innate spiritual power, along with the aid of a 190,000-year skull soul bone, the nourishment of all kinds of precious treasures, and a special method of cultivating spiritual power.
As for that so-called special cultivation method, it naturally came from the Tang Sect.
Not only the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, Shrek Academy, Clear Sky Sect, and the former Star Luo Royal Family possessed Tang Sect cultivation methods in their collections.
The problem was that no one dared to use them lightly. Or rather, without an official Tang Sect identity, even if they cultivated them, they would not casually display them or loudly publicize them everywhere.
The reason was simple: it concerned the Sea God's inheritance.
The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect had taken an opportunistic approach. They took the Mysterious Heaven Skill, modified it here and there, and created the so-called Bright Jade Skill.
The Purple Demon Eye was even merged with the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's Heart Separation Control, giving rise to their own spiritual cultivation technique, the Nine Orifices Heart Control Art.
For the major powers of the former victorious faction, this had long been an open secret.
According to his father, Shrek Academy had collected the most complete set of these inheritances. Other than the Clear Sky Sect's Ring Detonation, they possessed records of the Tang Sect's techniques, the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's Heart Separation Control, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Dragon Transformation Secret Manual. Ordinary people simply were not qualified to inspect them.
The difference was that the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect had acquired theirs through other means later on.
The reason was simple. During the feast following the victory in that great war ten thousand years ago, the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect had lost its Title Douluo and was no longer qualified to sit at that table.
After gradually recovering some of its foundation, the sect used other methods to obtain those so-called inheritances.
Whether due to the changes of time or some other reason, the powers that had once coveted the Tang Sect's inheritances all lost their original copies through one accident or another.
One of their ancestors had once speculated that this was the Sea God's handiwork.
The reason they had fared relatively better was that they had taken a detour and altered the original inheritance into something entirely new.
"Once I break through to the Soul King realm, I can try controlling a Class 7 Soul Tool."
After stabilizing his breakthrough in spiritual power, Ning Que was happier than ever.
After cultivating in this world for so many years, he had finally gained at least some ability to protect himself.
"A-Que, shall we take a detour and help Xiao Ya hunt her third soul ring before going back?"
After Ning Que stabilized his spiritual power and opened his eyes, Ye Guyi came to his side and spoke gently.
Ye Guyi still felt an unusual connection to Tang Ya.
After all, Tang Ya was the first quasi-Evil Soul Master Ye Guyi had purified, erasing her darkness attribute.
Ye Guyi wanted to verify one question: was the evil of a martial soul necessarily tied to a soul master's fall into depravity?
Ning Que did not instruct Ye Guyi on this matter. Instead, he allowed her to explore on her own and carve out a path that belonged to her.
He did not like mindless decorative beauties. He preferred extraordinary women with vibrant lives and paths of their own.
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