A huge crowd soon arrived at the little courtyard in Shrek City.
Inside, two pretty young women, Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan, were already waiting.
Tang Ya wore a particularly bright, dazzling smile. At the test not long ago, she had stolen the show. Her once ordinary, frail Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul had actually transformed into the legendary Blue Silver Emperor.
This Martial Soul held extraordinary significance for both Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect. In everyone's hearts, the Blue Silver Emperor had always been a symbol of the Sea God.
Their ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Rings had caused quite a stir as well. Now that the benefits of Whale Rubber had become widely known, absorbing Soul Rings beyond the usual age limit was no longer anything unusual. But jumping an entire stage in one go was still astonishing.
The Soul Master knowledge of this era was far more widespread and complete than it had been ten thousand years ago.
When a Soul Master absorbed a Soul Ring, their physical strength mattered, but so did their mental power. Only with enough mental power could they withstand the lingering Mental Shock of a Soul Beast.
That was what made a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring so impressive. Even if you had the money, there was no use if you couldn't buy one.
Heavenly treasures that could improve mental power were already scarce, and those that could be taken directly were rarer still. Only time-honored sects with long legacies had any in their collections. Shrek alone had such a deep foundation that it always kept a plentiful stock of treasures like these.
This also owed much to Alchemy. Without a special pill to temper many rare medicinal ingredients, ordinary Soul Masters couldn't absorb them at all. They might even suffer a backlash from