In the depths of the sea, a dark crimson glow resembled a sun sinking to the ocean floor, dyeing the seawater within dozens of yards a deep, bloody red.
Yan Lingji floated cross-legged in the water.
The Hundred Thousand Year soul ring peeled away from the Fire Fox Shark's corpse and slowly drifted toward her, carrying a scorching, vast pressure.
The instant the soul ring touched her body, immense energy surged into her meridians, bones, and every inch of flesh.
Yan Lingji did not even furrow her brow.
The violent energy, enough to tear apart an ordinary Soul Master's meridians, flowed through her body as smoothly as streams merging into a river, seamlessly integrating into her limbs and bones.
The bloodline power of the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox surged forth on its own without needing to be activated, wrapping around, devouring, and refining the Fire Fox Shark's lingering resentment layer by layer.
The soul ring entered her body and fused completely.
Yan Lingji's level began to rise—Level 70, 71, 72... It only gradually stopped at Level 75.
Her aura rose steadily, each wave stronger than the last, pushing the surrounding seawater outward in turbulent surges.
A fully crimson bone slowly floated up from the Fire Fox Shark's corpse, radiating a scorching light of the same origin as the soul ring.
It was a complete right leg bone, its surface covered in intricate golden patterns like flowing lava.
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone was guaranteed to drop.
Yan Lingji extended her hand, and the soul bone automatically drifted toward her, pressing against her right leg and silently merging into her body.
The soul bone fused perfectly with her skeleton, without any excess rejection.
As though this soul bone had always belonged to her.
Yan Lingji slowly opened her eyes, a flash