Lin Qiu's body blazed with light. The black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring that had originally belonged to the Man Faced Demon Spider underwent a drastic transformation as the divine power of two gods poured into it.
The black deepened rapidly, growing ever more profound, until... a vivid, glistening red surfaced!
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!!
In the blink of an eye, a fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring had been forcibly transformed into a hundred-thousand-year red Soul Ring!
And the Soul Ring held not the slightest trace of resentment. It settled meekly around Lin Qiu, becoming his ninth Soul Ring.
Feeling the surge of power within him, Lin Qiu nodded in satisfaction.
"Not bad. It saved me quite a bit of effort refining it."
That was the system's wonderfully mismatched standards at work.
It had been a simple task, yet the system had judged it by the standards of the Shrouding Heavens World and handed out a reward accordingly.
Qian Renxue, standing nearby, was utterly dumbfounded.
She stared at the Soul Rings revolving around Lin Qiu.
That freshly minted Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring was the real deal.
"God's trials... are they really this easy?"
Qian Renxue murmured to herself.
How much effort had she put in for the Angel Nine Trials? How much had she suffered?
And this guy had killed a spider and qualified for a god's trial? He'd even been given a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring?
Comparisons were enough to drive anyone mad.
Lin Qiu put away his Soul Rings and was about to leave with Qian Renxue, who was questioning everything she knew.
Suddenly, a faint groan came from a nearby thicket.
"H-help..."
The voice sounded pained, yet carried a hint of cool composure.
Lin Qiu followed the sound and