A Chaotic Landscape,
Lu Ran stepped onto the soft earth, freshly churned by blades of wind. His feet sank slightly into the soil.
Before long,
the plants would grow back, and the place would once again be lush and green.
As far as the eye could see,
the entire square kilometer had been turned over. Not a single tree remained intact.
The wind blew straight into his face without obstruction,
carrying the chill of Ice Crystals.
He slowly exhaled,
and five black Soul Rings emerged, their deep darkness shimmering as they floated silently around him.
Every one was a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
At last, he had become a powerful expert who could stand on his own.
Even an ordinary Soul Douluo would probably struggle to gain the upper hand against him now.
Leaving aside his Soul Power reserves and physical strength,
just in terms of Soul Ring age, he had surpassed most Soul Saints.
Without treasures like Whale Rubber to help, even with their physical strength, the limit a Soul Saint could absorb was only fifty thousand years.
As he thought about it,
Lu Ran looked toward the east, slightly to the west.
His gaze pierced across a thousand miles of land, fixing on a distant region,
and anticipation gradually welled up within him.
At last,
he finally had the strength to go there!
Two hours later,
within the borders of the Heaven Dou Empire,
above a plain,
beneath a vast, deep-blue sky,
a streak of green light glided across the heavens, then vanished in the blink of an eye, silent as a ghost.
The Nether Wolf pack patrolling its territory below never noticed it.
And that figure
was the Jade Azure Bird.
As a flying Soul Beast famed for its speed, it had always been astonishingly