The absorption limit for a Soul Ring generally did not exceed 1,700 years.
This had been proven with the lives of countless predecessors. Exceed that limit, and one would almost certainly die violently while absorbing the Soul Ring.
Over time, 1,700 years became the consensus within the soul master world.
Then, nearly twenty years ago, a young man in his thirties published a research theory called Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul. One of its points was the "theoretical maximum limit."
It explicitly stated that the absorption limit for a third Soul Ring was 1,720 years.
Many people were baffled.
What did that mean? Countless predecessors had spent centuries proving it with their lives, and adding twenty years suddenly made it your research?
Then if I added another month—1,720 years and one month—
would that become my research?
Yet that young man in his thirties stubbornly insisted that it was the result of his painstaking research. No one knew how someone who had not even absorbed his third Soul Ring by the age of thirty had researched it.
However, that young man had a hot-tempered Titled Douluo father and also came from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Small clans did not dare laugh at him, and large clans dared even less. That Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon with the title Thunder truly dared to come knocking and teach people a lesson.
Besides, nearly twenty years had passed, and to many people, it was already old news.
Gradually, no one mentioned the matter anymore.
Xia Yan told Chen Xin that immortal herbs could raise the age limit for absorbing Soul Rings.
They could raise it to around 2,300 or 2,400 years.
Chen Xin was shocked again. Immortal herbs could even increase the absorption limit for Soul Rings?!
Just where had Xia