Half a day later.
Mei Ning's absorption of the Soul Ring had also reached its final stage.
Ten-thousand-year Soul Rings carried soul tremors, but those tremors were of no use against Mei Ning.
The reason was simple: she had the Soul-Nurturing Wood Bead that Li Han had temporarily lent her.
All soul tremors were useless before the Soul-Nurturing Wood Bead.
Thus, Mei Ning smoothly absorbed the fifteen-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast Soul Ring.
The pitch-black Soul Ring layered itself above her original two yellow and two purple Soul Rings, officially allowing her strength to break through to the Soul King realm.
At the same time, the Soul Power brought by the Soul Ring and the medicinal power from the pills she had taken earlier erupted in full, causing Mei Ning's Soul Power to surge madly.
Moments later, her Soul Power directly broke through to level fifty-seven!
Most of that came from the medicinal power, while the enhancement from the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring came second.
Such an exaggerated increase in strength left Mei Ning utterly stunned.
"Th-this is truly unbelievable."
Mei Ning looked at her hands and felt the immense Soul Power within her, her face full of disbelief.
After all, that feeling was simply too intoxicating.
"It seems your absorption was very successful. This fifteen-thousand-year Soul Ring truly wasn't much for you.
You could probably raise it by another one or two thousand years."
Li Han could tell that this Soul Ring had not yet reached Mei Ning's limit.
But it did not matter. It was already excellent enough.
"Brother Han, thank you. Without your pills and your previous guidance, I never could have reached this point."
Mei Ning's heart was filled with gratitude toward Li Han.
She had long since stopped knowing how she could repay him.
She had thanked