Heaven Dou in Turmoil

"Are you really going to condense your own Soul Ring?"

Rogue Rabbit looked curiously at Su Mo with her big eyes, wanting to know whether he was telling the truth.

"Of course!"

Su Mo answered firmly.

"Then will you really help me hide my identity?"

Rogue Rabbit continued to press him.

"That's right, as long as you tell me the detailed process of condensing a Soul Ring."

Su Mo promised.

He truly disliked Rogue Rabbit, but if she could really help him quickly master Self-Condensed Soul Rings, he was willing to keep his promise.

"Alright, then I'll tell you everything I know!"

Rogue Rabbit stared steadily into Su Mo's eyes for a while, then broke into a smile.

Next, in an empty corner of the training field, Rogue Rabbit vividly and thoroughly explained to Su Mo how she had condensed her own Soul Ring.

[ Ding~ The host has listened to the process of condensing a Soul Ring. Insight into how to condense a Soul Ring has deepened... ]

The system's prompt kept ringing out, and Su Mo's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

The method Xiao Wu described for condensing a Soul Ring was something Soul Beasts possessed uniquely after taking human form. It was clearly unsuitable for humans.

However, by drawing parallels from it, Su Mo gradually developed his own ideas through Xiao Wu's explanation.

What Su Mo and Xiao Wu did not know was that on the other side of the training field, Tang San watched the scene from afar and could not help clenching his fists.

He had still come looking for them after all.

Tang San felt stifled. He wanted to go over and hear what Su Mo and Xiao Wu were talking about, yet he was too embarrassed to approach them.

Just as Su Mo and Rogue Rabbit were having their friendly exchange.

Heaven Dou City Imperial Palace.

The heavy doors of the council chamber were tightly shut, sealing out all noise from the outside world.

Xue Ye sat upon the throne. This emperor, who had always been known for his composure, was no longer composed at this moment.

The urgent secret report submitted by the empire's intelligence network before him seemed to weigh a thousand jun.

"From the third quarter of midnight last night onward, throughout the empire, in the Star Dou Great Forest, Sunset Forest, and all major Soul Beast gathering areas... every Soul Beast, in the same instant... perished completely! Body and spirit were annihilated, leaving neither corpses nor bones! Only brief Soul Ring phenomena remained before fading away! Combined with the subsequent surge in the concentration of Soul Power throughout heaven and earth... the conclusion is... the Soul Beast race has gone extinct!"

"Impossible... This is absolutely impossible!"

Prince Xue Xing slammed his hand on the table and shot to his feet. All color drained from his face as he cried out hoarsely in disbelief, "Soul Beasts have gone extinct? Could there be an error in the intelligence?!"

"Your Highness, the information... has been verified through multiple channels."

The head of imperial intelligence responded in a dry voice, "It is absolutely not a false report."

Silence.

A dead silence even more suffocating than the earlier oppression enveloped the entire council chamber.

"The Soul Beasts... are extinct..."

Ning Fengzhi, the sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, had also been urgently summoned by Xue Ye. The world's foremost support-type Soul Master, always confident and elegant, had lost his usual composure as well.

Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, standing behind Ning Fengzhi, also wore expressions of utter disbelief.

"If Soul Beasts are extinct, how will Soul Masters absorb Soul Rings in the future? Wouldn't the path of Soul Masters simply end here?"

Bone Douluo spoke in a dry voice.

No one refuted Bone Douluo's words. If the extinction of Soul Beasts was real, then what he said was the truth.

"The continent is going to fall into chaos now!"

"We must make preparations to calm the people!"

Qian Renxue, disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, also spoke with a grave expression, offering her suggestion. "The best course is to keep the extinction of the Soul Beasts from others for now. Say only that they have collectively disappeared. We cannot let those Soul Masters know that their path of cultivation has been completely cut off!"

Qian Renxue was extremely anxious inside, but she had no choice but to continue disguising herself as the crown prince and discuss matters with everyone.

The Soul Beasts had gone extinct. Her own path as a Soul Master had been cut off too!

"Correct. The crown prince is right!"

Xue Ye took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed his turbulent emotions. His imperial bearing gathered once more.

He slowly rose to his feet, and the Scepter struck the ground with a dull echo. "Convey my decree!"

Xue Ye quickly made a series of arrangements.

The spread of news regarding the extinction of Soul Beasts was strictly forbidden. As for their disappearance, it would be said that a drastic change in heaven and earth had caused them to vanish, and that the empire would spare no effort in searching for their traces.

Of course, whether the Soul Beasts were truly extinct could not yet be confirmed.

This matter required further investigation.

There were also several other arrangements.

In short, the priority was maintaining stability.

"Teacher, this disciple still has important matters to attend to, so I'll see you off here!"

At the palace gates, Qian Renxue personally saw Ning Fengzhi off.

"Mm, go on, then!"

"If anything happens, don't stand on ceremony. Come to the sect and find me anytime!"

Ning Fengzhi nodded, warmly patting Qian Renxue on the shoulder as he instructed her.

"I will, Teacher!"

"Oh, Teacher, this gift is for my junior sister, to celebrate her martial soul awakening. Please bring it to Rongrong for me!"

Qian Renxue nodded, then took out a gift box she had prepared long ago.

"Alright, Qinghe, you're very thoughtful!"

Ning Fengzhi nodded appreciatively and accepted the gift.

Yet when he thought of how the Soul Beasts had gone extinct, and how his precious daughter would no longer be able to absorb Soul Rings in the future, his heart became especially heavy.

He did not know how devastated that girl would be once she learned this news!

"Uncle Sword, Uncle Bone!"

"Do you think something like the extinction of Soul Beasts could really be true?"

After Qian Renxue left, Ning Fengzhi could not help asking Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.

He simply could not believe that such a thing had truly happened.

"Whether it's true or not, we'll know once we see for ourselves!"

Sword Douluo said calmly.

"Then I'll have to trouble Uncle Sword and Uncle Bone to accompany me on this trip!"

Ning Fengzhi nodded.

Whoosh~

Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo then set off with Ning Fengzhi toward the nearest Soul Beast Forest outside the imperial capital.

To confirm the truth as quickly as possible, Bone Douluo directly transformed into a Bone Dragon and carried Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi through the air at high speed.

"Fengzhi, if the Soul Beasts have truly gone extinct, what do you plan to do?"

Standing atop Bone Douluo's back, Sword Douluo asked in a heavy tone.

"If the Soul Beasts have truly gone extinct, then our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect will need to bind itself even more closely to the Heaven Dou Empire!"

"If the path of Soul Masters has been cut off, the influence of the major sects and factions will definitely grow weaker and weaker in the future!"

"If Soul Masters cannot find another path, then the future will undoubtedly belong to the two great empires."

As Ning Fengzhi spoke, his tone became exceedingly heavy.

It was as though he could already see the profession of Soul Masters approaching its end.

"Sect Master, whatever decision you make, this old bone and I will support it!"

"However, don't forget about Spirit Hall. Spirit Hall will surely realize this as well, and it certainly won't just sit around waiting..."

"Spirit Hall has always been ambitious. Now that the Soul Beasts are extinct, Spirit Hall may begin taking action..."