This Seat's Journey Has Truly Been Filled with Hardship!

Withdrawing his Human Emperor Banner, Jiang Li claimed the apprenticeship reward through his consciousness.

His seventh soul ring had already reached one hundred thousand years, which meant his eighth soul ring would essentially start at a baseline of one hundred thousand years as well.

Tsk tsk tsk, with this Seat's innate talent, I wonder if the age of my eighth soul ring can reach new heights.

As Jiang Li thought this, a small, transparent ball of light appeared in his hand, within which endless energy seemed to be swirling.

Unlike the God-Given Soul Ring bestowed by the Sea God or the Angel God, which would appear sea-blue or golden due to the contamination of their own divine power, his was different.

When inheritors absorb the God-Given Soul Ring bestowed by them, their own martial souls are more or less tainted by their aura.

For instance, that Evil Fire Phoenix; while his failure to inherit the Fire God's position certainly had his own factors involved, the Sea God Trial he had previously undergone also had a significant influence on him.

Jiang Li's God-Given Soul Ring, however, lacked these extraneous factors. Truly, anything produced by the system is a masterpiece!

Following this, Jiang Li sat cross-legged, his eyes tightly shut.

After crushing the God-Given Soul Ring, countless blue-gold light mists instantly appeared around him.

Waves of life energy, sharing the same origin as the Blue Silver Emperor, began to boil, condense, and compress within this area, entering Jiang Li's body in an orderly fashion.

The absorption of a God-Given Soul Ring is closely related to the soul master's capacity; thus, the moment the energy within the God-Given Soul Ring entered Jiang Li's body, it began to manifest as a black ten-thousand-year soul ring.

Soon, the black soul ring beside Jiang Li began to transform. As the blue-gold energy continuously poured into his body, the edges of that black ring quickly began to take on the prototype of a one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring.

However, this was not Jiang Li's limit!

As time slowly ticked by...

Jiang Li felt the surrounding energy flowing in continuously, as if it were inexhaustible and bottomless!

He unreservedly absorbed this power, continuing until his body's limit was thoroughly pushed to the brink.

Only when that critical point of endurance was touched did he have to stop, ending the absorption with a hint of regret.

The next moment, the soul ring fully formed.

A one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring engraved with three golden patterns slowly emerged, hovering steadily beneath his feet, reflecting the seven soul rings already in the inner circle with an astonishing aura!

Purple, purple, purple, black, black, black, red, red!

As the surrounding phenomena vanished, Jiang Li slowly opened his eyes.

He had finally obtained his eighth soul ring, with a full three hundred thousand years of age!

"This Seat has truly endured many hardships along this journey!"

"Hehehehehehe—"

Because he had absorbed a God-Given Soul Ring, Jiang Li's soul power did not increase as rapidly as expected. After the threshold of level 80 was broken, the soul power that had not been fully displayed from his previous absorption of immortal herbs and two Dragon King-level soul bones surged forth all at once.

His soul power stopped at level 86, failing to reach the level 90 threshold as he had hoped.

However, Jiang Li was already quite satisfied with this.

With two god-level dragon souls at his side, he dared to challenge even ordinary Super Douluo.

Without hesitation, he then claimed the reward that increased the age of all his soul rings by one thousand years.

Following the injection of that energy, Jiang Li's soul rings shifted from three purple, three black, and two red to two purple, four black, and two red.

There was an improvement, but it was minor. For Jiang Li at this moment, such a slight increase in soul rings was merely a drop in the bucket compared to the growth of his soul power.

On the other side, during the time Jiang Li was absorbing his soul ring, Tang San had basically mastered the morphological changes of his Blue Silver Emperor martial soul under the guidance of the Blue Silver King.

The most basic Blue Silver Entanglement could be cast with a mere wave of his hand.

Furthermore, after sensing the aura emitted by Jiang Li during his breakthrough, his own soul power had increased by one level, reaching the major milestone of level 22.

Hmm... this is what you call leading the way with one breakthrough to trigger another!

At this moment, he was controlling the Blue Silver Emperor in his hand to lengthen and entangle the trees in front of him. Yet, for some reason, Tang San felt a sense of familiarity with this Blue Silver Entanglement, which was akin to a Self-Created Soul Skill.

Strange, where does this feeling come from?

It seems I must ask Master about it later.

Tang San decided to keep the question to himself for now and continued to focus on practicing other morphological changes of the Blue Silver Grass.

However, not long after, he felt a very intimate aura rapidly approaching his direction.

"This feeling..."

"Could it be Master?"

Tang San was incredibly excited; he wanted to share his progress over these past few days with his master immediately!

A short while later, Jiang Li's figure slowly emerged from the depths of the Blue Silver Forest.

"Master!"

Tang San shouted excitedly, moving his short legs as he ran rapidly toward Jiang Li.

Seeing his filial disciple looking at him with an expression begging for praise, Jiang Li simply couldn't bear to look.

The way he looked now was truly a world apart from that God King Tang.

Could this be the sense of contrast those teachers from my past life always talked about?

Jiang Li hurriedly shook his head, casting these strange thoughts out of his mind. A person at least shouldn't... couldn't have such bizarre ideas.

"Little San, you are a noble Soul Grand Master now, you really need to be a bit more steady!"

Hearing his master say this, Tang San shyly rubbed the top of his head. Wasn't he just too eager to share the joy of his increased strength with his master?

Immediately after, he voiced the questions in his heart, hoping Jiang Li would give him an answer.

Hearing this, Jiang Li was left completely speechless.

This damn sense of familiarity; he couldn't very well tell his precious disciple that a certain pure and noble God King Tang, even after becoming a high and mighty God King, would always lead every battle with Blue Silver Entanglement, could he?

"Little San, perhaps it is because your martial soul underwent Martial Soul Evolution into the Blue Silver Emperor that you feel this move is so familiar."

"After all, entanglement can be considered the instinctual attack method of plant-type soul beasts."

Hearing his master say this, Tang San felt it was indeed the case, so he didn't dwell on the matter in his heart any further.

The master and disciple then arrived at the location of the Blue Silver King, signaling it to gather almost all the Blue Silver Grass in the Blue Silver Forest, leaving only one around 30,000 years old to prevent other humans or soul beasts from raiding their home after they left.