"Rest assured."
Tang San nodded slightly, a fitting blend of gratitude and solemnity appearing on his face. "I, Tang San, will never betray Xiao Wu in this life, nor will I betray the life-and-death trust the two of you have placed in me today."
As soon as he finished speaking, Da Ming and Er Ming exchanged a glance and nodded at the same time.
The next instant, two beams of light brilliant beyond measure erupted from the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts simultaneously!
A deep azure-blue radiance spread around Da Ming's body as countless patterns of lightning flowed across its scales. Its cultivation of over a hundred thousand years transformed entirely into the purest source energy and gathered toward Tang San. Its body gradually became translucent within the light, and the horn atop its head detached from its body, carrying a complete Wisdom Skull condensed from spiritual power as it flew toward Tang San's brow.
Er Ming, meanwhile, erupted with a dazzling earthy-yellow glow. Heavy earth energy and the ultimate source of strength surged like a tsunami. Its body likewise became translucent, while two sturdy arm bones bearing an endless aura of power separated from its body—the Hundred-Thousand-Year strength-type left arm bone and right arm bone.
"With my cultivation as the Sky Azure Bull Python, one hundred ninety thousand years—Sacrifice!"
"With my cultivation as the Titan Giant Ape, one hundred seventy thousand years—Sacrifice!"
The two resolute cries rang across the entire Lake of Life at once.
Countless blood-red patterns of light spread from the two Soul Beasts, wrapping Tang San in a web. Brilliant crimson Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings emerged from their bodies one after another, each bearing nine golden divine patterns, and descended over Tang San.
These were no ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, but supreme Soul Rings nearing two hundred thousand