Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow. This Ferocious Beast, which had lived for nearly eight hundred thousand years, was passing up a pill that guaranteed a million years of cultivation, only to eagerly volunteer to become his Soul Spirit?
The request had genuinely caught him off guard. More importantly, when he had intimidated the Evil Monarch earlier, he had openly displayed the Fuxi Zither's nine Spirit Rings.
To most beings in this plane, Twin Martial Souls were exceedingly rare. The Evil Monarch did not know that he also possessed a Second Martial Soul, the Eastern Emperor Bell. From its perspective, he was a "nine-ring" Titled Douluo who clearly had no slots left for absorbing Spirit Rings. Why would it still make such a request?
Seeing the surprise on Xiao Yan's face, the Evil Monarch blinked its enormous dark-red eye several times. A hint of speculation and flattery crept into its telepathic voice.
"Your Excellency, back in the Star Dou Forest, although I couldn't get too close, these eyes of mine excel at sensing spiritual fluctuations." The Evil Monarch adopted an exceedingly humble manner.
"Within the aura emanating from Your Excellency's Sea of Consciousness, I keenly detected several completely different auras belonging to powerful Soul Beasts. If I'm not mistaken, they included not only the overlords of the Extreme North, but also that Three-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff from the Star Dou Forest."
The Evil Monarch's hundred-odd tentacles waved gently in midair, as though seeking credit for its cleverness.
"Besides, Your Excellency's Soul Spirit System only states that Soul Spirits can perfectly replace Spirit Rings. It never imposed a restriction saying that 'Soul Masters who don't lack Spirit Rings cannot continue fusing with Soul Spirits'! I thought that many of those powerful auras within Your Excellency's Sea of Consciousness probably hadn't provided you