And so, in the heart of the Star Dou Forest, Qian Renxue and Tai Yi began receiving the ferocious beasts' sacrifices.
Qian Renxue's part was simple. She received only Demon Spirit's sacrifice, and it was soon over. She now had her eighth spirit ring, a two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year spirit ring.
After absorbing the spirit ring, Qian Renxue's soul power rose from rank eighty to rank eighty-three. Gaining three ranks in one go was a tremendous increase.
Tai Yi's situation was different. Although his soul power was only at rank seventy-five, and the soul beasts sacrificing themselves to him were older than Qian Renxue's, absorbing Scarlet King's and Xiong Jun's spirit rings raised his soul power by only three ranks. The reason was that, ever since leaving Slaughter City last time, Tai Yi had known that the more Demon Marshals he acquired in the future, the less adequate his soul power would become. Eventually, he would no longer have enough to support them in battle.
That was why Tai Yi planned to condense another soul core. With two soul cores, he could achieve a balance of yin and yang and an endlessly renewing cycle, ensuring he had enough soul power for Snow Empress and the others to use when the time came. He refused to be a man holding a gun with no bullets.
Tai Yi knew that condensing a second soul core through his own efforts alone would take a great deal of time.
Now, he could take advantage of the ferocious beasts' sacrifices and the immense soul power they brought to condense it, achieving twice the result with half the effort and forming it quickly.
Time passed little by little. With Myriad Demon King's sacrifice, Tai Yi's soul power finally reached rank eighty, and his second soul core was halfway complete.