A Heart Full of Blood-Fired Courage

"Brother Yi, we've found the ' Medusa ' you're looking for, but..."

In the valley of Sunset Forest, where the "Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well" is located, Ling Yi was fiddling with a small purple grass the size of a palm. Hearing this, he turned his head, but his hands didn't stop moving. While loosening the soil, he asked, "What's wrong? Is there some difficulty? Is your strength too great?"

"No, that's not it~" Yang Shelly glanced at the "Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum" sapling that had just sprouted a small flower bud under Ling Yi's hand, shook her head, and said, "It's not that it's too strong, but rather too weak. 6̲9̲s̲h̲u̲x̲.̲c̲o̲m̲"

"According to the person who provided the clue, the ' Medusa ' was only 1.5 meters long, and most of the snakes on its head had its eyes closed..."

Hearing Yang Shelly relay these descriptions, Ling Yi clapped his hands, stood up, and said thoughtfully, "So, his cultivation level is only about two or three thousand years?"

"Where is it?" Ling Yi asked.

Yang Shelly: "It's about 300 miles southwest of the entrance to the ' Lost Track Grand Canyon ' Eagle Sorrow Ravine, near a dense forest."

"Alright!" Ling Yi turned to look at the red and white spring water a dozen meters away and chuckled, "That's it then. Age isn't a problem, as long as the bloodline is pure."

"Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to handle this wonderful gift we've prepared for it!"

Following Ling Yi's gaze, Yang Shelly also looked at the Ice and Fire Spring. She saw that about four or five meters above the water's surface, a dozen or so dark metal chains intertwined to form an intricate pattern.

The other ends of these chains are firmly nailed to the mountain walls on all four sides of the valley. It can be seen that due to the extreme cold and heat of the ice and fire spring below, these chains have also undergone corresponding changes, with frost forming on them or turning slightly red.

At the very center of the chain pattern above the Ice and Fire Spring, a dark halo was shining brightly.

"Its aura has grown stronger again. This is almost equivalent to Soul Ring from Soul Beast with 70,000 years of cultivation, right?!" Yang Shelly's beautiful eyes gleamed with surprise, her tone filled with undisguised astonishment.

"Moreover, heaven and earth are the furnace, and creation is the craftsman; yin and yang are the charcoal, and all things are the copper."

Ling Yi's eyes reflected the crimson and milky white springs of ice and fire, as well as the dark halo fixed in mid-air by the Soul Guidance Array constructed of metal chains, and he leisurely recited.

Tang San was able to use the Scorching Yang Spring of the "Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well" to heat the bronze cauldron and refine the "Yama's Invitation," which ranked third in the "Hundred Hidden Weapon Solutions Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record." Ling Yi, who surpasses Tang San in terms of vision, knowledge, foundation, and inspiration, can naturally use the special environment of the "Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well" as a furnace, the Soul Guidance Array constructed of spiritual metal as a tool, and the extreme cold and heat as carbon, spending several years refining that Soul Ring.

Soul Ring from Medusa, the Empress of Snakes who lived over 23,000 years ago!

The Soul Ring contributed by "Medusa," whom Ling Yi killed with his own hands ten years ago, was finally found to eliminate the energy lock after Ling Yi conducted numerous studies and consumed a large number of ten-year and hundred-year Soul Ring, as well as a small number of thousand-year Soul Ring.

One fundamental rule about Soul Beast in this world is that the Soul Ring formed after Soul Beast dies can only be absorbed by the person who killed the Soul Beast.

At first, Ling Yi had many speculations about this rule, but as his research into the essence of Martial Soul and the power of Soul Beast deepened, and as his mental power grew stronger, he discovered that it all stemmed from the soul consciousness hidden within the Soul Ring when a soul Soul Beast died, which firmly locked onto the soul fluctuations of the person who killed it.

Once the problem is identified, the next step is naturally to solve it. For Ling Yi, who has a certain level of expertise in Soul Ring and can even condense his own Soul Ring Ling Yi, this presents some difficulty, but not much.

The simplest method was actually when Liu Erlong broke through to the Soul King four years ago, Ling Yi used his "Sixth Soul Skill - Rebirth" to revive the physical activity of the 18,000-year-old "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast," allowing the remnant soul in the Soul Ring to return to the body, creating a "pure" Soul Ring without any remaining consciousness of the Soul Beast.

Ling Yi had secretly sensed such Soul Ring before and found that his Soul Power could activate it, which meant that it could indeed be absorbed by anyone!

Later, when Qingqiu Xin, Long Yin, and others advanced in strength, the same operation was used to verify the feasibility of this method multiple times.

Using this method, Ling Yi now has dozens of "unclaimed Soul Ring" stored in his Storage Soul Tool, starting from the lowest level ten white Soul Ring, then yellow Hundred-Year Soul Ring, purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and even black ten- Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring!

However, this method is obviously not applicable to the "Medusa" Soul Ring that Ling Yi obtained ten years ago, because at that time, the "Medusa" corpse had been transformed into a series of Soul Tool with different functions.

Fortunately, the problem wasn't serious. Thanks to the selfless dedication of some "kind-hearted people," Ling Yi also figured out a way to erase spiritual consciousness. He transformed the pervasive extreme cold and extreme heat in the "Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well" into a millstone, gradually eroding the remaining spiritual consciousness in the Soul Ring.

In addition, Ling Yi did not waste the abundant spiritual energy and unique Lingyun of this place. He used the Soul Guidance Array to Simulation the human body's meridians and the Soul Ring to act as the dantian. While eliminating the lingering spiritual resentment, he was also rapidly increasing its energy intensity.

Now, several years later, the energy intensity has been Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well elevated by the spiritual energy and Lingyun here to a level comparable to that of a 70,000-year-old Soul Beast.

This is also the limit of this Soul Ring. If Medusa's bloodline were not strong enough, and she had Soul Ring from an ordinary Soul Beast Soul Beast, such as the Wind Shadow Leopard, her Soul Ring would only be able to reach a maximum of 9,999 years before reaching its limit and being unable to improve further.

Unlike the "Blue Silver Grass," which can break through its rank limitations through the power of Ling Yi and Ah Yin's bloodlines and be granted a seal, the "Soul Ring, ultimately resulting in the rank Ring Detonation.

This was the conclusion Ling Yi reached after destroying six Hundred-Year Soul Ring and one Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

Of course, this result wasn't entirely bad; at least it allowed Ling Yi to grasp a little bit of the principle behind the Ring Detonation. It's just that he doesn't have time to study it now, otherwise he could probably replicate the [Clear Sky Sect's ] ' Great Sumeru Hammer '.

For Ling Yi, this was not a difficult task.

However, this method is currently only 99% successful, with a few minor issues remaining.

The problem is that no matter how the extreme cold and heat are ground down, the mark in Medusa's Soul Ring, which seems to be a true spirit, can never be erased. It is so stubborn that it seems impossible to remove it unless the Soul Ring is destroyed.

Given the many methods Ling Yi currently possesses, he still has to find another way, imitating the method of reviving the physical activity of Soul Beast and guiding the remnants of the soul within the Soul Ring to leave automatically, in order to find a new 'residence' for that stubborn mark.

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This can be considered the Douluo Continent version of "body possession and Rebirth".

Of course, whether the original 23,000-year-old "Medusa" soul imprint will ultimately dominate the new body, or whether the 2,000-3,000-year-old "Medusa" soul consciousness in the "Lost Track Grand Canyon" will win by leveraging its home advantage and digesting the legacy from its "predecessor," is another story altogether.

Around the same time, in the northern border of the Heaven Dou Empire, outside a coniferous forest.

"Clang--!!"

"Clang clang clang—!!!"

The rapid and sharp clanging of metal against metal rang out in succession, causing a rustling sound in the once tranquil coniferous forest.

It wasn't even September yet, but in this location near the "Ice Seal Forest" of the northern continent, the air was still filled with a chilling wind blowing from north to south that gave you goosebumps.

Nige is a Fallen Soul Master with the Martial Soul "Black-Furred Baboon" and is a level 48 Power Attack System Battle Soul Ancestor.

In this era where the Spirit Hall suppresses the continent, Fallen Soul Master is not defined solely by the Evil nature of Fallen Soul Master Martial Soul. Rather, it is determined by the Soul Master's actions, such as whether they wantonly slaughter civilians or gain power by plundering the blood and Soul Power of civilians and other Soul Master.

Nige's Martial Soul is just an ordinary Combat System Martial Soul, but his personality is quite wicked. Some of the things he did were so bad that they couldn't be written down, otherwise they would definitely be banned.

More than ten years ago, Nige was only Two-Ring Grand Soul Master. He was hunted down by the Spirit Hall's Law Enforcement Team, which chased him all the way from the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom to the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire. Finally, he hid in a nameless, dilapidated tavern and miraculously found that the Spirit Hall 'Law Enforcement Team had stopped and even left, letting him go.

Just as Nige was secretly delighted and preparing to turn around and find a few fair-skinned women to "eat" with, he was captured by the tavern owner, a Soul King named Hannibal.

"The tightness below is most wonderful when you bite their throats and suck the sweet red broth!"

Through this statement, Nige ultimately avoided Hannibal's dinner table and instead became his servant.

For some reason, being surrounded by a group of civilians who didn't even have Soul Power, he suddenly recalled the scene of being chased by the Spirit Hall Law Enforcement Team. This made Nige's dark face even angrier, and his pig-like face became even more ferocious.

"Bang--!"

With a single punch, a trail of vibrant blood splattered out, and a figure was sent flying backward.

However, at that moment, seven or eight more figures rushed up from all directions, some actively meeting Nige's fists, some grabbing Nige's legs, and others using swords and spears to attack Nige's back, waist, abdomen, and groin.

Unfortunately, the difference in raw strength meant that these people didn't even get a touch of Nige's clothes before being sent flying one after another.

As the four Soul Ring— white, yellow, yellow, and purple—lit up one by one, one figure after another fell to the ground.

A cold drizzle began to fall from the sky, turning the black muddy ground a deep red.

Nige was getting a little annoyed because he realized that most of the people he had knocked down, with the exception of a few, had managed to block most of the damage at the last moment by using their simple armor, small shields in their hands, or arm shields on their arms. Although they had suffered internal injuries from the shock of the powerful Soul Skill, they still did their best to get up and then pounce on him again.

Nige suddenly felt a little scared. He realized that the people in front of him seemed to be crazy. They were all like they were not afraid of death at all, and they didn't care about the injuries they had suffered. As long as they could still move, they would definitely get up and attack him.

"They're insane! They're all insane!" Nige roared inwardly. "She's just a woman, how dare they—?!?!?!"

"Run?" As time passed, a thought suddenly popped into Nige's mind and quickly took over his consciousness.

Nige, whose strength was already close to that of Soul King, actually had the thought of running away when faced with this group of ordinary people without Soul Power, and who were not even well-trained elite soldiers of the Heaven Dou Empire's military, but merely a patrol team made up of peasants from a small town and the surrounding villages?!

Unfortunately, just as Nige was about to put this idea into action, he was suddenly shocked to find that he had less than one-tenth of his Soul Power left.

In the end, Nige died, hacked to pieces by a group of Soul Power peasants. The scene was bloody and gruesome.

"Jiulan! Jiulan—! Come quick! Xiao Wei's bleeding won't stop—!!!"

While using his still-functioning left hand to cover his younger brother Dongming Wei's lower left abdomen, Dongming Yu looked up and shouted at the gray-robed figure not far away.

Such shouts could be heard from more than one place on this ravaged battlefield.

During the previous siege, everyone's blood was rushing to their heads, and they felt no pain at all. Now that the enemy had been killed, and their last breath had been released, many people fell straight down on the spot.

Even though most of them had cultivated the "Farmer's Three Forms" and "Basic Body Tempering Technique" to a certain level, and their physical strength was comparable to that of a level six or seven Beast Martial Soul Scholar, they still could not be considered beginners in Qi and Blood Martial Dao.

Yi Linlie, the captain of the Cold Stone Town Patrol Team, raised his aching right hand and touched the arm shield on his left arm, which was cracked to the point of breaking. He pursed his dry lips, his emotions extremely complicated.

Fear, excitement, worry, joy, confusion...

Yi Linlie himself had no idea where he got the courage to lead the patrol team to rush up when that all-black-clad Soul Master forcibly carried Ayimo's youngest daughter out the door a little over an hour ago.

If it fails...

Yi Linlie shivered and looked up at the seemingly even colder rain and gloomy sky.

But they succeeded in the end!

He glanced up at the ugly black face on the ground a few meters away, its head still glaring angrily, like a piece of black carbon stone with several holes.

"Did we kill a Soul Master?" Yi Linlie turned to ask Ala Leiqi, who had barely managed to stand up and come to his side.

"Hmm." Ala Leiqi simply nodded, but the movement aggravated his injuries, causing him to wince in pain.

"Another Four-Ring Soul Ancestor?" Yi Linlie asked again to confirm.

Ala Leiqi: "..."