Inside a spacious room on the east side of the second floor of the Spirit Hall Main Hall in Mu Zhi City.
The room looked to be nearly three hundred square meters, with a ceiling four or five meters high. On the south-facing wall, a huge floor-to-ceiling window, clean and transparent, cast dazzling golden sunlight into the room.
In the center of the room, atop a huge token-shaped pattern on the floor, Ling Yi stood proudly, his feet planted on the sword design at the very center of the token, with hammer and dragon designs to either side.
As an invisible ripple spread from the five fist-sized Jet-Black Stones embedded in the surrounding walls and filled the entire room, the Soul Power inside Ling Yi stirred beyond his control. His right hand stretched forward by instinct, and his Blue Silver Grass martial soul—taller, sturdier, with more stems and leaves than before—revealed itself on its own.
At the same time, a bright, gleaming Yellow Ring emerged from within Ling Yi and circled around him, pulsing up and down.
By the doorway, Lu Yi watched the scene before him, his eyes lighting up as a smile curved his lips.
After Ling Yi withdrew his martial soul and soul ring back into his body, Lu Yi picked up a yellow crystal ball from the wooden rack beside him and strode toward Ling Yi in the center of the room.
"Little Yi, I really didn't expect this." Lu Yi laughed as he walked. "I didn't expect you to become a Soul Master so early, and I expected even less that your First Soul Ring would be at the Hundred Year Level..."
As he spoke, Lu Yi stopped in front of Ling Yi and handed him the yellow Crystal Ball. "Come on, let's test again