Facing the Solitary Bamboo King, Lin Ya got straight to the point. He held the Black Jade Divine Bamboo before its eyes and gave it a little shake before saying, "Want it? Sacrifice yourself to me, and it's yours."
Lin Ya still wanted the Solitary Bamboo King to offer itself up willingly.
No one knew better than Lin Ya how grueling it was to absorb a soul ring beyond one's level. The soul rings he had absorbed before had not been very old, so the process had gone fairly smoothly. But once he reached the fifty-thousand-year threshold, everything would be completely different.
To soul beasts, fifty thousand years was a dividing line that marked a qualitative transformation—a direct leap in status!
Take those spider-type soul beasts, for example. Before fifty thousand years, they were merely ordinary Soul-Devouring Demon Spiders, Man-Faced Demon Spiders, and Cave Demon Spiders. Once they reached fifty thousand years, they evolved into Soul-Devouring Spider Emperors, Man-Faced Demon Spider Emperors, and Cave Spider Emperors. Their strength was worlds apart.
Plant-type soul beasts were somewhat different, but the principle was similar. Blue Silver Grass advanced into Blue Silver Kings after enduring for fifty thousand years, and only at one hundred thousand years could they transform into Blue Silver Emperors.
Back when Tang San was Rank 70 and absorbed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring beyond his level, he had shut himself away for more than a hundred days just to absorb it!
Even if Lin Ya only absorbed a fifty-thousand-year soul ring, a conservative estimate put the process at a month.
He had no time to waste that long here, so absorbing it through a sacrifice was the easiest and fastest method.
"Sacrifice?"
The Solitary Bamboo King froze instantly. Its bamboo body trembled slightly, clearly hesitant.
For a soul beast, sacrifice