As he listened to Mo Lin, Mo Jia's expression went through surprise, shock, ..., resignation, sage-like enlightenment, and several other stages. In the end, he was numb. He did not want to offer too much commentary on Mo Lin, someone who was always doing earth-shattering, ghost-weeping things.
After a while, Hu Liena successfully absorbed the spirit ring as well. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw Mo Jia's numb face, as though he had suffered a terrible blow. As a junior, and with him having stood guard for her, Hu Liena naturally wanted to ask what had happened. However, Mo Lin suddenly sprang out and directly interrupted her, pulling her along while shouting to Mo Jia, "Uncle! Let's go!" Still somewhat dazed, Hu Liena was dragged out of the Star Dou Great Forest by Mo Lin.
The three of them naturally returned to Spirit Hall. On the way back, Mo Lin kept considering his future cultivation plans.
Mo Lin could not waste even a single moment now. He had to cultivate his Soul Power to level sixty-five or above before he turned eighteen. He was already over sixteen, and his Primordial Qi's Soul Power was at level fifty-seven. In other words, he had less than two years to raise his Soul Power by the equivalent of at least eight levels.
Once a soul master reached the Soul King rank, advancing became far from easy. After reaching Soul Emperor, the difficulty rose another level. Raising one's Soul Power by eight levels in two years would be difficult unless one went somewhere special. The only special places Mo Lin could think of where he would not immediately die upon entering—excluding the Star Dou Great Forest's core region, the "Great Ferocious Land," and the Far North's Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave—were three places: