A Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but Why Did My Eyes Turn Green? Did I Mutate?

She Xian raised a hand, soul power gathering in his palm.

He looked at the unconscious newborn ice flood dragon lying on the ground.

Taking a deep breath, he transformed the gathered soul power into a sharp force and precisely pierced the ice flood dragon's brow.

Already on the verge of death after Qian Renxue's attack, the newborn ice flood dragon had no strength to resist.

"Pfft!"

One strike killed it.

The ice flood dragon's body trembled violently before falling completely still.

Its three-meter-long snow-white body began to dissolve into glimmering motes of light, which gathered into a purple soul ring.

A thousand-year soul ring!

The energy fluctuations radiating from that purple soul ring were more than a level stronger than those of an ordinary hundred-year soul ring.

Without the slightest hesitation, She Xian sat cross-legged, circulated the soul power within him, and guided the purple soul ring toward himself.

The soul ring descended heavily, passing over his head and slowly sinking until it surrounded his body.

A violent force of ice, like floodwaters bursting through a dam, surged wildly into She Xian's body through the soul ring.

She Xian's face instantly turned pale.

Too intense.

The newborn ice flood dragon's bloodline was already pure and tyrannical.

Its fifteen hundred years of energy now washed over his six-year-old body without restraint.

His meridians shook violently under the assault of the freezing current, as if they could burst apart at any moment.

Bone-piercing cold spread from his dantian through his limbs and body, until even his marrow seemed to freeze.

Fine cold sweat seeped from She Xian's forehead. His brows were tightly furrowed, and his teeth clenched with audible creaks.

It hurt!

A cold pain that sank deep into his bones.

Qian Renxue stood to one side, her gaze fixed unwaveringly on She Xian.

Her expression was more solemn than ever.

A thousand-year soul ring was already a heaven-defying challenge for a six-year-old child.

The pain on She Xian's face made her heart tighten.

Her fingers twitched slightly.

If She Xian could no longer endure it and showed any sign of breaking down,

she would immediately intervene and forcibly interrupt the absorption process to save his life.

Even if it meant the thousand-year soul ring would be completely wasted and She Xian's foundation would be damaged.

A soul ring or her disciple's life—

she knew which mattered more.

Just as she sensed something was wrong and was about to act,

She Xian's tightly furrowed brows slowly began to relax.

Qian Renxue saw She Xian's White Snake martial soul appear on its own and slither across his body.

At the same time, the violent freezing current tearing through his meridians gradually became docile.

Little White had proactively accepted and guided that power.

Qian Renxue's heart stirred.

She Xian's White Snake martial soul, like that of the Medusa Queen, was actually capable of acting independently.

"What kind of special martial soul is this?"

Qian Renxue withdrew the hand she had been about to use.

The solemnity in her eyes was gradually replaced by amazement and confusion.

Half an hour later.

The icy aura swirling around She Xian gradually subsided.

The purple soul ring floated steadily around him, radiating a gentle glow as it completely fused with him.

His breathing changed from rapid to deep and steady.

His first thousand-year soul ring—successfully absorbed.

At last, a trace of joy blossomed in Qian Renxue's golden eyes.

"He did it!"

This six-year-old child had actually succeeded in absorbing a thousand-year soul ring.

Even in the history of the entire Douluo Continent, this was an exceedingly rare feat.

For ordinary soul masters, the limit for a first soul ring was four hundred and twenty-three years.

Yet She Xian had leapt directly to fifteen hundred years, more than three times the usual limit.

Not to mention that it was the soul ring of a newborn ice flood dragon.

Its noble bloodline and astonishing potential were far beyond those of ordinary thousand-year soul beasts.

The shock in Qian Renxue's heart surged like a tide.

She was finding this child harder and harder to understand.

Twin martial souls, innately full soul power, a martial soul capable of actively sensing opportunities, and now the successful absorption of a thousand-year soul ring...

One mystery after another surrounded She Xian.

As if possessed, Qian Renxue bent down and moved closer to She Xian,

wanting to take a closer look at his condition after absorbing the soul ring.

Her golden hair cascaded down as her face drew closer and closer to his.

At that very moment, She Xian opened his eyes.

Their gazes collided without warning.

"..."

They were close enough to feel each other's breath.

Qian Renxue's golden eyes suddenly contracted.

Because in the center of She Xian's pupils, she saw three slowly rotating flower-shaped markings emerge.

Emerald green, bewitching and mysterious.

In that instant,

Qian Renxue felt as though her mind had been lightly struck by some invisible ripple,

and her vision abruptly blurred.

Meanwhile,

She Xian, who had just opened his eyes, was equally stunned.

The first thing he saw was Qian Renxue's breathtakingly beautiful face right before him.

Her golden hair fell like a waterfall, her golden phoenix eyes shone brilliantly, and at such close range, every detail of her exquisite features was perfectly clear.

Her faint, cool fragrance lingered at the tip of his nose,

her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her lips were so close that he felt he could touch them just by reaching out.

She Xian's mind instantly went blank.

So... so close!

Pretty!

Too pretty!

He simply stared straight at Qian Renxue's face, forgetting to breathe, forgetting to think.

He was completely dumbfounded.

Until Little White's concerned voice sounded in his mind.

"Hubby? Hubby, are you all right?"

She Xian jolted and came back to his senses.

Only then did he realize that Qian Renxue was also frozen in her bent-over posture.

Her unfocused golden phoenix eyes stared at him, her expression somewhat dazed.

"Teacher?"

She Xian cautiously asked, "Are you... all right?"

"!"

Qian Renxue's eyelashes trembled.

The dazed feeling from the impact on her mind slowly faded, and she abruptly came back to herself.

A faint flicker of alarm crossed her golden eyes.

Without showing it, she straightened up and took a step back, putting distance between them again.

For that brief moment just now, her mind had actually gone blank.

An illusion?

Or...

Qian Renxue's gaze fell on She Xian's eyes as she spoke in a deliberately calm tone.

"Is your first soul skill an eye technique?"

She Xian was taken aback.

An eye technique?

What eye technique?

He scratched his head, looking utterly confused.

"No, Teacher."

His attention had not yet fully left Qian Renxue's face.

He casually began introducing the first soul skill he had just gained.

"My first soul skill is called White Snake Transforms into a Flood Dragon."

With the successful absorption of the soul ring,

the information about this soul skill had already been clearly imprinted in his consciousness.

"It's a boosting skill."

She Xian explained, "For half an hour, my White Snake martial soul can transform into a white flood dragon form. While in martial soul possession, all my attributes will increase by fifty percent, while the power of water- and ice-element attacks will receive an additional fifty percent boost."

As he spoke, he felt quite satisfied.

Although it was not an offensive soul skill, She Xian was not disappointed in the slightest.

On the contrary, he thought this soul skill was simply wonderful.

The first three soul rings were the foundation.

If he equipped offensive soul skills too early, their low age and weak power would instead make them dispensable in the future.

That would be a waste of soul ring slots.

As his level increased, he would gain more and more offensive methods.

But percentage-based boosts only became more valuable the later they went.

A fifty-percent boost to all attributes was useful even at the Title Douluo level, not to mention it could also enhance the power of water and ice elemental attacks.

He had gotten a boost skill that would only grow better with use for free, and She Xian was delighted.

However, Qian Renxue across from him frowned more deeply the longer she listened.

She stared at She Xian's eyes, her expression turning grave.

"White Snake Transforms into a Flood Dragon... a boosting skill."

She repeated it softly, then raised her eyes and looked directly into She Xian's.

"Are you certain your first soul skill isn't an eye technique?"

"I'm sure." She Xian nodded vigorously.

"The soul skill information is right there in my head, perfectly clear. It's just a boosting skill."

Qian Renxue's frown tightened further.

She stared at She Xian's eyes for a moment.

Then she suddenly raised a hand and took out a palm-sized bronze mirror from her storage soul tool.

She held the mirror in front of She Xian, its surface facing his face.

Her tone lowered.

"If your first soul skill isn't an eye technique,"

"then tell me, what is going on with your eyes?"

Utterly bewildered, She Xian looked into the mirror.

Then,

his entire body stiffened.

The face reflected in the mirror was familiar—his own six-year-old face, white-haired, cute, and handsome.

But those eyes...

Something was wrong!

His originally pitch-black pupils had somehow turned a deep emerald green.

And at the very center of those emerald pupils, three slowly rotating flower-shaped markings had clearly appeared.

Bewitching and eerie.

They shifted faintly beneath his gaze, radiating an indescribably mysterious aura.

"Hiss!"

She Xian's breathing stopped.

This...

These were his own eyes?!

He abruptly widened his eyes and leaned close to the mirror for a careful look.

Emerald-green irises, three rotating patterns—no mistake!

She Xian's mind buzzed.

"Did... did I mutate?!"