Breakthrough! A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring!! (Thanks to reader 2026...4733 for the recommendation vote~)

"The Shu-Han Empire's flag?"

This was something Zhuge Ming had never considered.

But he had watched the old Three Kingdoms TV series before.

The Shu-Han flag in it bore a black ancient character for "Han."

Together with its yellow background and red border, it symbolized the "Flaming Han."

The writing of the Douluo Continent differed from that of his previous life, but he could still use the ancient characters for "Shu-Han."

He wanted everyone on the Douluo Continent to recognize these two ancient Chinese characters in the future!

Zhuge Ming immediately replied to Zhao Yun, "My mother knows how to weave cloth and embroider patterns.

"I'll have her make a flag first. After that, you can have people produce them in batches according to that flag."

"Yes, sir."

After speaking with Zhao Yun, Zhuge Ming glanced at his mother, Zhou Xuan, who was working in the fields, but did not immediately ask her to embroider the flag.

He needed Zhao Yun to buy the materials for making flags first.

He also needed to design the flag himself so his mother could more easily embroider its pattern.

"Mother, I have something to do, so I'm heading home first."

After greeting Zhou Xuan, Zhuge Ming left the fields under the indulgent gazes of his mother and older sister, heading straight home.

Entering his room, he took out the pen and paper he had bought in Langya City a few days ago and began designing the flag based on his memories of the Shu-Han banner.

Meanwhile, at the military camp outside Langya City.

Zhao Yun looked at the army, now completely under Owens's control, and let out a slight sigh of relief.

After learning of the deaths of Gui Tie and the other two Soul Ancestors, all the soldiers had been deeply shocked.

Some company and battalion commanders loyal to the three men accused Owens of using the opportunity to eliminate dissenters!

They had then attempted to incite a mutiny!

Seeing that things were going wrong, he publicly displayed his nine soul rings!

The terrifying pressure instantly calmed those who had wanted to revolt.

A Titled Douluo had appeared in Langya City... This matter was likely far more serious than they had imagined!

After successfully suppressing the mutinous soldiers, Zhao Yun had Owens publicly execute the battalion and company commanders who had led them.

The remaining men, staring at their officers lying in pools of blood, finally dared not harbor any further disloyal thoughts.

Zhao Yun then led men to the homes of the city's nobles and declared to each of them that the city had changed hands.

The privileges these nobles possessed would be drastically curtailed!

Anyone who dared resist was killed by him without the slightest mercy!

When the last resister was slain, the city was officially completely under his control.

Far away in Nanyang Village, Zhuge Ming suddenly felt a scorching current surge through his body!

Having just finished designing the flag, he clearly sensed his soul power shoot from Level 9 straight to Level 10!

Zhuge Ming was immediately overjoyed!

This sudden rise in soul power meant Zhao Yun had successfully taken their first city—Langya City—without shedding blood!

Yet even amid his delight, Zhuge Ming soon felt the soul power rising within him slam into a thick wall and be forcibly blocked.

But the heat coursing through his body only grew more turbulent.

Like searing magma crashing wildly through his body, it turned his entire body red!

It also made him feel as if he had swallowed a huge mouthful of magma, filling him with burning agony!

In the end, the current seemed to find an outlet and rushed toward his left hand in a torrent!

His left hand rose uncontrollably as the Records of the Three Kingdoms martial soul was forcibly summoned!

Around the martial soul, where there had originally been nothing, the faint outline of a transparent ring unexpectedly appeared!

Zhuge Ming was instantly ecstatic!

This was... a soul ring?!

After his soul power had reached its bottleneck, he had actually condensed a soul ring on his own without needing to hunt a soul beast?!

Though he had vaguely suspected this before.

Seeing it truly happen still left him shocked and delighted.

He just did not know how many years this self-condensed soul ring would be...

As time passed, the soul ring gradually began to show color.

A dazzling flash of white light made Zhuge Ming's heart tighten!

Could it be a white soul ring of only a few decades?

That would be way too pathetic!

Fortunately, as the soul ring continued to condense, the dazzling white light gradually dimmed before shifting into a warm goose-yellow glow.

A hundred years...

It was not especially high, but it was barely acceptable.

Yet to his surprise, the heat in his body did not diminish much. Instead, it continued pouring madly into the soul ring!

Before long, the color of the soul ring deepened, quickly turning a profound purple!

Then it darkened further and became pure black!

A ten-thousand-year soul ring?

His first soul ring was already a ten-thousand-year soul ring?!

That was far stronger than the first soul ring that little wretch Tang San had obtained at the start!

Zhuge Ming was already extremely satisfied with this age, but his martial soul seemed far from satisfied!

At the center of the pitch-black soul ring, a faint, barely discernible red glow began to emerge!

Zhuge Ming thought he was seeing things and hurriedly rubbed his eyes with his right hand.

But when he opened them again, a blinding red light nearly dazzled him blind!

A red soul ring!

A blood-red soul ring!!

A hundred-thousand-year soul ring!!!

His first soul ring was actually comparable to Tang San's first soul ring after completing Sea God's Nine Trials!

A hundred-thousand-year soul ring!!

The surprise had come so suddenly that Zhuge Ming was left somewhat dazed!

As the soul ring stabilized into blood-red, the scorching current in his body was finally exhausted.

The last trace of remaining soul power seemed to pierce through a thin membrane, allowing his soul power to naturally break through to Level 11!

Because the vast majority of the energy had fused into the soul ring, the remaining soul power was only enough for him to barely reach Level 11.

Even so, he was still wild with joy!

His soul power level was secondary. This hundred-thousand-year soul ring was the greatest gain!

At that moment, two pieces of information suddenly flooded into his mind.

They were the two hundred-thousand-year soul skills granted by this soul ring!

[First Soul Skill: Infinite Provisions!]

[As long as sufficient soul power is available, it can generate unlimited quantities of all kinds of food or fodder!]

[First Soul Skill: Soul Power Surge!]

[Can cause the soul power of a target below the rank of Limit Douluo to surge to the limit of their current stage! Duration depends on soul power.]

After experiencing the effects of his two hundred-thousand-year soul skills, Zhuge Ming was overjoyed!

Who would have thought that his martial soul, which could be considered a tool martial soul, could actually produce provisions?

Did that not mean it could also count as a food-type martial soul?

Of course, the food he generated probably would not possess the special effects of food-type martial souls.

But even so, as long as he had enough soul power, his family would never lack food again!

Why farm at all... He could just become a grain merchant!

However, Zhuge Ming understood that this soul skill was mainly meant to serve soldiers on the battlefield.

Before the armies move, provisions must go first!

Sometimes, the outcome of a war was decided by the movement of provisions from the very beginning!

Of course, while the first effect of this first soul skill was powerful, it offered almost no improvement to soul masters.

The second effect was the truly heaven-defying one!

It could actually make the soul power of any target below Limit Douluo surge to the limit of their current stage!

In other words, a Level 11 soul master could surge to Level 20, while a Level 91 Titled Douluo could surge to Level 99!

That way, Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, and the others could fight peak experts like Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi!

Of course, forcibly raising their levels would certainly consume a tremendous amount of his soul power, and he might not be able to maintain it for long.

But even if it only lasted one minute, it would be enough to solve many problems.

Once his soul power level continued to rise in the future, the duration would definitely grow longer and longer!

Just as Zhuge Ming was imagining the future because of his hundred-thousand-year soul skills, the Records of the Three Kingdoms martial soul suddenly flipped open to its third page on its own!

Golden characters began to appear once more on the previously blank page...