Soul Rings That Could Be Infinitely Upgraded

Near the outskirts, there were more soul beasts, but they were also weaker.

As he swiftly hunted through the area, in less than two hours, he had already slain over thirty soul beasts.

But this high-intensity hunt had also drained most of the little soul power he had.

Once his soul power was nearly depleted, Chen Ye stopped attacking.

He leaped up and returned to the tree where he had rested before. Lying down, he slightly raised his hand.

The soul ring in his hand, originally white, had turned pale yellow and was even beginning to darken.

"Is this the true power of the Space-Time Dragon martial soul? Simply hunting soul beasts normally can increase the age of my soul ring."

"If that's the case, I might be able to raise the age of my first soul ring to a thousand years."

"Once I have a thousand-year soul ring, my limits will far surpass anyone's imagination."

Staring at his soul ring, Chen Ye took a deep breath.

There was a trace of longing in his eyes, but even more determination.

This ability was powerful—powerful to an absurd degree.

So he could never expose it.

Once this ability was revealed, the consequences for him could very well be devastating.

That was something Chen Ye could never accept.

Especially since this ability came from his martial soul and had nothing to do with him personally.

If a powerful expert saw that he could independently increase the age of his soul rings, they would most likely go mad.

They would do everything possible to study him, to find out why he could do this.

What awaited Chen Ye then would most likely be execution after brutal torture, or being thoroughly exploited.

Neither was something Chen Ye was willing to face.

Therefore, from the moment he absorbed his first soul beast, he had already resolved to completely conceal what made him special.

The night passed quickly.

However, several hundred-year soul beasts had gathered beneath Chen Ye's tree that night.

Normally, it was unlikely for several hundred-year soul beasts to appear in this area.

But as the scent of blood drifted outward, the surrounding hundred-year soul beasts began gathering here.

That was exactly what Chen Ye needed.

Morning sunlight spilled down, and the ten-year soul beasts on the ground had been gnawed down to nothing but bones.

Among them were more than four hundred-year soul beasts, staring warily at one another.

Before them lay the remaining corpses of several ten-year soul beasts.

Looking at the creatures he had drawn here, Chen Ye's expression did not change.

His gaze rested on the several hundred-year soul beasts, then on the hundred-year soul ring around him.

With the effects of a hundred-year soul ring, he could now accelerate his own flow of time to about one and a half times its normal rate.

The range of Time-Space Shift had also increased to ten meters.

But what Chen Ye wanted to test now was the strength of the soul skill brought about by the evolution of his Time-Space Grip into Time-Space Miniaturization under the empowerment of the Space-Time Dragon.

Chen Ye stared at his arm as silver-gray scales began to cover his body.

The strange scales covered his left hand.

A completely silver-white pattern appeared on his previously pale-yellow soul ring.

As soon as that pattern appeared, Chen Ye vanished from midair in an instant—or rather, he concealed himself out of thin air.

The next second, the head of one of the hundred-year soul beasts was severed cleanly.

This sudden scene clearly frightened the remaining hundred-year soul beasts.

The soul beasts roared or whimpered, their expressions filled with panic.

Yet less than two seconds later, another hundred-year soul beast had its head cut off.

Seeing two of their kind killed in an instant, the remaining two soul beasts let out roars.

They fled in two different directions.

But after only two seconds, an illusory longbow pierced through one soul beast's head.

The other had its head severed by a long blade condensed from space.

The four soul beasts died, and four yellow soul rings began to form before entering Chen Ye's body without pause.

Chen Ye's figure slowly emerged beside the corpse of the last soul beast to die.

He stared at his hands, his eyes filled with shock.

After his Time-Space Grip soul skill evolved into Time-Space Miniaturization, he could create a depression within the original flow of time.

He could hide within that temporal depression, no different from ordinary invisibility.

And this was not merely ordinary invisibility. In essence, it was spatial invisibility.

In other words, he was not within this space at all. He would only emerge from it when he actively attacked.

The sheer power of this ability was utterly heaven-defying.

Not only was it an incredibly powerful defensive ability.

While in this state of Time-Space Miniaturization, he could also accelerate his own movement through time acceleration for rapid hunting.

Or he could slow time down to extend the duration of his concealment.

The moment this ability was revealed, even Chen Ye himself was stunned.

Moreover, he could sense that his exploration—or rather, research—into this first soul skill was far from over.

Chen Ye emerged beside the corpse and glanced down at his hands.

Silver-gray scales still covered his body.

But his soul power was also being consumed quickly. Just killing four hundred-year soul beasts in succession had already used up fifty to sixty percent of it.

This rate of consumption was somewhat outrageous.

Especially when attacking while in the Time-Space Miniaturization state. Although all his attacks entered an invisible state, the soul power expenditure seemed several times greater than normal.

Of course, the results were equally astonishing.

The hundred-year soul beasts he had not dared touch yesterday could now be killed almost at will after his soul ring evolved into a hundred-year one.

Watching the soul ring in his hand turn dark yellow with a trace of purple light within it, Chen Ye gradually calmed down.

"This ability really is excellent, but as the soul skill's level rises, my soul power consumption will only increase. If this soul skill is directly raised to a thousand years, the time I can remain hidden will actually decrease."

At that thought, Chen Ye frowned.

He could even sense that if this soul skill were directly raised to ten thousand years now, he would not even be able to activate it.

He might even seriously injure himself after using it.

That was not a pleasant feeling.

Even so, raising the soul skill to a thousand years should still be possible.

Or rather, for now, he could still withstand it at a thousand years.

As Chen Ye pondered this, he had originally intended to leave immediately.

But just as he took a few steps forward, a tremendous crash rang out.

The sound came from far away. Even with a considerable distance between them, he still heard it clearly.

Chen Ye looked over and saw yellow mist spreading through the air, accompanied by the hissing cries of snakes.

Hearing the commotion from that direction, Chen Ye was visibly stunned.

He knew Tang San and the others would come, but he had not expected them to be so close.

Feeling the newly acquired soul skill within him, Chen Ye's calm eyes froze for a second.

Absolute spatial invisibility. Concealed attacks that could not be detected. This was already the perfect setup for a top-tier assassin.

And with such a setup, such an opportunity...

Chen Ye stared at his hands, terrifying killing intent fully exposed in his eyes.