Fifth Soul Ring Target Confirmed!

When Qian Yao said that, her tone carried the relief of someone who had waited a long time and finally gotten what she had been waiting for.

She stood at the door without hurrying inside, first looking him over from head to toe. Her gaze lingered for two breaths on his broader shoulders and the steadier contours between his brows, more composed than they had been two years ago, before she crossed the threshold into the courtyard.

"I heard from Yue that you were back, so I rushed over right away."

"You're level fifty?"

Qian Yao sat beside the stone table, relaxed and casual. Unlike Qian Yue, who would sit quietly and wait, Qian Yao began flipping through the cover of the book Qian Yue had left on the table as soon as she sat down. After glancing over its contents, she set it aside and looked up at Li Long.

"I just reached it." Li Long sat across from her. "What about you? How have the past two years been?"

"I'm level forty-four." A faint pride colored Qian Yao's voice. "Five levels higher than when I left. I can't compare to you, but I haven't fallen too far behind either. Yue is a little slower than me, at level forty-two. She spent quite a bit of time studying herbs and preparing medicinal formulas, so she had fewer real battles than I did."

Li Long nodded.

Levels forty-four and forty-two were already considered quite outstanding among Spirit Hall's younger generation. Especially since, before he entered seclusion over a year ago, both women had still been three-ring Soul Elders. Now that they had successively broken through to become four-ring Soul Ancestors, it showed that neither of them had stopped advancing over the past two years.

"I heard you took the Singular