"Don't worry. Protecting you will be more than easy enough."
Lin Ye waved a hand and sat down cross-legged some distance away.
"Hurry up and begin. Don't waste time; the longer the night, the more dreams there are."
"Mm, alright."
Zhu Zhuqing hesitated no longer. She walked straight to the Golden-Armored Shadow Leopard's corpse, sat down beside it, and began absorbing the purple Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
At that moment, an immense surge of energy instantly flooded into her body.
Zhu Zhuqing's body shuddered violently, and her pretty face turned deathly pale.
The energy impact of a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring was far beyond that of a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring.
But she gritted her teeth and circulated her Soul Power with all her strength, guiding that violent energy through her meridians.
Fortunately, she had previously consumed the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone. The strength and resilience of her meridians were already incomparable to what they had once been.
Though that violent energy was fierce, it could never break through her resilient meridians.
Lin Ye watched quietly from the side, his Spiritual Power fully spread as he remained alert to every movement around them.
Time passed second by second.
One hour...
Two hours...
Three hours...
When a pale sliver of dawn appeared on the horizon and the first ray of morning sunlight pierced through the canopy.
"Buzz—!"
A powerful aura suddenly erupted from Zhu Zhuqing's body!
Soul Power surged around her as three Soul Rings rose from beneath her feet.
Yellow, yellow, purple!
And the third Soul Ring was an especially deep shade of purple!
Zhu Zhuqing abruptly opened her eyes, a glint flashing through her cold gaze.
She had succeeded!
She had successfully absorbed this nearly two-thousand-year Soul Ring and officially entered the ranks of Soul Elders!
She rose to her feet, feeling