200,000-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, Straight to Level 95

"Roar..."

Amid agonized, mournful roars, the Golden Tortoiseshell's soul was forcibly torn from its body by Xia Yu's ghostly hand.

Since this beast had unwisely chosen to resist to the bitter end rather than submit obediently, Xia Yu would naturally make good on his earlier words.

Actually, after using the Secret Spirit Ascension before, Xia Yu had discovered that whether he extracted a soul beast's soul while it was alive or collected it after death, the effects on the Spirit-Raising Secret Art were more or less the same.

So he really had not deceived the Golden Tortoiseshell earlier.

As long as it had submitted obediently and accepted its death, Xia Yu truly could have given it a quick end.

Otherwise, why would it have needed to endure endless torment and pain before dying like this?

The pain of having its soul forcibly extracted was surely unbearable even without thinking about it.

"Hu... human, for acting... acting like this, you will die a terrible death..."

With those final curse-like words, the Golden Tortoiseshell met its ultimate end.

Buzz!

The moment the Golden Tortoiseshell died, an incomparably deep orange Soul Ring radiating terrifying pressure emerged above its corpse.

"This is... an orange 200,000-Year Soul Ring?"

Staring at the orange Soul Ring, Xia Yu could not help widening his eyes.

He had never imagined that he would be so lucky as to encounter a Soul Ring mutation.

The originally blood-red 100,000-year Soul Ring had mutated into an orange 200,000-Year Soul Ring.

One had to know that with every increase in a Soul Ring's level, the benefits it gave a soul master grew exponentially.

Xia Yu could no longer wait to experience the help and improvement this 200,000-Year Soul Ring would bring him.

Without the slightest hesitation, he sat cross-legged beside the Golden Tortoiseshell's corpse, released his Velvet Sky-Piercing Chrysanthemum martial soul, and began drawing in the orange Soul Ring.

Boom!!!

The instant the orange Soul Ring settled around Xia Yu, an unimaginably vast torrent of violent energy surged into his body like towering, raging waves.

It had to be said that a 200,000-Year Soul Ring truly was extraordinary and unparalleled.

Even Xia Yu's physical strength, far surpassing that of a Super Douluo, produced a series of teeth-grating creaks under the impact of the energy contained within the Soul Ring.

Facing that terrifying impact, Xia Yu's skin quickly became congested and crimson, like a boiled shrimp.

Even the great tendons throughout his body bulged from the strain, as though they might burst apart at any moment.

And that was not all. As his body endured the impact, the Soul Ring's accompanying spiritual shock followed close behind.

Like a mountain falling from the heavens, it battered his Mental Sea of Consciousness again and again with a force that would not rest until it had crushed his soul to pieces.

"How presumptuous. You could not do anything to me while alive, no matter how desperately you tried, and I suppressed you with ease. Yet after death, you still dare cause trouble. You don't know your place."

Faced with the Golden Tortoiseshell's lingering will making mischief, Xia Yu did not hesitate. He fully unleashed his spiritual power, transforming it into an endless Ghost Abyss Purgatory that descended to suppress it.

Thanks to its soul having been extracted earlier, although the Golden Tortoiseshell's lingering will had been strengthened somewhat by the Soul Ring's mutation, without a remnant soul to guide it, it was still merely an empty shell.

Before Xia Yu's descending Ghost Abyss Purgatory, it had no power to resist at all.

It was resolved with ease in an instant.

With the spiritual shock gone, the remaining energy impact was even less capable of doing anything to Xia Yu.

Time passed, second by second.

The incomparably violent aura around Xia Yu gradually began to settle.

At the same time, his blood-red skin began returning to its normal color.

No one knew how much time had passed before the orange Soul Ring, under Xia Yu's refinement, finally completely merged into his body.

"Whew, it's finally refined!"

Xia Yu slowly opened his eyes, and a terrifying wave of soul power erupted from his body, sweeping through the surroundings.

Level ninety-four!

Feeling the vast soul power within him swell tremendously, Xia Yu could not stop a wild, unrestrained smile from curling across his lips.

That was right. A single 200,000-Year Soul Ring had directly raised his soul power from level ninety-three to level ninety-four.

And it was not an ordinary level ninety-four. If he had to put it precisely, Xia Yu's current soul power should be around level ninety-four and a half.

In other words, one 200,000-Year Soul Ring had raised the soul power of a Titled Douluo like him by a full level and a half. It was simply terrifying.

"Heh, I wonder whether the Soul Bone produced by this Golden Tortoiseshell will give me the same kind of surprise?"

With anticipation in his heart, Xia Yu opened the blind box.

The result did not disappoint him!

As the Soul Bone was dug out, an incomparably deep and dense golden light erupted throughout the underground cavern.

Along with it came an aura of sturdiness and weight.

Judging by the intensity of that aura, the left arm bone produced by the Golden Tortoiseshell had also reached 200,000 years.

However, compared to the Soul Ring, this left arm bone was somewhat inferior. It had only barely crossed the 200,000-year threshold.

Of course, Xia Yu was not dissatisfied with this 200,000-year left arm bone.

Faced with such an unexpected windfall, he was too delighted and excited to complain.

Without any hesitation, Xia Yu pressed the left arm bone against his own left arm and began absorbing and refining it on the spot.

Buzz!

The instant it touched Xia Yu's left arm, the left arm bone seemed to come alive, transforming directly into a stream of golden energy that wrapped around his arm.

Soon, all of the golden energy formed from the Soul Bone flowed into Xia Yu's left arm.

A series of dull explosions then sounded from Xia Yu's left arm. Those were the sounds of the arm bone constantly tearing apart and rebuilding.

Compared to when he had absorbed the Six-Tailed Demon Fox's head Soul Bone last time, absorbing this Soul Bone caused a far greater commotion.

Fortunately, Xia Yu could handle it.

It did not take long for him to absorb every last trace of golden energy formed from the Soul Bone.

Thus, Xia Yu's second Soul Bone—the 200,000-year Golden Tortoiseshell left arm bone—was completely refined.

Come to think of it, Xia Yu had to thank his former self.

Fortunately, he had only been obsessed with cultivating through pills and had not chosen to absorb Soul Bones to rapidly increase his soul power level.

Otherwise, Xia Yu would now have several low-year trash Soul Bones on him.

Well, they could not be called complete trash. Given his status and position, obtaining ten-thousand-year Soul Bones had been possible.

But even ten-thousand-year Soul Bones were not worth much in the eyes of Xia Yu, now that he had recovered the memories of his past life.

If he was going to absorb Soul Bones, they naturally had to be at least 100,000 years old, unless they were exceptional cases like External Soul Bones that could grow alongside a soul master.

Otherwise, he would rather leave those Soul Bone slots empty.

"Whew..."

After absorbing the Soul Bone, Xia Yu slowly rose to his feet.

"Level ninety-five. Not bad. From now on, I'm a Super Douluo too, hahaha..."

Following his sigh, a heaven-shaking aura swept through everything around him without restraint.

Then came a burst of uncontrollable, wild laughter.

It lingered without end, echoing throughout the entire underground cavern.