Shui Yue'er had already possessed superb combat skills before her training journey began. After four years of grueling training, her abilities far surpassed what they had once been. She usually seemed carefree and easygoing, but once a fight began, she became decisive and efficient.
Shui Yue'er put away her dagger and sat cross-legged where she stood. Drawing on a thread of soul power to guide the soul ring toward her, she began meditating and absorbing her fifth soul ring.
The other seven naturally formed a circle around Shui Yue'er, protecting her so she could absorb the soul ring in peace.
Half an hour passed in a flash. Shui Yue'er successfully absorbed the soul ring produced by the Water-Spouting Demon Fish.
Huo Lei smiled at Shui Yue'er as she stood up and congratulated her. "Congratulations, Yue'er! You've reached the Soul King realm. Hurry and check that big fish! See whether it produced a soul bone."
Her face brimming with joy, Shui Yue'er nodded obediently. She took out the dagger she had used earlier and began examining the Water-Spouting Demon Fish on the ground.
Before reaching a hundred thousand years of cultivation, elongated fish-type soul beasts could generally produce soul bones from only two parts of their bodies: the head and the torso. They could not produce limb soul bones before reaching a hundred thousand years. Even after reaching that age, if the Soul Master who killed them lacked a skull bone and a trunk bone, they would prioritize producing soul bones from those two areas.
"Ah!" Shui Yue'er cried out in surprise.
Her cry drew everyone's attention. Feng Xiaotian and Lin Yin, who had been standing guard nearby, also came over when they heard her.
Dazzling aqua-blue light shone from the cut opened along the Water-Spouting Demon Fish's back.
"It's a