Breakthrough to Level 50, Preparing to Return

For the sake of caution, Dai Mubai first took out the Aromatic Silk Beauty before slowly approaching Dugu Bo's corpse.

The herb's radiance circulated, dispersing all the terrifying Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison and revealing the corpse covered in countless wounds. Dai Mubai then began to search for his spoils.

First was Dugu Bo's head soul bone.

Dai Mubai carefully opened Dugu Bo's skull and removed a gray-white head soul bone.

The Medusa Head Soul Bone had come from a Medusa Queen with more than fifty thousand years of cultivation. It was a top-grade ten-thousand-year head soul bone.

During the battle at Jialing Pass, Dugu Bo had relied on this soul bone's skill, Medusa's Despair, to petrify Bibi Dong's undead army over a wide area. It could be said to be one of the most outstanding group-control soul bone skills.

Dai Mubai stored the soul bone in his storage ring. He would decide how to deal with it later.

Next, he searched Dugu Bo's body and found his Storage Soul Tools. One was a Wishful Treasure Bag, specifically used to store living creatures and rare medicinal herbs; the other was an ordinary storage ring.

Dai Mubai inspected them. The Wishful Treasure Bag was filled with all kinds of poisonous herbs, toxic medicines, and some seemingly precious medicinal materials. However, he was not deeply versed in poison research and did not dare to tamper with them, so he stored the bag away exactly as it was. The storage ring contained only some Gold Soul Coins and everyday odds and ends, with no other priceless treasures.

Finally, there was Dugu Bo's poison pill. Although it might not be useful, Dai Mubai still stored it in the Wishful Treasure Bag.

After stripping the corpse of everything valuable, Dai Mubai buried Dugu Bo's body at the inner edge of the poisonous miasma.

The poison gas rising from Dugu Bo's corpse would merge with the existing miasma and continuously strengthen it, making the Icefire Yin Yang Well even safer.

At this point, the last trace of Dugu Bo's value had been squeezed dry.

Looking at the Icefire Yin Yang Well, surrounded by poisonous miasma and now impregnable, Dai Mubai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After finishing everything, Dai Mubai calculated the time. Only a month and a half had passed since he left Suotuo City.

He had originally asked for three months of leave. Now that his strength had increased tremendously and he possessed valuable treasures, it would be difficult to explain if he returned now. Tang San and Tang Hao might even become suspicious.

"Never mind. I might as well train in Sunset Forest for a while! After all, the Icefire Yin Yang Well is already my secret base."

Dai Mubai made up his mind.

Dai Mubai came to the Icefire Yin Yang Well and sat cross-legged beside the spring. His mind rapidly calculated the timeline.

Tang San had entered Shrek Academy at the age of twelve and a half, completing more than two years of training there, including the half-year of training after being captured by Dugu Bo. In the end, he had only started the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament when he was nearly fifteen.

In other words, there were still almost two years before the next Soul Master tournament.

"Rather than that, I might as well strike while the iron is hot, completely master the power gained from Icefire Body Refinement, and formally break through to Level 50!" Dai Mubai made up his mind.

He decided to continue cultivating at the Icefire Yin Yang Well and return to Suotuo City after his strength had completely stabilized.

For the following month, Dai Mubai remained at the Icefire Yin Yang Well.

Every day, he soaked in the icefire spring water for several hours, absorbing all the medicinal power remaining in his body.

What surprised Dai Mubai even more was that, in this treasure land where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converged, his cultivation speed was actually much faster than outside.

A month later.

"Boom!"

Dai Mubai, soaking in the center of the spring, suddenly erupted with a violent wave of Soul Power.

He slowly opened his eyes, his face filled with delight!

"Level 50!"

Feeling the surging Soul Power inside him, as vast as a tide, Dai Mubai's lips curved into a satisfied smile.

This breakthrough speed had greatly exceeded Dai Mubai's expectations.

"With my physique after undergoing Icefire Body Refinement, I can completely absorb a Soul Ring of around forty thousand years."

Dai Mubai climbed ashore, the spring water flowing down his well-defined muscles.

"If that's the case, I might as well look around Sunset Forest first and see whether I can find a suitable fifth Soul Ring!"

However, before that, I need to consume an Immortal Herb.

Dai Mubai took out a strangely shaped plant.

It was entirely emerald green. Three snow-white leaves grew from the center of the plant, with dewdrops like droplets of water condensed on them.

It was the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, an Immortal Herb capable of greatly enhancing spiritual power.

Dai Mubai brought the leaves close to his eyes and precisely dripped the dew into his pupils.

A refreshing coolness spread from the depths of his eyes. Dai Mubai closed his eyes and absorbed the medicinal power.

With a "buzz" in his mind, a lake suddenly appeared deep within his consciousness. The lake grew larger and larger, while waves surged toward its surroundings.

This was the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew forcibly expanding his Spirit Sea!

His spiritual power was expanding at an astonishing speed!

Dai Mubai focused his mind, guiding and absorbing the spiritual tide rushing toward him.

This process lasted a full three hours.

The lake deep within his consciousness had already become a vast ocean.

When Dai Mubai opened his eyes again, the entire world before him had changed.

Dai Mubai felt that his eyes could see dust particles drifting through the air. He could sense every movement of all the plants and animals within the Icefire Yin Yang Well.

"Releasing spiritual power... This is an ability that even high-rank Soul Sages, or even Soul Douluo, can only touch!"

A powerful confidence surged in Dai Mubai's heart. His spiritual power had directly crossed two major ranks, becoming comparable to a Soul Sage powerhouse above Level 75!

His fifth Soul Ring could completely withstand the spiritual impact of a forty-thousand-year Soul Beast.

"Since my spiritual power can be released externally, then the Icefire Spirit Eyes..."

Dai Mubai's heart stirred. He tried gathering his spiritual power toward his eyes and injecting it into the Icefire Spirit Eyes.

Dai Mubai's gaze focused as he controlled his spiritual power and released it through the Icefire Spirit Eyes.

"Whoosh!"

A brilliant golden beam shot from Dai Mubai's eyes!

"Boom!"

A boulder in the distance split apart with a crack!

"This is an attack produced by materialized spiritual power! Hahaha!"

Dai Mubai immediately rejoiced when he understood.

He had perfectly fused the extreme spiritual energy of the Icefire Yin Yang Well, the killing aura of the Gengjin White Tiger Martial Soul, and the vast spiritual power expanded by the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, creating this spiritual attack skill unique to himself!

"Since that's the case, I'll call it the Two Forms Gengjin Divine Light!"

Half a month later.

High above Sunset Forest, a pale golden streak of light shot rapidly through the sky.

Dai Mubai had activated Martial Soul Possession. The pair of metal wings behind the Gengjin White Tiger had spread completely, and he was flying rapidly toward the Icefire Yin Yang Well—or, more accurately, fleeing!

Because behind Dai Mubai, a massive tiger with an entirely black body and a pair of wings on its back was chasing him with all its might.

It was a Winged Tiger that had cultivated for more than forty thousand years and was approaching fifty thousand years!

A fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast possessed strength equivalent to that of a mid-rank Soul Douluo!

Half an hour earlier, Dai Mubai, who had been searching through the core region of Sunset Forest, had encountered this ferocious Soul Beast.

If this had happened before, Dai Mubai would definitely have turned around and fled without a second thought!

But recently, Icefire Body Refinement, Martial Soul Evolution, and his successful breakthrough to Level 50 had all gone smoothly. This string of victories had caused Dai Mubai's confidence to swell to an unprecedented level.