"Amazing!"
Lu Xuan offered his praise without reservation. "You may be a Soul Elder now, but even against a Soul King, you'd rank among the best fighters."
A super martial soul, soul rings absorbed beyond the normal age limit, an external soul bone, and a set of self-created soul skills honed specifically for her.
Dugu Yan now had the confidence to face opponents twenty levels above her.
Lu Xuan was quite pleased to see such results.
"You're wonderful, Yanyan," Ye Lingling praised softly, a faint smile rippling through her eyes without the slightest trace of envy.
She merely thought quietly that, since Yanyan could become so powerful, she would surely gain similar strength when she absorbed soul rings for her second martial soul in the future.
Once the dust of battle settled, Lu Xuan went forward to examine the three Gale Demon Wolf corpses. As expected, none showed any sign of producing a soul bone.
Soul bones were exceedingly rare gifts to begin with, so Lu Xuan felt no disappointment at coming away empty-handed. He turned to beckon the two girls and led them deeper into the forest in search of suitable soul beasts.
The three traveled through Sunset Forest until dusk descended and the light between the trees gradually dimmed. Then Lu Xuan spotted two soul beasts in a chase.
One was a six-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider, a vicious creature on the hunt.
The other was a Clear-Verdant Spirit-Horned Deer just over five thousand years old.
The Clear-Verdant Spirit-Horned Deer was a soul beast devoted purely to life and healing, renowned as the sacred deer of the mountain forests. Gentle and kind by nature, it never harmed another living creature and fed only on Blue Silver Grass throughout its life.
Among all healing-type soul beasts, its healing abilities