The Seventh Soul Ring Was His

"Looks like talking won't get us anywhere. Ah Yin, lend me your power."

Lin Feng unleashed his Soul Power and completed his Martial Soul Possession.

Six Soul Rings rose beneath his feet—five black and one red. Their suffocating pressure swept outward, forcing countless blades of Blue Silver Grass flat against the ground through sheer force of presence.

The next instant, Ah Yin wrapped her arms around Lin Feng from behind without hesitation. Blue-gold light burst from her body, and she merged into him.

Five-colored wings spread from his back, and Lin Feng soared into the air.

The face in the forest twisted in shock. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"I've seen hundreds of human Soul Masters, if not a thousand, and I've never seen one with Soul Rings like yours."

"Five black and one red? They must be fake!"

In an instant, countless vines surged upward like pythons, filling the sky as they wound toward Lin Feng.

Lin Feng clenched his right fist, and his aura erupted.

"If there's one thing I know how to deal with, it's a pure plant Soul Beast."

"Ring Fusion: Crimson Fire Scorches the Heavens!"

Lin Feng did not even need Five-Colored Divine Light. Crimson Fire Scorches the Heavens alone was enough.

The Third Soul Ring merged into the Fourth Soul Ring. Earth generated metal.

The Fourth Soul Ring merged into the Fifth Soul Ring. Metal generated water.

The Fifth Soul Ring merged into the First Soul Ring. Water generated wood.

The First Soul Ring merged into the Second Soul Ring. Wood generated fire.

A blazing tornado of flame shot into the sky. In an instant, the Blue Silver Grass covering the land was burned clean away.

The flames swept forward and struck the Blue Silver Emperor's true body, destroying his life force in moments.

"Aaaaaah..."

"It hurts! It hurts so much!"

"Please, spare me! I'll never do it again! You can have my source essence—just let me live!"

Lin Feng's five-colored hair whipped wildly around him. His eyes burned like torches, and his expression blazed with confidence.

"You're only begging for mercy now? Too late!"

With a sweep of his hand, Lin Feng drove the flames higher, reducing the Blue Silver Emperor completely to ash.

But...

Lin Feng raised an eyebrow. The Blue Silver Emperor was clearly dead, yet no Soul Ring or Soul Bone had appeared.

Beneath the land, seemingly scorched barren by the flames, an unimaginable vitality still lay hidden.

The Blue Silver Emperor was not dead!

Then Ah Yin's voice sounded from within Lin Feng.

"Ah Feng, our Blue Silver Grass Clan has extraordinary vitality, especially the Blue Silver Emperor. As long as we don't wish to die, we can come back to life after forty-nine days even if our bodies are destroyed."

"That's what's happening with the Blue Silver Emperor now. His body is gone, but his life force is stored in the Blue Silver Grass throughout the New Continent. He'll revive in forty-nine days."

"Let me out. Without a body, he can't resist. I can take his source essence by force. Only when that's gone will he truly die."

Lin Feng nodded and separated Ah Yin from himself again.

"Ah Yin, I'll leave it to you."

Ah Yin reappeared and landed on the barren ground. She sat cross-legged and spread her Blue Silver Domain. Waves of blue light brimming with life force radiated from her, covering the New Continent's Blue Silver Forest in no time.

Rustle, rustle!

Nourished by the Blue Silver Domain, the seeds of the Blue Silver Grass that had been reduced to ash took root and sprouted again. They poked through the barren earth and grew rapidly.

The newly grown Blue Silver Grass felt a natural closeness to Ah Yin. Through the vast network of the Blue Silver Domain, it channeled strands of life force into her body.

That life force had originally been meant to revive the Blue Silver Emperor.

A faint, pleading voice began to echo in Ah Yin's ears.

"Blue Silver Empress, I was wrong. Please don't absorb my source essence. It's the foundation of my revival. Without it, I'll die for good."

Ah Yin spat lightly and snapped back.

"Who are you calling Blue Silver Empress? I'm Ah Yin."

"If you'd handed over your source essence when we first asked, we might have spared your life. Now that your body is destroyed, I'm taking it."

With that, Ah Yin absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor's source essence faster. Her Blue Silver Domain continued to expand. The domain was extraordinary: it could draw on the power of every blade of Blue Silver Grass.

A day later, Ah Yin's Blue Silver Domain covered the entire New Continent.

If travelers across the continent had noticed the Blue Silver Grass by the roadside, they would have seen it all swaying gently in the same direction, paying homage to the New Emperor.

An ocean of life force flowed into Ah Yin. Drawing on the New Continent's Blue Silver Emperor's source essence, her body rapidly reached maturity.

Ah Yin had originally possessed only level 51 Soul Power. Now she had reached level 70.

The increase was even greater than what she had gained from absorbing the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

Blessed by all the Blue Silver Grass on the New Continent, Ah Yin condensed a black Soul Ring. It embodied their blessing: her Seventh Innate Soul Ring.

Ah Yin broke through to level 71, becoming a Soul Saint before Lin Feng.

By the time Ah Yin awoke, the New Continent's Blue Silver Emperor was truly dead.

A blood-red Soul Ring and a blue-gold left leg Soul Bone emerged from a patch of wasteland.

Ah Yin looked at the blood-red Soul Ring without a trace of pity. She could pity her Blue Silver Grass subjects, but never another Blue Silver Emperor.

Besides, that Blue Silver Emperor had wanted to devour her source essence. "Blue Silver Emperor" and "Blue Silver Empress" sounded pleasant enough, but they were only a prettier way to describe devouring her power.

Ah Yin turned her gaze to Lin Feng, who had stayed by her side throughout.

"Ah Feng, absorb that Blue Silver Emperor's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. Its pure life force should let you unleash the most powerful Martial Soul Avatar."

Lin Feng studied Ah Yin. The Blue Silver Emperor's Soul Ring would have suited her just as well.

He did not know whether she had deliberately condensed an Innate Soul Ring through the Blue Silver Grass's blessing so she could leave the Blue Silver Emperor's Soul Ring to him.

"All right. I won't turn it down."

Lin Feng sat cross-legged and called the hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring to him. He had indeed dealt the killing blow to the Blue Silver Emperor. Even though the Blue Silver Emperor had clung to life afterward, Lin Feng was still the one who had killed his body, so he could absorb the Soul Ring.

The Soul Ring entered his body. A vast surge of life force washed through him, and his aura began to soar.

Watching him, Ah Yin pressed her lips together. She did not take her eyes off Lin Feng.

"A hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring alone isn't quite enough for you. Let me help. The New Continent's Blue Silver Emperor had a higher cultivation than mine—one hundred and eighty thousand years. This should work."

As she spoke, Ah Yin opened her Blue Silver Domain and used its ultimate technique, Embracing All Rivers.

Through a blessing, she gathered the immense life force of countless blades of Blue Silver Grass into a vortex with Lin Feng at its center. The torrent poured into his body.

The hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring began to transform, golden lines appearing across its surface.