The Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring

"You?!"

Xiao Wu finally understood who had been behind all this.

She couldn't understand...

Lin Ye could have done it himself, so why had he insisted on hiring thugs?

She wasn't the only one.

Shui Bing'er and Ye Lingling looked equally bewildered.

They even felt Lin Ye had gone too far this time. Both thugs had died on the spot.

Xiao Wu said indignantly, "So you're a treacherous villain who strikes from the shadows."

"I suppose I am!"

"All I can say is that this is how Soul Masters have always hunted Soul Beasts."

At those words,

Xiao Wu's pupils contracted sharply. "You... what do you mean?"

Only then

did she realize how dire her situation was.

Impossible!

Lin Ye was only a Soul King.

There was no way he could have seen through her identity as a Soul Beast.

Yet what he had just said was clearly meant to expose her.

Xiao Wu forced down her panic.

She could only hope she was reading too much into it.

"Dead rabbit."

"Your time as a human is up."

With that,

Lin Ye formed a spike of solid ice in his palm and drove it straight through Xiao Wu's body.

Xiao Wu's brow furrowed.

She collapsed before she could even make a sound.

"Hiss—"

Shui Bing'er sucked in a cold breath.

Xiao Wu had been killed too?

What had gotten into Lin Ye today?

From what she knew of him, he wasn't someone who killed indiscriminately.

The next moment,

an even more hair-raising sight appeared.

Lin Ye cut open Xiao Wu's belly and pulled a bone from inside.

No!

This was no ordinary bone.

"A Soul Bone?"

"Is it really a Soul Bone?"

"A human-shaped Soul Beast?"

"No!"

"A Soul Beast Transformation."

"For a Soul Beast to take human form, it must reach a hundred thousand years..."

Shui Bing'er and Ye Lingling's pupils contracted sharply.

Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast!

Now they finally understood why Lin Ye had wanted to kill her.

No Soul Master could resist the temptation of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Just then,

a crimson Soul Ring slowly rose from Xiao Wu's corpse.

It confirmed that Shui Bing'er and Ye Lingling were right: Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast who had taken human form.

"A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!"

Lin Ye could not hide his excitement.

It was the first time he had seen a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring with his own eyes.

He sensed boundless energy within that blood-red halo.

At the same time,

his Martial Soul felt an invisible pull.

"Lin Ye."

"You aren't thinking of..."

"Please don't."

"That's a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring."

"If you force yourself to absorb it, your body will explode."

Shui Bing'er had seen what Lin Ye was thinking.

He's gone mad!

The man was utterly mad.

It would be a shame to let a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring vanish into thin air, but Lin Ye didn't need to risk his life for it.

"How will I know if I don't try?"

Shui Bing'er was right.

He, Lin Ye, intended to absorb the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring before him.

Xiao Wu's Soul Ring wasn't ice-aligned, but it was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Absorbing it would grant him two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skills and let it resonate with the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

No matter how he looked at it,

a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone far surpassed an ordinary ice-aligned Soul Ring.

As for absorbing a ring beyond his level...

He had calculated that carefully long ago.

With his fifth Soul Ring at thirty thousand years, his Sixth Soul Ring could reach sixty thousand years.

Perhaps even higher!

And he had consumed two Immortal-Grade Herbs: Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

That could raise the age of a Soul Ring he could absorb by another thirty thousand years.

Then there was last night's Heavenly Mountain Snow Lotus...

"Guard me, both of you. Don't let anyone enter the alley."

Hesitation meant defeat!

Lin Ye decided to take the gamble.

If he succeeded in absorbing this Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, his cultivation would undergo a transformation.

The road ahead would surely be smooth sailing.

"Got it."

Shui Bing'er and Ye Lingling both knew they couldn't talk Lin Ye out of it.

Since that was the case,

they might as well join him in this madness.

Their expressions turned grave.

They knew the task on their shoulders was just as heavy.

A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring was no laughing matter.

If anyone discovered it, a fight to the death was inevitable. It might even unleash a storm of blood across Heaven Dou City and the entire Douluo Continent.

By then,

Lin Ye had already sat down cross-legged.

To be safe, he took a Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew from his Storage Soul Tool.

The Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew was an Immortal-Grade Herb that enhanced mental strength.

It was the last safeguard he could give himself.

As the saying went, villains died because they...

Pah!

Delays brought danger!

He had to absorb the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as quickly as possible.

The moment he touched the Soul Ring...

Its energy poured into him like magma. The icy mist around him burst apart, and his skin reddened before their eyes.

A surge of domineering Soul Power that was not his own battered his meridians, clashing violently with the cold of his Ultimate Ice.

Roar—

Just then,

a dragon's roar rang through his spiritual sea.

The Ice Dragon King Bloodline awakened.

The dragon's overwhelming pressure instantly suppressed the Soft Bone Rabbit's rampaging energy.

"Phew..."

Lin Ye finally caught his breath.

The Ice Dragon King Bloodline was the real reason he had dared to absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring beyond his level.

The next moment,

ice-blue and pink light flickered across his skin in turn.

He had to admit...

Xiao Wu's strength after taking human form had been underwhelming, but the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring she left behind was ferocious.

Even while suppressed by the Ice Dragon King, it tore relentlessly at every inch of his meridians.

After an unknown length of time...

Lin Ye sensed the Soft Bone Rabbit's aura being slowly eroded and absorbed by the cold.

Only then

did Lin Ye dare let out a long breath.

That meant he had passed the most dangerous stage. The rest of the absorption was only a matter of time.

A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skills.

Damn it!

Just thinking about it thrilled him.

"He succeeded?"

Ye Lingling stared in astonishment.

Lin Ye really had absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring beyond his level.

Heavens!

Was he even a Soul Emperor anymore?

Lin Ye had overturned everything she had learned in theory.

"Yes!"

Shui Bing'er's heart finally eased a little.

It was staggering.

If word spread that Lin Ye had absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring beyond his level, the entire Douluo Continent would go wild.

Of course,

she knew this secret must never be revealed.

"Stop talking."

"Watch our surroundings."

"Don't let anyone near the alley."

With a thought,

Shui Bing'er raised ice walls at both ends of the alley.

Ye Lingling fetched two pieces of black canvas and draped them over the walls.

Together, they made the alley a sealed-off dead end.

The entire absorption took four hours.

Lin Ye opened his eyes...

At that moment,

six Soul Rings glowed beneath his feet.

Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, red!