An Incredible Surprise

"I'm afraid not."

Dugu Yan looked troubled.

Then.

She began to explain...

"My grandpa gets angry whenever he hears your name now."

"Because you promised to get me to Soul King within a year."

"And what happened?"

Dugu Yan had even been imagining how Lin Ye would train her over the coming year.

Then...

That fellow Lin Ye had plunged into the Soul Beast Forest without a word.

Even now, bringing it up made her angry, let alone her grandpa.

"Level forty-seven."

Lin Ye judged her level from the fluctuations of her soul power.

Then.

He added, "Two levels in a year really is a little slow."

"What do you mean?"

Dugu Yan's face was now filled with displeasure.

Lin Ye hadn't kept his promise, and now he was turning around and mocking her slow cultivation.

Damn him!

"I mean you're already very close to Soul King."

"It's only a gap of three soul power levels."

"A single soul bone would easily take care of it."

That made Dugu Yan even more unhappy. She said angrily, "Easy for you to say! Where am I supposed to get... a soul bone?"

She hadn't even finished her sentence.

A soul bone had already appeared before her.

The soul bone floated quietly in midair, shaped like a complete right arm.

It was a deep jade green throughout.

Dark purple serpent patterns intertwined across it!

Its surface gleamed like polished jade, a faint glow of poison mist flowing over it. Its joints were sharply defined, with the distinctive streamlined curves of a serpent's skeleton.

"This is a fifty-thousand-year-old Jade Phosphorous Purple-Patterned Python Right Arm Soul Bone. Both its quality and attributes are a perfect match for you. Most importantly, it can advance you to Soul King immediately."

Lin Ye spoke.

Well...

He had obtained