Upgrading to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring (Please Keep Reading)

Hiss!

Under the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame's terrifying power to purify all things, the faint, violent remnant soul and murderous obsession left by the Azure Flame Demon Eagle could not hold out for even a few breaths. The flame reduced them to wisps of smoke that vanished without a trace.

That was not all. As the demon flame compressed and spun, its uncanny refining power forcibly broke down the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring's once-complete structure at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Its outer shell and mottled impurities were stripped away, leaving only a fist-sized sphere of flawless origin energy that radiated an incomparably pure aura. Like a translucent blue-black pearl, it hung quietly at the center of the flame.

"So it really can be refined!"

At the sight, Xiao Dong's heart jolted, and a feverish gleam flashed in his eyes.

He did not hesitate. Taking a deep breath, he reached out and seized the air. The newly absorbed seventy-thousand-year Third Soul Ring from the Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox slowly rose from beneath his feet.

"Fuse!"

Xiao Dong's gaze sharpened. Guiding the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, he carefully pressed the thirty thousand years of pure origin extracted from the Azure Flame Demon Eagle toward his Third Soul Ring.

Hum! Hum!

The instant the two vast reserves of origin touched, the entire seventy-thousand-year black Soul Ring shook violently.

The traces of wind attribute remaining from the Azure Flame Demon Eagle met the Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox's Mental Attribute with faint resistance, causing the fusion to falter.

Signs of a clash between their attributes began to spread.

"You dare resist my demon flame?!"

Sensing the obstruction, Xiao Dong gave a cold laugh. At a thought, the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame unleashed its full purifying power. Like an unrivaled sovereign, it forcibly refined and smoothed away every conflict in an instant!

Under that nearly unreasonable suppression and forced assimilation, the flawless origin refined from a thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast finally gave a faint tremor. Then, like a giant whale drawing in water, it flowed unhindered into the depths of the Third Soul Ring!

Boom!

The accumulated change in quantity erupted into a change in quality!

After devouring those thirty thousand years of pure origin, the seventy-thousand-year Soul Ring, once black as ink, saw its dark sheen replaced almost instantly by a thick, dazzling crimson glow!

Blood-red light surged to the heavens!

The deep, heavy black light receded inch by inch. In the blink of an eye, a brilliant, blood-red ring slowly revolved around Xiao Dong like a blood moon at sunset. Its aura was enough to make every beast in the Star Dou Great Forest tremble and submit!

A hundred thousand years!

A genuine red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!

An indescribably terrifying pressure swept outward, blasting the dense pink Poison Miasma from the surrounding area!

"Haha, it worked!"

Feeling the unmistakable pressure of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast encircling him, Xiao Dong threw back his head and laughed.

His idea had been proven perfectly!

So what if a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring was supposedly a once-in-a-lifetime find? So what if Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were hard to hunt? With the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame in his hands, all he needed were enough Soul Beasts to serve as fuel. A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring was merely a toy he could make at will!

With a thought, Xiao Dong carefully examined the Third Soul Ring he had forcibly raised to the hundred-thousand-year level.

The Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox's original ability had undergone a complete transformation when the ring crossed that threshold!

Hundred-thousand-year Third Soul Skill: Mental Control!

It could move mountains and command peaks from afar with invisible spiritual power. More terrifying still, as long as an opponent's mental cultivation was weaker than Xiao Dong's, his spiritual power could slip unnoticed into the depths of their consciousness and manipulate their thoughts, nerves, and bodily movements like a puppet on strings!

Against proud and arrogant enemies, such a skill would undoubtedly be terrifying.

And if he used it to subdue aloof beauties and alluring women, he could invade their minds directly, make those exquisite creatures who usually looked down on everyone shed every defense, and obediently perform any shameful, enticing act he wished in bed...

At the thought, Xiao Dong's lips lifted of their own accord into a sinister smile that would make anyone shudder.

"This Soul Skill really is something..."

Xiao Dong savored the dazzling blood-red Soul Ring beneath his feet, then lowered his gaze to his Second Soul Ring, which still stood at eighty thousand years.

If this heaven-defying method could push his Third Soul Ring past a hundred thousand years, then his Second Soul Skill, Destruction Death Ray, could surely be raised the same way!

"But raising the Second Soul Ring's age bit by bit isn't the priority right now."

Xiao Dong let out a long breath, a sharp gleam flickering deep in his dark eyes.

His body was strong enough, and he had not felt the slightest obstruction or strain on his meridians. Why not press his advantage and obtain his Fourth Soul Ring here in the Star Dou Great Forest as well?!

Once he absorbed the Fourth Soul Ring and advanced to the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor realm, the Dou Ling-level seal on the Xiao Yan Inheritance deep within his mind would naturally open!

His mind made up, Xiao Dong wasted no time.

Hum!

Waves rose once more across his vast Sea of Consciousness. Super Vision and Spiritual Detection surged forth together, sweeping the Core Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest across a terrifyingly wide area.

After only a few minutes of that overwhelming search, Xiao Dong's half-closed eyes snapped open. His gaze fixed on a dark ravine among ancient trees several miles away.

There, a giant lizard-like Ferocious Beast over a dozen yards long, its body covered in strange black growths, crouched beside a deep mire. A huge gray-white vertical eye in its forehead gleamed coldly.

A top-tier Mental Attribute Soul Beast with fifty thousand years of cultivation: the Netherworld Demon-Eyed Lizard!

"Fifty thousand years is a little less than that Purple Spirit Lynx King had, but no matter. I have the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. I can catch a few more Soul Beasts later and devour their origins. Raising this Soul Ring to a hundred thousand years will be easy."

A smile touched Xiao Dong's lips. He shifted, about to dash away, but his gaze happened to fall on the two enormous Ferocious Beast corpses on the ground.

The thirty-thousand-year Azure Flame Demon Eagle and the seventy-thousand-year Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox.

Though both high-level Soul Beasts were dead, their blood, tough bones, and pure marrow remained intact.

"Perfect. I can try out this new hundred-thousand-year Third Soul Skill..."

At a thought, the Sea of Consciousness deep within Xiao Dong's Mud Pill Palace surged. A giant hand of spiritual power reached out from the void.

"Rise!"

At Xiao Dong's mental command, the enormous bodies of the Azure Flame Demon Eagle and Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox, weighing tens of thousands of pounds, floated into the air without resistance. Held by that terrifying spiritual power, they hovered steadily behind him.

That was not all. Xiao Dong lightly tapped the air with his toe, and his spiritual power shot out once more. From several miles away, it dragged over the massive remains of the eighty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King he had killed earlier with Heat Vision. The three colossal Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast corpses, each like a small hill, hung neatly in the air behind him.

If ordinary Soul Masters saw such a sight, the sheer shock of it would probably make them collapse on the spot.

"The blood and marrow of high-level Soul Beasts will make superb ingredients for refining high-level pills later. As for the Azure Flame Demon Eagle's perfectly preserved pair of wind-and-thunder wings..."

Xiao Dong studied the huge wings behind him, as hard as tempered steel and wreathed in blue flames. A knowing smile curved his lips.