Level 50 Quasi-Soul King (Please Keep Reading)

Sizzle!

Two beams of destructive light burst from the void, so fast they surpassed the limits of nerve perception. In the next instant, they pierced the Dark Night Demon Tiger squarely through the brow!

Bang!

The enormous tiger flew backward, powerless, and crashed heavily to the ground. Its life was extinguished. Only then did a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, black as ink, slowly rise from its corpse.

Xiao Dong drifted down from midair and swept his sleeve. The wisp of milky-white Purifying Lotus Demon Flame in his palm roared forth and swallowed the twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring whole.

Hiss!

Under the divine flame's furious purification, it took barely a dozen breaths to erase every violent impurity and lingering obsession from the Soul Ring. What remained was a walnut-sized mass of pure origin energy, clear as crystal.

"Merge!"

Xiao Dong's gaze sharpened. He pressed his palm toward the air, and the dark, eighty-thousand-year Second Soul Ring that had belonged to the Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King slowly rose from beneath his feet.

Guided by the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, the pure energy refined from the twenty-thousand-year Soul Beast met almost no resistance. It flowed along the Soul Ring's edge and was forced straight into it!

Eighty thousand years, plus another twenty thousand!

Boom!

In that instant, the mounting quantity triggered a thunderous leap in quality!

The entire ring, once dark and fathomless, erupted with a towering scarlet radiance!

A thick, blood-colored glow swept outward like sunset clouds filling the sky, staining even the surrounding rocks an eerie red. The deep black receded inch by inch until it had become a dazzling Soul Ring of pure blood-red, radiating boundless pressure!

The Second Soul Ring had successfully advanced to one hundred thousand years!

As its age transformed, the power of its original Second Soul Skill, Destruction Death Ray, clearly surged to an astonishing level as well.

"Haha! That's more like it!"

Feeling the second hundred-thousand-year red Soul Ring circling beside him, Xiao Dong could not help laughing in exhilaration. Yet the fire in his eyes only burned brighter.

Now that his Second Soul Ring had advanced, the Fourth Soul Ring he had just absorbed could not be left behind!

With that thought, Xiao Dong moved without the slightest hesitation. He stepped into the air once more, opened his Heavenly Eye of Penetration, and pushed Spiritual Detection to its limit, searching every living thing around him.

After roughly ten minutes, Xiao Dong abruptly stopped above a bubbling crack in the molten rock.

Below him, a gigantic lava turtle lounged in a river of scorching magma. Heavy crimson bone armor covered its body, which resembled a small island.

A Soul Beast with a full fifty thousand years of cultivation: a Red-Armored Flame Crystal Turtle!

"You're the one!"

A cold smile curved Xiao Dong's lips. He changed direction sharply in midair and unleashed Three Thousand Lightning Movement. Turning into a sky full of lightning-wreathed afterimages, he ignored the magma's heat of several thousand degrees and appeared directly above the giant turtle's head as if he had teleported!

"Die!"

Xiao Dong clenched his right fist. With the hidden force of Eight Extremes Collapse behind his monstrous strength, he drove a single unadorned punch into the giant turtle's skull, harder than refined iron!

Crack!

Bone shattered with a sharp report almost the same instant the violent hidden force detonated. The Red-Armored Flame Crystal Turtle's thick skull, sturdy enough to withstand a Soul Saint's full-power strike, caved in and burst apart. The force shook even its brain into bloody pulp!

A deep-black, fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring slowly floated up from the magma.

Xiao Dong's expression remained calm. He casually lifted the enormous turtle corpse into the air with his mental power, then sent out the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. With practiced mastery, he swiftly broke down and purified the fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring.

Its vast, flawless origin energy took shape once more. Under Xiao Dong's mental control, it flowed smoothly into the Fourth Soul Ring of the Netherworld Demon-Eyed Lizard beneath his feet, which he had absorbed only recently!

Fifty thousand years, plus another fifty thousand!

Hum!

A blinding blood-red glow tore across the sky once more!

The deep black was swallowed and transformed by the thick scarlet light in an instant. The pressure of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring swept outward. His Fourth Soul Ring, too, had defied the heavens and crossed the supreme threshold of a full hundred thousand years!

As the two high-level Soul Rings advanced one after the other, the tremendous energy they fed back into him sent a roar through Xiao Dong's meridians like rivers bursting their banks!

His cultivation, already at level forty-seven as a high-level Soul Ancestor, soared under that ocean of violent energy, breaking through every barrier in its path!

Level forty-eight!

Level forty-nine!

Rumble!

The stubborn bottleneck at level forty-nine did not last even half a second. The vast flood of Soul Power smashed it into dust!

Level fifty!

A Four-Ring Soul Ancestor at the pinnacle: a level-fifty Quasi-Soul King!

"Whew..."

Xiao Dong exhaled a stream of white mist and slowly opened his eyes. Deep crimson and golden light flickered within them as though tangible. Suspended in midair, he looked down at the four terrifying, miraculous rings slowly revolving beneath his feet.

The First Soul Ring was holy platinum, encircled by ten golden divine patterns: the Million-Year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!

The Second Soul Ring was a rich, eerie scarlet, rippling with divine light of destruction: the hundred-thousand-year Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King!

The Third Soul Ring was a dazzling blood-red, wreathed in invisible ripples of spiritual power: the hundred-thousand-year Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox!

The Fourth Soul Ring was a vast, heavy blood-red, bearing an intensely venomous, crushing pressure: the hundred-thousand-year Netherworld Demon-Eyed Lizard!

One platinum ring, three blood-red rings!

If such an unparalleled combination appeared before the world, it would scare the great empires of the Douluo Continent, its hidden sects, and even the old monsters of the Offering Hall half to death. Yet those rings truly circled a boy only in his teens!

"A full fifty levels..."

Feeling the explosive Soul Power within him, so abundant it seemed ready to overflow, Xiao Dong could not help throwing back his head and laughing. His laughter rang with boldness and pride.

He was now a genuine level-fifty Quasi-Soul King at the pinnacle!

That meant he needed only to hunt another Soul Beast somewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest and absorb a Fifth Soul Ring. Then he would enter the ranks of Five-Ring Soul Kings with strength that defied belief!

But what made Xiao Dong's blood run hotter still was the sixth seal on the Xiao Yan Inheritance deep within his mind. Once he truly broke through to the Soul King realm, it would naturally unlock completely!

A Dou Wang-level inheritance!

Xiao Dong clearly remembered the astonishing heights the Flame Emperor Xiao Yan's spiritual perception and alchemy had reached when he was a Peak Dou Wang!

A full Sixth-Grade Alchemist!

On the Dou Qi Continent, a Sixth-Grade Pill was a supreme treasure. Its maker could be called a Pill Emperor and could even make a Dou Huang expert set aside his pride and willingly serve!

If Xiao Dong mastered the Sixth-Grade Alchemy Technique, then Dou Ling Pills, Emperor's Extreme Pills, Calamity-Breaking Pills... Even the peerless old monsters of the Douluo Continent whose lifespans were nearly spent and who remained stuck at the Titled Douluo bottleneck would obediently kneel before him and pledge their allegiance if he gave them a single Sixth-Grade Pill!

"Now that I've reached level fifty, I might as well claim my Fifth Soul Ring and the Sixth-Grade Alchemy Technique today too!"

The young man slowly clenched his fists, unable to hide the fierce excitement and wild confidence on his face.