Ignoring everyone's astonished stares, Xiao Xiao snapped her fingers lightly.
The Giant Cauldron rose slightly, shrinking as it flew back into her hand and revealed the dying Blood Demon Wolf beneath it.
The next second, powerful soul power fluctuations surged around Xiao Xiao. Four soul rings as black as ink suddenly rose, pulsing slowly!
"F-four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings?!" the examiner cried out, his eyes filled with shock.
The spectator stands erupted. Even Yan Shaozhe, seated high above, abruptly straightened, a hint of solemnity and amazement flashing through his eyes.
"How is that possible? How old is she? How could she have four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings?!"
"That goes against the rules of a soul master's advancement!"
Zhu Lu covered her mouth and instinctively looked toward Tian Chen, disbelief filling her eyes.
Cui Yajie had said that Tian Chen was responsible for the changes to her appearance and Spirit Hall. Then could Xiao Xiao's soul rings also have been Tian Chen's doing...?!
If her suspicions were right, then perhaps things really were just as Cui Yajie had said, and she could free herself from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion!
"This little girl..."
Up above, Qian Duoduo pushed his glasses up his nose, his eyes behind the lenses filled with bewilderment.
"During the last Freshman Assessment, she clearly only had two hundred-year soul rings, and her soul power had only just passed rank twenty. It's only been one holiday, yet her soul power has already broken through rank forty, and all her soul rings have miraculously become ten-thousand-year ones?"
"That's not all, old Qian! Haven't you noticed? This little girl's martial soul is different from before!"
At those words, Qian Duoduo's gaze fell on the tiny cauldron in Xiao Xiao's hand.
Faint patterns of mountains, rivers, and the veins