One day.
Outside the gates of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
A tall, slender woman in a fitted white outfit stood at the corner of a wall, her pink hair tied into a ponytail.
She watched the students coming and going through the gates.
A faint trace of excitement stirred in Di Qiu'er's otherwise tranquil eyes.
The newcomer was none other than—
The Emperor Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
Setting out from the Star Dou Great Forest, she had traveled a long way and crossed the Mingdou Mountains before finally arriving here.
Her purpose for this journey was simple.
To attend school!
Ever since her last close contact with Chen Mo.
She had gained access to his memories.
Through those memories, she had learned about many powerful Soul Tools.
These Soul Tools possessed tremendous destructive power!
Meanwhile, the conflict between human Soul Masters and Soul Beasts had grown increasingly fierce, almost to the point of becoming irreconcilable.
The reason was simple: for Soul Masters to become stronger, they had to hunt Soul Beasts and obtain Soul Rings!
By contrast, for Soul Beasts to grow stronger.
Beyond talent, luck, bloodline, resources, and the like, what mattered even more was time!
Take hundred-year lone bamboo, for example.
Barring any accidents, for an ordinary stalk of lone bamboo to reach that stage.
It would need over a hundred years!
Yet killing it took only an instant, and the human Soul Master hunting it did not even need to be particularly powerful.
Among human Soul Masters, there were also many who needed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
It represented a true qualitative leap in Soul Rings.
Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings were extremely rare, and even when one was available, obtaining it was no