Once they confirmed that Ye Guyi was a student at a school in the empire, they had no further doubts.
Ye Guyi naturally joined Huo Yuhao and the others' soul hunting team. After all, she was the only one left, and returning to the empire from the Evil Demon Great Forest alone would be no easy task.
Although Xuan Ziwen's group looked like a sizable force, everyone else was merely along for the ride. Huo Yuhao was the only one who needed a soul ring. If all went smoothly, they could return that very day.
As things stood, however, they really had been lucky.
Only two hours after meeting Ye Guyi, they found an Evil Eye with nearly five thousand years of cultivation on the forest's outskirts.
"Huo Yuhao, should we keep looking? A five-thousand-year-old Evil Eye is something a Soul Ancestor can only absorb when breaking through to Soul King."
Huo Yuhao shook his head repeatedly, a confident smile appearing on his face. "Teacher Xuan, I have an ultimate martial soul and a very strong physique. Absorbing a five-thousand-year-old soul beast's ring is well within my abilities."
Was that so?
Seeing Huo Yuhao insist again and again, Xuan Ziwen stopped hesitating. Since Huo Yuhao said there was no problem, there probably wasn't one.
It was only a thousand-year soul ring, after all. It was hardly likely to cost him his life. He trusted Huo Yuhao to know his limits. Soul masters with ultimate martial souls were exceptionally unusual, and he knew something about them himself.
"Evil Eyes have powerful spiritual strength, so soul engineers usually make specially designed spiritual defense nets to capture them in one sweep."
"Like this."
As soon as Xuan Ziwen finished speaking, six self-propelled Soul Guidance Robots surrounded the five-thousand-year-old Evil Eye. Intense red light