As time trickled by, the two scar-faced men absorbed every last bit of the Soul Spirit Pills' power.
Almost simultaneously, their Martial Souls manifested and possessed their bodies.
Their Martial Souls were a Blood Wolf and a Spotted Leopard respectively. Setting aside their attributes, their Martial Souls were quite compatible in species with the Soul Spirit Pills they had absorbed.
Clearly, the Titan Giant Ape had deliberately chosen those two Soul Beasts, the Starwind Wolf and the Moonshadow Leopard.
The Life Sunflower's suitability for Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul was probably no coincidence either, but another result of the Titan Giant Ape's careful matching.
Of course, that was not the crucial point.
The crucial point was that a fourth Soul Ring had appeared around the scar-faced man with the Blood Wolf Martial Soul, while a fifth Soul Ring had appeared around the one with the Spotted Leopard Martial Soul.
"Five thousand years?!"
"Ten thousand years?!"
After sensing the approximate ages of the Soul Rings they had absorbed, both scar-faced men were overjoyed.
These were almost perfectly suited to the Soul Ring ages they needed.
Had they done it themselves, they might not even have found such suitable Soul Beasts, let alone successfully killed them.
Because of that, they actually felt a little grateful to Ji Yang without realizing it.
"Make your Soul Spirits manifest!"
Before the two scar-faced men could continue celebrating, Ji Yang gave them another order.
"...Yes!"
Facing the Titan Giant Ape's fist as he brandished it threateningly, the two scar-faced men answered meekly.
But weren't those Soul Spirits just Soul Rings?
Hadn't their Soul Rings already manifested?
"Huh?"
As they grumbled inwardly, the two scar-faced men soon noticed something strange.
At that moment, their fourth and fifth Soul Rings suddenly came alive.
The Soul Rings they had just obtained actually transformed into a Starwind Wolf and a Moonshadow Leopard, appearing beside their bodies.
"This..."
"Are these Soul Beasts?"
The two scar-faced men were utterly shocked.
How were their Soul Rings formed from Soul Beasts?
Or rather, how had their Soul Rings turned into Soul Beasts?
Putting this together with the Soul Spirits Ji Yang had mentioned at the start, were these what he had meant?
But that raised a question.
What exactly were Soul Spirits?
"Tsk, tsk, tsk-"
"Even though I've already seen Sister Xiao Wu's Soul Spirit, seeing other Soul Spirits again really does feel different."
The Titan Giant Ape scratched his simian head, marveling in amazement.
"Yes. Now that we've seen this, Soul Spirit Pills truly are miraculous!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python sighed in wonder as well.
Now that the Soul Spirit Pills' basic effects had been verified, the next thing to test was another effect of the Soul Spirits formed from them.
"You two, each swear upon your own Martial Soul: 'Starwind Wolf/Moonshadow Leopard Soul Spirit, I hereby formally release you and return your freedom!'"
Ji Yang ordered them again.
"Yes!"
The two scar-faced men responded immediately.
Though they were awed by the wonders of Soul Spirits, they were also somewhat afraid that their own Soul Spirits might hurt them.
After all, having a Soul Beast living in their Soul Ring, inside their own body, was truly frightening.
Thus, the two scar-faced men began swearing as Ji Yang had instructed.
"Starwind Wolf Soul Spirit, I hereby formally release you and return your freedom."
"Moonshadow Leopard Soul Spirit, I hereby formally release you and return your freedom."
The two scar-faced men formally swore their oaths.
Hum...
As the two scar-faced men finished their oaths, their Starwind Wolf and Moonshadow Leopard Soul Spirits began slowly taking physical form.
Their connections to the two scar-faced men were also rapidly severed, restoring their freedom.
Before long, the Starwind Wolf and Moonshadow Leopard regained their Soul Beast bodies, completing their resurrection.
Their resurrection caused the Soul Power Levels of the two scar-faced men, who had lost their fourth and fifth Soul Rings, to begin falling.
Their Soul Power Levels, which had risen to forty-one and fifty-one respectively, fell back to forty and fifty. They nearly dropped below even those levels, returning to their previous Soul Elder and Soul Ancestor realms.
This sudden change shocked the two scar-faced men, and the immense drain from losing their Soul Spirits left their faces deathly pale and their bodies rather weak.
However, neither Ji Yang nor the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape cared about that in the slightest.
Ji Yang even seized the moment of their weakness, enlarging his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul to engulf them and refine them within it.
By the time the refinement ended, the two scar-faced men had each turned into several different pills without even managing a single scream.
Among those pills were several that Ji Yang recognized.
There were Soul Power Pills refined from the two scar-faced men's Soul Power cultivation, Soul Body Pills refined from their flesh, Soul God Pills refined from their spiritual power, and several Soul Ring Pills and Soul Skill Pills refined from the Soul Rings they had each absorbed.
They simply lacked any unusual bloodlines and had never absorbed any corresponding Soul Bones. Otherwise, their bodies might also have yielded the corresponding Soul Blood Pills and Soul Bone Pills.
This meant that pills refined from Soul Masters corresponded to those refined from Soul Beasts. The two were almost identical.
This discovery surprised Ji Yang a little, though he also felt it made sense.
Still, if there was any crucial difference between the two, it was probably that human Soul Masters could hardly be refined into corresponding Soul Spirit Pills!
What was more, a Soul Master's own Martial Soul could be refined into a corresponding Martial Soul Pill, allowing whoever refined and absorbed it to awaken that Martial Soul.
They could even obtain a second or third Martial Soul this way.
Furthermore, Martial Souls obtained in this manner could be passed down from generation to generation.
Ji Yang was more than pleasantly surprised by this.
With that, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm seemed far less important.
His remaining value seemed to lie only in his Soul Ring and Spiritual Origin.
"Er Ming, did you see that? They really came back to life! They turned from Soul Spirits back into Soul Beasts!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python paid no attention to the deaths of the two scar-faced men. What mattered far more to him and the Titan Giant Ape was the very thing they had been watching all along.
"Yes, Da Ming! They really came back to life! It's real! This human called Ji Yang didn't lie to us!"
The Titan Giant Ape was equally exhilarated.
The truth was right before their eyes. How could they not believe it?
And since Soul Spirits truly could be resurrected as Soul Beasts, then surely the claim that they could use Ji Yang's pills to evolve their bloodlines and increase their cultivation age could not be false either.
That excited them even more!
From that moment on, the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape's trust in Ji Yang soared even higher, approaching complete trust.
"Our experiments aren't over yet!"
Watching the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape's excitement, Ji Yang found it rather amusing and reminded them.
The final experiment was, of course, to let them personally experience the improvements brought by Soul Power Pills, Soul Body Pills, Soul God Pills, and the like.
As for the bloodline improvements and even bloodline evolution brought by Soul Blood Pills, those would have to wait until they found more suitable Soul Beasts.
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