After Ye Lingling joined them.
In the blink of an eye, another few days passed.
Over those days, Ji Yang and the others lived an almost unchanging routine.
At least, that was true of Ji Yang himself.
When he was not cultivating, he was practicing his soul skills.
Whenever he had time, he would also spar a little with Xiao Wu.
However, against Xiao Wu's soul skills, which combined special mechanics with power boosts, he rarely managed to win. At best, he could surround himself with the flames of his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul and trade blows with Xiao Wu until they both went down.
As for Ye Lingling, being a healing-type soul master made it difficult for her to join in.
Although Ji Yang tried merging a Soul Skill Pill into Ye Lingling's soul ring during that time, it failed to give her an offensive soul skill. In the end, it was still assimilated into a healing soul skill of her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.
Not even her Life Sunflower soul spirit gained an additional soul skill from it.
Thus, when Ji Yang and Xiao Wu sparred, she could only watch from the sidelines or serve as their doctor afterward, healing them and helping them recover.
After spending these past few days together, Ye Lingling grew increasingly familiar with Ji Yang and Xiao Wu, and the distance she had felt before was gone.
Now that the knot in her heart had found a way to unravel, she became somewhat more cheerful as well, occasionally even striking up conversations with Ji Yang and Xiao Wu herself.
"I'm back!"
Another day passed.
Just as Ji Yang finished stabilizing his recent breakthrough and prepared to advance further to become a Level 20 Quasi-Soul Grandmaster.
Suddenly, the Titan Giant Ape's voice rang out from afar.
Then they saw him approach them, carrying a ten-thousand-year soul beast in each hand.
Over the past few days, although the Titan Giant Ape had been searching for soul beasts outside, he would occasionally toss a few of his captured soul beasts back to them from a distance.
The Sky Azure Bull Python did the same.
However, these were not the soul beasts the two of them truly needed. Rather, they were resources to stockpile pills for raising their cultivation.
They were also for Ji Yang and Xiao Wu to refine into pills for their own cultivation.
This time was no exception.
The difference was that he had brought the soul beasts back personally.
"Er Ming, you're back!"
Xiao Wu happily stepped forward to greet the Titan Giant Ape.
Before he could reply, her gaze had already turned toward the soul beasts in his hands, brimming with curiosity.
The soul beasts Da Ming and Er Ming had captured for them the previous few times had all been excellent. Surely these would be no different.
That filled her with anticipation.
After all, the pills refined from soul beasts were simply too irresistible!
In her case, her cultivation had made a remarkable breakthrough in just these few short days, rising straight from level fifteen when she first arrived in the Star Dou Great Forest to level eighteen.
She was almost catching up to Ji Yang's soul power level.
So much so that even Ye Lingling, whose soul power cultivation was the highest of the three, began feeling a sense of urgency, as though they were about to overtake her.
Fortunately, with the help of the various pills Ji Yang supplied, she had also made further breakthroughs.
Her soul power level had climbed all the way from level twenty-two, which she reached after absorbing the Soul Spirit Pill a few days earlier, to level twenty-four.
Naturally, just like Ji Yang, both girls owed their enormous breakthroughs to the Soul Power Pills and Soul Ring Pills.
The latter, in particular, contributed the most.
As their soul rings' ages also reached ten thousand years, their soul power levels soared step by step like rockets, bringing remarkable breakthroughs.
"Mm, I've brought you some very suitable soul beasts again this time!"
Looking at the expectant Sister Xiao Wu before him, the Titan Giant Ape answered with an honest, good-natured smile.
The two ten-thousand-year soul beasts he had brought back this time were a Fire Luan and a Lightning Rabbit.
In terms of attributes and species, they suited Ji Yang and Xiao Wu even better than the soul beasts the pair had previously tossed back.
As for Ye Lingling, since he still did not know she had joined Ji Yang and the others, he had not made any special effort to find a suitable soul beast for her.
"Thanks for all your hard work, Er Ming!"
Xiao Wu immediately grew even more delighted.
Ji Yang, who witnessed this as well, also wore a face full of joy.
The Phoenix bloodline within the Fire Luan was stronger than the Flame Bird's by who knew how many times.
Once he absorbed the Soul Blood Pill refined from the Fire Luan, his Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit would most likely undergo another transformation and evolution.
His soul skills would also improve further as a result.
"Then I'll get started!"
Under Xiao Wu's impatient gaze, Ji Yang summoned his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul and began refining pills using the ten-thousand-year Fire Luan and ten-thousand-year Lightning Rabbit as ingredients.
A short while later, a dozen or so pills appeared before Ji Yang and the others, one after another.
"No matter how many times I watch, it's still incredible. A deity's power really is beyond imagination!"
Ye Lingling marveled.
After she chose to join them, Ji Yang no longer hid his pill refining from her, so she also knew about his "God-Given Power"-this ability of the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace.
Because of that, she had even voluntarily sworn another oath, promising not to tell anyone.
"Exactly!"
Xiao Wu agreed.
To her, Ji Yang's Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul was equally inconceivable.
"Let's give Lingling all the pills this time, apart from the Soul Blood Pills, Soul Bone Pills, and Soul Skill Pills!"
Ji Yang looked at Xiao Wu, then at Ye Lingling as he spoke.
He was doing this because it was time for Ye Lingling to go home.
Unlike him, who had no family to turn to, or Xiao Wu, whose home was right here in the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Lingling had a home of her own and family waiting there.
She had only come to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain a suitable soul ring.
After obtaining her soul ring, she should have left the Star Dou Great Forest and returned home long ago.
Otherwise, her grandfather, Ye Renxin, would surely be very worried.
Moreover, if any of the soul master guards who had accompanied Ye Lingling to the Star Dou Great Forest had survived and already returned to the Benevolent Heart Clinic to report to Ye Renxin and explain what had happened.
By now, Ye Renxin might already be consumed with worry, frantically asking powerful acquaintances to hurry to the Star Dou Great Forest.
There were all sorts of possibilities like that!
To avoid causing trouble, Ye Lingling needed to go home first and let them know she was safe.
These pills would serve as a parting gift, allowing Ye Lingling to keep improving her cultivation and strength after returning home.
Besides, compared with having her remain in the Star Dou Great Forest, sending Ye Lingling home would also benefit their arrangements and plans more.
For instance, she could help collect whale rubber and befriend Dugu Yan, whom she did not yet know.
As for the former, although Ji Yang and the others no longer had much need for whale rubber, with vast quantities of Soul Body Pills to replace it later, they could still give it to others. Preparing some would be useful in any case.
As for the latter, it was naturally preparation for Dugu Bo's Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its immortal herbs.
Once they left the Star Dou Great Forest, their first destination would be the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"I have no objections!"
Hearing Ji Yang say this, Xiao Wu naturally had no objections.
She never left Ji Yang's side, so she would have no shortage of pills afterward. She could have as many as she wanted.
Ye Lingling, on the other hand, would find it difficult to obtain them once she left.
Only if Ye Lingling returned to the Star Dou Great Forest soon afterward could her supply of pills resume.
Thus, there was nothing wrong with giving Ye Lingling all the pills this time.
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