"Then I'll start refining it!"
Unable to wait any longer, Dugu Yan immediately tossed the Soul Spirit Pill into her mouth and began refining it.
Soon, a familiar sensation slowly washed over her.
It felt much like absorbing a soul ring.
Dugu Yan was not surprised by this.
After all, Ji Yang had already told her that a soul spirit could provide a Soul Master with multiple soul rings.
Calling a soul spirit another kind of soul ring would not be wrong!
Naturally, refining a soul spirit felt much like absorbing a soul ring.
She could even sense that this was a thousand-year soul spirit whose age was perfectly suited to her third soul ring.
She continued refining it, and about half an hour later, Dugu Yan easily finished refining the Soul Spirit Pill.
Once she finished refining the Soul Spirit Pill, her third soul ring-a purple thousand-year soul ring-appeared around her body.
No, it was not just her third soul ring.
As she gained her third soul ring and officially entered the Soul Elder realm, her soul power level continued rising at an astonishing rate.
In the blink of an eye, her soul power level shot all the way up to Level 40 Quasi-Soul Ancestor.
Then, with the soul spirit's help, Dugu Yan's fourth soul ring appeared as well.
Her soul power level finally stopped at Level 42 Soul Ancestor.
A massive increase of twelve levels of soul power was nothing short of a miracle for Dugu Yan.
Yet this miracle was entirely natural.
The reason was simple!
Dugu Yan had only recently finished refining two Earth Dragon Golden Melon Pills. Those pills also had the astonishing effect of raising soul power by several levels, so a huge increase in her soul power level was inevitable.
However, since Dugu Yan had not yet absorbed her third soul ring, her soul power level had remained stuck at thirty.
Now that she had absorbed a soul spirit and gained her third soul ring, her soul power level naturally soared like a rocket taking off, smashing through every barrier in its path.
It was only because this earth-attribute lesser dragon's soul spirit was merely a thousand years old. Otherwise, raising Dugu Yan's soul power level by another two or three levels would have been no problem.
"I... I became a Soul Ancestor?!"
Before she could even sense the soul spirit inside her, Dugu Yan was utterly stunned by the enormous leap in her soul power cultivation.
She had clearly been just a Level 30 Quasi-Soul Elder a moment ago. How had she become a Soul Ancestor?
"Earth Dragon Golden Melon Pills don't just evolve your martial soul. They also help raise your soul power. You simply hadn't absorbed a soul ring yet, so your soul power level showed no change."
"Now that you have your third soul ring, your soul power level naturally began soaring. Add in the benefits of the third soul ring itself, and it's perfectly normal for you to break through to Soul Ancestor, then reach Level 42 Soul Ancestor with your soul spirit's help."
Ji Yang spoke as though it were nothing unusual.
"Is that so?"
Only then did Dugu Yan understand the reason.
That was right!
If that was the case, it made much more sense.
Because of this, Dugu Yan felt even more grateful to Ji Yang.
Without the Earth Dragon Golden Melon Pills and Soul Spirit Pill Ji Yang had given her, she would probably have had to cultivate step by step until she was at least twenty-three or twenty-four to reach her current soul power level.
This was an immense kindness.
"Thank you..."
Dugu Yan thanked Ji Yang again.
"It's nothing. Keep taking the pills!"
Ji Yang waved his hand, motioning for Dugu Yan to take the Soul Blood Pill next.
"Mm!"
Dugu Yan composed herself.
Then she swallowed the Soul Blood Pill in her hand and began absorbing and refining it.
This time, the sensation was completely different from when she had absorbed the Soul Spirit Pill.
If absorbing the Soul Spirit Pill felt like absorbing a soul ring, then absorbing the Soul Blood Pill felt as though all the blood in her body was being replaced.
The sensation was comfortable, yet intermittent stabs of pain accompanied it.
At its worst, the pain seemed to pierce into her very marrow.
It nearly made Dugu Yan cry out in pain, and she even came close to fainting.
Fortunately, she had enough willpower to grit her teeth and endure it.
Once she had absorbed all the Soul Blood Pill's medicinal power, Dugu Yan finally had a chance to catch her breath.
But before she could actually do so, the first thing to change was her soul spirit.
Her lesser dragon soul spirit, which had originally looked like a lizard, had now become a True Dragon shaped like a miniature mountain.
This True Dragon also looked remarkably like her Earth Saint Dragon martial soul.
"My soul spirit evolved into an Earth Saint Dragon too?!"
Dugu Yan was both shocked and delighted.
With an Earth Saint Dragon martial soul and an Earth Saint Dragon soul spirit together, the improvement she would gain was easy to imagine.
Perhaps her soul power level had not changed because of this, but her strength was undergoing a fundamental transformation.
This was especially true of the third and fourth soul skills she had only just acquired.
Now, as her lesser dragon soul spirit evolved, those two soul skills also became soul skills exclusive to the Earth Saint Dragon.
These two new soul skills were countless times more powerful than the previous ones, and they matched her Earth Saint Dragon martial soul even more perfectly.
The saying that a beast martial soul could unleash more of its own power by absorbing a soul ring from a soul beast of the same kind was proving more valuable by the moment.
"Get properly acquainted with your new soul spirit and soul skills. Later, I'll give you pills to improve your physical strength, spiritual power, and soul ring ages. Your soul spirit and soul skills will become even stronger then!"
Ji Yang told Dugu Yan.
"Yes!"
Dugu Yan's heart brimmed with anticipation.
She did not doubt his words in the slightest.
Still, she was somewhat astonished.
So Ji Yang even had pills that could increase the ages of soul rings!
Thinking back to the hundred thousand year soul rings Ji Yang had promised them at the beginning, perhaps these pills were the key.
At that thought, Dugu Yan's eyes shone as she looked at Ji Yang.
"Brother Yang, I'm level sixty-five!"
Before Ji Yang or Dugu Yan could say anything more,
Xiao Wu's delighted voice rang out.
She had finally finished absorbing her Lovesick Heartbreak Red Pill.
It was not just Xiao Wu. After her, Er Ming had also awakened, having finished refining his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Pill.
Of their two pills, one mainly increased soul power, while the other mainly strengthened the body, so it was normal for them to absorb them relatively quickly.
Had Dugu Yan not started taking her pills first, they would have finished before her.
"My cultivation age increased by about thirty to fifty thousand years. Now I'm roughly on par with a level ninety-seven Super Douluo!"
Er Ming's excited voice followed soon after Xiao Wu's.
The singular velvet sky chrysanthemum also had the effect of increasing soul power, though the increase was not large.
However, because Ji Yang's Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul had refined it into a pill, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Pill's soul power enhancement was quite substantial.
Besides, Er Ming's strength had already been at the peak of Level 96, so it was hardly surprising that he had ridden that momentum to break through to level ninety-seven.
At least, Ji Yang was not particularly surprised.
Judging by this, Da Ming was also certain to break through to a level comparable to a level ninety-seven Super Douluo, and his final cultivation age would be even greater than Er Ming's.
It probably would not be long before Da Ming and Er Ming began charging toward becoming three-hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.
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