Level 44.
Both Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong could accurately determine a Soul Master's soul power level through their Glazed Heart Mirror and Ice Mirror soul skills.
Jiang Hai's soul power had now reached Level 44-and the peak of Level 44 at that, just one step away from Level 45. The Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King's cicada molt and soul ring had raised his soul power by nearly five levels, and those were five levels beyond Level 40.
A single soul ring and a single cicada molt had carried Jiang Hai almost halfway through the Soul Ancestor realm, nearly matching one or two years of painstaking cultivation for others.
Every soul ring Jiang Hai absorbed exceeded his limits. The process was fraught with danger, but the benefits were enormous. The reason he could surpass several years of others' painstaking effort in such a short time was precisely that he exceeded his limits with every soul ring he absorbed, reducing the time he needed to accumulate soul power afterward by more than a third.
Yet more than the increase in his soul power, Jiang Hai cared about his newly acquired fourth soul skill and fifth coffin.
His guess had been correct. The Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King's corpse had indeed fused with the three soul bones, giving rise to a new coffin: the Mystic Ice Coffin.
The Bronze Coffin, Golden Coffin, Crystal Coffin, Azure Jade Coffin, and newly formed Mystic Ice Coffin had turned Jiang Hai's martial soul into a Fivefold Coffin. Its weight had doubled again, reaching twelve thousand jin. Such a weight was terrifying among martial souls; even the Clear Sky Hammer, the world's foremost tool martial soul, renowned for its offensive power, normally weighed only five hundred jin.
The appearance of the Mystic Ice Coffin had enhanced every