The Soul Ring above the Seven Rings Rouge Snake's corpse gradually dissipated, while the second Soul Ring beside Jiang Hai solidified once more.
The purple of the deep-purple Soul Ring had grown even richer, with a faint trace of black in its depths. Once the purple turned completely black, it would be a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
Nine thousand five hundred years.
The Seven Rings Rouge Snake's Soul Ring had strengthened Jiang Hai's Glazed Heart Mirror Soul Ring far more than he had expected. This was also his first time using a Soul Beast's Soul Ring to increase the age of his own, and the conversion efficiency was far higher than when he used Soul Masters' Soul Rings.
Although the combined ages of the Soul Rings belonging to the Soul Masters who had died before Jiang Hai exceeded that of the fifty-thousand-year Seven Rings Rouge Snake, the increase they had given his Soul Ring was actually smaller.
And this Soul Refining Art could well be called a calamity for Soul Beasts.
In theory, a Soul Master-even a Titled Douluo-only needed to hunt nine Soul Beasts in a lifetime to acquire Soul Rings. But possessing the Soul Refining Art meant there was no limit to the demand for Soul Beasts' Soul Rings. Human hearts were greedy. Jiang Hai only needed to make the Soul Refining Art public to unleash an unimaginable upheaval upon the world of Soul Beasts.
A trace of wariness also appeared in the White Sea Eagle's golden eyes, as though the eagle, too, had realized how dangerous this secret art was.
Jiang Hai patted the White Sea Eagle's wing and smiled. "Don't worry. Every power can be used for good or evil. I won't abandon this secret art, but I won't slaughter Soul Beasts indiscriminately to cultivate