Looking at the deep black soul ring on Jiang Hai and the faint pressure it radiated, Ma Xiaotao was absolutely certain: it was a ten thousand year soul ring.
Although Ma Xiaotao had said Jiang Hai could try absorbing a ten thousand year soul ring as his third, she had actually thought a ring between eight and nine thousand years old would be best. After all, absorbing a ten thousand year soul ring was extremely dangerous even for a Soul Ancestor, let alone a Soul Elder.
Tang San, the founding ancestor of the Tang Sect, had managed to absorb a ten thousand year soul ring as his fourth, but he had two immortal herbs protecting his body. This was only Jiang Hai's third soul ring!
Besides the difficulty of absorbing a ten thousand year soul ring, there was another problem. Before leaving, Jiang Hai had not asked anyone to help him hunt soul beasts. A ten-thousand-year soul beast was equivalent to a human Soul King. In theory, there was absolutely no way Jiang Hai could have killed one with his own strength.
Ma Xiaotao calmed down, but the confusion in her eyes only deepened. "Tell me, what happened? How did you hunt down a ten-thousand-year soul beast? And before you left, you told me your soul power had only just reached level 29. It's practically impossible to cultivate your soul power to level 30 in a single month."
Faced with Ma Xiaotao's questions, Jiang Hai gave the answer he had prepared beforehand. "Sister Xiaotao, reaching level 30 actually had something to do with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. I have some talent with soul tools, and I've worked with them quite a bit, so they gave me a soul bone. It was absorbing that soul bone that let me