Night spread across the land. A few faint wisps of mist drifted through the night sky, as though veiling the darkness in gauze and lending it the hazy beauty of mist over water.
The darkness faded with time. When the first streak of fish-belly white appeared in the distant sky, Tang San slipped out, climbed onto the dormitory roof, and prepared to cultivate his Purple Demon Eye.
On the roof, however, he saw someone sitting there, staring intently at him. It was Yu Dashi.
"Teacher, when did you arrive?" Tang San asked in delighted surprise.
Yu Dashi's expression suddenly darkened. "When I arrived is a trivial matter!"
"What matters is that I taught you the age limit for the Third Soul Ring, didn't I?"
Tang San froze for a moment, then answered, "1,760 years."
Yu Dashi snorted coldly. "Since you knew that, how dare you act so recklessly? If you hadn't absorbed it successfully, you'd be scattered all over the ground by now! No one could even piece you back together."
What the fuck do you mean, no one could piece me back together? You have no idea how smoothly I absorbed that Soul Ring!
Although that was what he thought, Tang San said something else aloud.
"But Teacher, there's a female student at Shrek Academy named Zhu Zhuqing. Her second ring is a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and her third ring's age exceeds 1,760 years too."
Having surpassed the limit to absorb a 2,000-year Soul Ring, Tang San had naturally exchanged a few words with Zhu Zhuqing, who had also absorbed Soul Rings beyond the age limit.
Or rather, the moment Tang San saw that Zhu Zhuqing's Second Soul Ring was purple, he had already resolved to absorb a Soul Ring beyond the limit.
*After all, why should you,