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Chapter 111: The semester ends
Even with Ma Xiaotao's cultivation, absorbing a seventy-thousand-year seventh soul ring was no easy feat. With the time spent returning to the academy added on, dusk had already fallen by the time they reached Shrek City.
Xuan Zi and Elder Song immediately returned to the Sea God Pavilion to report the gains from their trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to Mu En. Ma Xiaotao was equally eager to absorb the torso soul bone that the seventy-thousand-year Crimson Qiu had given her.
The extremely low drop rate of torso soul bones was inseparable from the stringent conditions required for them to form.
Usually, only top-tier soul beasts with powerful bodies and noble bloodlines had any chance of leaving one behind upon death. A torso soul bone had to contain most of the soul beast's bloodline power from when it was alive, which was precisely why it could enhance a human soul master's physique so effectively.
That Crimson Qiu's bloodline purity rivaled a true dragon's. Naturally, the torso soul bone it had dropped was among the very finest, its value even comparable to an ordinary Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
Strictly speaking, Ma Xiaotao's gains on this trip were no less than Ye Xixuan's.
Ye Xixuan and Zhang Lexuan, meanwhile, accompanied Vina to the north gate of Shrek City.
Having been away from Heaven Dou City for so long, Vina needed to return as soon as possible to report back.
In truth, her status was just as sensitive as Ye Xixuan's. To both the Heaven Dou Empire Royal Family and the Body Sect, she was irreplaceable. Coming to Shrek Academy in secret to see Ye Xixuan had already been quite a willful act on her part.
Fortunately, the final outcome had left her thoroughly