With Xu Yang and Dugu Yan's return, life for their little team settled back into its regular routine.
Cultivation, training, making Soul Tools—the same life repeated itself over and over.
Yet Xu Yang did not find it dull. For some reason, there was now someone extra by his side: Dugu Yan.
Whenever Xu Yang rested or made Soul Tools, Dugu Yan would come over. She was also incredibly straightforward, making no attempt to hide her affection for him. This left Xu Yang—a single man who had lived two lives and no longer believed in love—somewhat at a loss.
What the hell is this supposed to be?!
With no other choice, Xu Yang could only pretend not to care and let Dugu Yan get close, so long as she did not interfere with him.
During the training that followed, Yu Tianheng and the others also noticed the abnormal Soul Power Levels of Xu Yang and Dugu Yan. Especially after seeing Xu Yang's absurd Soul Ring configuration, their mouths hung open wide enough to fit a ball inside.
They simply could not believe that someone could achieve a Ten Thousand Year Third Soul Ring.
Even if someone ate Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber like food, a Ten Thousand Year Third Soul Ring should have been impossible. The Mental Shock brought by a ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast alone was not something a prospective Soul Elder could withstand. Besides, this prospective Soul Elder had risen from level twenty-three to level thirty in a short period of time. His Spiritual Power definitely should not have been sufficient.
Of course, they also guessed that Xu Yang and Dugu Yan had hidden something from them. Otherwise, the two would not have taken leave at roughly the same time, returned at roughly the same time, and both broken through