Chen Ping's suggestion was soon sent to the Inner Court, along with the Soul Tools in Zhongli Ren's Storage Soul Tool.
With any luck, the academy would probably glean something from those tokens and Soul Tools.
That, however, was no longer within the scope of Chen Ping's concerns.
For the first time in a long while, Chen Ping's life settled back into a peaceful routine. Apart from studying, eating, and resting, his busiest tasks were being dragged off by Ning Tian and Wu Feng from time to time to cook them a special meal, and preparing food for the Auspicious Beast every half month.
For that very reason, Chen Ping was happy to let Ning Tian and Wu Feng drag him away. He could use the two of them to test his dishes-a mutually beneficial arrangement.
During this time, Chen Ping also finally obtained his second Soul Ring after all its twists and turns.
A thousand-year Demon-Eyed Tree was extremely troublesome, and hunting one was no easier than hunting some ordinary ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
But Chen Ping was long past being the isolated, helpless boy he had once been. Against Qian Duoduo's Black Dragon Shield, the venom splashing from the Demon-Eyed Tree's flailing branches and its powerful spiritual intimidation Soul Skill were utterly ineffective, and it was soon subdued.
A thousand-year second ring!
The most immediate effect of absorbing such a beyond-limit Soul Ring was that Chen Ping's soul power level shot up three levels, jumping from twenty to twenty-three.
That was the benefit of absorbing a Soul Ring beyond the limit. The increase in level was not constrained by cultivation talent at all; the greater its age, the greater the actual increase in soul power level.
This gave Chen Ping a strange idea. If he qualified to absorb a