He laid the Barbarian Elephant Staff, with its black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring attached, flat across his knees.
At once, the black light seemed to have finally found an outlet after a long wait.
The moment it sensed Chen Ping's Martial Soul, it surged toward him like a river bursting through its banks.
As the dense black light instantly enveloped his body, Chen Ping felt a tremendous torrent of heat abruptly pour into him.
Before he could react, that heat had already begun scorching his body like searing flames.
But this was not what worried Chen Ping most. What he feared was the force of the Soul Shock contained within this Soul Ring.
Huh?
The surging power of the Soul Ring flooded Chen Ping's body, making him feel as though he were about to burst. The intense pain made him spit out a mouthful of blood.
Even so, Chen Ping's reaction was one of bewilderment and relief.
Wasn't Soul Shock inevitable when absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring?
In just a few seconds, Chen Ping, who had instinctively chosen to trust Electrolux and risk absorbing this Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, figured out the key.
I still wasn't calm enough. At the crucial moment, I ended up falling into rigid dogma!
All along, Chen Ping had considered the Soul Shock that occurred when absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's Soul Ring in isolation, treating it as a mechanism that inevitably manifested during absorption.
But all it took was calming down and thinking a little to realize that absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring caused Soul Shock precisely because a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's soul had grown powerful enough to produce such an effect.
*If a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's soul power was already close to burning through its last drop