Two months later, inside the Sea God Pavilion.
Chen Ping sat quietly cross-legged in the very center of Mu En's room. Besides Mu En, Xuan Zi was also beside him.
Absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring at rank fifty was something no one had attempted in recorded history. The closest anyone had come to that record was Tang San ten thousand years ago, with a hundred-thousand-year sixth ring.
But even Tang San had only achieved that record through the sacrifice of Xiao Wu, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit. What Chen Ping was about to do, however, was genuinely absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as his fifth ring.
When Chen Ping brought this up, Mu En and Xuan Zi both initially thought they had grown old and misheard him because their ears no longer worked properly.
But when Chen Ping produced the Pearl from which Electrolux had already removed the excess energy, leaving just enough to create a hundred-thousand-year God-Given Soul Ring, not only was Xuan Zi dumbfounded, even Mu En sat up from his recliner.
A God-Given Soul Ring. This was a God-Given Soul Ring!
Although Mu En had often said he had already made his peace with things, the truth was that when he and Long Xiaoyao traveled the continent in their youth, they had often dreamed of reaching rank one hundred and becoming gods.
Unfortunately, dreams remained dreams. In the end, they had never managed to find a god's inheritance site and fulfill the long-cherished wish of the countless dazzling geniuses who had ultimately died helplessly of old age over those ten thousand years.
And after hearing Chen Ping's explanation and learning that this God-Given Soul Ring was actually one left over from more than ten thousand years ago, preserved by the Nine