The Soul Beasts were racking their brains for a way to deal with Shrek, while Shrek's people were hurrying to recover the Soul Rings below the battlements.
The Soul Beasts killed in this second surprise assault by the beast tide had generally been of higher ranks. Thousand-Year Soul Rings and even Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings were a common sight. Moreover, Xuan Ziwen had stockpiled plenty of Soul Ring collectors early on, and was now leading students around in soul-powered all-terrain vehicles to gather Soul Rings.
When a Soul Beast was killed by a Soul Tool, as long as the tool's internal structure had undergone special modifications to erase its own aura, the Soul Ring produced after the beast's death would be ownerless.
Once stored in a Soul Ring storage device, it could be provided to any Soul Master who needed it to absorb.
Thousand-Year Soul Rings were valuable to the Shrek Academy Outer Court disciples, to say nothing of Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
Demand from the Academy would not be particularly high. After all, if students reached a bottleneck in their cultivation while studying there, the Academy would support them in obtaining Soul Rings as soon as possible.
Within the Shrek City Defense Army, however, matters were not so simple.
The Shrek City Defense Army had three thousand Soul Masters, the vast majority of whom had either come out of the Shrek Outer Court or been eliminated from it.
Many had stayed in Shrek City to build up their seniority in the Shrek City Defense Army.
Among those three thousand Soul Masters, quite a few had reached bottlenecks in their cultivation.
They all came from Shrek and harbored some measure of pride. Their Soul Power cultivation would continue to grow through accumulated practice, so obtaining Soul Rings was