Ye Qing felt no shame about reaching the realm of form and substance two soul rings later than Huo Yuhao.
He was not a mental-type soul master to begin with. Since he did not focus on cultivating spiritual power, it was perfectly normal for his spiritual realm to fall short of Huo Yuhao's at the same level.
Besides, although Ye Qing had encountered many fortuitous opportunities, few had anything to do with spiritual power.
Huo Yuhao had only obtained spiritual power with form and substance at the Soul Emperor rank through the combined effects of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year origin, the Gold of Life, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, his body martial soul's Silver-Rank Second Awakening, the sacrifice of the Emperor Auspicious Beast Wang Qiu'er, and his own mental attribute.
Ye Qing had neither a mental-type body martial soul nor the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year spiritual origin. There was no shame in taking things a little slower.
Now that the final piece of the puzzle-his spiritual realm-had fallen into place, Ye Qing could rightfully declare:
"I-I have everything I need now!"
The soul ring and soul bone produced by the Sea Princess had exceptionally high ages, and this time, Ye Qing had not sealed away any of their power. He absorbed all the energy contained within them in its entirety, which caused this cultivation session to last nearly a full month.
When Ye Qing refined the final wisp of soul power in the soul ring, the enormous blood-red ring bearing six golden markings sank completely into his body.
At that moment, a scarlet pillar of light shot into the sky. At its center, Ye Qing's Holy Radiance Evil God Tiger martial soul automatically possessed him, and soul rings appeared around him one after another.
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