``` [At twenty-two, your soul power level had already reached level 90.]
[You did not insist on obtaining the final Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, instead receiving several Soul Bones from the Ice Empress as compensation.]
[Under heavenly tribulation, soul beasts often perished utterly, their bodies and souls annihilated. Soul beasts that died in heavenly tribulations almost never left behind Soul Bones.]
[Soul Bones were useless to soul beasts to begin with, and the Ice Empress had never deliberately collected them. These few Soul Bones had mostly been left behind by soul beasts that were hunted down or died at the end of their lifespans, and their quality could not be considered top-tier.]
[Moreover, almost all of them were ice-attributed and did not match your needs, so you had no intention of absorbing them immediately. You merely sealed them away for the time being, leaving other plans for the future.]
[After solemnly bidding the Ice Empress farewell, you left Xi City and once again set out on the road ahead.]
[You did not head straight to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek your final Soul Ring. First, you currently had no definite leads on a hundred-thousand-year soul beast of a suitable age. Rather than fish for a needle in the ocean, you might as well wait for the right opportunity. Second, after your strength had surged, you still needed some time to settle and adjust-]
[Especially to that Life Soul Core.]
[After the Soul Core formed, soul skills that once required your full effort came readily to hand. Your soul power consumption decreased greatly, while your recovery speed increased severalfold.]
[Turning your gaze inward to your dantian, you contemplated the slowly rotating emerald Soul Core, seeming to grasp something.]
[You had originally thought that Soul Cores in this world