All-Black Soul Ring Configuration

Yes, Tang Chen, who had been trapped in Slaughter City, had his body controlled by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King, and transformed into the Slaughter King, might have possessed them as well.

After all, Tang Chen had been ambushed during the later stages of the Asura God Test. As the dignified God King, the Asura God presumably would not be as stingy as the Rakshasa God. It was not impossible that Tang Chen's first four soul rings had all been black.

Speaking of which, the Rakshasa God who passed the divine inheritance to Bibi Dong was absolutely a miser. She gave neither God-given Soul Rings nor upgrades to Bibi Dong's soul ring ages, and the inheritance process took far longer than Qian Renxue's and Tang San's.

Not long after Tang San was born, Bibi Dong personally killed Qian Xunji and began the Rakshasa God Test. Yet by the time she completed it and inherited the godhood, it was almost the same time Tang San became a god. The amount of time it took showed just how stingy the Rakshasa God was.

Afterward, Ye Chen released his martial soul and soul rings, merging every Soul Ring Age Upgrade Card in his possession into the three soul rings.

As the Soul Ring Age Upgrade Cards merged into them, the three soul rings gradually deepened in color and soon transformed into black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.

Ye Chen's soul power level, which had previously been just one step away from advancing, officially reached level 40, making him a Quasi Soul Elder. A large amount of soul power had also accumulated within his body, though without a fourth soul ring, it could not be displayed.

Meanwhile, after Xiao Wu upgraded her Soul Ring Configuration from three purple and one black to four black, her soul power level rose directly from level 43 Soul Elder to level 46 Soul Elder, an increase of three levels.

If this Soul Ring Configuration were exposed, it would absolutely terrify countless people. Fortunately, the Disguise Necklace could freely disguise the colors of soul rings, so there was no need to worry about frightening anyone.

In fact, even if a level 10 Soul Scholar refined a high-quality soul bone, it would still be impossible for them to directly attach a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. At most, they could manage a Thousand Year Soul Ring.

The enhancement a soul bone provided to a Spirit Master's physical constitution was not fixed. It worked somewhat like an amplifier—the stronger one's innate physique, the more obvious its effect.

Otherwise, the direct descendants among the wealthy and powerful major factions would all have Soul Ring Configurations of entirely black rings or above.

It was precisely because, to Soul Douluo or Titled Douluo experts, whether their earlier soul rings were Hundred Year or Thousand Year rings made little difference that no extremely low-level Spirit Master would refine a high-quality soul bone just to begin with Thousand Year Soul Rings.

And if you could not even become a Soul Douluo, why should anyone give you a precious soul bone?

Then why had Qian Renxue's Soul Ring Configuration only reached the optimal soul ring ratio?

After all, Qian Renxue had refined the Angel Head Soul Bone, which was aged ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, very early on. Given her physical constitution and Spiritual Power at level 40, shouldn't her fourth soul ring have been able to be a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as well?

"Wow, Sister Xiao Wu's soul power level rose so quickly!"

Feeling that she had already reached level 46 Soul Elder, Xiao Wu said excitedly.

"Of course. A Soul Elder with a four-black configuration is absolutely unprecedented!"

"By the way, Brother, where did you get those cards that upgrade soul ring ages? Are they expensive?"

"I already told you, your brother is the God of Wealth. How could a little rabbit like you understand the might possessed by a deity? Though these things are indeed quite expensive."

To be honest, the deities in the Douluo God Realm could also raise the ages of soul rings, but Ye Chen did not know where the upper limit of their abilities lay.

However, Ye Chen guessed that they probably could not raise them to a million years—or perhaps raising a successor's soul rings to a million years required them to pay a considerable price?

"Quite expensive? How expensive?"

"One thousand Gold Soul Coins per year. Figure it out yourself!"

"One thousand Gold Soul Coins?!"

Xiao Wu's eyes immediately widened. One thousand Gold Soul Coins might not sound like much, but on the Douluo Continent, a single Gold Soul Coin was enough to cover several months of living expenses for an ordinary family of three.

Of course, even if they were called ordinary families and several months' worth of living expenses, that standard was incomparable to Ye Chen's previous life. It was only enough to fill one's stomach.

In Ye Chen's previous life, even ordinary families eating meat every day was perfectly normal. Four dishes and a soup for every meal was what counted as a moderately well-off standard of living.

That simply did not exist on the Douluo Continent. As long as one did not go hungry, one counted as an ordinary family.

Just as Wang Sheng had said when Ye Chen first arrived at Notting Academy: "We're all from poor families. We can make do with anything, as long as we're full."

"Mm-hm."

Ye Chen nodded. Come to think of it, spending only a small target's worth of Gold Soul Coins to raise a Hundred Year Soul Ring to over one hundred thousand years was already a bargain for Ye Chen.

If the super-rich Ning Fengzhi were here, he would definitely slap his chest and say, "Give me a dozen!" He would certainly pay to upgrade Sword Bone Douluo's Soul Ring Configuration to a Nine Red Configuration.

"So expensive! Then Sister Xiao Wu will have to strive for higher-aged soul rings in the future!"

Thinking that even a difference of one year required one thousand Gold Soul Coins to make up for, Xiao Wu immediately felt her heart ache.

With one thousand Gold Soul Coins, she could buy enough delicious food to eat for several years, right?

Taking Oscar's Large Sausages, sold at five Copper Coins each, as an example, and given that the exchange rate between Gold Soul Coins and Copper Coins was one to one hundred, one thousand Gold Soul Coins could buy twenty thousand Large Sausages. If eaten over a year, that averaged more than fifty-four per day.

And fifty-four Large Sausages were more than Xiao Wu could eat in a day with her current appetite. Besides, these were soul power foods; if they were replaced with ordinary food, the quantity would be even greater.

But this also convinced Xiao Wu even more that Ye Chen really was rich!

"Alright, I've advanced to level 40. Let's have lunch first, then continue on and look for the next target!"

Originally, Ye Chen had expected it would still take quite some time for him to advance to a Four-Ring Soul Elder.

But he had not expected to obtain a precious External Soul Bone directly when attaching his Third Soul Ring. Then, after spending money to raise his soul power level straight to level 40, Ye Chen saw no reason to delay and decided to attach his fourth soul ring immediately.

As for the issue of soul power control, with the Creation Meditation Method, it was not too serious. Ye Chen only needed to train further after advancing to Soul Elder.

Unfortunately, his Small Treasury was now nearly empty, with less than one million Gold Soul Coins left. Ye Chen had no money to buy Lucky Cards and could only honestly rely on luck.

In fact, Ye Chen had a guess: after using the Lucky Card previously, if that Azure Lotus Flower had not dropped an External Soul Bone, he might have encountered a soul beast suited to him that very day.

Although the Lucky Card's description was rather vague and its exact effects could not be discerned, Ye Chen believed that it was absolutely worth its price. Otherwise, it would not deserve its exorbitant price of one million Gold Soul Coins.