"With these third-tier Spirit Beast Rings, I can finally raise Jia Ten Five and the others to the third tier!"
Inside the residence the High King had given Tang Ji.
In a side room, Wang Ba looked at the treasures before him, and a trace of delight rose in his heart.
But the eight Spirit Beast Rings were not the only things he valued.
Wang Ba shifted his gaze slightly to an ancient book beside the Spirit Beast Rings.
The book was made of an extremely unusual material, like jade yet not jade, like brocade yet not brocade. Though it could not conceal the weathering of ages, the writing on it remained clearly visible.
Several large characters stood prominently on its cover.
"Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers Manual."
It was an ancient book on refining Dao Soldiers.
It described the various requirements and methods for refining something called "Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers."
Dao Soldiers had reportedly been quite popular among cultivators in High Antiquity.
Back then, spiritual things abounded between heaven and earth, and the varieties of spirit beasts were beyond counting.
Some cultivators classified these spiritual things or spirit beasts by their kind, controlled them with secret methods, and refined them into supreme treasures for attack and defense to protect themselves.
At their height, almost every cultivator had a unit of them.
Now, as Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi declined, even spirit beasts were few and far between, let alone spiritual things.
Those that existed in sizable populations were either spirit beasts raised for food or ones with pitiful combat strength.
Thus, Dao Soldiers had also fallen into decline.
Apart from a handful of cultivators, only major powers could directly use human cultivators as Dao Soldiers, recreating a little of their former glory.
In all his years of cultivation, Wang