Purple Thousand-Year First Soul Ring

There were no trees to screen the hilltop, leaving them a little too exposed, so the three of them went down into the woods instead of absorbing the Soul Ring on the hill.

"Mubai, I know you've already made up your mind, but I still want to ask one last time. Are you really going to absorb a Soul Ring above your level?"

On a patch of level ground in the woods, Flender pushed up his glasses and asked Dai Mubai, his expression grave.

"Dean Flender, you've probably guessed who I am from my White Tiger Martial Soul and my surname."

"Born into a family like that, anyone mediocre and weak is bound to be eliminated. I had no choice but to wallow in despair before, but now that an opportunity is right in front of me, how could I give it up?"

With that, Dai Mubai willed a sharp dagger out of his system space.

Then he walked with firm steps toward the Heavenly Dipper Bug beside Dean Flender. Flender had crippled it, leaving it unable to resist.

He pressed the dagger against the single eye at the seam between the wing covers on the Heavenly Dipper Bug's back. That evil eye was its vital point.

The dagger plunged in, and great gouts of purple blood gushed out as the Heavenly Dipper Bug let out a shrill, mournful cry, splattering Dai Mubai's hands and clothes.

Dai Mubai had transmigrated from a later age, and this was the first time he had faced such a bloody scene. Yet, unusually, he felt not the slightest fear or disgust.

Perhaps, to Dai Mubai,

being mediocre and weak, and a desperate, constrained fate, were more terrifying than the bloody scene before him.

"Since you've made up your mind, Mubai, go ahead and absorb the Soul Ring without worry. Flender and I will stand guard for you."

Seeing that Dai Mubai had made his decision, Zhao Wuji and Flender said no more. They immediately gave their full attention to standing guard for him.

"Okay~" Dai Mubai replied. He saw that a purple Soul Ring had risen from the Heavenly Dipper Bug's corpse and coalesced.

Without the slightest hesitation, he sat down cross-legged where he stood and beckoned to the purple Soul Ring.

The next second, the purple Soul Ring flew toward him and settled around his body.

At the same time, the Heavenly Dipper Bug's surging Soul Power contained within the Soul Ring poured into Dai Mubai's body and formed a connection with his own Soul Power.

Unlike the Soul Power Dai Mubai had cultivated himself, which was entirely obedient to his will and exceptionally docile, the Soul Power pouring into him from the Soul Ring was wildly violent.

It was like a Heavenly Dipper Bug using the Fearless Charge Soul Skill, rampaging through his limbs and bones.

But Dai Mubai was no pushover either.

Although this was his first time absorbing a Soul Ring, he had inherited and fused with the original owner's memories. At the same time, as soon as the Soul Ring settled around him, his Martial Soul told him how to refine it.

And with his level 30 Soul Power nourishing him and his Martial Soul Mutation strengthening him...

His powerful body now became Dai Mubai's greatest source of confidence and support.

After his body withstood the first onslaught of violent Soul Power, Dai Mubai immediately steadied his mind and began circulating the White Tiger Meditation Method, which the Dai Family had passed down and perfected over generations.

Using his own Soul Power as a general, he led the violent Soul Power pouring into his body from the Heavenly Dipper Bug's Soul Ring, like a band of unruly soldiers, along the circulation path of the White Tiger Meditation Method.

Guiding the Soul Power along that path was also the process of refining it and imprinting it with his own mark.

A vast amount of Soul Power poured into Dai Mubai's body from the Soul Ring. Once he had refined it by circulating the White Tiger Meditation Method,

the Soul Power would flow back into the Soul Ring. This would continue until the violent Soul Power in the Soul Ring had been completely refined and its ownerless Soul Power had been entirely replaced.

Only then would the Soul Ring be fully refined and attached.

But the Soul Ring contained an enormous amount of Soul Power. Although Dai Mubai's body could withstand its onslaught,

refining such an immense amount of Soul Power was no easy task, and the whole process would take quite some time-

It would also test not only his body's capacity to endure, but his physical strength, stamina, and willpower.

Fortunately, Dai Mubai excelled in bodily strength, physical strength, stamina, and willpower alike, so the refinement of the Soul Power proceeded very smoothly.

All he needed was time.

Even so, attaching a thousand-year Soul Ring as his First Soul Ring was utterly shocking.

Although Dai Mubai's earlier analysis had given Flender and Zhao Wuji some confidence and assurance, when he actually began absorbing the Soul Ring,

the two of them stood guard at his side, unable to keep from feeling anxious and worried.

The one thing that reassured them was that Dai Mubai's presence had remained steady ever since he began absorbing and refining the Soul Ring.

His face was also calm and composed, showing no sign of pain.

It was clear that refining and absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring put no great strain on Dai Mubai, and that the process was going very smoothly.

The moon rose and fell. It took Dai Mubai about a day to finish absorbing and refining the purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring provided by the Heavenly Dipper Bug, which was 2,643 years old.

"How did it go?" Flender and Zhao Wuji, who had been keeping an eye on him, asked expectantly when they saw him open his eyes.

The Soul Ring had merged into Dai Mubai's body, and he had emerged from the absorption state safe and sound. Everything pointed to his having successfully refined it.

Even so, Flender could not resist asking Dai Mubai to confirm it.

After all, attaching a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring in the first Soul Ring slot was simply too shocking.

Even with all the prerequisites, Flender and Zhao Wuji still felt somewhat dazed.

"Thank you for standing guard over me, Dean Flender, Teacher Zhao. I've absorbed and refined the Soul Ring. It worked~"

Dai Mubai opened his eyes, rose to his feet, and nodded, his eyes full of laughter.

At the same time, a purple Soul Ring rose from Dai Mubai's body and slowly rotated around him.

The magnificent, fantastical sight made Flender's and Zhao Wuji's eyes shine, their faces filled with wild delight and excitement.

A purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring was nothing unusual in itself, but that depended on which Soul Ring it was.

In the third or fourth Soul Ring slot, a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring was standard.

In the fifth, sixth, or an even later slot, however, that purple Soul Ring could only be called trash.

But as the First Soul Ring, it was enough to shock the world.

As Flender and Zhao Wuji stood to one side, eyes shining as they studied Dai Mubai, wild with delight that Shrek Academy had gained a heaven-defying genius,

little did they know that Dai Mubai was even more delighted and excited than the two of them.

That was because the gains he had ultimately made from absorbing and refining the Heavenly Dipper Bug's Soul Ring were simply enormous-

The benefits he had received went far beyond what Flender and Zhao Wuji could see in the purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

First was the Soul Skill.

Although the Heavenly Dipper Bug's defense was unparalleled and covered all three aspects-physical, energy, and spiritual power-

Soul Masters were limited by their own talents, so few White Tiger Soul Masters who absorbed and refined a Heavenly Dipper Bug's defensive Soul Ring

were able to obtain the complete defensive Soul Skill that enhanced all three: physical, energy, and spiritual power.

Dai Mubai, however, had been lucky enough to encounter a Heavenly Dipper Bug, which existed only in legends recorded in the secret texts of the Star Luo Imperial Family's Dai Family, and obtain its defensive Soul Ring.

At the same time, he...