Sacrifice! The Blue Silver King!

"Senior, please don't speak yet. Hold your essence together, and we'll heal you!"

Ye Yang said hurriedly.

At the same time, he looked at Ah Yin, wondering why she wasn't using her Blue Silver Domain to help the old Blue Silver King recover.

Though his soul was human, he had been reborn as grass.

Ye Yang had also come to feel a sense of belonging among the Blue Silver Grass.

It was the lowest kind of grass, gentle by nature and content to live without contention.

He could also sense how much the old Blue Silver King did for the whole Blue Silver Grass clan.

Leaving everything else aside, the fact that the king had guided and cared for Ah Yin was reason enough for Ye Yang to take him seriously.

"I..."

Before Ah Yin could say anything, the old Blue Silver King laughed and said, "Lord New Emperor, I was the one who wouldn't let Her Majesty the Blue Silver Emperor heal me."

"Actually, you can see it too. My essence has been completely destroyed, and I can no longer recover."

Ye Yang said, "Even if you can't recover, we have to save your life at least!"

He knew just how tenacious Blue Silver Grass's life force was.

That was especially true of the Blue Silver Emperor. Even if she were killed, she would come back to life after seven times seven, or forty-nine, days.

That was Blue Silver Grass's only innate gift.

And the old Blue Silver King's life force shouldn't have been weak either.

"Lord New Emperor, even if I survive, I'll decline into a perfectly ordinary stalk of Blue Silver Grass and lose my sentience."

"Really, that would be death too."

"Even if the body I leave behind starts cultivating again, the sentience it eventually develops most likely won't be me."

"Just as the seedlings born from the countless seeds I produced aren't me either."

Ye Yang's heart sank. He felt that the Blue Silver King was right.

After all, the king wasn't the Blue Silver Emperor.

Even if Ah Yin died, her powerful soul and her innate soul imprint would remain in her seed.

With her rebirth, her sentience would awaken again. It would be a complete rebirth.

The Blue Silver King couldn't do that.

"So let's not waste my cultivation, painstakingly accumulated over eighty thousand years."

"Heh, come to think of it, it wasn't really painstaking. Every day, I watched the blue sky and white clouds, the flying birds, insects and fish, and drank rainwater and groundwater, day after day, year after year."

"Over eighty thousand years passed, and just like that, I had over eighty thousand years of cultivation."

"Of all the Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, none lived more happily than I did."

"Today, I want to continue existing in a different way. You should be happy too."

Ah Yin could no longer hold back and began to sob.

Ye Yang wrapped dozens of leaves around a tree root for a torso, then wrapped more leaves into limbs, forming a "scarecrow."

He held Ah Yin and comforted her.

"Your Majesty the Blue Silver Emperor, Lord New Emperor's cultivation is still a little lacking. My Soul Power can make up the difference."

"Once he breaks through to a hundred thousand years and fully becomes a Blue Silver Emperor, he can take human form and join Your Majesty in reviving our Blue Silver Clan."

"It's just that my cultivation is too low, and I don't know how to perform Sacrifice. Please help me, Your Majesty."

Sacrifice!

Hearing that word, Ye Yang was startled.

It was a special method by which a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast poured all its Soul Power, soul, essence blood, and every other bit of its power into a recipient!

The fusion was guaranteed, and a Soul Bone was guaranteed to drop!

In the original story, Ah Yin had sacrificed herself to Tang Hao, while Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming had all sacrificed themselves to Tang San.

"But, senior, I'm a Soul Beast, not a human."

"If you perform Sacrifice, wouldn't Ah Yin be the only one you could give it to?"

Ye Yang naturally wouldn't refuse a benefit handed to him for nothing, but whether he could receive it was another question.

If he couldn't, wouldn't the Blue Silver King's final efforts be wasted?

"Some of it may be wasted, but giving it to you, Lord New Emperor, is the best choice."

"When the time comes, my Soul Bone will be just right for Her Majesty the Blue Silver Emperor."

"So, in a sense, I won't have died. I'll continue to follow in the footsteps of both Your Majesties."

"It is my honor and good fortune to be with both Your Majesties in another way."

As he spoke, his aged face gradually began to glow.

His roots, stems, leaves, and sap scattered everywhere, along with his main body, were all enveloped in a special light, as though they were about to catch fire.

Things had come to this, and there was no turning back.

Ah Yin also composed herself and reached out a trembling hand to help the old Blue Silver Emperor.

With Ah Yin's help, the old Blue Silver Emperor seemed to burn in the light, forming a ball of dazzling blue radiance.

It drifted toward Ye Yang.

Finally, it burst apart with a bang, turning into countless tiny blue drops of light that showered over Ye Yang.

[Ding! Congratulations, host. Soul Power +1 +1 +1]

The system notification indicated that each increase in Soul Power was still only one point.

A hundred points equaled one year of Soul Power.

But who knew how many tens of thousands of those drops of light entered Ye Yang's body?

Every second, tens of thousands entered his body, increasing his Soul Power by hundreds or even thousands of years!

In just a few breaths, the system's voice changed:

[Ding! Congratulations, host. Soul Power has broken through to 20,000 years!]

Ye Yang's presence immediately grew stronger.

His eighty-one leaves also grew thicker and longer, brimming with vitality.

This single stalk of Blue Silver Grass was like a great tree.

Though it wasn't tall, it covered an enormous area.

Before long, the system's voice rang out again:

[Ding! Congratulations, host. Soul Power has broken through to 30,000 years!]

For a Soul Beast, thirty thousand years was another threshold, bringing enormous changes.

It was equivalent to a human breaking through to become a Soul Saint!

However, once a human Soul Saint gained a Martial Soul Avatar, their combat power soared, and they were generally a little stronger than a thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast.

But for Ye Yang, thirty thousand years of cultivation meant he could already swagger through the Star Dou Great Forest!

As long as no Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast appeared, he was invincible!

He could take on any human below the rank of Titled Douluo!

Ten minutes later, the blue rain of light vanished.

Ye Yang's Soul Power hadn't broken through to forty thousand years; it stood at over thirty-eight thousand years.

In other words, the eighty-five-thousand-year-old Blue Silver Emperor had successfully sacrificed a third of his Soul Power to Ye Yang.

That was actually a very high rate of transfer.

Even if Ye Yang had used the system to enhance Devouring after the emperor's death, he couldn't have absorbed that much.

Once an essence was shattered, Soul Power dissipated quickly.

Unlike a Soul Ring, which could last for two hours without dispersing.

The old Blue Silver Emperor's final words came: "Lord New Emperor, I hope you soon take human form, and together with Lord Blue Silver Emperor..."

His voice gradually faded away.

After the blue rain of light vanished, a length of emerald-green vine appeared in midair.

It was half a foot long and as thick as a finger.

It looked like a little green stick, not a Soul Bone at all.

Ah Yin touched the Soul Bone, a trace of sorrow on her face.

"The best way to repay and remember senior is to fulfill his final wish."

"I'll take human form as soon as I can, and together with you, I'll lead the Blue Silver Clan to become a stronger race!"

Ah Yin took a deep breath, composed herself, and nodded earnestly. "Mm! Together!"