An unprecedented sense of humiliation and powerlessness, mixed with uncontrollable jealousy and longing, completely drowned her heart.
She had lost.
Lost utterly and completely, without a shred of dignity.
Meanwhile, far away in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Qian Renxue abruptly stood up, her chest heaving violently.
"I must have him! I must possess him! Only he can help me surpass the shackles of a god!"
Li Yifei slowly opened his eyes, completely unaware of the terrifying effect he had caused.
He only felt as if his Soul had been expanded countless times over, and his perception of space and time had reached an unprecedented level of clarity.
With a thought, the two Spirit phantoms behind him, the Eye of Guixu and Momentary Eternity, slowly faded away.
The entire secret chamber returned to calm once more, as if the world-shattering scene from moments ago had never occurred.
Li Yifei looked down at the Poison Douluo kneeling on the ground, who was already beginning to question his life, and then glanced at Dugu Yan leaning against the wall, her pretty face pale as a sheet, yet her beautiful eyes shining with astonishing brilliance.
He didn't think it was a big deal.
Wasn't it just Awakening two Spirits? What's the big fuss?
He cleared his throat, breaking the deathly silence, and asked with a calm expression.
"Alright, the Spirit Awakening is finished."
"Next, it's time to absorb a spirit ring."
Li Yifei's voice wasn't loud, but it struck like thunder, jolting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan out of their dazed states.
Dugu Bo shuddered, his old legs, still on the ground, nearly cramped.
He jerked his head up, staring at the composed young man, feeling his worldview was being ground into the dirt.
Awakening finished?
Buddy, you call that an Awakening? What you did was creation!
And two of them!
Twin gods of time and space! If these Spirits were to be made public, the entire Douluo Continent would kneel and sing your praises!
Dugu Yan, leaning against the wall, was taking small, panting breaths, her pretty face flushed bright red from excessive excitement.
Watching Li Yifei's back, the little stars in her beautiful eyes were almost forming a galaxy.
So strong! So handsome!
This was the man she had set her sights on!
Li Yifei paid no attention to the inner turmoil of the grandfather-granddaughter pair and continued speaking to himself, "Next, it's time to absorb a spirit ring."
With that, he focused his mind and retrieved the god-bestowed spirit ring (upgraded version) from the System space of the Chat Group.
Hum!
A soft glow manifested in his palm, rapidly coalescing into a solid ring.
It was a spirit ring of brilliant, pure gold.
Its gold wasn't the color of ordinary metal, but a radiance containing endless Dao charm and Law, as if a galaxy had been compressed within, dazzling to the extreme.
However, this sacred scene, transmitted through Dugu Yan's slightly shaky live-streaming camera to the group, took on a different flavor.
[Worlds Number One Princess: Huh? Yellow?]
Ning Rongrong blinked, finding it hard to believe.
[Bunny is So Cute: It seems... it really is yellow. A yellow spirit ring is a hundred-year one, right?]
[Is Jade Not Jade: What's going on? The System reward is just this? A hundred-year spirit ring? Are you kidding me?]
Liu Erlong sent an eye-rolling emoji.
[A Little Wild Goose: No... that's not it! In person, it's golden! A very, very beautiful golden light!]
Dugu Yan hurriedly explained in the group, but her hands and heart were trembling, making the live-stream footage shake badly. The sacred golden light became distorted in the camera, looking like a somewhat bright... muddy yellow.
[Worlds Number One Princess: Little Goose, don't get so worked up. We know you want to defend Yi Fei, but... this thing really doesn't look golden.]
Ning Rongrong sent a "do you think I'm blind" meme.
[Little Fox Demon: A hundred-year spirit ring... even if it's god-bestowed, isn't it a bit... too basic?]
Hu Liena chose her words carefully, afraid of offending this big shot.
The girls in the group chattered, their initial anticipation gradually turning into confusion and a hint of disappointment.
After all the earlier fanfare with twin gods of time and space and shattering the crystal ball, he just pulls out a hundred-year spirit ring?
The contrast is way too stark!
However, what they didn't know was that on the other two ends of the live stream, two people's reactions were completely different from theirs.
Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, stared fixedly at the "muddy yellow" spirit ring on the screen.
The Angel Spirit within her was frantically sounding alarms, and her Soul was trembling violently!
That's not yellow!
That's divinity! It's Law! It's another form of existence far beyond mortal spirit rings!
"Is this... a divine ring?!"
Qian Renxue murmured involuntarily, her golden eyes brimming with greed and longing.
She understood better than anyone that the value of this spirit ring surpassed that of the entire Spirit Hall combined!
Spirit City, Supreme Pontiff Palace.
Crack!
The cup beside Bibi Dong's hand was unconsciously crushed into dust by her.
She stared fixedly at that spirit ring, the color instantly draining from her face, leaving it deathly pale.
"Divine... aura..."
As an inheritor of the Rakshasa God Trial, her sensitivity to divine force far exceeded that of ordinary people.
Others saw color, saw age.
But what she saw were the supreme Laws flowing within that spirit ring, Laws that made her Soul tremble!
She thought of herself, scheming tirelessly to obtain a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, enduring inhuman torment to break through the Rakshasa God Trial.
And what about this man before her?
He casually produced a genuine "divine ring"!
Why?!
An indescribable jealousy, like a venomous snake, gnawed at her heart, driving her almost to madness!
Inside the secret chamber.
Dugu Bo was also stunned.
He couldn't see through its essence like Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong, but his intuition as a Titled Douluo was screaming frantically!
Danger! Extreme danger!
The spirit ring before him wasn't an energy body; it was more like the embryo of a world!
He was certain that if he dared touch it, his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul would instantly collapse!
"What... what kind of spirit ring is this..." The Poison Douluo's voice trembled.
Li Yifei glanced at him, thinking the old man's mental fortitude was a bit lacking.
"Given by the System, it'll do for now."
He said casually, then sat down cross-legged and placed that god-bestowed spirit ring over himself.
There was no earth-shattering surge of energy.
Nor was there the heart-wrenching pain typical of absorbing a spirit ring.
The moment that brilliant golden divine ring touched Li Yifei's body, it simply "whooshed" and merged in.
The entire process was as smooth and simple as drinking water.
The next second, a spirit ring slowly rose from beneath Li Yifei's feet.
It wasn't the white of a ten-year ring, the yellow of a hundred-year, the purple of a thousand-year, nor the black of a ten-thousand-year.
It was a dazzling, sacred, and majestic golden spirit ring, its surface inscribed with countless profound and mysterious runes!
When this golden spirit ring appeared, the entire live stream, the entire Chat Group, fell into dead silence.
The girls who had just been discussing the "hundred-year spirit ring" were now like ducks with their necks wrung, unable to type a single word.