In the underground cave near Shimo Village, Xiao Wu sat cross-legged in a spot where moonlight could reach. A circle of extremely special energy surrounded her. From the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul in her arms, strands of light diffused and converged toward this circle of energy, helping it condense into the form of a spirit ring.
In addition to her own phenomena, a wisp of pure moonlight surrounded Xiao Wu and gradually merged into the spirit ring beside her.
The ring of special energy surrounding Xiao Wu gradually turned into a white spirit ring.
Having completed the first step, Xiao Wu used her own spirit power as a guide to draw the surrounding spirit power into the spirit ring beside her. The pure moonlight surrounding her also merged into the spirit ring during this process.
The white ten-year spirit ring gradually turned into a yellow hundred-year spirit ring, and then, with the passage of time, successfully became a purple thousand-year soul ring.
Xiao Wu kept Yu Yan's words firmly in mind, trying her best to increase the age of the spirit ring toward her body's limit. A spirit ring of a quite pure purple color finally settled onto the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul in Xiao Wu's arms.
Xiao Wu's consciousness space suddenly brightened; she seemed to see a Soft Bones Rabbit standing on a rock in a dense forest, looking up at the moon in the sky. A wisp of moonlight passed through time and space to fall upon it, dyeing it with a layer of hazy, silver-white moonlight.
In reality, Spirit Cat Wu Xue, who was eating, keenly perceived the energy fluctuations from Xiao Wu. Looking at Xiao Wu, who was shimmering with silver-white light, Wu Xue tilted its head in thought before quickly walking over to lie down beside her, enjoying this rare blessing.
Under the shroud of moonlight, the pink on the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul gradually faded, replaced by silver-white fur.
Everything settled, and Xiao Wu opened her eyes, looking at the greatly changed Spirit in her hands.
Is this the evolutionary effect of the spirit ring on the Spirit that Yu Yan mentioned?
My Spirit seems to look more like Mother now.
Witnessing her own changes and thinking of her mother, Xiao Wu looked up at the moonlight, surrounded by a sense of sorrow... The energy carried by the spirit ring produced by the roughly 4,500-year-old Frost Ash Remnant Dragon was beyond Yu Yan's imagination, so the time consumed for absorption was longer than usual.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly without any accidents.
When the spirit ring settled, the Frost Ash Remnant Dragon Spirit brought about an evolution for the Ice and Fire Twin Fish.
The consciousness space suddenly brightened; Yu Yan felt as if he were on a battlefield of frost and flames. Armies composed of frost and flames were slaughtering each other back and forth. Just as the battle reached a stalemate, the Ice and Fire Twin Fish descended from the sky, wantonly killing and absorbing the soldiers in the battlefield below.
As time passed, the frost and flame armies on the battlefield were all destroyed and absorbed by the Ice and Fire Twin Fish. Having eaten and drunk their fill, the Ice and Fire Twin Fish began to change.
The bodies of the Ice and Fire Twin Fish became increasingly slender, and the two barbels by the fish's mouth also grew longer. Teeth even appeared in their mouths, and their fins began to shorten. Overall, they possessed a different kind of aesthetic beauty.
They look less and less like fish.
Looking at the changes in the appearance of the Ice and Fire Twin Fish, Yu Yan was actually quite happy.
The biggest change in the Ice and Fire Twin Fish was not their appearance, but the change in their ice and fire attributes.
The Ice Fish condensed from ice energy emitted a chill two to three times stronger than before. Now, as soon as the Ice Fish appeared, one could see the biting chill radiating from around its body.
The fire fish condensed from flame energy also had a flame temperature two to three times stronger than before. As the flames burned, waves of heat surged around the fire fish.
The heat surrounding the fire fish and the biting chill from the Ice Fish clashed, entangled, and fused in the middle, just like the changes in the dual ice and fire attributes of the Frost Ash Remnant Dragon.
The thousand-year soul ring didn't just bring changes to Yu Yan's Spirit; his spirit power also successfully went from level 20 to level 23.
Being able to increase by three levels at once was not only because the Frost Ash Remnant Dragon itself was powerful, but mainly because Yu Yan was only at level 20. If he had absorbed this spirit ring at level 40, he could have increased by a little over one level at most.
After confirming this basic information, Yu Yan focused his attention on the two additional Spirit abilities. After a brief confirmation, Yu Yan, very satisfied with these two Spirit abilities, retracted his Spirit and left the tent.
The cooperation with the Azure Bird Soul Hunting Squad was pleasant, but not to the extent of demonstrating Spirit abilities in front of them.
Walking out of the tent, Yu Yan looked around. The sun that had not been up for long indicated he had spent half a day and a night absorbing the spirit ring.
"Little brother Yu Yan, was the absorption of the spirit ring successful?"
Shortly after he stepped out, Qing Yi, who was standing in the distance, approached Yu Yan and asked a redundant question.
If the absorption of the spirit ring had failed, Yu Yan would likely be dead.
"Yes, the absorption was successful. Let's head back."
Yu Yan nodded and suggested returning.
"Alright, I'll go tell the brothers; let's get back quickly."
No one likes staying in the Sunset Forest; Qing Yi already missed the delicacies of Southeast Town.
Qing Zishan walked over and, with Martial Soul Possession, shouldered the corpse of the Frost Ash Remnant Dragon.
The others cleaned up the site and followed Qing Yi, who was leading the way, to leave the Sunset Forest and return to Southeast Town.
In the Qian Family Bank of Southeast Town, the gold coins required for this soul hunt were settled, and Yu Yan parted ways with the Azure Bird Soul Hunting Squad.
The two parties had a simple cooperation based on gold coins; once the payment was settled, there was naturally no need to stay together.
After leaving the Azure Bird Soul Hunting Squad, Yu Yan wandered around Southeast Town for a while, bought some things, and rode away toward Balak City.
On the way back to Southeast Town, Yu Yan, carrying a large backpack, decided he must find a way to get a storage soul tool; otherwise, carrying such a large backpack everywhere would not only be troublesome but also attract the prying eyes of those with ill intentions... The black walls of Balak City appeared in Yu Yan's sight.
Looking at the black walls ahead, Yu Yan still remembered how he felt the first time he saw them.
I won't be seeing them in the future.
Yu Yan, who was about to leave Balak City, felt a bit sentimental as he was on the verge of departure.
Sentimentality aside, Yu Yan would certainly not stay here just because of these feelings.
Returning to Balak City, after returning the rented horse, Yu Yan went back to the house he and Xiao Wu rented in the city.
Renting a house outside instead of continuing to stay at the Balak Junior Soul Master Academy was in itself a reflection of Yu Yan's choice.
Standing in front of the courtyard gate, after tidying his emotions, Yu Yan took out the key and opened the door:
"Xiao Wu, I'm back from getting my spirit ring!"
As Yu Yan pushed the door and entered, he saw Xiao Wu standing in the courtyard looking at him, while Spirit Cat Wu Xue leaped directly into his arms.
At this moment, Yu Yan was very happy.