Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 71: I suggest you rush Shrek first.

Ye Xishui smiled helplessly. How could Xiaoxue have exposed her secret to outsiders like this?

"Xiaoxue, you've really put me in a difficult position. Can I assume that you've already identified yourself as the saintess of our sect?" Ye Xishui smiled. "Actually, not many people within our organization know about this. Most of them are researchers working at headquarters or underground."

The two Ice and Snow Emperors looked at Ye Xishui at the same time. They both knew Ye Xishui's identity. If the Holy Spirit Buddha himself admitted the existence of this technology, then it would be true.

Ye Xishui put down her wine glass: "Do you remember those Shrek disciples we sent to the altar? They were actually experimental subjects, as mentioned before."

Xue Di nodded gently.

"Ten thousand years ago, a human broke through the level 100 limit and ascended to godhood. Although you two live in seclusion in the far north, you should have been aware of it, right?"

The Snow Empress nodded slowly: "That was a glorious era, with the aura of at least ten gods present. But in the ten thousand years since then, such a situation has never occurred again in the Douluo Plane."

"Compared to Sister Xue'er, I have explored the human world more times. To put it bluntly, you human soul masters are getting worse with each generation," Ice Emperor said in a deep voice.

Ye Xishui remained noncommittal about Ice Emperor's statement, after all, she didn't know how terrifying the combat power of Limit Douluo would have been in the previous civilization.

"Ten thousand years ago, when humans obtained the inheritance of the gods, they would condense their tenth soul ring. This soul ring, or rather, the divine ring, was not obtained by hunting soul beasts. What kind of soul beast could transform into a soul ring to undertake the task of condensing divine power?" Ye Xishui retorted mercilessly to Bingdi, telling her that although the combat power of human soul masters had declined, only humans could become gods.

"Therefore, by analogy, there must exist some kind of technology in this world that allows human soul masters to obtain soul rings without hunting soul beasts," Ye Xishui said slowly. "This is the mission of the Holy Spirit Cult's altar."

Qian Renxue was secretly shocked. She hadn't expected that the Holy Spirit Cult, which looked like an organization of evil soul masters, would be secretly researching such a thing.

"So how is your current technology?" Hyotei asked.

Ye Xishui said, "This technology is not new; on the contrary, it has been researched for thousands of years. Currently, what can be done is to extend the original lifespan of a Soul Master's Soul Rings. This technology has been named 'Spirit Ascension' by the Grand Elder."

"According to the manuscript left by the Grand Elder, if one day in the future we can enable Soul Masters to autonomously condense Soul Rings, then this technology will be called 'Spirit Gathering'," Ye Xishui said softly. "The so-called Holy Spirit Cult, in a sense, derives its name from these two technologies. When the technology matures, the Holy Spirit will descend upon the world."

"This is incredible!" Xue Di was shocked. Her soul rings could evolve because of her nearly 700,000 years of cultivation. Where did the energy for this evolution technique come from?

"I once heard that during the divine trials ten thousand years ago, divinely bestowed spirit rings would descend. For example, that fallen angel from ten thousand years ago... her eighth and ninth rings were actually divinely bestowed spirit rings. However, the energy that condenses these spirit rings actually comes from a special kind of energy from the divine realm," Qian Renxue said softly. "In the current Douluo Continent, this kind of energy should not be found."

"If we successfully develop this technology, it would undoubtedly be like seizing power from God's hands," she said in a deep voice at the end.

Ye Xishui glanced at her: "Seize the authority of the gods? Well said! The first sentence in the manuscript left by the Grand Elder is similar to what you said."

"What did she say?" Qian Renxue asked, intrigued. Ye Xishui's red lips parted slightly: "She said—"

"With my hand, I ascend to godhood."

Afterwards, Ye Xishui composed herself and continued, "However, it is not easy to achieve this. The price is to conduct a great many experiments, so many that... about two thousand years ago, we finally developed the method of ascending spirits, and the method of gathering spirits has been under research ever since."

"During this period, we captured many test subjects for our experiments, all of whom were living human Soul Masters, as well as some people from within our sect. In order to study the secrets of Soul Rings, we also killed many Soul Beasts, making them drop Soul Rings for our research."

"You...!" The two Ice and Snow Emperors could no longer sit still. "You're all a bunch of lunatics!"

"Silence! You have no right to judge what we have done," Ye Xishui said coldly. "I have never said that what we have done is right. We are a group of bad people, villains who do all kinds of evil in the eyes of the world."

The two Ice and Snow Emperors and Ye Xishui stared at each other, and the atmosphere in the room dropped to freezing point once again.

The wine glass in Long Xiaoyao's hand suddenly fell to the ground and shattered, breaking the tense atmosphere.

He said sullenly, "You two, there's no need to treat Xi Shui like this. She also experimented on herself for this technology, and I've seen the pain she endured."

"Furthermore, if we're really talking about killing spirit beasts, if you want revenge, I suggest you consider us your second enemy." His voice turned cold and hard. "In the far east of the continent, Shrek Academy has a technique called Secret Spirit Bone for obtaining spirit bones. Do you know where these spirit bones come from?"

Snow Empress calmed herself down, but Ice Empress still looked coldly at Long Xiaoyao. If it weren't for the presence of two Limit Douluos, she would have wanted to lead the soul beasts of the far north to launch a beast tide against the human world based on what she had just heard.

"The so-called Mystic Soul Bone, strictly speaking, isn't really a soul bone, because it's not dropped by a single soul beast. Instead, you have to kill one hundred soul beasts of the same type within half an hour, and then use a secret technique to activate the soul rings they drop. Only then is there a one in ten chance of obtaining a Mystic Soul Bone," Long Xiaoyao said coldly. "Compared to us, don't you think the Mystic Soul Bone has a more 'beautiful' quality, disregarding the lives of soul beasts?"

"But because of the existence of soul guides, we can store a soul within them, freeing it from the limitation that it will dissipate in two to four hours, preserving it for a long time, and then taking it out when research is needed," Ye Xishui said.

Then, she chuckled softly: "If you want to unleash a beast tide, I suggest you turn right and head straight for Shrek Academy, and while you're at it, also take down the Body Sect of the Heavenly Soul Empire. The Body Sect killed too many 100,000-year-old soul beasts from the Star Dou realm, which triggered the beast tide from the Star Dou realm a thousand years ago."

The two emperors of ice and snow fell silent.

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