High above the Evil Demon Forest.
Ye Yu traveled through the air, and upon reaching the forest's inner perimeter—
Before long, he had already spotted several powerful ten-thousand-year spirit beasts within the forest.
Among them were a few with cultivation reaching seventy to eighty thousand years.
A thought naturally rose in Ye Yu's mind.
These few spirit beasts were all spiritual-type.
Specifically—one seventy-thousand-year Purple Spirit Wolf, one eighty-thousand-year Silver Moon Wolf King, and one seventy-thousand-year Sacred Illusion Demon Ape.
As a transmigrator, Ye Yu remembered something.
In Soul Land II, Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye Martial Soul had two Spirit Rings—
One from a Purple Spirit Wolf and one from a Silver Wolf King.
Their Spirit Abilities were Mass Enfeeblement and Spiritual Confusion.
Both were quite good.
As for the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape, it too was an exceptionally powerful spiritual-type spirit beast.
True to its name, its attributes were light and spiritual.
It could release an Illusionary Light that trapped its target in a fabricated reality from which they could not escape—
Until eventually, their soul was erased within the illusion.
If he could hunt a Sacred Illusion Demon Ape and let his second Martial Soul, the Spirit Eye, absorb its Spirit Ring—
The resulting Spirit Ability would surely be valuable as well.
While neither the Purple Spirit Wolf, the Silver Moon Wolf King, nor the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape had yet reached the hundred-thousand-year level…
From the time he had crossed the Boundless Ocean to the Sun Moon Continent,
Ye Yu had discovered that spiritual-type spirit beasts were exceedingly rare.
Finding a naturally born hundred-thousand-year spiritual beast could take an unimaginably long time.
Fortunately, he possessed the External Spirit Bone—Demon Willow Fluff, which could parasitize a spirit beast's body and feed it Spirit Power—
Rapidly raising its cultivation to the hundred-thousand-year level.
Of course, there were drawbacks.
But Ye Yu did not follow the "beastmaster" path, so he didn't need such forcibly grown spirit beasts to have outstanding combat power.
All he wanted were their Spirit Rings.
So the side effects didn't matter to him.
Having located several powerful ten-thousand-year spirit beasts in the Evil Demon Forest, he hunted them down.
Then, using his Demon Willow Fluff, Ye Yu devoured their Spirit Power, souls, and bloodline essence.
Once he judged the time right—
He went straight for the seventy-thousand-year Purple Spirit Wolf.
The Purple Spirit Wolf was an exceptionally rare spiritual-type beast.
Its body was covered in violet fur, and it resembled a wolf in form—
Except its head was noticeably larger, its eyes gleamed with cunning light, and its front legs were so short they seemed almost crippled.
Transforming into a streak of lightning, Ye Yu descended from the sky, landing not far from the Purple Spirit Wolf.
At a thought, he summoned his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree Martial Soul.
Its body was like pure blue crystal, with golden veins running through it, studded with tiny crescent and sun-like light clusters.
The trunk was wrapped with crimson phoenix patterns, icy blue lines, and streaks of lightning.
Its dense crown seemed to hold aloft a starry sky, towering high as it emerged in full.
From the ground burst countless massive crystal-blue roots, thick as giant pythons—
Lashing toward the Purple Spirit Wolf.
Caught off guard, the wolf stood abruptly, roaring loudly as its violet eyes flared—launching a spiritual attack at Ye Yu.
But with Ye Yu's mental strength, it was no more than an itch.
In the next moment, the crystal-blue roots wound around the Purple Spirit Wolf—
Wrapping it like a zongzi (sticky rice dumpling), locking it firmly in place.
Ye Yu strode over and implanted a Demon Willow Fluff into its body.
Activating the Spirit Bone, he began feeding Spirit Power into the beast.
The Purple Spirit Wolf didn't know exactly what this human was planning, but as a seventy-thousand-year spiritual beast, its intelligence was high.
It understood that becoming stronger might be its only chance to escape.
So it desperately absorbed and refined the Spirit Power being channeled into it.
When its cultivation broke through to a hundred thousand years—
It let out an excited roar, violet eyes once again locking on Ye Yu as it unleashed another mental attack.
Still useless.
Once its cultivation had been raised, Ye Yu commanded the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree's roots to pierce the beast's body, killing it instantly.
A cloud of scarlet motes escaped from its corpse, gathering above to form a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
At the same time, a head Spirit Bone—like violet crystal—dropped to the ground.
Storing away the hundred-thousand-year Purple Spirit Wolf Skull,
Ye Yu waited until the Spirit Ring had fully formed, then sat cross-legged beside the corpse.
With the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul in Ice Empress Possession guarding him,
He began absorbing the Spirit Ring.
Thanks to his physical toughness and immense spiritual strength,
He simply ignored the surging power of the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring and the lingering soul shock of the wolf's remnant will.
Soon, the Spirit Ring was absorbed.
Thus, his second Martial Soul—the Spirit Eye—had gained its third Spirit Ring.
Testing the abilities afterward, Ye Yu named the two skills granted by the Purple Spirit Wolf: Purple Spirit Mass Enfeeblement Aura and Purple Spirit Bewitching Light.
The first projected an aura domain that weakened all enemies within it—
Lowering every attribute: Spirit Power, spiritual strength, physical ability, and mental state alike.
The second could enslave enemies, seizing control of their minds.
After finishing with the Purple Spirit Wolf,
Ye Yu hunted a few more ten-thousand-year beasts in the forest,
Then moved on to the eighty-thousand-year Silver Moon Wolf King and the seventy-thousand-year Sacred Illusion Demon Ape.
Using the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree to restrain them,
He implanted Demon Willow Fluff into both, raising their cultivation to a hundred thousand years before killing them.
Both hundred-thousand-year spiritual beasts dropped head Spirit Bones.
Since Ye Yu already possessed all six main Spirit Bones,
The drops were no longer affected by the system's "missing piece" rule, and thus were naturally head Spirit Bones—perfectly fitting for spiritual beasts.
Absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings from both,
Ye Yu now had four hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings in total.
The Silver Moon Wolf King's ring granted him Spiritual Confusion and Spirit Moon Soulburst.
Spiritual Confusion drove any target it struck into confusion and madness, causing them to attack everything nearby.
If the enemy's spiritual power was less than half of Ye Yu's, their spirit would also ignite—stunning them, inflicting heavy damage, and drastically weakening their strength.
Spirit Moon Soulburst condensed his spiritual power into a spirit moon, sending it into the enemy's spiritual sea—
Then detonating it for massive damage.
The more spiritual power invested, the greater the explosion's power.
In theory, there was no upper limit—enough to annihilate even a god's divine soul.
The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape's Spirit Ring granted Dream Realm and Holy Demon Illusion.
Dream Realm trapped enemies in an illusion they could never escape—unless their spiritual power exceeded Ye Yu's or their willpower was extraordinarily strong—
Eventually leading to their soul's erasure within the illusion.
Holy Demon Illusion simulated any form through spiritual power, like a mirage—
It could even simulate the aura and presence of objects, making them difficult to distinguish from reality.