"Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin!"
"I'll say it one more time—transform into human form!"
By the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, as he controlled the Blue Silver Wood Dragons to tightly bind Ah Yin's Blue Silver Emperor body, sinking their sharp, blue crystal-like teeth and roots deep into her, devouring Ah Yin's Soul Power and life force.
Ye Yu's voice was cold as ice as he issued his final ultimatum.
"If you keep refusing… don't blame me for sending him straight to the afterlife."
With a chilling smile, Ye Yu withdrew the near-dead Tang Hao from his Wishful Hundred Treasures Purse. Sustained only by the parasitic effect of the External Spirit Bone—Demon Willow Fluff—Tang Hao lay unconscious, barely clinging to life. Ye Yu unceremoniously stepped on him.
Although Tang Hao looked pitiful, Ah Yin recognized him at a glance, her heart seizing in anguish.
Hao-ge! That's Hao-ge!
How did he become like this?!
"You bastard! What do you want? Let Hao-ge go!"
Through their spiritual link, Ah Yin's soul cried out in grief and fury.
"Let him go?"
Ye Yu chuckled coldly.
"Behave and do as I say—transform into human form and follow my instructions—and I won't kill him."
"But if you defy me again, I'll make sure he dies with no grave to rest in."
"Madam Ah Yin, I'm sure you don't want to see Tang Hao suffer like that."
In this moment, Ye Yu acted the perfect tyrant transmigrator, whispering devilishly.
Once a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast chooses to transform into a human, they lose all the strength they possessed in beast form. Ah Yin had originally planned to defeat or kill Ye Yu in her Blue Silver Emperor form before transforming, so she could escape and find her beloved Hao-ge and their son Tang San.
She never imagined that even after restoring her hundred-thousand-year cultivation, she still couldn't defeat him.
Now, with Tang Hao's life on the line, Ah Yin was left with no choice.
For his sake… she had to yield.
As her cultivation surged to the hundred-thousand-year level, her towering crystalline tree-form erupted in radiant blue light, enveloping her entire body. The light condensed, forming a massive, glowing cocoon of blue crystal.
The cocoon pulsed with light, growing dim and bright in waves.
After two and a half hours, a crisp cracking sound echoed.
A thin fissure appeared on the surface, webbing out like cracked ice until it covered the entire cocoon.
With a sudden explosion, the cocoon burst into countless glowing motes.
Where it once stood, a stunning woman now appeared.
She wore a long dress of flowing blue silver, tall and graceful in figure, curvaceous and elegant. Her long hair cascaded like silk, shimmering in blue hues. Her features were delicate and refined—arched brows, graceful nose, soft lips. She exuded both purity and mature beauty.
But her face was heavy with sorrow and wrath.
"Madam Ah Yin," Ye Yu said with a faint smile, "as a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast who's taken human form, you should be able to self-generate Spirit Rings, correct?"
"Do it now—generate one. I want to see it."
Ye Yu had long been curious about this phenomenon.
If he could understand how a transformed Spirit Beast produced its own Spirit Ring… perhaps Spirit Masters could eventually do the same.
After all, such beings were born with innate full Spirit Power.
Facing his order—and for Tang Hao's survival—Ah Yin could only obey.
She sat cross-legged and closed her eyes.
Since the External Spirit Bone—Demon Willow Fluff—had remained embedded in her body after her transformation, Ye Yu could clearly sense the process within her through the bone's parasitic tendrils.
Ah Yin's Spirit Power began to circulate through her meridians in an extremely complex pattern.
It formed a closed "loop" within her body.
Then, her sealed hundred-thousand-year cultivation began to stir, and a portion—roughly four hundred years' worth—poured into that loop, creating the embryo of a Spirit Ring.
Finally, a surge of Blue Silver Emperor bloodline flowed into the forming ring.
Like an engraving pen, it imprinted something within it.
An "information package"—a Spirit Ability—was inscribed into the ring.
And just like that, a yellow hundred-year Spirit Ring condensed fully and emerged from her body, floating around her.
Ye Yu watched the process intently.
So that's how it works…
While the internal circulation path required to form the ring was complex, with his spiritual power, it wasn't hard to replicate.
What proved difficult was the final step: engraving the Spirit Ability.
That, it seemed, was tied to the Spirit Beast's bloodline.
Just like genes carry hereditary information, the bloodline of a Spirit Beast must carry traces of its innate abilities—perhaps even before it achieves sentience.
Ye Yu didn't yet fully comprehend it.
But he would study it more carefully.
"All right. Next—offer your Sacrifice to me."
After Ah Yin completed the formation of her first Spirit Ring, Ye Yu issued his next command.
"Sacrifice?!"
Ah Yin clenched her fists, her beautiful face twisting with grief and indignation.
"I already did what you asked—I generated the Spirit Ring!"
"And now you want me to sacrifice myself too?!"
"How do I know you'll actually spare Hao-ge if I do?!"
"You don't have a choice," Ye Yu replied coldly.
"Sacrifice yourself to me. I said I wouldn't kill him, and I won't."
"But if you disobey, not only will I kill him, I'll torture him so badly he'll beg for death."
He sneered and began listing the cruelties he'd inflict.
Turn Tang Hao into a eunuch.
Tear out his Spirit Power pathways.
Execute him slowly, limb by limb.
He had barely finished speaking when Ah Yin could no longer bear it.
"I'll do it! I'll sacrifice myself to you!"
"Just please… don't hurt Hao-ge! I'll do anything you want!"
"No, Ah Yin—don't!!"
Beneath Ye Yu's foot, the bloodied Tang Hao roared with bloodshot eyes, his voice frail but filled with grief.
"Good. Then begin."
Ah Yin cast one last tearful glance at her beloved.
Her blue-silver eyes closed.
She spread her arms wide—and began the Sacrifice.