Soul Land—Chapter 62: External Soul Bone - Starfall Sky Wings
"Hmph!"
A cold snort came immediately, and before the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon could rush toward Ling Qianyao, Dugu Bo's figure appeared between it and Ling Qianyao.
"Eighth Soul Skill — Time Freeze!"
A circle of ripple-like transparent halos, centered on his eyebrows, quickly spread out to the surroundings.
Where the halo passed, time and space seemed to be pressed to a halt, and the huge body of the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon suddenly stopped under this force. There was reluctance and anger in its eyes, but it could not move forward at all.
"Boom—" Dugu Bo gathered a powerful soul force into his fist and rushed straight toward the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon, striking its back. The fist force and poison rushed in, destroying the vitality in its body.
Its body trembled slightly, then fell to the ground powerlessly, like a kite with a broken string.
Dugu Bo appeared in front of Ling Qianyao instantly and took him directly to the fallen Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon. At this moment, the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon had dim starlight all over its body, and black and purple blood kept oozing from its mouth.
Its eyes were still staring at Ling Qianyao and the other two. The scarlet color in them was extremely intense. Ling Qianyao could feel infinite unwillingness and murderous intent from them.
Dugu Bo's poison had penetrated its bone marrow and was accelerating the erosion of its life.
"There are 16-star patterns on the wings, and the cultivation base is 16,000 years — far beyond the age of the soul ring of an ordinary soul master when absorbing the fourth soul ring.
Qianyao, you have to think carefully. This guy is too cunning, so I injected more than a billion poisons. You need to think quickly."
"This is it." Ling Qianyao nodded at Dugu Bo. "Don't worry about me; a matter of just a few thousand years is completely child's play."
"Oh?" Dugu Bo raised his eyebrows. "You are quite arrogant, but you must be careful. Once a soul beast has cultivated for ten thousand years, its remaining soul will be carried in its soul ring. Although your mental power is very strong, you must be cautious.
This Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon is likely to have some connection to the previous one, and its remaining will may counterattack you very strongly."
Ling Qianyao raised the Star Breaking Sword. "Understood." The long sword fell.
The inky black soul ring rose from the corpse of the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon. The moment the soul ring rose, the entire space seemed to sway.
Ten-thousand-year soul ring!
Ling Qianyao sat cross-legged and slowly guided the soul ring to the Star-Breaking Sword.
The moment the soul ring touched the sword, a powerful force surged in, and the remnant soul of the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon suddenly appeared in Ling Qianyao's spiritual sea.
It roared and tumbled, its scarlet eyes flashing with endless hatred and unwillingness, and it rushed toward Ling Qianyao's spiritual sea world.
"My wife died, and my enemies came. I couldn't beat them and was tortured and killed. Before I died, my heart was eaten by thousands of poisons. How could I not hate them with just one word?"
"Roar—"
"Sorry," Ling Qianyao felt neither sadness nor happiness. Although from its perspective, he seemed to have done too much, this was the rule of heaven and earth — the strong preyed on the weak.
The Eye of Breaking Illusion opened again, and a bright starlight hit the remnant soul of the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon.
Without any surprise, the remnant soul of the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon was struck by this starlight, creating a big hole. As the starlight grew stronger and stronger, the spiritual impact, like the scorching sun, gradually eroded and melted it.
After destroying the remnant soul of the Starlight Spirit Flood Dragon, Ling Qianyao immediately began to immerse himself in meditation and absorb the soul ring.
"Hmm—"
He suddenly groaned and frowned.
"Why do I feel something is wrong?"
His body had been reshaped by star power and the ice-and-fire alchemy body. Not long ago, after the corresponding Angel star was reshaped, his physical body was strengthened again.
It should be no problem for him to absorb this 16,000-year-old soul ring.
But at this moment, he felt another inexplicable pressure hindering him from absorbing the power of the soul ring. This pressure did not come from the outside world but seemed to originate from the soul ring itself, or the residual power within it.
A surprising and delightful guess emerged in Ling Qianyao's mind:
"External soul bone!"
As one of the two great treasures in the soul master world, the external soul bone ranks only below the 100,000-year soul ring!
From some perspectives, its birth conditions are even more stringent than those for the 100,000-year soul ring.
Usually, external soul bones only appear on soul beasts with higher bloodlines. In addition, the more extreme the environment in which the soul beast dies, the better.
And most importantly, when the soul beast dies, its emotional fluctuations must reach an extreme. This special emotional state may cause drastic changes in the energy within the soul beast's body, thereby promoting the formation of external soul bones.
However, even if all conditions are met, the birth of external soul bones can only depend on divine will, and the probability is extremely low.
At this time, Ling Qianyao felt a difficult resistance different from the energy of the soul ring. This force hovered near his back spine as if searching for a breakthrough and wanting to merge with him.
Ling Qianyao's eyes flashed. "In this case, let's do it together!"
In the dantian, the liquid star vortex transformed by the Star Luo Holy Pearl began to spin wildly, and the entire dantian seemed filled with majestic star power. This energy flowed along his meridians, like a surging river, rushing toward his back.
Ling Qianyao closed his eyes tightly and concentrated on sensing the flow of this power.
He could feel the resistance gradually soften. When Ling Qianyao's star power arrived, it was like seeing a king—instantly becoming docile and obedient.
Intertwining and fusion.
"Hmm?" Dugu Bo's pupils shrank slightly as he cast his gaze on Ling Qianyao's back.
Sixteen-star patterns gradually appeared there, along Ling Qianyao's spine, neatly arranged on both sides and shining brightly.
Ling Qianyao groaned again, beads of sweat appearing on his forehead.
"This—could this be..." Dugu Bo widened his eyes, finding his guess hard to believe.
As time passed, the liquid star vortex in Ling Qianyao's dantian spun more and more wildly, and star power flowed through his body like a tide.
Finally, with a low roar from Ling Qianyao, his body suddenly soared into the air, and a pair of dazzling wings appeared behind him!
The wings consisted of two pairs of translucent, crystal-like wings, with liquid starlight flowing in the membranes, and a crystal-like dragon-scale armor extending from the roots, covering Ling Qianyao's shoulder blades to his spine.
Dots of starlight constantly fell.
Yellow, purple, purple, black — a total of four extraordinarily gorgeous soul rings lingered around him, contrasting with the wings and showing his extraordinary momentum.
Ling Qianyao slowly descended from the air.
Dugu Bo exclaimed, "As expected, the External Soul Bone is attached!" His eyes burned with envy and admiration, mixed with fleeting desire.
It would be a lie to say he was not tempted, if it is related to Ling Qianyao, he would not harbor such thoughts now.
(End of this chapter)