Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 136 The Blade of Creatures
In ancient times, this continent had an extremely brilliant soul-guiding civilization.

The types of soul guides are not limited to storage devices, but are diverse and flourishing.

However, as time passed, the soul guide civilization was buried in the wind and sand, and all the methods of making soul guides were lost.

A large number of combat soul guides were consumed in the wars of history. Only a small number of daily soul guides such as soul guide lamps and storage soul guides that can be passed down from generation to generation were passed down among the noble families.

The carving knife, as a tool for engraving the core formation of soul guides, has naturally been passed down among the major forces with a long history.

For example, the Lin family has a collection of three carving knives in their family treasury.

The Soul-Devouring Knife, originally the Blade of Living Beings, is a peerless knife made entirely of gold from living beings. Its value is no less than the finest fairy herbs such as Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and Acacia Heartbreak Red.

This is because the pure vitality contained in just such a small piece of living gold is comparable to that of a million-year-old soul beast.

Being able to discard such a precious treasure and choose to create such a carving knife instead, the creator of the Blade of Living Being must definitely be an unparalleled powerful person with a soul power as high as level ninety-nine, and also a soul engineer of extremely high grade.

With his soul power cultivation at level ninety-nine, he has already reached the point where he cannot make any further progress except becoming a god at level one hundred. Absorbing the gold of life does not help to improve his strength. As a soul guide, he chooses to forge the gold of life into the blade of life.

After that, the Blade of Life was passed down through the years and for some unknown reason fell into the hands of a powerful Fallen (evil soul master).

No one knew what the Fallen One had in mind when he cast a curse on the Blade of Life, turning it into the Soul-Eating Sword, a vicious sword that would now backfire on its host.

Only by purifying the curse on the Soul-Devouring Knife can the knife be transformed back into a living blade. Otherwise, it will become a murderous knife that will devour its owner.

Purifying the curse is not difficult for Lin Rong.

Although he did not have the personal plug-in of the Holy Necromancer Alex, he could not use the magic circle to purify the curse on the Soul-Devouring Knife.

But there is more than one way to remove a curse.

The innate domain granted to him by the Nine-bend Vine Dragon has a domain-specific effect, the Life Dragon Soul, which can transform anything harmful to itself into pure vitality.

Therefore, Lin Rong only needs to pick up the Soul-Devouring Knife and let the curse on it touch himself, which will trigger the effect of the Life Dragon Soul and transform it into pure vitality.

With Lin Rong's current soul power cultivation level of level 66, and the Vine Dragon Domain that has evolved to the second stage and is not far from the third stage, the speed at which the curse erodes him will definitely not exceed the speed at which the Life Dragon Soul purifies the curse.

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Facing Dugu Bo's question, Lin Rong picked up the ancient black carving knife through a layer of cloth and answered concisely:

"I'm not a know-it-all, so how would I know what this is?"

"However, I can sense that there is a huge and pure life force hidden under this carving knife. This is a great opportunity for me."

"You did a good job on this matter. You have made a great contribution. Here, take this."

As he spoke, a stream of light flew out from the dragon-patterned jade bead on Lin Rong's wrist and hovered in front of Dugu Bo.

When the light faded, a right leg soul bone filled with explosive power appeared in front of Dugu Bo.

"This is a 57,000-year-old right leg bone. It was one of the trophies I got from Tang Hao after I killed him."

"Although the attributes are not compatible with yours, the age is over 50,000 years, and the soul bone is extremely complete. This quality is enough to make up for the defect of incompatible attributes."

"It's a pity that you have already absorbed the torso bone that is more than ten thousand years old, otherwise I have another torso bone that is seventy-eight thousand years old to give you." Dugu Bo was delighted to hear the first two sentences, but the last sentence made him feel that the soul bone in front of him was not so attractive anymore.

How much? Seventy-eight thousand years! Trunk bones!

If he had known this earlier, he would not have been in a hurry to absorb the torso bone that was over ten thousand years old.

Although his aptitude was improved and his soul power successfully broke through the ninety-sixth level, he lost a piece of top-quality torso bone that was nearly eighty thousand years old.

"Sir." Dugu Bo wanted to cry but had no tears. He said bitterly:

"Actually, you don't have to tell me the last sentence."

"Without comparison, there will be no harm. The gap is too big. Holding this 57,000-year-old soul bone, I feel empty inside. I don't feel happy at all."

"Really?" In response, Lin Rong looked at the carving knife in his hand and replied half-jokingly:
"If you're not satisfied, return it and get another one."

"However, the only soul bone in my hand that corresponds to the soul bone you didn't absorb is the 23,000-year-old right arm bone."

"Are you sure you want to change?"

"Ah?" Upon hearing this, Dugu Bo waved his hands repeatedly.

"No, no, no, this soul bone is very good. I am very satisfied, very satisfied!"

Having said that, Dugu Bo put away the soul bone, hurriedly left the carriage, and returned to the carriage behind.

What a joke, fifty thousand years for twenty thousand years. Although the right arm bone is much more precious than the right leg bone, the difference in age is more than thirty thousand years.

The integrity of a soul bone that is over 50,000 years old is enough to surpass a soul bone that is 49,999 years old.

Even if it was a 49,999-year-old torso bone, it could not compare to a 50,000-year-old right leg bone with excellent integrity.

Dugu Bo is not a fool, how could he do such an idiotic thing as changing soul bones?

In the carriage, the old housekeeper looked at the carving knife in Lin Rong's hand and asked curiously:

"Young Master, is this carving knife so precious? Is it worth it for you to give up a soul bone that is more than 50,000 years old as a reward for Dugu Bo's discovery of this knife?"

Because in his opinion, with the soul guide technology lost today, no matter how precious the carving knife is, it is just a valuable collectible and has no practical use.

"Of course it's worth it." Lin Rong looked up at the old butler and replied:

"The value of this carving knife lies in its material, not the carving knife itself."

"Grandpa Yu, don't be fooled by its dark appearance now. Wait until I use the Dragon Soul of Life to remove the curse on it and the carving knife returns to its original appearance, and then you will know."

As he spoke, Lin Rong wrapped his right hand with his vitality, removed the cloth covering the carving knife, and grasped the handle of the carving knife under the worried gaze of the old housekeeper.

The moment his finger skin touched the handle of the carving knife, the curse began to erode Lin Rong.

Similarly, Lin Rong unfolded his talent field, the Life Dragon Soul effect was triggered, and he began to transform the curse on the carving knife into pure vitality bit by bit.

(End of this chapter)