Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 15: External Soul Bone, Poison Emperor Possession

After Chen Ming absorbed the soul ring, he slowly stood up. Before he could say anything, he instinctively realized that there seemed to be something related to him on the dead scorpion in front of him.

He walked behind the scorpion, reached out and touched the already stiff scorpion's tail, and subconsciously injected soul power into it.

As Chen Ming's soul power poured in, the originally dead scorpion tail suddenly became active, began to devour Chen Ming's soul power, and strangely began to absorb flesh and blood from the dead emerald scorpion.

After just a few breaths, the Emerald Scorpion's hard shell began to shrivel, and the flesh and blood in its body were drained out. The originally large scorpion tail seemed to be satisfied and began to gradually shrink. Finally, it broke away from the Emerald Scorpion's body and turned into a slender scorpion tail that seemed to be carved out of emerald green jade.

"External soul bone!"

Chen Shijie cried out, because he finally recognized what this thing was, and he felt a little relieved.

Although external soul bones are very rare and he has only seen them in books in his life, compared with the things that happened to his grandson that were enough to subvert the history of soul masters, these external soul bones are indeed too serious.

Soul bones are the most precious treasures in the soul master world. Every time they appear, they are accompanied by blood and rain. Once they are known by outsiders, they will definitely cause big trouble. But now everyone present is from the Chen family, so Chen Shijie doesn't have to worry about being exposed.

Just when he wanted Chen Ming to absorb the external soul bone first, Chen Tianyun on the side stepped forward and pushed Chen Ming's arm.

"Xiao Ming, don't say anything else for now, absorb the external soul bone first." After saying that, without waiting for Chen Ming's reaction, Chen Tianyun pulled Chen Shijie's sleeve, and the two walked to the side together.

"Dad, let's stay away and let Xiao Ming absorb the soul bone."

"Hey, you bastard, you don't even trust your father..." Chen Shijie was so angry at Chen Tianyun's reaction that he blew his beard and glared at him. He hit the head of this unfilial son fiercely. However, he still took two steps away obediently, and then gave instructions to Chen Ming from a distance.

"Xiao Ming, your uncle did the right thing. You must remember this in the future. When you go out, you must be careful. No, be a hundred times careful. Don't be rash in doing things."

"When absorbing spirit rings, a spirit master is at his most dangerous and vulnerable. Don't expose yourself to outsiders easily. If you find any treasure, you must be prepared to strike first. Even if you don't do it, you must never expose yourself to others."

"The external soul bone is a treasure second only to the 100,000-year soul bone in legend. It can evolve with the soul master's cultivation and even become 100,000 years old. Although it cannot be passed down, it is still priceless."

"When you go out to do things, you must be extremely careful!"

There is no threshold for absorbing soul bones. Even a hundred thousand year soul bone can be absorbed by a first-level soul master. Since Chen Ming can absorb a thousand-year soul ring beyond his level, there is definitely no possibility that he cannot absorb a mere external soul bone. Therefore, Chen Shijie is not worried about the absorption problem. He just uses this opportunity to remind Chen Ming again and again to be extremely careful in doing things.

Looking at the external soul bone in his hand, Chen Ming thought for a while whether to absorb it. Finally, after a moment of silence, he decided to absorb it.

First, external soul bones are too precious and too mysterious. You may not find one among hundreds of ordinary soul bones. It seems that the Douluo series said that there is only a one in a thousand chance of appearing. If you don’t absorb it now, you don’t know when you can find the second piece in the future.

Second, this external soul bone is really suitable for him. It has the same origin as his martial soul, so it will be easy to evolve in the future. The attached abilities will definitely suit him, and it may even allow his martial soul to evolve further in the future. Even if he can grab Tang San's Eight Spider Lance, the benefits to him may not be comparable to this soul bone.

Third, the same value is different in the early and late stages. This external soul bone itself is of the millennium level, which can provide a considerable physical bonus to the current self, allowing oneself to snowball as quickly as possible, both the survivability and the endurance of absorbing soul rings can be improved, and further evolution can be achieved in the future, which is 100% worthwhile.

The only drawback is that the Green Phosphorus Scorpion cannot fly, so its mobility is limited...

Of course, as a time traveler, Chen Ming also knew what could make up for this problem.

"Grandpa, Second Uncle, I'll remember this. I will be extremely careful in the future."

Chen Ming nodded, replied, and then sat cross-legged again to absorb this thousand-year-old external soul bone. Because his martial soul had the same origin and absorbed its soul ring, Chen Ming did not feel any obstacles when absorbing this thousand-year-old external soul bone. After just a few minutes, Chen Ming completely absorbed it.

It was probably because the overlap was too high. Even after absorbing an external soul bone, the scorpion tail behind Chen Ming still looked the same as before, except that the material looked a little more real and the pattern was a little more complicated.

If you don't look carefully, even Chen Ming himself would find it difficult to tell the difference from the outside.

However, the bonus of the soul bone did not disappear because the shape was not conspicuous enough. On the contrary, the bonus brought by the external soul bone was very obvious.

The scorpion's tail actually includes its excretory system, so after losing its tail, the scorpion will be suffocated by its own feces. However, the martial spirits of Douluo Continent are obviously not that hardcore. Chen Ming's tail actually protrudes from the coccyx and is an external extension of the spine. Both perception and control are very sensitive, and the accuracy is no less than his ten fingers.

After absorbing this soul bone, Chen Ming could feel that his entire skeleton, with his spine as the core, had been significantly strengthened, and his flesh, bones, and meridians had all been greatly improved. Although his martial soul had not evolved, its essence had also improved. In the future, he might be able to evolve his martial soul in disguise by stimulating the growth of external soul bones.

This external soul bone strengthened the strength and power of his tail, while slightly increasing his toxicity. Most importantly, the soul bone also came with a soul skill called Poison King Possession, which, when released, could increase all of his attributes by 50% and the strength of his poison by 100%.

As for the passive ability, it has not been developed yet. It will probably take some time for Chen Ming to grow up before it can be revealed.

As an amplification soul skill, this is already quite good. Not only does it make up for the problem that Chen Ming's two soul skills are both offensive and have no gain, but more importantly, as Chen Ming strengthens, this soul bone skill can also be further improved.

If there is a disadvantage, it is that the consumption of the Poison King Potion is very, very high. With Chen Ming's current level 22 soul power after absorbing the soul ring and soul bone, which is close to level 23, he can only maintain the Poison King Potion skill for half an hour.

Moreover, Chen Ming's remaining two soul skills also consume a lot of mana. If a fight really breaks out, they may only last for a few minutes at full power.

After absorbing the external soul bone, Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun came up and started talking to Chen Ming. Chen Ming briefly explained his second soul skill and the abilities attached to the external soul bone.

After learning that Chen Ming's martial soul had been completely completed and he had undergone a complete transformation, Chen Tianyun and Chen Shijie hugged each other, and both father and son couldn't help but burst into tears.

It wasn't long before Chen Tianyun pointed out the most noteworthy thing about Chen Ming.

"The added soul bone has a significant effect on you, but your appearance has hardly changed. If we didn't know that you absorbed the soul bone, we experts wouldn't be able to detect the change. As long as you don't expose it, there will be no problem. But your second soul ring is really a bit too conspicuous..."

"It's not that there are no precedents on the continent for absorbing thousand-year spirit rings after the second ring, but those are only once every few hundred years, and the probability of occurrence is much smaller than the innate full spirit power. Anyway, in the past hundred years, I haven't heard of anyone absorbing beyond the age limit. Once it is exposed, you will either be fought over and wooed, or be killed by people who are jealous of you..."

"The atmosphere in Douluo Continent... is really hard to describe..." Chen Ming complained.

"There's nothing we can do. If you don't kill other people's geniuses, they will kill your geniuses. Your family has no geniuses, so the supply is cut off. When other people's geniuses grow up, they will swallow you up. So everyone is also staring at other people's geniuses, and they will look for an opportunity to kill them."

"Your grandfather and I, your second uncle, are still considered as people in Biluo City, but there are many people stronger than us outside Biluo City. With my old bones, I can only fight a few rounds with Soul Saints whose martial souls and spirit rings are not strong. The strong ones can kill me with a few slaps."

"But we are poison experts after all, so sneak attacks are our strongest form of attack. Your poison is about 70% as potent as mine, a bit stronger than your uncle's. Although a sneak attack may not kill a Soul Sage, it should still be enough to kill a Soul Emperor."

"Instead of letting you hide for decades and waste your talent, it is better to use connections to get you into the Tiandou Royal Academy. With three Soul Douluo teaching committee members and the Tiandou royal family as your background, it will be much safer than at home."

"When you travel the continent, you will have your own background."

(End of this chapter)