Douluo: Lord of Arms

Chapter 86 Soul Bone
"It seems you have made great progress in soul guidance formations," Muye said with a smile. The more he looked at his disciple, the more satisfied he became.

"So, Master, what is sealed here?" Lin Xingyu asked curiously.

"Go down and take a look, and you'll know. Come with me!"

Muye kept the secret for a while, walked forward and carefully untied the soul guide formation in front of the door. Looking at the surrounding situation, it seemed that this place had not been opened for a long time.

As soon as Lin Xingyu walked into the hall, he felt a cool breath coming towards him. This breath made Lin Xingyu frown involuntarily. There was such a strong resentment!

Looking around, the empty hall gives people a dark and dull feeling.

Soul guide patterns can be seen engraved on the pillars around. The floor under the feet is paved with bluestone. The dust on the floor is very thick. It seems that no one has been here for a long time. Every step that Lin Xingyu and Muye took would raise a small cloud of dust.

To Lin Xingyu, this place felt more like a relic than a building deep in the sect.

Muye said nothing and walked slowly down with Lin Xingyu. Muye walked forward and touched behind a table not far away. With a click, a hole slowly appeared on the ground.

A gloomy wind blew up from below. The thick resentment here made Lin Xingyu a little frightened. How many lives would die!
Muye said nothing, but took out a soul guide, turned it on to emit light, and slowly walked towards the cave entrance.

Lin Xingyu followed slowly out of curiosity. The passage had obvious signs of excavation. The two of them walked slowly downwards. The dark environment and silent atmosphere made Lin Xingyu feel like he was slowly walking into a large cemetery.

The two of them were not moving very fast. After more than ten minutes, the passage came to an end. What appeared in front of Lin Xingyu was an empty underground square in front of him, and behind the underground square were caves one after another.

The underground square was covered with white bones. Lin Xingyu took a closer look and found that these bones were all soul beast bones, and they were from different ages.

Muye continued walking forward. Curiosity flickered in Lin Xingyu's eyes. He slowly extended his fingertips and gently touched the bone. In an instant, the bone, as if gnawed by the sharp teeth of time, suddenly turned to ash with a puff. Fine dust billowed in his face, and he subconsciously closed his eyes and stepped back abruptly.

Lin Xingyu followed Muye forward. The surroundings were eerily quiet, the dim light veiled as if covered by a thin veil. He felt as if every step he took was treading on the unknown, as if he were walking in the underworld.

"Roar!"

Instantly, a deep roar echoed all around. Immediately afterwards, several shadowy figures appeared from thin air. They were extremely emaciated, practically skeletons, their shrunken skin clinging tightly to their bones, devoid of any color. Their blood-red eyes, filled with ferocity, fixed their gaze fiercely on Lin Xingyu.

That ferocious look seemed to want to eat Lin Xingyu alive.

These were the ghosts of soul beasts, one after another! The shadows hung silently in the air, shrouded in mist. The thin mist seemed to emanate from the Nine Nether Hell, making their figures appear vague and illusory.

The next ghost in the front pounced towards Lin Xingyu. Its movement seemed to send some signal, and the surrounding ghosts all pounced towards Lin Xingyu.

When Lin Xingyu saw these ghosts, his martial spirit immediately possessed him, and his whole body was covered with red-gold light.

Lin Xingyu looked at the ghost of the Demon Soul Great White Shark rushing towards him, his blood and energy boiling, and he slashed with the sword in his hand, accurately hitting the leading Demon Soul Great White Shark.

In an instant, the extremely pure energy and blood power on Lin Xingyu's sword collided with the ghost of the evil soul great white shark. The ghost seemed to be corroded by the sword, like oil falling into boiling water. The ghost let out a shrill scream and its figure became much dimmer.

Without waiting for the ghost to react, Lin Xingyu struck the ghost's body with several consecutive swords, each of which accurately hit the ghost's body, causing it to dissipate directly.

What surprised Lin Xingyu was that after these ghosts died, they left behind a purple light. This light was not a spirit ring, but it was somewhat similar to a spirit ring.

At this time, as Lin Xingyu burst out his own blood and energy with all his strength, he shone in all directions like a small sun. Seeing this, the surrounding ghosts screamed and fled one after another.

Seeing this, Lin Xingyu was too lazy to chase after him, so he walked forward and continued to follow Muye's steps.

Muye nodded in satisfaction at Lin Xingyu's performance. His blood and energy were strong enough!

Makino suddenly said, "You must be wondering where this place is."

Lin Xingyu asked curiously, "Indeed, what were those ghosts just now, teacher?"

Muye said quietly, "This was the location of the Body Sect's secret method of ascending the ring."

"In ancient times, before the emergence of soul spirits, soul masters relied on hunting soul beasts and absorbing soul rings to improve themselves."

"However, due to the limitations of their physical fitness and mental strength, there is a limit to the number of spirit rings a spirit master can absorb."

"Later, I don't know which generation of ancestors unearthed some bizarre object from some ruins. Within the range of that object, there is a high probability that any living being that dies there will be transformed into a ghostly existence."

"There's a limit to the number of spirit rings a spirit master can absorb. To increase this limit, the ancient ancestors of the Body Sect captured many spirit beasts and brought them here to kill them. Using the ghosts formed by these spirit beasts after their death, along with some of the secret techniques they developed, if the spirit beasts are of the same species, they can directly replace spirit rings of lower age with those of higher age in the later stages."

"Therefore, our ancestors committed many sins here."

After hearing what Muye said, Lin Xingyu couldn't help but fall silent. Here, if a soul master wants to improve, he must kill soul beasts.

In ancient times, the Body Sect was rampant and naturally did not think there was anything wrong.

This is truly a twisted world. If you want to be strong, you must kill. Otherwise, you will have to accept that your cultivation will never improve.

There aren't such cruel rules in the abyss, right? There's no such rule anywhere that says you can't improve if you don't kill, right?
At this time, Muye continued, "Even though the situation has decreased since Lingbing Douluo created the Soul Spirit Method, it has not stopped. It just turned its target to the sea soul beasts."

"After all, although the Soul Spirit Technique is excellent, directly hunting soul beasts and absorbing their soul rings can bring about a significant improvement in physical fitness and soul power, and there is also a high probability of exploding soul bones. After all, the resentment of the soul beasts that died here is so heavy!"

"Apart from those legendary immortal treasures, soul bones are the only thing that can significantly improve a person's aptitude."

"The chance of soul bones being released from soul beasts that die here is even greater than in the outside world."

"In addition, our exploration of the ocean at that time was far ahead of other forces. The soul beasts in the sea found it difficult to come ashore, and our forces were somewhat inferior to the soul beasts on land. The ocean is vast and boundless, and there are many high-level soul beasts, but top-level soul beasts are difficult to encounter. Therefore, it became people's first choice at that time."

"So most of the people here are sea soul beasts. This behavior only gradually stopped thousands of years ago. By then, everyone had generally accepted the existence of souls."

"People rarely hunt soul beasts directly to obtain soul rings, so this place has gradually been abandoned."

"Ever since we first encountered soul guide formations ten thousand years ago, our ancestors have been gradually filling this area with various soul guide formations."

After hearing Muye's explanation, Lin Xingyu suddenly understood why he could feel such a strong resentment up there.

Even if we were to calculate the time generously, the Body Sect had occupied this place for thousands of years. Over such a long period, countless soul beasts had been slaughtered here. "Let's go! Don't disturb the souls here anymore. Let them slowly pass away in their slumber!"

"Our destination is the next level."

Lin Xingyu looked at the bones all over the ground and stopped talking. He just collected some weapons used by ancient soul masters to kill soul beasts on the way.

Looking at these worn-out weapons that exuded a strong murderous aura, Lin Xingyu carefully put these fragile weapons into the storage soul guide.

I'm afraid that if I'm not careful, they will be reduced to ashes.

Following Makino carefully through the cemetery, the two of them once again passed through the dark passage and arrived at the second floor.

To Lin Xingyu's surprise, this place was no longer like a mass grave with bones everywhere.

The second layer, on the other hand, is filled with tombs neatly arranged one after another.

Muye took Lin Xingyu forward, and finally stopped at the door of a tomb.

"Come, pay your respects!"

After Makino finished speaking, he knelt down in front of the tomb door and bowed down.

When he came here, Lin Xingyu probably already knew what gift Makino had prepared for him.

Lin Xingyu also followed suit and knelt down to pay homage.

After the two of them finished their ceremony, Muye stepped forward and gently pushed open the heavy tomb door.

The door was pushed open with a creaky sound, and a gorgeous coffin was placed in the center of the door.

Lin Xingyu was speechless for a moment. It turned out that the two of us were really here to dig graves.

"Let's get started and take out the things in the coffin." Makino looked at Lin Xingyu and said softly.

"Is it okay for us to do this?" Lin Xingyu whispered.

Muye waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "No problem, no big deal. This is an ancestor who has lived for countless generations. He was buried with such a precious thing as a soul bone. Do you really think that future generations won't dig up his grave?"

"This kind of situation usually lasts only a few, at most ten, generations without touching his things."

"After a long time, who would remember him? He didn't do anything great that would be remembered by the world. Thousands of years have passed since this person passed away. I think he would be willing to make one last contribution to the future generations."

"Besides, the inherited soul bones of the Body Sect were all taken from the previous sect masters! I didn't say anything, and letting him guard the soul bones for thousands of years is already quite considerate."

"The inherited soul bone has been given to A Ruheng. The soul bone of the person below is also very good and suitable for you."

"Besides, during the years when the Body Sect declined, most of the soul bones here have been taken away. I'm not the first one to do this."

"Although there aren't many soul bones here originally."

Lin Xingyu understood Muye's statement very well. Soul bones are something that a soul master will usually pass on to his descendants before his death.

Those who can be buried with soul bones are extremely rare. Not to mention the sects, even in the family, very few people do this.

People often take their own soul bones before death and leave them to their descendants. This is not an uncommon thing in Douluo Continent.

Lin Xingyu walked forward and slowly opened the heavy coffin. After the coffin was opened, Lin Xingyu looked down.

There was only a skeleton and a set of clothes in the coffin, nothing else.

There are two crystal jade soul bones in the coffin. Even after such a long time, there is still no trace of impurities on them. The luster flows and emits a hazy feeling, as if they are floating in the coffin.

These were two leg bones, one on the left and one on the right. Both were incredibly complete, without a single defect. Lin Xingyu carefully sensed the aura emanating from the bones and discovered that they were not only identical, but also intertwined. The two bones must have come from the same species of soul beast, possibly even the same beast.

"How offending!"

Lin Xingyu apologized to the senior in the coffin and carefully took out the two soul bones.

"Pack up and go back to absorb the soul bones." Makino said.

Lin Xingyu nodded and cleaned up the place carefully.

After packing up, the two returned along the same route under Makino's leadership.

Looking at the tombs around him, Lin Xingyu asked Muye curiously, "Master, the place up there is where soul beasts are killed to increase their soul rings. Why did all the seniors build their tombs here?"

It stands to reason that the upper part is a soul beast slaughterhouse, and the lower part is one's own cemetery. Who would build their own cemetery in such a haunted place? They really want to be unable to rest in peace even after death.

Hearing Lin Xingyu's words, Muye sighed and said, "There's nothing I can't tell you. I told you before that Senior Youwei got something from an ancient ruin. It's easier to form ghosts around this thing."

Hearing this, Lin Xingyu was shocked.

"These are people who have grown old but don't want to die so easily. So they've thought about transforming themselves into ghosts after death, at least to continue living in a different way. So they built their own cemeteries here. Although only a small number of people do this, over the years, there are still quite a few who do this."

"Did anyone succeed?" Lin Xingyu asked quietly. He had just taken the senior's things, and now after hearing what Muye said, Lin Xingyu felt that there were ghosts around him staring at him, and they were the kind of ghosts that had top-level cultivation in their previous lives! Anyone who could play like this must have been at least a Titled Douluo in their previous lives!

At this moment, a cold wind blew, and the soul guide in Makino's hand dimmed, and the surroundings were instantly shrouded in quiet darkness.

Lin Xingyu felt a hand gently on his shoulder, and a cool breeze blew quietly past his ear.

(End of this chapter)