Douluo Continent: The Ruler of Time, Reigning Supreme

Chapter 103 Ten Thousand Years of External Soul Bone

"It worked, it really worked!"

Scarlet Douluo Fei Yan couldn't help but show excitement on his face, his tone filled with excitement and pride.

The scene before them proclaimed that Xia Die had successfully made history, perfectly absorbing a 100,000-year soul ring with the body of a Soul King.

As one of the protectors of this Soul Hunt, she felt honored.

A slight smile finally appeared on Long Xiaoyao's usually impassive face. He nodded slowly, his eyes filled with satisfaction.

A fifth spirit ring after 100,000 years... Such an achievement is something that even he, Ye Xishui, and their old rival Mu En could never accomplish at the same age.

Even though Ye Xishui later relied on the secret methods of the Holy Spirit Cult to increase the age of her soul rings, ultimately achieving a terrifying configuration of six black and three red rings, Xia Die had already surpassed everyone else by reaching 100,000 years at the fifth ring.

Xia Die slowly stood up, feeling the surging, immense soul power within her body, far surpassing anything she had ever experienced before, as well as the new power and soul skills brought by the 100,000-year soul ring. A hint of satisfaction flashed in her purple eyes.

She successfully acquired her fifth spirit ring.

Its strength has reached a completely new level.

Despite successfully absorbing a 100,000-year soul ring and advancing to Soul King, Xia Die's state of mind remained largely unaffected.

Her gaze quickly shifted from herself and returned to the massive, mountain-like corpse of the Dark Prison Demon Owl.

A 100,000-year-old soul beast, its entire body is a treasure.

Its flesh, bones, and feathers all contain immense energy and dark origins, making them excellent materials for the evil soul masters of the Holy Spirit Cult to refine medicines, soul guides, and even cultivate certain special evil arts.

More importantly, when a 100,000-year-old soul beast dies, it will definitely produce a soul bone, and the quality of the bone is extremely high.

Long Xiaoyao and Fei Yan also stepped forward.

A 100,000-year-old soul bone is a treasure that can cause a frenzy of competition even for a titled Douluo.

As a Limit Douluo, Long Xiaoyao naturally had a different perspective, but Fei Yan, as a level 97 Super Douluo, had never possessed a 100,000-year soul bone, and his eyes couldn't help but reveal eagerness and anticipation.

Long Xiaoyao's powerful spiritual energy swept over the corpse of the Dark Prison Demon Owl and instantly sensed a core where soul power was unusually concentrated.

He pointed his fingers like a knife, and a condensed dark blade flashed, precisely slicing through the tough fur and flesh near the shoulder blade of the Dark Prison Demon Owl.

Instantly, a dark energy fluctuation, purer and more restrained than that of a soul ring, spread out.

Within that flesh and blood, lay quietly a pair of small, exquisite wing-shaped soul bones, no bigger than the palm of your hand, their bodies as black as ink, as if they were formed from the purest shadow and dark energy.

These winged soul bones are as thin as gauze, yet they give off an incredibly resilient feeling. They flow with a dark luster and faint spatial ripples.

"This is... an external soul bone?!"

Upon seeing the shape and size of the soul bone, even the well-informed Fei Yan couldn't help but gape, her face filled with shock and disbelief.

The rarity of external soul bones far surpasses that of ordinary 100,000-year soul bones.

"Little Butterfly, it seems your luck is extraordinary."

A hint of surprise flashed in Long Xiaoyao's eyes, which then turned into a smile.

He opened his hand and used his soul power to pull the pair of small black winged soul bones out of the corpse, suspending them in his palm, and then handed them to Xia Die.

A hint of surprise flashed across Xia Die's purple eyes.

She truly hadn't expected her luck to be this good.

If the Dark Prison Demon Owl had only produced a regular soul bone like a skull or arm bone, the ownership of this 100,000-year-old soul bone would have caused a stir within the Holy Spirit Cult. Even if Long Xiaoyao had personally killed the soul beast to obtain it, it was still uncertain who would ultimately get it. According to the cult's unspoken rules, she had already obtained the greatest benefit—a 100,000-year-old soul ring—so this soul bone was most likely out of her reach.

After all, the Holy Spirit Cult is a sect, and sects have rules. It's impossible for her to receive all the benefits just because she is a saintess.

Even the leader of a cult would not hoard all the benefits for himself; otherwise, the Holy Spirit Cult could not have grown to such a size.

But unfortunately, it is an externally attached soul bone.

That's a different story.

One of the most significant characteristics of external soul bones is that only soul masters who have absorbed the corresponding soul beast's soul ring can fuse and refine them.

These are the rules, and no one can change them.

In other words, this 100,000-year-old external soul bone originating from the Dark Prison Demon Owl is destined to belong only to her, Xia Die.

Xia Die didn't stand on ceremony, after all, only she could refine it.

She reached out her fair hand and calmly accepted the soul bone that Long Xiaoyao handed her.

The small, black wings felt cool to the touch, yet they seemed to resonate with the Dark Prison Demon Owl Soul Ring within her body, emitting a familiar vibration.

Fei Yan watched this scene with envy in her eyes, but without any dissatisfaction or greed.

This is Xia Die's destiny, which cannot be forced. Moreover, the external soul bone is something that others cannot use.

The external soul bone is completely different from the regular six soul bones.

Its biggest advantage lies in its scalability.

It will continue to evolve as the host's strength increases, with limitless potential.

Moreover, this starts with an external soul bone of the 100,000-year level, a starting point that is astonishingly high.

In the future, as Xia Die's strength increases, these soul bones may even evolve into artifact-level existences before she achieves godhood.

If she truly becomes a god, it's not impossible that these soul bones could undergo baptism alongside her and eventually evolve into super artifacts.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xia Die immediately sat down cross-legged again.

She slowly channeled her pure death-attribute soul power into the pair of jet-black wing-shaped soul bones in her hands.

"Om-!"

As if activated, the soul bone suddenly emitted a deep, eerie light, then transformed into two flowing black shadows. As if possessing life, they spread up Xia Die's arm and finally settled firmly on her shoulder blades.

A sharper pain than when absorbing a soul ring, as if it were tearing apart and reshaping both bones and soul, came over her, but Xia Die didn't even flinch.

She focused her mind and channeled her soul power to guide the soul bones to merge with her own bones, meridians, and even soul at the deepest level.

Dark energy swirled around her, and the faint phantom of her small wings appeared and disappeared behind her, emanating increasingly powerful spatial and dark fluctuations.

Long Xiaoyao and Fei Yan once again took on the role of protectors, quietly standing guard by their side.

They knew that once Xia Die successfully fused with this 100,000-year-old external soul bone, her strength would undergo another qualitative leap, granting her unimaginably powerful abilities.

After all, this is a 100,000-year-old soul bone, capable of granting Xia Die two 100,000-year-old soul bone skills.

(End of this chapter)