Douluo Continent has a system, but I don't want to use it.

Chapter 32 External Soul Bone

"What do you mean I have a weird brain? You're the one who's a pervert," Qiu Fengyan retorted.

"Alright, let's not discuss whether it's weird or weird. Let's eat quickly and get some rest; we have things to do tomorrow." Fang Tian stopped talking as soon as he saw the food being served.

Early the next morning, Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan set off for the Star Dou Great Forest.

This time, Fang Tian chose the Red Fragrance Vine as his soul beast. The Red Fragrance Vine has extremely vigorous vitality and can adapt to almost any environment. Therefore, it is possible to find Red Fragrance Vine anywhere in the Star Dou Great Forest.

However, its favorite place to grow is still broad-leaved forests on mountain slopes, valleys, or streamsides at an altitude of about 1000 to 1200 meters.

Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan then began their search, targeting these specific locations.

Red vine is indeed very common; the two found traces of it in the very first place they searched. However, this particular red vine was quite young, only about a thousand years old.

Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan had no choice but to turn away and continue their search.

This time, Fang Tian is going to hunt a soul beast that is less than 23,000 years old. Soul beasts of this age have entered the 10,000-year-old soul beast area in the central part of the Star Dou Great Forest, making the hunt even more dangerous than the previous ones.

Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan tried their best to avoid ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. Although the speed of most ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts was negligible to the two of them, they still tried to avoid unnecessary battles.

"There are red vines ahead. I can smell a faint fragrance that makes me want to sleep," Qiu Fengyan suddenly said.

This is the fifth day since they entered the Star Dou Great Forest. Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan have encountered several soul beasts over 30,000 years old and have been chased by them several times.

Both of them relied on their speed to outrun the soul beasts, but they were also in a rather disheveled state.

These encounters with soul beasts over 30,000 years old all took place in areas with red vines.

The red vine has a brown outer bark and is very vigorous, growing three to five meters each year. It blooms year-round with red flowers that are intensely fragrant.

The fragrance of the red vine can make anyone or any spirit beast that smells it fall asleep quickly, and in their sleep, they can rapidly recover their vitality and spirit power.

Therefore, the Red Fragrant Vine is guarded by spirit beasts. The Red Fragrant Vine encountered in the previous encounters was quite old, and the guardian spirit beasts they encountered were also quite old. Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan simply ran away.

On the seventh day after entering the Star Dou Great Forest, Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan finally encountered a Red Fragrance Vine of suitable age in a valley. The guardian spirit beast of this Red Fragrance Vine was a 15,000-year-old Swift.

Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan breathed a sigh of relief when they saw it was a swift. Swifts have virtually no offensive capabilities, their only notable strength being their speed.

The swift took to the air, neither attacking the two nor leaving immediately. It simply circled overhead.

Red Fragrant Vine is easy to hunt because it has no other attack methods besides inducing sleep. However, the Swift with the Sharp Tail is more troublesome; I'm afraid it might suddenly come and ambush me while I'm absorbing the Soul Ring.

After discussing it, Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan decided to lure the swifts down and kill them.

Qiu Fengyan held her breath and walked towards the red vine, swinging her goose-feather knife and pretending to chop off some branches. Fang Tian also stood at a suitable distance, his left hand gripping a throwing knife, poised to strike.

"Feng Yan, watch out!"

Seeing Qiu Fengyan relentlessly cutting down the red vines, the swift finally couldn't resist and swooped down towards her.

Qiu Fengyan had been carefully watching the movements of the swift. When he saw it coming towards him, he used the Nine Palaces Blade Step to slide to the side at near-sonic speed for thirty meters.

Seeing that the wild goose had dodged, the swift tilted its wings and flew in an arc to chase after its target.

Taking advantage of the moment when the swift adjusted its posture, Fang Tian launched a throwing knife. The knife flew out at supersonic speed, flashing like a streak of light, and struck the swift's eye.

"Bang!" That's when the sound finally spread.

However, the Swift was already dead. After following the direction it had been chasing Qiu Fengyan for several dozen meters, it crashed to the ground with a thud. A black spirit ring slowly formed above the Swift.

Fang Tian glanced at it and then ignored it, focusing his attention on the red vine instead.

This 20,000-year-old red vine has climbed all over the valley, blooming with red flowers everywhere, making it a truly beautiful sight.

However, Fang Tian was not in the mood to appreciate it and immediately activated the recognition system.

Name: Red Fragrant Vine

Duration: 22000 years

Soul Skills: Slumber, Adaptability

"That's good, the age is just right." Fang Tian nodded.

Holding his breath, he located the main stem and began to chop it down. Fang Tian moved calmly.

Finally, a black spirit ring slowly took shape above the red vine.

Fang Tian sat cross-legged and began absorbing the soul ring, while Qiu Fengyan carefully guarded her surroundings.

Fangtian's Meridian Exercise can now complete up to 90 cycles per day, of which 81 cycles are fixed and the remaining 9 cycles are self-propelled.

It's definitely much faster to absorb than the Meridian Skill at the pinnacle of mastery.

The residual consciousness of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast was nothing to Fang Tian's Soul Emperor-level spiritual power; it was directly crushed and torn apart.

However, it still took three hours to absorb this spirit ring that was over 20,000 years old.

Fang Tian glanced at the system; his soul power had reached level 52.5, and he had gained a new soul skill—Fragrant Sleep. Falling asleep amidst the fragrance of flowers allowed his soul power and life force to recover five times faster than before.

Fang Tian released his martial spirit. Nothing else changed except that the vines were adorned with a few small red flowers that continuously emitted a fragrance.

After Fang Tian understood the extent of his strength increase, he beckoned Qiu Fengyan to walk towards the dead swift.

When Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan first hunted souls in the Star Dou Great Forest, they were relatively weak and could barely protect themselves. After attaching soul rings, they were in a hurry to return for safety.

He subconsciously overlooked the value of the soul beast's corpse. Fang Tian had only recently obtained the storage belt and had forgotten its function.

That set of Gold-Eating Beast scales was just thrown away for nothing.

Looking back, Fang Tian was filled with regret and beat his chest in despair.

Later, when they hunted spirit beasts again, the two would try their best to bring back some useful items.

The flowers of the red vine are now used as medicinal herbs, and the meat of the swiftlet can be kept for personal consumption. Fang Tian decided to take some back with him.

Qiu Fengyan unleashed her martial spirit, the Goose Feather Blade, slicing open the skin of the swift and dismembering it into pieces. Fang Tian then stored the meat in his storage belt.

"Hmm, there's something here!" Fang Tian felt that the wings of the swift were somewhat different.

"Feng Yan, cut open the wing of the swift and take a look. It seems there's a soul bone inside," Fang Tian suddenly said urgently.

Qiu Fengyan swung her knife and sliced ​​open the wing, a clanging sound rang out. After a few more cuts, she finally produced a small pair of wing spirit bones.

"An external soul bone! It really is an external soul bone!" Although Fang Tian had expected it beforehand, he was still very excited to actually see it.

(End of this chapter)