The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 114 Ossified Susanoo, Second Form

a few days later.

After a five-day journey with frequent stops and starts, we finally arrived at our destination.

At this moment, Xia Liang and Dugu Bo were suspended high above the core area of ​​Death Canyon.

To avoid being discovered by the Spirit Hall's Soul Masters during the fall, Xia Liang used the Bone Dragon Dagger to teleport Dugu Bo directly from the sky to a secluded mountain forest in the core area.

"Kid, you actually have the same spatial teleportation ability as Old Bones?"

Dugu Bo looked at Xia Liang in surprise as he retrieved the Bone Dragon Dagger.

Xia Liang didn't hide anything and said, "Bone Douluo's martial soul is the Bone Dragon, which has both darkness and space attributes. My third soul ring was obtained from the Bone Dragon soul beast, and my third soul skill inherited a part of the Bone Dragon's spatial power."

Dugu Bo suddenly realized, "No wonder when we sparred before, your movement speed was so fast that even my eyes couldn't keep up. So it was a teleportation effect caused by spatial attributes?"

"Hmm." Xia Liang responded and put the bone dragon dagger into his silver bracelet. He used his X-ray vision to scan his surroundings and then determined the direction of the Shadow Lord.

"Senior, let's go. The soul beast I'm hunting is just ten miles ahead."

As he spoke, Xia Liang walked towards the gloomy mountain forest ahead. With Dugu Bo protecting him and the undead skeletons providing defense, he didn't have to worry about the powerful soul beasts in the core area suddenly launching a sneak attack.

"The Shadow Lord is the dark soul beast we're hunting this time. I only know from some books that this type of soul beast has ancient bloodlines and should possess two top-tier attributes. But so far, all I know is the dark attribute. The Shadow Lord's habitat is a stone forest shrouded in dark aura. Not to mention soul masters, even powerful soul beasts dare not approach it. This shows that this dark aura must pose a huge threat."

After listening to Xia Liang's explanation, Dugu Bo smiled faintly, "This shrouded darkness sounds quite like the Azure Phosphorous Serpent Venom Array I set up in Sunset Forest. Kid, how dare you search for soul beasts in the core area of ​​Death Valley all by yourself? Did that long-distance spatial teleportation give you the courage?"

"Of course not." Xia Liang suddenly stopped in his tracks, and the dark purple ghost fire hidden in the shadows suddenly flew out and circled around him and Dugu Bo.

Dugu Bo thought it was a sneak attack by a horde of soul beasts and was about to activate his soul power to defend himself when Xia Liang stopped him. "Senior, don't worry, these ghost flames are my martial soul abilities. They are connected to my soul and can act freely according to my will. I always rely on them when I search for soul beasts. This time is no exception."

First, there was the ability to travel long distances through space, then the ability to locate the ghostly flames of soul beasts. Upon learning of this series of abilities, Dugu Bo looked at Xia Liang with some surprise, "Tell me quickly, how many more amazing skills are you hiding?"

"There's no special skill involved, just some minor tricks," Xia Liang said, getting back to the main point. "Senior, there are no more 100,000-year-old soul beasts in Death Valley. With your current strength, you should be able to roam freely. But just to be safe, we should still be careful. If given enough time to grow, this Shadow Lord will definitely become the next 100,000-year-old soul beast in Death Valley. So, during the battle, you must not be careless."

"I've felt threatened every moment since we entered. It seems Death Valley is even more dangerous than before. Kid, hold on tight, I need to speed things up."

As he spoke, Dugu Boteng stood up, and Xia Liang immediately grabbed his belt, and the two of them quickly traveled away at breakneck speed.

Three minutes later.

Dugu Bo stopped in front of a dark stone forest and discovered that the surrounding boulders were arranged in a mysterious stone formation.

Within the stone formation, which was thirty meters in diameter, thick black fog flowed. The eerie and sinister atmosphere made even this titled Douluo extremely vigilant.

Standing behind Dugu Bo, Xia Liang maximized his mental power. The penetrating power formed by his eyesight and mental power broke through the thick black fog in front of him, and he could finally see the scene 500 meters away in a straight line.

What came into his view was a colossal creature that was ten meters tall.

It was a dragon-shaped soul beast with a blackish-purple body and a height of ten meters. Its eyes were golden. It only had a burly upper body, and its entire body was suspended off the ground. The black scales covering its chest and limbs were as solid and heavy as armor.

On the forehead of this imposing dark dragon-shaped soul beast, there is a single black horn growing forward.

On its two shoulders, there are two thick scales and two strong dragon claws. A dark purple aura surrounds each long and sharp claw, making people shudder.

This should be the Shadow Lord, a top-tier dark soul beast with ancient bloodlines.

With his X-ray vision activated, Xia Liang could clearly see that the Shadow Lord's skeleton was white overall, but the eye bones at the head were dark gold.

Based on the previous experience with the Death Spider, the Shadow Lord's eye bone might be a nascent soul bone. It could be a head soul bone or an external soul bone related to the eyes.

With the Bone Observation Realm lifted, the Shadow Lord in Xia Liang's eyes gradually transformed from a white skeletal form back into a flesh and blood body.

Through X-ray vision, it can be seen that the soul power flowing within this Shadow Lord is black, indicating that its cultivation level has reached ten thousand years.

Judging from the thickness of its soul power, it has at least 50,000 years of cultivation.

Xia Liang frowned. His fourth soul ring was a ten-thousand-year limit. If he were to absorb a fifty-thousand-year soul ring, it would undoubtedly be another case of absorbing a soul ring beyond his level.

Moreover, the Shadow Lord possesses top-tier soul beast bloodline. Although it only has 50,000 years of cultivation, the soul ring energy it generates is definitely more difficult to tame than that of an ordinary 60,000-year-old soul beast.

"Kid, what's wrong?" Dugu Bo noticed the change in Xia Liang's expression.

Xia Liang deliberately concealed his X-ray vision ability, saying, "I just learned from the information transmitted back by the will-o'-the-wisps that the Shadow Lord hidden in the black mist ahead has reached a cultivation level of 50,000 years. This is beyond my expectations."

"Fifty thousand years?" Dugu Bo said thoughtfully. "Even a Soul Saint wouldn't dare to easily absorb a fifty thousand-year Soul Ring when he's at the seventh Soul Ring level. You're just a level 50 Quasi-Soul King. Absorbing a fifty thousand-year fifth Soul Ring would be tantamount to courting death."

"Kid, let's go. Let's look for more soul beasts in other parts of the core area. Forget about this 50,000-year-old Shadow Lord."

With that, Dugu Bo turned and left.

"Wait, senior, I'd like to think about it some more," Xia Liang said. "Have you forgotten? My fourth spirit ring is a ten-thousand-year spirit ring, and my third spirit ring is limited to five thousand years."

"From beginning to end, I absorbed every single one of my spirit rings at a level higher than my own. My physical strength is several times better than that of other spirit masters. Moreover, I have also consumed several top-grade immortal herbs. Whether it is physical fitness or mental strength, I am absolutely qualified to absorb a fifth spirit ring with an age of around 40,000 years. This Shadow Lord with a cultivation of 50,000 years, perhaps I can give it a try."

After hearing this story, Dugu Bo hesitated. He didn't want his decision to cause the death of his grandson-in-law.

At this moment, a strange movement suddenly appeared in the black mist ahead. A huge blackish-purple dragon claw emerged from the black mist and grabbed Xia Liang in its hand as if it were taking something out of thin air.

Immediately afterward, as the dark purple dragon claw retracted, Xia Liang vanished from the spot.

Upon seeing this, Dugu Bo immediately reacted and activated the Azure Serpent King Possession. Without hesitation, his seventh spirit ring lit up, and he unleashed his seventh spirit, the Azure Serpent King True Form. In a flash, he transformed into a 30-meter-long emerald green python.

The very next second Xia Liang was grabbed into the black mist by the black-purple dragon claw, Dugu Bo, who had transformed into the Azure Scale Serpent King, also rushed into the black mist.

The Title Douluo's soul power suddenly erupted, and centered on the thirty-meter-long Azure Scale Serpent King, the surging soul power aura swept up, instantly dispersing the black mist covering a radius of hundreds of meters.

When the black mist dissipated and the surrounding vision returned to clear, Dugu Bo was surprised to see that the Shadow Lord and Xia Liang, who had been hiding in the black mist, had disappeared.

What's going on?

Dugu Bo, transformed into the Azure Scale Serpent King, nervously surveyed his surroundings. His spiritual power covered an area of ​​nearly a thousand meters, yet he still could not find any trace of Xia Liang or the Shadow Lord.

It felt like the goal had vanished into thin air.

A moment later, the dispelled black mist reformed, enveloping the area within a radius of several hundred meters, along with Dugu Bo, who had transformed into the Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.

Dugu Bo belatedly realized that he had seen such a strange ability before on that old man from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Darkness descended, and mysterious disappearances occurred.

Could it be that this Shadow Lord, like that old bone, also possesses top-tier spatial attributes?

Does that mean Xia Liang might have been captured and taken into the alternate dimension that formed around him?

Dugu Bo was no stranger to spatial attributes. His eighth soul skill, Time Freeze, was a time-attribute soul skill with enough power to completely freeze time within a radius of several thousand square meters.

Time and space are complementary.

Dugu Bo didn't know if Xia Liang had been taken into the surrounding alternate dimension by the Shadow Lord. In order to prevent any accidents from happening, he could only consume a huge amount of soul power to activate his eighth soul skill, Time Freeze.

Only by freezing the space within the range of the soul skill can the Shadow Lord in a certain space be prevented from harming Xia Liang.

The eighth spirit ring lit up on Dugu Bo's body, its black light illuminating the snake's body and instantly turning the emerald green into dark green.

Dugu Bo, who had transformed into the Azure Serpent King, suddenly spat out an emerald green serpent king's inner core from his mouth.

A bizarre scene unfolded: the flowing black mist, the wind, and the falling leaves all froze in mid-air.

Within an area of ​​several thousand square meters, everything was suddenly frozen in time.

This eighth soul skill requires an enormous amount of soul power. Dugu Bo would never use it lightly unless absolutely necessary.

He only hoped that after freezing the time of an area of ​​several thousand square meters, he could successfully rescue his grandson-in-law who was trapped in a certain space within that area.

at the same time.

Dugu Bo's location is in another real space.

Xia Liang was being held in the hands of the ten-meter-tall Shadow Lord, and it was only thanks to his timely use of his dark purple ribs to cover his entire body that he was not crushed to death in an instant.

Looking back at what had just happened, Xia Liang never imagined that the Shadow Lord, hundreds of meters away, would ignore the obstacles and grab him as if he were being taken from thin air.

At this moment, he was held in mid-air by the Shadow Lord's huge dragon claw, his body less than three meters away from the Shadow Lord's oppressive dragon-shaped head.

Staring at the golden eyes beneath the black horn on the Shadow Lord's forehead, Xia Liang swallowed hard. He realized that he couldn't use spatial attributes to escape the Shadow Lord's dragon claws.

It was at this moment that he realized that in addition to the top-tier dark attribute, the Shadow Lord's other top-tier attribute was actually space.

Because his spatial attributes were suppressed by the Shadow Lord's top-tier spatial attributes, he was unable to use spatial jump or spatial teleportation to escape.

If you can't escape, you have no choice but to fight.

As Xia Liang thought of something, the dark purple ribs covering his entire body suddenly sprouted skulls and two arms.

Within the dragon claws tightly gripped by the Shadow Lord, the ossified Susanoo's half-skeletal form gradually expanded from three meters to eight meters.

The fusion skill, involving four soul rings—two yellow, one purple, and one black—was activated.

As Susanoo entered its armed form, a pair of horns grew from its head, and its thick, bear-like right hand drew a ten-fist sword from behind and slashed at the Shadow Lord's right shoulder.

The Susanoo Bow in his left hand transformed into the Susanoo Claw, stabbing fiercely towards the Shadow Lord's chest.

To Xia Liang's surprise, the Totsuka Blade and Susanoo's Claw struck the Shadow Lord's right shoulder and chest respectively, but failed to break through the scales protecting those areas.

The thick, black scales covering it were as solid and unshakeable as armor.

The Undead Domain is activated.

With the added effect of attacking the soul, the Totsuka Sword that struck the Shadow Lord's right shoulder finally dealt damage.

Seemingly feeling the pain of his soul being struck, the Shadow Lord let out a miserable cry, and the dragon claws gripping Xia Liang's body suddenly loosened.

At that moment, Xia Liang activated the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone skill to fly, quickly landing on the ground and creating a 20-meter distance between himself and the Shadow Lord.

Blue Silver Emperor activated his right leg bone healing skill, allowing Xia Liang to take the opportunity to repair the several ribs that had been crushed inside his body. The various injuries on his body caused by the Shadow Lord's dragon claw grip were also rapidly recovering.

Judging from the dark surroundings, this must be an alternate dimension created by the Shadow Lord.

The ability to see through the barrier of another dimension was useless, and I don't know how Dugu Bo is doing.

Roar--

Seemingly enraged by the wound to its soul inflicted by the Ten Fist Sword, the Shadow Lord opened its massive, dark purple claws wide to the sides and unleashed a furious roar from the air.

Faced with this unexpected situation, Xia Liang knew that all he could do was give it his all.

With the successful fusion of the fourth spirit ring, the bone-transformed Susanoo that enveloped him underwent a completely new change.

Suddenly, the ossified Susanoo's bright yellow eyes flashed with dazzling light.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of blackish-purple fibers composed of iron wire energy bodies and flesh and blood surged out wildly from behind the ossified Susanoo.

After the skeletonized Susanoo was wrapped into a fleshy half-human form, a black and purple energy cloak made of condensed fibers was draped over the back of the half-human Susanoo, and a black and purple hood covered its head.

After the series of changes ended, standing before the Shadow Lord was a half-humanoid skeletal Susanoo wielding a black-purple spear.

The dark purple spear takes the form of a straight umbrella, a new weapon created by combining the Susanoo Claw with the Totsuka Blade as the umbrella's axis after it evolved into the Eight Spider Spears with the external soul bone.

Xia Liang was enveloped inside the 12-meter-tall, half-humanoid ossified Susanoo. He used his mind to control the black-purple spear held in the right hand of the ossified Susanoo. The huge, umbrella-shaped spear suddenly began to spin, emitting a piercing buzzing sound like a spiral drill.

Spiral Spear—that's the name of the dark purple spear.

At this moment, the enormous black-purple humanoid half-body Susanoo, which is two heads taller than the Shadow Lord, is the strongest form of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul. It not only has the superimposed amplification of the first four Soul Skills, but also gains a 50% increase in all attributes.

With the support of the Undead Domain and the Spiral Gun, it possesses exceptional close-combat capabilities.

(End of this chapter)