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

Chapter 115 The Fifth Soul Ring and the Fifth Soul Skill

As a 50,000-year-old soul beast, the Shadow Lord has long been intelligent. With the blessing of its top-tier bloodline, it possesses a thinking ability far exceeding that of other soul beasts of the same level.

The Shadow Lord was taken aback when he saw a human suddenly enveloped by a half-skeletal creature as large as himself.

When it saw the half-skeletal creature suddenly transform into a half-human form, and even become larger than itself, it sensed a threat.

Especially since that sword strike had ignored its scales and injured it, it dared not underestimate it.

At this moment, the boned Susanoo, now in half-human form, indeed possessed an aura that suppressed everything.

This is, after all, a super martial soul. If it were a soul beast, then the half-human form ossified Susanoo would be comparable to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

Any kind of soul beast would be suppressed when facing an existence of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's level.

However, Xia Liang knew that although he was stronger than the Shadow Lord in terms of aura, it was impossible for him to defeat someone of a higher level if they were to truly compete in strength.

What he can do now is not to hunt down the Shadow Lord himself, but to buy as much time as possible so that Dugu Bo can come to the rescue.

If even Dugu Bo cannot save me from this alternate dimension, then my fate will inevitably be to become food for this Shadow Lord.

Roar--

After letting out a roar, the Shadow Lord's massive body, which was hovering above the ground, suddenly moved. It had no ability to fly, but charged forward like a maglev train. Its huge black and purple dragon claw suddenly rose and grabbed at the boned Susanoo from a distance.

The bone-transformed Susanoo's left hand suddenly became entangled with dark energy, transforming into Xia Liang's bone dragon attached to his left palm bone, and also reached out to grab forward from a distance.

Two enormous dragon claws collided in mid-air, their palms touching and their five claws interlocking.

At that very moment, Ossified Susanoo and Shadow Lord appeared as if they had been forcibly teleported, suddenly appearing in front of each other.

The Shadow Lord swung out his free right hand, a dragon claw, while the Bone-Transformed Susanoo simultaneously thrust out his right hand, which was holding the Spiral Spear.

The dragon claw and the spiral spear collided, but it was the Shadow Lord's dragon claw that firmly grasped the spiral spear thrust by the boned Susanoo.

Both sides were engaged in a fierce contest of strength with their arms.

Suddenly, two new arms grew from the back of the boned Susanoo. The two new arms were raised high, and the palms came together and slammed down hard on the head of the Shadow Lord.

A muffled thud.

The Shadow Lord was struck in the soul by the sudden, powerful blow. The soul's backlash affected its body, causing a sharp pain in its head.

Just then, the Bone-Transformed Susanoo shook off the Shadow Lord's dragon claw that was fighting against it with its left hand, and a sharp, long black bone sprang out from its left palm, the Bone Dragon Thrust, and accurately pierced the Shadow Lord's left chest.

Although the Shadow Lord's chest was protected by thick scales, he was currently in the realm of the undead, and the Bone-Transformed Susanoo's attack was aimed directly at the soul.

The damage inflicted by the Bone Dragon Thrust hitting the Shadow Lord's chest was immediately fed back to the Shadow Lord's body through his soul.

It let out a terrible roar, and as it moved its body backward, it released the spiral spear that it had been holding tightly in its right dragon claw.

To Xia Liang's surprise, the Shadow Lord launched a counterattack the very next second after he moved backward. His left dragon claw swept across the air and shattered the left half of the Bone-Transformed Susanoo's body.

Despite being struck in the soul by the Bone Dragon's Thrust, the Shadow Lord appeared to have only suffered minor injuries to his soul, which were not fatal.

This clearly demonstrates the significant gap in strength between the two sides.

Fortunately, with the healing ability of the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone, Xia Liang activated his soul power, allowing the shattered left half of Ossified Susanoo's body to quickly repair itself.

The moment the Shadow Lord regained his footing, the Bone Susanoo returned to its original form, once again transforming into a complete half-human form wielding a spiral spear.

With exceptional analytical skills, the Shadow Lord quickly realized after their brief exchange that while he lacked the opponent's imposing presence, his actual strength far surpassed it. If the fight continued in this manner, his dragon claws would surely tear his opponent to shreds.

Roar--

With a roar, the Shadow Lord seemed to be declaring its dominance in this alternate dimension. It swept its claws forward, and two huge, intersecting claw marks flashed by, exploding remotely on the boned Susanoo.

Suffering such a sudden attack, Xia Liang had no chance to react. When he looked up, he saw that the ossified Susanoo in its half-human form only had a third of its ribs covering it, while the rest of its upper body had been pulverized.

Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone continued to heal, its super-strong regenerative power rapidly restoring the broken, massive ribs to their original state, growing a skull and arms, before donning a black-purple energy cloak and re-entering its massive half-human form.

Just as the Shadow Lord was about to launch another attack, Xia Liang had already manipulated the spiral spear held in the right hand of the Bone-Transformed Susanoo and thrust it out suddenly.

Also an attack from a distance, the Spiral Spear struck the Shadow Lord's chest without warning. The umbrella-shaped spiral spear spun wildly, piercing the Shadow Lord's chest like an electric drill.

Under the amplification of the Undead Domain, the Shadow Lord's soul was suddenly subjected to such a frenzied attack from the Spiral Spear, and finally suffered severe damage.

It was at this moment that...

Everything around suddenly froze.

Whether it's the spiraling spear spinning wildly, or the bone-transformed Susanoo and Xia Liang trapped inside, it's all a testament to this.

Everything in the entire alternate dimension was frozen in time.

Xia Liang initially thought it was a skill of the Shadow Lord, but he could see that the huge Shadow Lord on the other side was also stationary.

If this time-stopping ability isn't the Shadow Lord's, then who is it?

A moment later, the entire alternate dimension shattered suddenly, like panes of transparent glass.

When Xia Liang realized what was happening, he found that he and the Shadow Lord had already left that dark, alternate dimension.

With penetrating vision, the thick black mist revealed a stone forest.

He had already broken free from the Shadow Lord's alternate dimension and returned to Death Canyon, back to the dimension that truly belonged to him.

Although his body remained still, Xia Liang's thoughts did not stop. He saw a jade-green pearl floating in mid-air in front of him.

The emerald green pearl seemed to be sucked in by something, and suddenly flew into the mouth of an old man with dark green hair.

Upon seeing the elderly man with dark green hair, Xia Liang felt relieved, for this man was none other than Dugu Bo.

As we know from the original work, Dugu Bo's eighth soul skill can freeze time. It seems that the freezing of time for himself and the Shadow Lord was all done by Dugu Bo.

Upon noticing Xia Liang appear before him, Dugu Bo's heart finally relaxed a little. His gaze was first drawn to the frozen half-humanoid ossified Susanoo, and then to the equally frozen Shadow Lord.

"Kid, it's amazing you've managed to hold out for so long against a 50,000-year-old soul beast. Your skeletal martial soul is really starting to look more and more human."

As he spoke, the Medusa Soul Bone on Dugu Bo's forehead was released, and a grayish-white ray of light shot out from the Soul Bone, heading straight for the motionless Shadow Lord.

When the grayish-white beam struck the Shadow Lord's back, there was no sound of an explosion, but the Shadow Lord's back, which was hit by the arrow, began to petrify.

Then, its towering ten-meter-tall body gradually turned into stone, eventually becoming a huge gray-white statue.

This is precisely Dugu Bo's head soul bone skill, Medusa's Gaze. It can petrify any target, including energy attacks.

The effect of the eighth soul skill, Time Freeze, has been removed.

Everything within a radius of several thousand square meters regained its freedom; the black mist that had been frozen in time, the wind, and the fallen leaves finally began to move.

Xia Liang was also free to move around. The boned Susanoo that was covering him immediately retracted the Spiral Spear to avoid shattering the Shadow Lord who had been completely petrified.

"After being petrified by my Medusa Gaze, this Shadow Lord shouldn't live much longer. Letting it go would be a waste. Kid, since you want to absorb its spirit ring, then hurry up and do it. After killing it, we must leave as soon as possible. Making such a commotion will surely bring those spirit masters from the Spirit Hall here."

After the last word faded away, Dugu Bo had already flown more than fifty meters away.

"Understood, senior." Xia Liang replied, then manipulated the boned Susanoo to grip the spiral spear with both hands in reverse and thrust it fiercely into the ground.

The telekinetic attack effect was activated. The spiral spear, which had been embedded in the ground, suddenly slammed down from above the completely petrified Shadow Lord's head. The wildly spinning spear continued to pierce through the Shadow Lord's head, but it could not kill him.

To Dugu Bo's surprise, the Shadow Lord's thick scale armor actually mitigated some of the petrification damage from Medusa's gaze, so the Shadow Lord still had the strength to resist.

Just as the spiral spear pierced its head, the petrification effect on the Shadow Lord was lifted. It raised its two dragon claws and gripped the wildly spinning spiral spear, struggling in its death throes.

Seeing this, Xia Liang controlled the boned Susanoo's left hand to sweep diagonally upwards, and a huge claw mark suddenly struck the Shadow Lord's chin, sending it flying into the air.

At the same time, Xia Liang activated the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone skill to fly, and the huge boned Susanoo flew towards the floating Shadow Lord and thrust out a wildly spinning spiral spear.

Whoosh, swish swish swish—

The spiral spear pierced the Shadow Lord's chest with a loud whooshing sound. As the Bone-Transformed Susanoo forcibly twisted its body in mid-air, the spinning spiral spear forcefully flung the Shadow Lord's massive body to the ground.

As the Shadow Lord crashed to the ground, another spiral spear thrust out from a distance. The wildly spinning spear, amplified by the Undead Domain, finally pierced the Shadow Lord's soul.

The Shadow Lord's physical body suffered the same severe damage.

Ossified Susanoo pulled the Spiral Spear from the Shadow Lord's body, dragging out its soul in the process.

The Spiral Spear is a new weapon formed by the fusion of Susanoo's Claw and Totsuka Blade. It not only possesses the Susanoo's Claw's ability to devour but also the Totsuka Blade's ability to seal souls and dissolve bones.

The moment the Shadow Lord's soul was dragged out by the Spiral Spear, it was sealed within the spine of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul.

Once the Shadow Lord's soul is completely refined, the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul will grow the Shadow Lord's most outstanding body parts as external soul bones.

Suspended fifty meters away, Dugu Bo could not see the undead, so he naturally did not know the whole process of the Spiral Gun sealing the Shadow Lord's undead.

He only discovered through his senses that the Shadow Lord, after being petrified by Medusa's gaze and then tortured to death, was now completely dead.

With the Ossified Susanoo state deactivated, Xia Liang simultaneously retrieved the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone and landed safely. After a series of battles, his soul power was almost depleted. If it weren't for the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone's healing ability that restored his strength and physical condition, he probably would have fainted.

Death Canyon, Core Area.

Inside a cave somewhere.

After eating a giant recovery sausage, Xia Liang's soul power had recovered to one-third.

He sat cross-legged in front of the Shadow Lord's corpse and used his soul power to guide the black ten-thousand-year soul ring floating on the corpse into his body.

Dugu Bo sat to one side, his mental energy vigilantly sensing the area within a thousand meters to prevent any soul beasts or soul masters from disturbing him.

This time, Xia Liang is going to absorb a 50,000-year-old fifth spirit ring, and he must eliminate all external factors and unexpected situations. The rest is up to Xia Liang himself.

After all, outsiders can't help a Soul Master absorb a Soul Ring.

Watching Xia Liang begin absorbing the Shadow Lord's spirit ring with worry, Dugu Bo felt a pang of regret. He realized he had acted too impulsively. If he failed to absorb the spirit ring, he would not only lose a grandson-in-law with such high talent and a deep friendship, but he would also have no face to face his granddaughter.

However, Dugu Bo's worries were unnecessary.

Because he didn't know that, in addition to absorbing spirit rings beyond his level and consuming immortal herbs, Xia Liang had also eaten a large amount of whale glue to enhance his physical fitness.

In addition, he also possesses a left palm bone of a bone dragon that is already ten thousand years old and a right leg bone of a blue silver emperor that is one hundred thousand years old.

How could a body modified by a 100,000-year-old soul bone possibly fail to withstand the energy impact of a 50,000-year-old soul ring?

Furthermore, since the Shadow Lord's soul has been sealed within the spine of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul, the Shadow Lord's Soul Ring absorbed at this time will not have any accompanying soul vibration, making it much easier to absorb.

And this has been proven true.

After guiding the Shadow Lord's spirit ring into his body, Xia Liang only spent three hours taming and fully absorbing the spirit ring's energy.

At this moment, he was skillfully using the fifth soul skill granted by the Shadow Lord's soul ring in his spiritual world.

It was only after the series of battles that Xia Liang learned that in addition to top-tier dark attributes, the Shadow Lord also possessed top-tier spatial attributes.

After absorbing the Bone Dragon Soul Ring, the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul already possessed a trace of spatial power. This time, with the modification of the Shadow Lord Soul Ring, the Martial Soul truly awakened its spatial attributes.

After using Susanoo's Claw to devour the Shadow Lord's corpse, the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul should be able to get closer to the top-tier spatial attributes.

Looking back on his experience of being suddenly dragged into another dimension, Xia Liang couldn't help but feel a lingering fear. Fortunately, everything went smoothly. With the fifth soul skill granted by the Shadow Lord's soul ring, he no longer had to worry about being taken into another dimension to fight by enemies.

Because the fifth soul skill, Dark Territory, is not only a domain-type skill, but also an ability to create another dimension.

Surprisingly, the alternate dimension created by the fifth soul skill was connected to the realm of the dead.

In other words, the current realm of the dead is essentially a storage soul tool, possessing the effect of an alternate dimension capable of storing inanimate or living objects.

After activating the fifth soul skill, one can suck oneself or others into a different dimension within the realm of the dead.

(End of this chapter)