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

Chapter 116 Dimensional Transformation, Odd-Colored Gastly

To be precise, a hundred-meter-wide alternate dimension was created within the Undead Domain only after the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul awakened its spatial attribute.

The fifth soul skill, Shadow Territory, is essentially the gate to this alternate dimension.

Once the Soul Skill is activated, the caster can freely open or close the gate to this alternate dimension for half an hour, thus enabling free entry and exit from the alternate dimension, or summoning something within it.

Each operation on this alternate dimension consumes a certain amount of soul power. The greater the difficulty of the operation, the more soul power is consumed.

After simulating the fifth soul skill, Shadow Territory, several times in the spiritual world, Xia Liang discovered that this alternate dimension had a magical use.

For example, when you enter another dimension, you will be in a blurred state for a few seconds.

This ethereal state differs from Xiao Wu's sixth soul skill, Void, in the original work.

Xiao Wu's Void effect grants immunity to all non-energy physical attacks and reduces any energy attack by 50%.

The fifth soul skill, Shadow Territory, produces a holographic effect that makes the body completely transparent. Unless you attack the moment the holographic effect disappears, any attack below the god level will be nullified as if it hits a soul without a physical body.

Furthermore, the hundred-meter-wide alternate dimension created within the realm of the dead has another ingenious use: it can store Gastly's essence.

Previously, Haunter was a one-time energy entity. When it was destroyed and then summoned again, it was a completely new Haunter in its initial state.

Now that we have this alternate dimension, we can preserve Gastly's original essence within it.

If its original form is not damaged, even if Gastly is destroyed countless times, it will still be the same Gastly when it is summoned again.

This means that Gastly, like a spirit beast, can turn its past experiences, learned knowledge, or mastered skills into experience, and become stronger and better by constantly accumulating various experiences.

There was once a theory that Gastly would consume Snow Swan Kiss to stimulate its undead attribute energy and death aura, and awaken a poison attribute similar to a death virus.

It now appears that this idea is feasible.

If you create a Gastly Origin in another dimension, the herbal power obtained by that Gastly from eating the Snow Swan's Kiss will be stored in the Origin.

By activating the source, you can summon the poison-type Gastly, which possesses the medicinal power of the Snow Swan Kiss.

At that moment, a sudden, sharp pain in his eyes caused Xia Liang to scream in agony.

ahhh-

Dugu Bo, who was sitting cross-legged to the side, was startled by the scream and immediately cast a worried glance at him.

This has happened before. When absorbing a spirit ring, there is a sudden, intense pain as the bones grow. This is because an external spirit bone is being absorbed along with the spirit ring.

Xia Liang then remembered that when he used his X-ray vision to observe bones, he saw that the Shadow Lord's skeleton was white overall, except for the eye bones, which were dark gold.

At the time, it was determined that it might be a rudimentary form of a soul bone.

When this Shadow Lord dies, it will either produce a head soul bone or an external soul bone related to its eyes.

It now seems to be the latter.

Fortunately, the person sitting next to her was Dugu Bo. After going through so much and having confirmed their relationship, Dugu Bo shouldn't have any ill intentions towards his grandson-in-law for a piece of external soul bone, right?

Not long ago, Dugu Bo consumed a huge amount of soul power to activate his eighth soul skill, Time Freeze. His current soul power should be less than one-third of its full strength.

If he really did try to harm his grandson-in-law for a piece of external soul bone, he could only use his fifth soul skill to hide in another dimension and then try to escape.

Dugu Bo got up and walked to Xia Liang. Suddenly, he saw a strange scene.

Dark golden lines, like living things, crawled out from the corners of Xia Liang's tightly closed eyes and then spread to his ears.

With each inch that a dark gold line spreads, Xia Liang's eye bone suffers the pain of being slashed.

At the same time, he found that his eyesight was constantly improving amidst the intense cutting pain, and the range of his mental perception was sometimes expanding and sometimes shrinking, just like the beating of a heart.

Each expansion and contraction increases the overall scope of mental perception.

It seemed that Dugu Bo's heart finally eased a little after realizing that the change in Xia Liang's eyes was not a negative effect caused by absorbing the soul ring. He quickly came up with a guess, which was that it was a soul bone.

The dark gold patterns covering the corners of Xia Liang's eyes at this moment should be a head soul bone, but it looks different from ordinary head soul bones.

About half an hour later.

The changes at the corners of Xia Liang's eyes finally stopped, and the dark gold patterns that covered the corners of his eyes all converged into his pupils.

When he suddenly opened his eyes, a strong dark golden light emanated from them, causing Dugu Bo to instinctively shield his eyes.

The moment Xia Liang opened his eyes, he discovered that he could sense everything within a radius of 500 meters. This perception was accompanied by X-ray vision.

Everything within a radius of 500 meters, including bushes, rocks, and various spirit beasts, was presented without any omissions in Xia Liang's mental world, which temporarily transformed his mental world into a vast ecological environment map.

Xia Liang was astonished to find that, with the combined effect of his spiritual perception and X-ray vision, he could see through everything within a 500-meter radius without any blind spots. Even a Title Douluo probably couldn't achieve that.

His own eyes, it seemed, had evolved to a breathtaking level after being enhanced by the "Looking Through Autumn Waters" technique, top-tier spiritual attributes, and this 50,000-year-old external eye bone.

In terms of eyesight and mental strength alone, I am definitely stronger than Dugu Bo, a titled Douluo. If I have time, I can try to condense a spiritual core.

After comprehending the imprinted information in his mind, Xia Liang learned that what he had successfully absorbed was an external eye bone.

After the soul bone is released, the eyes will turn golden due to the stimulation of the soul bone's energy.

In addition to greatly enhancing eyesight and mental strength, this external eye bone can also be used to unleash various spatial attribute skills through eyesight.

For example, previously the only way to apply black flames to a target was through a skeletal arm as a conduit.

Now, simply by using an external eye bone to enhance eyesight, one can ignite black flames on a target from a distance.

For example, with keen eyesight combined with spatial attributes, one can forcibly twist off a target's limbs from a distance and send them into another dimension.

The spatial properties of the external eye bone also have another function: temporarily transferring attacks or objects that overlap with the body into another dimension, thus achieving another form of etherealization.

In other words, in the future, when facing any non-mental attack, with the support of the fifth soul skill and the external eye bone, one will be able to use two forms of ethereal defense. This way, even when facing a full-force attack from a Title Douluo, one can be guaranteed two death-exemption tokens.

"Kid, are you alright?" Dugu Bo asked with concern.

Xia Liang shook his head. "I'm fine, senior. Don't worry, I successfully absorbed the Shadow Lord's soul ring. I'm now a level 56 Soul King."

"A six-level jump in soul power? How is that possible?" Dugu Bo was incredulous.

"Nothing is impossible." Xia Liang smiled. "Think about it, I absorbed a 50,000-year-old fifth spirit ring. What's more, I also fused with a 50,000-year-old external eye bone as a result."

"An external eye bone?" Dugu Bo suddenly realized. "Could this soul bone be related to your eyes suddenly turning golden?"

"Hmm." Xia Liang responded and took out two soul bones from the silver bracelet.

The dark purple soul bone is the left arm bone that broke off from the Death Spider. The soul bone is 20,000 years old and has a poison attribute.

The bluish-gray soul bone was a ten-thousand-year-old left leg bone that had been extracted from the white-robed man; it was of the wind attribute.

"Senior, please give these two soul bones to Yan Yan."

As he spoke, Xia Liang handed the soul bone he had just taken out to Dugu Bo, explaining, "The left arm bone of the poison-attribute Death Spider goes without saying. The soul skill of the wind-attribute ten-thousand-year-old left leg bone can generate wind currents, making the poisonous mist fluid. This wind-attribute soul bone should be able to expand the coverage area of ​​the poisonous mist. It will definitely be beneficial to Yan Yan's poison control."

Looking at the two ten-thousand-year-old soul bones handed to him, Dugu Bo's eyes first showed surprise, then he reacted, "Boy, you're giving these two soul bones to Yan Yan? Could it be that you already have soul bones for these two parts?"

"Not yet. The absorption of soul bones also depends on the compatibility. Yan Yan will undoubtedly be able to maximize the effects of these two soul bones by absorbing them. Besides, I was already quite satisfied with the 50,000-year-old external eye bone I just absorbed. So let's give these two soul bones to Yan Yan. The benefits shouldn't all go to me."

After hearing this explanation, Dugu Bo took the two soul bones and put them into his storage soul tool. He naturally knew how rare soul bones were, let alone ten-thousand-year soul bones.

This grandson-in-law was willing to leave two pieces of ancient soul bone to his granddaughter instead of keeping them for himself; such kindness is truly rare.

"Kid, you've finished absorbing the spirit rings, so hurry up and leave," Dugu Bo said with some concern. "This is, after all, Spirit Hall territory. You have too many treasures on you. If they set their sights on you, I can't protect you."

"Okay. Senior, please wait a moment." Xia Liang responded and walked to the Shadow Lord's corpse. He activated his external eye bone skill, and under the focus of his eyes, the Shadow Lord's corpse suddenly twisted, spun, and finally disappeared from the spot.

Meanwhile, in the alternate dimension within the realm of the undead, the vanished corpse of the Shadow Lord lay quietly inside.

Xia Liang just used the ability of the external eye bone to transfer objects to another dimension.

The larger the object being transferred, the more soul power is consumed.

After the test, he discovered that transferring the twelve-meter-tall Shadow Lord had consumed nearly one-fifth of his soul power.

Once the external eye bone is fully integrated with the body, the consumption of soul power when using skills should be reduced.

In any case, this hunt for the Shadow Lord was a huge success. With the trump cards we currently have, we can escape unscathed even if we are being pursued by a Title Douluo.

With the blessing of the Fusion Talent involving five Soul Rings, Bone-Transformed Susanoo will enter the third stage of its half-body armor form, which is enough to kill any peak Soul Saint who is above its level.

Five days later, in the afternoon.

Near the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye in Sunset Forest.

After consuming the Snowy Swan Kiss herb, a Gastly was floating in mid-air, mimicking Xia Liang's closed-eye meditation, diligently absorbing the herb's medicinal power.

Since there is only one Snowy Swan Kiss plant, there is only one Gastly that could potentially awaken a Poison-type.

The essence of the Gastly has been stored in another dimension. Hopefully, everything will go as expected; otherwise, such a precious herb will be wasted.

Let Gastly absorb the herbal power alone, while Xia Liang activates the External Eye Bone skill to transfer the Shadow Lord's corpse out of the alternate dimension.

After activating the Bone-Transforming Susanoo, just like when he devoured the corpse of the Red-Eyed Treant King, he manipulated the Susanoo Claws, which had the ability to devour, to pierce into the Shadow Lord's corpse.

An hour later.

The devouring is over.

As the Shadow Lord's corpse turned into light and was absorbed into Susanoo's Claw, the changes in the Necromancer Skeleton Spirit were not very obvious.

In summary, after devouring the Shadow Lord's corpse, the overall bone mass of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul increased significantly, and the Susanoo Claw evolved to a 20,000-year limit. The Totsuka Sword evolved to a 30,000-year limit.

In terms of attributes, the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul's strength, defense, and space attributes are enhanced.

Unfortunately, the spatial attribute did not immediately become a top-tier attribute. It seems that upgrading the spatial attribute is relatively difficult compared to other attributes.

Just as Xia Liang finished devouring the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul, Gastly, which was suspended in mid-air, had also completed the absorption of the Snow Swan Kiss medicinal power.

The Gastly, which was originally black and purple, now looks light purple, and its red tongue has turned blue.

Haunter and Xia Liang's souls are connected, and he can clearly tell the difference between the Odd-colored Haunter and the previous Haunter.

First of all, as expected.

If even a tiny bit of the Snow Swan Kiss touches the affected area, any virus will multiply a thousandfold.

Since this medicinal effect was effective on the blood pool in Hell Road, the City of Slaughter, in the original work, it would naturally also be effective on Gastly, which is composed entirely of undead attribute energy and death aura.

Gastly thus awakened extremely unique viral properties.

Not only can it unleash skills related to the poison of death, but it can also gain multiple times the experience boost through its virus attributes.

In other words, this Shiny Gastly is not only more powerful than other Gastly, but also has greater potential for growth.

Currently, there are one hundred original Haunter units preserved in another dimension. In the future, one hundred Haunter units with growth potential can be summoned.

These Gastly were then placed under the command of Shiny Gastly.

Once the alternate dimension becomes larger, increase the Haunter's origin to allow the Haunter army to continue expanding.

The saying goes, "An army is raised for a thousand days to be used for one."

The main purpose of raising so many Gastly is to use them to find Soul Beasts.

The soul beast Xia Liang is looking for this time is the 80,000-year-old Blue Silver King.

It's not that we want to use this 80,000-year-old Blue Silver King as our sixth soul ring, but rather that its 80,000 years of cultivation might be able to be transferred to the Blue Silver Emperor seedling in some way.

Whether or not we can have a second spirit plant that represents life in the future may depend on this Blue Silver Emperor seedling.

According to the original work, the 80,000-year-old Blue Silver King is hidden in an ancient forest, but its exact location is uncertain.

Fortunately, the Blue Silver Emperor seedling was transformed from the former Blue Silver Emperor A Yin, and its soul should contain information about the 80,000-year-old Blue Silver King.

Standing before the Blue Silver Emperor seedlings, Xia Liang couldn't help but marvel at how the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well truly lived up to its reputation as a treasure trove of herbs. In less than a month, the Blue Silver Emperor seedlings planted nearby had already grown into piles of Blue Silver Emperor grass the size of a human head.

The Undead Domain was activated, and Xia Liang used his mental power to search for the soul memories of the Blue Silver Emperor seedling.

(End of this chapter)