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

Chapter 27, Second Soul Skill: Iron Bones

late at night.

Two o'clock in the morning.

Outside the Ice Castle.

The cold wind howled, and the snow was white and boundless.

Xia Liang suggested going out to summon more and higher-quality dark purple ghost flames to help find soul beasts.

The head of the Shui family wanted to send someone to protect them, but Xia Liang refused the head of the Shui family's kindness on the grounds that the effect of the second soul skill should not be exposed in front of others.

After leaving the Ice Castle, Xia Liang put on his roller skates and, led by a ball of dark purple ghost fire, glided along a path sparsely marked by soul beasts, heading towards a mysterious place.

Several wisps of will-o'-the-wisp hovered in mid-air, using the guise of searching for soul beasts to monitor the Shui family's every move, thus preventing them from being followed.

It is located two kilometers away from the Ice Castle.

On the icy plain, a giant rock stands.

The boulder had frozen completely into a block of ice, radiating a chilling aura.

Arriving at the boulder, Xia Liang finished a sip of hot milk to ward off the cold and retrieved his roller skates. He then discovered a five-meter-long skeleton lying beneath the boulder.

The bones were also frozen into ice blocks.

Judging from its shape, it should be the skeleton of some kind of reptilian spirit beast.

"Is this a soul bone?"

Xia Liang could clearly see that on the frozen skeleton of the soul beast, there was a strangely shaped bone-like object on its left foreleg that emitted light and soul power fluctuations.

The bone-like objects on a soul beast that exhibit soul power fluctuations are likely soul bones.

The Skeleton Martial Soul was released, but unlike before, this time only the right half of Xia Liang's body was covered by the dark purple ribs on the right side.

This is a semi-open spirit state that can only be mastered after one has become more proficient in using the Skeleton Spirit, which can reduce the consumption of spirit power by the spirit.

The first soul skill, Netherworld Transformation, was activated, and a slender, long right arm bone grew out from the right half of the rib.

Xia Liang used his mind to control the skeleton's right arm to clench into a fist and blast it down at the frozen soul beast skeleton.

boom--

After a muffled thud, the ice on the soul beast's skeleton showed no signs of being broken.

This shows how hard the ice formed from the cold air of the far north is.

The second spirit ring lit up, and the second spirit skill, Iron Bones, was activated.

A large number of dark purple, wire-like energy bodies were wrapped around the slender, long skeleton's right arm, making the bones of the entire right arm look fleshy and bloody. The metacarpals and forearm were even swollen as strong and huge as scorpion claws.

The iron wire energy body wrapped around the skull's arm is actually formed from the meridians and blood of soul beasts like the Ironback Demon Scorpion, inheriting the Ironback Demon Scorpion's steel-like hardness.

As Liu Shu said, the second soul skill, Iron Bones, cannot make the Skeleton Martial Soul grow new arms, but it enhances the Skeleton Martial Soul's strength, greatly increasing the hardness of its bones. Another major amplification effect is that it greatly increases the Martial Soul's combat power, such as using weapons transformed from Iron Bones in battle.

Although he currently only has level 23 soul power, with the combined amplification of his first and second soul skills and the skeletal giant hand state, Xia Liang can defeat Liu Shu, who is level 35, and even has the ability to fight against any three-ring soul master.

If even the giant skeletal hand couldn't break the ice that sealed the soul beast's skeleton, then the hardness of the ice was truly unbelievable.

The skeletal right arm, now resembling flesh and blood, clenched into a fist once more.

With a thought, Xia Liang suddenly brought down the giant skeletal fist that had been raised high in the air.

boom--

With a muffled thud, the ice on the soul beast's skeleton shattered.

However, it was only the ice that shattered; the five-meter-long soul beast skeleton remained almost intact. Judging from the hardness of the bones, the soul beast skeleton came from a soul beast with super strong defensive capabilities, and its cultivation level was at least over a thousand years.

The martial spirit and spirit rings returned to his body, and the skull ribs and arms turned into light and dissipated. Xia Liang squatted down, preparing to tear off the bone-like object from the left foreleg of the spirit beast skeleton.

When I grasped the bone-like object, I could clearly feel the fluctuations of soul power.

It really is a soul bone!

Xia Liang released the skeletal arm again, and then used all three hands together to pull the soul bone out of the soul beast's skeleton, which took three minutes.

The left foreleg of a reptilian soul beast is its left arm. Since the soul bone was generated in the position of the left arm, it should be a left arm bone.

The energy contained within the soul bone is far greater than imagined; this left arm bone may be ten thousand years old.

Xia Liang didn't care about any of that, since he didn't plan to absorb it anyway.

However, the Shui family must never know about this left arm bone, otherwise it will not only be a waste of effort, but they may also be harmed.

After putting the left arm bone into the silver bracelet, Xia Liang also took the silver bracelet off his wrist and stuffed it into the bottom of the surrounding boulder.

When you're about to leave the far north, you can have the alien skull retrieved.

"Hehehe."

A sinister laugh echoed from the sky, and a strange skull engulfed in black and purple flames flew down to Xia Liang, carrying a ring in its mouth.

This is a uniquely designed ring with three different colored squares (red, green, and yellow) engraved on the band.

Xia Liang was overjoyed when he caught the three-colored ring thrown by the alien skull.

Items from the far north are usually covered with a thick layer of ice, but this tricolor ring is completely unaffected by the ice, which shows that its materials are very special. Combined with its exquisite appearance, it is definitely a top-quality item.

Xia Liang tried to inject his soul power into the three-colored ring, and as expected, it was a storage soul tool.

The three small squares of red, green, and yellow engraved on the ring correspond to three large storage spaces.

After injecting soul power into the three small compartments in turn and checking them, Xia Liang discovered that the red compartment of the three-colored ring mainly contained weapons and armor, while the green compartment contained various kinds of food.

The small yellow compartments contain sleeping bags, as well as bedding and other daily necessities.

It seems that this top-grade three-colored ring soul tool is a relic of a certain soul master. After countless years of being bathed in ice and snow, it finally appeared on the ice plains and was found by this strange skull.

The alien skull is a simple sketch of a skull created three years ago using black and purple will-o'-the-wisps.

It's called a skull, but it's more like a small, floating ghost. It's only the size of a human head, with a round, black head burning with dark purple flames, a pair of large white eyes, small black pupils, and a mouth with a pair of fangs.

Xia Liang had previously felt that the appearance of the alien skull looked familiar, and it turned out to be extremely similar to a Pokémon called Gastly.

Of course, there are no creatures from the Pokémon world in Douluo Continent. The alien skull that looks like Gastly is just an energy body that combines undead attributes, soul power, and spiritual power.

The difference between the black and purple will-o'-the-wisps is that the alien skull has a mouth and eyes. It can not only present what it sees in a more vivid way through the power of its soul, but it can also hold things in its mouth or bite them, making it somewhat aggressive.

For ease of reference, the alien skull was also named Gastly.

Gastly can be considered an evolved form of the black and purple Will-O-Wisp. Both can be summoned in large numbers as long as one has sufficient Soul Power and Spirit Power.

Besides biting as an attack method, the ghostly roar emitted by a large number of Gastly together is like a vengeful spirit, which can cause varying degrees of soul shock to targets within the range.

In the future, tasks such as finding spirit beasts, reconnaissance and surveillance, including interfering with and tracking enemies, can all be entrusted to Gastly.

Of course, Gastly's actions, like the dark purple will-o'-the-wisp, are limited to nighttime.

There is currently no solution to the problem of being afraid of sunlight.

"Good job, keep it up!"

After patting Gastly's head, Xia Liang took out all the items stored in the tricolor ring and threw them onto the ice.

Without the protection of the storage soul tool, the beds, sleeping bags, and other daily necessities were immediately covered with a thick layer of ice the moment they were thrown on the ground.

Strangely, the chicken legs, carrots, and other food left on the ground turned into light and disappeared.

Could these foods be the soul skills of a food-type soul master?

It disappeared because it lost the protection of the storage soul tool?

Does that mean that this three-colored ring soul tool can preserve food made by food-type soul masters for a long time?

(End of this chapter)