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

Chapter 56 Undead Skeleton, King of the Dead

At this moment, the skull that had just grown from the top of the dark purple ribs and spine emitted dazzling red and blue light from its two hollow eye bones.

Immediately afterwards, the dark purple ribs and skull were enveloped in dark purple flames.

In this series of changes, the blackish-purple color of the ribs and skull gradually turned into dark red, and the burning flames also gradually turned into dark red.

Even more bizarrely, the ribs and skull, which had just turned dark red, changed again. They switched from dark red to dark blue before finally returning to their original blackish-purple color.

At that moment, countless imprinted information appeared in Xia Liang's mind, and the electric shock sensation jolted him awake from his coma.

He flipped over and hovered at the confluence of the two springs of ice and fire, his body dyed red and blue by the spring water.

Behind him, a huge and imposing black face flickered.

The five-meter-tall skeletal spirit, engulfed in dark purple flames, enveloped the entire person.

Looking up at the top of the ribs that covered his entire body, Xia Liang was surprised to find that a skull was connected to the spine on the huge, closed ribs.

Moreover, the space within the enclosed rib cage has increased, enough to accommodate two or three people standing inside.

Countless imprinted information began to appear in his mind. Xia Liang shook his head violently, and these imprinted information suddenly turned into memories from when he was unconscious.

It turned out that during the time he was unconscious, his body had completely transformed the ice and fire poison of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot into ice and fire energy.

Simply wait for your body to completely absorb the ice and fire energy within you, and you will obtain the full medicinal power of the two immortal herbs, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and the Blazing Apricot Blossom.

Now that it has acquired immunity to both ice and fire, and is immune to all poisons, it's no wonder that staying in the Yin-Yang Spring is like soaking in a hot spring.

The Skeleton Martial Soul has advanced from a high-level Martial Soul to a top-level Martial Soul due to the upgrade of its Martial Soul bloodline.

This was the information Xia Liang learned from the imprint in his mind. To his surprise, the Skeleton Martial Soul, which had become a top-tier weapon spirit, not only grew a head but also became so huge.

At a height of five meters, this size is already comparable to the true form of Zhao Wuji's Mighty Vajra Bear martial spirit in the original work.

As he climbed up, stepping on each of his ribs, Xia Liang reached out and touched the skull connected to the spine at the top of the massive ribs, a question nagging at him.

When the Skeleton Martial Soul awakens, only the rib area is present.

After evolving into a top-tier martial soul, it gained an additional skull portion.

If further evolution occurs, will it grow a skeletal right arm?

If that's the case, wouldn't my first spirit ring be pointless?

No. That shouldn't be the case. Xia Liang clearly remembered a setting in the original work.

It is said that after killing a 100,000-year-old soul beast, the soul beast will inevitably drop a soul bone, and it will be a part of the soul bone that the killer does not have.

In other words, there is an automatic completion mechanism for the generation of soul bones.

Does the skeleton martial spirit also have an automatic completion mechanism for its bone parts?

Martial spirits all evolve towards a more complete form.

Logically speaking, since the right arm already has its first spirit ring, if another spirit ring were to grant it an arm bone spirit skill, it should only be the left arm.

Therefore, once the Skeleton Martial Soul possesses a complete upper body, its next evolution will most likely result in the development of a lower body it previously lacked, such as a left or right leg.

Thinking of all this, a strange light flashed in Xia Liang's eyes.

According to the original setting, above the top-level martial soul are the super martial soul and the ultimate martial soul, followed by the god-level martial soul.

This means that, given the right opportunity, a top-tier Skeleton Martial Soul can evolve at least two or three more times.

I wonder what the Skeleton Martial Soul will become after evolving into a Super Martial Soul, or even a God-level Martial Soul.

Currently, the Skeleton Martial Soul comes with its own ribs and skull.

The first spirit ring skill can grow a right arm bone. If the third spirit ring skill can also grow a left arm bone, then the skeleton spirit will become a complete half-skeletal form.

By fusing the Skull Martial Soul with multiple Soul Rings, an even more powerful force is born. This is the third power conceived earlier: Susanoo.

It is also known as Ossified Susanoo.

If it evolves into a god-level martial soul in the future, then the skeleton martial soul bone-transformed Susanoo form will be the true power of a god.

Xia Liang tried to retract his martial soul bit by bit with his mind. The five-meter-tall skeleton martial soul first had the black and purple flames covering its entire body extinguished, then the skull disappeared, leaving only the ribs, and finally it gradually shrank.

Three seconds after the Skeleton Martial Soul was completely retracted into his body, Xia Liang discovered that his body was still full of flesh and blood, and had not returned to the state where his body was completely supported by a skeleton.

This is because both the skeleton martial spirit and the body skeleton have reached a saturation point, so there will no longer be a situation where the body's development speed cannot keep up with the skeleton's development speed.

Just like how a person's height stops growing after their epiphyseal plates close.

At this point, he is neither too thin nor too fat, has delicate features, and looks about twenty years old. He should maintain this appearance until he enters middle age or even old age.

Xia Liang felt very fortunate about this, at least he had returned to being a normal person and no longer had to worry about his strange appearance being easily recognized.

Besides physical appearance, there must have been many changes in temperament as well.

Xia Liang learned from the imprinted information in his mind that after the Skeleton Martial Soul evolved into a top-level Martial Soul, its undead attribute had increased by another level compared to before.

If the Skeleton Martial Soul was merely a grunt in the Skeleton Realm before, then the Skeleton Martial Soul now possessing top-tier bloodline and such powerful undead attributes is a king in the Skeleton Realm.

Skeletons with royal bloodlines are naturally different from skeleton minions in both ability and aura.

So.

The previous listlessness and lifelessness were completely gone, replaced by a unique aura bestowed by the royal bloodline.

In terms of temperament, there should be a huge change.

Without a mirror, Xia Liang couldn't see his overall appearance clearly.

However, he didn't care much about his image and quickly put those thoughts of appearance and temperament behind him, turning instead to studying the top-tier skeleton martial soul that already possessed the bloodline of a king.

Undead Skeleton King.

Or rather, a necromancer skeleton.

This is the new name for the Skeleton Martial Soul.

Unlike the 80,000-year-old Blue Silver King mentioned in the original work, that Blue Silver King became king by relying on the support of all the Blue Silver Grass people in the ancient forest.

The undead skeleton possesses the blood of a king, yet it has not yet gained the support of many undead skeletons.

Nevertheless, after becoming king, the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul still awakened a talent domain skill that allowed it to control the undead.

This skill is called the Undead Domain.

Like the Demon-Slaying Domain of the Sea Dragon Douluo in the original work, the Undead Domain only has one effect: sealing.

Within the area covered by the undead domain, the domain master's every attack can ignore the target's shields, armor, physical body, and other defenses, directly damaging the enemy's soul.

Damage to the target's soul will be reflected back onto the target's physical body.

For example, if the target's soul is severed from the arm, the target's body will still retain the corresponding arm, but the arm will no longer be able to move.

The severed soul arm will be sealed in the realm of the dead.

Because it is the part of the soul that lost its arm, the soul becomes incomplete, so even if the physical body regenerates the severed arm and a new arm grows, it will still be unable to move.

If a target is killed within the Undead Realm, that target's undead spirit will be permanently sealed within the realm, preventing them from entering the cycle of reincarnation.

Unless the domain's master releases them voluntarily, all the undead sealed within the domain will never be able to be reborn.

After comprehending the information about the undead realm in his mind, Xia Liang's eyes revealed a look of shock.

Once this undead domain is unleashed, coupled with the skeleton martial soul in its bone-transformed Susanoo form wielding a giant sword and sweeping left and right, wouldn't it be a force to be reckoned with, killing anyone who gets in its way?

In the future, he might even become like the Necromancer Saint God Ilex, killing anyone he sees, starting from the City of Slaughter, gradually gathering an army of the undead. When he has the support of a million undead, the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul should advance to the rank of Emperor.

At that time, piloting the fully-formed Susanoo, followed by a million-strong army of undead, he could single-handedly destroy an empire.

To Xia Liang's regret, the Undead Domain is just a simple domain skill without any spatial attribute enhancement, so it cannot become a plane for a million-strong army of undead to reside in.

Currently, it is also impossible to summon the undead trapped within the area.

Summoning the spirits of others is not as simple as summoning a Gastly.

(End of this chapter)