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

Chapter 67 The Third Soul Ring

Logically speaking, as a defensive soul beast, the Bone Dragon would most likely drop its left or right arm bone after death.

With his prior knowledge of the original work, Xia Liang knew that as long as he was willing to work hard, he would definitely be able to collect a complete set of 100,000-year soul bones, and might even obtain a million-year one.

Therefore, there is definitely no need to absorb the Bone Dragon Soul Bone, which is limited to only five thousand years. If the three education committee members want it, they can leave it to them.

But what if the bone dragon drops an external soul bone?

Xia Liang suddenly stopped fantasizing. According to the original description, external soul bones are even rarer than 100,000-year-old soul beasts, and they are definitely not something that can be obtained at will.

Let's wait until it's officially revealed before considering it.

"Chief Meng, I'm in trouble," Xia Liang said to Meng Shenji, the Education Commissioner.

"Alright, leave it to me. You all step back a bit, lest you be maliciously affected by the Black Demon's nightmare."

Upon hearing Meng Shenji's reminder, Xia Liang, along with Zhi Lin and Bai Baoshan, all retreated to a distance of twenty meters.

At the same time, the sixth soul ring lit up on Meng Shenji, and his sixth soul skill, Nightmare, was activated.

A strange, mournful sound rang out, and a huge, terrifying black shadow enveloped an area of ​​ten meters in radius.

Although on the surface, nothing much has changed.

But the slumbering bone dragon has been pulled into the most terrifying and malicious dream world in its subconscious.

Seemingly tormented by a nightmare, the bone dragon lying on the ground twitched its body, its limbs and wings trying to move to escape, but it could only kick and struggle in place.

Five minutes later.

The nightmare torment inflicted on the bone dragon by the dark demon had begun to make it contemplate suicide.

At that moment, Xia Liang received a sharp, silver-white greatsword from Bai Baoshan, the Education Commission.

It is said that this is a high-quality weapon forged by a master blacksmith. It can cut through iron like mud, and if used properly, it can injure a defensive Soul Master.

The bony scales all over the Bone Dragon's body are extremely hard.

Without the enhancement of attacking the soul using the Undead Domain, Xia Liang was completely unable to wound and kill the bone dragon with five thousand years of cultivation.

Therefore, when using a sharp greatsword to strike the bone dragon's relatively vulnerable neck, Bai Baoshan's Education Committee used the suppressive power generated by the Martial Soul Heavenly Star Furnace to assist, thereby enhancing the killing power of the greatsword after the strike.

The result was as expected.

With the help of Bai Baoshan from the Education Commission, Xia Liang severed the Bone Dragon's neck with a single sword strike, and black marrow gushed out from a spot on its neck.

As consciousness was freed from the endless nightmare, the bone dragon was killed.

Strands of purple light slowly rose from the bone dragon's corpse, gradually condensing into an ethereal purple soul ring.

Gazing at the purple spirit ring floating in the air, Xia Liang was no longer unfamiliar with it, as he himself had experience absorbing two spirit rings.

The absorption process of this purple thousand-year soul ring should be similar to that of the yellow hundred-year soul ring.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Xia Liang quickly guided the purple soul ring above the bone dragon's corpse into his body.

The warm energy of the spirit ring flowed through his body along with his spirit power. He could clearly feel that the purple spirit ring spinning around him was merging with his body, gradually forming the prototype of his third spirit ring.

Half an hour later.

The third spirit ring that had been spinning wildly around Xia Liang's body began to settle down.

When the three education commissioners focused their attention on him again, the first thing that caught their eye was his soul ring configuration of two yellow and one purple rings.

It took a full half hour to tame the energy of the third spirit ring. The difficulties and pain involved are probably only known to the person who absorbed the spirit ring.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened.

The most difficult time is over.

Next, Master Xia only needs to absorb the energy of the tamed spirit ring, and he will be able to successfully condense an unprecedented third spirit ring in five thousand years.

Thinking of all this, Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin Education Committee exchanged glances, all of them showing relief and satisfaction on each other's faces.

However, what they didn't know was that Xia Liang's pain was all an act. Otherwise, if he appeared too relaxed while absorbing the soul ring, he would inevitably be bombarded with questions.

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

ahhh-

The three education commissioners were startled by the scream and immediately turned to look at him with concern.

Seemingly noticing the strange change in his left palm, Xia Liang hurriedly released his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul to cover his entire body.

Enveloped in raging blackish-purple flames, and with each layer of ribs tightly stacked together to form a sealed space, it was impossible for outsiders to see what was inside the ribs.

However, the three education committee members' attention was already drawn to the five-meter-tall undead skeleton martial spirit.

At this moment, in addition to the black and purple ribs, the five-meter-tall undead skeleton spirit also had a black and purple skull connected to the spine at the top of the ribs, exuding a sense of oppression.

After Master Xia's Skeleton Martial Soul absorbed the Bone Dragon Soul Ring, such a huge change actually occurred?

The three education committee members were almost simultaneously taken aback. None of them knew of the existence of the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul, so they naturally connected it to the fact that the Skeleton Martial Soul growing a head was a benefit brought by the Bone Dragon Soul Ring.

What surprised them even more was...

On the spine of the five-meter-tall Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul, in addition to the black-purple ribs and black-purple skull connected to it, two huge scapulae also grew out on the left and right sides of the spine.

Immediately afterwards, several more bones resembling pterygoid bones grew out near the two scapulae.

However, these wing bones look like they are only in their rudimentary form and are not as exaggerated as the wing bones of a bone dragon.

The three education committee members quickly realized that the wing bone rudiments growing from this skeleton martial soul must be a change in the appearance of the martial soul after being modified by the bone dragon soul ring.

Perhaps in the future, when Master Xia unleashes his Skeleton Martial Soul True Form, he will transform into a winged skeleton monster.

Just as the three education committee members were paying attention to the changes in the appearance of the undead skeleton martial spirit, Xia Liang, who was sitting cross-legged inside the dark purple ribs, had been relieved from the excruciating pain in his left palm.

He discovered that his left palm was being wrapped in a strange black bone, making it look like his hand had turned into a black dragon claw covered in bony scales.

Is this an external soul bone?

Xia Liang stared in astonishment at his raised left hand. A chilling aura swirled around the black dragon claw that his left hand had transformed into, causing each claw to flash with a cold light, giving it the feel of a divine weapon.

In the original story, Tang San also grew the Eight Spider Lances, an external soul bone, from a certain part of his body after absorbing the Human-Faced Demon Spider's soul ring.

It seems that the black bone dragon claw encasing the left palm is indeed an external soul bone dropped by the bone dragon.

According to the setting of Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect, this should be a bone dragon left palm bone with a lifespan of 5,000 years. As the Soul Master grows, the lifespan of the bone dragon left palm bone has the opportunity to increase to 10,000 years, or even 100,000 years.

Currently, the left palm bone of this bone dragon has not been fully absorbed by the body. If it is discovered, it will surely lead to death.

Thinking about the plot in the original novel where Dugu Bo wanted to kill Tang San and steal his soul bone, Xia Liang started to feel nervous.

Taking advantage of the enclosed rib space blocking the three education committee members' view, he immediately concentrated his mental energy and tried to use his mind to retract the bone dragon's left palm bone into his body.

Fortunately, driven by his mental power, the bone from the left palm of the dragon quickly disappeared from his left hand.

About a minute later.

With his left hand finally back to normal, Xia Liang wiped the sweat from his forehead, his tense mind suddenly relaxing. It was at this moment that he truly understood what it meant to be innocent but guilty of possessing a treasure.

Suddenly, a sharp pain appeared in his brain, and Xia Liang felt a sense of mental disorientation.

When his mind returned to normal, he found himself no longer inside the dark purple ribs, but in a mysterious gray space.

This space is empty on all sides, surrounded by an endless expanse of gray, looking like the beginning of chaos, a state where there was nothing at all.

After comprehending the imprinted information that appeared in his mind, Xia Liang finally understood that this gray space was actually his mental world.

(End of this chapter)