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

Chapter 89 The Fourth Soul Ring

As Xia Liang approached the corpse of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King, he was secretly startled.

The twelve-meter-long corpse of the Red-Eyed Treant King lay quietly on the ground. Despite being pierced by a huge arrow half a meter wide and affected by the energy wave generated by the arrow's explosion, it was impossible for this Red-Eyed Treant King to have a perfectly intact corpse.

But at this moment, its corpse was as if nothing had happened, with no trace of being burned by the black flames, nor any holes pierced by arrows.

If the Undead Domain hadn't already sealed the Red-Eyed Treant King's soul within it, Xia Liang would definitely have thought that the Red-Eyed Treant King wasn't completely dead.

Could it be that the powerful ability to regenerate flesh and blood allowed the Red-Eyed Treant King to regain a complete physical body before its death?

Putting aside all his doubts, Xia Liang first put the corpse of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King into his three-colored ring, and then quickly left the spot.

The commotion caused by the arrow fired by the boned Susanoo was too great and might attract even stronger soul beasts. The meager soul power left was simply not enough to deal with any unexpected situation.

So whatever questions you have, let's wait until we leave first.

In a mountain cave in a valley forest.

After confirming that there were no traces of soul beasts or soul masters within a radius of several hundred meters, Xia Liang immediately took out the corpse of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King after entering the cave.

For safety's sake, he planned to first search the soul of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King, and then decide whether to absorb its soul ring after figuring out the origin of this mutated soul beast.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Xia Liang closed his eyes and concentrated, using meditation to restore his soul power while his consciousness entered the spiritual world.

With the blessing of the undead realm, the gray spiritual world plays out like a movie theater, showing every memory carried by the Red-Eyed Treant King's soul.

After twenty minutes, Xia Liang finally figured out the mutation of this red-eyed tree demon king.

To avoid the situation where he couldn't absorb the spirit ring in time, he first guided the black ten-thousand-year spirit ring floating on the corpse of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King into his body.

While maintaining the absorption of the soul ring, Xia Liang also continued to search for the memories of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King's soul in the spiritual world.

Just as I guessed.

The Red-Eyed Tree Demon King was originally a demonic tree of the same clan as the Demon King of Ten Thousand Demons in the original story.

Although it had only lived for a thousand years, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King's cultivation had reached three thousand years, at which point it already had a certain ability to protect itself.

In the second millennium, a plant called the Black Spirit Flower suddenly grew next to the Red-Eyed Treant King.

The Black Spirit Flower is a type of spider lily, born from the dark energy of heaven and earth. Legend has it that the Black Spirit Flower is a guiding flower of the underworld, capable of evoking the memories of the deceased from their previous life.

The Red-Eyed Tree Demon King originally intended to cultivate this Black Spirit Flower for a thousand years, and then devour it when he broke through the bottleneck of ten thousand years of cultivation. However, he did not expect that his lifespan was nearing its end, and if he could not break through the ten thousand years of cultivation, he would not be able to live any longer.

Left with no other choice, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King had to devour and merge with the Black Spirit Flower ahead of schedule.

Although it did not extend its lifespan, the Black Spirit Flower's ability to awaken the memories of the dead allowed its soul to re-enter its body, thus awakening its undead attributes.

With the help of darkness and the undead attribute, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King continuously searched for and devoured the corpses and spirits of the dead in the outer area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, finally breaking through the ten thousand years of cultivation.

Originally, he thought he had a chance to reach the level of a ferocious beast like the clan leader, the Ten Thousand Demon King. But how could the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King have imagined that what awaited him was a Soul Ring to become a Soul Master?

After thoroughly searching through the memories carried by the soul, Xia Liang not only learned about the life of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King, but also learned through the memories how powerful the Ten Thousand Demon King, one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, was.

The Demon King, possessing the ultimate wood attribute, is someone even the Beast God Emperor Tian, ​​the ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest, dares not underestimate.

Xia Liang couldn't help but sigh, realizing how weak he was compared to these ferocious beasts.

It was only after searching the soul memories of the Red-Eyed Treant King that he understood why the Red-Eyed Treant King's corpse remained intact: it activated its proud flesh regeneration ability after being pierced by the Susanoo Bow, which allowed its damaged body to quickly return to a complete state.

However, because his soul was shot and sealed in the realm of the dead, even if the Red-Eyed Treant King's body is restored to its full size, without his soul, he can only be a corpse.

In addition, after the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King reached the level of ten thousand years of cultivation, it possessed a move related to the undead attribute, which allowed it to possess the bodies of other weak plants and be resurrected after death by possessing their undead bodies.

However, the necromantic realm has the effect of sealing away the souls of the dead.

The Red-Eyed Treant King's Undead Possession skill is precisely countered by it.

If it were someone else, they might not have been able to truly kill this red-eyed tree demon king.

About five hours passed.

Xia Liang finally succeeded in absorbing the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King's soul ring.

During the process of absorbing the soul ring, he discovered that the soul ring did not come with any soul vibration, which was probably because the soul of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King had been sealed by the Undead Domain.

In short, absorbing this ten-thousand-year soul ring was very easy. The reason it took so long to complete the absorption was that, in addition to the soul ring, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King also dropped a soul bone.

Judging from its shape, this is a piece of soul bone that is extremely similar to the torso bones.

However, this soul bone was absorbed along with the soul ring and is an energy entity. It should not be a torso bone, but rather an external vertebral bone.

That's exactly what happened.

After confirming that the soul bone dropped by the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King was an external spinal bone, Xia Liang attempted to transfer the soul bone to the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul.

The previous conjecture that the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul could only absorb external soul bones is correct.

In fact, the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul is essentially Xia Liang's external soul bone, which is why it grows along with his own skeletal structure.

In a sense, Xia Liang's martial soul should be an external soul bone, and this external soul bone martial soul is his skeleton after death.

After testing the effects of the soul skills attached to the external vertebrae in the spiritual world, Xia Liang was somewhat excited.

Because this external spinal bone, like the external soul bone Eight Spider Lances, not only became part of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul, but also became another weapon in the Bone-Transformed Susanoo form.

The external spine bone dropped by the Red-Eyed Treant King perfectly inherits its powerful dark and undead attributes.

This sword form, derived from the external vertebrae, can, with the enhancement of the dark attribute, devour and seal the slain soul within the spine of the undead skeleton martial spirit itself.

This is different from being confined to the realm of the undead.

When the spirit of the slain is sealed in the spine of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul, the spirit will gradually be refined by the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul, thus growing the best parts of the slain's body as bones.

(End of this chapter)