Bone Transformation Susanoo

Susanoo was, simply put, a kind of God's Power.

At first, it consisted only of Ribs and arms. As the Caster's abilities grew stronger, Susanoo would continuously change form until it became a complete body whose size and might rivaled a Gundam.

Stroking the Black-Purple Ribs protecting his entire body, Xia Liang finally realized why the sight of Ribs shielding a body had seemed so familiar. He had seen it in Naruto.

Protected within the Black-Purple Ribs, he looked exactly like Sasuke using Susanoo's initial form.

It was just a pity. He only possessed a Skeleton Martial Soul similar to Susanoo, without the special eyes and Dojutsu to match it.

"Right. I can see those Ghostly Will-o'-the-wisps."

Xia Liang channeled his mere Level Five Soul Power into the ribcage Skeleton Martial Soul, then carefully observed his surroundings.

Gradually, a cacophony of sounds echoed around his ears.

Within his deep eyes, he could suddenly see the ethereal Black-Purple Ghost Fire clearly. These were Ghosts in their simplified form.

Or rather, Undead.

Only after his Martial Soul Awakening had Xia Liang figured out that the reason he possessed the bloodline of a Skeleton Martial Soul and had awakened a Skeleton Martial Soul with the Undead Attribute might be related to having died once.

In other words, like Ghost Douluo from the original novel, he was actually a Living Dead.

It was because he had died once on Blue Star, then physically transmigrated to Douluo Continent and become a ghost, that he had awakened his Martial Soul Bloodline.

And the reason he could see Undead was because he was a ghost himself.

"Unfortunately, I can only see Undead. I can't interact with them."

With a dispirited sigh in his heart, Xia Liang withdrew the Black-Purple Ribs protecting his body back into himself, and the Undead wandering everywhere vanished from sight.

The Undead Attribute he possessed was still too weak. The Undead he saw were merely clusters of Ghost Fire rather than their appearances before death.

Cultivating a Martial Soul could strengthen the abilities it possessed.

In other words, the Undead Attribute could grow stronger alongside the Skeleton Martial Soul.

Perhaps in the future, once he cultivated the Undead Attribute to its peak, he might become the God of Death, commanding the Undead and controlling life and death.

The thought of such a future made Xia Liang somewhat excited.

He did not think himself particularly clever, but his familiarity with the original novel's plot and settings meant that his perspective was destined to surpass that of Douluo Continent's natives.

With the various opportunities mentioned in the original novel to aid him, becoming a god with Innate Level Five Soul Power was not an impossible dream.

Still, that was a matter for later.

Now that he had set his goal of becoming a god, he first needed to cultivate his Martial Soul and Soul Power steadily, allowing the Skeleton Martial Soul, which currently possessed only a ribcage form, to grow into its complete form.

Xia Liang still knew a few things about cultivating Martial Souls from the original novel.

Cultivating a Martial Soul essentially meant strengthening its source energy.

Whether one injected Soul Power into a Martial Soul or absorbed the energy of a Soul Ring, both methods used external energy to strengthen the Martial Soul's source energy and make the Martial Soul itself stronger.

However, injecting Soul Power into a Martial Soul only temporarily strengthened it.

Absorbing Soul Ring energy, on the other hand, permanently strengthened a Martial Soul's source, which was why absorbing Soul Rings could alter a Martial Soul's appearance.

Furthermore, Xia Liang had learned of the existence of Soul Bones from the original novel.

When Soul Beasts produced Soul Rings, there was also a chance that they would drop Soul Bones.

Power and Defense Type Soul Beasts had a relatively higher chance of dropping Arm Bones.

Speed-type Soul Beasts had a greater chance of dropping Leg Bones.

Head Soul Bones were more likely to drop from spiritual-type or highly intelligent Soul Beasts.

As he recalled the original novel's descriptions of Soul Bones, Xia Liang suddenly thought of something.

Broadly speaking, if he wanted the Skeleton Martial Soul, which currently only possessed a ribcage form, to grow into a complete skeleton, he only needed to add two Arm Bones, two Leg Bones, and a skull.

And didn't those bone parts correspond exactly to the Soul Bone parts produced by Soul Beasts?

The Skeleton Martial Soul with only a ribcage form was equivalent to a Torso Bone.

The two Arm Bones would be the Left Arm Bone and Right Arm Bone produced by Soul Beasts, while the skull would be the Head Soul Bone produced by Soul Beasts.

Although he could not derive anything particularly valuable from the connection between the Skeleton Martial Soul and Soul Bones, he had still gained something.

At the very least, Xia Liang felt that he had already clarified the direction in which his Skeleton Martial Soul should acquire Soul Rings.

For example, if he wanted the Skeleton Martial Soul, which only had a ribcage form, to grow two Arm Bones, he could absorb Soul Rings produced by Power and Defense Type Soul Beasts. Since they had a greater chance of dropping Arm Bones, one was what one ate.

The First Soul Ring's Soul Skill would first make the Skeleton Martial Soul grow an entire left arm.

The Second Soul Ring's Soul Skill would then make the Skeleton Martial Soul grow an entire right arm.

The Third Soul Ring's Soul Skill would finally make the Skeleton Martial Soul grow a skull.

With the forms from the first three Soul Ring Skills stacked together, the Skeleton Martial Soul would become a Half-Body Skeleton Form with a head, arms, and Ribs.

At that point, the Fourth Soul Ring's Soul Skill would wrap the Half-Body Skeleton Form in a flesh-like outer layer resembling vines, turning it into a Half-Body Humanoid Form.

Then, the Fifth Soul Ring's Soul Skill could allow the Skeleton Martial Soul in its Half-Body Humanoid Form to don armor formed from the power of a certain Soul Beast.

The Sixth Soul Ring's Soul Skill would make the Skeleton Martial Soul in its Half-Body Humanoid Form grow Legs.

Then, when he reached the Seventh Soul Ring and used his Martial Soul Avatar, the Skeleton Martial Soul could enter its complete form.

The original novel mentioned the Strength Clan, where every Soul Master's Soul Ring Skills stacked Strength Attribute.

Using that as a reference, every Soul Ring Skill of the Skeleton Martial Soul would stack forms.

If he cultivated according to this plan and achieved the expected results, then after the first seven Soul Skills stacked their forms, the Skeleton Martial Soul would truly become Douluo's version of Susanoo.

Xia Liang remembered that Bone Douluo had a move in the original novel called Bone Transformation Divine Dragon.

Then if his Skeleton Martial Soul transformed into Susanoo, it would be called Bone Transformation Susanoo.

"＼(`Δ')／."

The next morning.

Guowan Village, the Old Village Chief's home.

It was a somewhat dilapidated-looking wooden house.

The aroma of stir-fried food drifted slowly from the window by the wooden house's stove.

A long while later.

Xia Liang's slightly childish voice rang out inside the house. "Village Chief Grandpa, breakfast is ready."

Hearing him, the Old Village Chief walked out of his room.

The breakfast on the table was not particularly lavish: plain porridge with stir-fried pickled mustard greens and eggs.

On Douluo Continent, there was simply no such dish as stir-fried pickled mustard greens and eggs.

Naturally, the one capable of making such a dish was Xia Liang, who had come from Blue Star.

When Xia Liang had previously freeloaded meals at Old Jack's house in Holy Soul Village, he had pickled some mustard greens. Now that he was at the Old Village Chief's home in Guowan Village, he had brought some with him as well.

After physically transmigrating to Douluo Continent, Xia Liang did not possess cultivation methods or secret arts like Tang San's, but he was an excellent cook with plenty of experience preparing food.

Pickling mustard greens was nothing.

As long as he could find the raw ingredients, he could make most of Blue Star's seasonings.

Before the old dining table.

The Old Village Chief and Xia Liang were eating breakfast.

"A Liang, do you know what Soul Masters are?" the Old Village Chief asked with a smile.

After swallowing a mouthful of porridge, Xia Liang nodded, then shook his head. Pretending to understand only vaguely, he said, "When I went to Nuoding City before, I saw people fighting in the street. I heard they were Soul Masters. Aside from their Martial Souls, they each had a white ring on them. Village Chief Grandpa, what exactly is that?"