Yaoling

After delivering the External Soul Bones he had collected to Lin Yun, Di Tian pulled Three-Eyed Golden Lion aside.

"You didn't do anything reckless to Honored One, did you?" Di Tian asked nervously.

As the Golden Dragon King, Honored One could certainly sense the Golden Dragon Bloodline within the auspicious beast, as well as the power of Star Luo Fortune she carried. He surely would not harbor any ill will toward her.

But what he feared was that this foolish girl might do something rash!

Honored One was currently in a human body, without the aura of a Soul Beast. Who knew whether the auspicious beast had misunderstood something and mistaken Lin Yun for a genuine human?

Fortunately, Three-Eyed Golden Lion's answer made Di Tian heave a huge sigh of relief.

"No, I only just got back too." Three-Eyed Golden Lion shook her head and spoke in a somewhat innocent tone. "Di Tian, I missed you all. Let's go play with Aunt Bijie together, okay?"

Three-Eyed Golden Lion was only aloof toward humans. Toward Di Tian, who had raised her and was like both a father and a friend to her, she was very close.

The same went for Bijie.

"No rush. Let's first see whether Honored One has any other arrangements. If not, I'll take you to see Aunt Bijie." Di Tian rubbed Three-Eyed Golden Lion's large head, then turned his gaze toward Lin Yun.

At that moment, Lin Yun stared at the five External Soul Bones before him, lost in thought.

These five External Soul Bones were, respectively, the right palm bone of a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, the Eight Spider Lances of a ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, the Eagle Wings of a hundred-thousand-year Azure Shadow Divine Eagle, the tail of an unknown Soul Beast, and a diamond-shaped multicolored crystal resembling a gemstone.

The Star Dou Great Forest naturally had more External Soul Bones than these, but these five possessed the highest quality and age.

Among them, the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle's Eagle Wings were the finest.

Lin Yun remembered this kind of Soul Beast. The Azure Shadow Divine Eagle was the ruler of the skies, the king of the wind element. With a flap of its wings, its flight speed could leave almost all Soul Beasts of the same rank in the dust.

Elder Song, the mother of Xian Lin'er from Sea God Pavilion, possessed this as her Martial Soul. Even though her Soul Power Level was only ninety-seven, her flight speed could still approach that of a Limit Douluo.

Of course, that was only when a Limit Douluo relied purely on flight and did not use the Power of Space.

Even so, it was already powerful enough.

The instant Lin Yun saw this Azure Shadow Divine Eagle External Soul Bone, he was tempted. Although the Golden Dragon King had wings and could fly, his Dragon Transformation process was somewhat like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's Dragon Transformation secret art.

With his Soul Power Level still insufficient, Lin Yun could not withstand a full-body Dragon Transformation. He could only transform certain parts of his body.

For now, the only part he could transform was his right arm, and not even the entire arm.

By the time he could manifest dragon wings, he would probably need to be a Soul King or even a Soul Emperor.

Who knew how long that would take?

With an Azure Shadow Divine Eagle External Soul Bone like this, he could skip the growth phase and swiftly gain the ability to fly, with his speed immediately maxed out.

A hundred-thousand-year Azure Shadow Divine Eagle External Soul Bone!

As for the mother-killing spear identical to Tang San's beside it, he directly tossed it aside. Lin Yun could not understand why Di Tian had brought him such a disgusting Soul Bone.

Besides that, Lin Yun also had his eye on the ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's right palm bone.

The destructive power of his Golden Dragon Claws was already strong enough. If he added the claws of a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, which excelled at tearing things apart, then perhaps he would be able to slap someone to death with a casual strike in the future.

As for that tail and diamond-shaped crystal...

"What is this?" Lin Yun pinched up the diamond-shaped crystal, no larger than a fingernail, and asked Di Tian curiously.

He truly had not expected this thing to be a Soul Bone too.

"Reporting to Honored One, this was dropped after a member of Yaoling's clan died. It is a spiritual-type External Soul Bone," Di Tian explained.

Yaoling ranked last among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, yet it was also the most mysterious among them. No one knew what abilities it possessed, nor did anyone know what its true form was. They only knew a single name: Yaoling.

At the mention of that name, even Lin Yun became interested.

As a transmigrator, he knew the plot well. Logically speaking, there should have been almost nothing left capable of piquing his interest, but Yaoling was an exception.

That bastard never showed his face throughout the era of Douluo Dalu 2: The Unrivaled Tang Sect. He only appeared during the era of Legend of the Dragon King to make his presence known once, then vanished again.

Neither his abilities nor his race had ever been described throughout the story of Douluo Continent. There had only been hints that his abilities somewhat resembled Myriad Demon King's, as both possessed spiritual attributes.

"Tell me more about Yaoling's race. I'm rather curious," Lin Yun said with interest.

"That fellow..." At the mention of Yaoling, even Di Tian's tone became complicated.

"That fellow's race is called the Space-Time Demon Spirit. Like us, they came to Douluo Continent after the Divine Realm war. They were not originally a race of Douluo Continent, and their innate attributes are space-time and spiritual power."

"But for some reason, after arriving in Douluo Continent, the Yaoling Clan's abilities seemed to have been restricted—or perhaps their bloodline was weakened. All of their offensive abilities lay in their space-time attribute, yet that most important attribute was weakened beyond recognition, leaving them with almost no combat ability."

"The Yaoling Clan was the same. Having lost most of their combat strength, they basically all lived within an alternate space jointly created by their race. Even I rarely saw them."

After saying that, Di Tian followed his memories of Yaoling and condensed the appearance of Yaoling's true form using Soul Power.

Uh...

How should he put it? It was a floating giant eyeball, round and lacking any other organs, emitting a mysterious deep-blue radiance from its entire body.

If Yaoling were given tentacles too, it would be practically no different from an Evil Eye Tyrant.

"This thing is Yaoling?" Lin Yun froze.

"Yes, it is Yaoling." Di Tian nodded, then shook his head. His tone was somewhat regretful. "It was originally quite a powerful race, but now it has fallen to the point where it can only use the Power of Space to run away and Spiritual Power to control others."

Lin Yun turned his gaze back to the diamond-shaped crystal in his hand.

So, this Yaoling External Soul Bone fused into the center of the forehead, similar to the eye-pupil External Soul Bone dropped by the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord in the Original Work?

And the abilities of this External Soul Bone were basically fixed in the two areas of spatial escape and spiritual control. Honestly, Lin Yun seemed to genuinely need abilities in those areas right now.

Naturally, he would not need them after growing stronger in the future. A pair of fists would be enough to smash through everything. But things were different now. He had not grown up yet, so the more methods he had, the better.

Lin Yun nodded thoughtfully.

Very good. He wanted this External Soul Bone!