Dark Gold Palm Bone Cyclops

After a meal, full and satisfied, Xiao Yang began rummaging through the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear again.

With the Opportunity Card boosting his luck, barring any surprises, he should be able to get a soul bone.

Although he used a blade, to be honest, he preferred the visceral thrill of fists striking flesh. So his fists had to be hard enough.

Soon enough, Xiao Yang got his wish. From the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's right forepaw, he extracted a strange dark-gold bone.

The palm-like bone was not large, but five long, narrow blades extended from its front, like miniature Terror Claws. A dark-gold glow flowed over the blades like rippling water, giving them the air of a divine weapon.

Serpent Spear Douluo She Long, standing nearby, had gone completely numb. He had nothing left to say about Xiao Yang's luck.

With a thought, the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear Right Palm Bone instantly turned into a pool of dark-gold liquid and flowed into Xiao Yang's right hand. At first, it felt extremely comfortable, as though a warm liquid were enveloping his hand.

But soon, that warmth turned scorching. Xiao Yang paid it no mind and activated the Vajra Glazed Body, instantly devouring the metal-element energy into his body.

An hour later, Xiao Yang had completely refined the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's Right Palm Bone.

Focusing inward on his right hand, Xiao Yang discovered that its five fingers had undergone subtle changes. They had become more slender and powerful, while his wrist had grown more flexible.

His skin had become denser and tougher, faintly gleaming with a metallic luster.

At the same time, the bones in his right hand had completely turned dark gold—a dark gold so profound it resembled endless void.

The bones had grown slightly larger, though not noticeably so. The finger bones had widened at the top and narrowed at the bottom, taking on a somewhat blade-like shape. Even the surrounding muscles continuously squirmed and changed. Immense strength gradually compressed within the bones before slowly taking shape.

The broader portions of the finger and palm bones bore cloud-like patterns, while the sharp lower portions were covered in triangular, razor-sharp markings layered densely upon one another.

Beyond that, Xiao Yang discovered that after absorbing this palm bone, he had not gained any soul skill. In exchange, however, the strength of his right hand, the hardness of its bones, and the defensive power of its surface skin had all increased tremendously.

It could be said that Xiao Yang's right hand was now the strongest, toughest, and most defensively resilient part of his entire body.

If a steel blade struck his hand, the blade would shatter before Xiao Yang's hand did.

She Long nodded. "Since you've finished absorbing the soul ring, let's head back!"

Hearing this, Xiao Yang looked at She Long in surprise. "Wait, Senior She Long. Who told you I was finished?"

"Hm?" She Long looked at Xiao Yang in confusion.

Xiao Yang rolled his eyes and said speechlessly, "Senior She Long, don't forget that I awakened my martial soul at the age of nine. Isn't it perfectly reasonable for my innate Soul Power to have exceeded Rank Ten? And now that I've absorbed two soul rings and a soul bone, isn't it perfectly reasonable for my Soul Power to have surpassed Rank Twenty?"

She Long instinctively felt that something was off, yet he could not put his finger on it. Just like that, Xiao Yang fooled him.

Xiao Yang and She Long headed deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest. They had barely taken a few steps when an ear-splitting roar suddenly erupted from the depths of the forest. Accompanying that furious roar was a terrifying sonic shockwave like an avalanche and tsunami!

The sound shook the air, transforming into tangible waves of force!

Xiao Yang clearly saw vast swathes of trees to his front-left fall like wheat being cut down. An extraordinarily burly figure leapt into view as well. When it landed with a thunderous crash, the ground trembled violently, kicking up dust nearly a meter high.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!" After coughing for a while, Xiao Yang spat out several mouthfuls of dust and looked ahead.

A massive figure was charging toward them. At that moment, Xiao Yang finally saw its appearance clearly.

It was a giant, its entire body covered in gray fur, and its enormous frame stood over fifty meters tall.

There was a single eye on its head, radiating a terrifying light.

Strange light continuously burst from its body, and the shockwaves came from that light.

Yet it was releasing those shockwaves merely to clear a path for itself.

It was actually fleeing.

Xiao Yang was dumbfounded. This colossal creature dozens of meters tall nearly made him feel as though he were seeing Ultraman.

No wonder the ground had shaken so badly when it jumped earlier.

"This is... a Cyclops?!" She Long exclaimed in surprise.

Upon hearing that name, Xiao Yang recalled that this soul beast had appeared in the second part of the Douluo series. The one that had appeared was a mutated Cyclops—the Light-Dark Twin Cyclops.

Cyclopes were a relatively unusual type among soul beasts. Apart from having only one eye on their foreheads, they looked no different from humans in other respects. They even used branches and vines to weave clothing to cover their lower bodies. No wonder the roar he had heard earlier had sounded so similar to a human's.

It was simply that Cyclopes were far larger than humans.

They stood two meters tall at birth. By the time their cultivation reached a hundred years, they could grow beyond five meters tall, at which point they were considered adult Cyclopes.

Once their cultivation reached a thousand years, a Cyclops could exceed eight meters in height.

If its cultivation reached ten thousand years, it could even grow beyond fifteen meters tall.

But precisely because they were so enormous and conspicuous, they easily became prey for powerful soul beasts. As a result, hundred-thousand-year Cyclopes were practically nonexistent.

Their brain matter was a great tonic to certain soul beasts, and every one of those soul beasts possessed top-tier bloodline inheritances.

But that was not what caught Xiao Yang's attention. What he truly cared about was the Cyclops's attribute.

The Cyclops possessed the rare Chaos attribute. Its attribute was not fixed and could change at any time.

For Xiao Yang, the Chaos attribute could help balance the power within his body.

The Vajra Glazed Body and Great Sun Glazed Art that Xiao Yang originally cultivated were both grand, righteous paths of utmost yang and hardness. Their attributes were primarily metal and fire, supplemented by a portion of the Light Attribute.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yang's Avici Dao Three Blades and Zangetsu were both primarily dark-attributed.

The reason there had been no conflict so far was that Zangetsu mainly cultivated soul power. The energy from the soul rings Zangetsu absorbed was converted into a Shinigami's Reiatsu—or, in terms of the Doupo system, an alchemist's soul power—and stored in his upper dantian, Xiao Yang's sea of consciousness.

Xiao Yang's battle qi, on the other hand, was stored in his lower dantian, which was why the two had not conflicted with one another.