Super First Soul Skill, External Soul Bone

Early the next morning, they returned to Holy Soul Village.

Xiao Lin had already understood his soul skill.

Just then, Xiao Lin spotted Tang San in the distance cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill. After thanking Tang Hao, Xiao Lin hurried toward Tang San.

"Little San!"

Xiao Lin shouted, startling Tang San, who had been wholly focused on his cultivation.

"Brother Lin! You're back."

Although Tang San had been startled, he still smiled when he saw who it was.

Seeing the incomparably sunny smile on Xiao Lin's face, Tang San could tell at a glance that Xiao Lin had obtained an exceptionally powerful skill.

"Brother Lin, you were so fast!"

Tang San looked at the smug Xiao Lin and could not help scratching his head as he spoke.

"Hehe, after obtaining my First Soul Skill and strengthening my physical condition, I asked Uncle Hao to carry me straight back."

"You have no idea how strong Uncle Hao is or how fast he can move. I nearly suffocated."

Xiao Lin chuckled. He had specifically asked Tang Hao to do that and rushed back early just so he could show off in front of Tang San.

"Oh, right, we'll have beef to eat from now on."

"That Great Strength Vajra Bull had eight hundred years of cultivation. Its meat will be enough for us to eat for two months. Once we go study at Notting Academy, you won't be so malnourished anymore."

Xiao Lin looked at Tang San's rosy complexion, yet still shook his head as he spoke.

He was not sturdy enough.

How could someone who wielded the Clear Sky Hammer be malnourished?

"Alright."

Tang San smiled faintly, clearly very interested in the beef as well.

The Three-Eyed Salamander they had eaten last time had not tasted good at all. Only its tail had been exceptionally delicious.

But the Three-Eyed Salamander only had so many tails, and they had quickly finished them.

"Oh, right, Brother Lin, what is your First Soul Skill?"

Tang San was rather curious. Ever since Xiao Lin had said that soul skills might be influenced by a Soul Master's own understanding, and that it was even possible to obtain multiple soul skills, Tang San had become very interested in the matter.

"Hmph, hmph!"

Hearing Tang San's question, Xiao Lin's lips immediately curled upward, and he grew smug.

This was exactly the question he had been waiting for.

"My soul skill is called All or Nothing. It's an Attack Amplification soul skill. Guess how much my First Soul Skill increases my attack power."

Xiao Lin nearly pressed his face against Tang San's. He just loved seeing Tang San's baffled yet curious expression.

Once he denied Tang San's guess and then gave a number Tang San could never imagine, leaving him shocked, that would be far too entertaining.

"All or Nothing?"

"That name sounds so powerful?"

Tang San was already dumbfounded. He stepped back to avoid Xiao Lin's gaze before finally offering his guess.

"Your soul ring came from the Great Strength Vajra Bull, so it should increase strength. But you said it boosts attack, so I'll guess it enhances attack by 300%."

Tang San made a very bold guess. It was not because he could deduce the relationship between a martial soul and a soul ring to calculate the value, but because he knew that if Xiao Lin was this smug, it definitely would not be an ordinary soul skill.

Xiao Lin would not be satisfied unless it gave him a good scare.

"Too low. Your horizons are too narrow!"

Xiao Lin crooked his lips before immediately dropping a massive bombshell on Tang San.

"Attack increased by 400%. And not only that, I also feel that my strength has more than doubled, while the Imprisoning Dragon Staff's hardness has increased by 50%."

Xiao Lin threw back his head and showed off. "What if I activate the Indestructible Divine Skill? Guess how much my attack would increase then?"

"At least 800%, and the Imprisoning Dragon Staff's hardness would increase by 100% too."

After Xiao Lin's little self-question-and-answer routine, Tang San beside him could no longer keep it together.

"How much?"

Tang San blurted out.

No, were you some kind of cheat freak?

Tang San had originally thought that, with his Twin Martial Souls, no matter what happened, Xiao Lin's soul skill would not be enough to shock him.

Yet what happened today left Tang San completely dumbfounded.

"800%? Then when you become a Soul Saint in the future, wouldn't that become 1600%?"

Tang San had already begun to doubt some of the basic martial soul knowledge Xiao Lin had told him.

No, wasn't the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect only 80%?

"This was the talent of my Innate Weapon Soul True Body. It was equivalent to giving me two chances to transform. I really was the Fated Protagonist."

"If I couldn't undergo a Two-Stage Transformation, what kind of protagonist would I be?!"

Xiao Lin's nose was practically pointing at the sky.

"Something's not right, Brother Lin. Your Soul Skill may be heaven defying, and I can accept it having a name like All or Nothing, but what's going on with that Power Doubling? Why didn't it double when you used the Indestructible Divine Skill?"

Tang San was, after all, a martial arts prodigy. The moment he heard about the changes in Xiao Lin's Soul Skill, he realized something was wrong.

"That's right. This isn't scientific!"

Xiao Lin lowered his head and stroked his chin.

"The reason I chose the Great Strength Vajra Bull for my first martial soul was because of my hypothesis. While ensuring Attack Amplification, I wanted to gain as much Strength Amplification and Hardness Amplification as possible."

"Now, there's no problem with the Attack Amplification, and the Hardness Amplification is the same. So why is the Strength Amplification different?"

"Could it be that eight hundred years of Soul Power was too little to grant any more abilities?"

Xiao Lin plopped down onto the ground and began to think.

The reason I chose the Great Strength Vajra Bull was for the strongest attack. Although the Great Strength Vajra Bull was a herbivorous Soul Beast, lacking ferocity and agility, I had a Weapon Soul, so I didn't consider carnivorous Soul Beasts like the Vajra Tiger.

Because those carnivorous Soul Beasts weren't even as strong as the Great Strength Vajra Bull.

The facts proved that I had chosen correctly. The Great Strength Vajra Bull gave me 400% Attack Amplification and 50% Hardness Amplification.

But what was going on with this strength?

Even my Innate Weapon Soul True Body couldn't amplify strength. That meant this wasn't granted by the Soul Skill?

Could it be the base strength given to me by the Imprisoning Dragon Staff?

Xiao Lin abruptly raised his head, just as he was about to ask Tang San whether that was possible.

Suddenly, Tang San let out a cry of surprise, making Xiao Lin subconsciously touch his forehead.

"Brother Lin, two horns grew on your forehead."

Tang San's words made Xiao Lin instantly realize the truth.

Could it be an External Soul Bone?!

An External Soul Bone second only to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone?

Xiao Lin touched his forehead, and sure enough, he quickly felt two hard little horns.

They were only about the size of Xiao Lin's thumbnail, slightly curved like crescent moons.

"Brother Lin, they look a little like a pair of Little Bull Horns!"

"Little Bull Horns?"

Hearing Tang San's words, Xiao Lin's heart stirred, further confirming the matter of the External Soul Bone.

"So that's it. So it was this that added to my strength. Uncle Hao didn't see them because they were too small?"

Xiao Lin touched the pair of Little Bull Horns atop his head, then poured Soul Power into them and controlled them with his mind, retracting them.

Very quickly, Xiao Lin's forehead became smooth and flawless again.

"Brother Lin, what was that?"

Tang San was extremely curious. Those little bull horns had doubled his strength?

"Little San, this is an External Soul Bone. It's the most exceptional type of Soul Bone apart from a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and it'll grow stronger as I grow."

Xiao Lin naturally kept nothing from him and told Tang San everything.

"Oh, right. You must never tell anyone about my External Soul Bone."

Xiao Lin still gave him a warning in the end.

Although it seemed that no one in the original story had tried to seize Tang San's Eight Spider Lances, and Xiao Lin had never heard of anyone taking an External Soul Bone either.

But even if it couldn't be taken, if someone became greedy and believed it could be seized, Xiao Lin's safety would be in danger.