Golden Dragon Heart Guard Mirror, the One-Year Pact Arrives

Behind Spirit City, in the Soul Hunting Forest.

When they saw the heart guard mirror on Gu Han's chest—a golden, gleaming piece covered in Golden Dragon Scales and resembling a turtle shell—Bibi Dong and the Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo were all shocked beyond belief.

An External Soul Bone?!

Soul bones were treasures dreamed of by countless Soul Masters. Aside from soul rings, they allowed Soul Masters to gain an additional soul skill.

They came from soul beasts, but unlike soul rings, they were not guaranteed drops after killing a soul beast. Obtaining one depended entirely on luck!

Generally speaking, only killing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast guaranteed a soul bone drop, and such a soul bone would possess two soul skills.

But the power and rarity of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were well known.

Obtaining a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone was harder than ascending to heaven!

Yet ordinary soul bones were also extraordinarily difficult to obtain. Even if one hunted thousands or tens of thousands of soul beasts, one might not get a single soul bone.

Ordinary soul bones were divided into six types: Head Soul Bone, Torso Soul Bone, Left Arm Bone, Right Arm Bone, Left Leg Bone, and Right Leg Bone.

External Soul Bones were special soul bones distinct from those six ordinary types. Compared to ordinary soul bones, External Soul Bones possessed an incredibly powerful ability: they could evolve as a Soul Master's cultivation increased.

They were treasures ranked second only to Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings on a Soul Master's dream list!

This brat had actually obtained an External Soul Bone at the age of six?

He was already quite old, and his cultivation had reached the level of Titled Douluo, yet he did not even possess many soul bones.

Gu Han, on the other hand, had obtained the treasure every Soul Master dreamed of—an External Soul Bone—at only six years old. Yue Guan was so jealous he practically wanted to explode on the spot.

At the side, Bibi Dong was equally incredulous.

Though she too possessed an External Soul Bone—an exceptionally rare Wing-type External Soul Bone—she had only acquired it while traveling and training in her twenties.

Obtaining an External Soul Bone at six years old was simply heaven-defying luck!

If Gu Han's External Soul Bone had dropped from the Golden Dragon Turtle, Bibi Dong and the Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo might have harbored thoughts of claiming it for themselves.

But because this External Soul Bone had fused with Gu Han while he absorbed the soul ring, Bibi Dong and the Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo felt nothing more than jealousy and shock, without any desire to take it for themselves.

After fusing with the External Soul Bone, Gu Han sensed the abnormality in his body and immediately opened his eyes, looking first at his chest.

When he saw that a round heart guard mirror covered in Golden Dragon Scales and all manner of patterns had suddenly appeared on his chest, Gu Han was quite shocked as well.

Was my luck really this good?

Tang San had only obtained his External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances, at the age of twelve. I got an External Soul Bone at six—wasn't my luck even more heaven-defying than Tang San's?

What? There was an even more heaven-defying Huo Hang ten thousand years later?

Ahem, that wasn't the same era, so let's not bring that up for now.

"Xiao Han, congratulations! I never expected this Golden Dragon Turtle to give you an External Soul Bone, something sought throughout the world."

Since it was also Bibi Dong's first time seeing an External Soul Bone in the form of a heart guard mirror, she approached gracefully with the Pope's Scepter in hand. A trace of amazement appeared on her peerlessly beautiful, noble face. Assuming Gu Han did not yet know what an External Soul Bone was, she asked, "Do you know what an External Soul Bone is?"

"Teacher, I read about it in the library. It is a special soul bone that does not belong to the six major soul bone types. It has no fixed form, but it can evolve as a Soul Master's Soul Power increases. It is a treasure second only to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring!"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Gu Han answered with a smile.

"Xiao Han, can you let us see the soul skill of your External Soul Bone?"

At the side, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan asked curiously in his effeminate voice.

The soul skills of a Soul Master's martial soul were secrets, and soul bone skills were even more so.

But that depended on who was asking.

Facing his teacher Bibi Dong, along with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, who had helped him hunt his soul ring, Gu Han could not possibly refuse after Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan asked so curiously.

To be honest, he was also very curious about this soul ring shaped like a heart guard mirror.

What kind of soul skill would this soul bone possess?

With a thought, Gu Han injected true qi into the External Soul Bone on his chest and activated its soul skill.

The next moment, dazzling golden light burst from the External Soul Bone. Then, the light transformed into pieces of armor, instantly materializing from illusion into reality.

In the end, it became a suit of gleaming Golden Battle Armor, covered in all manner of dragon-shaped patterns, dragon scale and Dragon Horn elements, with Dragon Head Pauldrons, a Dragon Head Helmet, Dragon Scale Bracers, and more.

"The soul skill of this External Soul Bone is actually to transform into armor? But that makes sense. After all, it is an External Soul Bone from the Golden Dragon Turtle, which is renowned for its defense."

Looking at the Golden Dragon Armor Gu Han wore, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan could not help muttering to himself.

"Xiao Han, let's take a look at your soul skill as well!"

At that moment, Bibi Dong looked at the Sacred Dragon that had walked over to Gu Han's feet and spoke.

"Alright!"

Gu Han nodded and activated his Second Soul Skill as well.

As the second soul ring surrounding him lit up, dazzling golden light immediately bloomed from the Sacred Dragon's body.

Countless Golden Dragon Scales resembling a carapace continuously grew from the Sacred Dragon's body. They soon covered it from head to toe, like a peculiar layer of dragon scales and also like a suit of armor.

Gu Han ultimately named the Second Soul Skill of his Martial Soul: Sacred Dragon and the soul skill of the External Soul Bone on his body, which he called the Golden Dragon Heart Guard Mirror, Sacred Dragon Battle Armor and Golden Dragon Armor respectively.

After successfully obtaining his Second Soul Ring and unexpectedly gaining an External Soul Bone, Gu Han returned to Spirit City with Bibi Dong and Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo.

It was worth mentioning.

Normally, after absorbing a soul ring, someone like Gu Han, upon absorbing his Second Soul Ring at Level 20, should only have advanced from Level 20 to Level 21.

But perhaps because Gu Han had absorbed a soul ring beyond his level, and had also absorbed the External Soul Bone—the Golden Dragon Heart Guard Mirror.

His cultivation level had risen directly from Level 21 to Level 23.

After returning to Spirit City, everything proceeded as usual.

In the blink of an eye, nearly two and a half months passed.

At last, the day of Gu Han's one-year appointment with Xiong Ba arrived.

Having vanished from Spirit City Junior Soul Master Academy for several months, Gu Han returned to the academy and took his seat again in Class 1-A of the first year.

Seeing that Gu Han had actually returned and had not backed down on this day.

All sorts of gazes quickly came at him from every corner of the classroom.

Some were admiring, some sympathetic, while others were mocking, ridiculing, or simply eager to watch the drama unfold.

Upon noticing Gu Han's return, his lively deskmate Wang Hao was the first to hold back no longer and ask.

"Brother Han, today's the day you're supposed to fight that little bastard Xiong Chuan's big brother, Xiong Ba. How's your preparation going? Are you confident?"

"Aren't you His Holiness the Pope's disciple? Xiong Ba is bullying someone younger than him. Can't we call in some backup too?"

Having picked up many new expressions from Gu Han, Wang Hao blurted out all sorts of phrases without hesitation.