Love Really Was Great

Soul Masters with the Mental Attribute could use their mental power to display abilities that Soul Power could not once their mental power reached a certain level.

As their mental power improved, Soul Masters could, through fortunate coincidences, sense and open their Sea of Consciousness.

The Sea of Consciousness existed, but opening it required a fortuitous opportunity.

Perhaps there was a standard: once mental power was cultivated to a certain level, one could naturally sense and open the Sea of Consciousness. But before reaching that level, if one was lucky enough, there was still hope of opening it with external help.

At that moment, Su Wen wanted to use the opportunity of absorbing his Second Soul Ring to open his own Sea of Consciousness.

A Soul Ring with the Mental Attribute, even if absorbed beyond one's level, could not necessarily open the Sea of Consciousness.

However, Su Wen could take the initiative to open it.

Where was the Sea of Consciousness?

Su Wen did not know.

The Soul Master World did not know either.

However, since mental power could sense and open the Sea of Consciousness after reaching a certain level, that meant the Sea of Consciousness could be sensed once mental power reached a certain strength.

Su Wen's mental power had not reached that strength yet.

"But I can clearly sense my mental power improving."

The Sea of Consciousness was there, and mental power was within it.

It was just that before the Sea of Consciousness was opened, the mental power a Soul Master mobilized was merely the portion of mental power wandering out from the Sea of Consciousness.

While sensing the improvement of his mental power, Su Wen was also carrying out a process similar to how he had previously sensed the Martial Soul Space through cultivating and expending Original Soul Power.

"The Martial Soul is a bridge connecting a Soul Master's soul and body. As the Martial Soul undergoes metamorphosis, the connection between the Martial Soul Space and the body grows closer, allowing the Soul Power of the Soul Ring to seep in. Therefore, the connection between the current Martial Soul Space and the Sea of Consciousness must also be closer than before."

In theory, the current Sea of Consciousness was the easiest to sense.

Time passed.

The Illusion Spirit Fox had always been primarily aligned with the Mental Attribute. After mutating, the Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox's Mental Attribute had become even stronger, far surpassing that of an ordinary Illusion Spirit Fox.

As the Soul Ring Origin merged into the Martial Soul Origin and the Martial Soul underwent metamorphosis, his mental power also received feedback and continued to rise.

"I sensed it!" Su Wen sensed the existence of the Sea of Consciousness.

He mobilized his mental power and slammed it against the existence of the Sea of Consciousness.

Boom!

Like the creation of heaven and earth, a space emerged.

The Sea of Consciousness was opened.

His mental power rose crazily.

In truth, it was the Soul Power originally located within the Sea of Consciousness that Su Wen had taken control of.

Su Wen's Sea of Consciousness was enormous, a vast lake. However, the droplets formed from his mental power gathered together and amounted to no more than a small puddle within it.

Suddenly, the Sea of Consciousness began to tremble, as if a crack had appeared in the sky above it.

Opening the Sea of Consciousness merely meant using control over mental power to bring one's will into it, rather than actually breaking through this place.

But at that moment, the Sea of Consciousness seemed to have been shattered.

"Something's wrong."

Su Wen carefully examined the crack and found it strangely familiar.

It looked like—

"The third eye between the Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox's brows?"

Su Wen was startled at first, then wild joy surged through him.

He realized what this was.

An External Soul Bone!

In the Soul Master World, the most precious things, aside from Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, were Soul Bones.

Every time a Soul Bone was absorbed, one gained an additional Soul Skill. For a Soul Master at any stage, this was an enormous boost.

Unlike Soul Rings, Soul Bones had an extremely low chance of appearing, less than one in a thousand. Of course, Soul Bones had no such restriction: even a Soul Master who had not personally killed the Soul Beast could fuse with one.

Under normal circumstances, Soul Bones came in six types: the left and right leg bones, the left and right arm bones, the Head Bone, and the Torso Bone.

Under special circumstances, Soul Bones could also appear in other parts of the body. These were External Soul Bones, the rarest and most special type of Soul Bone.

External Soul Bones could grow. As a Soul Master cultivated, if they encountered a fortuitous opportunity, even a ten-year External Soul Bone could theoretically grow into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

An eye?

And a third eye between the brows.

This was not a manifestation of a Head Bone, so it had to be an External Soul Bone.

Su Wen sighed at his heaven-defying luck.

However, after obtaining the External Soul Bone and recalling the entire process, he felt that it seemed quite normal too.

The chance of a Soul Bone being born was painfully low, but under two circumstances, that chance became extremely high: when the Soul Beast harbored extreme hatred, and when the Soul Beast passed away peacefully.

Su Wen's situation seemed to be the latter. In the past, he had thought that the latter condition could only be fulfilled through a sacrifice.

"Looks like I was simply ignorant before."

Love really was great.

Two and a half hours later.

Su Wen opened his eyes, and his gaze was far more spirited than before.

His mental power spread out, and Su Wen could vaguely sense the general situation within the cave.

"My mental power is still too weak."

If he completely covered every part of the cave with his mental power, Su Wen could naturally sense everything clearly and from all directions without blind spots. But at present, his mental power could only roughly fill the cave, and its concentration was extremely low.

The pixels were insufficient.

"There should be some special mental-power techniques that can stimulate the characteristics of mental power and make it more suitable for sensing."

If he could develop such a technique, it would probably be equivalent to a sensory-type Soul Skill with the Mental Attribute.

Unfortunately, Su Wen did not know any such technique.

"Wait. I'll try the External Soul Bone."

The skin between Su Wen's brows split open, and a gorgeous, dazzling vertical eye bloomed there. Brilliant light erupted from it, radiating an alluring charm that made people sink into it.

As his mental power circulated within the Illusion Spirit Eye, without even releasing it into the outside world, Su Wen felt that his vision had become incomparably clear.

Not only was the world observed through the Illusion Spirit Eye clearer, but his normal eyesight had also been strengthened. Everything outside became crystal clear, and Su Wen could even see the dust floating in the air.

His heart stirred, and he concealed the Illusion Spirit Eye. However, at that moment, the Illusion Spirit Eye had merely become hidden rather than disappeared. He continued trying to circulate his mental power within it.

Although he no longer had the Illusion Spirit Eye's vision, his normal eyesight was still strengthened.

"Not bad. Under normal circumstances, barring accidents, my Illusion Spirit Eye shouldn't be exposed."

Unlike ordinary Soul Bones, External Soul Bones would not burst out again once they had completely fused.

However, complete fusion was the prerequisite, and Su Wen was not certain whether his current state counted as complete fusion.

Moreover, the most important point was—

"Damn it, not every Soul Master knows this!"

The existence of External Soul Bones was already a secret, let alone their characteristics.

As long as people confirmed that Su Wen had a third eye between his brows and that it was a Soul Bone, most Soul Masters would definitely think of killing him and forcing the Soul Bone to burst out.

Furthermore, most of those Soul Masters would not even consider whether Su Wen had completely fused with the Soul Bone or whether it could burst out after he was killed.

Of course, even if they knew this characteristic, some would probably still take the gamble.

That was simply human nature.

"Apart from the Illusion Spirit Eye, my greatest gain this time is the Second Soul Skill."

Su Wen began sensing his Second Soul Skill and was very satisfied.