Zhu Rong: I'm Scared!

Before long, Zhu Rong had "learned" how to use the Storage Soul Tool.

This was a first-grade Storage Soul Tool. Its internal space was not large, enough to hold roughly two adult Pipi Pigs.

Adult Pipi Pigs were about the same size as adult wild boars on Blue Star. They were relatively weak soul beasts with delicious meat, most often found on aristocrats' dining tables.

That was beside the point...

Back to the matter at hand.

Zhu Rong did not see any Soul Bones inside the Storage Soul Tool. It was an empty shell.

The items inside had likely been silently moved elsewhere by Tang Hao.

Zhu Rong had a system storage, which came with the Bond System. Its storage space was practically infinite!

However, the system storage could only hold items produced by the system! Such a vast space, yet it could only store system-produced items. It was somewhat regrettable...

Now that he had this Storage Soul Tool, Zhu Rong finally had his own storage space. He no longer needed to look to the system's "mood."

When Tang Hao collected the spoils, he discovered that these two Soul Elders were anything but ordinary!

Storage Soul Tool x1

Hundred Year Soul Bone x2

Ten Year Soul Bone x1

Gold Soul Coin x1000

There were also some miscellaneous items, all of which Tang Hao threw away.

The two Hundred Year Soul Bones had come from two-hundred-year and three-hundred-year soul beasts, respectively.

As for that Ten Year Soul Bone, its actual age was probably around eighty years.

Why was a Ten Year Soul Bone rarer than a Hundred Year Soul Bone?

To be honest, this was Tang Hao's first time seeing a Ten Year Soul Bone!

He truly had not expected these two to be so lucky! They had killed so few Ten Year soul beasts, yet a Soul Bone had actually dropped!

The Clear Sky Sect had done this sort of thing before. They had slaughtered Ten Year soul beasts and Hundred Year soul beasts in large numbers...

Yet among all those people in the Clear Sky Sect, not one had ever obtained a Ten Year Soul Bone.

Other sects and factions had done the same.

But later, Spirit Hall joined forces with the two great empires and the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects to publicly oppose the practice. Only then did everyone stop.

Massively slaughtering Ten Year soul beasts to obtain Soul Bones was a thankless task. Everyone knew the drop rate was far too low, and Ten Year Soul Bones were practically worthless anyway, so they all agreed to oppose it.

How could Tang Hao possibly hand such trifling Ten Year and Hundred Year Soul Bones over to Zhu Rong?

Even if he told Zhu Rong not to fuse with them, what if the boy fused with one out of curiosity?

Once a Soul Bone fused with a soul master, there was no way to remove it unless one severed a hand or foot!

There was still a chance with the limbs, but for a Head Soul Bone or Torso Soul Bone, there was no chance at all...

In the original story, Tang Hao and Tang San had been able to replace and reconnect bones because Tang San possessed Sea God's Light and his hundred-thousand-year biological mother, the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone. That was why the bone replacement had succeeded.

Why did Sword Douluo not reattach his severed arm? What could he use to do so? The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect definitely had Soul Bones in reserve, but he did not have Tang San's cheat!

To be safe, Tang Hao simply decided not to let Zhu Rong know about the Soul Bones. Zhu Rong had not seen them anyway, so there was no need to mention it.

Besides, he and Zhu Rong were currently in an "employment" relationship. "Giving" him a Storage Soul Tool was already generous enough on Tang Hao's part!

After all, since Soul Tool technology had vanished and so many years had passed, Storage Soul Tools were exceedingly rare on the Douluo Continent.

They were extremely precious...

This Storage Soul Tool, which could only hold two Pipi Pigs' worth of space, would fetch at least tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins at auction...

"Blacksmith, you wouldn't have just because of this Storage Soul Tool, killed them..."

"Yes. Do you want it or not?"

Zhu Rong: ...

"Kid, if you tell anyone about this..."

Afraid that Zhu Rong was too young and loose-lipped, Tang Hao released a trace of killing intent toward him!

He wanted to intimidate Zhu Rong and make the kid behave himself!

Zhu Rong: ...

He knew perfectly well that Tang Hao had no reason to kill him, and that Tang Hao could not possibly kill him right now.

Yet Zhu Rong's body could not stop trembling!

It was not because he was afraid, nor had he sensed any icy killing intent that made his back go cold or cold sweat pour down his body.

Zhu Rong felt nothing at all. Tang Hao's killing intent did not affect him in the slightest.

When Tang Hao first released his killing intent, Zhu Rong had even been slightly stunned, unable to understand what was happening! He truly had not been affected in the least...

Fortunately, after Qilin reminded him, Zhu Rong finally realized that Tang Hao had released killing intent! He should play along with Tang Hao's act...

Why was Zhu Rong completely unaffected by Tang Hao's killing intent?

The Sacred Redemption Hand Cannon also possessed four incomparably powerful million-year soul skills!

One of them happened to be related to presence and domains.

Yet this soul skill had nothing to do with domains or presence at all.

Body of Redemption: Immune to all forms of pressure, presence, and domains below god level from others. (Passive soul skill)

As the passive skill of a million-year Soul Bone, its effect was so powerful that Zhu Rong could only complain about it.

This was not merely a passive skill. It was also an utterly bastardized skill!

It not only immunized him against negative presence and domains, but positive ones as well... If that was not a bastardized skill, what was?

You could say it was related to presence and domains, since it could immunize him against presence, pressure, and domains below god level.

You could also say it had nothing to do with presence or domains.

It truly had little to do with them, because what this passive soul skill provided was a kind of "constitution"!

When he had first obtained this skill, Zhu Rong had not known whether to laugh or cry. This passive was simply too damn awful...

The only thing that gave Zhu Rong a little comfort was that the skill did not immunize him against his own domain. Otherwise, he might have cried out loud...

Wait, he did not have a domain right now either!

Tang Hao's current Soul Power Level was unknown. About nine years later, it would be level 95.

At present, Tang Hao was either level 93 or level 94.

Meanwhile, Zhu Rong was only a pathetic level-ten rookie!

If Tang Hao noticed anything, Zhu Rong himself was not afraid. He had the Armor of Resurrection, so what the hell did he have to fear...

But Tang Hao knew where his home was!

For all these reasons, Zhu Rong had decided to cooperate and demonstrate what real trembling looked like!

Zhu Rong: I'm scared!

Seeing that Zhu Rong was trembling despite saying nothing, merely staring at him, Tang Hao nodded in satisfaction and thought:

"Not bad. A disciple of my Clear Sky Sect should have this kind of backbone!"

If it had been an ordinary child, that trace of killing intent would likely have made him wet himself already.

Tang Hao was very satisfied that Zhu Rong had endured it and showed absolutely no sign of yielding.

With that thought, Tang Hao withdrew his killing intent, picked up the wine gourd at his waist, and began drinking deeply.

Tang Hao was still a wanted criminal of Spirit Hall, so naturally, he did not want Zhu Rong to expose him because of a loose tongue.

After a while, Zhu Rong finally calmed down. He cursed inwardly:

"Damn it, this bastard Tang Hao! Bullying a kid!"

"Once my cultivation surpasses yours..."

"Heh, what a pity. You won't live to see that day..."

Zhu Rong had long since devised a perfect plan—a plan to send Tang Hao offline!