After feeling Sun Sheng's call, the purple soul ring rushed toward him like it had found an outlet, gradually settling above the top of his head.
In an instant, the purple soul ring released an unprecedented pressure, weighing down on him like a massive mountain.
Every time the purple soul ring descended by a fraction, the pressure on his body surged by ten percent.
When the purple soul ring settled around his waist, he was already drenched in sweat, trembling all over, with the bones in his body creaking.
"Integrate!"
Sun Sheng maintained this state for who knows how long before shouting sternly, using astonishing willpower to forcibly conquer this soul ring.
At this very moment, a huge ape figure appeared behind him, beating its chest with both fists and letting out a silent roar.
That majestic and tyrannical aura rolled outward like a raging sea, one wave stronger than the preceding one.
The fleeing Goliath Ant colonies, along with other powerful soul beasts outside the Goliath Ant territory, fell to the ground in terror and trembled upon feeling this tyrannical aura, not even daring to raise their heads.
When this tyrannical aura gradually dissipated, Sun Sheng had completely absorbed the purple soul ring.
His soul power level also successfully increased to twenty-one, successfully advancing to a Soul Grandmaster.
Those two soul rings, one white and one purple, mapped against each other, looking exceptionally bizarre.
If outsiders were to witness this, they would undoubtedly be shocked by it.
Having a thousand-year soul ring as a second soul ring was definitely an unprecedented and astonishing existence that terrified the world.
"Hah!"
"Awesome!"
Sun Sheng slowly stood up, stretched his limbs, and moved his body a bit, causing his entire body's bones to make a slight cracking sound.
It was evident that he had been cultivating here for some time.
"Hehe, let's test the power of the second soul skill!"
Sun Sheng summoned the Ruyi Jingu Bang, looking at that dazzling purple soul ring with a trace of small excitement.
Holding the staff with both hands, he smashed it through the air toward a certain patch of open ground.
"Thousand-Jin Strike!"
The purple soul ring flashed, and a force of a thousand jin surged out from the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
Boom!
Sun Sheng smashed the ground with a single strike, erupting with terrifying momentum and forcefully blasting a giant pit several meters wide into the ground.
"Mm, as expected of a thousand-year soul skill, its power is truly no joke."
Sun Sheng looked at the giant pit before him, nodding in considerable satisfaction.
"Huh, what is this?"
"Could it be a soul bone?"
Just as Sun Sheng put away the Ruyi Jingu Bang, a dark golden glint flashed across the corner of his eye, completely catching his attention.
The moment he approached the corpse of the Goliath Ant King, he noticed that its right front limb was somewhat different.
He reached out with his right hand, fast as lightning, and removed it.
"It really is a soul bone!"
Sun Sheng looked at this soul bone radiating a faint dark golden halo, a trace of joy flashing in his eyes.
Without the slightest hesitation, he sat down cross-legged and began to fuse with the soul bone.
Although aside from external soul bones, soul masters could only fuse with six soul bones throughout their entire bodies—the head, torso, left arm, right arm, left leg, and right leg.
Once fused, they were very difficult to detach.
Therefore, the vast majority of soul masters would not choose soul bones with low age ratings when facing soul bone choices.
Especially soul bones under ten thousand years of age.
However, Sun Sheng did not need to have any scruples.
He had leveling values and could directly increase the age of the soul bone.
As long as he fused with it, he could constantly increase its age using leveling values.
After all, soul bones were hard to come by, especially fusing with a soul bone that came from the same soul beast as the soul ring.
When simultaneously unleashing soul ring skills and soul bone skills, unexpected bonuses would be obtained.
"Integrate!"
Sun Sheng held the soul bone in his left hand, gradually bringing it close to his right hand and guiding it with his soul power.
In an instant, the soul bone in his hand transformed into a dark golden light, completely wrapping around his right arm.
Immediately, Sun Sheng felt a heart-piercing pain, as if his entire right arm was being pulverized.
Before long, his right arm became transparent, and the bare white bones inside could be clearly seen.
Pulverized, reconstructed!
This process repeated continuously.
Yet no matter how agonizing it was, Sun Sheng never let out a single cry of pain.
One could see just how formidable his willpower truly was.
When the bare white bones and the soul bone completely fused, that heart-piercing and bone-shattering pain gradually dissipated.
By this time, his entire body was already soaked in sweat.
And his soul power, under the effect of the soul bone, increased by another level.
"Hah!"
"It's finally over!"
Sun Sheng slowly opened his eyes, let out a long breath of turbid air, wiped the sweat from his forehead clean, and only then stood up.
When he felt the strength transmitted from his right arm and understood the soul skill attached to the soul bone, he revealed a gratified smile.
Five times strength amplification!
This was precisely the soul skill brought by the Goliath Right Arm Spirit Bone.
Once unleashed, his strength would be enhanced fivefold.
For the improvement of his combat power, this was undoubtedly the most advantageous.
And when the second soul skill coordinated with the soul bone, it could also erupt with even greater power.
"System, how many leveling values do I have right now?"
Sun Sheng gripped his powerful right arm and asked mentally.
He was going to upgrade the soul bone.
Reporting to host, your current leveling values total five thousand five hundred and twenty points in all.
Five thousand five hundred and twenty points?
My goodness!
So many?
Doesn't that also mean five thousand five hundred and twenty exchange values?
Just how many Goliath Ants did I kill?
Upon learning his current leveling values, Sun Sheng was both startled and overjoyed.
As far as he knew, killing a soul beast granted leveling values and exchange values corresponding to one-tenth of the soul beast's age.
In other words, killing a five-hundred-year soul beast would grant him fifty leveling values and fifty exchange values.
Five thousand five hundred and twenty leveling values—aside from the Goliath Ant King, this required killing at least sixty or seventy century-old Goliath Ants and around ten millennium-old Goliath Ants.
"Ahem, System, use all the leveling values on the soul bone."
After a moment of pleasant surprise, Sun Sheng hesitated not at all to use them all on upgrading the soul bone.
He felt that upgrading the soul bone brought greater improvements than upgrading a soul ring.
Ding! Soul bone upgrade successful.
After receiving Sun Sheng's command, the Douluo Leveling System completed the upgrade in just a few seconds.
His Goliath Right Arm Spirit Bone successfully upgraded to a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and its soul skill was enhanced to ten times strength amplification.
"Good fellow, it truly didn't disappoint me; the soul bone skill directly doubled."
"And relying solely on the power of the soul bone, a single punch should possess the strength of ten Goliath Ants."
Upon learning of the astonishing enhancement brought by the soul bone upgrade, Sun Sheng wore an expression of wild joy.
Without a doubt, his strength had grown significantly stronger once again.
He now had the confidence to battle a Soul Ancestor without falling into a disadvantage, or even defeat them.
"System, with my current exchange values, what treasures can I exchange for?"
After seeing the astonishing benefits brought by the leveling values, Sun Sheng set his sights on the exchange values.
Very sorry, given that the host's exchange values have not yet reached ten thousand points, the mall has not yet been activated.
"Why?" Sun Sheng asked curiously.
Items inside the mall require a minimum of ten thousand exchange values.
Crap!
Upon learning the answer, Sun Sheng directly blurted out a vulgarity and strode away.
One hour after he left, Hu Liena and the two others, who had completed their mission of assisting Yan in hunting a ten-thousand-year soul beast, returned to this place.
When the three of them caught sight of the Goliath Ant King's corpse, they were utterly shocked and froze in place.
How could this be!
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