Joyfully Obtaining a Soul Bone, Upgrading a Soul Bone

The Purple Soul Ring, sensing Sun Sheng's call, shot toward him like a flood finding its outlet, gradually settling above his head.

In an instant, the Purple Soul Ring released an unprecedented pressure, like a mountain crushing down on him.

Every time the Purple Soul Ring lowered by a fraction, the weight on his body surged by another tenth.

By the time the Purple Soul Ring settled around his waist, he was drenched in sweat, trembling all over, his bones creaking audibly.

"Merge!"

Sun Sheng held this state for who knows how long, then barked sharply, forcing the soul ring into submission with astonishing willpower.

At that moment, a massive ape silhouette emerged behind him, pounding its chest with both fists in a silent roar.

The overwhelming, savage aura rolled outward like crashing waves, each surge stronger than the last.

The fleeing Goliath Ant swarm, and the other powerful Soul Beasts beyond their territory, all prostrated themselves trembling at the sensation of that brutal aura, not daring to lift their heads.

When the savage aura gradually faded, Sun Sheng had fully absorbed the Purple Soul Ring.

His Soul Power Level had smoothly risen to rank twenty-one, successfully advancing to Soul Grand Master.

The white and purple soul rings reflected off each other, looking especially bizarre.

If any outsider saw this, they would surely be stunned.

A second soul ring being a thousand-year soul ring was absolutely unprecedented, unparalleled, and shocking to the world.

"Phew!"

"Awesome!"

Sun Sheng slowly stood up, stretched his back, and moved his body a little, his joints emitting faint cracks.

Clearly, he had been cultivating here for some time.

"Heh, let's test the power of the Second Soul Skill!"

Sun Sheng summoned the Ruyi Jingu Bang, eyeing the dazzling Purple Soul Ring with a hint of excitement.

Gripping the staff with both hands, he smashed down toward an empty patch of ground.

"Thousand-Jin Strike!"

The Purple Soul Ring flashed, and a force of a thousand jin surged onto the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

Boom!

Sun Sheng's staff struck the ground, unleashing a terrifying momentum, carving a massive crater several meters wide into the earth.

"Hmm, not bad for a thousand-year soul skill. The power really lives up to the hype."

Sun Sheng nodded with satisfaction as he looked at the crater before him.

"Huh? What's this?"

"Could it be a soul bone?"

Just as Sun Sheng was putting away the Ruyi Jingu Bang, a faint dark-gold glint caught the corner of his eye, fully drawing his attention.

When he approached the corpse of the Goliath Ant King, he noticed something odd about its right forelimb.

He reached out with his right hand, swift as thunder, and pulled it off.

"It really is a soul bone!"

Sun Sheng gazed at the soul bone, which shimmered with a faint dark-gold halo, a glint of joy flashing in his eyes.

Without hesitation, he sat cross-legged and began to fuse with the soul bone.

Although, aside from External Soul Bones, a soul master could only fuse six soul bones in total—head, torso, left arm, right arm, left leg, and right leg—

Once fused, they were very difficult to remove.

Thus, most soul masters, when faced with a choice of soul bones, would not pick one with a low age.

Especially one below ten thousand years.

But Sun Sheng didn't have to worry about that.

He had Leveling Value, which could directly raise the soul bone's age.

All he had to do was fuse it, then keep raising its age with Leveling Value.

After all, soul bones were hard to come by, especially one fused from the same Soul Beast as a soul ring.

When using both the soul ring's skill and the soul bone's skill simultaneously, unexpected bonuses would apply.

"Merge!"

Sun Sheng held the soul bone in his left hand, gradually bringing it toward his right, guiding it with his soul power.

In an instant, the soul bone in his hand turned into a stream of dark-gold light, completely enveloping his right arm.

Suddenly, Sun Sheng felt a piercing pain, as if his entire right arm had been shattered.

Before long, his right arm became translucent, the stark white bones clearly visible inside.

Shattered, then rebuilt.

He repeated this process over and over.

But no matter how much pain he endured, Sun Sheng didn't let out a single cry of agony.

It showed just how strong his willpower truly was.

Only when the stark white bones had fully fused with the spirit bone did that piercing, bone-crushing pain gradually fade.

By then, his entire body was drenched in sweat.

And under the effect of the spirit bone, his Soul Power rose another level.

"Whew!"

"Finally done!"

Sun Sheng slowly opened his eyes, let out a long breath of stale air, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then stood up.

When he felt the force surging through his right arm and learned the soul skill attached to the spirit bone, a relieved smile spread across his face.

Fivefold strength amplification!

That was the soul skill brought by the Goliath Right Arm Spirit Bone.

Once activated, his strength would increase fivefold.

It was undoubtedly the most beneficial boost to his combat power.

And when combined with his Second Soul Skill, the spirit bone could unleash even greater might.

"System, how much Leveling Value do I have now?"

Sun Sheng clenched his powerful right arm and silently asked in his mind.

He was about to upgrade the spirit bone.

Reporting to host, your current Leveling Value totals five thousand five hundred and twenty points.

Five thousand five hundred and twenty points?

Holy crap!

That much?

Which means I also have five thousand five hundred and twenty Exchange Value.

Just how many Goliath Ants did I kill?

Sun Sheng was both shocked and delighted upon learning his current Leveling Value.

As far as he knew, killing a Soul Beast granted Leveling Value and Exchange Value equal to one-tenth of the beast's age.

In other words, killing a five-hundred-year Soul Beast would give him fifty Leveling Value and fifty Exchange Value.

With five thousand five hundred and twenty Leveling Value, excluding the Goliath Ant King, that meant he'd killed at least sixty or seventy century-old Goliath Ants and around ten millennium-old ones.

"Ahem. System, put all the Leveling Value into the spirit bone."

After a brief moment of excitement, Sun Sheng didn't hesitate to pour everything into upgrading the spirit bone.

He felt upgrading the spirit bone brought more improvement than upgrading the soul ring.

Ding! Spirit bone upgrade successful.

The Douluo Leveling System received Sun Sheng's command and completed the upgrade in just a few seconds.

His Goliath Right Arm Spirit Bone smoothly upgraded to a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and its soul skill increased to tenfold strength amplification.

"Damn, it didn't let me down. The spirit bone's soul skill doubled outright."

"And just from the spirit bone's power alone, one punch should carry about ten Goliath's strength."

After learning the astonishing boost from the spirit bone upgrade, Sun Sheng's face lit up with wild joy.

Without a doubt, his strength had grown considerably.

He now had the confidence to fight a Soul Ancestor without losing ground—or even defeat one.

"System, with my current Exchange Value, what treasures can I exchange for?"

Seeing the incredible benefits from Leveling Value, Sun Sheng turned his attention to Exchange Value.

I'm sorry, but since the host's Exchange Value hasn't reached ten thousand points yet, the shop has not been activated.

"Why?" Sun Sheng asked curiously.

The items in the shop require a minimum of ten thousand Exchange Value.

Damn!

After hearing the answer, Sun Sheng blurted out a curse and strode away.

An hour after he left, Hu Liena and the other two, who had finished their mission and helped Yan hunt a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast, returned to this place.

When the three saw the Goliath Ant King's corpse, they were utterly stunned, frozen in place.

How is that possible!