Soul Bone

"Shriek~"

Sensing the sudden killing intent, the Hurricane Bird immediately beat its wings rapidly, stirring up another gale within Hurricane Canyon.

Under the effects of the gale, the enormous wind blades launched by Mo Hui and Pidgey slowed considerably, and their trajectories shifted slightly as well.

In the end, the Hurricane Bird avoided the fatal strike of Air Blade: Eight-in-One at the cost of minor injuries to its wings.

"Shriek!!!"

After being injured, the Hurricane Bird grew even more violent. The cyan glow around its wings intensified as it beat them rapidly, sending a cyan hurricane howling toward Mo Hui.

The force of the wind was so fierce that Mo Hui had to use all his Soul Power just to remain standing. The raging gusts continuously lashed his body, carving wound after wound into him and making him truly understand what it meant for wind to cut like blades.

"I can't keep fighting it like this!"

In an instant, Mo Hui realized the danger. His Soul Power was being rapidly drained as he resisted the hurricane. He had to eliminate it before his Soul Power ran out.

His first soul ring immediately flashed. Mo Hui and Pidgey simultaneously fired eight wind blades, which swiftly merged into two enormous cyan wind blades three meters long and slashed toward the Hurricane Bird.

"Pidgey~"

At the same time, Pidgey transformed into a streak of cyan light. Braving the storm, it followed closely behind the giant wind blades as it shot toward the Hurricane Bird.

Naturally, the Hurricane Bird noticed the wind blade attack from Mo Hui and Pidgey. It immediately flew upward, intending to evade the giant wind blades.

But how could the Eight-in-One wind blades be so simple? Though their speed and trajectory had been affected by the cyan hurricane, they still reached the Hurricane Bird in the blink of an eye.

Yet the Hurricane Bird was no ordinary creature either. Its wings rapidly tucked in, and its body twisted sharply. It actually slipped through the gap between the two enormous wind blades.

However, before the Hurricane Bird could celebrate dodging the wind blades fired by Mo Hui and Pidgey, a streak of cyan light slammed directly into its abdomen at tremendous speed.

"Shriek!!"

The intense pain drew a mournful cry from the Hurricane Bird, but what tormented it even more was that Pidgey's attack had not stopped.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Several cyan arcs streaked across the Hurricane Bird's body. It felt attacks striking every part of its body, and the pain flooding through its entire form was unbearable.

Seeing this, a trace of fear flashed through the Hurricane Bird's eyes. It violently flapped its wings, blasting Pidgey, which had exited its Lightning Flash state, away with a powerful gust before turning to fly toward the bottom of the canyon.

"Hmph! Trying to run!"

Mo Hui snorted coldly. More than ten semicircular cyan wind blades appeared in his hand, swiftly joining together into a cyan light wheel nearly a meter in diameter.

Cutting Wind Wheel, go!

Mo Hui was no longer the person he once was. What had once been his ultimate move was casually thrown from his hand, flying straight toward the fleeing Hurricane Bird.

Meanwhile, as it fled, the Hurricane Bird suddenly felt itself enveloped by the terror of death. It hurriedly turned to look behind it.

That look was enough to make its entire body break out in a cold sweat. A massive cyan light wheel was racing after it.

Faced with the threat of death, the Hurricane Bird's movements reached their peak. It forcefully beat its wings, and the immense lift instantly raised it several meters into the air, allowing it to evade the Cutting Wind Wheel within milliseconds.

But Mo Hui's killing move was not so easy to dodge. He slightly raised his right hand, which controlled the wind wheel, and the Cutting Wind Wheel that the Hurricane Bird had evaded swiftly curved around. The rapidly spinning wind blades sliced through its defenses like tofu and instantly pierced its body.

"Shriek!!!"

After a massive cry of anguish, the Hurricane Bird's consciousness gradually faded, and its body began to fall.

Just then, another streak of cyan light tore through the storm and instantly arrived before the Hurricane Bird. It grabbed the bird's body and slowly flew back toward Mo Hui.

Bang!!

Pidgey threw the Hurricane Bird onto the stone platform. Faint purple motes floated out from the Hurricane Bird's corpse, gathering into a pale purple soul ring.

However, Mo Hui did not immediately absorb the soul ring. Instead, he took a dagger from his Soul Tool and began cutting apart the materials on the Hurricane Bird's body.

As a rare soul beast, the Hurricane Bird's materials were naturally quite valuable. Its tail feathers in particular were not only excellent wind-element materials, but were also deeply favored by nobles.

"Hmm? What is this...?"

After plucking the Hurricane Bird's tail feathers, Mo Hui suddenly noticed that something seemed to be faintly glowing within the wound caused by the Cutting Wind Wheel.

Mo Hui pulled aside the Hurricane Bird's feathers, and the moment he saw what lay beneath, his pupils abruptly constricted.

"This is actually a soul bone!"

After removing the soul bone from the Hurricane Bird's body, even Mo Hui's breathing grew rapid.

The drop rate of soul bones was below one in a thousand, and the lower the soul beast's age, the lower its chance of producing a soul bone.

For Mo Hui to discover a soul bone within a two-thousand-year Hurricane Bird was undoubtedly a stroke of luck.

After standing there in a daze for only a moment, Mo Hui swiftly stored the soul bone in his Soul Tool. This was not something he could reveal. Otherwise, it might bring him a fatal disaster in his current circumstances.

Not long after Mo Hui placed the soul bone and the Hurricane Bird's tail feathers into his Soul Tool, two cyan figures rapidly made their way along the stone platform and arrived before him.

When they saw the Hurricane Bird before Mo Hui, they were greatly startled. "A Hurricane Bird? How could this thing appear here?"

The two were Feng Yan, who had brought Mo Hui to enroll that day, and his younger brother Feng Yu. Both were Soul Kings in their fifties.

After sensing the abnormal disturbance in Hurricane Canyon, they had rushed over immediately, but they had still arrived a step too late.

"Kid, did you kill this Hurricane Bird?"

Glancing at the Hurricane Bird in front of Mo Hui, Feng Yan could not help asking him.

Mo Hui nodded, drawing the Hurricane Bird's purple soul ring above his head and beginning to absorb it.

The reason Mo Hui was so eager to absorb the soul ring was mainly because he feared that the two men before him would recognize the Hurricane Bird's age. If that happened, he would have to explain himself, which would be quite troublesome.

In truth, Mo Hui was worrying unnecessarily. Thousand-year Hurricane Birds did not differ much in size. Their age was mainly distinguished by the number of tail feathers they had, but those tail feathers had already been stored in Mo Hui's Soul Tool. Unless someone was especially knowledgeable and inspected it closely, it would be impossible to tell the difference.

At that moment, Feng Yu watched Mo Hui absorb the soul ring and said somewhat enviously, "How nice. He encountered a thousand-year Hurricane Bird for his third soul ring."

Hurricane Birds were among the soul beasts most suitable for wind-element Beast Spirits, particularly bird-type Beast Spirits. Back then, Feng Yu had wanted to find a thousand-year Hurricane Bird himself, but unfortunately, he had failed to do so.

But soon, Feng Yu frowned and asked in confusion, "But if he's absorbing his third soul ring, then he shouldn't have had a third soul skill before this. How did he manage to defeat a thousand-year Hurricane Bird?"

Although Soul Elders corresponded to thousand-year soul beasts, most Soul Elders could not actually defeat thousand-year soul beasts, much less Mo Hui, who had yet to obtain his third soul ring.

Feng Yan frowned as well, staring at Mo Hui as he absorbed the soul ring, utterly unable to make sense of it.

Had he killed a thousand-year soul beast as a Soul Grandmaster? Could he be some sort of combat genius?