Spirit Bone Skill, Berserk!

"I don't want an External Soul Bone!"

Tang Jiu jumped in fright and hurriedly checked his body to see whether he had grown any unnecessary pig parts.

"Great! If you don't want it, then the spirit bone is mine!"

Upon hearing that, Flender reached down and scooped up a spirit bone gleaming with radiant light, preparing to tuck it into his clothes.

"Flender!" Master glared at him. "Put down that spirit bone! It belongs to Little Jiu. You didn't even lift a finger while hunting the soul beast—how can you have the nerve to take the spoils?"

"Didn't this brat say he didn't want it?"

Flender muttered to himself. His guts were green with regret now. The chance of a spirit bone dropping was only one in ten thousand. Who would have thought that this Rampaging Thorn Pig would go mad from the provocation and directly drop a spirit bone? If he had acted earlier, Tang Jiu could have taken the soul ring while he took the spirit bone, and Master would have had nothing to say.

But now, he truly felt too embarrassed to take it. He wanted to slap himself twice. He had lost a spirit bone over one thousand Gold Soul Coins. This time, he had suffered a massive loss.

"So it's a spirit bone!"

Only then did Tang Jiu understand. It was a spirit bone dropped by the Rampaging Thorn Pig, not an External Soul Bone. He snatched it from Flender's hand and examined it carefully. It was a leg bone.

Flender was thoroughly unhappy. He snorted. "Brat, are you done absorbing the soul ring? What's your soul skill? Don't tell me it's some useless skill."

Tang Jiu heard the sourness in Flender's tone. Clearing his throat, he said, "It's just an ordinary skill—Berserk."

"It instantly increases strength by �%, and it can be boosted according to soul rings! Every additional ring increases the strength bonus of Berserk by �%! After gaining a second soul ring, the strength gained from Berserk will be �%! It lasts � seconds."

The corner of Flender's mouth twitched. That level of enhancement was almost comparable to his third soul ring! Still, he curled his lip disdainfully. "Five seconds? Isn't that a little short?"

Tang Jiu's face darkened. He snorted. "The duration may be short, but I can keep using it. It just consumes a little Soul Power!"

"Tch! It'll exhaust you to death!"

Flender snorted dismissively. If Soul Power could be used without limit, soul skills would not be so valuable. Take a Teleportation soul skill, for example. If one had enough Soul Power to support it and could cast it once every second, wouldn't that be practically invincible?

Master did not dwell on that issue. A soul skill still depended on who used it. Just now, Tang Jiu had first used Chaotic Gale to stack his strength, then activated his soul skill for another boost before throwing his hammer. It could be said that he had pushed the use of burst-type soul skills to the limit.

"Little Jiu, now that you've absorbed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, your strength should have received a permanent increase. About how much has it grown?"

"Tch, how much could it be? His base strength was � jin. An increase of � jin would already be the limit!" Flender snorted. That was already nearly a fifty percent increase. He felt he was overestimating him outrageously.

Tang Jiu chuckled. "Sorry, but my strength has increased to � jin!"

"What? That's equivalent to multiplying it by �.3!" Flender sucked in a cold breath. Since when had physical attributes like speed, strength, and defense been able to increase severalfold?

Tang Jiu's strength itself did not matter much to him. What shocked him was Tang Jiu's growth potential. If every soul ring increased his strength by multiples, that would be utterly terrifying!

"Don't believe me?" Tang Jiu pulled the severely deformed War Hammer from the Rampaging Thorn Pig's skull, then let out an angry roar.

"First Spirit Skill, Berserk!"

The purple soul ring flashed, and Tang Jiu's strength instantly surged by � jin. He flung the hammer in his hand, and with a bang, it smashed straight through the trunk of a tree one meter thick, embedding itself in the tree behind it like a nail.

Flender was completely stunned. That was an irregular hammer, not a spear better suited for piercing objects!

Tang San also opened his mouth, but in the end, he could only shake his head with a bitter smile. His First Soul Ring was � years old. How could its skill compare to that of a �-year soul ring?

Only Master wore a broad smile. "This still isn't his limit!"

"What?" Tang San looked at Master in surprise. Was this not Tang Jiu's limit?

Master pointed at the spirit bone in Tang Jiu's hand. "This spirit bone is also Power Type. After fusion, it will enhance the body's strength, and it will also come with a terrifying soul skill. I hope it retained the Rampaging Thorn Pig's most valuable skill!"

Only then did Tang San understand. Right, there was still the spirit bone!

"Third Brother, it's fine. If I smash the next soul beast to death and it drops a spirit bone, I'll definitely give it to you first!" Tang Jiu said with a grin.

Tang San rolled his eyes. This Little Jiu was deliberately showing off! Did he really think every soul beast he killed would drop a spirit bone? Wasn't that just rubbing salt in the wound?

This spirit bone was a left leg bone. Following Master's instructions, Tang Jiu used Soul Power to guide the spirit bone into fusing with his body. As it entered his left leg, he felt another vast power transforming his body. Not only that, but the bones in his left leg seemed to become even sturdier.

When Tang Jiu finished fusing it and opened his eyes, Master and the others all looked at him nervously and asked, "How is it?"

Tang Jiu smiled. "Not bad. My strength increased directly by �%, reaching � jin!"

"Another percentage-based increase! You really stepped in dog shit, kid." The corner of Flender's mouth twitched.

"Percentage-based increase?" Tang San did not understand.

Master explained, "Soul rings and spirit bones can enhance physical attributes in two ways. One is a fixed increase; the other is a percentage-based increase.

"The difference is that a fixed increase remains constant and does not change as the soul master grows.

"However, a percentage-based increase changes along with the soul master's growth. Right now, Little Jiu's spirit bone gives a �% increase, which amounts to one thousand jin of strength. But when his base strength reaches ten thousand jin, the strength increase this spirit bone gives him will be � jin!

"Therefore, percentage-based enhancement is the growth method soul masters dream of most.

"And Little Jiu's soul skill is percentage-based, while the spirit bone also gives him a percentage-based increase. Once the two stack together, it is far more than a simple one plus one. That rate of growth can only be called monstrous!"

Only then did Tang San understand why Flender had lost his composure. If every one of Tang Jiu's soul skills and spirit bones enhanced him like this, he would be more monstrous than a monster!

"Dean Flender, do you want to know what skill my spirit bone has?" Tang Jiu asked Flender with a smile.

"Don't tell me you obtained the Rampaging Thorn Pig's Berserk skill—the one most suited to you!" Flender snorted irritably. "A spirit bone with a Berserk skill is something Assault Type soul masters dream of most. I don't believe your luck can be that good!"

"Then I'm sorry to disappoint you. It's Berserk!" Tang Jiu winked.

Flander clutched his chest and walked off into the distance. "I need some peace and quiet!"

"Aren't you going to hear what my Berserk skill actually does?" Tang Jiu called out.

"I don't want to hear it!" Flander strode away in frustration. He was afraid of suffering another blow. That spirit bone had originally been his!

A Thousand Year Spirit Bone, with a Berserk skill—how much would it sell for at an auction? Five hundred thousand? Or � hundred thousand?

"Berserk instantly increases my speed and strength by �%! It lasts for one minute. Sorry, it's another percentage-based enhancement skill. How should I put this? It's fortunate you didn't act earlier, or this spirit bone would definitely have been yours. I feel sorry for you!" Tang Jiu shouted at Flender.

Pfft!~~

Flender felt as if he were about to spit out a mouthful of blood.

This spirit bone was unquestionably worth two million Gold Soul Coins!

"You brat, I'm going to strangle you!"

Flender wanted to dig the spirit bone right out of Tang Jiu's body. This brat was too infuriating! He was a Soul Sage, yet this kid had provoked him until his chest hurt!