Soul Bone Mutation

As the corpses of the two Spirit Ascension Platform Guardians scattered into the wind and vanished into the forest.

Two soul bones emitting strange radiance were revealed.

The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Right Palm Bone floated in place, giving off a dark golden glow. The Evil Eye Tyrant External Soul Bone, meanwhile, was an eye that shone silver all over.

This was now the era of the Legend of the Dragon King. Soul beasts were on the verge of extinction, making soul bones increasingly rare. External soul bones, in any era, were national-treasure-level treasures. Especially in the hands of monstrous Soul Masters, they were practically equivalent to absorbing a Fierce Beast soul bone!

Clearly, these two soul bones had been specially chosen for the two monsters, Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue. The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's right palm bone could make up for Li Jinsheng's lack of offensive methods...

The other Evil Eye soul bone was a pure spiritual-attribute soul bone, prepared for Gu Yue. Greater Spiritual Power would allow her to manipulate her Spiritual Power with even greater precision.

Yet the elemental control precision she had displayed already was utterly monstrous. She had only revealed it because she got angry while fighting Li Jinsheng.

"Is this what Aunt Leng prepared for us?" Li Jinsheng spoke first. Thinking about how cool it would be to use the Dark Gold Dreadclaw after fusing with it, he became wildly excited.

Gu Yue nodded in agreement, though her voice remained chilly. She had no particular thoughts about the external soul bone. As the mighty Lord of Soul Beasts, did she need a tiny soul bone to increase her strength?

"You fuse with it first! I'll stand guard for you!" Li Jinsheng had not the slightest interest in that spiritual-type soul bone. Spiritual Power was important in this era, but his spiritual affinity was not suited to a soul bone with such a purely spiritual attribute.

Gu Yue frowned. "Should that really be coming from your mouth?"

"What kind of image do I have in your eyes? I'm obviously super righteous and super kind, okay?" Li Jinsheng was baffled. Other than occasionally fighting with this girl and bickering with her from time to time, what had he done? Why was he never considered human in the Silver Dragon King's eyes?

"Do you want it? I don't think this soul bone is useful to me..." Gu Yue's words were filled with confidence. To her, absorbing a soul bone was never an option. She would simply devour its energy to recover herself.

Even if Leng Yaozhu investigated, she could just disguise one with Spiritual Power.

"Aunt Leng prepared it for you, so it's yours. I would never steal something prepared for you!" Li Jinsheng was somewhat disdainful of the Evil Eye soul bone. He felt that absorbing it would not be of much use to him.

And just as he thought, the soul bones in his head—even external soul bones—would be affected by the Power of Destruction.

Seeing that she could not persuade the boy otherwise, Gu Yue could only begin devouring the energy within the soul bone.

A while later, her absorption of the soul bone ended hastily, at astonishing speed.

"How do you feel? Aunt Leng will definitely make us test it later! Can you reach the Spirit Sea Realm?" Li Jinsheng could not help but be curious. Around two months ago, during the last test, Gu Yue's Spiritual Power had been a full four hundred and sixty.

Thirty points higher than his.

She was straight-up cheating!

I worked so hard to cultivate, only for my cultivation to be unstable and shallow. She casually added points, and her cultivation became as solid as a fortress.

Heaven was unfair!

"Probably." Gu Yue replied coldly. She stood and looked around. "Now it's my turn to stand guard for you."

"Thank you!"

The boy replied politely before sitting cross-legged and drawing upon the soul bone in front of him.

Emerald green Soul Power flowed into the soul bone. The soul bone gradually began to emit a dark golden radiance, while drops of dark purple appeared one after another as it fused. Each droplet merged into the soul bone.

Gu Yue watched Li Jinsheng the entire time. She knew what those dark purple specks were—pure destruction energy. He was modifying the Dark Gold Dreadclaw. No, it would be more accurate to say he was eroding it.

"Li Jinsheng is becoming stranger and stranger!" A trace of doubt rose in her heart. The attributes of Life and Destruction both manifested on him with extreme purity. Although the life attribute was indeed somewhat skewed, it was absolutely pure.

As time passed, the originally deep color of the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Right Palm Bone gradually became transparent, like a piece of dark golden crystal.

Gradually, the crystal softened and adhered to Li Jinsheng's right hand like cream.

He tried to struggle, but he felt two terrifying waves of pressure. In the end, he could only helplessly stop resisting and allow himself to be devoured by that terrifying energy.

Everything went smoothly, without the slightest mishap.

His Soul Power broke through as well!

But Li Jinsheng did not understand the mysteries within. He raised his right hand and tried to summon the Dark Gold Dreadclaw, but what appeared instead were five purple-gold blades, filled with an aura of silence.

That was a trace of the Power of Destruction.

"Is this the Dark Gold Dreadclaw?" He stared at his right hand, his eyes full of confusion. Would he be using life in his left hand and destruction in his right from now on?

He had basically grasped the beginning of the world and the end of the world.

The boy swung his right hand, and purple-gold light tore through the air.

Everything in the path of the light blades was cut down. It seemed as though even space itself had been sliced apart!

Yet Li Jinsheng did not feel the slightest excitement. This move consumed far too much Soul Power. He could even say that one swing would completely drain his Soul Power.

He dropped to one knee, beads of sweat the size of beans sliding down from his temples.

"Are you alright?" Gu Yue's eyes were filled with fear after witnessing that move.

What had she just seen?

For an instant, the Purple-Gold Light Blade had cut away space itself!

"I'm fine! It just consumes a huge amount of Soul Power!" Li Jinsheng withdrew the Purple-Gold Light Claw, his eyes filled with happiness.

Four years. Four whole years! His Body Sect martial soul finally had a long-range attack method!

It had been too hard!

He was finally not short-ranged anymore!

Gu Yue stepped forward a few paces and, taking advantage of Li Jinsheng's weakness, fiercely pinched his cheeks twice. It had to be said, the softness truly was top-tier.

"What are you sitting around for? You can't get back up after using one Soul Skill? Are you that useless?" she said deliberately, imitating Li Jinsheng.

Li Jinsheng didn't get angry. Instead, he played along. "I can't do it anymore. I'm drained. I need to nourish my body."

"Miss Gu, your family has such a long history. Do you have any Specific Medicine for that?"

Gu Yue's face instantly stiffened. Why did her family stop sounding respectable whenever this brat opened his mouth?

Why did this thing even have to grow a mouth?

Creator God, why give him a mouth? Couldn't he have been mute?

"Mission complete. Let's go," she said, forcibly suppressing her anger.

"Sure! Want to go to East Sea Snack Street later? It's been a long time since we went!"

"Fine!"

Although the two often bickered, their relationship was actually quite good.

Of course, whenever Na'er was around, the two of them would always unite against Gu Yue. That's right—Li Jinsheng and Na'er would gang up on Gu Yue together.

After all, Gu Yue was terrifying when she got angry.

As the two left the Spirit Ascension Platform, Leng Yaozhu had already been waiting for quite some time. The rewards for passing the assessment were not limited to those two Soul Bones.

There were also the Gene samples of the Golden Wolf King and the Silver Moon Wolf King that Li Jinsheng had always wanted. That was right—his Second Soul Skill's greatest limitation was that it required him to analyze such things. This was what it meant to understand something extremely well.

And the Spirit Pagoda happened to have no shortage of Soul Beast Genes.