"Flood Dragon?!"
Lin Qing's eyes lit up, his interest thoroughly piqued!
A Flood Dragon!
It was far purer than a Soul Beast like the Sky Azure Bull Python, with its bull head and python body, possessing only a trace of dragon bloodline.
It was an existence with a genuine chance of transforming into a dragon and joining the ranks of the true Dragon Clan.
Whether in quality or possible special attributes, its Soul Ring would undoubtedly benefit the Golden Dragon Martial Soul far more than ordinary Strength-type Soul Beasts.
It might even bring an unexpected surprise!
"Interesting... the Star Dou Great Forest truly hides dragons and tigers. No, it really hides a 'flood dragon'!"
Lin Qing excitedly rubbed his chin as thoughts raced through his mind.
This was a hidden Soul Beast never mentioned in the original work.
He needed to go take a look!
His burning gaze turned toward the Sky Azure Bull Python.
"Da Ming, can you tell me the exact location of that Black Pool?"
The Sky Azure Bull Python nodded its enormous bull head in agreement.
"I can."
"I'm not worried about your current strength."
"However..."
Its tone shifted, becoming cautious.
"Too much time has passed. I no longer remember the exact location clearly. I only recall that it was deep in the northwest."
"Furthermore, after tens of thousands of years, whether the terrain there has changed, whether that Flood Dragon is still there, and even what temperament it now has are all unknown."
After a brief pause.
The Sky Azure Bull Python offered a prudent suggestion.
"How about this? I'll have Er Ming scout the area first."
Er Ming knew the forest better than I did and was faster as well.
Having him check the situation first, confirm whether the Flood Dragon was still in its nest, and gauge the rough strength of its aura would indeed be more appropriate.
"You and I can first take the children back to the Lake of Life to rest for a while. Once you have fully adapted to your newfound strength and we receive word from Er Ming, we can make plans then."
"That sounds excellent. Then I'll trouble Er Ming."
Lin Qing felt this arrangement was very sound.
He truly needed some time to properly adapt to his new strength.
With the matter settled.
Everyone prepared to return to the Lake of Life.
But just as Lin Qing turned around, his gaze casually swept across the three mountain-like corpses of the Thousand Jun Ant Emperors beside him.
Only then did he suddenly remember something, and his steps halted.
"Right!"
He smacked his forehead.
"I was so busy being happy about the Soul Rings that I nearly forgot—could these three Ninety Thousand Year Soul Beasts have produced any Soul Bones?"
He remembered that in the original work, Tang San had gotten absolutely nothing after dealing with these three brothers.
His luck had truly been abysmal.
Lin Qing did not hold much hope either.
The drop rate for Soul Bones was even more mysterious than Soul Ring mutations. It was purely a matter of luck.
With a mindset of I'll give it a try. Maybe I'll get lucky. If not, that's normal too, he walked toward the corpses of the Thousand Jun Ant Emperors.
Seeing Dad walk toward the giant ants again, the three little girls curiously followed him over.
"Dad, what are you looking for again? The giant ants are already dead."
Lin Rourou raised her small face and tugged at Lin Qing's clothes, her big eyes filled with curiosity.
Lin Qing released his Spiritual Power and carefully sensed for any abnormal energy fluctuations that might exist within the corpses.
At the same time, he casually answered, "Dad's checking whether these giant ants grew any special bones called 'Soul Bones.'"
He had not yet sensed any results.
Meanwhile.
Lin Qingzhu, who had always been quiet and reserved, had already silently walked over to another relatively intact Thousand Jun Ant Emperor corpse.
The little girl did not mind the filth at all.
Squatting down, she reached out her fair little hand and began gently poking through the gaps in the shattered dark gold carapace and partially coagulated flesh, as if searching for something.
Suddenly.
Her little hand froze.
Her fingertips had touched something hard, cold, and radiating a subtle, heavy energy fluctuation.
It felt completely different from the surrounding carapace and flesh.
Qing Zhu pursed her lips and tugged hard with her little hand.
"Hey!"
"Rip!"
Accompanied by the sound of connective tissue tearing, she actually yanked a bone right out of the bloody mess.
The bone was entirely dark gold, a little over a foot long, and vaguely shaped like a miniature human arm bone.
Its surface was covered in the dense, mysterious raised patterns unique to the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor's carapace.
A dark gold glow faintly flowed across the surface of the strange bone.
An imposing sense of immense strength naturally radiated from it.
Qing Zhu's small face remained expressionless.
She merely carried the dark gold bone, which was longer than her own arm, over to Lin Qing, stood on tiptoe, and raised it up for him.
"Bone."
Her voice was crisp and calm.
"Soul Bone."
Lin Qing had been fully focused on sensing the first corpse. Hearing her, he instinctively turned his head.
Then he froze.
"???"
The dark gold arm bone in his daughter's hand, radiating an enticing energy fluctuation, was unmistakably a Soul Bone!
His mind could barely process it.
This... she found one just like that?
He dazedly accepted the bone.
Ninety Thousand Year Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Left Arm Bone—GET!
"Holy crap... it actually dropped? And it's a Left Arm Bone?"
Lin Qing could not help exclaiming inwardly, feeling as though it was unreal.
This luck... no, Qing Zhu's luck was utterly heaven-defying!
"Wow! Qing Zhu found a treasure!"
When Lin Rourou saw the "sparkly bone" in her Older Sister's hand, her eyes immediately lit up as well.
She too became eager to try.
"Rou Rou wants to find a treasure too, and give it to Dad~"
After saying that, she immediately ran with her short little legs over to the second Thousand Jun Ant Emperor corpse beside them.
Imitating Qing Zhu, she did not mind the filth either and stretched out her little hands to earnestly feel around and search through the enormous body.
"Wu'er wants to search too! Wu'er wants to find the best treasure for Dad!"
Lin Wu'er refused to be outdone when she saw this.
With a cheerful cry, she ran toward the third corpse—the final Thousand Jun Ant Emperor that Er Ming had beaten up the worst—and began her own "treasure hunt."
Watching his two younger daughters so enthusiastically at work, Lin Qing could not help shaking his head with a smile.
Soul Bones were not so easily produced.
They were something one could encounter but never seek.
Getting one was already an incredible stroke of luck.
But they were children. Since they had such enthusiasm, he would not crush their interest.
He would let them play. It did not matter if they found nothing.
He lowered his head, preparing to carefully study the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Left Arm Bone in his hand.
But not long after, only around a few dozen breaths later.
"Dad, Dad, look, look! Wu'er found one too! It's sparkly, it's a bone!"
Lin Wu'er's excited shout suddenly rang out.
"?"
Lin Qing looked up in astonishment.
He saw little Wu'er joyfully running back while clutching a Soul Bone that was also dark gold but clearly shaped like a leg bone.
Her small face was full of smug pride, as though begging him to praise her.
Before he could react.
"Dad! Rou Rou found one too! It's this!"
From the other side.
Lin Rourou was also hopping back toward him with a noticeably larger dark gold bone that was clearly shaped like a spine.
"???"
He looked at the arm bone Qing Zhu had given him in his left hand.
Then at the leg bone Wu'er had given him in his right.
Then at the Trunk Bone Rou Rou was holding up before him...
Lin Qing completely froze.
His brain had crashed!
Three Thousand Jun Ant Emperor corpses... three Soul Bones... a one hundred percent drop rate?!
And his three six-year-old daughters had each casually touched and found one, as if they were picking pretty shells off a beach?
These odds, this luck... could no longer be described as merely heaven-defying!
This was practically the Heavenly Dao chasing after them to spoon-feed them, while the Goddess of Luck descended together and kissed them!
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