He believed the City of Slaughter's magic-suppressing effect was by no means unique. Deities should all possess the ability to suppress soul masters' soul rings, and the root of the problem likely lay with soul masters and soul rings themselves.
He had always believed in the power cultivated by oneself and had little interest in external aids.
In particular, the method of refining soul rings to explosively increase one's strength in a short time looked like a crooked path no matter how he viewed it. It was only natural that the City of Slaughter could render it useless.
He did not want to be targeted and killed by some deity through this weakness in the future, so it was better to cultivate himself honestly.
As for soul bones, he was only interested in researching them, seeing whether he could tinker out the artificial soul bones that appeared in the future Douluo series. However, the Purple Crystal Thorn Emperor Soul Bone was enough for that purpose.
Moreover, precisely because the Purple Crystal Thorn Emperor Soul Bone was low-grade and did not even possess a Soul Bone Skill, containing only a strand of origin power and the shell of a soul bone, both of which were quite low-level, it was perfectly suited for research. He had already achieved considerable results.
Once he figured out how to transform human bones into soul bones, his skeletal structure would gain evolutionary properties like an External Soul Bone, continuously improving along with his cultivation. At the very least, increasing its strength would not be a problem.
Thus, unless it was a hundred-thousand-year soul bone—especially a hundred-thousand-year spiritual head soul bone—he would not consider any others.
Tian Hao's undisguised disdain did not convince Meng Yuyan. Instead, she thought it was merely an excuse the young man had