Chapter 198

Xue Lingyun sat by the bed for nearly two hours.

The Soul Power within his body circulated slowly through his meridians. The dark green glow inside the bones of his left arm had completely receded, leaving only a faint coolness clinging to the bone's surface, like the lingering warmth in one's palm after holding a cup of warm water in winter. His eyes remained closed, his breathing deep and steady. He did not deliberately guide his Soul Power to break through that barrier, merely allowing it to travel on its own through his widened meridians.

That barrier truly had become so thin that it was nearly imperceptible. The Soul Power he had accumulated between level 40 and level 50 had been repeatedly tempered by the Ice Empress's Soul Ring, the Snow Empress's skull bone, and Youyou's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. Added to the fusion of this Soul Bone, it had nearly filled all the usable space in his body. The remaining path required no forceful push. He only needed to wait for his body to finish adapting to the density of the newly fused bone, and his Soul Power would naturally flow through the widened meridians into that new space.

During this time, he had not activated any skills. He had merely sensed the subtle changes within the bones of his left arm. He could feel that dark green origin deep within his marrow cavity slowly merging with his own ice-element energy, like two streams joining the same river and gradually settling into a steady current. At the same time, he sensed the lingering instincts of the Ice Jade Scorpion in another manner—not as an aggressive resistance, but more like a record of battle engraved into the bone. Those fragments were incomplete, yet they were enough for him to roughly grasp