Three Great External Soul Bones, Leng Yaozhu's Gift

# Chapter 18: Three External Soul Bones, Leng Yaozhu's Gift (4K)

The Darkgold Fearclaw Bear stared at Zhao Xuanzhen, sensing the surging aura around him. A bloodthirsty gleam emerged deep within its beastly pupils as its giant claws rubbed against each other, producing a piercing screech. A terrifying pressure radiated outward!

A show of force—the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear was declaring sovereignty before the human, proclaiming itself the master of this forest!

It truly had the bearing of a king. The maximum cultivation limit for soul beasts in the elementary Spirit Ascension Platform was a thousand years, and as a super soul beast standing at the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent, the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear possessed nearly flawless basic attributes in attack, defense, power, and speed. Its combat strength crushed ordinary soul beasts. Among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts of the past, one had been a Darkgold Fearclaw Bear King that even dared to challenge the Beast God Di Tian!

Zhao Xuanzhen completely ignored the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear's pressure. His third soul ring blazed brilliantly, twin pale flames igniting in his pupils. Soul power surged, strands of hair standing on end as white light burst from the tips, dyeing the surrounding air. His body seemed to become clear and translucent, bones, muscles, and blood taking on a semi-transparent jade-like luster.

In the state of The Way of Wuji, Zhao Xuanzhen felt as though he had transcended—heaven and earth becoming one with him. The surging power within his body was inexhaustible, as if it would never reach its limit.

"Dui Word, Colored Glass."

His arms and hands were coated in black colored glass, reflecting a cold, hard luster in the sunlight. At the same time, his first soul ring blazed with light, black and white dual qi attaching to his fists and palms.

Bagua Qimen stacked with Qi Follows the Heart!

Both abilities activated at full power—this was a form Zhao Xuanzhen had never shown before, because the enemies he had faced previously weren't worth such effort. But this exceptionally special Darkgold Fearclaw Bear was worthy!

"Gan Word, Shift!"

Space flickered. Zhao Xuanzhen appeared before the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear in an instant. The beast's crystalline yellow pupils froze for a moment, surprised that a human possessed spatial abilities.

Zhao Xuanzhen's arrival was sudden, leaving the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear no time to dodge. But this soul beast overlord never considered dodging—that was the cowardly behavior of the weak. Its darkgold claws slammed down with a sharp, unmatched momentum!

Relying on the hardness of Dui Word Colored Glass and the protection of Yin and Yang Dual Qi, Zhao Xuanzhen channeled his strength like drawing silk. His Taiji Yin Hand stuck to the darkgold claws, using the momentum to deflect them.

The Darkgold Fearclaw Bear's momentum faltered, a stunned expression crossing its bear face at the misdirected force. Zhao Xuanzhen pressed in close, his shoulder strike penetrating into the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear's chest. Then the clinging, soft Yin Hand transformed into a fierce, domineering Yang Hand—a palm strike aimed directly at the heart!

"ROAR—"

The life crisis instantly awakened the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear's survival instinct. Darkgold light burst from the fur on its body. The palm strike landed solidly, and though flesh struck flesh, the forest echoed with the explosive clang of metal clashing!

With a furious roar, the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear raised its signature and most ferocious giant claws. A darkgold shadow over five meters long descended from the sky, several cracks tearing through the air!

Innate Soul Skill, Darkgold Fearclaw!

Trees, grass, earth—everything was shredded by that terrifying darkgold shadow. This was the overbearing soul skill with which the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear clan had torn apart dragons!

Facing the Darkgold Fearclaw, Zhao Xuanzhen used Bagua Qimen's Gen Word to create rock barriers. The Darkgold Fearclaw Bear took the chance to retreat—this soul beast overlord, usually obsessed with close combat, chose for the first time to put distance between itself and the human.

Even though it had blocked the palm strike, the intense pain of its convulsing heart still transmitted through its nerves to its brain. Cold sweat dripped from the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear as it inwardly regretted underestimating the human soul master, nearly paying the bitter price of being instantly killed!

This wasn't the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear's first encounter with humans. Every previous one had screamed and run at the sight of a bear. The bravest soul masters would at most launch long-range soul skills. Zhao Xuanzhen, who instantly teleported right in its face and launched close combat aimed at vital points the next second, was a first in the beast's life!

Man and beast locked eyes—the human cold and solemn, the giant bear bloodthirsty and savage. After one exchange, they both understood each other's attack and defense intensity. Now came the unreserved second battle, two blurs of light crashing heavily together!

Meanwhile, Na'er and the Evil Eye Tyrant had simultaneously begun their life-and-death struggle.

The Evil Eye Tyrant and Darkgold Fearclaw Bear races were vastly different. The latter's entire clan possessed the Metal Attribute, while the former had the potential for multiple attributes. However, the Evil Emperor who suppressed the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear King on the continent's ferocious beast rankings innately possessed only one attribute—Mental!

Now, the Evil Eye Tyrant Na'er was fighting had four tentacles and a main eye both silver-white, meaning this one had only the Mental Attribute. Its bloodline resembled the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler's, making it the top of the top among the Evil Eye Tyrant clan!

Silver Dragon roared, Evil Eye shrieked. Soul power and mental storms wildly destroyed the Spirit Ascension Platform's forest environment. The air twisted hysterically, everything seeming to blur. Plants within range withered at an alarming rate, their life structures mutating under that terrifying mental devastation!

The Evil Eye Tyrant's expression grew vicious. Its mental fluctuations intensified as all four tentacles spread wide, each flickering with strong silver light.

As a Mental Attribute soul beast, the Evil Eye Tyrant craved absorbing high-quality mental strength. Staring at Na'er holding the Silver Dragon Spear, unconcealable greed filled the Evil Eye Tyrant's eyes.

It had a vague intuition—if it could devour Na'er's mental strength in one go, it would surely break free from its bloodline shackles in the future and leave this prison-like Spirit Ascension Platform!

Driven by greed, the Evil Eye Tyrant unleashed one hundred twenty percent of its combat power. A beam of silver light shot from its enormous evil eye, space trembling wherever it passed!

Evil Eye Gaze—an innate soul skill of the Evil Eye clan, one of the most terrifying attack abilities of the Mental Attribute. Its power and effects varied depending on the individual Evil Eye.

Seeing that silver path annihilating everything in its way, Na'er had no choice but to avoid the sharp edge. Activating her second soul skill Silver Dragon Rage's amplification, she dodged to the side.

"Spatial Power... Is that something someone your age should comprehend!?"

Na'er recognized the familiar Space Attribute, accusing the Evil Eye Tyrant of cheating!

Even for a pure Mental System Evil Eye Tyrant, a thousand years of cultivation shouldn't allow comprehension of spatial power. So this Evil Eye Tyrant's bloodline source must be an incredible existence, allowing its descendant to touch the Space Attribute by standing on a giant's shoulders!

"If this isn't an Evil Emperor Descendant, I'll eat my words!" Na'er ground her teeth.

Without the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler's protection, the Demon Forest's plight far exceeded the Star Dou Great Forest's. After humans and Evil Eyes had their "friendly exchanges," the entire Evil Eye clan relocated to the Spirit Pagoda. The Evil Emperor's sons, grandsons, and a large batch of descendants became the most popular soul spirits for Mental Attribute soul masters!

"Thorn Dragon!"

Zhao Xuanzhen was after all a three-ring Soul Elder, while Na'er was only a two-ring Soul Grand Master. Facing an Evil Emperor Descendant that had comprehended spatial power, she still needed soul spirit assistance.

"ROAR ROAR ROAR! (Your dragon has arrived!)"

The Thorn Dragon charged out with exceptional excitement. Every time Na'er called it to battle, it was extremely thrilled—like showing off before an ancestor, conveniently racking up favor and battle merits!

Having broken through to a thousand years of cultivation, the silver on the Thorn Dragon's back grew more dazzling. Its bloodline aura was inexplicably much stronger than its kin's. According to Sky Phoenix Douluo Leng Yaozhu's judgment, Na'er's Thorn Dragon seemed to be evolving from a sub-dragon toward a true dragon!

Who would be the next Space Dragon King? So hard to guess!

The dragon race's physical advantages were something Mental System soul beasts could never reach. Plus, its cultivation far exceeded this Evil Eye Tyrant that had just passed a thousand years. The Thorn Dragon released Space Element to protect its beast body, charging at the Evil Eye Tyrant while enduring attacks!

Serving its master, no refusal!

The human monster soul master fought the soul beast's top bloodline—both battles entered white-hot intensity.

On Zhao Xuanzhen and the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear's battlefield, not a single intact patch remained in the lush forest. It was like a tornado had passed through, furiously and wantonly destroying everything in the world.

The earth was scarred and battered. Broken Stone Pythons lay in several segments, torn and twisted Claw Marks everywhere—all testament to the two perpetrators' brutality and ferocity. Indescribable violence poured down like a waterfall, every trace seeping with the killing intent of "to the death." One could imagine what brutal battles had occurred here.

Zhao Xuanzhen's feet bloomed with the Earthly Dao Technique's Bagua array diagram, and the next second after his figure dispersed, the spot where he had stood was crushed to dust by five Darkgold claw marks.

The Darkgold Fearclaw Bear charged like Mount Tai Crushing Down, its speed utterly defying the stereotypical impression of bear-type soul beasts. Ice spikes abruptly materialized in the void, but the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear did not halt; its fearclaws swept horizontally, shattering the ice spikes, and the flying ice cones turned into white mist from blood vapor before even touching its fur.

Then scorching flames erupted, and the giant bear roared in agony amid the blazing red light. The Darkgold light writhed and twisted as if alive, desperately smothering the Li-word flames on its body.

The flames had charred its beast body black, revealing crisscrossing, gruesome wounds, some already deep enough to show bone. Yet the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear had long since ignored its physical pain, using its Darkgold fearclaws to clear the path as it charged fearlessly, its only desire to tear the human before it into shreds!

A pair of Darkgold fearclaws crossed into an X, and the air peeled away like fragile silk, layer by layer. In Zhao Xuanzhen's eyes, the maddened soul beast was reflected. Earthen walls rose from the ground on all four sides, trapping the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear, and then the Bagua Qimen bloomed with a deep blue radiance.

"Gan word, Zhiming."

A layer of distorted, deep blue ripples expanded outward with Zhao Xuanzhen at the center, dyeing everything around it the same color. The Darkgold Fearclaw Bear's Ominous Aura vanished, and the look in its beast eyes turned to terror.

The Darkgold Fearclaw Bear tried to struggle, but found itself utterly unable to move. Its consciousness was clear, yet its actions were sluggish, its body frozen solid.

The wind carried Zhao Xuanzhen above the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear. The two figures overlapped vertically, and the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear realized its enemy was right overhead. Like an old movie playing in slow motion, it lifted its head frame by frame.

Mustering all its soul power, the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear finally caught sight of Zhao Xuanzhen. A bloodstained ice blade spun nimbly between his fingers, and droplets of blood gathered at the blade's edge splashed down, tracing irregular half-arcs.

Zhao Xuanzhen's white hair slowly turned pitch-black, his crystalline body began to disintegrate from the fingertips, and finally, even his martial soul and soul rings retracted into his body.

The world returned to its normal flow. The Darkgold Fearclaw Bear felt it could move freely again and let out a joyful roar to the sky, a cry that shook heaven and earth and echoed far into the distance.

The next instant, a burst of pain erupted. On the thick, sturdy back of its neck, a fine blood line gradually expanded. Blood broke through the surface, gushing like a spring and staining the Darkgold fur red. A massive head thudded to the ground with a dull, heavy sound. The last lingering look in the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear's eyes was still one of ferocity.

Silence fell over everything.

When a soul beast dies in the Spirit Ascension Platform, it grants one-tenth of its cultivation as spiritual power feedback. But this thousand-year Darkgold Fearclaw Bear did not manifest any spiritual power. Its corpse shattered into specks of light and vanished, leaving behind two pieces of Darkgold bone.

They resembled human hands in shape, one left and one right, perfectly corresponding to a left hand and a right hand. The palms were broad and thick, the tips long and sharp, with Darkgold cloud patterns flowing across the bones.

Darkgold Fearclaw, left and right palm bones!

Conventionally, soul bones come in six parts: torso, skull, and four limbs. Anything outside this range is called an External Soul Bone!

Compared to ordinary soul bones, External Soul Bones have two major advantages. First, they grow continuously with the host's cultivation. If the host breaks through to Super Douluo or even Extreme Douluo, the power of the External Soul Bone's soul skill can rival that of a ferocious beast's soul bone.

Second, after perfectly fusing with an External Soul Bone, it will accompany its master forever and automatically dissipate upon the master's death.

A soul beast dropping two soul bones at once is extremely rare in the world. In Zhao Xuanzhen's memory, only Rakshasa God Bibi Dong's Death Spider Emperor left and right arm bones, and Tang Wulin's future Evil Orca King left and right leg bones, were comparable.

This thousand-year Darkgold Fearclaw Bear dropping two External Soul Bones was the cream of the crop, the finest of the finest. The entire Spirit Pagoda might not have a second example. The left and right palm bones from the same Darkgold Fearclaw Bear were undoubtedly far superior in compatibility and fit to two different palm bones!

By absorbing the Darkgold Fearclaw left and right palm bones, Zhao Xuanzhen would gain not only a powerful soul skill but also a massive boost to his physical fitness, hand strength, and every future Taijiquan attack!

"Zhao Xuanzhen's done. I need to speed up..."

Na'er had never been inferior to anyone. Seeing Zhao Xuanzhen finish off the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear, her Silver Eyes blazed with sharpness.

Her first and second soul rings lit up. Na'er's fingers traced the scaly dragon patterns coiled around the spear shaft. Those silver-white scales gleamed, and the Silver Dragon Spear spun in her palm. The trajectory of the spear blade left fine cracks in the air, like fragments of a shattered mirror, reflecting the Evil Eye Tyrant's astonishment.

Her Silver Eyes contracted into vertical slits. Under the intense stimulation of her bloodline, Na'er's eyes became the signature vertical pupils of the Dragon Clan.

The Evil Eye Tyrant sensed danger. Its giant eye emitted a high-frequency shriek, but the Thorn Dragon was no pushover. The spatial powers of the two soul beasts clashed against each other.

The Loyal Subject of the Dragon Clan, the Thorn Dragon, clung tenaciously to the Evil Eye Tyrant, its conviction to fight for its king unshakable!

Na'er leaped into the air. With the spear tip as the origin, the space within a five-meter radius caved into a bowl shape. The Silver Dragon Slash cut out crystalline spatial cracks. As the spear shaft moved, all the spatial cracks contracted simultaneously.

"Screech—"

The Silver Dragon Spear pierced the core of the giant eye. The Evil Eye Tyrant's agonizing cry shook the heavens. The forest seemed to echo with the crisp sound of glass shattering. Gaps burst open in the eye, and silver streams of energy sprayed out continuously.

The mental pressure suddenly dissipated. All four writhing tentacles froze. The Evil Eye Tyrant collapsed and disintegrated just like the Darkgold Fearclaw Bear, leaving behind a silver-white eye, about the size of a palm, shimmering with a strange light.

Evil Eye Tyrant External Soul Bone, Evil Eye!

Leng Yaozhu's gift, three External Soul Bones!