Ye Lingling's External Soul Bone

Ye Lingling sat cross-legged beside the corpse of the Blood-Exploding Vajra Beast, guiding the deep purple Spirit Ring and slowly slipping it onto her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.

The violent energy surged into her limbs and bones in an instant. Ye Lingling's face turned pale, and large beads of sweat rolled down her cheeks, with tiny drops of blood seeping from her skin.

An eight-thousand-year-old Spirit Ring has enough energy to overwhelm an ordinary Soul Ancestor. If it weren't for Luo Can's constant use of various pills and Medicinal Bath to temper their bodies over the past six months, coupled with the day and night practice of body-tempering techniques such as "Flowing Soul Body Tempering Method" and "Mysterious Jade Hand," she would probably have had her meridians severed and her body explode and die the moment the Spirit Ring entered her body.

Time passed by, second by second.

Having endured the initial excruciating pain, Ye Lingling gradually calmed her mind and began to absorb the energy from the Spirit Ring little by little.

When it was completely dark, the fluctuations of the Spirit Ring finally subsided, and the deep purple Spirit Ring settled steadily into the position of her Third Spirit Ring.

The next second, Ye Lingling's aura suddenly surged.

Level 33, level 34, level 35... and finally, I steadily stopped at level 36.

Fifteen minutes later, she slowly opened her eyes, and a flash of scarlet light passed through the depths of her eyes.

"Senior Sister! You're awake!" Xiao Xiao was the first to rush over, excitedly asking, "What's your third Soul Skill?"

But as soon as she ran up to Ye Lingling, Ye Lingling's expression suddenly changed, and she cried out in pain.

"Ah!"

"Lingling!" Luo Can's eyes narrowed, and he instantly appeared beside Ye Lingling, placing his hand on her shoulder to check on her.

But at that moment—

"Sizzle!"

The sound of tearing cloth rang out.

At the tailbone of Ye Lingling, a tail with distinct joints and a dark golden color slowly grew out! The tail was about one meter long, covered with fine scales, and the end was a sharp cone shape, which gleamed with a cold luster under the moonlight.

Its appearance is seven or eight parts similar to the tail of the previous Blood-Exploding Vajra Beast!

Its tail swung unconsciously in the air, creating a whistling sound, clearly containing considerable power.

"This is..." Luo Can narrowed his eyes slightly, a word flashing through his mind.

External Soul Bone.

In the original novel, Tang San unexpectedly obtained the External Soul Bone "Eight Spider Lances" because he absorbed the Spirit Ring of a two-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider, which was beyond his level, and under extreme pressure.

The eight-thousand-year Spirit Ring that Ye Lingling absorbed came from the Blood-Exploding Vajra Beast, which was known for its strength and regenerative abilities. Its actual energy intensity was close to Ten Thousand Years, far exceeding her current tolerance limit.

Could it be... that it was under such extreme pressure that the External Soul Bone was born?

"Master... Master..." Ye Lingling turned around, looking at the uncontrollably thrashing tail behind her, her voice filled with panic and confusion, "What... what is this?"

"Lingling, don't be afraid." Luo Can couldn't help but laugh. "This is a good thing! Congratulations on obtaining an External Soul Bone. This is a treasure that Spirit Master dream of."

"External Soul Bone?!"

Xiao Xiao and Dugu Yan exclaimed in surprise at the same time, their eyes wide with astonishment.

External Soul Bone are second only to Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone! Unlike ordinary Spirit Bone, which are fixed in one place, they are like extra organs that can grow with the Spirit Master and have unlimited potential. In the entire Douluo Continent, there are only a handful of Spirit Master who possess External Soul Bone.

The two of them circled around Ye Lingling, their eyes filled with envy.

"Master, how do I put this away?" Ye Lingling tried to control the tail behind her, but the tail seemed to have its own mind, swinging left and right, completely disobeying her commands. "It's so hard to control..."

"Don't be nervous," Luo Can said softly. "Treat it as part of your own body, like your hands and feet. Don't reject it."

Ye Lingling nodded, closed her eyes, and, as Luo Can had instructed, concentrated on sensing the tail.

After a while, the unruly tail finally calmed down and slowly shrank back into her body.

Ye Lingling breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she stood up, her face suddenly turned red, and she quickly covered her buttocks with her hands.

"Master... Master... my pants... my pants are torn..."

When her tail grew out, it tore a big hole in her pants.

Luo Can chuckled and quickly took out a lightweight soft armor from his Storage Soul Tool, patting it onto her body. The soft armor immediately conformed to her figure, perfectly covering the torn area.

"Alright, everything's fine now," Luo Can said with a smile.

Next, Ye Lingling began to answer Xiao Xiao's questions from earlier.

"My third Soul Skill's main effect is healing," Ye Lingling said. "It can instantly heal serious injuries and restore 10% of the healed person's soul power and 5% of their physical strength."

She paused, then added with some doubt, "But Master, I feel this Soul Skill is a bit strange."

"Oh? What's strange about it?" Luo Can asked.

"It's just that... every time I finish healing someone, I gain a 20% power boost," Ye Lingling said. "And I also accumulate a layer of Bloodline Power, which is stored in that External Soul Bone I just used. I can accumulate up to nine layers."

The Nine-Heart Begonia spirit is very special. No matter what Spirit Ring it absorbs, it can only use healing skills. This has been the case for generations of the Ye Clan. But after absorbing the Third Spirit Ring this time, she unexpectedly gained this strange additional effect.

"What about the first and second Soul Skill? Do they have the same effect?" Luo Can asked hurriedly.

Ye Lingling closed her eyes and sensed for a long time before saying, "I also possess it, but the first Soul Skill can only increase strength by five percent each time, with a maximum of three layers; the second Soul Skill increases strength by ten percent each time, with a maximum of six layers."

Luo Can stroked his chin, lost in thought.

This should not be a coincidence. Just a few days ago, the Fate Defying Valley was upgraded to Small World, at which time it emitted a massive amount of heaven and earth energy and Life Force, nourishing all the people and Spirit Beast in the valley.

Ye Lingling's Nine-Heart Begonia was originally a healing martial soul, and it was most sensitive to life energy. In addition, all three of her Spirit Ring were power-type Thousand-Year Spirit Ring. The combination of the two caused her martial soul to undergo this benign mutation.

"Don't worry, this is a good thing," Luo Can said with a smile. "It must be that your Nine-Heart Begonia has evolved. Just think, when you heal your teammates, your own power will get stronger and stronger. When it's stacked to nine layers, combined with your Tiger King Mountain-Crushing Fist, how terrifying will that be? From now on, you won't just be the healer for your junior sisters, but also a hidden powerhouse attacker."

"Really?" Ye Lingling's eyes lit up.

If her master said it was a good thing, then it must be a good thing. She tried swinging her fist and felt that her strength was indeed much greater than before. If she could really stack up to nine layers of amplification and then use the fourth layer of Tiger King Mountain-Crushing Fist, she might actually be able to kill a ten -Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast with one punch.

"Alright, we've acquired all the Spirit Ring." Luo Can glanced at the sky and said, "We should go home now."

The four of them then got up and left the Star Dou Forest.

By the time they flew back to the Fate Defying Valley of Fate, the sky was already beginning to lighten.