Ye Linyuan's body trembled, and uncontrollable ecstasy burst from his eyes.
Du Busi's eyes widened sharply as he cried out in disbelief, "This... is an External Soul Bone?!"
"And it's a right palm bone!"
Ye Linyuan carefully took out the dark-gold palm bone.
It was only palm-sized, yet astonishingly heavy.
Its surface was covered in profound patterns, emanating a dense metallic aura and a trace of domineering pressure.
It was the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's most essential part—the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Right Palm Bone!
In the original story, Huo Yuhao had relied on this Soul Bone to raise his frontal combat power by an entire level.
And now, he had it too!
Du Busi stared at the Soul Bone, utterly stunned.
After a long while, he took a deep breath and looked at Ye Linyuan as though he were some kind of monster. "You brat, aren't you the illegitimate son of the Goddess of Luck?"
Ye Linyuan chuckled without explaining.
In truth, he knew that succeeding this time had been a stroke of outrageous luck.
From Electrolux to Life Gold, as he seized the opportunities that had originally belonged to Huo Gua ahead of time,
his luck seemed to have been getting better and better.
The plan he had previously told Du Busi about was, plainly put, to artificially provoke the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's resentment and increase the odds of producing a Soul Bone.
But he had had no idea how much it could actually increase those odds.
He had never expected it to really work!
And it was even the highest-grade External Bone!
"Teacher, I'll absorb the Golden Earth Dragon's Soul Ring first, then fuse with this Soul Bone," Ye Linyuan said excitedly.
Du Busi nodded. "Alright. I'll guard you."
The Golden Earth Dragon was already on its last breath, without even the strength to resist.
Ye Linyuan walked over to it. The tail hook of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger lashed out, piercing through its eye socket and extinguishing its final spark of life.
A dazzling purple Soul Ring rose from the Golden Earth Dragon's corpse.
Ye Linyuan took a deep breath and sat down cross-legged.
With a light touch of his spiritual power, he drew the Soul Ring over and absorbed it into his body.
The moment the Soul Ring entered his body, its violent energy exploded!
The Golden Earth Dragon's lingering resentment after death transformed into a terrifying torrent, wildly battering Ye Linyuan's body.
Cracks began to appear across his skin, with blood seeping from them.
His muscle fibers tore under the violent energy, while his bones creaked beneath the unbearable strain.
The entire process was countless times more painful than when he had fused with his first Soul Ring!
Yet Ye Linyuan gritted his teeth and did not make a sound.
The Nine-Orifice Exquisite Heart in his chest began beating violently.
With every contraction, it released an immense surge of life force that flowed toward damaged tissues throughout his body.
His skin healed, his muscles regenerated, and his bones repaired themselves.
Then they were torn apart again by the next wave of energy.
The cycle repeated itself over and over.
With dense life force replenishing his losses, Ye Linyuan was like refined iron repeatedly hammered and tempered, continuously growing stronger amid destruction and rebirth.
During this process, Electrolux's Divine Sense quietly appeared and helped him filter the energy within the Soul Ring.
"That golden energy is Dragon's Fury," Electrolux's aged voice echoed in Ye Linyuan's mind.
"Guide it into your Martial Soul."
Ye Linyuan's spirit jolted. He locked onto that golden energy and guided it into his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul.
Outside.
Du Busi watched Ye Linyuan nervously, ready to deal with any accident at any moment.
His eyelids twitched as he watched the wounds continuously split open across Ye Linyuan's body.
Even in his youth, he had never experienced such a perilous Soul Ring fusion.
But when he sensed the rich life aura and saw those wounds healing at astonishing speed, Du Busi's face filled with amazement.
"So this is the effect of Life Gold? A treasure capable of making the Evil God descend a divine oracle... truly unbelievable!"
Time passed second by second.
Half an hour later.
The Soul Power fluctuations around Ye Linyuan finally began to settle.
Every wound had healed completely, and even a faint golden sheen appeared on his skin.
That was the lingering mark of the Golden Earth Dragon's bloodline.
Another quarter of an hour passed.
Ye Linyuan's eyelids trembled lightly before he slowly opened his eyes.
"The fusion succeeded!"
Du Busi's spirits lifted, and he hurriedly asked, "How was it? What's the Soul Skill?"
An irrepressible delight appeared on Ye Linyuan's face.
He rose to his feet and activated Martial Soul Possession.
"Roar—!"
Accompanied by a deep tiger's roar, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger appeared once more.
Two Soul Rings slowly pulsed around his body.
That eye-catching purple made even Du Busi feel slightly dazed.
With a thought from Ye Linyuan, his second Soul Ring lit up.
The next moment.
His entire body was shrouded in a dense blood-red glow.
His muscles bulged, veins stood out, and his presence surged dramatically in an instant!
"Second Soul Skill, Dragon's Fury!"
"After activation, strength, attack, and defense all double. It also greatly improves resistance to abnormal conditions while reducing pain by 50%!"
Du Busi's pupils contracted as he sucked in a cold breath. "Everything doubles?"
One had to know that an enhancement-type Soul Skill reaching 50% was already considered top-tier.
Doubling it—what kind of concept was that?
Even a Super Douluo like him found it somewhat unreal!
As expected of a soul beast with the pure bloodline of the Golden Dragon. The quality of the Soul Skill it produced was truly inconceivable.
Du Busi suddenly remembered something and hastily asked, "Right, is Dragon's Fury's negative effect still there? Will it affect your sanity?"
Ye Linyuan shook his head, surprise shining in his eyes. "No."
"Maybe because my heart Martial Soul protects the mind, I can still remain clear-headed after using Dragon's Fury. There are no side effects at all."
Du Busi looked at him, then sighed after a long moment. "Now this is truly keeping the essence and discarding the dregs!"
"This Soul Skill paired with your Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is perfect!"
Ye Linyuan dispelled Martial Soul Possession and took out the dark-gold palm bone from his storage ring.
Next came the fusion of this External Soul Bone.
Fusing with a Soul Bone was even more dangerous than absorbing a Soul Ring.
That was because this Soul Bone was of a higher age and contained the resentment of the soul beast at its death.
The stronger the soul beast, the more intense its resentment.
And considering how the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had been humiliated to death by Ye Linyuan, the depth of its resentment was easy to imagine.
Ye Linyuan pressed the Soul Bone against his right palm.
The next moment.
Dark-gold light blazed forth!
An incomparably violent wave of resentment flooded into Ye Linyuan's sea of consciousness like a raging tide, seeking to devour his awareness.
It was the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's fury and unwillingness before death.
Ye Linyuan's sea of consciousness shook violently, and his face instantly turned pale.
Fortunately, his spiritual power had undergone a tremendous leap during his previous fusion with Life Gold.
Though this resentment was powerful, Ye Linyuan's mind was like a reef by the sea.
No matter how fiercely the wind and waves roared, it remained steadfast.
At the same time.
The Soul Bone's power began seeping into Ye Linyuan's right palm.
Scorching energy ran rampant, as though countless red-hot knives were carving through his palm from within.
His bones were restructuring, his muscles tearing, and his nerves reforming.
But with Dragon's Fury reducing pain by 50%, along with Life Gold's formidable restorative power, Ye Linyuan endured it by sheer force of will.
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