Fusion of Soul Bones

A look of suspicion crossed the Titan Giant Ape's face. With its hundred-thousand-year-old perspective, it could see the value of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red at a glance, yet the trade terms Su Yun Tao proposed required only two ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts to complete his fourth and fifth soul rings.

Feeling like it was getting an incredible bargain, the Titan Giant Ape found it hard to believe.

"Human, what kind of trick are you playing?" the Titan Giant Ape asked.

Su Yun Tao said calmly, "Titan Giant Ape, I have already said it. I only need you to help me hunt two ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts to complete my fourth and fifth soul rings."

"Is that all you require?"

Su Yun Tao nodded and said, "That is correct. Although I am well aware that the value of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red is comparable to a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, even with the enhancement from your elder brother, my current physical constitution is far from the level required to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring."

"Therefore, you only need to find two ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts most suitable for me."

Hearing this, the Titan Giant Ape grabbed him with its massive hand and once again carried Su Yun Tao toward the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest.

After settling Xiao Wu in a safe place, the Titan Giant Ape did not immediately go looking for soul beasts, but instead put Su Yun Tao through a series of physical tests.

"Human, your innate foundation is too poor. Hurry up and fuse with my brother's soul bone. Once fused, your physical constitution will improve further, and only then will you be able to better absorb soul rings."

Su Yun Tao nodded solemnly. Although he had received the sacrifice of the Sky Azure Bull Python, his own poor foundation meant that the enhancement from the hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone was destined to fall short of its full potential.

He still had a long way to go before he could fully develop the power of the hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone.

The attribute bonuses provided by a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone were greater than the combined total of all nine soul rings and all soul bones of most Titled Douluo in the world today.

Like soul rings, soul bones subtly improve a soul master's physical constitution after fusion.

In fact, physical constitution is divided into two categories: the first is external, such as strength, defense, and speed; the second is internal, which is the body's internal tolerance. The two must complement each other, otherwise, there will inevitably be serious consequences.

For example, if your defense is strong enough but your internal organs are weak, then after taking an attack, you might appear unscathed on the outside while actually being on the verge of death.

After Su Yun Tao fused with the hundred-thousand-year soul ring, the sacrifice of the Sky Azure Bull Python first strengthened his internal organs to the limit, allowing him to accept the massive external attribute bonuses. Even so, he could not fully handle the domineering attribute boost of the Sky Azure Bull Python, but because of the sacrifice, the attribute bonuses provided by the hundred-thousand-year soul ring were automatically weakened, bringing his body to a perfect balance.

If he continued to cultivate and improve his foundation, the potential of the hundred-thousand-year soul ring would be fully unleashed.

Without a sacrifice, the process of adding a soul ring would first provide attribute bonuses; if the soul master could accept them, the soul ring would be successfully absorbed, and subsequently, the soul ring would subtly improve the internal constitution of the body.

If they could not accept it, the absorption would fail, and the soul master's body would collapse due to the excessive load, resulting in anything from vomiting blood and severe injury to the total loss of life.

When a two-ring soul master absorbs a thousand-year soul ring, the load on their body reaches its limit. Although their strength, defense, and speed appear to have greatly increased, the balance within their body has reached an extreme point.

However, as time passes and the energy is digested, the soul ring slowly strengthens the soul master's internal physical constitution. Combined with their own training, by the time they break through to level 40, the thousand-year soul ring is fully digested, and their own soul power and body have been further enhanced, which is why their fourth soul ring can absorb one with a limit of nearly five thousand years.

If a soul master's previous soul ring was of poor quality, the strengthening effect on their internal body would naturally be insufficient, leading to a decrease in the limit of the next soul ring they could withstand. Thus, in the path of cultivation, one wrong step leads to wrong steps all the way.

If the first soul ring is white, even if the second is yellow, its age will not be very high, so the third soul ring cannot absorb a thousand-year one. If the third cannot absorb a purple thousand-year soul ring, then the fourth soul ring cannot reach five thousand years, and if the fourth cannot reach five thousand years, the fifth soul ring will naturally fail to absorb a black ten-thousand-year soul ring.

Taking a six-ring Soul Emperor as an example: one white, two yellow, two purple, one black versus two yellow, two purple, two black. On the surface, the second combination only has one more ten-thousand-year soul ring, but in reality, the attribute bonus provided to the soul master is several times that of the first. In other words, the second Soul Emperor could completely crush the first; the all-around attribute suppression brings an absolute advantage!

Su Yun Tao took out the Sky Azure Bull Python Left Arm Bone. It felt as if something was faintly calling out to him; the bone erupted with a dazzling blue light and then automatically fused into Su Yun Tao's left arm.

As the hundred-thousand-year Sky Azure Bull Python Left Arm Bone fused, Su Yun Tao felt an extraordinary sense of comfort throughout his body, his entire being—especially his left arm—filled with power.

Su Yun Tao walked up to a giant boulder, clenched his left fist, and struck with all his might. In an instant, the boulder shattered.

The Sky Azure Bull Python's sacrifice not only improved Su Yun Tao's physical constitution but also granted him four extremely powerful hundred-thousand-year soul skills.

The two skills brought by the soul ring were Thunder Possession and Nirvana Thunder.

Once Thunder Possession is activated, Su Yun Tao's body is imbued with incredibly domineering lightning, and this power of lightning will produce unparalleled effects in combat.

Nirvana Thunder is an extremely powerful area-of-effect attack skill; once the lightning is unleashed, nothing grows within a hundred-meter radius. As Su Yun Tao's soul power increases, the power of Nirvana Thunder will continue to rise.

The two skills brought by the soul bone were Thunder Strike and Body Transformation into Thunder.

Thunder Strike unites form and spirit to strike a single point; it is a terrifying single-target attack skill. As for Body Transformation into Thunder, as the name suggests, it allows Su Yun Tao to briefly transform into lightning, temporarily entering a state of invincibility.

Four hundred-thousand-year soul skills: offensive and defensive, single-target and area-of-effect, burst and sustained—it was simply perfect!

"Human, even if you fuse with my brother's soul bone, your current physical constitution can only withstand a soul ring of about thirty thousand years. You must cultivate diligently so that the power of my brother's soul ring and soul bone can be fully realized!"

"Titan Giant Ape, I feel that my current attribute bonuses have reached their limit and the load on my body has reached a perfect balance. Won't there be problems if I add an extra soul ring?"

The Titan Giant Ape sneered, "Human, so you are not confident after all."

Su Yun Tao laughed, "I am very confident, it is just that you, having lived through endless years and possessing hundred-thousand-year cultivation, have more say in such matters."

"Human, life is the greatest miracle in the world. Since my brother sacrificed himself for you, his soul ring and soul bone will not only strengthen your physical constitution to the limit, but the attribute bonuses provided will also automatically adjust according to your body."

"You just need to add the soul ring; there is no need to worry about the attributes being too high and causing your body to collapse!"