Holy Wings

"How is it that the fifty-thousand-year Holy Golden Beetle is still not dead?"

Hearing Hu Liena say this, Qian Yu was truly surprised.

Two full days had passed; even if that soul beast hadn't died, it should have recovered enough strength to escape by now.

"During the time you were absorbing your soul ring, that fellow did indeed recover some strength, but every time it regained a bit of power, I would strike it again, keeping it in a state of being severely wounded but not dead."

Seeing Qian Yu reveal a look of surprise and astonishment once more, Hu Liena felt smug in her heart again.

In just these few days, seeing this cocky brat look surprised twice in a row was an unprecedented event.

How could she not be pleased with herself?

"Many thanks!"

"A fifty-thousand-year second soul ring is worth a try."

As Qian Yu spoke, his eyes were filled with confidence.

With his cheat-like abilities, he was far beyond Huo Yuhao ten thousand years later; he had full confidence in absorbing a fifty-thousand-year second soul ring.

Following this, Qian Yu arrived beside the fifty-thousand-year Holy Golden Beetle, slew it, and began to absorb its soul ring.

Absorbing a soul ring was something one learned quickly; he was already becoming familiar with the process.

The process was indeed painful, but with divine power protecting his body and a full set of god-level soul bones as a foundation to ensure he wouldn't collapse, it was merely a matter of enduring the pain. What else was there that he couldn't bear?

Pain, agony, torment.

This time, it lasted for three full days and nights.

Only then did he successfully absorb the second soul ring.

The moment Qian Yu opened his eyes, his entire spirit and energy surged instantly.

A sharp, piercing aura shot straight into the sky.

"Still unable to obtain a rule-based soul skill?"

Withdrawing his sharp aura, Qian Yu felt somewhat regretful.

He had done some research regarding the absorption of soul rings.

The soul skills obtained are influenced by the subconscious.

Between two possessors of the same martial soul, one commoner soul master might have no idea what skill they would obtain, while another, having studied the data and knowing that predecessors had obtained desired skills while absorbing that specific ring, would be different.

In this way, the soul skills obtained by the two would be completely different.

The latter, influenced by the subconscious and the precedent, would involuntarily develop in that direction.

The most representative example is the White Tiger lineage of the Star Luo Imperial Family.

Why were they able to obtain the soul skills they wanted for their inherited soul rings year after year?

It wasn't just about the compatibility of the soul beast; it also involved primary cognition and psychological suggestion.

Of course, psychological suggestion only has some influence and cannot change the underlying logical rules.

For example, if a White Tiger martial soul were to absorb a Mandala Snake soul ring, no amount of psychological suggestion could grant it a binding skill.

It still depends on the compatibility between the martial soul and the hunted soul beast.

Therefore, during the process of absorbing the soul ring, he kept giving himself psychological suggestions, attempting to obtain a rule-based soul skill.

Regrettably, he did not succeed.

The two soul skills he obtained were both of the amplification type.

"This is..."

Just as Qian Yu prepared to check his Innate Soul Power, he sensed something unusual about his body.

Then, his face filled with wild joy.

With a thought, he stopped suppressing that strange sensation, and the next moment, a pair of golden, cicada-wing-thin wings appeared behind him.

"External Soul Bone!"

Seeing this scene, both Qian Yu and Hu Liena were shocked.

It was precisely because she possessed an External Soul Bone that Hu Liena knew the rarity of such a thing.

To a certain extent, the scarcity of an External Soul Bone is in no way inferior to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

After all, it is a soul bone that possesses growth potential.

"What kind of luck does this guy have!"

"One soul beast, and two soul bones appear!"

Hu Liena clicked her tongue in wonder.

The reason she said there were two soul bones was that while Qian Yu was absorbing the soul ring, she had found a fifty-thousand-year head soul bone on the body of that fifty-thousand-year Holy Golden Beetle.

Now, another soul bone had appeared.

An External Soul Bone!

"External Soul Bone, Holy Wings!"

He slowly closed his eyes, sensing the abilities of this External Soul Bone.

As information flooded into his mind, the joy on Qian Yu's face grew even more intense.

The Holy Wings possessed a perfect, one-hundred-percent compatibility with his Six-Winged Angel martial soul. Upon absorption, they merged directly into his original six wings, adding no extra burden to his body. As he broke through, they would synchronously absorb soul ring energy to strengthen the bone.

Its core attribute was a permanent, one-hundred-percent boost to all attributes, including but not limited to speed, strength, defense, physical resilience, bodily toughness, and resistance to abnormal status effects.

The soul bone's trait was elemental immunity, granting a direct fifty-percent immunity to any elemental attack. When facing holy or light-attribute attacks, this elemental immunity could reach seventy percent, and it could even absorb the opponent's power to replenish his own.

The soul bone skill inherent to the Holy Wings was called Resonance. It was a cultivation-assisting soul skill that increased the user's affinity with elemental soul power, accelerated cultivation speed, and kept the user in an optimal mimetic cultivation environment at all times. It also possessed the ability to store energy, meaning it was equivalent to carrying a backup power source at all times.

This harvest exceeded all expectations.

Qian Yu then manipulated his intent, attempting to retract the Holy Wings into his body.

Until this thing was completely fused, it was better not to display it in front of outsiders.

Without practice, operating it was truly not simple.

During this process, Qian Yu was also secretly observing Hu Liena.

If Hu Liena showed any signs of greed, he would run away immediately.

Fortunately, Hu Liena had no such thoughts.

"Let's test your soul power!"

Seeing that Qian Yu had successfully mastered how to retract and deploy the External Soul Bone, Hu Liena took out a crystal ball for him.

She was very curious: what level had Qian Yu's soul power reached now?

Qian Yu was equally curious himself.

As he placed his palm on the crystal ball, a suction force emerged, and the next moment, the crystal ball shone brilliantly.

"Soul power... level 30!"

This result left Hu Liena dumbfounded.

Having only obtained two soul rings, his soul power had already reached level 30.

Since his second soul ring was already from a fifty-thousand-year soul beast, what about his third?

A seventy-thousand-year, eighty-thousand-year, or even higher-age soul ring?

Did he truly have the ability to kill one?

"I won't obtain a soul ring for the time being. I need to adapt for a while; once I've stabilized, I'll come back to obtain one."

Qian Yu's words were naturally just an excuse.

If he could obtain his third soul ring right now, why would he continue to wait?

As for familiarizing himself with soul skills and stabilizing his cultivation, he could still do those things after obtaining the third soul ring.

Ultimately, it was because they lacked the ability to hunt higher-age soul beasts.

It was better to wait until Hu Liena's injuries healed and they found Yan and Xie Yue.

With their current strength, trying to continue hunting souls was truly too difficult.

"That works!"

Hearing Qian Yu say this, Hu Liena finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Once that tension was released, she could no longer hold on and collapsed, falling unconscious on the spot.

She had been stretched too thin for too long, and she was still suffering from her injuries.