Boss, Is It Really Okay for Us to Take So Much While We Eat?

Although the battle with Dugu Bo had been exhilarating, Ye Guchen still felt it had left him wanting more. After all, Dugu Bo wasn't a pure sword cultivator.

"If I get the chance, I'll have to spar with Sword Dao Chenxin."

Ye Guchen murmured to himself as he unknowingly arrived beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

"Last time, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said there was some Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow down below."

As he spoke, Ye Guchen sent a wisp of consciousness into Bead Space.

"Tian Meng, get out here and get to work."

The chubby Tian Meng was released from Bead Space.

"Boss... at your service."

Ye Guchen pointed to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well beside them.

"Come down with me and get the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow you mentioned."

"Boss, you finally remembered it! I've been craving it so badly!"

Ye Guchen smacked it on the head.

"Can you even eat it looking like that? Why are you yelling?"

Tian Meng rubbed its head.

"Hehe, just looking at it is delicious enough..."

Then, man and insect leaped into the cold spring.

After diving nearly five hundred meters, the spring opening ahead suddenly widened, revealing a chamber several hundred meters in radius.

Without the slightest hesitation, the pair entered.

The first things that met their eyes were two enormous dragon skeletons, from which waves of dragon might radiated.

"Boss..."

By then, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had already hidden behind Ye Guchen.

Ye Guchen now understood more or less. These had to be the remains of Xiao Lan and Xiao Huo.

He grabbed Tian Meng from behind him and hauled it out.

"What are you panicking for? You've already met their owners!"

Tian Meng looked utterly innocent. "Boss, you mean those two silly dragons?"

Ye Guchen nodded. "That's right. So what are you afraid of? Just charge in!"

They had barely started diving when Tian Meng's excited, incoherent voice rang out.

"We've struck it rich! Boss, we've struck it rich! There's at least thirty times more Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow here than in the piece I ate before!"

Seeing it like this, Ye Guchen punched it on the head.

"What happened? Your legs aren't trembling anymore? Look at you, so hopeless."

But the trembling in his own hand betrayed how far from calm Ye Guchen really was.

"You're in charge of collecting all the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow. I'm going to check out the fire spring."

Tian Meng was still incredibly excited. The moment Ye Guchen finished speaking, it rushed over and began licking a marrow pillar more than ten meters long.

Ye Guchen pressed a hand to his forehead, unable to bear the sight, then swam toward the fire spring.

The moment he entered it, he spotted scattered patches of reddish iron ore.

"This is... Flame Gold Essence!"

"The rarest fire-attribute metal on record. Incredibly scarce."

Ye Guchen slowly landed and picked up a palm-sized piece of Flame Gold Essence, examining it closely.

"This fire-attribute energy it contains... no doubt about it!"

Flame Gold Essence was not only extraordinarily hard; more importantly, the metal itself contained an enormous amount of compressed fire-attribute energy. That meant that if it were forged into an offensive Soul Tool, the Soul Tool's power and grade would automatically rise by one level!

Ye Guchen's hand trembled uncontrollably as he held the Flame Gold Essence.

"We've struck it rich!"

If he remembered correctly, the last recorded appearance of Flame Gold Essence had been thirty years ago. That piece had been no larger than the one in his hand, yet it had fetched nearly ten million Gold Soul Coins at auction.

Ye Guchen looked around. There were a hundred palm-sized pieces of Flame Gold Essence, and countless smaller ones. Most importantly, beneath the dragon skeletons lay two pieces the size of washbasins!

"We've struck it rich!"

Like Tian Meng, Ye Guchen gathered up the Flame Gold Essence piece by piece, his hands trembling.

Two incense sticks later, Ye Guchen and Tian Meng sat sprawled atop a dragon skull.

Their eyes held no weariness, only the joy of a bountiful haul.

While collecting the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, Tian Meng had also found a pile of Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.

"Tian Meng, you've earned yourself a major merit this time!"

Ye Guchen surveyed the surroundings. The cavern now held nothing but the two enormous dragon skeletons.

"Dragon bones are incredibly valuable too!"

Ye Guchen rubbed his hands together.

Seeing his expression, Tian Meng immediately understood that he planned to dismantle the skeletons and take them along as well.

"Boss, is it really okay for us to take so much while we eat?"

At that, Ye Guchen flicked it on the forehead again.

"The two Dragon King seniors have been dead for ages, and their bones are still lying here. I'm just giving them a proper burial. What would you know?"

Tian Meng covered its head. "Is that really what we're doing?"

Then, for the first time, Ye Guchen summoned his Bead Martial Soul. Moving all this by himself would take forever. Wouldn't it be better to take everything at once?

The moment the Bead Martial Soul appeared, space trembled.

Ye Guchen's Soul Power was instantly drained by more than half.

"We can't waste time!"

Even Ye Guchen was shocked by the terrifying drain. He hadn't done anything yet; just keeping it manifested consumed that much!

Daring not to delay, Ye Guchen quickly took away the two dragon skeletons, then put the Bead Martial Soul away.

Though he had acted as fast as he could, he had still lost sixty percent of his Soul Power!

Ye Guchen sat weakly on the ground, his eyes shining with excitement.

"Such a terrifying drain means its power must be just as immense. If I can fully master it, even a God King might be no match!"

Just as Ye Guchen was imagining the future, Tian Meng's excited voice rang in his ears.

"Soul Bones!"

"Soul Bones?!"

One surprise after another—the day's unexpected discoveries just kept coming!

Ye Guchen hurried over to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and saw it swimming toward him with two glowing orbs.

"Boss! Two god-tier Soul Bones!"

Even before they drew near, he could already feel the immense dragon might they carried.

Both Soul Bones were arm bones, but unlike ordinary Soul Bones, these covered the entire arms, including the palms!

Ice and fire, one on the left and one on the right—perfectly matched.

Ye Guchen took the two Soul Bones. Two utterly opposite forces swept through his body: bone-piercing cold in his left hand, unbearable heat in his right.

"God-tier Soul Bones..."

He took a deep breath, forcing down the shock in his heart.

Ordinary Soul Bones were bones from just one part of the body, but these two were complete arm bones and palm bones, even their finger bones perfectly intact!

More precious still, ice and fire, one on each side, naturally formed a pair.

Although his Dou I body had been tempered through Ice and Fire Body Tempering, it still fell far short of his Dou II body, which could directly acquire eighty percent of all its pets' physical strength.

Ye Guchen made the decision at once: both Soul Bones would be absorbed by his Dou I body.

Besides, wasn't there another Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well over in the Dou II timeline?

"Tian Meng, stand guard for me."

Without hesitation, Ye Guchen sat cross-legged atop the dragon bones and pressed one Soul Bone against each arm.

The instant the Soul Bones touched his skin, they seemed to come alive and sank straight into his flesh!

"Hiss—"

Even Ye Guchen, with all his resolve, couldn't help sucking in a sharp breath.

The pain wasn't simple agony; it was a tormenting alternation between ice and fire.

His left hand felt as though it had been frozen by ten-thousand-year-old ice, his blood on the verge of solidifying. His right felt as if it had been flooded with magma, his bones about to melt.

More terrifying still, the two forces spread upward along his arms, collided at his shoulders, and erupted into even more excruciating pain!

But Ye Guchen was immune to both ice and fire, and had endured the torment of death many times over. This little pain was nothing to him.