External Soul Bone: Dark Gold Dreadclaw!
This was the greatest reward Lin Mo had gained on this trip.
Once he realized that, Lin Mo tried to retract the Soul Bone.
After taking a deep breath, Lin Mo focused his attention on his hands.
The sharp sensation at his fingertips gradually faded, and the Dark Gold blades that had emerged began to retract inch by inch.
His movements were a little clumsy, but Lin Mo still managed to pull them back in.
His five fingers returned to normal, with not the slightest trace of anything unusual.
Even a thousand-year Soul Beast from the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear bloodline had a fairly high chance of producing a Soul Bone.
What Lin Mo hadn't expected was that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had produced the rarest kind of Soul Bone it could: palm bones.
And not just one, but a pair!
The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's left and right palm bones!
Lin Mo lightly clenched his fist. Feeling the strength in his hand, he couldn't help but smile.
In theory, even if a Soul Beast produced a Soul Bone, it could only produce one.
But there were always exceptions.
Besides the left and right palm bones he had obtained from the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear through sheer good fortune, there were others who had, by chance, obtained two identical Soul Bones from the same Soul Beast.
Bibi Dong had a pair of arm bones from the same Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
The Death Spider Emperor's left and right arm bones.
Bibi Dong had obtained these two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones from a Death Spider Emperor with a hundred thousand years of cultivation.
In the era of Legend of the Dragon King, twenty thousand years later,
Tang Wulin had also obtained the Evil Orca King's left and right leg bones by killing an Evil Orca King with two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
Lin Mo was naturally delighted with these two unexpected treasures.
And in his opinion, the quality of these two palm bones far surpassed that of the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone Tang San had obtained by killing a Man Faced Demon Spider.
Compared with age, an External Soul Bone's potential for growth meant its quality mattered more.
Aside from its age, a Soul Bone's quality was determined chiefly by the bloodline of the Soul Beast that produced it.
In that respect, the Man Faced Demon Spider simply couldn't compare to the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
The two Soul Beasts weren't even on the same level.
At best, the Man Faced Demon Spider was a troublesome member of the mid-tier Soul Beasts, posing a serious threat to small and medium-sized Soul Beasts.
But the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear stood at the very top of the Soul Beast food chain.
Even with only a thousand years of cultivation, it could make ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts flee at the sight of it.
The difference in their bloodlines was like that between a house dog and a tiger. There was simply no comparison.
After his brief tests earlier, Lin Mo had figured out the two forms of his External Soul Bone.
The first was its physical form, which he had just used: the blades that sprang from his fingertips. Calling them unbreakable would hardly be an exaggeration.
The other was its Soul Skill form.
That was the terrifying Dark Gold claw projection the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had unleashed when facing Flender's attack.
Lin Mo was extremely satisfied with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Soul Bone.
It had further improved his physical constitution and increased his Soul Power reserves, while also making up for his shortcomings.
It had made up for his lack of offensive power.
As far as Lin Mo was concerned, his fully awakened Body Martial Soul, combined with his Inversion of Three talent, gave him formidable hand-to-hand and close-combat abilities.
But his methods of attack had always been rather limited.
Now that these two palm bones had come along, they made up for his lack of offensive power and attack options.
They had also given him a ranged attack.
Before, he had been strong in close combat, but against an opponent who excelled at wearing him down from a distance, he could only take a beating.
Now, with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw's Soul Skill form, he finally had a ranged killing move of his own, greatly expanding his tactical options.
At the thought, Lin Mo narrowed his eyes.
If he combined Innate Life State and Rainbow Piercing Qi, then unleashed the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Soul Skill attached to his palm bones,
the resulting power would be enough for him to instantly kill any Soul Elder.
Even a Soul Elder from the Defense Clan, with a Plate Armor Rhinoceros Martial Soul and every skill point invested in defense, would most likely be unable to withstand one blow.
The reason was simple. After absorbing the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's Soul Bone, Lin Mo had finally noticed something unusual about the beast.
As Flender had said, it really was a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and a remarkably pure-blooded one.
The trouble was, from a young age, it had developed differently from other Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears.
It had pursued a path of investing everything in attack.
If an ordinary Soul Beast had fifty talent points to distribute, and those points went into different attributes depending on the beast,
then a top-tier Soul Beast like the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had as many as two hundred talent points to spend.
It had invested those two hundred points to max out its attack and defense.
That was why the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was so much stronger than an ordinary Soul Beast.
But the one Flender had killed had been even more extreme.
It must have invested at least one hundred and eighty of its talent points in attack.
As a result, the two palm bones Lin Mo had obtained from it were far superior in attack alone to the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear palm bone Huo Yuhao would obtain ten thousand years later.
This extreme allocation had given the beast an attack power so terrifying it was almost beyond belief.
Flender had been able to kill it purely because the gap in Soul Power between them was enormous.
If the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had been even a little stronger in cultivation—even if it still hadn't reached ten thousand years—its full-power Dark Gold Dreadclaw would have torn Flender to pieces with ease.
If Flender had only been a Soul King or Soul Emperor, it would have been hard to say which of them would have won against the beast's full-power strike.
On the other side, Flender hadn't noticed Lin Mo's small movements.
After confirming that Lin Mo had successfully absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's Soul Ring, obtained the Soul Skill he wanted, and suffered no mishap, he began inspecting the beast's corpse.
Flender crouched down and placed his palm against the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's enormous head. His Soul Power seeped through its fur as he examined it inch by inch.
He was meticulous. Starting at the head, he checked the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's entire body, not even sparing its tail.
Before long, he had finished his inspection.
As for the ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger, Flender had already thoroughly examined it inside and out while Lin Mo was absorbing his Soul Ring.
Unfortunately, neither the thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear nor the ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger had given him even a single Soul Bone.