Dark Gold Terror Claw!

External Soul Bone: Dark Gold Terrorclaw!

This was the greatest harvest of Lin Mo's entire trip.

Realizing this, Lin Mo attempted to retract the soul bone.

After taking a deep breath, Lin Mo focused his attention on his hands.

The sharp, piercing sensation at his fingertips gradually receded, and the dark golden blades that had extended began to retract inch by inch.

Although the movement felt slightly stiff, Lin Mo successfully managed to pull them back in.

His five fingers returned to their normal appearance, showing no signs of anything unusual.

For a Soul Beast with the bloodline of a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, even a thousand-year-old specimen had a considerable chance of dropping a soul bone.

What Lin Mo hadn't expected, however, was that this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had dropped the rarest type of soul bone it could possibly yield: the palm bone.

And not just one, but a pair!

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's left and right palm bones!

Lin Mo gently clenched his fist, the surge of power emanating from his palms causing the corners of his mouth to curl upward.

Theoretically, even if a single Soul Beast drops a soul bone, it can only drop one.

But there are always exceptions.

Aside from the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's left and right palm bones he had obtained by sheer luck, others had also managed to obtain two identical soul bones from the same beast.

Bibi Dong possessed a pair of arm bones obtained from the same Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

The Death Spider Emperor's left and right arm bones.

These two arm bones were Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones that Bibi Dong had acquired from a Death Spider Emperor with a cultivation of one hundred thousand years.

In the era of the 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 slaying an Evil Orca King with a cultivation of two hundred thousand years.

Lin Mo was naturally extremely satisfied with these two unexpected gifts.

Furthermore, in Lin Mo's view, the quality of these two palm bones was far superior to the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone that Tang San had obtained by killing the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Compared to age, an External Soul Bone with growth potential values its own inherent quality more.

Beyond age, the quality of a soul bone is primarily determined by the bloodline quality of the Soul Beast that produced it.

In this regard, the Man Faced Demon Spider and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear were simply not in the same league.

The two types of Soul Beasts were not even on the same level of existence.

The Man Faced Demon Spider could, at best, be considered a particularly troublesome type of intermediate Soul Beast, posing a great threat to small and medium-sized beasts.

But the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear stood at the very apex of the Soul Beast food chain.

Even with only a thousand years of cultivation, it was enough to make ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts give it a wide berth.

The gap in their bloodlines was like that between a domestic dog and a tiger; they were simply incomparable.

After his brief test earlier, Lin Mo had also figured out the two forms of his External Soul Bone.

The first was the physical form he had used previously—the blades extending from his fingertips, which could be described as nothing less than indestructible.

Beyond that was the soul skill form.

This was the terrifying dark golden claw shadow that the original Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had unleashed when facing Flender's attack.

Lin Mo was quite satisfied with this Dark Gold Terrorclaw soul bone.

While it further enhanced his physical constitution and his maximum Soul Power storage, it also greatly compensated for his own shortcomings.

It made up for his lack of offensive capabilities.

Lin Mo had always felt that his awakened full-body Body Spirit, combined with his Inversion of Three talent, granted him formidable melee and close-quarters combat abilities.

However, his means of attack were quite singular.

The arrival of these two palm bones perfectly compensated for his deficiencies in attack and offensive variety.

It even provided him with a long-range attack method.

Previously, despite his strong melee capabilities, he could only be beaten passively once he encountered an opponent skilled in long-range attrition.

Now, with the soul skill form of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw, he finally had a long-range trump card of his own, and his tactical options had suddenly become much richer.

Thinking of this, Lin Mo couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

If he were to stack his Inversion of Three and Rainbow Piercing Qi states, and then unleash the Dark Gold Terrorclaw soul skill attached to the palm bones, the power he could erupt with would be enough to instantly kill any Soul Elder.

Even for a Soul Elder with the Plate Armor Rhinoceros martial soul like those of the Defense Clan, who had poured all their skill points into defense, there was a high probability they would not be able to withstand a single strike from him.

The reason was quite simple: after absorbing the spirit bone of that Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, Lin Mo finally realized the anomaly within the beast.

Just as Flender had said, this was indeed a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and a very authentic one at that.

However, its developmental path from a young age had differed from other Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears.

It had followed a path of pure attack power specialization.

If one were to say that the talent points of a conventional spirit beast capped at fifty, these fifty points would be distributed across different areas depending on the beast.

For a top-tier spirit beast like the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, the talent points they possessed were a massive two hundred.

It had used these two hundred talent points to max out both its attack and defense.

That was why, compared to conventional spirit beasts, the strength of a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear appeared so formidable.

But the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear that Flender had killed was even more extreme.

It had invested at least one hundred and eighty of its talent points into attack.

This meant that the two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear palm bones Lin Mo had obtained were, in terms of pure attack power, far superior to the one Huo Yuhao would obtain ten thousand years later.

This extreme allocation of points had allowed this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's attack power to reach an inconceivable level.

The only reason Flender was able to kill it was that the gap in their Soul Power was simply too vast.

Had this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's cultivation been even slightly higher, even if it hadn't reached ten thousand years, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw it unleashed with full force would have been enough to tear Flender to shreds with ease.

If Flender had only been a Soul King or a Soul Emperor, it would have been hard to say who would have won or lost when facing a full-force strike from this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

On the other side, Flender had not noticed Lin Mo's small movements.

After confirming that Lin Mo had successfully absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's spirit ring, obtained the desired spirit skill, and encountered no accidents, he began to examine the carcass of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

Flender crouched down, placed his palm against the massive head of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and allowed his Soul Power to seep through the fur, probing inch by inch.

His movements were meticulous; starting from the head, he checked the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's body in sequence, not even sparing the tail.

Before long, he had finished his inspection.

As for the ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger from earlier, Flender had already taken the time to examine it thoroughly inside and out while Lin Mo was busy absorbing the spirit ring.

Regrettably, neither the thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear nor the ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger had provided him with even a single spirit bone.