Disdainful of a Seventy-Thousand-Year Soul Bone? Even a Titled Douluo Would Be Furious to Hear That! One Qi Transforms Three Purities!

Dugu Bo urged him, "Brat, don't just stand there enjoying yourself. Fuse that Torso Bone first, so this old man won't have to watch it greedily."

As he said this, his pair of jade-green, old eyes stared fixedly at the crimson Soul Bone in Ye Qing's hand.

He wished he could gouge the treasure out with his eyes and keep it as a collectible.

Of course, he was only saying it.

The Crimson Flame Ancient Tree's Torso Bone had absolutely nothing to do with his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's poison attribute. Even if it were given to him, he couldn't fuse with it.

Ye Qing merely smiled, casually storing the crimson Torso Bone in the Ruyi Hundred Treasure Pouch.

Dugu Bo froze. "What are you doing? You're not fusing with it?"

"This Soul Bone's age is a little too low."

Ye Qing rubbed his nose, his tone carrying an air of insouciance that even he felt was a little too irritating.

Dugu Bo's whiskers visibly trembled.

A Seventy-Thousand-Year Soul Bone!

And its age was a little too low?

He was a dignified Titled Douluo. After living for so many years, he had only accumulated one Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone—and it was top-grade merchandise at sixty thousand years.

But this brat...

With a Seventy-Thousand-Year Torso Bone in his hands, he actually found its age too low?

"...Do you know what you're saying?"

Dugu Bo's voice carried a dangerous edge that seemed to say, Say that again, and I won't be able to stop myself from attacking.

"Ahem, Senior, don't get worked up." Ye Qing quickly waved his hands.

He couldn't exactly say that he had read too many Douluo fanfictions, and that protagonists with Hundred-Thousand-Year and million-year Soul Bones had raised his standards too high.

"I'm a rather ambitious person."

"My seventh Soul Ring is already ninety thousand years old."

"In the future, from my eighth Soul Ring to my eighteenth, I hope to absorb Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings for all of them."

"A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring always produces a Soul Bone. Maybe I can gather a complete set of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones."

"..."

Dugu Bo opened and closed his mouth.

He wanted to say, You brat, are you dreaming?

But then he recalled that this brat's first Soul Ring had already started at a thousand years, while his seventh Soul Ring was now ninety thousand years old—only one step away from a hundred thousand years.

Could it be... that it really wasn't completely impossible?

"Besides, the restrictions on Soul Bones for my Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul are extremely limited. They can come from plant Soul Beasts, or they can be fire- or ice-attribute Soul Bones."

Ye Qing spread his hands. "Leaving aside everything else, I know of at least four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts on the icy plains of the Far North."

Dugu Bo's brows twitched violently.

"How do you know there are so many Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Far North?"

"Uh... I read it in some ancient texts."

"..."

Dugu Bo could tell with his toes that this brat was spouting nonsense again.

But he didn't press him.

This brat had too many secrets. Asking would be pointless anyway.

"All right, all right. You're right. You're amazing, and your horizons are high. This old man won't try to persuade you anymore."

Dugu Bo impatiently waved his hand, turning around and preparing to call Ye Qing to leave.

At that very moment—

"Awoooo—!"

A mournful, drawn-out wolf howl came from the distance.

A second howl followed, then a third, then a fourth...

Howls rose and fell from all directions at once.

It was as if the entire forest were responding to that call of death.

Dugu Bo and Ye Qing stopped moving at the same time.

They looked around.

In the shadows of the dense forest, pairs of beast eyes glowing with a ghostly green light were closing in.

Seventeen or eighteen Ice-Fire Demon Wolves, ranging from one to three meters in length, slowly emerged from the bushes and surrounded them in a fan-shaped formation.

Their fur still bore the patterns of both ice and fire.

They bared their fangs,

low warning growls rumbling from their throats.

The wolves' gazes passed over Dugu Bo and locked firmly onto the corpse of the Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King behind Ye Qing.

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King's aura had already dissipated.

But these demon wolves could still smell the blood of their kin.

"An Ice-Fire Demon Wolf pack."

Dugu Bo narrowed his eyes, a trace of surprise in his voice.

"They should be the clan of that ninety-thousand-year-old Demon Wolf King. They followed the scent here."

His jade-green Soul Power began surging around his body as he prepared to clear away these insignificant creatures.

But Ye Qing reached out and stopped him. "Senior, let me handle this one."

Dugu Bo glanced at him and raised a brow. "Are you sure? These are more than a dozen Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts."

"It's just right for testing my new Soul Skill."

Ye Qing grinned, a hint of eager anticipation flashing in his dark eyes.

"This group of Ice-Fire Demon Wolves, none of which have reached thirty thousand years, is perfect."

Dugu Bo was silent for a moment before retracting his Jade Phosphorous Soul Power and stepping back two paces with his hands behind his back.

He also wanted to see just how strong this brat had become after consecutively absorbing two high-grade Soul Rings and obtaining an External Soul Bone.

Ye Qing took one step forward and stood directly in front of seven Ice-Fire Demon Wolves.

The Chaos Green Lotus slowly bloomed behind him, its seventy-two green petals shimmering with a deep, chaotic radiance.

At the same time, seven Soul Rings rose from beneath his feet—purple, purple, purple, black, black, black, black!

"Sixth Soul Skill."

He spoke softly. "Creation Green Lotus Seal."

The sixth black Soul Ring suddenly lit up.

A cyan-gold lotus seal flew out from between his brows,

tracing a streak of light through the air before accurately imprinting itself onto his chest.

The lotus seal sank into his body, and a pale golden halo instantly spread around Ye Qing.

This Creation Lotus Seal could provide any target with a fifty-minute increase of one hundred percent to Soul Power circulation efficiency and a boost to Soul Skill power.

Moreover, the lotus seal came with a single passive life-saving effect.

When the target suffered fatal damage,

the lotus seal would instantly shatter, releasing the power of Creation to cancel that fatal damage and restore fifty percent of the target's Soul Power.

"The boost is on myself."

"Next—"

The corners of Ye Qing's mouth curved into a dangerous arc.

The seventh black Soul Ring lit up once more.

This time, its radiance was even more dazzling than before. A cyan-black pillar of light shot into the sky from the lotus's center.

"Seventh Soul Skill—One Qi Transforms Three Purities!"

The cyan light exploded!

Two cyan lotus silhouettes identical to him split from the pillar of light and landed on either side of him.

The three figures stood shoulder to shoulder.

Their appearances, Soul Power fluctuations, expressions, and bearing were exactly the same.

The two pairs of dark eyes simultaneously fixed on the wolf pack ahead.

Dugu Bo's pupils abruptly contracted.

"The auras of those two clones... are actually exactly the same as the main body?!"

It wasn't as if he had never seen clone Soul Skills before.

But the two Ye Qings before him felt far more real than the fragile clones of other people.

"These aren't clones. They're incarnations."

Ye Qing's voice came from the incarnation on the left, carrying a trace of pride that he could barely suppress.

"They possess completely identical combat strength and independent battle consciousness. They're existences entirely different from clones."

This was his seventh Soul Skill—One Qi Transforms Three Purities!

It split off two cyan lotus incarnations that could last for half an hour.

Their combat strength was completely equal to the main body, and they possessed independent battle consciousness and judgment.

The two incarnations had the same amount of Soul Power as the main body. They could share resources, transfer power to one another for sustained combat, and use all of his own Soul Skills without restriction.

Any damage suffered by the main body would be shared among the incarnations.

The main body could exchange positions with the incarnations at any time.

When an incarnation merged with the main body, all attributes would increase by one hundred and fifty percent for ten minutes, while Soul Skill effects and power would double.