Star Glory Principality.
Soul Hunting Town, Home Inn.
After more than a year of traveling through time, Qian Xunji spent money for the first time.
Though he internally mocked the ancient service, living conditions, bedding, food, and everything else as utterly terrible, making the money feel wasted—
This time, he still chose to stay at a human inn with a terrible environment.
For no other reason than to find someone to deliver a letter to the Clear Sky Sect.
By the time someone delivered the challenge letter into Tang Chen's hands at the Clear Sky Sect, he would have nearly finished absorbing several Spirit Bones and condensing his second Soul Core.
A Demigod body, Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, and Getsuga Tensho.
Qian Xunji refused to believe that, with such a setup, he still could not defeat Tang Chen head-on.
"Delivering one letter costs 388 Gold Soul Coins. What a rip-off." Qian Xunji quietly complained as he watched the woman from the Speed Clan walk away.
For some reason, when he gave several hundred Gold Soul Coins to those Spirit Hall stewards with countryside experience, even if they merely wrote a few things beside him, he never felt the money was poorly spent.
But when it came to someone from the Speed Clan, who had marital ties with the Clear Sky Tang Clan, even though she was traveling thousands of miles to deliver a letter for him, he instinctively felt that charging 388 Gold Soul Coins for an errand was—
Fucking expensive.
Of course, it did not matter. He lived alone, so he could not spend much money anyway.
In the ancient feudal society of Douluo Continent, he had no desire to consume anything.
Returning to his room at the inn, Qian Xunji activated the system and entered the Ten Thousand Beast Platform Sub-dimension.
Within the Ten Thousand Beast Platform Sub-dimension, Qian Xunji, as the master of the plane, could wield battle power at the level of a divine officer.
Inside his self-built villa.
Qian Xunji sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion and took out two External Soul Bones.
After thinking for a second, he decided to absorb the hundred-thousand-year Eight Spider Lances first.
The potential of the Eight Spider Lances was obvious to all.
Without the Eight Spider Lances, there would be no super divine artifact, the Sea God Eight Wings.
The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Right Palm Bone had not made much of a name for itself in Huo Yuhao's hands.
It was not that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Right Palm Bone was weak. It was mainly because Huo Yuhao's other External Soul Bone, the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign External Spirit Bone, had been even more dazzling.
After all, it had evolved into the super divine artifact, the Eye of Eternal Hatred.
Before becoming a god, I need to find time to kill the Evil Emperor and make the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign External Spirit Bone drop, Qian Xunji thought.
What was wrong with being a little greedy?
It was not as if he had embezzled disaster relief funds, refused to pay working people their wages, or withheld the provisions of heroes defending their homeland...
What was wrong with killing a few Spirit Beasts that were enemies of humanity and making a few Spirit Bones drop?
Qian Xunji began refining the Eight Spider Lances.
An hour later, once Qian Xunji had completely refined the Eight Spider Lances, the eight Spirit Bone limbs emerging from his back tore apart his shirt.
With a thought, he retracted the Spirit Bone.
Unlike Tang San, although Qian Xunji's Martial Soul had changed in appearance, its essence was still the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
During the absorption of the Eight Spider Lances, his sacred light flames directly purified and removed the Eight Spider Lances' original poison attribute.
The hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances, granted him two soul skills.
One was "Source Devour." After the spider lances pierced a target, they would devour the enemy's Soul Power and life force at a hundred percent efficiency, fully converting them to replenish his own expenditure.
Absorbing Soul Power allowed him to restore his energy while fighting, giving him nearly endless endurance.
Devouring corpses allowed him to absorb the essence and blood of Spirit Beasts, rapidly accumulate energy, and continuously evolve the grade of the Spirit Bone.
With a Soul Core, Qian Xunji had enormous Soul Power reserves and an extremely fast recovery rate. The Eight Spider Lances' ability to absorb and restore Soul Power during battle was not particularly useful to him.
However, this ability to improve the Spirit Bone's quality through devouring was quite good.
As long as he killed and devoured enough Spirit Beasts, Qian Xunji could completely build the Eight Spider Lances up to god-grade quality.
It was just that he did not have much spare time during the Asura God Trial.
The other soul skill, "Soul Power Devour-Refining," involved three stages after the Eight Spider Lances pierced a target: instantaneous extraction, continuous siphoning, and source refining. The drawn Soul Power would not directly raise his level, but would instead be converted into source energy stored within the Spirit Bone. Once enough had accumulated, it would feed back to the host and the Eight Spider Lances, allowing them to advance together. It could not plunder the source of Spirit Rings, only draw free Soul Power and the Soul Power contained within flesh.
It was an ability like those of Evil Spirit Masters, devouring others to improve one's own cultivation.
Qian Xunji was not very interested.
As a level-99 Soul Power Demigod, he did not need to rely on devouring to improve his cultivation.
What he needed now was to comprehend laws and step into the Quasi-God realm.
The Dao lay in creation. Blindly devouring and plundering would never allow one to climb to the end of the Dao.
After eating and resting for a while.
The next day, Qian Xunji began absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Right Palm Bone.
This time, Qian Xunji spent a full three hours absorbing and refining the External Soul Bone.
After successfully refining it, Qian Xunji gained a metal attribute in addition to his sacred, light, and fire attributes.
Metal, wood, water, fire, earth—he now had metal and fire.
The hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Right Palm Bone likewise granted him two soul skills.
The space-rending Dark Gold Sharp Claws, and Berserk Beast Bloodline.
The effect of Berserk Beast Bloodline was that the lower his health, the higher all his attributes became, and even severed arms could regenerate.
He had to admit that Berserk Beast Bloodline was an excellent soul skill, but it was not particularly suitable for Qian Xunji.
He preferred killing enemies without taking damage, using long-range attacks, and was proficient in sword control techniques and Convergence Cannon fire.
It was not that he never fought in close combat, but most of the time, there was simply no need.
In the first era of Douluo, excluding the three gods at the finale, how many Limit Douluo were there?
Aside from Qian Daoliu, who had a chance to use his flight speed to engage him in close combat, the other Spirit Masters simply lacked that ability.
Against the rest of the sea and land Douluo, directly using the Convergence Cannon for long-range bombardment and shooting them dead was the proper path.
Of course, he still had to learn close-combat fighting skills.
Even a flying mobile artillery platform could be approached at close range.
Another day passed, and this time Qian Xunji took out the left and right arm bones of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.
Facing Tang Chen, that reckless brute who could use Ring Detonation, head-on, he had to play it safe and absorb two better Spirit Bones to further strengthen his body.
It was a pity he could not enter Dragon Valley. Otherwise, with a full set of Dragon King Spirit Bones, he would definitely make Tang Chen unable to break his defenses.
Absorbing the Fire Dragon King's right arm bone raised the power of Qian Xunji's golden flames to another level.
Absorbing the Ice Dragon King's left arm bone gave Qian Xunji ice and water attributes.
Of the five elements, he still lacked earth and wood.
He condensed his second Soul Core.
His first Soul Core had been a pure Soul Power Soul Core condensed by absorbing the Star Luo Spirit Pearl.
The second Soul Core Qian Xunji condensed was a Soul Core purely of spiritual power.
Soul Power, spiritual power, and vitality were the three fundamental pillars of a Spirit Master.
He knew that after becoming a god, the so-called Yin-Yang Complementary Triple Soul Cores were not particularly useful.
Therefore, he would not excessively pursue specific attributes when condensing Soul Cores.
"I feel like I'm overflowing with power."
Qian Xunji left the Ten Thousand Beast Platform Sub-dimension, left the inn, and arrived at the Asturias Mountains southeast of the Star Dou Forest.
Wearing the Emperor Armor and holding the Golden Treasure Sword, he opened with a zero-frame Getsuga Tensho.
A golden crescent-shaped wave of energy slashed out, shearing off a small mountain peak with a single strike.
With a boom, the earth trembled, and countless Spirit Beasts scattered in all directions.
"The power is good, and it's fast enough too." Qian Xunji looked toward the smooth cross-section and gave his evaluation.
Of course, merely compressing Soul Power was not enough to satisfy Qian Xunji.
Add an ice attribute to Getsuga Tensho, and it became, "Let This Round of Moonlight Illuminate the Forgotten River."
Add a fire attribute to Getsuga Tensho, and it became Burning Heaven Crescent Moon.
Combining ice and fire created Ice and Fire Dual Heavens.
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