Absorbing Soul Bones (Extra Chapter for Book Friend 2301128680853)

Star Glory Principality.

Soul Hunting Town, Home Inn.

For the first time in over a year since his transmigration, Qian Xunji spent money.

Although he complained inwardly about the ancient service, living conditions, bedding, and food—it was all truly terrible, and this money felt like a waste—he still chose to stay in this wretched human inn.

It was for no other reason than to find someone to help deliver a letter to the Clear Sky Sect.

By the time someone delivered the battle challenge to Tang Chen at the Clear Sky Sect, he would likely have finished absorbing several spirit bones and condensed his second soul core.

A demigod body, a demigod with Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, plus the Getsuga Tensho.

Qian Xunji did not believe that with such a setup, he could not defeat Tang Chen in a head-on confrontation.

"388 gold spirit coins just to deliver a letter, how expensive," Qian Xunji muttered softly, watching the back of the Speed Clan woman as she walked away.

For some reason, when he gave hundreds of gold spirit coins to those Spirit Hall deacons who had experience in the countryside, even if they were just writing things on the side, he never felt the money was spent dearly.

But when it came to the Speed Clan, who had marital ties to the Clear Sky Tang family, even though the other party was helping him travel thousands of miles to deliver a letter, he subconsciously felt that their asking price of 388 gold spirit coins for running an errand was exorbitant.

It was damn expensive.

Of course, it didn't matter; he lived alone anyway, and he didn't spend much money.

In this ancient feudal society of Douluo Continent, he had no desire to consume.

Returning to his room in the inn, Qian Xunji activated the system and entered the Ten Thousand Beast Platform small plane.

Within the Ten Thousand Beast Platform small plane, as the master of the plane, Qian Xunji could exert combat power at the level of a God Official.

Inside his self-built villa.

Qian Xunji sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion and took out two external spirit bones.

After thinking for a second, he decided to absorb the hundred-thousand-year external spirit bone, the 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's Eight Wings.

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Right Palm Bone hadn't made much of a name for itself in Huo Yuhao's hands.

It wasn't that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Right Palm Bone was bad; it was mainly because Huo Yuhao's other external spirit bone, the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign External Spirit Bone, was far more dazzling.

After all, that one had evolved into the super-divine artifact, the Eye of Eternal Hatred.

Before becoming a god, I must find time to kill the Evil Emperor and have him drop the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign External Spirit Bone, Qian Xunji thought to himself.

So what if he was a bit greedy?

At least he wasn't embezzling disaster relief funds, withholding wages from the working people, or skimming the rations of heroes who defended their homes...

Killing a few spirit beasts that were enemies of humanity and having them drop a few spirit bones—what was wrong with that?

Qian Xunji began to refine the Eight Spider Lances.

An hour later, as Qian Xunji completely refined the Eight Spider Lances, his shirt was shredded by the eight spirit bones emerging from his back.

With a thought, the spirit bones retracted.

Unlike Tang San, although Qian Xunji's Martial Soul had changed in appearance, its essence remained the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

During the process of absorbing the Eight Spider Lances, the sacred light flames directly purified and cleared away the original poison attribute of the Eight Spider Lances.

The hundred-thousand-year external spirit bone, the Eight Spider Lances, provided him with two spirit skills.

One was "Source Devour": after the spider lance pierced a target, it would 100% devour the enemy's spirit power and life force, fully converting it to replenish his own consumption.

Absorbing spirit power meant recovering mana while fighting, providing near-perpetual endurance.

Devouring corpses meant absorbing the essence and blood of spirit beasts to rapidly accumulate energy and continuously evolve the grade of the spirit bone.

Possessing soul cores, Qian Xunji had a massive reserve of spirit power in his body and an extremely fast recovery speed. The ability of the Eight Spider Lances to absorb spirit power while fighting was of little use to him.

However, this ability to improve the quality of the spirit bone through devouring was quite good.

As long as he killed enough spirit beasts and devoured enough, Qian Xunji could completely stack the Eight Spider Lances to divine-grade quality.

It was just that during the Asura God Trial, he didn't have much spare time.

The other spirit skill was "Soul Power Devour-Refining": after the Eight Spider Lances pierced a target, it performed three steps—instant extraction, continuous draining, and source refining. The drained spirit power would not directly skyrocket his level, but would be converted into spirit bone source energy for storage. Once enough was accumulated, it would feed back to the host and the Eight Spider Lances to advance simultaneously. It could not plunder the source of spirit rings, only extracting free-floating spirit power and the spirit power stored in the flesh.

This was an ability to improve one's own cultivation by devouring others, much like an Evil Spirit Master.

Qian Xunji had no interest in it.

As a demigod at spirit power level 99, he had no need to rely on devouring to improve his cultivation.

What he needed now was to comprehend the laws and step into the realm of a quasi-god.

The Dao lay in creation; blindly devouring and plundering would not lead one to the end of the Dao.

He ate a meal and rested for a while.

The next day, Qian Xunji began to absorb the hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Right Palm Bone.

This time, it took Qian Xunji a full three hours to absorb and refine this piece of external spirit bone.

After the refinement was successful, Qian Xunji gained the metal attribute in addition to his holy, light, and fire attributes.

Among metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, he now possessed metal and fire.

The 100,000-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear right-palm external spirit bone also provided him with two spirit skills.

These were the Dark Gold Sharp Claws, capable of tearing through space, and the Berserk Beast Bloodline.

The effect of the Berserk Beast Bloodline was that the lower the health, the higher the overall attributes, and it allowed for the regeneration of severed limbs.

He had to admit that the Berserk Beast Bloodline was a very good spirit skill, but it was not particularly suitable for Qian Xunji.

He preferred to kill enemies without taking damage, utilizing long-range attack methods, and had mastered both sword-control techniques and Convergence Cannon fire.

It was not that he did not engage in melee combat, but rather that it was simply unnecessary most of the time.

During the era of the first Douluo series, excluding the three gods at the grand finale, there were only a few Limit Douluos.

Except for Qian Daoliu, who had the opportunity to engage him in melee combat by relying on flight speed, other spirit masters simply lacked that capability.

When fighting other sea or land Douluos, using the Convergence Cannon for long-range bombardment to shoot them down was the true way to go.

Of course, melee combat skills still had to be learned.

Even as a mobile flight turret, one could still be approached by others.

Another day passed, and this time Qian Xunji took out the left and right arm bones of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.

To face Tang Chen, a reckless brute who knew how to use Ring Detonation, he had to play it safe and absorb two more high-quality spirit bones to further strengthen his physical body.

It was a pity he could not enter the Dragon Valley; otherwise, a full set of Dragon King spirit bones would surely make it impossible for Tang Chen to break his defense.

Absorbing the Fire Dragon King's right arm bone elevated the power of Qian Xunji's golden flames to a new level.

Absorbing the Ice Dragon King's left arm bone granted Qian Xunji ice and water attributes.

He was now missing earth and wood from the five elements.

He began to condense his second spirit core.

His first spirit core had been a pure spirit power core condensed by absorbing the Star Luo Spirit Pearl.

The second spirit core that Qian Xunji condensed was a core of pure spiritual power attribute.

Spirit power, spiritual power, and blood energy were the three foundations of a spirit master.

He knew that after becoming a god, the so-called yin-yang complementary three-spirit-core setup was useless.

Therefore, he did not overly pursue specific attributes when condensing his spirit cores.

"I feel like my whole body is brimming with power."

Qian Xunji left the Ten Thousand Beast Platform sub-plane, departed the inn, and arrived at the Asturias Mountains located to the southeast of the Star Dou Forest.

Clad in the Emperor Armor and gripping his golden sword, he unleashed a "Getsuga Tensho" with a zero-frame startup.

A golden crescent-shaped energy wave slashed out, shearing off a small mountain peak with a single strike.

With a boom, the earth shook, and countless spirit beasts scattered in all directions.

"The power is decent, and the speed is fast enough," Qian Xunji remarked, his gaze fixed on the clean-cut surface.

Of course, simple spirit power compression could not satisfy Qian Xunji.

Getsuga Tensho combined with the ice attribute became "Let this moonlight shine through the River of Oblivion."

Getsuga Tensho combined with the fire attribute became "Burning Heaven Crescent Moon."

The combination of ice and fire became the "Ice and Fire Dual Heavens."