Luck at His Side, External Soul Bone

"This feels awful." Jing Chen wanted to jog away, but pain shot through his body the moment he tried to run, leaving him unable to move quickly.

"Yi Yi, I'm counting on you." Jing Chen lifted the miniature Yi Yi down from his head and smiled at it.

"Yiyi! (Bad guy!)" After a brief moment of confusion, Yi Yi understood Jing Chen's meaning. It flailed all four limbs in protest.

A few minutes later, a massive black tiger raced across the icy plains, carrying a six-year-old child on its back.

"Yi Yi, it's so good to have you." Jing Chen enjoyed the feeling of riding a tiger and praised the hardworking Yi Yi.

"Yiyi!" Yi Yi voiced its displeasure again and sped up considerably, causing Jing Chen to lean backward and nearly fall off.

Yi Yi was extremely fast. Before long, the two had left the boundaries of the Far North and continued racing south.

After traveling more than a hundred li beyond the Far North, the boy and tiger stopped beside a small river.

After simply preparing the portioned but unfinished Soul Beast meat, Jing Chen put it into the pot to cook.

He had brought this pot from home. It was a Soul Guidance Pot he had modified himself, requiring no fire and being very convenient to use.

After putting the meat in the pot, Jing Chen ignored it and took out the Ice Crystal Behemoth's corpse, beginning to search it over.

Whenever Yi Yi killed Soul Beasts in the past, he would search through their bodies to determine whether they contained Soul Bones.

Yet after searching over a hundred times without finding anything, he had gained a fairly deep understanding of just how low the drop rate of Soul Bones was.

He checked the limbs first, then the head and torso. All six standard Soul Bone locations disappointed him; there was no Soul Bone.

"What luck." Jing Chen smiled helplessly, but he did not give up. Instead, he began feeling around the other areas.

Besides producing Soul Bones in the six standard locations, Soul Beasts could also yield special External Soul Bones.

For instance, Man Faced Demon Spiders could possibly yield Eight Spider Lances, while Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears could possibly yield Dark Gold Dreadclaws. These were all special External Soul Bones.

Jing Chen continued searching. When he felt the Ice Crystal Behemoth's left claw, his hands suddenly stopped. The unusual energy made him freeze for a moment.

"There really is one?" Jing Chen could not help but brighten as he carefully examined the Ice Crystal Behemoth's left claw.

A few minutes later, Jing Chen held an icy-blue Soul Bone shaped like the Ice Crystal Behemoth's sharp claw in his hand.

Looking at the Soul Bone, Jing Chen was somewhat excited. This was not a Soul Bone from an ordinary location, but a relatively special and rare External Soul Bone.

Although it was only a little over six hundred years old, its ability to grow without limit made it even more valuable than a standard Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

"My luck really is pretty good." Jing Chen gradually calmed down and remarked with feeling.

The Ice Crystal Behemoth truly had not disappointed him, dropping such a superb External Soul Bone.

Jing Chen put the Ice Crystal Behemoth's corpse back into the Time and Space Divine Tower, then sat on the ground and studied the Soul Bone.

Yi Yi lay atop his head, its eyes fixed on the pot of cooking Soul Beast meat. It cared more about when they would be eating.

"These claws are probably even sharper than those of a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear."

Jing Chen gently scratched the Soul Bone across a rock. Deep claw marks were easily carved into it, as though it could slice through iron like mud.

Other than learning that this External Soul Bone was extremely sharp, he could not figure out anything else.

"I wonder what kind of Soul Skill it'll grant after absorption?" Jing Chen looked forward to finding out.

He had the urge to absorb it immediately, but restrained himself. He planned to eat first and adjust his condition before absorbing the Soul Bone.

After all, absorbing a Soul Bone was not easy. He remembered that in the original story, Xiao Xiao had nearly lost an arm while absorbing an External Soul Bone.

That alone showed how dangerous Soul Bone absorption was. If he was careless, he could end up like Xiao Xiao.

After testing his Soul Skill and feasting to his heart's content, Jing Chen began absorbing this exceedingly precious External Soul Bone.

Just as he had expected, absorbing the Soul Bone was far from easy. His left palm went through the process of its bones shattering, energy pouring in, then being pieced back together and reassembled.

The pain of that process was no less intense than absorbing a Soul Ring. It hurt so badly that Jing Chen nearly passed out.

Fortunately, his will was firm. He endured it and did not allow himself to lose consciousness.

More importantly, he did not dare pass out, because once he did, he might never wake up again and would die outright.

Absorbing the Soul Bone took less time than absorbing a Soul Ring, lasting only a little over two hours.

However, for Jing Chen, who endured piercing pain every moment, those two-plus hours felt longer than ten.

"The greater the risk, the greater the reward. There's some truth to that saying." Jing Chen looked at his left hand and spoke weakly.

After absorbing the Soul Bone, he could feel that all of his attributes had improved significantly. Even his Soul Power had increased greatly, showing signs of a breakthrough.

The benefits were immense, but so was the price. He had nearly failed to endure it just now.

It would not have been an exaggeration to say that he had traded his life for these benefits. It had truly been far too dangerous.

The pain had drained him completely. He had no strength left in his body, and his left hand had yet to regain sensation. He could not even release the Soul Bone.

Jing Chen lay weakly on the ground, breathing heavily. He needed to recover properly.

More than half an hour later, Jing Chen's condition had improved somewhat. Some strength had returned to his body, and feeling had returned to his left hand as well.

Jing Chen channeled Soul Power into his left hand and tried to release the Soul Bone.

Gradually, four long strips of blue energy appeared between the fingers of his left hand. They resembled a doorway, and blades slowly began to emerge from within.

Jing Chen watched without blinking. Just as he had guessed, the Ice Crystal Behemoth Left Palm Bone was somewhat similar to the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Soul Bone.

The effects they produced were both claws extending from between the fingers, giving off an immediate Wolverine-like vibe.

However, his claws did not have a metallic texture. Instead, they looked like ice crystals, as though they had been forged from pure ice crystal stone.

Once fully extended, the claws were over thirty centimeters long. They were incredibly thin—the thickest parts were only about as thick as three sheets of paper, while the thinnest were as delicate as cicada wings.

"Why am I so excited?" Jing Chen stared uncertainly at the ice crystal blades, doing his best to suppress his emotions.

His body was burning hot, and he was in an extremely agitated state, seized by the urge to find someone and have a good fight.

This emotion was clearly abnormal; it had not arisen naturally.

Jing Chen stared at the ice crystal blades, and a thought struck him. He tried retracting the External Soul Bone.

As the soul bone vanished, his emotions gradually returned to normal, and he was no longer so agitated.

Jing Chen released the soul bone again. His blood began to boil, his body heated up, and the agitated feeling returned.

"So it really is because of this soul bone." Jing Chen wore an expression of realization, having figured out the cause of that strange excitement.

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