Seeing the doorway appear, Xia Yuan flashed forward and slipped inside. At the same time, he took out a glowing gem to light the path ahead.
The secret passage was not very long, and its depths led to a small stone chamber.
There was nothing else in the chamber. Only a small mound of earth stood in the middle, where a somewhat slender Blue Silver Grass had been planted.
This Blue Silver Grass was naturally Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor hidden here.
Its blades bore fine golden patterns that ordinary Blue Silver Grass did not possess.
Looking at Ah Yin planted in the dirt, Xia Yuan could not help but find it somewhat amusing.
Without sufficient sunlight, fresh air, or clean water, it was hard to say whether Tang Hao was raising her or harming her.
And that was not all.
After Tang San's Blue Silver Domain activated uncontrollably, Ah Yin grew more than she had in the twenty years before Tang San arrived combined.
And although Tang Hao clearly knew where the Blue Silver King was, his response had been, "How did I not think of that?"
Later, he had Tang San wait until he reached the level-sixty bottleneck before going to find Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu just happened to be discovered by Spirit Hall.
Tang San had even thrown the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone to Xiao Wu, telling her to absorb it on the spot and leave.
Given the situation at the time, not to mention that love-struck Xiao Wu would never abandon Tang San.
Even if she really had abandoned Tang San, she would have had no chance to absorb the Soul Bone and leave calmly.
She would either die alongside Tang San or sacrifice herself to him in exchange for a chance at survival.
All he could say was that it was no wonder conspiracy theories about Tang Hao and Tang San, father and son, had flourished online in his previous life. Anyone looking at this would think it had been deliberate.
Of course, whether it was a conspiracy or not did not matter now.
Xia Yuan felt around the stone wall beside him and quickly found a black box.
He opened the long black box slightly and saw the crystalline blue-gold Soul Bone inside, shaped like a right leg bone.
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone!
Xia Yuan's breathing quickened involuntarily.
He had yet to reach the Soul Grandmaster realm, yet he already possessed two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
Once he fused with these two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, the improvement to his physical constitution alone would allow him to raise his choice of Second Soul Ring by a considerable tier!
He closed the long black box, looked at the Blue Silver Emperor, pulled it out in one motion, and placed it inside the box.
Absorbing a Soul Bone would take quite some time. This was not a place to linger.
Xia Yuan returned the way he had come and left the mountain range as quickly as possible.
Notting City.
Tang Hao, who had been preparing to quietly head to Grandmaster's residence, suddenly stopped.
"Strange, why do I keep feeling so uneasy... Could something have happened to Little San?"
His brows furrowed as he muttered, "Forget it. I should go check on Little San first. I can see Grandmaster afterward."
In a desolate mountain valley.
Xia Yuan concealed the cave entrance, then opened the long black box.
After leaving that mountain range, Xia Yuan had directly hired a carriage to a city relatively close to the Star Dou Great Forest.
This was a valley near that city.
Ah Yin's true body looked somewhat listless at the moment.
Staring at the Blue Silver Emperor, Xia Yuan did not know for a moment how to use her to evolve his Martial Soul.
Eat her directly?
But who could guarantee that consuming her would definitely grant him the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline?
Relying on guesswork to determine the effect was a last resort.
Suddenly, Xia Yuan thought of his Empty Handed.
Since Empty Handed could be used on Xiao Wu, a Transformed Soul Beast, what about Ah Yin?
For the Blue Silver Emperor and this Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, he had gone several days without using Empty Handed.
And now Ah Yin was merely an ordinary Blue Silver Grass, utterly powerless, unlike Tang Hao, whose cultivation far exceeded his own.
Without further hesitation, Xia Yuan immediately gave the order in his mind. Use Empty Handed on the Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin!
[Using Empty Handed on target Ah Yin...] [Empty Handed evaluation in progress... Evaluation successful!] [Congratulations! Theft triggered! Lucky Critical Hit triggered!] [Obtained from Ah Yin this time: Blue Silver Emperor Life Essence!] [Confirm theft?]
It had worked!
Xia Yuan was overjoyed.
He looked again at the Blue Silver Emperor's true body and saw that the golden patterns on it had completely vanished. The entire plant now looked like the most ordinary Blue Silver Grass.
Xia Yuan extended his right hand and released his Martial Soul. The Blue Silver Grass that had originally carried golden dragon-scale-like patterns had now become as crystalline and translucent as sapphire.
At the roots of the Blue Silver Grass, a somewhat profound golden pattern extended outward, spreading across every blade and complementing the golden dragon-scale patterns.
This was his Martial Soul after fusing with the Blue Silver Emperor Life Essence.
However, what puzzled Xia Yuan was that he had not obtained the Blue Silver Domain.
Or rather, his Martial Soul Evolution was not complete.
"Looks like I still have to pay the Blue Silver King a visit." Xia Yuan took out a map.
Fortunately, the map also marked the forest where the Blue Silver King was located.
However, that forest was closer to the Star Dou Great Forest.
Xia Yuan put down the map and pressed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone from the long black box against his right leg.
A faint hum sounded, and a cool sensation spread from the Soul Bone.
Immediately afterward, the Soul Bone transformed into a mass of blue-gold airflow that coiled around Xia Yuan's right leg.
Generally speaking, Soul Masters would experience a certain degree of pain while absorbing a Soul Bone.
But this Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone was different.
The absorption process did not bring Xia Yuan the slightest pain. Instead, it felt gentle and warm, as though he were walking through a sea of Blue Silver Grass.
At the same time, this power gradually spread from his right leg through Xia Yuan's entire body, subtly strengthening his constitution.
Bones, meridians, flesh, skin... every part of him was being permeated by that current.
The absorption process lasted a full three days. When Xia Yuan woke again, he could feel that his constitution had become considerably stronger than before.
Compared with Soul Rings, Soul Bones brought Soul Masters more physical enhancement and improvements to their attributes.
Xia Yuan had also sensed the skills of this right leg bone.
One was flight.
Although he did not know how Blue Silver Grass had evolved a flight skill, it was no small help to Xia Yuan.
At the very least, it would be useful when heading to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
The other Soul Skill had no name in the original work. Tang San had named it, "Wildfires cannot burn it all; spring winds bring it back to life."
Xia Yuan had no interest in using a line of poetry as its name, so he simply and crudely called it "Recovery."
Two Soul Skills: one for flight and one for Recovery. Most importantly, the Soul Bone was perfectly compatible with his Martial Soul, directly improving Xia Yuan's attributes across the board.
Originally, Xia Yuan had planned to remain for another day or two before absorbing the other Soft Bone Rabbit Spirit Bone.
But after realizing that absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone had instead brought his condition to an even more perfect state, he immediately chose to absorb the other Soul Bone.
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