A torso bone hovered quietly above Lin Ya's palm, shimmering with a faint, illusory glow. Pure Mental Attribute energy pulsed through its shifting patterns. It was a thirty-thousand-year Soul Bone.
The Illusory Snake was a serpentine Soul Beast with no limbs. Its essence was concentrated throughout its body, and apart from its skull, its torso was the most likely place for a Soul Bone to form.
Dugu Bo stared at the Soul Bone, his old eyes bulging. His voice brimmed with disbelief and outrage:
"What kind of luck do you have, kid? I killed a fifty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca and didn't get a single Soul Bone! You go out once, kill a twenty-thousand-year Wolf Bandit leader and a thirty-thousand-year Illusory Snake, and get two Soul Bones! How is that fair?"
Lin Ya shot him a helpless look. "What's unfair about it? The odds of getting a Soul Bone have never depended on a Soul Beast's age alone. Its quality and talent matter even more."
The Azure Wolf Bandit had been a Wolf Bandit leader with astonishing talent and a bloodline far beyond that of ordinary Wolf Bandits.
The Illusory Snake was an even rarer Soul Beast, born with an Innate Domain. It was hardly surprising that it had yielded a Soul Bone.
"Well..." Dugu Bo opened his mouth, then found himself at a loss for words.
On second thought, Lin Ya did have a point.
Prince Xue Xing paid no attention to the thirty-thousand-year Soul Bone in Lin Ya's hand. In his eyes, a Soul Bone under fifty thousand years old was not even worthy of Lin Ya absorbing it.
Only one question occupied his mind. He asked eagerly, "Xiao Ya, forget the Soul Bones. Tell your uncle, what level has your Soul Power reached?"
At Xue Xing's question, a