Dream God Head Soul Bone

This would greatly benefit his future cultivation.

But it would also bring Wang Chen a troubling problem.

The issue of Soul Ring colors.

On Douluo Continent, Soul Rings from ten-year Soul Beasts were white; those from hundred-year Soul Beasts were yellow; thousand-year Soul Beasts gave purple Soul Rings; ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts gave black Soul Rings; hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts gave red Soul Rings; and million-year Soul Beasts gave golden Soul Rings.

Moreover, whenever one used a Martial Soul, a Soul Ring, or a Soul Skill from a Soul Ring, the Soul Ring would appear and reveal its color.

This meant that Wang Chen could only ensure that the colors of his Soul Rings remained hidden by refraining from using any Soul Skills—or even any Soul Ring abilities at all.

If he had no way to alter the colors of his Soul Rings and make them appear consistent with the mainstream cultivation system of Douluo Continent, it would bring him endless trouble.

Especially the instant he appeared with a thousand-year purple Soul Ring as his first Soul Ring and a black Soul Ring as his second.

Wang Chen could already imagine the immense uproar this would cause across all of Douluo Continent.

It could be said that, according to the records of Douluo Continent, aside from methods bestowed by gods, no one had ever managed such a feat.

A god-bestowed method seemed like a decent disguise.

But if Wang Chen exposed information about gods, or even the secret of a divine inheritance—

The uproar it caused would be no less than that caused by his absorbing a thousand-year Soul Ring as his first Soul Ring and a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring as his second.

By then, Wang Chen did not dare claim that the entire continent would become his enemy, but enemies would certainly be everywhere.

He had no powerful backing now.

Nor did he possess great strength.

He could not even protect himself.

If anyone discovered that he had absorbed a thousand-year Soul Ring as his first and a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring as his second, everyone across Douluo Continent would seize him for research.

The secrets of Wang Chen absorbing whale glue, absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and absorbing immortal herbs would absolutely be impossible to keep.

Having his Soul Bones dug out would actually be the better outcome.

What he feared was that some extremists would use him to refine medicine.

They would be determined to boil out the medicinal potency of the immortal herbs within his body.

Wang Chen would truly be unable to live or die.

Moreover, Wang Chen had a reason why he had no choice but to absorb Soul Rings beyond his limit.

Although he possessed the Pill Furnace and Meridians Martial Souls, both of those Martial Souls had only half a rank of innate soul power.

If he did not absorb Soul Rings beyond his limit, Wang Chen could not guarantee that he would be able to break through to Rank 30, much less guarantee that his Martial Souls could evolve.

After all, the original work had never mentioned any immortal herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye that could evolve either his Pill Furnace Martial Soul or his Meridians Martial Soul.

If absorbing the immortal herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye still failed to evolve his Martial Souls, Wang Chen would have to find other ways to make them evolve.

And the method Wang Chen could ensure would succeed—and could plan for—was to absorb Soul Rings of the same attribute while also absorbing them beyond his limit, increasing the origin of his Martial Souls in one stroke and allowing them to evolve.

If surviving safely meant that he had to be like Yu Xiaogang and remain forever at Rank 29, Wang Chen felt that he might as well absorb Soul Rings beyond his limit and take a gamble.

Fortunately, Dream God had shown him favor, delivering supplies from afar.

With this two-hundred-thousand-year Dream God Head Soul Bone, Wang Chen was confident that he could deceive even ordinary Titled Douluo regarding the colors of his Soul Rings.

As long as he was careful and did not run into top-tier Titled Douluo like Chen Xin—especially god priests such as Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi—he could keep it hidden.

If he truly encountered Qian Daoliu or Bo Saixi, Wang Chen could only use the divine power within the Seed of Godhood.

By disguising himself as someone favored by Dream God, Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi presumably would not make things difficult for him.

Besides, even if they did intend to trouble him, with the divine power within the Seed of Godhood, Wang Chen could still ensure that he left safely.

In his previous life, Wang Chen had read quite a few Douluo fan novels.

Among them, there were many methods for altering Soul Ring age limits: the growable Soul Rings the Blue Silver King condensed for Tang San, divine power increasing Soul Ring age limits, and Qian Renxue's use of a Head Soul Bone to distort others' perceptions of her Martial Soul and their perceptions of her Soul Rings.

But the Blue Silver King's sacrifice and divine power enhancement both changed things for the better.

Moreover, after a Soul Ring changed, its color could not be freely altered according to its host's wishes.

That was not Wang Chen's ideal goal.

Distorting others' perceptions through a spiritual-type Soul Bone, on the other hand, was exactly what Wang Chen wanted.

Most importantly, with Dream God's help, Wang Chen no longer needed to follow his original plan of seeking out Dugu Yan, approaching Dugu Bo through her, and then plotting for the immortal herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

More importantly, when Wang Chen had read fanfiction in his previous life, many readers had said that beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye lay the remains of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, with at least two million-year Soul Bones.

There might even be two million-year Soul Rings.

If the Dream God had not come to possess him, then even if Wang Chen had known that the remains of the Nether Ice and Fire Dragon Kings beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye contained a million-year soul bone and a million-year soul ring, he would not have dared to go down.

After all, although they were dead, they could still leave behind some means to deal with a small fry like him.

Even after the Angel God died, he was able to leave Qian Daoliu divine power that could be borrowed.

There was no reason the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, after dying, would have no tricks left at all.

Wang Chen looked at the head soul bone beside him. "Sure enough, the Dream God truly understands people's hearts. Knowing that I lacked a way to change the color of my soul rings, it traveled all this way to deliver one to me.

I hereby name you the strongest Wish King."

Wang Chen's consciousness withdrew from his sea of consciousness. At the same time, he extended his right hand and opened his palm. "Soul bone, come out."

At Wang Chen's command, a faint glimmer of light descended from between his brows into his palm.

As the dim light faded, a semi-transparent, forehead-ornament-shaped skull bone appeared.

The skull bone was not large, only about the size of a palm.

It was extremely thin, like a cicada's wing.

Pale blue patterns that could beguile the mind covered its surface.

The soul bone was not heavy, weighing about the same as an egg.

It felt cool to the touch.

When he stared at it, he could sense the bewitching power it emitted, as though it wanted to make people drift into sleep at any moment.

At the same time, Wang Chen could feel the powerful pull emanating from the soul bone.

Or rather, Wang Chen felt that he needed the head soul bone before him.

It was as though a voice in the darkness was telling him that, as long as he absorbed this head soul bone, his spiritual power—and even his soul—would be elevated.

Wang Chen injected a trace of soul power into the soul bone.

A layer of pale blue dream-sigil radiance immediately appeared around it, and at the same time, it shot a dark blue beam of light toward Wang Chen.

Wang Chen was instantly overcome by exhaustion and drowsiness.

Just as Wang Chen was about to collapse and fall into a deep sleep, the seed of divinity within his sea of consciousness erupted with a faint golden glow, shielding Wang Chen's soul and mind and instantly freeing him from the hypnotic power of the dark blue radiance emitted by the Dream God Head Soul Bone.