After groaning for over ten minutes, Mo Lin gradually grew accustomed to the intense pain and slowly stopped. He also discovered that his absorption of Soul Bones differed from everyone else's. When others absorbed Soul Bones—excluding External Soul Bones—the bones merely covered a certain part of their own skeleton and connected to their nerves, more like they had been stuck onto their existing bones. But Mo Lin found that these Soul Bones had completely fused with his own bones, even affecting his muscles, skin, nerves, hair, and more, as if they were reconstructing his body.
At that moment, Mo Lin finally remembered what Winged Dragon had said. Back then, she had said that in her original world, no second dragon had ever broken through to her realm, so she had thought of visiting other worlds to see whether she could find someone capable of breaking that shackle. Thinking about it now, Mo Lin finally understood. The inheritance Winged Dragon had given him was not only evolving his soul further toward a Winged Dragon soul; through the Soul Bones, it was also transforming his body into that of a true Winged Dragon, thus fulfilling her idea of creating a second Winged Dragon.
Therefore, the pain Mo Lin was enduring did not come from absorbing Soul Bones or having them assimilated. It came from genetic mutation.
If anyone could see Mo Lin's current appearance, they would certainly be horrified. Every part of his body that possessed a Soul Bone—aside from the Winged Dragon wings on his back—was covered in dragon scales. Even his head was gradually transforming toward the head of an Eastern dragon. However, perhaps because he had yet to obtain the torso bone, the second most important among the six standard Soul Bones, this dragonification did not last long. Once