External Soul Bone

However, with Old Scorpion, a man who had studied poisonous scorpions his entire life, Dugu Feng was not worried at all.

It was not until evening that Old Scorpion returned, looking exhausted.

"Young Master, this ice mountain covers too large an area. It won't be easy to search, so it seems we'll have to stay here for several days!"

The ice mountain was enormous. He had spent an entire day searching only a small section of it.

The more this was the case, the more certain Old Scorpion became that an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion was here.

Dugu Feng naturally understood this as well. He knew full well that haste made waste.

This wait lasted half a month.

During that time, they did find several Ice Jade Emperor Scorpions, but they were ten-thousand-year ones. Their age was unsuitable.

Then, on this day, Old Scorpion returned with delight written all over his face. "Found it—a Thousand-Year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion!"

Dugu Feng was overjoyed as well. He immediately used Martial Soul Possession and followed Old Scorpion into the glacier.

After winding through countless turns, they entered a Glacier Cave.

After venturing deeper for a full half hour, the two emerged from a narrow passage.

Before them lay an Ice Pool.

"This Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion hid itself far too deeply. It's close to eighteen hundred years old.

"It's inside the Ice Pool. To keep it from escaping, I've already rammed it badly. You only need to deliver the final blow. Young Master, hurry and enter the pool to absorb it!"

Old Scorpion was extremely vigilant. Once an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion appeared, it represented the hope of an entire clan. No wonder it had hidden itself so deeply.

Other Soul Beasts could arrive at any moment.

Hearing this, Dugu Feng no longer hesitated and entered through an opening in the ice at one side of the Ice Pool.

At the bottom of the Ice Pool, he saw a giant ice-jade-colored scorpion about 1.7 meters long.

The Giant Scorpion was surrounded by frigid ice. Clearly, this Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion had been cultivating within the ice all this time.

After Old Scorpion discovered it, it had been severely injured before it could even react.

The Giant Scorpion's entire body gleamed with a mirror-like silvery-white luster. Its six long legs and its back shell were both like diamonds.

The brightest parts, however, were its two pincer-like Foreclaws. They resembled Silver Crystal and exuded an air of nobility.

It truly deserved to be a Soul Beast with the words "Emperor" in its name.

Of course, what Dugu Feng cared about most was its poison. Through the icy chill on the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's surface, he could see specks of jade green within.

He immediately understood what distinguished the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion from other Ice Jade Scorpions. Aside from the Tail Hook on its scorpion tail, both Foreclaws could also unleash poison.

Its combat ability was terrifying.

It possessed both ice and poison attributes.

"Come, Second Spirit Ring!"

Dugu Feng fired out a stream of Soul Power, directly ending the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's life.

A dense mass of purple-green energy condensed above the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's corpse.

It gradually formed into a purple Spirit Ring.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Dugu Feng immediately sat down cross-legged and used Martial Soul Possession. His purple Soul Power called out to the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's Spirit Ring.

"Boom!!"

A thunderous roar erupted in Dugu Feng's mind, and his entire body was struck by that surge of energy.

The Soul Beast he was absorbing for his Second Spirit Ring was nearly eighteen hundred years old.

That was normally the level of a Third Spirit Ring.

This energy was far too immense.

It nearly instantly filled his entire body.

But what truly made Dugu Feng powerful was the body forged jointly by the ten-thousand-year Whale Dragon and the Pill Bead.

His Meridians and Bones were far beyond ordinary.

Though he had been struck by the impact, he endured it head-on.

And the pain brought by absorbing the Spirit Ring was insignificant compared to a Poison Attack.

Yet at this moment, Dugu Feng finally grew truly nervous.

The most crucial part of absorbing a Poison Attribute Spirit Ring had arrived. He had eaten Fried Scorpion continuously for a year precisely to adapt to the mixture of Scorpion Poison and snake venom.

At this moment, the Scorpion Poison carried within the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's energy had already seeped into every part of his body.

The Jade Phosphor Purple Poison within his Bloodline erupted completely as well.

The two poisons merged into one.

"Mixed Poison. My first time mixing poisons. With my strength, I can definitely get through this!"

Dugu Feng's eyes shone brightly. Mixed Poison was the greatest enhancement to a Poison Soul Master's strength.

Only then could he walk the path of Ultimate Poison.

The sensation of a poison attack came again.

He had absorbed a Poison Attribute Spirit Ring, yet before he could even experience its soul skill or let an enemy taste the poison's power—

he had to taste its power himself first.

Pain wracked his entire body, and dizziness clouded his mind once more.

The bones throughout his body were being destroyed.

Yet even as they were destroyed, the immense energy within the Spirit Ring repaired them, making his body even stronger.

After a long while, Dugu Feng finally regained full consciousness.

This was the power of mixed poison. Fortunately, his body had endured the ravages of poison since childhood, allowing him to gradually withstand it.

He had deliberately not used the Pill Bead to aid the absorption from the start, because he wanted to make full use of the Spirit Ring's transformation of his body.

To make his body stronger once again.

Wave after wave of pain meant his body was growing stronger.

Half an hour later, the surging Soul Power gradually subsided.

One yellow and one purple Spirit Ring rose and fell around his body, showing that Dugu Feng had completely succeeded in absorbing the Spirit Ring.

"Level Twenty-Two Soul Power. That trace of Purple-Green Color within my Soul Power should be the mixed poison formed by the fusion of Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's poison!"

Absorbing a Spirit Ring above his level had raised his Soul Power by an additional level. That was within his expectations.

"Hm?"

Dugu Feng suddenly discovered that some of the energy above the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's corpse still remained and was continuing to merge into his body.

Normally, the Spirit Ring had already been absorbed successfully, and his Soul Power was no longer increasing. Why was there still energy left over?

"What's going on?"

"Ah!"

Bang!

Dugu Feng furrowed his brow and let out a scream. At the same time, the clothes over both his shoulders burst apart completely.

He hurriedly sent out his spiritual perception and found two protrusions as thick as arms on his shoulders.

"Could it be a Soul Bone?"

Pain tore through Dugu Feng's body, yet his mind was exceptionally exhilarated.

It definitely was not an ordinary Soul Bone. This was an External Soul Bone.

His eyes widened.

Objects like silver crystals drilled out from the two protrusions and began growing wildly at an astonishing speed.

At this point, the pain eased considerably.

Dugu Feng could even see what had grown out.

"These are the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's two foreclaws!

Th-This is too unbelievable!"

Dugu Feng moved his shoulders. The foreclaws had split out from the joints where his shoulders connected to his arms.

They were around three meters long.

From a distance, it looked as though he had grown four arms.

Only two of those arms were longer.

At their tips were huge, razor-sharp pincers over forty centimeters long. The pincers bore sharp, serrated protrusions and gleamed with a silver luster.

Dugu Feng suspected that if a person stood before him, he could snip them in half with a single pincer.

Only then was all the energy produced by the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion completely exhausted.

He tried swinging the pincers. They were extraordinarily nimble.

As the pincers opened and closed, they radiated a fierce, savage aura, as though they could tear apart anything.

Tang San's Eight Spider Lances had given him Eight Spider Legs.

What he had unexpectedly obtained were two Scorpion Pincers. They were somewhat similar.

But now that he had crossed over, whether Tang San could still obtain the Eight Spider Lances was another matter entirely!