Darkgolden Poison Claw

As the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear swallowed the Jade Phosphor Seven-Extinction Fruit, Lin Yu stopped walking and simply observed it.

The soul beast data in the Life Platform had been secretly altered. It could not be understood according to the figures recorded in books about real soul beasts of the same species.

For example, in an ancient primeval forest, a Human-Faced Demon Spider's venomous web could never have been powerful enough to poison the soul beasts in half the forest to death.

Not to mention the corpse of a dead Human-Faced Demon Spider.

If the Human-Faced Demon Spider's data had been altered so absurdly, then the stats of the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear clan—whose apex member, Xiong Jun, was still alive—would only be even more terrifying.

If it had been a real Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear made of ordinary flesh and blood, even the vines of a Jade Phosphor Seven-Extinction Flower would have poisoned it into a half-dead state. Yet here in the Life Platform, it was as though nothing had happened.

It had simply tanked it with raw stats.

But Lin Yu did not care. No matter how high its stats were, once it had eaten the poison fruit, that was no longer something stats could solve.

Within minutes of swallowing the poisonous fruit, the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's expression changed abruptly.

Its earlier indignation as it searched for Lin Yu gave way to pain, and it raised one bear paw in an almost human gesture to clutch its abdomen.

Inside the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's stomach, where no one could see, the juice from the Jade Phosphor Seven-Extinction Flower fruit it had eaten was already taking effect.

The highly toxic juice rapidly burned through the bear's stomach lining, then melted every organ connected to its stomach.

It then flowed through the dissolved blood vessels, following the blood toward its heart.

If the Life Platform had not been a simulated space that had made certain adjustments to the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's vitality, it would already have died.

Even so, the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's aura had weakened to the extreme.

Lin Yu attacked again. With a flick of his wrist, the Jade Phosphor Seven-Extinction Flower's vine lashed toward the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's eyes like a whip.

With poison having infected most of its body and turned it purple, the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear struggled to raise its paw the instant it saw the vine coming, attempting to activate its ultimate move and block the attack.

However, its paw had already been weakened by the poison.

The vine first knocked aside the bear's paw, then swept across its eyes, freezing the last image it saw upon that life-taking vine.

Lin Yu's strike was also the final straw. Under the Spirit Pagoda Life Platform's absurdly generous health-detection system, this blow fulfilled the final condition for killing the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear.

A dense golden ball of light surged into Lin Yu's body. At the same time, a golden palm bone appeared where the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear had fallen.

Lin Yu looked at the palm bone with a satisfied smile. By then, the Spirit Pagoda staff had stopped panicking and began solemnly recording the entire process of the soul bone's absorption. They also decided to raise the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's poison resistance next time.

To the Spirit Pagoda staff, ordinary soul masters of this era no longer needed to know what a soul beast's true stats were. As long as they kept paying money to the Spirit Ascension Platform and allowed it to keep making low-cost profits, that was enough.

Naturally, Lin Yu did not care about such matters. Holding the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's soul bone, he sat cross-legged. After briefly regulating his soul power, he closed his eyes and began guiding the soul power within the soul bone into his palm.

Feeling the abundant energy flowing from his hand, Lin Yu let out a long breath before beginning to fuse with it.

Just as Xiao Xiao had experienced intense pain when fusing with the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear soul bone before, Lin Yu also felt excruciating agony.

He had no choice but to try using his soul power to numb his muscles and dull the pain.

During the process, Lin Yu felt the bones in his fingers shattering inch by inch.

Then, amid the shattering, they gradually began to swell, as though a new bone were being forcibly crammed into the skin and flesh of his hand after the broken hand bones had been completely pulled out.

At the same time, he felt his soul power rushing madly into his palm, as though a water pump had grown there.

When Lin Yu finally completed the fusion and opened his eyes again, he found that he had already exited the Life Platform and returned to the transmission pod.

Two staff members were holding blue popsicles beneath their armpits, trying to stimulate their brains this way and wake Lin Yu according to the standard procedure.

Seeing Lin Yu open his eyes, one of the staff members beside him said, "It's good that you're awake. Move around a little. If everything is fine, you can leave."

Lin Yu raised his hand and clenched it, feeling a strength completely unlike anything he had felt before. The staff member casually said, "When that soul bone fused with you, the records showed that it drew away part of your soul power, and its energy state changed somewhat. It may have combined with your martial soul and caused a related mutation. You could say you got lucky."

"For a poison-element plant-type martial soul like yours to be so compatible with a Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear soul bone is exceedingly rare."

Lin Yu nodded, then stood up. After completing the procedures at the Spirit Pagoda and leaving, he returned to Eastsea Academy and found his dormitory. The other people in the room had already arrived.

"Huh, you're in this dorm too?" As soon as Lin Yu pushed open the door, a somewhat guileless voice came from behind it. He glanced over and saw a rather sturdy youth sitting on the bed nearest the door.

Lin Yu nodded. The youth smiled kindly and said, "My name is Wang Jinxi. This is Zhang Yangzi, and he's Wei Xiaofeng. What about you?"

Lin Yu looked at Wang Jinxi, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

He had not been assigned to Tang Wulin's dorm, but instead to the dorm that had first been used to highlight Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King power. That was really... somewhat interesting.

"My name is Lin Yu." Lin Yu nodded to Wang Jinxi and the other two, then walked to the empty bed opposite them. After making the bed, he sat down.

Wei Xiaofeng walked over and looked at Lin Yu. "Hey, brother, why did you arrive so late? Don't tell me you got in through the back door?"

Lin Yu smiled. Without hiding it, he directly displayed his three purple soul rings and said calmly, "I went to deal with my soul ring situation. It delayed me for a while."