Soul Bones and Soul Rings

"Then get ready."

The Ice Dragon King came over as well.

There was no helping it. The sight of that Golden Dragon digging up their corpses was simply too awful to watch.

Meanwhile, Xiao Kong made one final confirmation of the process.

First, Yu Yuan would absorb the soul bones of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings at the same time to improve his physical constitution.

Then, using his existing soul rings as a framework, they would respectively inject the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' divine power and energy to provide his second and third soul rings.

The two Dragon Kings' spiritual bodies could also enter the soul rings to recuperate.

Finally, the Golden Dragon would absorb the bloodline remaining in the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' leftover bones.

"Then, let's begin."

Yu Yuan sat down cross-legged as the two soul bones, one crimson and one icy blue, floated toward their corresponding positions.

As Yu Yuan circulated his soul power,

the two soul bones gradually fused into his left and right arms.

Scorching heat and freezing cold appeared almost simultaneously.

Yu Yuan nearly instantly lost all sensation in both hands.

Those two areas seemed to have directly turned into fire and ice. One brought searing heat, while the other brought bone-chilling cold.

From the outside, one would see that the skin on Yu Yuan's right arm had already been burned black as charcoal, while his left arm had frozen to a bluish-gray.

"Ugh."

Dragonification!

Yu Yuan directly activated Dragonification. As dragon claws emerged, the Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline continuously drove the light-aspect energy within his body to heal his wounds.

Unfortunately, even the dragonified areas could only slow the damage caused by the soul bones, not completely neutralize it.

After easing the pain, Yu Yuan began trying to guide the two energies to cancel each other out within his body.

Then—

"Cough—ah."

He spat out a mouthful of blood.

I really believed Xiao Kong's nonsense. Cancel them out inside my body?

This is a fucking explosion inside my body.

But he could not rewind time. After all, the divine seat fragments were inside the soul bones. Who knew what effects a rewind might have?

But what if I only rewind the injuries inside my body?

A crisis always spurred thought.

Although this operation had been impossible in previous experiments,

he could now dragonify his spine.

He could use the other party to extract his own abilities from 0.1 seconds ago. As long as he used himself from 0.1 seconds ago to overwrite his current self—

Let's try it...

No. This seems harder than I imagined.

Then instead of overwriting, what if I delay it?

Since I can't rewind it, I'll move the damage back and bear it later.

That seems feasible. I just need to use the Temporal Saint Dragon bloodline energy within my body to wrap the ice and fire energies that would harm me.

Not delay it—freeze the eruption and damage of the energy, then release it later.

That's right. It can be done!

"Xiao Kong, help me out."

Barely splitting off enough focus to contact Xiao Kong, Yu Yuan now had to concentrate on absorbing the soul bones.

He truly had no spare energy for such delicate manipulation.

"Got it! This little dragon is on his way!"

After receiving the order, Xiao Kong hurriedly took over Yu Yuan's operation.

He then began using the temporal energy within Yu Yuan's body to continuously wrap and suspend the rampaging ice and fire energies.

The Golden Dragon, who was digging through the corpses, noticed Yu Yuan's predicament and mobilized the light-aspect energy within his body to give Yu Yuan a healing breath.

After realizing it worked, he completely gave up digging through the corpses and stood beside Yu Yuan, wholeheartedly using his breath without pause.

With both of their help, Yu Yuan finally began fusing with the soul bones.

But clearly, this was when his willpower would truly be tested.

The Fire Dragon King's right arm bone brought pain like magma being poured into his marrow.

The Ice Dragon King's left arm bone, meanwhile, brought a piercing chill.

Wow, what a treat.

What else could Yu Yuan say?

He had chosen this himself. It would not kill him anyway, so he just had to endure it.

It had to be said that Yu Yuan's endurance was quite remarkable.

After holding on for two hours, the preliminary absorption of the soul bones was finally complete through the combined efforts of all three.

"Whew."

Yu Yuan let out a breath. It still hurt a little, but it was already much better than before.

But it looks like I have quite a lot of debt to repay later.

After all, quite a bit of energy had been suspended.

But for now,

Yu Yuan looked at the two Dragon Kings waiting nearby.

"Let's begin the next step."

"Not bad, kid."

After speaking, the Fire Dragon King began mobilizing the energy around him, and his already illusory body gradually dissipated.

"It would have been nice if you were a dragon too."

After sighing, the Ice Dragon King began to dissipate as well.

The crimson and icy-blue colors in the surrounding pool water rapidly converged and compressed together.

As the pool water returned to its original color, two soul rings appeared before Yu Yuan.

Unlike ordinary soul rings, which were still halos of light as they floated, these two each possessed their own distinctive features.

The crimson soul ring came from the Fire Dragon King. Fine flame patterns constantly surged across its surface, and at intervals, small tongues of fire would leap out before returning to the soul ring.

The flame patterns on its surface converged to outline the Fire Dragon King's phantom. Its dragon head was slightly raised, its wings half-spread, and the edges of its crimson scales glowed with incandescent light. Its body slowly swam along the soul ring's trajectory.

The soul ring alone made Yu Yuan feel a wave of dry heat rushing at his face, as though he stood at the edge of a volcano that had just erupted.

The icy-blue soul ring, meanwhile, came from the Ice Dragon King. Its surface was covered in fine frost patterns, like ice crystals drifting down in a land of extreme cold. Tiny ice chips occasionally fell from inside the soul ring and slowly dissolved in the pool water.

The frost patterns on its surface converged to outline the Ice Dragon King's phantom. Its body was slightly more slender than the Fire Dragon King's, its head lowered, its wings folded at its sides, and its icy-blue scales emitted a silver-white chill. Its body silently glided along the soul ring's trajectory.

Yu Yuan could distinctly feel cold seep into his bones.

But it was not the stabbing pain from absorbing the soul bones. It was more like the lonely cold that enveloped his entire body as he slowly sank to the bottom of a frigid lake.

In short, these two soul rings were fucking amazing!

And absorbing them would probably be fatal, too.

Taking a deep breath, Yu Yuan mobilized his soul power to draw the two soul rings toward him.

The crimson soul ring moved to Yu Yuan's right arm, while the icy-blue soul ring came to his left arm.

Drawn by his soul power, they finally fused into Yu Yuan's body.

The scorching heat and freezing cold appeared once more.

But Yu Yuan only had two words for it.

Just okay.

After experiencing the agony of absorbing the soul bones earlier, this level of burning and cold was entirely bearable for Yu Yuan.

Moreover, the soul bones that had initially fused with him provided resistance to fire and frost, making the absorption of the soul rings comparatively easy.

The Golden Dragon, still continuously breathing on him, noticed that Yu Yuan seemed capable of completing the rest on his own.

So he went over to the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' bones that had just been dug up and opened his mouth.

Crunch.

Hmm, a little hard.

But apparently still edible.

The Golden Dragon used his bloodline to sense the parts of the bones that might still contain lingering bloodline power.

Once he found them, he directly began chewing them in huge bites.

His teeth were good, after all, and after all these years, the bones took no effort to eat.

Yu Yuan, meanwhile, also finished absorbing the soul rings.

"Roar!"

As the phantoms of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings appeared alongside the soul rings, one to his left and one to his right, Yu Yuan was finally no longer a man with only one soul skill.

Second Soul Skill: Fire Dragon King's Raging Flame!

Third Soul Skill: Ice Dragon King's Frost!