"Neither of the two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts dropped a soul bone."
After a careful search, Dugu Yan quickly reached her conclusion.
Thinking of Scarlet Rot's corrosive decay, she already had an answer in mind.
To confirm it, Dugu Yan walked over to the mushroom mountain formed from the Titan Giant Ape and slapped it. The entire ape-shaped mushroom mountain spilled across the ground like a landslide.
In this short span of time, the Titan Giant Ape's corpse had rotted so badly that it could no longer support its own shape.
Entirely unsurprised, Dugu Yan walked toward the mushroom mountain formed from the Sky Azure Bull Python on the other side.
She gripped a hard bull horn covered in grayish-white material and gave it a gentle flick. The Sky Azure Bull Python's skull, along with its spine, came free of its corpse intact.
Even without flesh attached, the spine was immensely heavy.
But Dugu Yan had tempered her body with immortal herbs and the Divine Springs, then strengthened it by absorbing four hundred-thousand-year soul rings. Among them were those of the Evil Orca King and the Titan Giant Ape, hundred-thousand-year super soul beasts renowned for their strength.
The strength of her body could no longer be compared to what it had once been.
A mere spine from the Sky Azure Bull Python was easy for her to swing.
Dozens upon dozens of vertebrae were tightly linked along the spine, flanked by ribs corroded to uneven lengths.
Unlike the Titan Giant Ape, most of the Sky Azure Bull Python's bones remained.
Dugu Yan could sense a peculiar fluctuation of soul power from them. It had something of a soul bone's aura, yet she could not absorb it.
"As expected, the power of rot is too terrifying. It destroys even soul bones.
"This