Abilities Granted by the Martial Soul True Body

Pulling his hand from the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King's skull, Fang Yuan shook it off and turned his gaze toward his spoils.

"Oh? There was an unexpected gain too?"

Fang Yuan raised an eyebrow. Within his senses, aside from the soul ring that had condensed inside the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King's corpse, another mass of energy remained in the tiger corpse's right forelimb.

Fang Yuan naturally knew what this reaction meant—it was proof that this soul beast had produced a soul bone.

"Looks like the terror before its death and the fury of being hunted intertwined, causing the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King's emotions to fluctuate intensely before it died. That was why it produced a soul bone."

Whether a soul bone formed within a soul beast after its death was random. Generally speaking, however, the greater a soul beast's emotional fluctuations before death, the higher the chance it would produce a soul bone.

Fang Yuan raised a hand, and the Sovereign Immortal Fetus Martial Soul possessed him, effortlessly drawing in the soul ring from the tiger corpse.

Then, without any apparent movement from him, the energy within the soul ring surged violently, transforming into a stream of black air that entered Fang Yuan's body. In an instant, it became his seventh soul ring.

Just like the pill Fang Yuan had previously consumed, refined from the Velvet Sky-Piercing Chrysanthemum and the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, the soul ring produced by this White-Eyed Demon Tiger King was refined and absorbed by the Supreme Immortal Embryo Physique in moments.

Afterward, Fang Yuan brought his fingers together like a blade and thrust them directly into the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King's corpse, extracting the soul bone from within.

It was a white right arm bone, entirely free of blood. Under the light, it resembled an exquisite work of art carved from the finest white jade.

Fang Yuan looked at the right arm soul bone, his feelings somewhat complicated.

Up to this point, he had not absorbed a single soul bone.

It was not because he could not obtain one. With the strength he had shown when beating up Dugu Bo, soul bones might have been rare, but getting a full set would not have been difficult for Fang Yuan.

He was simply a little greedy.

After being reborn into this world and awakening the Sovereign Immortal Fetus Martial Soul, all the soul skills Fang Yuan obtained had been powers of Gu worms he possessed in his previous life.

Those Gu worms had all sorts of abilities and were extremely practical. However, restricted by this world's Martial Soul cultivation system, Fang Yuan could at most attach nine soul rings and six soul bones to himself.

Naturally, the more Gu worm powers he had, the better. Thus, before obtaining a hundred-thousand-year soul bone, he had never attached a single soul bone to himself.

Yet Fang Yuan also knew that gathering six hundred-thousand-year soul bones for his entire body would be exceedingly difficult. Hundred-thousand-year soul beasts were few in number, and even if he elevated the quality of a soul bone to the hundred-thousand-year level through divine trials, it would not grant an additional skill.

The White-Eyed Demon Tiger King he had just slain was a tiger-type soul beast with cultivation of sixty to seventy thousand years.

It could be said that the soul bone it dropped was practically the best possible soul bone below the hundred-thousand-year level.

Should he give up on pursuing a full set of hundred-thousand-year soul bones and absorb it now, or should he keep trying to gather them?

Fang Yuan pondered for a long while before ultimately storing the soul bone in his storage soul tool.

His current combat system had already taken preliminary shape, and he did not urgently need soul bones to increase his battle strength. His demand for them was not yet pressing.

Everyone needed dreams. Otherwise, what was the difference between them and salted fish?

He should keep trying to gather them!

After putting away the soul bone, Fang Yuan finally began to sense the changes brought by his seventh soul ring.

In a soul master's cultivation, rank seventy was the most important dividing line. Upon becoming a rank-seventy Soul Sage, one could obtain a Martial Soul True Body, greatly increasing one's combat strength. Every soul master's seventh soul skill was their Martial Soul True Body.

Of course, other equally important dividing lines were ranks ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, eighty, and ninety.

A pitch-black soul ring lit up beneath Fang Yuan's feet—it was the seventh soul ring he had just absorbed. He activated his Martial Soul True Body and quietly sensed the changes it brought him.

Not long afterward, Fang Yuan's eyes snapped open, filled with disbelief!

Fang Yuan already possessed every enhancement a Martial Soul True Body granted a soul master. However, aside from those standard boosts, his Martial Soul seemed to have undergone some other incredible changes.

The Supreme Immortal Embryo Physique was a human-path rank-nine Immortal Gu refined only after one of the strongest experts standing at the pinnacle of the continent in Fang Yuan's previous life spent a hundred thousand years plotting and accumulating resources, battling wits and courage against heaven's will, and enduring countless hardships.

Although this Immortal Gu had not been refined by Fang Yuan himself, but had been kindly gifted to him by that fellow Daoist, who later even applied for a refund before reaching one hundred eighty thousand years old, Fang Yuan had become familiar with its effects through using it.

One characteristic of the Sovereign Immortal Fetus Gu was that the dao marks upon it did not conflict with one another. This characteristic had already demonstrated its effects when Fang Yuan absorbed pills and soul rings earlier.

However, after obtaining the Martial Soul True Body and further strengthening his Martial Soul, Fang Yuan was astonished to discover that his Sovereign Immortal Fetus Martial Soul no longer merely avoided conflict with energy—it did not conflict with other Martial Souls either.

In other words, he could now use Martial Soul Fusion Skills with other people.

There were no restrictions whatsoever on who these "other people" could be.

Whether they were rank-one trash or rank-ninety-nine Limit Douluo; whether they possessed useless Martial Souls like hoes and mosquitoes or supreme Martial Souls like the Six-Winged Angel and Golden Sacred Dragon; whether they were pure-blooded human soul masters or nonhuman soul masters transformed from soul beasts.

He accepted everyone without discrimination, practically becoming the social butterfly of the soul master world.

This left Fang Yuan with mixed feelings. He somehow felt as though he would become unclean in the future.

Aside from this effect that turned Fang Yuan into a succubus of the soul master world, another change in the Sovereign Immortal Fetus was what truly shook Fang Yuan to his core.

Fang Yuan slowly closed his eyes again, immersing his mind within the Sovereign Immortal Fetus.

Then, another incomparably vast space appeared before him.

The land before his eyes covered fifty million mu.

To explain it using the worldview of Fang Yuan's previous life, this land was equivalent in size to a province located on an island.

This land was divided into five parts, laid out in perfect order.

The central region had fertile soil and varied terrain.

The south was mostly hills and mountains, moist and shrouded in mist.

The north consisted mainly of grasslands, swept by strong winds and covered in ice and snow.

The western region was mainly Gobi and desert, with a desolate climate.

The eastern region was a vast ocean, with islands scattered throughout it like stars.

The five regions were clearly separated, together forming this vast space.

Yet this space was not composed merely of the land of the five regions. Above the land was also a sky.

The sky was divided into nine layers. Though empty, they displayed nine different colors.

Aside from the white sky and black sky, there were skies of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple.

Each expanse of sky was equal in area to the land. The five regions and nine heavens combined formed a space of five hundred million mu.

Fang Yuan could not have been more familiar with this layout of five regions and nine heavens.

This was precisely the Supreme Immortal Aperture within the Supreme Immortal Fetus from his previous life, residing within a single point of his body—the equivalent of his internalized space!