Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone

Though they were six years apart, age had never been a strict requirement for a marriage contract.

The only requirement was that the families be well matched.

As the Pope's Direct Disciple, she enjoyed the highest status and resources, and her cultivation talent was decent as well.

But compared with Su Qi, the difference was like heaven and earth.

What was more, he was a Deity inheritor, while she was merely a mortal. How could she possibly reach so high?

Having thought it through, Hu Liena looked at Bibi Dong and said with some concern, "Teacher, if Su Qi receives a Deity's true inheritance in the future, he should ascend to the God Realm as you said, right?"

"And I have no qualifications to become a god. I can only remain in the Mortal Realm for the rest of my life. Gods and mortals are different. I shouldn't aim so high."

"Nana, you needn't feel inferior." Bibi Dong reached out and gently stroked Hu Liena's cheek. The calculation in her eyes softened, and she said tenderly, "Leave the future for the future. For now, you only need to follow your heart. So? Do you want to enter a marriage contract with Su Qi?"

Hu Liena felt awkward at those words. If she said yes, would it make her seem like she was clinging to a future Deity, too driven by self-interest?

But if she said no, would people think she looked down on a Deity inheritor?

After hesitating for a while, Hu Liena suggested, "Teacher, you can ask the Holy Son what he thinks first. If he is willing, then I have nothing to worry about."

Having received the answer she wanted, Bibi Dong smiled in satisfaction. "Nana, you are very clever. You know how to leave the choice to someone else. Very well, I'll test Su Qi's intentions first, so there won't be any conflict."

With that, Bibi Dong waved her hand, signaling Hu Liena to leave.

Hu Liena bowed, then left the bedchamber, leaving Bibi Dong alone in thought.

She had proposed a marriage alliance between Hu Liena and Su Qi because she had learned that Su Qi had recently been spending a great deal of time with the Consecration Hall.

Qian Renxue, who had originally been carrying out an undercover plan in the Heaven Dou Palace, had suddenly returned to the Consecration Hall. Su Qi had also happened to go there. Qian Daoliu must have been meddling, intending to bring the two together and keep Su Qi firmly under his control.

If Qian Daoliu truly succeeded, then her plan to destroy Spirit Hall would be difficult to carry out!

That was why Bibi Dong wanted to use her disciple Hu Liena in a marriage alliance with Su Qi, thereby drawing him to her side.

With her disciple's beauty, her naturally seductive physique, and her bewitching fox martial soul that possessed tremendous charm, as long as she deliberately seduced him, she would surely be able to control any man.

As that thought settled, a trace of sorrow flashed through Bibi Dong's eyes, and memories of the past surged into her mind.

Back then, in order to keep her under his control, Qian Xunji had not hesitated to do what he did to his own disciple in that secret chamber.

Now, for the same purpose, she was setting her sights on her own disciple. The irony was truly bitter.

With a dispirited sigh, Bibi Dong gathered her thoughts and took out a dark-blue, bone-shaped object wrapped in countless jellyfish tentacles from her violet-ring soul tool.

A surging aura of the soul spread from the dark-blue bone-shaped object. Wherever it passed, even lifeless objects such as the surrounding tables, chairs, silver mirror, and bed trembled gently, as though they had come to life.

As the soul aura withdrew back into the dark-blue bone-shaped object, its eerie soul power fluctuations gradually intensified.

Looking at the dark-blue bone-shaped object in her hand, Bibi Dong's eyes filled with contemplation.

This bone-shaped object was a right arm bone dropped by the hundred-thousand-year deep-sea soul beast, the Soul Devouring Jellyfish. It came with two soul bone skills.

The first was Soul-Extinguishing Venomous Sting, which could add an effect that attacked the soul to any technique.

The second was Soul-Splitting Tentacles, which could condense soul power and spiritual power into split souls, inject them into objects, and control those objects in battle as though controlling tentacles.

Under normal circumstances, one could only learn what skills a soul bone possessed after absorbing it.

Since the skills of this Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone were known, it meant that someone had absorbed it before. Only after that person died and the soul bone was stripped from their body had it become ownerless.

And the person who had once absorbed this Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone was Ye Fan, the previous Holy Son of Spirit Hall.

Back then, Ye Fan had trained in Slaughter City and gradually disappeared without a trace.

Spirit Hall sent people to Slaughter City to inquire about the situation.

The King of Slaughter had deliberately concealed the truth, saying that Ye Fan had unfortunately been killed by a strange bat beast while venturing alone onto Hell Road. His flesh had already been devoured clean by the beast, leaving behind only the two soul bones he carried.

One of them was the Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone. The other was the damaged weapon-type external soul bone, the Demon Spirit Sword.

Since Spirit Hall had helped hunt both soul bones, after Ye Fan's death, the soul bones that the King of Slaughter pretended to return naturally came under Spirit Hall's custody.

However, the external soul bone Demon Spirit Sword had already been damaged and could no longer be absorbed by anyone else. Thus, Spirit Hall treated it as Ye Fan's remains and sent it to Douluo Hall for burial.

The intact Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone, meanwhile, was reserved for another outstanding genius of Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong had originally intended to leave this soul bone for her disciple Hu Liena.

But now, in order to win over Su Qi, Hu Liena would have to be wronged.

That night.

Inside the Papal Palace.

Bibi Dong sat upright upon the papal throne, with Yue Guan and Gui Mei standing on either side of her.

Su Qi walked to the center of the hall and cupped his hands toward Bibi Dong. "Your Holiness, you summoned me so late. Do you have an important matter to assign?"

"Indeed." Bibi Dong looked down at Su Qi and smiled faintly. "You are the Holy Son, and you have also provided Spirit Hall with a top-secret resource such as Whale Gel. Your contributions are immense."

"Originally, I intended to gift Spirit Hall's treasured hundred-thousand-year soul bone to my direct disciple, Hu Liena. But in recognition of your contributions, I have decided to bestow this soul bone upon you."

As she spoke, Bibi Dong raised her hand and waved. A dark-blue ray flew from her hand and slowly drifted down before Su Qi.

Moments later, the dark-blue light solidified into a bone-shaped object. Eerie soul power fluctuations instantly spread through the hall, making the souls of living creatures ripple while causing lifeless objects to tremble faintly as if they possessed souls.

When Su Qi saw the bone-shaped object, his face filled with astonishment. Wasn't this the Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone he had absorbed in his previous life?

Could it be that after the King of Slaughter killed him, he had deliberately sent the soul bone back to Spirit Hall and disguised his death as an accident?

That damned bat was truly scheming. Once I have enough strength, I'll definitely return to Slaughter City, kill the King of Slaughter, and take his Asura Demon Sword!

Coming back to his senses from those past memories, Su Qi's astonishment turned into delight.

After finishing his spar with Qian Renxue during the day, he had gained Qian Daoliu's approval and received permission to cultivate in the outer area of Douluo Hall.

Unfortunately, although the outer area of Douluo Hall contained dense soul power that could accelerate the cultivation of the Soul Meditation Method,

the width of the meridians in his body was insufficient, and the flow of soul power through them had already reached saturation.

If he did not obtain the Third Soul Ring to break through the bottleneck, then no matter how much soul power he accumulated, it would eventually overflow from his body, rendering his cultivation useless.

The 0.1 level of soul power he had accumulated over ten days had already completely overflowed. His soul power had now returned to level thirty.

This showed that unless he absorbed the Third Soul Ring and widened his meridians, he could not continue accumulating soul power within his body.

Seeing that he was stuck at the level-thirty bottleneck, it was unrealistic to gamble on two God-Bestowed Spirit Rings. Su Qi gave up on that idea and had planned to use this summons as an opportunity to ask Gui Mei to help him obtain the Third Soul Ring and break through the bottleneck.

But he had never expected to encounter the Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone left behind from his previous life!

This was a top-grade hundred-thousand-year soul bone. Though it could not break through a level bottleneck like absorbing a soul ring, it could greatly widen the body's meridians.

Once his meridians became wider, the saturated soul power would loosen.

At that point, not only could he accumulate more soul power, but he could also accelerate the circulation of soul power through his meridians.

In that case, perhaps he truly could cultivate to the level-forty bottleneck within a year while still stuck at level thirty!

What was more, absorbing a soul bone could also raise soul power.

In his previous life, when he absorbed the Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone with level-eighty soul power, he had gained two levels of soul power.

Now that he was absorbing it with level-thirty soul power, he should be able to accumulate more than four levels of soul power in his body!

Thinking this, Su Qi excitedly extended his right hand and grasped the Soul Devouring Jellyfish Right Arm Bone drifting before him. In an instant, a familiar sensation spread throughout his entire body.