After Huo Yutong officially joined them, Xu Feng gained another new form of address. Calling him His Highness the Crown Prince felt too distant, while calling him Xu Feng directly did not seem right either. So, at Jiang Nannan's suggestion, Huo Yutong began calling him Brother Feng.
"Brother Feng, what are we waiting for?"
Huo Yutong was rather confused. They had already waited here for a long time, yet aside from the Wind Baboon they had killed earlier, not a single Spirit Beast had appeared.
"Uh..." Xu Feng did not know how to answer. He was waiting for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, while also seeing whether he could intercept Electrolux.
But they had waited from noon until night, and that fat bug still had not appeared. It was not as if they had not tried leaving Huo Yutong alone in the same spot, but apart from attracting the Wind Baboon, she had attracted nothing else.
Meanwhile, outside the Sun Moon Empire, Gu Yuena had brought the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm along with her when she came, as a show of sincerity.
Though it was a little ugly, it was still a million-year Spirit Beast. The energy contained within its body was incredibly abundant, and it would taste delicious cooked into a meal.
No matter how capable the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was, it could not possibly escape from the hands of a god. It could only be caught in her grasp in sorrow, waiting for its fate of being sent to the kitchen.
Back in the Star Dou Great Forest, Wang Yiheng had ultimately searched the entire forest before finding a hundred-year spiritual-attribute Spirit Beast.
"Wow, spiritual-attribute Spirit Beasts really are hard to find..."
Xu Feng checked the time. He remembered that it should have been midnight when Wang Yiheng left, but now the sun had already risen.
Wang Yiheng wiped the sweat from his forehead. "The main issue is that hundred-year ones are too rare. Spiritual-type Spirit Beasts become stronger the further they develop, while they are all quite weak early on. I found quite a few ten-thousand-year ones along the way, but hundred-year ones... really were difficult to find."
Xu Feng nodded, his gaze falling upon the spider not far away. It was not particularly large, only about the size of a washbasin. Its eight slender legs were covered in pale purple fuzz.
"But is this spider really spiritual-type?" Xu Feng had seen no fewer than eight hundred, if not a thousand, kinds of Spirit Beasts, yet he had never heard of a spider that was not poison-type but spiritual-type.
Spider-type Spirit Beasts were either poison-type or earth-type. At most, a few mutated varieties possessed ice or fire attributes. Spiritual-type? It was simply unheard of.
"Maybe it mutated." Wang Yiheng shrugged. He had not believed it at first either. When he first discovered this spider, he had thought it was merely some ordinary venomous spider and had been about to dispose of it casually.
But the instant he approached it, an invisible spiritual shock had slammed into his mind.
It had been a standard spiritual-type attack, but the self-defense of his spiritual sea had directly rebounded it.
"Yu Tong, although it's only a hundred-year one, make do with it."
"A hundred-year one is already very good, Brother Feng. Without you, I would probably have just picked some ten-year Spirit Beast."
If she had not met Xu Feng, she would probably still be worrying over how to hunt a ten-year Spirit Beast.
That Wind Baboon, though merely a ten-year Spirit Beast, was still extraordinarily difficult for a girl who had only just reached ten ranks of Soul Power to kill alone.
She knew her own strength clearly and understood what this hundred-year spiritual-type Spirit Ring meant to her. It was not merely a Spirit Ring, but an opportunity to change her fate.
Huo Yutong took a deep breath, crouched down, pressed her palm onto the spider, and used the White Tiger Dagger to deliver the final blow.
Very soon, a yellow Spirit Ring slowly rose from the spider's corpse. Huo Yutong closed her eyes and guided the ring toward her body.
The instant the Spirit Ring touched her body, an intense spiritual fluctuation abruptly spread out. During the absorption process, the color of the Spirit Ring actually began changing toward purple.
Xu Feng watched Huo Yutong steadily absorb it. Sure enough, even without the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the Douluo Consciousness still came to give its own precious daughter cheats.
Under normal circumstances, if a hundred-year Spirit Ring evolved into a thousand-year one during the absorption process—
There was a ninety percent chance that the person would explode and die, while the remaining ten percent might allow a successful absorption, though they would still suffer severe consequences.
Huo Yutong suffered no effects whatsoever from absorbing this Spirit Ring. It was obvious that the Douluo Will was giving her cheats.
"Whoa, there's even a Spirit Bone, and it's an External Soul Bone."
Xu Feng had merely rummaged through the spider's corpse experimentally, yet it actually had a Spirit Bone, and even the rarest kind, an External Soul Bone.
What could he even say? Wasn't this cheat for your daughter a little too obvious? How could a hundred-year Spirit Beast, even a thousand-year one, possibly produce a Spirit Bone?
"Brother Feng, what is that?"
Having finished absorbing the Spirit Ring, Huo Yutong opened her eyes and saw Xu Feng playing with the spider's corpse.
"This spider actually produced a Spirit Bone. Since you absorbed its Spirit Ring, you should absorb this Spirit Bone as well. Only then can it reach its greatest value."
Xu Feng was quite curious now. Just what would Huo Yutong become after absorbing this Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone?
Huo Yutong picked up the Spirit Bone and began absorbing it. This External Soul Bone was a set of hand bones, and the absorption process was likewise exceptionally smooth, with no accidents occurring at all.
"Yu Tong, what is your Soul Skill?"
"Uh..."
Huo Yutong sensed the fluctuations of Soul Power within her body. Honestly, this Soul Skill was a little abstract. Very abstract.
What gave her an even greater headache was that this Soul Skill could not be used actively at all. It was entirely passive, which meant she could not unleash it freely in battle like other Soul Masters.
"Brother Feng, throw something at me."
Huo Yutong took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes, having thought of a way to test it.
Xu Feng picked up a stone from the ground and casually tossed it. The stone flew straight at Huo Yutong.
Yet just as the stone was about to strike her, her body lightly shifted aside. The stone grazed past the corner of her clothes, not even touching a single hair.
"Interesting." Xu Feng picked up several more stones and increased both the speed and angles of his throws.
The first stone shot straight at her face, the second attacked from the side, and the third targeted the back of her head. Yet she avoided every one of them.
Xu Feng glanced at Jiang Nannan beside him. Jiang Nannan understood and directly unleashed the fourth Soul Skill she had just obtained: Teleportation.
She vanished from where she stood in an instant, appearing behind Huo Yutong the very next second, her palm striking toward Huo Yutong's shoulder.
However, just as Jiang Nannan's palm was about to touch Huo Yutong, Huo Yutong's body suddenly tipped forward, evading the attack at an incredibly slight angle.
"This is my Soul Skill. When I haven't activated my Martial Soul, as long as someone attacks me, my brain feels a stabbing pain that warns me."
"And when I activate my Martial Soul, I can see how the other person is about to attack."
This Soul Skill seemed simple, but upon careful consideration, it was practically a divine skill made for combat.
Whether it was warning or prediction, both could give Huo Yutong an absolute advantage in battle.
Especially when facing ambushes and assassinations, the value of this passive skill was simply immeasurable.
"Then what is the Spirit Bone's ability?"
Huo Yutong said nothing. She made a gesture toward a nearby tree, and then Spider Silk shot out from her wrist. With a hard pull, she snapped the tree in half.
The way Xu Feng looked at Huo Yutong changed. With this Soul Skill and this Spirit Bone, only one description came to mind: Spider-Man.
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