Mu En's Backup Plan, Xuanzi's Severed Arm Survival, Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Bone

At that moment, the dense yellow soul power radiance around Xuanzi bloomed with all his might.

He knew perfectly well that if he did not erupt now, then once he was pierced through, only death awaited him.

After all, even under that special fusion, though it was not truly his body, it could already faintly drain away his life force.

If it really stabbed into his own body, how could he possibly survive?

There was practically no need to think about it.

That instantaneous eruption indeed seemed to affect the Silver Dragon Spear. Yet under Gu Yuena's raised hand and suppression of soul power, the Silver Dragon Spear carried an aura capable of devouring everything.

It withstood this wave of eruption.

Xuanzi gave a somewhat self-mocking smile, and a certain resolve flashed through his eyes.

Even the Soul Core within his body began to tremble.

"Is this guy going to detonate his Soul Core?!"

Jing Hongchen saw it from far away. The soul power fluctuations around Xuanzi had already neared disorder. This was not the result of excessive depletion, but rather the sign that appeared only when someone was seemingly about to detonate their Soul Core.

Without exaggeration, if Xuanzi, a rank ninety-eight Super Douluo, detonated his Soul Core, even a Limit Douluo would have to avoid the brunt of it.

This was no longer a fight to the death. He was directly trying to drag everyone down to hell with him.

And once the process of detonating a Soul Core began—

Even if it was stopped afterward, the damage it caused would still be horrifying.

Yet Gu Yuena merely frowned slightly for a moment.

The movement of her hands did not stop because of it.

But in the next instant, a dense golden radiance suddenly burst forth from Xuanzi's chest.

"Roar!"

Accompanied by a dragon's roar, that light power transformed into an illusory Radiant Holy Dragon.

It carried the might of a Limit Douluo as it charged straight at Gu Yuena.

For the first time, gravity appeared in Gu Yuena's eyes.

She also abandoned her intention of finishing Xuanzi off.

A strike from a Limit Douluo, coupled with the power of Xuanzi's Soul Core detonation if it was not stopped immediately, was no joke.

As she was forced onto the defensive—

Xuanzi's expression abruptly changed, before several traces of delight surged onto his face.

I almost forgot about this move. Before setting out, since he had to deal with the Sun Moon Empire, Mu En had feared that Xuanzi might get impulsive and truly cause some major trouble.

After all, the disaster he had caused last time had nearly wiped out Zhang Lexuan's generation of the Shrek Seven Monsters.

Mu En had left behind a portion of his power, originally intending to restrain Xuanzi. Who could have expected it to be used here instead?

Before he had time to rejoice too much, he hurriedly stopped the process, then frantically burned his life force and tore open a spatial rift.

Under the illusory dragon's roar, Gu Yuena had originally intended to thrust her spear out at once. Yet this devastating attack from the Radiant Holy Dragon seemed to possess a will of its own. Rather than continuing to attack Gu Yuena, it abruptly changed targets.

It shot straight toward Lin Yuan.

At that moment, Gu Yuena could no longer remain calm. The red-haired woman had previously held absolute control over the battle. Even if Xuanzi burned his life force, she merely needed to take the fight more seriously and could still bring him down.

But Jing Hongchen absolutely could not withstand this strike. With immense reluctance, she could only teleport in front of Jing Hongchen and Lin Yuan and circulate her soul power.

This was not an attack that temporarily condensed a black hole. Rather, the space within a hundred meters instantly shattered and turned into a black hole, swallowing the immense and terrifying power of the strike.

She also circulated her soul power and condensed a protective barrier.

Amid the thunderous explosion, Xuanzi's figure ultimately vanished.

Lin Yuan let out a helpless sigh at that.

He had already had that old beast Xuanzi firmly in his grasp. Yet who could have expected this?

Mu En had actually left power behind within Xuanzi's body?

On further thought, it was not all that surprising.

Although Xuanzi's strength ranked among the very best on the continent, if he sought death and provoked someone from the Sun Moon Empire—

As someone who had once infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire, Mu En knew the terror of those ninth-grade soul cannons. One might not matter much, but if there were several of them, with Xuanzi's temperament, he might truly offend someone to the point of death.

The chances of an accident were not small...

As he sighed, Gu Yuena came before Lin Yuan. She bent slightly at the waist and spoke with both respect and guilt.

"I'm sorry, Young Master. I failed to keep him here."

Lin Yuan shook his head and spoke helplessly.

"This isn't your fault."

"I could have taken him down. I was merely careless."

Gu Yuena spoke in a stubborn tone, emphasizing her correction once again.

For a moment, Lin Yuan was left speechless.

As Gu Yuena spoke, she bent even lower at the waist, murmuring under her breath.

"This was the first task Young Master gave me, yet I failed to complete it..."

Just as Lin Yuan did not know how to comfort her, he happened to catch a fierce glint flash past!

When Gu Yuena straightened again, she noticed the brief flush on Lin Yuan's face but detected nothing unusual. Instead, she transmitted her voice to him.

"Young Master, although I failed to keep him here, my final spear strike hit him. Even though he escaped, under those circumstances, he has at most twenty years left to live. His soul power rank will also fall. Oh, and there is this as well."

Lin Yuan nodded slightly as Gu Yuena once more summoned the Silver Dragon Spear from nowhere.

On its spearhead was a bloody right arm, still stained with blood and even carrying several scraps of torn cloth.

"Xuanzi's?!"

Jing Hongchen spoke in disbelief.

One had to know that while blocking that strike from a Limit Douluo, Gu Yuena had actually found the attention to leave behind one of Xuanzi's arms while he was burning his life force?!

Gu Yuena did not even glance at Jing Hongchen as she handed it to Lin Yuan.

Though Lin Yuan was surprised, seeing Gu Yuena's demeanor, he seemed to understand something in an instant.

But before he could speak, Gu Yuena continued as though adding an explanation.

"There may be something useful inside. I don't know whether it is worthy of Young Master's attention."

With a thought, the bloody arm was suddenly stripped of all its life force by the Silver Dragon Spear's spearhead.

It quickly turned into white bone. On that bone was an exceptionally dazzling Soul Bone.

It was a left arm bone, as though carved from a piece of golden crystal. It contained the heavy aura of the earth, and one could even faintly sense a trace of savage might, accompanied by occasional red glimmers that shimmered like flowing light.

"A Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Bone?!"

Even though Jing Hongchen had been mentally prepared, he was still dazed.

Only Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Bones would occasionally flash with such red light.

This supreme treasure of the soul master world, something one could only hope to encounter—

Yet in Gu Yuena's eyes, it was something she feared Lin Yuan might look down upon?

At that moment, Jing Hongchen felt as though his entire worldview had collapsed.

Could it be that while I was asleep, the age value of every Soul Bone increased ten thousandfold, while mine remained unchanged?

Lin Yuan weighed it in his hand before decisively accepting it.

For someone like him, who possessed the Heavenly Stems Five Elements Tremor Step, Soul Bones of the five elemental attributes were naturally compatible.

"As long as Young Master does not find it lacking."

Gu Yuena let out a sigh of relief, but the people from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy were nearly brought to tears.

Did she have to show off this much?

Elsewhere, at the bottom of the lake in the Star Dou Great Forest, where a terrifying existence had originally been slumbering, a pair of purple dragon eyes slowly opened. In an ancient, hoarse voice, it murmured.

"What... is going on..."