"Thank you, Elder Xuan!" Lu Yuan did not put on airs and decline repeatedly. He accepted it without hesitation.
Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber was good stuff.
Whale Rubber was a special substance produced in the brains of whale-type Soul Beasts. It was an extremely potent tonic of the utmost yang nature. Consuming it could strengthen a Soul Master's physique, allowing them to choose Soul Rings of a higher age when absorbing them.
In the original story, Wang Dong had relied on eating so much Thousand-Year Whale Rubber that she threw up, enabling her to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as her second ring despite slacking off and being lazy.
Although Lu Yuan's physical condition, with the help of his God Clan Bloodline, already allowed him to absorb Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, who would ever complain about having too much of something as good as Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber?
"Oh, right!" Seeing Lu Yuan accept the Whale Rubber, Xuan Zi added, "Whale Rubber itself has no real side effects. Its only drawback is that taking too much has aphrodisiac and virility-enhancing effects. Watch your restraint, kid!"
After saying that, he winked and gestured suggestively at Lu Yuan, looking utterly undignified for his age.
After accepting the gift and watching Xuan Zi push Mu En away from the freshmen dormitory, Lu Yuan returned to his private room and summoned his external brain, Elder Yi.
"Xiao Yuan, take out that Soul Bone and let me have a look!" After setting up a Divine Sense barrier, Electrolux's Divine Sense left Lu Yuan's Spirit Sea and manifested in the room. He took the Light-Breaking Right Arm Bone Lu Yuan handed over, while also asking him to explain in detail the relevant information about Soul Bones on Douluo Continent.
Generally speaking, only Soul Beasts of extraordinary strength that experienced certain special circumstances at death could leave behind Soul Bones. They did not appear as reliably as Soul Rings, which every Soul Beast possessed. As a result, Soul Bones were exceedingly rare and precious.
In the setting of Dragon King Legend, Soul Bones were almost entirely the Soul Cores of Soul Beasts. After death, they would transform into the most distinctive part of the Soul Beast during its life. Psychic-type Soul Beasts generally produced head bones, strength-type ones usually produced arm bones, speed-type ones usually produced leg bones, while those with powerful all-around strength produced Torso Bones.
"Just as I suspected, the existence of every Soul Bone is equivalent to a condensed gathering of a Soul Beast's entire origin." After hearing Lu Yuan's explanation, Electrolux voiced his own conjecture regarding Soul Bones.
The Light-Breaking Right Arm Bone Mu En had given him should have come from an eighty- to ninety-thousand-year Light Elemental Sprite-type Soul Beast. Such Soul Beasts were somewhat like the Snow Empress of the Extreme North, except its cultivation at death had been far inferior to that of the Snow Empress, third among the Ten Great Fierce Beasts.
And the Soul Bone produced by a Soul Beast born from pure light elements was indeed highly compatible with Lu Yuan's Light Elemental Martial Soul.
But none of that was important.
What mattered was that Elder Yi carefully examined the Soul Bone before asking, "Xiao Yuan, do you still remember the side effects of the Great Tortoise Shell Technique?"
"Of course I remember!" Lu Yuan answered.
As a Great Tortoise Shell Technique with an absolute-effect attribute, its effects distinguished neither friend nor foe. Once it rolled the "Death" die, even the host's left arm would inevitably become stiff.
"That's right," Electrolux continued. "When I first obtained the Great Tortoise Shell Technique, I also studied how I might avoid its side effects. My first thought was whether I could use some miraculous medicine or immortal herb capable of reviving the dead and restoring flesh to bones, then regenerate my severed limb after cutting off the stiffened left arm."
However, after Electrolux's in-depth research, he ruled out that method.
According to Electrolux's research, the Great Tortoise Shell Technique's "Death" die did not simply cripple the user's left arm. It was more like a law of "death." Under this law, a portion of the affected host's bodily origin would be directly judged as "dead."
To give a concrete analogy, ordinary injuries were like losing health in a game, while certain miraculous healing medicines were like health potions that could restore it. But the Great Tortoise Shell Technique's "Death" die did not reduce your health. It directly deducted from your maximum health bar. In other words, your health bar remained full, but its maximum length was shortened. After three consecutive times, the length of your health bar would be reduced to zero, and then you would die.
Under such circumstances, ordinary heavenly treasures would lose their usefulness. After all, they could only fill the missing health bar; they could not increase its maximum length. Your health bar was still full, so naturally, heavenly treasures could do nothing.
That was also why only the "Life" die could offset the negative effects of the "Death" die. Only laws could counter laws.
"But now, I have seen another possibility in the Soul Bones of this continent!" Electrolux's voice was firm and powerful.
Soul Masters of Douluo Continent could fuse with Soul Bones, and Soul Bones were condensed from the origin of a particular Soul Beast. Moreover, after a Soul Master's death, their Soul Bones would not disappear but would instead be released.
In other words, Soul Bones were like external health bars installed onto a Soul Master's origin health bar!
"So we can use a Soul Bone as a substitute, making it the target of the Great Tortoise Shell Technique's 'Death' die instead of the body itself?" Lu Yuan quickly grasped the idea.
"Exactly!" Electrolux said excitedly. "In my conception, if your left arm has a Soul Bone attached, then when a 'Death' die appears, you can use the Left Arm Soul Bone to die in your place. After cutting off your left arm, you can regenerate it with heavenly treasures. Then, it is highly likely that you can escape the effects of that 'Death'!"
Damn, Elder Yi was incredible!!!
"Unfortunately, the Soul Bone you obtained this time is not a Left Arm Soul Bone, but a right arm bone. And heavenly treasures capable of regenerating severed limbs, reviving the dead, and restoring flesh to bones are not easy to find either." Electrolux sighed regretfully.
Although the plan he had conceived was excellent, its cost remained immense. Whether Soul Bones or heavenly treasures of that caliber, both were priceless and nearly impossible to obtain.
Don't be discouraged, Elder Yi! I know where to find all those things!
As for Left Arm Soul Bones, two had appeared in the original story. One was the Secret Art Soul Left Arm Bone that Mu Jin lost to Zhou Yi after losing a bet. The other was the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone that had appeared in Shrek's Treasure Pavilion and was later absorbed by Wang Dong. Besides, with Shrek's accumulation over ten thousand years, as the dignified disciple of the Pavilion Master, would it really be too much for me to play junior quartermaster and reach into the academy treasury for a few Left Arm Soul Bones?
After all, if Mu En stepped down in the future, the future of Shrek's inner and outer academies, its pavilion, and all those students and teachers would rest on the shoulders of me, Little Lu, Pavilion Elder!
He did not know of any heavenly treasures that could revive the dead and restore flesh to bones, but he knew where to find Gold of Life. Combining the Gold of Life in the Soul-Eating Dagger with the two pieces at the Golden Tortoiseshell's location would be far more useful than any heavenly treasure. After all, Gold of Life was an ultimate treasure said to grant its host an "undying body" until it was depleted!!!
Before you continue