Frenzied Battle Combo

The instant Luo Jiuyou was targeted by the Man Faced Demon Spider, two purple soul rings beneath his feet lit up simultaneously.

Blood Rage, activate.

In an instant,

Blood energy surged around Luo Jiuyou, enveloping him like the descent of a demon god.

With a clench of his left hand, a blood-colored greatsword identical to the one in his right condensed from the blood energy, dark golden patterns spreading across its blade.

Holding two ten-thousand-jin greatswords at once, blood-red markings instantly burned from the back of his left hand to his shoulder. His entire arm reddened as though soaked in blood, and his five fingers curled like ghostly claws.

His dragon wings beat fiercely, and in an instant, he closed to within two meters of the demon spider.

The blood-colored greatsword came crashing down head-on.

The demon spider's eight compound eyes shrank sharply. Its forelimb had only risen halfway when the blade smashed into its joint.

Crack!

Its carapace exploded, fragments of shell and dark-purple blood spraying everywhere.

The demon spider's entire body was cleaved sideways for more than ten meters. Its eight long legs plowed eight deep trenches through the ground, and it nearly toppled over.

"It's here, it's here!" Bibi Dong clenched her fists. "With ten thousand jin coming down like that—"

Luo Jiuyou did not stop his pursuit.

He lowered his body into a bow stance, twisted his waist, and drove his strength through his arms. The twin swords spun in his hands, and the second slash chased after the spider's retreating body.

Before the demon spider could steady itself, its right forelimb had been heavily wounded, and its left forelimb was immediately split with a second gash.

It did not even have time to draw out its shriek before its body was smashed toward the other side again.

His feet crossed, his waist twisted, his grip shifted, and he spun into a sweeping slash.

The two swords crossed one above and one below, cutting across the demon spider's head at the same time.

Two wounds carved an inverted figure-eight into its back carapace, dark-purple blood pouring from the cracks.

All eight of the demon spider's legs buckled at once, forcing its body down by half a height.

Luo Jiuyou did not stop. The blood-energy greatsword in his left hand dissipated, and gripping the sword with both hands, he fiercely swung upward from below.

The demon spider's massive body was directly sent flying into the air. Its eight long legs flailed uselessly, exposing the carapace on its abdomen.

An eight-thousand-year soul beast had been launched into the sky by a six-year-old boy.

Luo Jiuyou unleashed alternating slashes with his twin swords, one sweeping horizontally and the other cutting diagonally. The two ten-thousand-jin greatswords struck the same wound in turn.

Every strike landed precisely on the exact same spot. Layers of carapace fragments peeled away, and blood exploded through the air.

One of Luo Jiuyou's swords swept sideways while the other cleaved vertically, forming a Blood-Colored Cross.

The two swords drew together and slashed fiercely from the upper right.

The Blood-Colored Cross suddenly accelerated and slammed into the demon spider's abdomen.

Sword energy exploded, and three crisscrossing deep trenches tore through the demon spider's abdominal carapace.

The instant he finished the motion, Luo Jiuyou lowered into a bow stance. The twin swords merged into one, and a blood-colored energy blade carrying overwhelming force blasted straight ahead.

The demon spider's body was sent flying by the strike. It crashed into the ground, bounced half a meter back into the air, then smashed down again.

Luo Jiuyou leaped into the air, raising both swords overhead. Blood-red light frantically gathered along their blades before he chopped down hard.

The two ten-thousand-jin greatswords struck the point where the demon spider's chest and abdomen met simultaneously.

A deafening boom, like a hammer striking an anvil, erupted. The demon spider's body was smashed straight into the ground, and the entire dense forest trembled.

Streams of blood-colored energy blades burst outward from the impact point.

Bibi Dong's mouth hung open for a long while before she said, "An eight-thousand-year soul beast... and that's it?"

Qian Renxue lowered her voice. "Two ten-thousand-jin swords hitting at once... that strength is terrifying."

Ye Guyi's brows knit slightly. "The Blood-Colored Cross, those blood-colored energy blades, and that downward chop just now... none of them were soul skills. Where did he get those moves?"

Qian Daoliu stood to one side, his gaze never leaving the battlefield. "His first soul skill controls blood energy. He incorporated that blood energy into ordinary slashing movements and figured them out himself. They count as Self-Created Soul Skills."

The three girls turned their heads toward him at the same time.

Bibi Dong blinked. "Self-Created Soul Skills?"

Qian Daoliu did not answer. His gaze remained fixed on the white-haired figure at the center of the battlefield.

The three girls stared blankly at Luo Jiuyou.

How long had their junior brother even been cultivating?

How many soul skills had he gained?

And he had already started creating his own soul skills?

In their understanding, Self-Created Soul Skills belonged to Soul Masters who had cultivated to an extremely advanced stage and then developed new abilities.

Yet their little junior brother had created several Self-Created Soul Skills so quickly?

Wasn't that utterly ridiculous?

The three girls all swallowed, unable to believe it.

Luo Jiuyou sheathed his swords and landed, then walked over to the demon spider's corpse.

He used the sword tip to poke between the demon spider's back carapace and abdomen several times, as though searching for something.

Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue exchanged a glance, while Ye Guyi unconsciously stepped half a pace forward.

"Junior brother, junior brother, what are you doing?"

Bibi Dong approached curiously and leaned close to Luo Jiuyou.

"While I was slashing it just now, I noticed that there seemed to be something on this Man Faced Demon Spider's back."

Naturally, Luo Jiuyou could not say that apart from wanting to fight the Man Faced Demon Spider to temper himself,

he had specifically wanted to look for an External Soul Bone.

That was not something he could say outright.

Otherwise, how could he explain how he knew the Man Faced Demon Spider would definitely have one?

Besides, he could not be completely certain that there truly was an External Soul Bone.

After Luo Jiuyou searched with the Asura Demon Sword for a while, his eyes moved.

The sword tip lightly pried at the depths of its spine.

A dark-purple spinal bone was levered out.

The surface of the bone was covered in crystalline patterns, glimmering faintly purple beneath the sunlight.

Bibi Dong stared wide-eyed at the bone Luo Jiuyou had lifted on the tip of the Asura Demon Sword.

"What is that?"

Qian Renxue hurried over, staring closely at the bone for several breaths as her frown deepened.

"It's not an ordinary bone. There's residual Soul Power on it... Is this a Soul Bone?

But aren't Soul Bones limited to the six major types? Skull bones, torso bones, arm bones, leg bones, and so on. How can there be a spinal bone?"

She looked up at Qian Daoliu, confusion in her eyes.

Qian Daoliu glanced at the spinal bone. After a moment of silence, he slowly said, "An External Soul Bone."

"Another External Soul Bone?!" Bibi Dong's voice instantly rose.

"He just got the Dragon Wing External Soul Bone, and now there's another one?! What kind of luck is this?"

Ye Guyi stared at Luo Jiuyou, recalling what Elder Jiang had taught in class as she slowly spoke.

"The drop rate for Soul Bones is one in ten thousand.

"And the drop rate for External Soul Bones is one in a million.

"Junior brother hunted two soul beasts, and both dropped one. This isn't luck, this is..."

She paused, seemingly searching for the right words. "This has already gone beyond the scope of luck."

The three girls all looked at Luo Jiuyou, utterly stunned.

This luck was far too heaven-defying.

Qian Daoliu stared at Luo Jiuyou for a long while, silently sighing in his heart.

As expected of one favored by the gods. His fortune was simply unreasonable.

An ordinary Soul Master might not encounter even one External Soul Bone in an entire lifetime, yet he had obtained two in a single day, both won through his own battles.

"An External Soul Bone..."

Bibi Dong stared at the spinal bone held aloft by the Upward Thrust of Luo Jiuyou's sword, her eyes shining with envy.

This thing was one in a million and could evolve as the Soul Master grew. It was simply a treasure every Soul Master dreamed of possessing. It would be wonderful if I had one...

As she was thinking that, Luo Jiuyou suddenly reached out, removed the spinal bone from the sword tip, and directly held it out before her.

Bibi Dong's face filled with question marks.

She looked at the bone, then at Luo Jiuyou, and pointed at herself.

"Me... you're giving it to me?"