External Soul Bone?

"Master, Grandpa Dugu."

After finishing pleasantries with the two young girls, Lu Xuan turned his gaze to Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo.

"Xin'er told me you were preparing to seek your third soul ring," Dugu Bo said. "Afraid you might run into some mishap after refining medicinal pills, we naturally had to come and stand guard to prevent any unforeseen events."

"A third soul ring of over nine thousand years," Ye Renxin looked at Lu Xuan, his tone carrying a hint of emotion. "The old man has never even heard of such a thing before. If it were anyone else, I would only consider it daydreaming. Yet happening to you, it instead feels completely within reason."

While everyone was conversing, Dugu Xin had already brought over the Rouge Dragon that had been carefully cultivated for a long time.

This Rouge Dragon originally had only five hundred years of cultivation. Ever since Lu Xuan made up his mind to use it as his third soul ring, it had been continuously fed various leftover medicinal materials over the past two years.

The higher the soul ring upper limit Lu Xuan's physical body could withstand, the more abundant the resources fed to the Rouge Dragon became.

After two years of meticulous cultivation, the cultivation of this Rouge Dragon had now surged to nine thousand eight hundred years.

"Let's do the final feeding," Dugu Xin smiled slightly. "We've raised it for a full two years, so it's finally time for it to offer up its soul ring."

"Good." Lu Xuan had already prepared a batch of marginal spiritual herbs and immediately stepped forward, sending all the spiritual materials into the Rouge Dragon's mouth to let it swallow and refine them, thereby pushing up its own cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, the aura on the Rouge Dragon's body climbed step by step, and its soul beast age rose continuously along with it.

Nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight... nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-five, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine!

At that very moment, the Rouge Dragon suddenly let out a dragon roar that shook the surroundings.

Ye Renxin's expression changed, and he hurriedly shouted in warning, "Quick! It's about to break through the shackles and advance to a ten-thousand-year soul beast!"

Lu Xuan had long made preparations for this, holding a poison-coated dagger and fiercely stabbing toward the Rouge Dragon's vital heart.

Stabbing it with a single blade was still not secure enough; he exerted force from his wrist, gripped the dagger, and violently twisted it a full circle inside the Rouge Dragon's heart.

Until a purplish-black soul ring slowly rose upward from the beast's corpse, Lu Xuan finally let out a sigh of relief.

"The quality of this soul ring is truly too overbearing!" Ye Renxin's expression was grave as he said in a deep voice, "The Rouge Dragon is already a dragon-type soul beast with no weak strength, and coupled with this limit age approaching ten thousand years, the danger during absorption is probably going to surpass quite a few genuine ten thousand year soul rings."

"Master, there is no need to worry." Lu Xuan smiled slightly, calmly comforting him, "A soul ring at the thousand-year tier will not produce soul shock. With my physical constitution, no obstacles exist to absorbing this soul ring."

As his voice fell, Lu Xuan sat cross-legged on the spot and officially began absorbing the soul ring.

That soul ring floated to the top of Lu Xuan's head, and layer upon layer of violent soul power poured into Lu Xuan's limbs, bones, and meridians like a breached flood.

Even though Lu Xuan had anticipated this long ago, this violent force far exceeding the ordinary nine-thousand-year tier still instantly bloated the meridians all over his body.

Fine bloody patterns instantly surfaced on the surface of his skin, and a succession of roaring tremors came from deep within his bones, as if they would be crushed to pieces by this ultimate dragon power at any moment.

Dugu Bo, Ye Renxin, and the others at the side all held their breaths, their gazes locked dead onto Lu Xuan, their hearts filled with extreme tension.

This was in no way a soul ring power impact of a thousand-year soul ring; its tyrannical and violent degree had long crushed ordinary ten-thousand-year soul rings. If it were changed to any thirty-level soul master, their meridians would snap in an instant and they would burst apart and die.

Only Lu Xuan's expression remained consistently steady and calm.

The evolution of the Divine Black Jade Bamboo, the improvement of the whale rubber, the subtle influence of dual soul skills, and coupled with the amplification of the Nine Yin Manual, Lu Xuan's physical foundation had been polished to the extreme.

Physical strength far exceeding his peers steadily received the rampaging dragon-type soul power, and no matter how the majestic force battered and scoured within his body, he remained completely unmoving.

More crucially, just as he had stated, this limit soul ring that had not truly stepped into ten thousand years possessed no terrifying soul shock to invade his mind.

Lu Xuan's consciousness was clear and lucid, enabling him to calmly control the soul power within his body, bit by bit sorting, refining, and assimilating this extremely tyrannical force.

Under his guidance, the violent dragon power no longer wantonly destroyed things, turning instead to circulate along the meridian heavenly cycle, continuously scouring and tempering his physical body and soul power foundation.

The soul power originally stagnating at the early thirtieth rank, under the infusion of the massive and pure soul ring power, climbed rapidly like riding a rocket, breaking through barrier after barrier and steadily advancing.

Time slowly passed, and half an hour later, the restless majestic power within the soul ring was thoroughly refined and exhausted.

A rich halo of soul power suddenly burst forth from around Lu Xuan's body, his aura surging several times over and steadily settling at the thirty-sixth rank.

The very instant the soul ring completely melted and his soul power was fully rounded and stabilized, an abnormal change suddenly erupted!

A warm and scalding sensation instantly swept through his dual pupils, and Lu Xuan only felt a numbness and warmth in his left eye, as if a completely new power was taking root and metamorphosing deep within his pupils.

Visible to the naked eyes of others, Lu Xuan's left eye pupil quietly underwent a strange transformation.

His originally clear and bright eyes surfaced with layers of fine and transparent dragon patterns, crimson rosy light revolving and lingering around them like dragon pupils dyed pink, eerie and profound.

An unheard-of eye-type external soul bone thus took shape!

Dugu Bo, Ye Renxin, and the others at the side instantly saw their pupils constrict, their faces filled with disbelief as monstrous waves churned in their hearts.

A soul bone was already a peerless fortuitous encounter that was one in ten thousand, with probabilities low to the point of being practically illusory, let alone the rarest eye-type soul bone whose amplification effect was the most heaven-defying!

Ordinary soul masters might not even encounter an ordinary soul bone by chance throughout their entire lives, yet Lu Xuan absorbed a limit nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year dragon-type soul ring and directly awakened an eye-type external soul bone!

Lu Xuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze clear and sharp, the crimson dragon patterns at the bottom of his eyes restraining their faint light, freely retractable.

In an instant, his field of vision was thoroughly revolutionized. The wisps of soul power drifting in the surrounding air, the vein patterns of the flora and spiritual materials, and even the soul power strength barriers circulating around everyone's bodies were reflected in the bottom of his eyes with extreme clarity, down to the finest detail.

Half an hour later, the majestic dragon-type soul power completely subsided, and Lu Xuan consummately completed the dual absorption of the soul ring and the eye-type soul bone.

He slowly stood up, raised his eyes to look at everyone's astonished expressions, and couldn't help laughing, his tone as plain as if he had merely done an insignificant trivial matter: "Why are you all looking at me like that? Absorbing a soul ring at the limit age and taking an external soul bone along the way, isn't that a very normal thing?"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help curling their lips in resignation, their hearts filled with laughter and tears alike.

When other people forcibly surpassed their own limits to absorb high-age soul rings, the greatest probability was that their meridians would shatter, bursting apart to die—a brush with death, how perilous it was. Being able to survive was already a supreme blessing, how would they dare to wish for the birth of a soul bone?

Let alone it being the rarest and most uncommon eye-type external soul bone.

From ancient times until now, this sort of fortuitous encounter had never been heard of nor seen, yet coming from Lu Xuan's mouth, it sounded as if it weren't any rare occurrence at all!

In his heart, however, Lu Xuan was thinking: The standard equipment of a time traveler—the external soul bone has finally arrived!