God-Given Soul Ring

Dugu Bo activated his Martial Soul. The Jade Phosphorous Serpent behind him suddenly grew larger, wrapped its tail around Dai Chengqian and the other six, and flew out of the Star Dou Great Forest.

After flying out of the Star Dou Great Forest, he did not stop.

Only after putting another few dozen kilometers between them and the Star Dou Great Forest did Dugu Bo stop.

Looking toward the Star Dou Great Forest, Dai Chengqian asked:

"Old monster, what exactly happened?"

Dugu Bo shook his head and said:

"I don't know. I only sensed two incredibly powerful forces fighting.

If my senses weren't wrong, one of them should have been the Titan Giant Ape, known as the 'King of the Forest.'"

After they waited a short while, Bai Qingyue arrived.

She looked at Dai Chengqian and spoke with regret on her face:

"Your Highness, your luck was a little poor this time.

I just scouted from a distance and discovered a large force from Spirit Hall inside.

If my guess is right, Spirit Hall was hunting high-level Soul Beasts for their people again,

but for some reason, they got into a fight with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the core region, the Titan Giant Ape.

It would be extremely dangerous for us to venture deeper now.

I think we'll need to wait a few days. Once things inside the Star Dou Great Forest settle down, we can come back for Soul Hunting."

Dai Chengqian sighed helplessly and said:

"That's our only choice."

They returned to the Star Luo Empire.

Dai Chengqian opened the system panel.

During these past few months of intensive training, Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and Asuya's affection toward him had all reached 50 points, one after another.

Dai Chengqian had now bound all three of them as Red Luans, earning three chances at roulette rewards.

He had also found time along the way to play games with Zhu Zhuyun. His connection level with her had successfully reached lv20, earning him another roulette reward.

Together with the roulette reward he had earned earlier by binding Meng Yiran, Dai Chengqian now had five roulette rewards saved up.

Since this trip to the Star Dou Great Forest had failed to secure him a Soul Ring,

Dai Chengqian planned to use all his saved roulette rewards at once and see whether he could draw a Soul Ring.

He activated the roulette reward.

An enormous roulette wheel exuding an ancient aura appeared before Dai Chengqian, then slowly began to spin.

The pointer gradually slowed to a stop, finally landing on the section labeled "Random Right Leg Soul Bone."

[You obtained a Right Leg Bone: Bloodthirsty Berserk Right Leg Bone]

"A Soul Bone?"

Dai Chengqian took out the Soul Bone and examined it closely.

The Soul Bone provided by the system was red all over, and he could faintly see something resembling blood vessels flowing inside it.

The system panel also provided a simple animated demonstration.

In the animation, after activating the Soul Bone, the Soul Master attacked an enemy at close range with his right leg. An explosion of blood energy erupted instantly, blasting his opponent to pieces.

After that terrifying strike, the Soul Master in the animation immediately grew noticeably weaker.

"An attack far beyond your own strength, achieved by squeezing out and overdrawing your blood energy?"

Shaking his head, Dai Chengqian set the right leg bone down. He felt that the Bloodthirsty Berserk Right Leg Bone did not suit him.

He spun the roulette again.

The pointer slowly turned.

This time, the pointer stopped on a section labeled "Voice-Transmitting Conch."

The Voice-Transmitting Conches came as a pair, each about the size of a palm.

Upon closer examination, he could see extremely intricate array patterns densely packed across their surfaces.

They looked dozens of times more complex than those on the Level 3 Soul Tool he had made before.

The Voice-Transmitting Conches had a simple function. Two people injected Soul Power into one conch at the same time to complete the binding, after which they could speak to each other regardless of how far apart they were.

"Not bad. This thing should be very useful in certain situations."

He activated the roulette again.

This time, just like the first spin, the roulette stopped on "Random Right Leg Soul Bone" again.

[You obtained a Right Leg Bone: Outrage Break Right Leg Bone]

Its attached skill was called Outrage Break, a single-target attack performed at close range.

Compared with the previous right leg bone's skill, it was slightly less powerful, but it did not require overdrawing his blood energy.

The two Soul Bones were of roughly equal quality, and their attached skills each had their own advantages.

Setting down the Soul Bone, Dai Chengqian activated the roulette again.

The roulette spun and stopped on the "External Soul Bone" option.

[You obtained an External Soul Bone: Flowing Cloud Bone Wings]

"Oh? An External Soul Bone? Wonderful."

The sight of the External Soul Bone jolted Dai Chengqian with excitement.

Generally speaking, External Soul Bones were rarer than ordinary Soul Bones and even harder to come by.

Once an ordinary Soul Bone was absorbed, its attributes were essentially fixed.

External Soul Bones were different. They could gradually grow stronger, evolving continuously alongside their owners.

He vaguely remembered that Tang San's External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances, seemed to have eventually become a divine artifact after countless evolutions.

Dai Chengqian took out the Flowing Cloud Bone Wings and immediately absorbed them.

The External Soul Bone supplied by the system roulette did not require him to absorb the corresponding Soul Beast's Soul Ring.

In less than ten minutes, Dai Chengqian finished absorbing it with ease.

When he activated the Flowing Cloud Bone Wings, two white wings unfolded from his back.

There were no feathers on the wings. They were formed entirely from white bones, giving them a slightly horrifying appearance.

Activating the wings, Dai Chengqian rose into the air and slowly began to fly.

After flying for a while, Dai Chengqian realized that the bone wings were probably still at an initial stage. Their flight speed was not particularly fast.

To go faster, this External Soul Bone would need to evolve.

Still, the ability to fly already gave Dai Chengqian an enormous boost in combat strength.

After all, Soul Masters without flying Martial Souls needed to be at least Soul Saints to fly through their own strength.

Even then, they could only glide briefly or remain suspended in the air.

True long-distance flight usually required the strength of a Titled Douluo.

Putting away the Flowing Cloud Bone Wings, Dai Chengqian activated the roulette once more.

This was his final chance to obtain a random reward.

If he did not get a Soul Ring, he could only wait a few more days.

Creeeak—

The ancient roulette wheel spun. Under Dai Chengqian's gaze, the pointer finally slowed to a stop on a spot that filled him with excitement.

"God-Given Soul Ring!"

Dai Chengqian had thought that getting a suitable twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring from the roulette would already mean his luck had burst through the roof.

He had never expected the goddess of fortune to smile upon him and let him draw a God-Given Soul Ring.

A God-Given Soul Ring had no fixed age. The age he could absorb depended entirely on his Martial Soul, physique, and mental willpower.

As long as he could withstand it, even a hundred-thousand-year ring was possible.

For him, this was an immense opportunity that rarely came along.

Dai Chengqian suppressed his excitement and took out the Soul Power Milk Bottle to replenish the Soul Power he had just consumed using the Flowing Cloud Bone Wings.

After restoring his body to peak condition, he began absorbing the God-Given Soul Ring.

Once he chose to absorb it, wisps of hazy white mist suddenly appeared in the room.

Within the white mist, a golden figure wearing a tattered Golden Robe appeared before Dai Chengqian.

His face was obscured, making his features impossible to discern.

Judging by the tattered state of his clothing, however, he seemed to have just been through a great battle.

He extended his right hand toward Dai Chengqian. A golden ball of light appeared in his palm, then hurtled toward Dai Chengqian.

At that moment, a man's voice sounded in Dai Chengqian's mind.

"You are... the future..."

Before he could make out the man's words, Dai Chengqian's Purple Sky Divine Thunder Tiger Martial Soul resonated with the golden ball of light.

Pain surged through him as the terrifying power within the golden ball of light began scouring Dai Chengqian's divine soul.

The absorption of the God-Given Soul Ring had officially begun.