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Chapter 108: Elder Crimson Qiu
Although a soul beast's chances of dropping a soul bone increased dramatically when it was filled with extreme resentment, it was still a matter of probability.
Ye Xixuan paid particular attention to the corpses of the Purple Spirit Beast and the ten-thousand-year Soul Wolf King. Neither of these powerful ten-thousand-year soul beasts had dropped a soul bone. Instead, he found another one in the corpse of a thousand-year Soul Wolf.
Apart from the ten-thousand-year Soul Wolf King leading them, most of the other Soul Wolves in the pack had around three thousand years of cultivation. Almost none had exceeded five thousand years.
Given the habits of wolf-type soul beasts, any other powerful individual in a pack would inevitably challenge the wolf king's position. The wolf king therefore usually snuffed out such threats early, either driving them out of the pack or killing them on the spot to demonstrate its absolute authority.
Ye Xixuan held up two silver-gray soul bones glowing faintly before Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao. They happened to form a pair of arm bones.
Judging by both the soul power fluctuations they emitted and their completeness, the quality of these two soul bones was quite ordinary.
Even so, soul bones were always the most precious items in any country's auction houses, and money alone could never guarantee obtaining one. Any soul bone would require at least a hundred thousand gold soul coins to have any chance of being traded, and more often than not, soul bones were exchanged through barter.
After all, the chances of a soul bone appearing were simply too low. For soul beasts below the hundred-thousand-year rank, the odds of producing one were usually only one in ten thousand.
Even the lowest-grade Mystic Soul Bones, obtained through particularly cruel