Su Tong absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring extremely smoothly, without the slightest mishap.
The only thing Huo Yuhao found slightly regrettable was that the Ice Crystal Phoenix had produced no Soul Bone.
"What a pity," he sighed. "A Soul Bone produced by a Soul Beast like the Ice Crystal Phoenix would surely be top-tier."
Su Tong, however, did not mind.
She cupped her fist and bowed to the Snow Empress and Du Busi. "Thank you, seniors."
The Snow Empress shook her head. "The Soul Beasts in the Far North Abyss were Soul Beasts I wanted to execute in the first place."
"Your absorbing its Soul Ring at least put it to full use."
"Besides..." The Snow Empress paused. "Who said it produced no Soul Bone?"
She raised her hand and beckoned, and the Ice Crystal Phoenix's corpse instantly shattered into countless tiny grains of ice.
A Soul Bone radiating an aura of extreme cold floated slowly in midair.
"An External Soul Bone?!" Du Busi exclaimed.
It was a Soul Bone shaped like feathers, with wisps of freezing mist flowing across its surface. A clear, ringing phoenix cry could faintly be heard from it.
Yet it was not a pair of wings, resembling an article of clothing instead.
Huo Yuhao examined the External Soul Bone carefully and thought it must have formed from the Ice Crystal Phoenix's feather root bones.
A bird's feather could be divided into several parts: the shaft, the vane, the root bone, and the feather follicle.
The feather root bone was precisely the part that connected the feather's central structure, the shaft, to the bird's body.
One end of the feather root bone connected to the shaft, while the other connected to the feather follicle in the skin, containing abundant blood vessels, nerves, and ligaments.