Enhancement God Skill, Another Soul Bone Drop

First came the Soul Skill.

Although the Diamond Tiger Soul Ring had not provided him with two Soul Skills, as his First Soul Ring, the Heavenly Dipper Bug Soul Ring, had,

the Diamond Tiger Soul Ring had ultimately provided him with only one Soul Skill, called [White Tiger Vajra Body].

[White Tiger Vajra Body] was very similar to his third Soul Skill in the original story, [White Tiger Vajra Transformation], in both name and effect.

That was because both Soul Skills were enhancement-type buffs.

But his third Soul Skill in the original story had come from a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Compared with the Soul Skill produced by the black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring before him, there was still a vast difference in their power.

Purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring · [White Tiger Vajra Transformation]:

Attack, defense, and strength doubled simultaneously. Resistance to negative status effects greatly increased. The buff lasted half an hour.

＊This Soul Skill could not be stacked with itself multiple times, but it could be used in combination with other Soul Skills such as [White Tiger Protection Barrier] and [White Tiger Demon God Transformation].

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Black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring · [White Tiger Vajra Body]:

Attack, defense, speed, Soul Power... all attributes increased by 50%. Granted immunity to negative effects that did not exceed the user's Soul Power Level, and greatly increased resistance to negative effects that did. The buff lasted half an hour.

＊This Soul Skill could be stacked with different Soul Skills such as [White Tiger Heavenly Dipper Defense] and [White Tiger Mountain-Shaking Charge], or used repeatedly to stack its own effects, up to a maximum of five enhancement layers.

White Tiger Vajra Transformation only enhanced certain attributes, particularly abilities such as attack, defense, and strength, which were geared toward offense and dealing damage.

Thus, the core, essence, and focus of this Soul Skill lay in the word "transformation." It was a combat transformation Soul Skill.

The [White Tiger Vajra Body] Dai Mubai had just obtained, on the other hand, was a truly pure and authentic self-enhancement Soul Skill.

Although its buff was only 50%, seemingly weaker than the 100% increase granted by White Tiger Vajra Transformation,

that was not actually the case-

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[White Tiger Vajra Transformation] was a transformation skill. It only "transformed" and enhanced three attributes: attack, defense, and strength.

And because it was a transformation, aside from using it in combination with other Soul Skills, he could not transform repeatedly and stack its buff.

[White Tiger Vajra Body] was a pure, authentic buff Soul Skill.

Although its buff was only 50%, "body" was different from "transformation." White Tiger Vajra Body enhanced all attributes.

The sheer value of the words "all attributes" surely needed no further explanation.

It could no longer be described as merely powerful. It was downright monstrous, and as a prized percentage-based buff Soul Skill, it would never become obsolete, even in the later stages.

On the contrary, as his strength and base attributes increased, a percentage-based Soul Skill would become even more powerful in the later stages.

Those effects alone were enough to make [White Tiger Vajra Body] worthy of being called a god skill.

But the crucial point was that the power of White Tiger Vajra Body did not end there.

As a pure enhancement Soul Skill, [White Tiger Vajra Body]

could actually be used repeatedly to stack its enhancement buff, up to a maximum of five times.

One layer granted a 50% enhancement to all attributes. Stacked five times, it granted a 250% buff to all attributes.

Compared with [White Tiger Vajra Transformation]'s false doubling, once [White Tiger Vajra Body]'s buff was fully stacked, it truly multiplied his strength by 2.5.

Dai Mubai felt that once his Soul Power Level broke through to level 40, he could rely on [White Tiger Vajra Body] to challenge his elder brother Dai Weisi, whose Soul Power Level had reached level 49 at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament in the original story.

And if, on the battlefield at Jialing Pass in the original story-

Tang San, who had already inherited the Sea God Godhood, had possessed the god-tier buff skill [White Tiger Vajra Body],

then when he faced the mother and daughter, Rakshasa God Bibi Dong and Angel God Qian Renxue, alone again, his heart would not have been smashed and he would not have fallen.

He would only have needed to stack all five layers of the buff. Without needing to merge the Sea God and Asura God into one, he could have relied on the Sea God's Power alone to turn the tables and beat the mother and daughter, Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue, to a pulp.

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What was more, stacking was not the only thing [White Tiger Vajra Body] could do.

White Tiger Vajra Body also came with a super armor effect.

Unlike [White Tiger Mountain-Shaking Charge], which granted a brief super armor effect while charging up and launching the charge,

[White Tiger Vajra Body]'s super armor lasted as long as its 50% all-attribute buff-a full half hour.

Although White Tiger Vajra Body's super armor was not absolute-

it could only grant immunity to the "vast majority" of negative and control effects from those weaker than him in cultivation and strength.

Against negative control skills used by Soul Masters stronger than him in cultivation and strength, it only increased his resistance.

This super armor was merely non-absolute super armor.

But even so, it was powerful enough.

After all, there was no such thing as an absolute ×× in this world.

Xiao Wu's [Invincible Golden Body] and [Nothingness] in the original story were powerful, but they could only last about three seconds.

And it was hard to call them absolute defenses. At most, their upper limit had simply not been reached.

In short-

the [White Tiger Vajra Body] Soul Skill that Dai Mubai had obtained from the Diamond Tiger's black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring

had fully earned the name of a god skill through its three attributes: "all attributes, stacking, and super armor."

Compared with [White Tiger Vajra Transformation] in the original story, who knew how many times stronger it was.

And this was only one of the benefits Dai Mubai had gained from this Ten Thousand Year Diamond Tiger, not all of them.

Those familiar with hunting Soul Beasts and absorbing and refining Soul Rings had probably already guessed.

That was right.

This Ten Thousand Year Diamond Tiger had also dropped a Soul Bone for Dai Mubai.

And what was more, this Soul Bone was the most precious kind of Soul Bone-an External Soul Bone!!

As for why it had dropped a Soul Bone, and an incomparably precious External Soul Bone at that-

Dai Mubai guessed it might have been because the Diamond Tiger had been brutally beaten by Zhao Wuji before its death, suffering too much pain and harboring too much resentment toward Zhao Wuji, human Soul Masters, and Dai Mubai.

The more torment a Soul Beast endured before death, and the more pain, hatred, and resentment it felt, the greater the chance of it dropping a Soul Bone after death.

And during the later stages of Dai Mubai's absorption of the Soul Ring, when the Diamond Tiger's resentful spirit attacked him,

Dai Mubai's Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul had devoured the anger and resentment in the Diamond Tiger's soul, forcibly purifying and liberating it.

Afterward, Dai Mubai had felt pity and spared the Diamond Tiger's soul. Rather than turn it into a demonic ghost and enslave it, he had sent it into the cycle of reincarnation.

When the Diamond Tiger entered the passage of reincarnation to be reborn, not only did it bear Dai Mubai no resentment, it was even grateful to him.

At the time, the Diamond Tiger's state had been little different from that of a Soul Beast offering itself as a sacrifice.

And a Soul Beast that sacrificed itself was certain to drop a Soul Bone.

A "sacrifice" was certain to produce a Soul Bone, while extreme pain and resentment could increase the chance of one dropping.

With the two factors combined, it made sense that the Diamond Tiger had ultimately given Dai Mubai an External Soul Bone-