Looking at Mu En's eager expression, Mu Yueye did not immediately become worked up.
He merely picked up the Soul Bone with some suspicion and examined its markings, looking at the bloodstains left on it who knew how many years ago.
After a long while, he raised his head and asked Mu En,
"Great-great-grandfather, if I can't master this Soul Bone, nothing will go wrong, right?"
Mu En smiled, then gently patted Mu Yueye on the shoulder and said,
"You've had this one problem since birth, child: you're far too cautious. But that's a good thing too. At least cautious people don't fall into other people's traps so easily.
"Don't worry. This Soul Bone has been tested. Even if you can't master it, it will simply push you away."
Mu Yueye looked at Mu En and, after a long while, chose to trust him. He blinked, then said to Mu En,
"Then, Great-great-grandfather, shall I start trying to absorb this Soul Bone?"
Mu En nodded, then made an encouraging gesture at Mu Yueye and said,
"I hope you really can master this Soul Bone, our clan's hereditary Soul Bone, the Yin Yang Dragon Crown."
Mu Yueye grumbled inwardly, Why does that name sound so much like something from another of Tang Jia San Shao's books... Did I end up on the wrong channel?
But for all his inward grumbling, Mu Yueye did not take the matter lightly.
This Soul Bone had been passed down for so long, and it was such an unusual facial External Soul Bone. It was bound to have a unique ability.
Mu Yueye reached out with his Soul Power toward the Soul Bone. The moment it entered the golden-yellow side, the entire Soul Bone lit up with a dazzling radiance.
Mu En narrowed his eyes. The instant that dazzling light appeared meant the trial of the Soul Bone had begun.
To his surprise, however, the Soul Bone seemed to come alive. After pulsing twice, it flew straight off the table and landed over Mu Yueye's face with a smack.
It then followed Mu Yueye's flesh, transforming into strands of energy that seeped into the bones of his face.
Although Mu Yueye had reacted to the Soul Bone's movement, he could only spread his hands in bewilderment, unsure how to stop it.
Mu En was equally dumbfounded. Although he was the head of the Mu Clan, nothing like this had ever appeared even in the notes left by the clan heads of past generations.
According to the clan's records, this Soul Bone was extremely proud and temperamental. Even if your attribute truly was an Ultimate Attribute, or was close to the Ultimate Attribute in one of the three categories of light, lightning, or darkness,
you still had to spend quite some time soothing it. Only after your Soul Power had mingled with its Soul Power could you barely manage to absorb it.
Even when absorbed that way, the densely packed nerves in the face would cause so much pain that one's beard would bristle and eyes would bulge, and one might even have a crooked mouth and squinting eyes for a long time.
A case like Mu Yueye's, where it had jumped onto Mu Yueye's face of its own accord and been absorbed so smoothly, was as rare as a scorpion's turd-one of a kind.
Mu En stared at Mu Yueye in astonishment. Then he reached out and touched Mu Yueye's cheek.
With his perception as a Limit Douluo, he could naturally sense the vast Soul Power beneath Mu Yueye's cheek.
Not only had the Yin Yang Dragon Crown been absorbed into Mu Yueye's body in that instant, but it had also completely fused with him at the same time.
Until Mu Yueye died, no one would be able to separate it from him.
Sensing the change in Mu Yueye, Mu En nodded in satisfaction.
Mu Yueye opened his eyes and touched his own cheek as well, confirming that what he had just felt was not a fleeting dream.
"Well? How well have you adjusted after fusing with the Soul Bone?"
Although Mu En had already anticipated the result, he still asked.
Mu Yueye nodded and said to Mu En,
"It feels very comfortable, as though the bone was mine to begin with. It's also relaxing my facial muscles a great deal."
Mu En nodded and said to Mu Yueye,
"Lately, you've been learning my Self-Created Soul Skill, King's Landing, going Soul Hunting, and dealing with Tang Ya's affairs. You really have been worn out."
Mu Yueye scratched his head. At that moment, Mu En said,
"Speaking of which, we really did make the right choice saving that little girl Tang Ya. She had the methods for learning the Tang Sect's six great ultimate techniques with her. Aside from the Mysterious Heaven Skill, that little girl Tang Ya gave Shrek a copy of each of the remaining six ultimate techniques."
Mu En took a deep breath, looked Mu Yueye over, and said to him:
"What I taught you is our Mu Clan's method of cultivating Soul Power for the Light Sacred Dragon Martial Soul. Although it won't be of much help in cultivating your Darkness Holy Dragon Martial Soul, it won't hold you back either."
"When it comes to what suits a particular Martial Soul, I would rather trust the Soul Power cultivation method that generation after generation of our Mu Clan built up with their lives."
Mu Yueye thought that, in this era, nobody would believe him anyway if he said that Tang San later relied on this cultivation technique to slaughter everyone left and right even after returning to the age of primitive humans. Faced with Mu En's question, he might as well just say he believed him.
He would just treat it as making the old man happy. After all, the old man had just dropped a Soul Bone for him.
Mu En smiled, then said to Mu Yueye,
"That's right. We Soul Masters should have confidence in the abilities we possess."
With that, Mu En lovingly rubbed Mu Yueye's head, but then changed the subject. Gently brushing his thumb against the corner of Mu Yueye's eye, he said,
"But a true warrior learns from others' strengths to make up for his own weaknesses. That is what it means to use strengths to offset weaknesses."
Mu Yueye thought, How did I end up in a preschool class...? Then he saw Mu En take out a scroll and say to him,
"As for the other ultimate techniques, you have dragon wings, so you have no use for Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track. Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon and Mysterious Jade Hand aren't very useful to you either, and Hidden Weapons have already been replaced by Soul Tools. But the Tang Sect's Purple Demon Eye is the strongest eye technique of this era."
"Of all of them, the Purple Demon Eye, a method of training the eyes, will help you most in battle."
As Mu En spoke, he handed the scroll to Mu Yueye.
Mu Yueye held the scroll with some hesitation. After all, the karma of the Tang Sect was like a phone that had been used for three days straight.
It was really too hot to handle.
Seemingly recognizing Mu Yueye's concern, Mu En smiled faintly and said to him,
"Don't worry. It's all been settled with that little girl Tang Ya. You don't need to pay any additional price."
Mu Yueye nodded, but just as he was about to take his leave of Mu En with the scroll, Mu En suddenly spoke up.
"Oh, right, Xiao Ye. Although this is a little early for someone your age, judging by your cultivation, it's time for you to enter the inner court..."