External Soul Bone: Void Divine Eye (1)
"I'm sure." Lin Chen nodded, his eyes resolute. "Void Shift is a top-tier spatial Soul Skill, extremely important to me. With my body tempered by ice and fire spiritual energy for so long, the added benefit of numerous Immortal Herb, and the protection of the senior by my side, I should be able to withstand it."
He walked to the corpse of the Void Beast King and sat down cross-legged.
Take a deep breath, take out two pieces of Dragon Ganoderma Leaf, put them in your mouth, chew them, and swallow them to protect your heart and meridians.
"Senior, please trouble the protector."
"Don't worry." Dugu Bo stood with his hands behind his back, his poisonous aura spreading out to drive away the surrounding Soul Beast. "With me here, no one can disturb you. If you can't hold on, just say so; don't try to tough it out."
Lin Chen nodded, closed his eyes, and focused his mind.
He began to activate his Soul Ring.
The Soul Ring slowly descended and landed on Lin Chen's head.
boom--
A surge of violent spatial power instantly flooded his body, like countless tiny knives slicing through his meridians.
Deep within his consciousness, a vast spatial will surged forth like a tidal wave, threatening to tear his soul apart and engulf it in the eternal void.
Lin Chen shuddered violently, and the Chaos Pearl in his dantian began to spin wildly. Gray, attribute-less Soul Power enveloped the raging spatial power, refining and fusing it little by little.
He had already stored the spiritual energy of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in his meridians, and now it was slowly being released to nourish the damaged meridians.
The valley was quiet, save for the low hum of the spatial rift.
Xiao Wu stood to the side, her fists clenched nervously, her eyes fixed on him.
Dugu Bo stood with his hands behind his back, his emerald eyes fixed on Lin Chen, ready to strike at any moment.
Five Ten Thousand Year Third Soul Ring —this is an unprecedented achievement.
Success means instant ascension; failure means utter destruction of one's foundation.
The moment the dark silver Soul Ring sank completely into his dantian, Lin Chen felt as if he had been thrown into the depths of turbulent spatial currents.
The impact of a 50,000-year Soul Ring is far greater than that of the previous Prison-Suppressing Demon Spider.
It was not a simple clash of Soul Power, but a comprehensive tearing apart of the meridians, flesh and blood, and even the soul. Tiny spatial blades rampaged through the limbs and bones, scraping along the meridians and through the bone crevices. Even the tough body, repeatedly tempered by ice and fire spiritual energy, was cut open with countless fine blood lines. Every breath carried a strong smell of rust.
"Well--"
Lin Chen groaned, and a dark red line of blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.
He clenched his teeth, and the Chaos Pearl in his dantian trembled violently. Gray, attribute-less Soul Power surged out like a tide, not in a head-on confrontation, but like mercury spilling onto the ground, enveloping every strand of violent spatial power, attempting to wear it down, refine it, and assimilate it.
But the power of space is everywhere, as if it has its own consciousness, drilling into every inch of your being, even pulling your consciousness away from you, threatening to plunge you into the boundless void.
Before his eyes flashed fragmented spatial folds and surging void currents, and countless whispers from the depths of nothingness swirled in his ears, as if trying to pull his soul out of his body and imprison it forever in the spatial rift.
"Brother Lin Chen!"
Xiao Wu stood outside the domain, watching him tremble all over and his face turn ashen white. Her eyes reddened with anxiety, and her fingers gripped the hem of her clothes tightly, but she dared not take a step forward. She knew that any disturbance at this moment could cause Lin Chen to suffer a qi deviation.
Dugu Bo's expression was more solemn than ever before. The emerald green poisonous aura surrounding him had spread to its limit, firmly sealing off the entire valley.
But his gaze was fixed on Lin Chen, and he was ready to intervene and stop the attack at any moment.
The domineering power of a 50,000-year-old Space System Soul Ring far exceeded his expectations. It's already a miracle that this kid has lasted this long.
If this continues, even if the absorption is barely successful, the meridians will be left with irreversible hidden damage, making it difficult to make any further progress for the rest of one's life.
Just as he was about to make his move, a sudden change occurred.
A faint blue light suddenly appeared between the eyebrows of the Void Beast King's corpse not far away.
At first, it was just a firefly-like light, but under the dual pull of the Soul Ring and the Chaos Pearl, it grew brighter and brighter, and a piece of white bone the size of a fingernail slowly peeled out from the corpse.
Its texture is as warm and smooth as mutton fat jade, with fine spatial patterns flowing on the surface. Its outline resembles a closed, ancient eye, carrying an aura of antiquity.
"What is this? Soul Bone? Associated Soul Bone?!"
Dugu Bo's pupils constricted sharply, and he exclaimed in disbelief, "This... this is really Associated Soul Bone? This beast king actually nurtured Soul Bone? Could it be External Soul Bone?"
He lived for nearly a hundred years and only ever saw fragments of records about it in ancient books and scrolls.
The Void Beast King is a rare Soul Beast deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, and an individual with a spatial spirit bone nurtured between its brows is even rarer, one in ten thousand.
This External Soul Bone is not just a simple boost to strength, but a divinely bestowed treasure that can continuously evolve with the host's cultivation level. It can be considered a legendary opportunity across the entire continent.
He was about to speak to remind him when the Soul Bone seemed to have found its home, gently resting on Lin Chen's brow.
Buzz--
A pale blue light burst forth instantly.
The moment the Soul Bone merged with the body, a pain several times more intense than the impact of the Soul Ring swept through the entire body.
It felt as if a red-hot iron had been branded onto his brow. Vast spatial power surged wildly into his Soul Bone, colliding violently with the Chaos Soul Power within his dantian.
boom--
Deep within their consciousness, the Chaos Pearl and the Soul Bone resonated from their very origin.
The gray Power of Chaos and the light blue spatial power converged at the center of the forehead. The originally violent and disordered spatial power seemed to have found an anchor point, slowly flowing into the meridians along the veins of the Soul Bone, and was gradually enveloped, refined and assimilated by the Chaos Soul Power.
The meridians that were originally torn were gradually widened and repaired under the intertwining and scouring of the two forces, becoming more resilient and expansive than before, and even the bone marrow was tempered to become more transparent.
Lin Chen held fast to his will, allowing the two forces to surge, merge, and settle within his body.
He could clearly feel that the Soul Bone between his eyebrows was completely binding with his divine soul and Martial Soul, and an unprecedented spatial perception was awakening.
Time passed little by little.
The third Soul Ring beneath his feet gradually solidified, its dark body swirling with pale blue spatial patterns, echoing the Soul Bone between his brows.
Lin Chen's breathing gradually became steady, and the chaotic spatial fluctuations around him slowly subsided.
He did not wake up immediately, but instead fell into a deeper state of fusion.
After an unknown amount of time, Lin Chen slowly opened his eyes.
The first thing to come into our senses is not sight, but the omnipresent space.
Every wisp of wind in the valley, the angle at which every fallen leaf turns, and even every tiny fold in the air, is clearly imprinted in his consciousness.
The turbulent currents churning in the spatial rifts at the bottom of the valley, and the movement paths of the Soul Beast in the dense forest several miles away, were all clearly visible, as if they were right in front of me, even through the thick trees and rocks.
He subconsciously looked inward and noticed a faint blue mark between his eyebrows, resembling a closed, ancient eye, blending seamlessly into his skin, almost imperceptible unless one looked closely.
With a thought, the mark between his brows slowly appeared, gleaming with a pale blue, cold light.