3,012 Years! Mandala Snake Tail External Soul Bone!

"Hahaha, a Soul Bone!"

"This is a fucking Soul Bone!"

Ye Yang wanted to throw back his head and roar with joy.

But he could only send his words through a mental transmission.

The Blue Silver Emperor appeared beside him, smiling and genuinely happy for Ye Yang.

Although Ye Yang's victory and explosive increase in strength left her somewhat puzzled,

she did not look into it further.

Soul Beasts blessed with great fortune generally had opportunities and secrets of their own.

The Blue Silver Emperor had not actually cultivated for very long.

That 85,000-year-old Blue Silver King was much older than her and a true senior.

But the Blue Silver Emperor had overtaken him, becoming the first to break through to 100,000 years and become the Blue Silver Emperor, thanks to opportunities of her own.

She watched Ye Yang remove a six-meter-long snake-tail Soul Bone from the Mandala Snake's corpse. It was as thick as a thigh at one end and gradually tapered to the thickness of a finger at the other.

Ye Yang wrapped several leaves and roots around the thick, long snake-tail Soul Bone.

Feeling the immense energy within the Soul Bone, he was filled with emotion.

The chance of a Soul Bone appearing was only one in a thousand, or even lower!

Of course, that was the average.

A Ten-Year Soul Beast could not have a Soul Bone.

A Hundred-Year Soul Beast was also unlikely to have a Soul Bone, unless it had an exceptionally powerful bloodline.

For a Soul Beast that had just reached a thousand years, the chance was roughly one in ten thousand.

As its strength increased, so did the chance of it producing a Soul Bone.

For Soul Beasts over five thousand years old, the chance was roughly one in a thousand.

For a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the chance was generally one in a hundred.

Advanced Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts over seventy thousand years old, the equivalent of human Soul Douluo or higher, all had extraordinary bloodlines.

Their chance of producing a Soul Bone could even reach one in ten.

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was guaranteed to produce a Soul Bone!

A three-thousand-year-old Mandala Snake had roughly a one-in-five-hundred chance of producing a Soul Bone.

Ye Yang had stumbled upon such a low-probability occurrence, so naturally he was happy.

"Ah!"

But the next moment, he let out a scream.

"What's wrong?"

This time, the Blue Silver Emperor did not hesitate. She acted instantly, flying to Ye Yang's side.

She knocked the Soul Bone away, and a rich surge of life force enveloped Ye Yang.

She also used her spiritual power to examine his entire body.

She thought the Mandala Snake's soul had hidden inside the Soul Bone and launched a sneak attack on Ye Yang.

Such things were very common.

Soul Bones were mutated forms of a Soul Beast's energy essence. A soul hiding inside one was much the same as it being in its original brain.

And it was difficult to detect.

Over the years, she had seen three instances of something going wrong when a human Soul Master absorbed a Soul Bone.

The hidden Soul Beast's soul had struck their brain, turning them into an idiot.

But when she checked, she found Ye Yang completely unharmed.

Yet he looked utterly distraught.

"It's over, it's all over!"

Ye Yang wanted to cry, but had no tears.

"I haven't fucking taken human form yet. I can't use a Soul Bone!"

"Aaah!!"

He wailed, looking as though he wished he were dead.

He hugged the Blue Silver Emperor's leg with his leaves, winding them from her calf all the way up to her thigh.

The clear sensation from his leaves was much the same as when he had possessed a human body.

But even the caress of eighteen leaves could not ease his pain.

"How much sorrow can a man endure? Like a band of eunuchs at a brothel door."

The Blue Silver Emperor did not know what eunuchs or brothels were, but she knew Ye Yang was truly heartbroken.

"Don't worry. Once you take human form in the future, can't you use the Soul Bone then?"

She comforted him softly.

"But I'll have to wait years for that!"

Ye Yang said helplessly.

The Blue Silver Emperor was speechless.

You're only a measly 4,000 years old. You still have more than 90,000 years to go before you can take human form at 100,000 years.

You expect to break through in just a few years?

And from the sound of it, you even think a few years is too long?

Fortunately, the Blue Silver Emperor was kindhearted.

If anyone else had heard him, they would probably have started swearing on the spot.

Ye Yang reached out a leaf and retrieved the Soul Bone.

He had originally intended to give it to the Blue Silver Emperor to fuse with.

A Soul Bone like this could greatly strengthen the Blue Silver Emperor's offensive abilities.

But after a moment's hesitation, he gave up on the idea.

It was not because he was reluctant to part with it. Ah Yin would be his wife sooner or later.

What he had in mind was that fusing with the Soul Bone would significantly improve Ah Yin's physique and foundation.

Her cultivation speed would increase as well.

She was cultivating anew to begin with, and she was highly talented.

In just over a month, she had cultivated from level 64 to level 65.

She was only four levels away from level 69!

He and Ah Yin did not have much time together.

If he gave her the Soul Bone, their time together would naturally be shortened again!

It would be just the same to give her the Soul Bone after she entered her mature stage.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully obtaining the Mandala Tail External Soul Bone (3,012 years). Reward: 30,120 points.]

Just as Ye Yang was holding the Soul Bone in his leaves and roots, his thoughts racing, the system's voice rang out.

"What!?"

Ye Yang cried out again.

"An External Soul Bone!?"

Holy fucking shit!

Wasn't this rubbing salt into my wound?

External Soul Bones were the most special and rarest type of Soul Bone!

They were special existences outside the six main categories of Soul Bones.

They were even slightly more precious than Torso Soul Bones and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones from the limbs!

Only Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, Hundred Thousand Year Torso Soul Bones, and Hundred Thousand Year Head Soul Bones, which one could only encounter by chance, were a cut above them.

And for some geniuses, an External Soul Bone was even more important than a Hundred Thousand Year Torso Soul Bone!

For example, Tang San's Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone was definitely more important to him than the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone he obtained.

That was because an External Soul Bone evolved along with its owner as their Soul Power increased!

So the earlier one absorbed an External Soul Bone, the better.

Moreover, once absorbed, an External Soul Bone was similar to its owner's Soul Rings: once its owner died, the Soul Bone disappeared.

That made it very safe, since no one could kill its owner to take the bone.

Other Soul Bones, however, would fall away after their owner was killed and could be fused with by someone else.

So possessing a Soul Bone was also very dangerous.

It was like carrying a treasure that made others green with envy, leaving one vulnerable to assassination.

"Is this an External Soul Bone?"

Sure enough, even the Blue Silver Emperor's beautiful eyes widened in astonishment.

She carefully examined the tail bone and indeed found something different about it.

It possessed a vitality, like a tender shoot that still had the life force to continue growing.

Unlike other Soul Bones, which were lifeless.

As Ye Yang ached at the loss, something suddenly occurred to him.

"Wait!"

"Maybe I can absorb this External Soul Bone!"