Hundred Thousand Years! Spiritual Skills!

"Group Weakness!"

"A group-attack Soul Skill was actually this powerful against a single target too!"

"Good! Excellent!"

Ye Yang forced himself to endure the intense dizziness in his head and the weakness throughout his body. Summoning his strength, he gritted his teeth and continued charging at the Purple Spirit Baboon.

A Purple Spirit Baboon only ten to twenty thousand years old had posed a threat to him that even a seventy- or eighty-thousand-year-old Soul Beast had not.

But the Purple Spirit Baboon had also felt Ye Yang's strength.

After unleashing a Spiritual Shock at Ye Yang with all its might, it was in considerable discomfort as well.

The red in its eyes vanished, but its eyeballs were bloodshot.

A trace of blood also trickled from its nose, and it was suffering just as much.

It turned and darted into the canyon, vanishing from sight.

Its body was frail, and its attack and defense were inferior even to those of an ordinary Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

But it was extremely fast and excellent at escaping.

Ye Yang was no pushover either, though his head was spinning and his body felt somewhat weak.

His Spiritual Power was not weak, however. He forcibly activated the Super Eight Spider Lances, and his speed barely slowed as he continued racing after the Purple Spirit Baboon to kill it.

One fled and the other pursued, the two of them penetrating ever deeper into the dark canyon.

Even at high noon, the sunlight was faint and the light dim. Thick fog hung over everything, and the roars of unknown Soul Beasts rang out without cease.

Ye Yang's Spiritual Power recovered rapidly as he focused and stayed on guard.

They had already entered the Core Circle, where Soul Beasts thirty to fifty thousand years old were common, and there were even stronger ones!

Ye Yang did not want to waste time either. He knew how to profit as the fisherman when others fought, and powerful Soul Beasts were clever enough to understand that too.

"Blue Silver Overlord Spear!"

He activated his Soul Skill, and a leaf shot out, extending to its twelve-meter limit before coming to an abrupt stop.

It was only half a meter short of the Purple Spirit Baboon's back!

The purplish-brown fur on the Purple Spirit Baboon's back stood on end. Its hackles had truly risen.

But when it saw Ye Yang's attack miss, it let out a long breath, abruptly changed direction, and darted into a narrow crack in the rock.

Whoosh!

But just then, another spear, half illusory and half tangible, appeared in blue and silver above the leaf spear that had stretched taut!

Besides attacking together with a leaf, the Soul Skill Blue Silver Overlord Spear could also leave his body and attack in the form of energy.

It was just a little less powerful that way.

But with Ye Yang's ninety thousand years of Soul Power and Quasi-Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline, the attack was still terrifyingly powerful, enough to instantly kill a fifty-thousand-year-old Soul Beast!

Splurt!

Before the horrified Purple Spirit Baboon's eyes, its back, which had just relaxed only to tense up again, was pierced in an instant!

The attack was so overbearing that it even blasted its lumbar spine clean into two!

Before it could scream, Ye Yang caught up, and the snake-tail External Soul Bone shot out and pierced its head.

Immediately afterward, the Super Eight Spider Lances also stabbed into its body.

The Devouring abilities of the three great External Soul Bones had already surpassed those of Ye Yang's roots, reaching a conversion rate of fifteen percent.

In other words, killing a Hundred-Year Soul Beast had previously yielded ten years of Soul Power, but now it yielded fifteen.

Even so, Ye Yang spent a large number of points to strengthen Devouring!

"System, spend my points to strengthen my Devouring ability fivefold!"

What he wanted was not the Purple Spirit Baboon's Soul Power, but its precious Spiritual Power!

However, his previous ample supply of roughly 300,000 points had been reduced by 270,000 after fivefold Devouring the thirty-thousand-year-old Cave Demon Spider and the twenty-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider Queen.

His 300,000 points had instantly dwindled to just 30,000.

Fortunately, his Spiritual Power had broken through to 500 points, reaching the Spirit Sea Realm, and the system had rewarded him with another 50,000 points.

And because of his Karma Value with Tang San, he had gained another 160,000 points after hunting the two great demon spiders.

At this point, Ye Yang had close to 230,000 points left.

[Ding! Host's Devouring target detected. Soul Power: 28,273 years. Deducting 141,365 host points]

As the system notification sounded, Ye Yang's points plummeted again, shrinking to a little over 80,000.

But the system notification made Ye Yang feel it was well worth it.

With the system's fivefold enhancement and his own 1.5 times, he could convert a total of 6.5 times the target's Soul Power and Spiritual Power.

For the first time, the Spiritual Power he gained increased by a two-digit number!

[Ding! Congratulations, host. Spiritual Power has broken through 1,000 points. Reward: 100,000 points]

At the sound of the system notification, Ye Yang's spirits immediately lifted.

Spiritual Power in the Spirit Sea Realm ranged from 500 to 5,000 points.

Although he was still a long way from breaking through, 1,000 points of Spiritual Power was a threshold in itself, and it brought Ye Yang a considerable improvement.

[Ding! Host's Soul Power is approaching one hundred thousand years. Host can transform into a hundred-thousand-year Quasi-Blue Silver Emperor. Break through?]

Hearing the system's voice, Ye Yang was momentarily stunned.

One hundred thousand years!

Holy shit!

I'm about to break through to one hundred thousand years?!

In his heart, Ye Yang had always held a certain awe for Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

That was a hundred thousand years!

By the Earth timeline from before he transmigrated, humans a hundred thousand years ago were still Homo sapiens who could use fire and make simple tools.

They did not even know how to wear clothes and had no sense of shame.

Even counting by the actual lifespan of Soul Beasts, no matter how powerful a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's innate bloodline was or how abundant its cultivation resources were,

wouldn't it still take eight or ten thousand years to break through to one hundred thousand years?

The whole of China's history was only five thousand years long.

And now I'm about to break through and become a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?!

I transmigrated here in early spring the year before last.

Now it's late autumn.

Have I reached this point in just a year and a half?

That makes sense. Devouring the thirty-thousand-year-old Cave Demon Spider and the twenty-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider one after the other gave me a full thirty thousand years of cultivation.

Once a Purple Spirit Baboon passed ten thousand years, its purple fur would grow darker and darker.

Rumor had it that when it reached one hundred thousand years, its fur would be so purple it looked black, like a ripe mulberry.

The Purple Spirit Baboon I just devoured already had purplish-brown fur and over twenty-eight thousand years of cultivation!

Otherwise, no matter how naturally gifted it was, it could not have possessed an ability that made Ye Yang's head spin.

That was another increase of over eighteen thousand years of Soul Power, so breaking through to one hundred thousand years naturally followed.

Sure enough, the rule that the strong only grow stronger always holds true.

[Ding! Please make your choice quickly, host. Otherwise, this system will let nature take its course and allow the host to break through!]

The system's voice interrupted Ye Yang's shock and contemplation.

"Don't break through!"

Ye Yang hurriedly said.

What kind of joke is this? My bloodline foundation is only that of a Quasi-Blue Silver Emperor, and I'd break through to become the most worthless kind of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?

If I break through first and then try to improve my bloodline, it'll be much harder.

"Pour all the excess Soul Power into the Super Eight Spider Lances, this fused External Soul Bone!"

He continued speaking to the system.

[Ding! Pouring the remaining 8,243 years of Soul Power into the Super Eight Spider Lances... Transfer complete. Each lance holds 1,081 years of Soul Power]

Hearing the system's voice, Ye Yang felt relieved.

He had settled on this plan long ago.

It came from his experience of Ah Yin pouring Soul Power into the Blue Silver King Soul Bone in her right arm.

Now it appeared that it really did work.

Soul Bones were like special power banks.

Humans could not do this, which might have something to do with their Blue Silver Grass bloodline.

After the Soul Power had been transferred, the Spiritual Power also finished being absorbed.

"Good heavens!"

"It gave me a full 683 points of Spiritual Power altogether!"

"That's only a few points less than my original Spiritual Power!"

"Its Spiritual Power really did exceed a thousand!"

Ye Yang was shaken.

He estimated that even some ordinary Titled Douluo did not have Spiritual Power this strong.

For a Soul Beast less than thirty thousand years old, that was truly astonishing.

"Huh? An unexpected gain too?"

Ye Yang suddenly exclaimed in surprise.