Douluo Dalu: Ice Snake Martial Spirit, Infinite Evolution

Chapter 44: The External Soul Bone with Missing Origin

"Xiaohan is interested in this external soul bone?"

Xu Tianran noticed Dugu Han's changing expression and asked with a smile.

"An ice-attributed external spirit bone would suit me perfectly, but why would anyone put such a treasure up for auction?"

Dugu Han was very confused about this.

External soul bones can grow and evolve together with the soul master. Their value to the soul master is second only to the hundred thousand year soul bones.

Anyone who can put such a treasure up for auction must be a fool, right?

"Cousin, do you know the reason?" Dugu Han asked in confusion.

"Know something!"

Xu Tianran explained with a smile, "This external soul bone is called 'Ice Emperor's Wings'. It comes from a hundred thousand year old ice crystal phoenix. It was auctioned by Ye Yulin, the Starry Sky Douluo of the Worship Hall..."

"and many more!"

Dugu Han couldn't help but interrupt when he heard this: "A hundred thousand year old external soul bone?"

"Previously!"

Xu Tianran explained the origin of this external soul bone. "A hundred years ago, there was an ice-attributed evil soul master at the Titled Douluo level. He obtained this external soul bone when he hunted for his ninth soul ring. However, that evil soul master provoked too many enemies in his pursuit of cultivation, and was eventually surrounded and killed by several ninth-level soul masters and Titled Douluos in the Mingdou Mountains. Before his death, the evil soul master self-destructed, destroying all his soul bones. Only this 100,000-year-old external soul bone from the Ice Crystal Phoenix remained."

"So there's a problem with this external soul bone?" Dugu Han asked with a vague guess in his mind.

"That's right!"

"This external soul bone was severely damaged in the self-explosion. Almost 99% of its essence has been lost. The age of the 100,000-year-old external soul bone has dropped to only a thousand years."

"If there hadn't been a surviving ninth-level soul master who immediately used Titled Douluo-level soul power to nurture it, it would have been scrapped on the spot!"

"But even so, this external soul bone, which has fallen to a thousand years old, can no longer improve along with the soul master's improvement!"

When Xu Tianran said this, his tone was full of regret.

A hundred thousand year old soul bone is something you can only come across by chance!

A hundred thousand year old external soul bone is rarely seen in a thousand years.

As a result, due to the self-explosion of the evil soul master, the one hundred thousand year old external soul bone directly fell to an ordinary one thousand year old external soul bone, and because of the loss of a large amount of origin, it lost the opportunity to continue to improve.

Even Xu Tianran, the crown prince of the Sun and Moon Empire, couldn't help but feel a little sorry.

After listening to Xu Tianran's introduction, Dugu Han thought for a moment and asked, "What does it mean to no longer be able to improve along with the soul master's improvement?"

"Because the remaining essence in the soul bone has frozen it at 1,200 years old, unless there are a large number of ice-attribute treasures to replenish its essence, but this external soul bone has been passed down for many years and finally came into the hands of Starry Sky Douluo."

"Starry Sky Douluo has had this external soul bone for over ten years. He has searched for numerous ice-attributed treasures to increase its essence, but ended up wasting a great deal of money and resources. He has only increased its lifespan by less than eight hundred years, and has never been able to break through the two thousand year mark."

Xu Tianran looked at Dugu Han and said, "Xiao Han, this external soul bone that's less than two thousand years old and already fixed has a starting price of eight million gold soul coins. It's not worth it!"

"I see, thanks for the reminder, cousin!"

Dugu Han smiled and put away the auction invitation and auction catalog.

Then he talked with Xu Tianran for a while and then said goodbye and left.

Next, Dugu Han went to meet Xu Tianming, the second prince of the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Tianming was also his cousin. No matter how much they fought among themselves, Dugu Han, who only came once every three years, had to go see him. He then went to see the Third Prince, the Fourth Prince, and his only cousin, Xu Tianzhen.

It was not until the evening that she accompanied her uncle the emperor, Xu Tianran, Xu Tianming and others to have a family dinner in the palace. Then she left the palace and took Xue Lao back to the princess mansion where her mother had lived.

The Emperor of the Sun-Moon Empire has always assigned people to take care of the Princess's Mansion, so all the items in it are available. The maids and servants in the mansion are also arranged from the imperial palace and can move in directly.

night!

Dugu Han sat at the desk, holding the auction catalog, staring at the words "External Soul Bone: Wings of the Ice Emperor" written on it, wondering whether he should bid for it tomorrow night.

The starting price for the Ice Emperor's Wings is eight million gold soul coins!
In the original novel, the golden left arm bone that is more than 10,000 years old comes from the soul bone of the Golden Earth Dragon King who has the pure blood of the Holy Dragon of Light, and its price is only 9.5 million gold soul coins.

Although the Wings of the Ice Emperor is an external soul bone, it is an external soul bone with a fixed age. The only thing that makes it better than ordinary soul bones is that it does not occupy the six major soul bone positions of the soul master, allowing the soul master to absorb one more soul bone.

But for high-level soul masters, having an extra soul bone that is less than two thousand years old will not significantly increase their strength.

Moreover, it is not cost-effective to use the price of a high-quality ten thousand year soul bone to buy a limited-edition thousand-year external soul bone.

So this price is definitely a lot higher.

However, Dugu Han could accept this price.

He doesn't care about the amount of money, he only cares about improving his own strength.

The problem now is that the two thousand year old external soul bone cannot bring him much improvement in strength unless the lost origin is replenished.

It’s just… Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin spent more than ten years, and only added less than eight hundred years to the Ice Emperor’s Wings, which shows how difficult it is to replenish its origin.

Dugu Han frowned deeply, constantly thinking about the treasures in the original book and in his own knowledge that could replenish the essence of the Ice Emperor's Wings.

"There seems to be a lot of heaven and earth energy in the Frost Pole Ice Spring. No, no, there are the corpses of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings beneath the spring. We can't stimulate them anymore."

"The Haotian Sect's Ten Thousand Years of Ice Jade Bed contains an incomparably vast amount of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi. It's definitely possible, but that's Tang San's territory, and there are also Da Ming and Er Ming in charge."

"The Ten Thousand Years Mysterious Ice Marrow is definitely also possible, but it's all been taken away by the Snow Queen. However, Xiaobai also got some..."

Dugu Han thought of Xiaobai, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

It was true that the Wanzai Xuanbingsui were all taken away by Xue Di, but Xue Di also gave six of them to Xiao Bai.

One of them was given by Xiaobai as compensation to the soul beast clan in the Far North that provided him with soul rings. Now only half of the ten thousand year old black ice marrow is left.

"My third soul ring can be used to hunt souls in the Arctic Ice Sea, where there are also top-level ice-attributed dragon soul beasts."

"In this way, the remaining half of the Ten Thousand Years Mysterious Ice Marrow can be saved!"

Dugu Han muttered to himself.

The Ten Thousand Years Mysterious Ice Marrow is the most precious treasure among all ice-attributed treasures. The energy contained in it is extremely huge. Even if it is only half of it, it can at least increase the lifespan of the Ice Emperor's Wings to ten thousand years!

And even if it cannot be upgraded, the Titan Snow Demon King still has a whole root of black ice marrow given by the Snow Queen to compensate the soul beast tribe in the Far North for the ten thousand years of black ice marrow.

"At worst, I can also go to the Arctic Ocean to absorb the fourth soul ring."

Dugu Han thought about it, then made up his mind after looking at the Ice Emperor's Wings in the auction catalog.

External soul bones are hard to come by!
External soul bones with ice attributes are even rarer!
Now that I have encountered it, and I have a way to replenish its essence and increase its lifespan, I must take a picture of it no matter what.

"But...8 million gold soul coins is a problem."

(End of this chapter)