Douluo Continent: The Holy Evil Emperor

Right arm bone, but without the palm part.

“It’s just your right arm…” Moon said with some disappointment.

Although the right arm soul bone is equally precious, its value is greatly reduced compared to the external right claw soul bone. Even though he knew that the probability of obtaining an external soul bone was lower than that of a soul beast, Mu En always held some hope.

It's normal to be disappointed now that expectations haven't been met.

"Little Ye Qing already has a right arm bone, so this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear right arm bone... let's leave it for Bei Bei to absorb." After thinking for a while, Mu En put it in a box and put it away.

It's not that Mu En was biased in leaving Bei Bei with things Ye Qing couldn't use, but rather that this soul bone was dropped by Ye Qing during a soul hunt. Soul rings and soul bones produced by the same soul beast can only exert their maximum effect if a soul master absorbs them together.

However, considering that Ye Qing already had a right arm bone, and that this soul bone was indeed of the highest quality, Mu En had to leave something good for his great-grandson.

Because Mu En brought Ye Qing back the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in less than a day, Bei Bei, who was also preparing to go out hunting for souls, hadn't even set off yet.

At this juncture, if Beibei were to absorb a 20,000-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Bone, his maximum absorption lifespan would increase by at least 2,000 years, from 4,000 years to 6,000 years.

In this way, when Bei Bei undergoes a similar training as Ye Qing at the Soul Master stage, he will also be able to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring at his fourth soul ring.

Although he couldn't absorb a 20,000-year-old spirit ring as quickly as Ye Qing with his third spirit ring, he was still a four-ring black spirit ring. With two purple and four black spirit rings, Bei Bei's configuration was even better than Mu En's, just looking at his first four spirit rings.

How could Mu En possibly not care about his great-grandson?

In the original story, Bei Bei was just slacking off, and Mu En had no choice but to let him do as he pleased. Now that Bei Bei has shown a strong desire to cultivate, Mu En will naturally give him as much support as possible.

Anyway...

This soul bone was obtained through their own soul hunting, not as the academy's property. Mu En can decide how to distribute it, just like the Light-Breaking Demon Soul Bone.

After confirming that Ye Qing's absorption of the soul ring had entered a stable period and that there would be no unexpected events, Mu En's figure quietly disappeared. He stopped Bei Bei just as he was about to set off and handed him the soul bone.

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The sea of ​​spirit.

The seemingly majestic and powerful remnant soul of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear is currently enduring a one-sided beating from Ye Qing.

In terms of physical strength, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear is indeed incredibly powerful, but like the Golden Dragon King, it's all about physical strength; it's practically brainless.

The brain is not fully developed, and the cerebellum is completely underdeveloped.

Under these circumstances, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's mental strength and soul were naturally not very strong either. Faced with Ye Qing's condensed mental energy, it was directly beaten so badly that it didn't know how to fight back.

Every punch Ye Qing landed on it produced a shower of light from its soul. More importantly, he discovered that his spiritual sea was actively absorbing the shower of light falling from the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

With each punch, the remnant soul of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was weakened, while Ye Qing, having absorbed the Light Rain, would have an even stronger spiritual sea.

He could clearly feel that his spiritual sea was expanding rapidly.

Even when consuming rare and precious herbs and training his mental strength in the Fear Dragon's training chamber, his growth rate wasn't this fast.

The changes in the Sea of ​​Spirit made Ye Qing even more excited. He no longer looked at the remnant soul of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear as if it were an enemy, but rather as if it were a delicious feast.

No, this is a delicious feast!

Not long after, Ye Qing felt that his spiritual sea had expanded by at least one-fifth. If he were to eat the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear whole, wouldn't his spiritual power increase dramatically?

With this in mind, Ye Qing continued to pound the remnant soul of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, hammering it until it howled in pain. Finally, it exploded into pure soul power, which Ye Qing completely absorbed.

As Ye Qing had predicted, after he completely devoured the remnant soul of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, his spiritual sea expanded by at least 50% from its original size.

"No wonder a Soul Master's strength can increase dramatically with each additional ten-thousand-year Soul Ring. Soul vibration actually has such benefits." Ye Qing looked at his spiritual sea with a joyful expression.

In reality, the soul shocks of other soul masters have no such effect; they can only passively endure the attacks of the remnant souls of soul beasts until the power of the remnant souls of soul beasts is exhausted.

His ability to devour remnant souls is exactly the same as the powerful devouring ability of a certain evil god tiger.

The end of the soul tremor also means that Ye Qing has completely passed all the tests of absorbing the ten-thousand-year soul ring. Now he only needs to refine the remaining soul power in the soul ring to successfully absorb it and break through to the Soul Venerable level.

Time passes slowly.

After he completely refined the last bit of soul power in the soul ring into his own power, the deep soul ring surrounding him quietly merged into his body.

Absorption successful!

His level 30 soul power bottleneck suddenly broke through, and three soul rings—yellow, purple, and black—appeared on his body in succession.

Soul Master!

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P.S.: A 20,000-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear is guaranteed to drop a Soul Bone, but if it drops an External Soul Bone, it would seem too lucky and unrealistic. As for the Soul Bones in other parts, their age is too low. Even if Ye Qing doesn't like them, Mu En will still let him absorb them.

In conclusion, it would be better to use an existing right arm bone, which would not only match the prestige of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear but also prevent the protagonist from absorbing this 20,000-year-old soul bone.

Chapter 39 Devouring Talent, A Difficult Path

A powerful surge of soul power suddenly appeared. After the bottleneck of Soul Master was broken, Ye Qing's soul power level began to increase rapidly.

"A 20,000-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Ring, it should at least give me a few more levels, right?"

Just as Ye Qing was looking forward to breaking through several levels of his soul power, the crisp sound of the barrier shattering only occurred twice before it subsided.

Two...two levels?

The ultimate, overwhelming force finally landed on Ye Qing's face.

He originally thought that even though the energy in his soul ring was largely distributed among the three giants within his body, it would still help him increase his soul power by three levels, reaching level thirty-four. However, he could only barely reach level thirty-three, without even the motivation to climb any higher.

If it weren't for the fact that the Wings of Light's lifespan had been increased to at least two thousand years, and his own light elf wife's lifespan hadn't been upgraded from six or seven hundred years to a thousand years, Ye Qing would probably have seriously doubted whether the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's soul rings were too weak.

As it turns out, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's spirit rings are incredibly powerful.

The external soul bone, which absorbed only a small portion of the power, was upgraded to the two-thousand-year level, and the light spirit, which also absorbed a small portion of the power, advanced to the thousand-year soul beast level.

Ye Qing, who absorbed most of the soul power, only advanced two levels after breaking through the bottleneck.

Okay.

Now I finally understand why the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, despite having talent no less than any other soul beast, insists on using Devour to increase its lifespan. At this rate of cultivation improvement, it's better to take a shortcut by Devouring.

Does this mean that even the pure and noble Lord Ye Qing has to rely on grabbing and refining something instantly to increase his soul power?

Ye Qing, whose expression was somewhat uncertain, sat there silently for a long time.

With his soul power reaching this level, he naturally discovered his innate talent for devouring. No matter what kind of energy it was, once he ingested it, it would be digested at an extremely fast speed.

This is how Golden Tree tea is made.

The natural treasures and whale glue that enhance physical health are like this.

The same applies to various treasures that enhance mental strength.

He even ate the pearl that was used to help him train his mental strength, in order to test whether he had the talent to devour.

The result was that the pearl turned into dust, while Ye Qing's mental strength greatly increased.

This proves that he actually has the potential to become a Celestial Venerable.

However, since Lao Mu is still alive and at Shrek Academy, he doesn't dare to use this talent.

Ye Qing dared not gamble that they would protect him as they had protected Ma Xiaotao. Ma Xiaotao's evil fire could be dealt with, but his own devouring ability was an innate talent that he couldn't solve.

What if I'm mistaken for an evil spirit master and sent away?

You simply can't guess what Shrek's brain works like, because you can't possibly understand their thought process using normal human thinking.

Schrödinger's ancient theory is an example of this.

50%: This kid is one of our Shrek people, and his martial soul is of the light attribute. How could he possibly have a devouring talent? He just has a stronger digestion ability!

50%: I thought you were a Soul Master of the Light attribute, but I never expected you to possess such an outrageous ability. You born evil Soul Master brat, I will personally...

...It's hard to hold.

Forget it, I should just focus on my training first.

Ye Qing sighed inwardly, then turned to look at the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear corpse not far away. Except for its right arm, which had been cut off and dissected, all the flesh was intact and placed there.

It looks like the soul bone was taken away, and judging from its appearance, it was probably a right arm bone that was destroyed.

There were no signs of dissection on either side of the claws, only a gash on the right arm about the length of a human arm.

Ye Qing looked around again but didn't see Mu En or Ye Feng. It seemed that Mu En had probably gone to find Bei Bei after taking out the soul bone. Ye Qing could basically guess what Mu En was thinking.

He absorbed the Light-Slaying Demon Soul Bone before absorbing his second Soul Ring, which enabled him to absorb the 6,800-year-old Light Essence Soul Ring in his second Soul Ring.

Now, this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear has dropped a top-grade right arm bone. If Bei Bei absorbs it, the age of his third soul ring will also be greatly increased, laying the foundation for him to absorb a ten-thousand-year-level soul ring for his fourth soul ring.

Ye Qing had nothing to say about this.

Firstly, because he already had a bone in his right arm, taking another piece would be useless except for giving it to Ye Feng and Lao Deng, and selling it would be too wasteful.

Secondly, it was because Moon had taken him to kill the bear in the first place, and he hadn't done anything except sightseeing. So if Moon didn't give it to him, he had nothing to complain about.

If you want to give it to Beibei, then give it to Beibei.

If Beibei is too weak, there's no sense of accomplishment in beating her, and that would be a loss of emotional value for me.

Of course, since the soul bone had already been taken by Mu En, Ye Qing would gladly accept the corpse of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

In the original novel, Huo roasted the meat of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. The text described it as so fragrant and delicious that Xiao Xiao almost ate her tongue. It also mentioned that the two paws of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear were rare delicacies.

Since they describe this stuff as so delicious, they must be the ones to criticize it.

Well... at most, after it's made, I'll just give Ye Feng, Lao Deng, and Mu En a little something as a token of my respect.