Afterwards, Liu Erlong didn't want to move.
So Meng Bei lay in Liu Erlong's embrace, using her as a pillow.
Then Meng Bei took out the external spirit bone reward from the system quest.
Perhaps because the age was too low, this spirit bone had no name in the system.
This was a crystal blue spirit bone. The shape of this spirit bone was somewhat different from Zhu Zhuqing's—it wasn't a pair of wing bones, but six long rod-shaped bone frames connected together, three on the left and three on the right. No matter how Meng Bei looked at it, he couldn't tell what creature's wings these were.
Could it be a six-winged angel?
Meng Bei speculated.
Liu Erlong saw the spirit bone and perked up, sitting up to examine it:
"Could this be an external spirit bone? How did you get it?"
Seeing this, Meng Bei didn't answer but instead pinched Liu Erlong and said: "Didn't Aunt Erlong say she had no strength? How dare you lie to me?"
Liu Erlong quickly begged for mercy:
"Xiao Bei, I was wrong, Auntie was wrong. Don't punish Auntie..."
The next day, Meng Bei began absorbing the spirit bone.
Although Meng Bei still couldn't tell what soul beast's wings these were, since the system said it was the same type as Zhu Zhuqing's spirit bone, there should be no problem.
So Meng Bei absorbed the spirit bone.
Unlike the 100,000-year external spirit bone from last time, this spirit bone was only a thousand years old, so absorption wasn't difficult. It didn't take long before Meng Bei finished absorbing the spirit bone.
With a thought, the spirit bone instantly grew from his back!
Two pairs of new arms grew directly from his back. Combined with his original pair of arms, they formed six arms in three pairs.
Looking at the six arms on his body, Meng Bei's mentality instantly exploded, and he couldn't help but curse angrily in his heart:
Damn dog system backstabbed me! What do you mean "same type as Zhu Zhuqing's spirit bone"? How are arms and wings the same type?
At this moment, Meng Bei's appearance was truly ferocious. With six arms swaying around, he looked like an ancient demon. If he had another external spirit bone set called "Three Heads," it would be even more terrifying.
Three heads and six arms—this image was barely acceptable as positive in mythology, but if it really appeared in reality, it would be no different from a demon that could scare children silly.
Considering the impact, Meng Bei estimated he would have to reduce his use of this spirit bone in the future.
Initially, he was extremely unwilling, but in the end, Meng Bei had to accept reality. The spirit bone had already fused—he couldn't remove it again. Helplessly, he could only make do with it.
Next, Meng Bei named the ability of this external spirit bone set "Six Arms" based on its characteristics.
"Six Arms" provided far less enhancement to Meng Bei than Three Heads.
After all, Three Heads was a 100,000-year spirit bone while Six Arms was only a thousand years old. However, external spirit bones could grow with their host, so Meng Bei wasn't worried that Six Arms would hold him back.
However, it was worth mentioning that these six arms had other uses besides combat.
For example, Liu Erlong was currently unable to resist under the continuous attacks of the six arms, being beaten into complete defeat and utter embarrassment.
"You little rascal, you only know how to bully me."
Two days later, the group encountered a swarm of Purple Poison Bats in a cave. The Purple Poison Bat King among them happened to be a suitable soul beast for Dugu Yan, so everyone killed it and Dugu Yan successfully broke through.
Three days later, the group discovered a clan of Flame Martial Beasts in an extinct volcano. These were fire-attribute soul beasts that looked like bears and liked to live in lava caves.
The Flame Martial Beast King among them was a powerful beast king with over 70,000 years of cultivation. Although the age was a bit high, it was just right for Liu Erlong who had consumed double portions of immortal herbs.
Since the Flame Martial Beast King lived in a volcano, even though it was extinct, they couldn't be careless. If the battle triggered a volcanic eruption, it would be very troublesome. So everyone decided to first lure the beast king out before soul hunting.
Upon hearing this, Flender volunteered to lure the beast king out.
Meng Bei and the others lay in ambush outside. They saw Flender activate his martial soul possession and go provoke it, killing several Flame Martial Beasts in succession. He was a Soul Sage who could fly—ordinary Flame Martial Beasts couldn't do anything to him.
Before long, the Flame Martial Beast King couldn't help but rush out from the lava.
This was a massive soul beast over ten meters tall, covered in flame-red fur like fire. It looked like a giant bear but had a very long tail similar to a lizard's.
Flender flapped his wings and shot out more than ten sharp air blades in succession.
However, the Flame Martial Beast King didn't even bother dodging. Those air blades only left wounds a few centimeters deep on its body. Compared to the beast king's massive size, these wounds were no different from scratches.
In less than a moment, all the wounds had healed.
"Roar!"
The Flame Martial Beast King roared and actually conjured a massive lava sphere in its hands out of thin air, then hurled it at Flender.
Seeing this, Flender flapped his wings to dodge, but what he didn't expect was that this lava sphere actually exploded in mid-air and turned into streams of lava splashing everywhere.
Much of the lava landed on Flender. Fortunately, he unhesitatingly activated his martial soul true body at the critical moment, or he would have been burned by the lava.
After this exchange, Flender had roughly judged the Flame Martial Beast King's strength—high attack and thick defense. He definitely couldn't handle this soul beast alone.
So Flender decisively flew outward. After all, his original task was just to lure this soul beast out.
"Retreat!"
Soon, Flender transformed into a giant owl and flew out of the volcano.
During this, he didn't forget to continuously use various soul skills to attack the Flame Martial Beast King behind him.
The Flame Martial Beast King wasn't afraid of these soul skills, but the Flame Martial Beasts around it suffered many casualties from the aftershocks of these soul skills.
The Flame Martial Beast King was furious and angrily chased after Flender.
Meng Bei and the others were lying in ambush halfway.
The Flame Martial Beast King had just chased halfway when a Soul Douluo from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect appeared and used a soul skill that turned the ground into a large swamp. The Flame Martial Beast King was caught off guard and immediately fell to the ground.
Another Soul Douluo also appeared at this time.
He raised his hand to produce a large bow, drew the bowstring and shot an arrow, firing a lightning arrow that pinned itself to the Flame Martial Beast King's neck.
After the arrow hit, it didn't disappear. The arrowhead continuously released lightning power, creating crackling sounds on the Flame Martial Beast King's body.
Meng Bei also decisively attacked at this time, using his fifth soul skill—Ice Dragon Breath.
He breathed out a dragon's breath from his mouth, spraying it directly onto the Flame Martial Beast King.
Instantly, the dragon's breath ignited blue-white flames on the Flame Martial Beast King's body.
The flames clung like bone maggots—impossible to extinguish or put out.
The flames first burned across the Flame Martial Beast King's left leg. The beast king looked at the white flames burning with confusion because its body felt no pain, so it didn't pay attention to the flames but instead tried to pull out the arrow from its neck and struggled with all its might to drill out of the swamp.
However, the flames burned extremely fast. When the flames reached its abdomen, its left leg had already been burned into crystal white. With a crack, the left leg turned into ice shards.
The watching crowd's faces tightened, looking at Meng Bei with extreme fear.
"My God, what kind of soul skill is this? It's too terrifying!"
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