Chapter 215: Hundred Thousand Years Skull
"It's actually Dragon Dance!"
Mo Hui was visibly surprised after sensing the soul skill he had obtained.
Originally, he had thought that although his second martial spirit, Gyarados, was strong, it still lacked something essential.
But now, with the addition of the unique skill Dragon Dance, everything had changed.
Dragon Dance is similar to Pidgeot's Self-Motivation. Both are incredibly powerful buff-type abilities. The difference lies in their enhancement focus: Self-Motivation boosts Mo Hui's double attack stats, while Dragon Dance boosts his attack and speed.
And because Dragon Dance came from a 100,000-year-old soul ring, the amplification effect wasn't just stronger than Self-Motivation—it also scaled up much more rapidly.
Even if he gained nothing else from this encounter, Dragon Dance alone had elevated the Gyarados martial spirit's combat ability to a level comparable to Lion Douluo.
The other soul skill granted by the alien sea dragon was Scale Shooting, which didn't surprise Mo Hui. The sea dragon had used similar attacks earlier, so it made sense that after integration, this would be one of the acquired skills.
Then, Mo Hui sighed with a trace of regret:
"What a pity. That blue missile move the sea dragon used was also quite good."
Even with a 100,000-year soul ring, one could only receive two soul skills. Aside from Dragon Dance and Scale Shooting, the rest simply couldn't be obtained.
But Mo Hui quickly let go of the regret. Two strong skills were already a stroke of great fortune—he couldn't ask for everything.
After collecting materials from the alien sea dragon's body, he soon discovered a soul bone.
The type of soul bone, however, left him a little awkward.
"A head soul bone? But isn't it said that 100,000-year soul beasts always drop the part that's missing?"
Mo Hui frowned slightly as he looked at the skull bone lying before him.
Pidgeot already had a head soul bone, so this one could only be absorbed by Mo Hui himself—meaning the energy it could offer might be less efficient.
But then his eyes widened slightly.
"Wait… I don't have a soul bone myself, do I?"
He suddenly remembered: he had obtained four soul bones before, but apart from the Exploding Flame Arm Bone, which he hadn't used due to its fire attribute, the other three were all given to Pidgeot.
At this moment, Mo Hui had no soul bones at all!
So, it made perfect sense for the explosion to produce a skull bone.
In a way, this was incredibly lucky—among all soul bones (excluding external and torso bones), the head soul bone was the rarest. It was much better than getting a common arm or leg bone.
Looking at the 100,000-year skull bone in his hand, Mo Hui said with mild helplessness,
"In that case, I'll just absorb it myself. The benefits may not be as big as if Pidgeot had taken it, but a 100,000-year soul bone is still a 100,000-year soul bone."
In the first generation, 100,000-year rings and bones were incredibly rare. Aside from the main characters, only the three Extreme Douluo and Golden Crocodile Douluo were confirmed to possess 100,000-year soul rings.
Even then, the rings of Poseidon and Qian Daoliu were likely forcibly upgraded via god-level trials—and might not have come with 100,000-year soul bones at all.
In the original story, the number of clear 100,000-year soul beasts barely reached double digits, while there were dozens of Titled Douluo. Most of them couldn't get a 100,000-year soul ring, let alone a soul bone.
Not to mention, most Titled Douluo couldn't even defeat a 100,000-year soul beast in the first place.
Just look at Tang Hao—if it hadn't been for his wife's sacrifice, he wouldn't have obtained a 100,000-year soul ring at all.
Even Qian Xunji, the former Pope of Spirit Hall, only had two yellow, two purple, and five black rings—no 100,000-year ring.
With that, Mo Hui once again mounted Pidgeot, letting her fly slowly to continue searching for a way out while he sat cross-legged to refine the 100,000-year skull bone.
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Half a month later, Mo Hui had fully refined the skull bone, and his physical attributes saw a clear boost.
Opening his eyes with pleasant surprise, Mo Hui said:
"Truly a case of losing in one place and gaining in another. I never thought the skills from this skull bone would be those two."
Though the soul bone didn't grant another buff like Dragon Dance, it provided two extremely powerful offensive abilities.
One of them was the blue homing missile that Mo Hui had been coveting.
Now fully integrated into his system of soul skills, it had transformed into the Pokémon move:
Draco Meteor — or Meteor Swarm.
Because it originated from a 100,000-year soul bone, its power was even greater than the original version. It had no stat-reduction drawbacks, and the smaller meteors it split into had tracking capabilities, making them nearly impossible to dodge.
The other ability was called Dragon Dive, a powerful close-range attack similar to Pidgeot's Brave Bird Strike—except Dragon Dive was instant, requiring no charge-up time.
This gave it a huge advantage in future Mega Form transformations.
"Maybe, in terms of raw combat power… Gyarados might actually surpass Pidgeot's martial spirit in the future."
Mo Hui stroked his chin in thought.
As his first martial spirit, Pidgeot had an innate disadvantage. The lowest soul ring age on Gyarados was 80,000+ years.
And what about Pidgeot?
1st ring: 350-year Gale Wolf
2nd ring: 900-year Blue Rainbow Falcon
3rd ring: 2,000-year Hurricane Bird
Though those were the best options back then, comparing them to Gyarados now… the gap was obvious.
Still, Mo Hui had no regrets.
If given the same choices under the same circumstances, he would still choose the same path.
Only by making the best choices in the present can one enjoy a stronger future.
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A month later, Mo Hui and Pidgeot finally flew out of the unknown sea and returned to the charted waters opened up by the Sea God.
The ocean, Mo Hui now understood clearly, was far larger than the Douluo Continent.
Even with Pidgeot's current speed—fast enough to cross the entire continent in under an hour—they were lost at sea for a full month before finding their way back.
Pidgeot hadn't even flown at full speed, since they had to scout the surroundings and avoid more mishaps. But still—it showed just how vast the sea really was.
And this was just the known sea area opened up by Poseidon. Even that was four times larger than the Douluo Continent!
Soon, following the directions of the sea chart, Mo Hui rode Pidgeot at full speed toward Poseidon Island.
There, a long-awaited battle was waiting for him.
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