First Line of Sky Gorge.
After Tang Hao breathed his last, his body was quickly corroded and dissolved by various potent poisons, leaving behind only two high-quality Spirit Tools and six Spirit Bones emitting powerful energy fluctuations.
The pressure released by the six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones combined was enough to suppress an ordinary Soul Emperor in place, rendering them unable to move.
However, the pressure emanating from these six Spirit Bones was entirely blocked by the old butler, and did not affect Lin Rong.
"Spirit Bones are one thing, but these two Spirit Tools actually remained undamaged by the potent poison. It seems their quality is no inferior to Yu Xiaogang's jade belt."
Under Lin Rong's mental command, these eight items floated in mid-air. The moisture in the air condensed into clear water, washing away the residual poison on them.
After they were cleaned.
Lin Rong skipped over the six Spirit Bones and first examined the two Spirit Tools.
The designs of these two Spirit Tools were different.
One was an Obsidian Ring, engraved with the Clear Sky Hammer pattern, likely a Spirit Tool passed down from the Clear Sky Sect.
The other was a Coral Pendant, with no immediately apparent special features.
Both the Obsidian Ring and the Coral Pendant were top-tier Spirit Tools capable of storing living beings.
And that Hundred Thousand Year Transformed Spirit Beast was imprisoned by Tang Hao within the Coral Pendant.
Lin Rong's spiritual power probed inside, and he saw Xiao Wu, emaciated and starved unconscious.
"It seems Tang Hao was in too much of a hurry to travel and didn't have time to feed this rabbit for the past ten days."
"Never mind, as long as this rabbit hasn't reached its mature stage, it's not truly considered human yet. With a hundred thousand years of cultivation, it won't starve to death."
Inside this Coral Pendant, besides this rabbit, there were some miscellaneous items belonging to women. Lin Rong estimated that this Spirit Tool was likely used by Tang San's mother during her lifetime.
The Obsidian Ring contained a much greater variety of items.
Among them were several books, suspected to be left by Tang Chen, containing cultivation insights on the Clear Sky Hammer, the Nine Absolute Skills of Clear Sky, and the Great Sumeru Hammer.
"As expected of Tang Chen's most favored grandson, his possessions are befitting Tang Hao's status as the former young sect master of the number one sect in the world."
After examining the two Spirit Tools, Lin Rong then turned his gaze to the six Spirit Bones floating beside them, sensing their age:
Head Bone, forty-seven thousand years.
Torso Bone, seventy-eight thousand years.
Right Arm Bone, eighty-three thousand years.
Left Arm Bone, forty-four thousand years.
Left Leg Bone, seventy-two thousand years.
Right Leg Bone, fifty-seven thousand years.
"The Left Arm Bone, with the lowest age of forty-four thousand years, it makes me wonder where Tang Hao found so many top-grade Spirit Bones in this era where Spirit Bones are scarce."
"But these no longer matter. After all, no matter how much Tang Hao gained, it ultimately benefited me."
Saying this, Lin Rong moved the two inherited Spirit Bones from the Clear Sky Sect among the six Spirit Bones to the front of the old butler.
Without Lin Rong needing to say more, the old butler understood and carefully put away these two Spirit Bones.
"There are four more Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones here. Combined with the two Spirit Bones dropped by the Green Wood Twin Lotus, I now have a total of six Spirit Bones at my disposal."
"I need to think carefully about how to best allocate these six Spirit Bones."
Lin Rong collected the four Spirit Bones suspended in the air, released the Nine Bend Vine Dragon, and had it carry himself and the old butler towards Holy Spirit Village.
Dragons are naturally adept at riding the mists and clouds. Flying in the air allows them to ignore terrain, which is much faster than Tang Hao traveling on foot.
Within five days.
The Nine Bend Vine Dragon carried them to the skies above Holy Spirit Village.
Lin Rong stood on the dragon's head, holding the parchment map obtained from Tang Hao's Spirit Tool, looking around for something.
"Waterfall, a big waterfall, oh, in that direction."
Above the clouds.
Lin Rong spotted a torrential flow of water descending from the clouds in the distance. The Nine Bend Vine Dragon, connected to Lin Rong's thoughts, immediately flew towards that location at full speed.
Although it appeared close from above the clouds, the actual distance was considerable.
They flew for a full half-hour before reaching the location.
This area was surrounded by mountains.
Within the entire mountain range, even the outermost peaks soared into the clouds, and each mountain was extremely steep, nearly a ninety-degree vertical drop.
In the original story, Tang Hao took Tang San half a day to traverse countless mountains to reach the waterfall valley deep within the mountain range from the outside.
One could imagine how far it was between the outer edges of the mountain range and that waterfall valley.
"This is more like it. It wouldn't be easy to find the place where Tang Hao settled his wife."
"The terrain of this mountain range is treacherous. Without flying Spirit Skills, it would take at least a Soul Saint's cultivation to cross these steep cliffs one after another."
"And the mountain range is so vast that the roar of the waterfall cannot be heard from the outer perimeter. How would outsiders find that valley?"
"What do you mean you could go to that valley at levels twenty or thirty and steal the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone? That's just lying with your eyes open!"
Lin Rong grumbled inwardly as the Nine Bend Vine Dragon carried him and the old butler through layers of clouds and mist, arriving at the valley.
The roar of the sky-reaching waterfall was deafening.
"The cave entrance is over there."
Through his senses, Lin Rong pinpointed the location of the Blue Silver Grass within the cave and thus locked onto the cave entrance hidden behind the waterfall.
Without him needing to say anything, the old butler made his move, using his Soul Power to protect them both.
Then, the Nine Bend Vine Dragon carried them charging towards a spot within the waterfall.
*Boom~*
The rocks concealing the cave entrance were shattered, and the Nine Bend Vine Dragon successfully carried them into the cave behind the waterfall.
Because the light was blocked by the waterfall, the cave was very dark, to the point where one couldn't see their hand in front of their face.
At this moment, a faint starlight appeared around the old butler, dispelling the darkness in the cave and revealing the environment.
Lin Rong and the old butler walked further in, reaching the very top at the deepest part of the cave, a stone room about ten square meters in size built by Tang Hao.
In the center of the stone room, within a small mound of earth, a Blue Silver Grass with fine golden patterns grew quietly.
"If the Blue Silver Empress is here, then that Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone must be there!"
Lin Rong stood beside the small mound, using the life aura of the Blue Silver Grass to forcefully lock onto the location of the Soul Bone contained within the Lead Box.
Instantly, a streak of azure lightning struck a certain spot on the ceiling of the stone room.
With a ding, a dark object fell from above, landing at Lin Rong's feet.
The damaged Lead Box opened on its own, and the crystal-clear, blue-gold Soul Bone within floated before Lin Rong.
A gentle life aura emanated from this blue-gold Soul Bone, and specks of golden starlight flickered within it, making its extraordinary nature obvious at a glance.
"Finally, I got it. My first Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone."
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