In the small dirt mound, the Blue Silver Grass with golden fine lines sensed the situation outside, its blue-gold leaves swaying slightly, silently protesting.
Lin Rong glanced back at the small dirt mound on the ground as if sensing something, thinking to himself:
"Is it regaining consciousness? Or is this just a reaction out of instinct?"
"But it doesn't matter. Whether it regains consciousness or not, it won't affect me refining the imperial bloodline of the Blue Silver Grass clan."
"And before that, I need to finish absorbing this Spirit Bone. Only then can I refine the bloodline in its most complete form."
With that thought, Lin Rong spoke to the old butler beside him:
"Grandpa Yu, I've asked Little Qing to guard us. You should take this time to absorb those two Spirit Bones as well!"
The place they were in was behind a ten-thousand-foot waterfall, making it both safe and hidden. With the Nine Bend Vine Dragon guarding them, their safety was completely guaranteed.
Therefore, the old butler didn't insist on guarding Lin Rong. Instead, he silently nodded, found a spot in the stone chamber, sat down cross-legged, and took out one of the two Spirit Bones from his Spirit Tool, the Right Arm Bone, to begin absorbing it.
Beside him, Lin Rong also found a place to sit cross-legged. Before absorbing the Spirit Bone, he gave a final reminder to the Nine Bend Vine Dragon.
"Little Qing, keep a good eye on this Blue Silver Grass, but don't you dare eat it. I have important plans for it, understand?"
As his voice fell, the Nine Bend Vine Dragon showed a human-like expression and nodded obediently. Its majestic dragon head looked surprisingly cute.
Seeing this, Lin Rong said no more. However, as the Spirit Bone attached to his right leg, just before he began absorbing it, he sent a final command through telepathic communication:
"Go play if you want, just don't kill this grass."
One second later.
The Nine Bend Vine Dragon found that its master had entered a meditative state. The obedient expression on its face instantly vanished. It flew to the sky above the small dirt mound, looking like a curious baby.
Inside the small dirt mound, the Blue Silver Grass sensed the faint Dragon Might emanating from the Nine Bend Vine Dragon. Its slender leaves trembled slightly, as if conveying fear.
The Nine Bend Vine Dragon, circling in mid-air, looked at the frightened Blue Silver Grass. It raised its dragon claw, and a trace of blue-green arc lightning flickered at the tip of its claw.
But soon, the Nine Bend Vine Dragon remembered its master's instructions and controlled the arc lightning on its claw, reducing its power to less than one-tenth of its original strength.
The next moment, this faint arc of lightning landed on the leaves of the Blue Silver Grass, and the air was immediately filled with a fresh, slightly burnt aroma.
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An hour later.
Lin Rong finished absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and opened his eyes. He saw the wilted Blue Silver Grass in the small dirt mound not far away.
The Nine Bend Vine Dragon was circling in the air, continuously injecting life force to maintain the Blue Silver Grass's vitality.
Seeing his master wake up, it lowered its dragon head with a guilty look.
"It's okay, it's not dead yet, is it?"
Lin Rong gently reassured it. His peripheral vision swept over the old butler who was still absorbing the second Spirit Bone, the Left Leg Bone, and he walked towards the small dirt mound.
"Alright, you don't need to inject life force into it anymore. I'll start refining the royal bloodline within it now."
With that, Lin Rong circulated the Marrow Cleansing Scripture and entered a meditative state.
At the same time, his innate domain expanded, covering the Blue Silver Grass within the small dirt mound.
The Blue Silver Grass, rooted in the mound, was drawn upwards and hovered in mid-air.
Immediately after, a massive life force surged into the Blue Silver Grass. Under Lin Rong's control, its life fire was ignited.
The blue-gold life flame burned in mid-air, beautiful and stunning, evoking a sense of admiration and pity for its desolate beauty.
The Blue Silver Grass slowly dissolved in the blue-gold flames, leaving behind drops of blue liquid that faintly emanated golden light.
After about half a cup of tea's time.
The Blue Silver Grass burned to ashes, the blue-gold flames dissipated, leaving nine drops of crystal-clear blue blood suspended in mid-air.
Lin Rong took out a prepared warm jade bottle and carefully collected these nine drops of blue blood.
After collecting them, Lin Rong stoppered the bottle and weighed the jade bottle in his hand, thinking:
"By absorbing this hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, the residual Soul Power on the Spirit Bone allowed me to break through from level fifty-six to level fifty-eight."
"In about four more months, I'll be able to cultivate to level sixty and head to the Blue Silver Forest to obtain my sixth Spirit Ring."
"By then, these nine drops of imperial bloodline from the Blue Silver Grass clan will be able to serve their intended purpose."
"A Six-Ring Soul Emperor, the sixth Spirit Ring, the last Spirit Ring before the Martial Soul True Body. I'm quite looking forward to it."
This Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, being a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone, brought immense benefits to Lin Rong.
As a top-tier plant Spirit Beast, the Blue Silver Emperor's resulting Spirit Bone possessed wood and life attributes. In terms of attributes, it was extremely compatible with the Nine Bend Vine Dragon, which also had a top-tier plant Martial Soul.
Among the four Spirit Bones Lin Rong currently possessed, only the external Spirit Bone, Heart of the Banyan Wood, had a higher compatibility than the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
With extremely high compatibility, coupled with the inherent strength of the Nine Bend Vine Dragon Martial Soul.
The two Spirit Bone skills granted to Lin Rong by this hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone were extremely effective, and while similar to the two Spirit Skills Tang San obtained after absorbing this Spirit Bone in the original work, they were also different.
The two Spirit Skills Tang San obtained after absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone were flight and healing.
That healing Spirit Skill, in the more literary terms of the original work, was like "Wildfire cannot burn it all, it grows again in the spring breeze."
And the two Spirit Skills Lin Rong obtained after absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone were also flight and healing.
However, the effects of these two major spirit abilities were far stronger than Tang San's corresponding abilities in the original work.
Among them, after the flight spirit ability merged with the Nine Bend Vine Dragon Martial Soul, this spirit bone ability should have been called "Soaring Through Clouds and Riding the Mist."
Not only was its flight speed much faster than "Flight," but it also possessed the ability to control the weather.
As for the healing spirit ability, it was also an uninterrupted healing spirit ability.
Tang San's ability only showed a significant healing effect in areas where Blue Silver Grass was dense and thriving.
In places without Blue Silver Grass, the healing effect was so weak it was as if it didn't exist.
But Lin Rong's healing was no longer limited to just Blue Silver Grass; it was effective on any type of plant.
"It's a pity that among these two spirit bone spirit abilities, the effect of the healing spirit ability can also be achieved by the Life Dragon Soul, an exclusive effect of the talent domain."
"Therefore, this spirit ability overlaps in function with the talent domain, and can only be considered a nice addition for now."
Lin Rong felt a slight regret about this.
In addition to the two major spirit bone spirit abilities, this hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone also greatly improved Lin Rong's physical fitness.
It finally allowed him to use Exploding Ring without any reservations at his current stage, without worrying that the abilities he could unleash without Exploding Ring would exceed his body's limits.
Originally, this spirit bone also had the effect of expanding meridians, but Lin Rong practiced the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, and his meridians had already been nurtured to their most perfect state by the scripture's power since he was in his mother's womb.
Therefore, the effect of the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone expanding meridians was not manifested at all.
Lin Rong put away the jade bottle and sat down beside the old butler, quietly waiting for him to finish absorbing the Left Leg Bone.
The old butler's Soul Power reached level ninety-six, so his speed in absorbing spirit bones was much faster than Lin Rong's.
Therefore, it took Lin Rong an hour to absorb one spirit bone.
The old butler had already finished absorbing one spirit bone and was nearing completion of his second.
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