One bear gallbladder, one pair of bear paws, half a bear pelt...
Although Di Tian had the upper hand in the battle just now, when it came to the scramble for Xiong Jun, Di Tian could be said to have lost completely.
"Hehe... hahaha... woo-hoo~~~"
Yang Fan's smile gradually became twisted and increasingly out of control.
At this moment...
Lying quietly in his palm was a spirit bone.
This was no ordinary fierce beast spirit bone!
It was a palm bone existing outside the six spirit bone locations on a spirit master's body—the external spirit bone that countless spirit masters on the Douluo Continent frequently discussed with great interest.
External spirit bones were the most special and also the rarest type of spirit bone.
If the probability of ordinary spirit bones appearing from spirit beasts was one in a thousand, then the probability of external spirit bones appearing wasn't even one in ten thousand.
A ten-thousand-year external spirit bone could rival top-tier hundred-thousand-year spirit bones, and the one in his hand that was nearly five hundred thousand years old was already unmatched.
In current records on the Douluo Continent regarding external spirit bones, the absorption condition required absorbing the spirit ring of the spirit beast that dropped the bone, and the spirit ring had to be absorbed first before the bone could be absorbed.
This setting was complete nonsense!
The Douluo Continent ten thousand years later had already slapped this rule in the face repeatedly.
*Ha—*
Yang Fan breathed out a mouthful of "immortal air," then wiped it vigorously with his sleeve.
Shiny and bright!
The palm bone dropped by Xiong Jun flickered with golden light all over, exceptionally dazzling under the sunlight's illumination.
"Aiya—"
"This trip to the Star Dou Great Forest was truly not in vain."
Based on his understanding of Xiong Jun, this fellow should be a super fierce beast that had already reached four hundred ninety thousand years.
Putting on a four hundred ninety thousand year external spirit bone...
The question was: who on the Douluo Continent could still control him?
The only pity was watching Xiong Jun's spirit ring dissipate into the air felt quite wasteful.
But there was no way to absorb it!
Not only because of his requirements for spirit rings, but also because it had been left behind at the location of the battle with Di Tian just now.
Of course!
Besides these items, there was one more thing equally important to Yang Fan.
Xiong Jun's essence blood!
A four hundred ninety thousand year Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear had already entered the ranks of seventh-tier magical beasts, so the essence blood naturally already met the conditions for refining the Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill.
This was another breakthrough in physical reconstruction for him and for Yao Lao.
Although Yao Lao's expression didn't show much fluctuation, as a disciple, he could sense the trembling in Yao Lao's emotions.
"Already satisfied?"
"That doesn't seem like you!"
Yao Lao's smile was playful and profound, giving off a strong sense of something worth pondering.
He knew it!
The old man was definitely hiding something.
"Master."
"You must have a way to deal with Di Tian, right? Tell me so your disciple can be happy with you."
Yang Fan put on a fawning smile.
"Actually, it's nothing much. Just during the battle just now, I used Dou Qi to quietly deliver an inconspicuous drug to Di Tian."
"This drug was something I refined back on the Dou Qi Continent when I had nothing to do, specifically designed to deal with dark attribute cultivators."
Yao Lao indicated that this was also a helpless move on his part.
Dragons were already powerful beasts without natural enemies, coupled with Di Tian's considerable strength.
So he could only target the attribute!
"This drug... what effect does it have?"
Yao Lao generally didn't easily play with poison unless encountering extremely tricky situations.
This also showed that this fellow Di Tian was indeed hard to deal with!
"This powder can make dark attribute cultivators become extremely irritable for a period of time."
This effect seemed useless, but battles between experts often came down to the slightest margin.
At this moment... Yao Lao added another sentence.
"However, with the aphrodisiac I mixed in, it might produce unexpected effects."
???
Yang Fan's head was now full of question marks.
Old improper person!
How bored must one be to develop the research of aphrodisiacs.
"This move is too sinister!"
Yang Fan rubbed his chin and gave this operation a very fair evaluation.
"This is called strategy!"
Yao Lao's lecturing palm knocked on Yang Fan's skull.
Then he said: "This was all taught to me by Dugu Bo; if it's sinister, that's his business."
"Will it be effective?"
Di Tian was a half-god level expert—converted, he was already equivalent to peak Dou Huang.
"Why don't you try it?"
Yao Lao was fully confident in his research.
That was something he had refined back when he was the Medicine Venerable.
Very potent!
If the drug was administered orally, it would certainly be hard to deceive Di Tian, but from the moment Di Tian exchanged palms with him, he had already lost.
"Heh... forget it!"
After Di Tian ate the aphrodisiac, he could still find female beasts to vent. Where could he go to vent if he ate it?
Speaking of which...
The Emperor of the Star Dou Great Forest being drugged—the female beasts around him would surely suffer terribly.
"No need to be so nervous."
"We're not in a hurry to make a comeback now; you can completely absorb this external spirit bone first."
Yang Fan expressed agreement with both hands!
At this time, even the rabbit holes in the core region might not escape Di Tian's clutches.
Going now would likely result in failing to deal with Di Tian and getting violated instead.
*Ha—*
Yang Fan looked at the sparkling external palm bone in his hand, a knowing smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.
"Master, I'm starting!"
Although external spirit bones were special and precious, their essence was still spirit bones.
So the absorption method was no different from ordinary spirit bones.
Yang Fan sat cross-legged...
Naturally extending his right palm, he slowly placed the palm bone on the back of his hand.
When spirit power circulated within his body and flowed to his palm, it quickly caused energy fluctuations in this golden palm bone.
*Sizzle—*
A current of electricity went straight from his palm to his brain stem, making him instantly feel as if his cranial nerves had been fiercely stabbed.
Pain!
Logically speaking, spirit bone absorption absolutely shouldn't produce any danger.
"This is the soul resentment of the Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear; use your soul power to resolve it yourself."
When spirit beasts died unwillingly, they would produce this kind of soul resentment.
The more powerful the spirit beast, the stronger it was!
Even many spirit beast corpses that had been silent for hundreds of years could still emit soul resentment.
"Understood!"
Fortunately, his soul power was strong enough to easily handle the soul resentment contained in the palm bone.
However, this Xiong Jun was truly unrepentant even in death.
Actually trying to trick him again after dying.
After this small setback, Yang Fan's absorption of the external palm bone went straight onto the broad road.
Starting absorption in the afternoon, by the next morning he had smoothly equipped the palm bone on his hand.
Palm bone: Activate!
The four hundred ninety thousand year Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear palm bone appeared in brilliant gold. When released, it wasn't the kind of claws similar to Wolverine's, but rather more like a Thanos gauntlet, only the one on his hand had a lighter, more tactile feel.
Free and easy, carrying love through to the end!
Honestly...
Gauntlets were much better than claws. The most obvious manifestation was that he could grip the Breaking Soul Spear and Heavy Xuan Ruler with them; otherwise, the conflict between these three would surely give him a headache.
However, from the surface, the absorbed palm bone only provided him with an ordinary-looking gauntlet.
Fortunately, he had previously encountered situations where spirit bones didn't provide skills, so he didn't panic too much.
He took out the Asura Sword, but gripped not the hilt, but the blade.
"Damn... not bad!"
With just slight force, he squeezed the Asura Sword until it creaked.
This was a divine weapon!
Ordinary weapons or spirit bones would have become victims under the sword by now.
This was just using one-tenth of his strength to achieve effects that previously required his full effort.
In other words, this gauntlet could amplify his strength tenfold.
When he used the gauntlet just now, he also discovered it came with a passive domain skill of ultimate metal that allowed him to hit opponents with one hundred percent accuracy if their strength was lower than his.
This was practically instant kill!
"Try with strange fire."
Under Yao Lao's reminder, Yang Fan successively tested with strange fire and ten-thousand-year ice essence.
Results obtained: Fire immunity, cold immunity!
Of course...
This was just a simple test. If strange fire burned continuously, no matter what spirit bone it was, it couldn't withstand the torment.
The overall test results showed that this palm bone was perfectly integrated offense and defense.
*Drip—*
A drop of green liquid fell on the gauntlet, making Yang Fan's eyes nearly pop out in fright.
"Master, what are you doing?"
If he saw correctly, that drop of green liquid just now should have been the venom released by Dugu Bo's ninth spirit ability.
It had very strong corrosive properties and a strong smell of urine.
Most outrageously, Yao Lao had also added extract of Snow-colored Swan Kiss, amplifying this corrosive effect a thousandfold.
"Not bad!"
"This gauntlet of yours is good stuff."
"Not afraid of heat, not afraid of cold—when refining poison pills in the future, you can just scoop them directly out of the pill furnace."
Yang Fan could tell that Yao Lao's words were sincere praise, but hearing them in his heart made him inexplicably unable to feel happy.
"Master... here!"
Yang Fan handed the essence blood taken from Xiong Jun to Yao Lao.
From the Extreme North to now, the medicinal ingredients needed to refine the Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill had long been memorized by heart.
Dragon Blood Lingzhi, Bone Spirit Fruit, seventh-tier magical beast essence blood...
More than seventy medicinal ingredients in total, over a dozen of which could be collected on the Douluo Continent, and another fifty-plus that could be substituted with similar-effect medicinal ingredients.
The only difficulty was a plant called Profound Heaven Green Vine.
This medicinal ingredient, Profound Heaven Green Vine, was extremely rare on the Dou Qi Continent; Yao Lao had only seen it once in his youth.
Time had passed...
He could no longer describe the appearance of this plant to Yang Fan with both text and images, but he could be certain that if he saw it, he would definitely recognize it.
This was troublesome!
Because this prevented him from inquiring about it with a picture like he did with the Bone Spirit Fruit.
It was currently certain that there was no plant called Profound Heaven Green Vine on the Douluo Continent.
The next situation could only be one of two possibilities: either the Douluo Continent simply didn't have Profound Heaven Green Vine, or Profound Heaven Green Vine was called by another name on the Douluo Continent.
"Master, rest assured, we will definitely find it."
He had already asked his grandfather Yang Wudi to buy one of every strange medicinal herb he encountered.
His grandfather was very willing!
He had always wanted to repay Yao Lao's kindness to the Breaking Clan, but unfortunately had never had the opportunity.
Not to mention one!
Even buying ten of each medicinal herb wouldn't make him hesitate in the slightest.
The Breaking Clan's current business territory already encompassed every city in the Heaven Dou Empire.
He really didn't believe that among these medicinal herbs, there wouldn't be the Profound Heaven Green Vine that Yao Lao wanted.
Even if there wasn't, he hoped to find a perfect substitute.
"Master believes!"
Yao Lao tightly clutched Xiong Jun's essence blood in his hand.
Now, every item collected could make Yao Lao's mood fluctuate continuously for several days.
He now believed he could complete the reconstruction of his physical body on the Douluo Continent.
"Alright!"
"Let's go see what Di Tian is doing now."
A playful smile appeared at the corners of Yao Lao's mouth.
Don't let his age fool you—his heart was still as youthful as a child's.
"Let's go!"
Yang Fan was actually somewhat impatient as well.
A night had passed; who knew how the female beasts of the spirit beast forest were faring.
Hang in there!
Kind-hearted humans have come to rescue you fallen beast women.
...
Douluo Core Region.
This was a place in the entire Star Dou Great Forest that only fierce beasts could reach.
Powerful as they were, even the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python could only stand on the periphery of the core region, diligently working as security guards.
Originally, the fierce beasts had been living in harmony because they had captured a nearly million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
But today, this peace had been inexplicably broken.
"Di Tian."
"Calm down."
"What exactly is going on?"
"Did those hateful spirit masters do something to you?"
Chaos!
The entire core region had now become a complete mess.
Di Tian had become "Day Heaven"!
Now going crazy and attacking anyone he saw.
"Where is Xiong Jun?"
"Where the hell did that fellow run off to?"
The other fierce beasts now missed Xiong Jun, the brainless rebellious traitor, immensely.
This fellow dared to openly question Di Tian; if he were here, he would definitely dare to use brute force.
*Ah—*
At this moment, Di Tian felt a surge of restlessness in his heart, no longer remembering how many times he had switched between his black dragon body and human body.
And that wasn't all!
What was most restless was that the thick dark attribute within his body was actually restless beyond his control.
Damnable human spirit master!
Actually gave him such a potent poison.
He had tried more than once to expel the poison from his body, but this poison was like a maggot attached to bone, penetrating deep into the marrow.
"Bi Ji, come here."
A woman in green clothes hurriedly shook her head in refusal.
No!
She didn't want to die yet.
"Di Tian, calm down."
"You are the patriarch of the Black Dragon Clan, the head of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts—how can you be controlled by human poison?"
"If only the master could wake up now, she would definitely have a way to solve the poison in Di Tian's body."
The fierce beasts watched Di Tian struggling hard but couldn't help in any way.
All they could do was maintain a safe distance from being violated.
"Big brothers."
"Why don't you let me go first?"
It would have been better if the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hadn't spoken; the moment he opened his mouth, he immediately attracted Di Tian's attention.
*Gulp~~*
"Big... big brother, this kind of joke can't be made."
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