Chapter 57: External Soul Bone
"Tianmeng, help me keep watch on the surroundings; I need to recover my Soul Power."
Lin Xuan withdrew his gaze from the black Soul Ring hovering over the Six-Armed Demon Ape's corpse, sat down cross-legged, and began to meditate to recover his Soul Power.
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After putting in so much effort to obtain this Soul Ring, it would be a huge loss if he didn't absorb it.
"Oh... oh, okay! No problem! Leave it to me!" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm snapped out of its daze. It hesitated for a moment, then finally couldn't help but ask out of curiosity,
"Lin Xuan, what kind of weapon was that you used just now? It could actually break through the Six-Armed Demon Ape's defense directly."
Lin Xuan was silent for a moment. "The Heavenly Restriction Inverted Spear of Heaven. It has only one ability: it can forcibly nullify all Martial Soul Abilities."
"..."
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was dumbfounded. What did he mean by 'can forcibly nullify all Martial Soul Abilities?' Did that even sound reasonable?
According to that logic, could it be understood that with just one strike, even a Titled Douluo's defense could be forcibly nullified?
"Incredible..." the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm sighed in a low voice. Immediately after, an even bigger question surfaced in its heart.
"Wait, that's not right. How did you get your hands on such a god-tier weapon-like Martial Soul, Lin Xuan? Don't you have no background at all?"
"Oh?" Lin Xuan smiled slightly, his tone meaningful. "I don't think I ever said that I didn't have any background."
"Have you heard of the Zenin Family?"
"The Zenin Family? Wait!" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm suddenly realized and said in surprise, "Lin Xuan, are you perhaps the heir of some hidden Sect? You've come out into the world now to temper yourself, and that weapon of yours was taken from home?"
The more the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm thought about it, the more it felt it was right. "No wonder. I was saying, how could there be a genius without any background on the Douluo Continent? Even if there isn't one now, the ancestors must have been prominent!"
"Lin Xuan, tell me, what's the deal with your Zenin Family? Are there any Titled Douluo level powerhouses in the clan?"
"Tell you what? I just made up the Zenin Family on the spot." Lin Xuan laughed softly. "Actually, the Heavenly Restriction Inverted Spear of Heaven appeared along with my Martial Soul awakening."
"You made it all up?" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was stunned, but after hearing Lin Xuan's subsequent words, it became even more pleasantly surprised.
"Holy crap! A natal divine tool!"
Incredible... incredible. It seems my guess was still too conservative... the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm thought secretly. It had thought Lin Xuan's two Martial Souls were already powerful enough, but it didn't expect him to be even more ridiculous than it thought!
A natal divine tool—this kind of thing was no joke.
Could it be that from the very beginning, Lin Xuan was the predetermined successor of some Divinity?
Just thinking about this possibility, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm couldn't help but shudder.
"I've recovered enough; it's time to absorb the Soul Ring."
Lin Xuan stretched his weary body and then directly guided that deep, ten-thousand-year Soul Ring to settle over himself.
The initial absorption of the Soul Ring went smoothly. The only issue was that this Six-Armed Demon Ape's resentment was a bit too great. However, with the Domain of Life and the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm present, this resentment couldn't cause any major waves.
But halfway through the Soul Ring absorption, an accident occurred.
"Hiss—!"
Lin Xuan, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly furrowed his brows tightly and clenched his teeth, unable to stop himself from sucking in a cold breath!
Without any warning, waves of agonizing pain, as if his bones were being crushed alive, radiated from his back!
Lin Xuan was startled at first, but then an irrepressible ecstasy instantly erupted in his eyes!
This feeling... there was no mistake!
It was an External Soul Bone!
Before absorbing the Soul Ring, Lin Xuan had estimated that the probability of this Six-Armed Demon Ape, which was full of resentment before death, producing a Soul Bone was not small.
But he never expected that this surprise would be so great—it actually dropped a rare External Soul Bone!
Combining the tearing and expanding sensation coming from his back, as if six clumps of scorching magma were about to burst out of his body, with the most prominent characteristic of the Six-Armed Demon Ape, Lin Xuan almost immediately determined the form of this External Soul Bone.
The absorption of the Soul Ring and the fusion of the External Soul Bone proceeded simultaneously amidst the intense pain.
Time seemed to stretch, and every second felt like being tormented in a furnace.
Finally, when that black Soul Ring completely merged into Lin Xuan's body, the pain in his back also reached its peak.
Accompanied by six crisp tearing sounds, dark red light suddenly erupted from the six protrusions that had swollen to the extreme!
Six brand-new arms, with knotted muscles and filled with a sense of violent power, tore through the skin and muscle of Lin Xuan's back and stretched out forcefully!
Following that, a sense of coolness and comfort replaced all the intense pain, flowing through his entire body. Lin Xuan only felt his Soul Power circulating with unprecedented smoothness, and his Martial Soul was also bolstered.
Soul Ring absorption complete!
At the same time, he clearly felt the Soul Power in his body automatically surge into those six new arms along six specific new meridians in his back.
A strange sense of control, as if they were connected by blood and as natural as his own fingers, arose spontaneously.
Lin Xuan slowly stood up.
On his broad back, six brand-new arms hung quietly.
Each arm was thicker and longer than his original arms, with muscle lines as ferocious as if cast from steel, filled with an explosive sense of power.
The entire arms were a deep dark red, wreathed in a terrifying and violent aura that made one's heart palpitate.
At the ends of the arms, the hands had long fingers and thick knuckles, with dark red claws extending over half a foot, curved like hooks and shimmering with a cold, sinister light!
"As expected, it's these six arms..."
Lin Xuan somewhat awkwardly controlled these six arms to clench their fists, his eyes unable to hide his joy.
To him, the value of this External Soul Bone was even higher than a top-quality hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone!
After all, to perform the strongest technique of his Cursed Technique—Domain Expansion—one must use hand signs. The reason why Sukuna and Gojo Satoru were so powerful was partly due to their techniques and talent.
Being able to perform hand signs with one hand and having two faces and four arms was equally indispensable.
Even without mentioning Domain Expansion, in close-quarters combat, having extra arms would be a dimensional strike.
It was no exaggeration to say that the current Lin Xuan was roughly equivalent to an enhanced version of Ten Shadows Sukuna plus the original Sukuna.
At the same time, his Soul Power had also soared from the original level thirty-six all the way to level forty. In fact, if not for the lack of a Soul Ring to absorb, it could have increased by another level.
"Should I go to the Star Dou Great Forest now to obtain my fourth Soul Ring?" Lin Xuan thought instinctively, but he immediately dismissed the idea.
His physical strength was currently depleted, and he was not in good condition. Moreover, the reward for the freshman assessment was Shrek helping to obtain a Soul Ring.
If he could get it for free, he would never do it himself.
Looking at the surrounding forest land devastated by the battle, Lin Xuan suddenly felt a headache.
Under the full explosion of 'Fuga,' Extreme Yin Elder had long since been reduced to ashes, leaving no trace behind.
He thought for a moment, and his gaze landed on the nearby head of Mysterious Bone, which had a hideous expression and traces of terror remaining on it.
Lin Xuan walked over, picked it up casually, threw it into his storage soul tool, and then formed a hand sign.
"Nue."
A shadow flickered, and the massive Shikigami Nue descended once again.
Lin Xuan flipped himself onto its back, retracted the six arms into his body, and turned into a dark shadow, speeding towards the nearest town outside the forest.
Inside his Spiritual Sea, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm rolled over out of boredom and muttered,
"Lin Xuan, your Soul Power is already at level forty. I guess in a few days you'll be going to the Star Dou Great Forest to get a Soul Ring, right?"
"Yeah."
"Sigh," the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm sighed, its tone worried.
"With Shrek Academy's unreliable nature, I'm really afraid that when the time comes, they won't be taking you to hunt Martial Souls, but taking you to be a snack for a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast... No, I have to stay awake and be ready to bail you out at any time."
Lin Xuan's mouth twitched slightly, and for a moment he was speechless... The next morning, the morning sun rose.
Having recovered to his peak state, Lin Xuan stepped through the grand gates of Shrek Academy with a composed pace in the morning light.
Then he went straight to the Outer Academy Martial Soul Department's teaching office, in front of Du Weiren's office door.
"Knock, knock."
After the neither loud nor soft knocks, Lin Xuan didn't wait for Du Weiren to say "Come in" and pushed the door open directly.
Behind the desk, Du Weiren, who was reviewing documents, looked up. He was clearly stunned to see who it was, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"Lin Xuan? Why are you back so soon?" He put down his pen, his tone puzzled.
"Did you run into trouble with the mission? Or was the target not in the Sunset Forest?"
Logically speaking, tracking, hunting, and returning should take at least seven or eight days, yet not even two days had passed.
Lin Xuan didn't answer. His face didn't show the relief of completing a mission; instead, it was shrouded in a faint layer of anger.
He walked to the desk and, without a word, took out a cloth bag from his storage soul tool and tossed it casually onto the polished tabletop.
Thump.
The cloth bag landed on the table with a dull thud.
A thick, inescapable bloody scent instantly filled the air, mixed with a cold, murky, and extremely unpleasant evil aura.
Du Weiren's brows immediately furrowed.
He could tell that Lin Xuan was in a terrible mood, but this reaction... could there have been some accident with the mission?
He looked doubtfully at the expressionless Lin Xuan and reached out to untie the drawstring of the cloth bag.
Inside was a head that had been simple processed but whose features could still be clearly seen.
The skin was grayish, the eyes were wide open with the terror and resentment from before death, and the blood at the neck had already turned dark brown.
Du Weiren scrutinized it for a few seconds, and the confusion on his face deepened. He looked up at Lin Xuan and said in a hesitant tone,
"This is... Extreme Yin Elder?"
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