Chapter 263: The Sixth Soul Ring
This time, Dugu Feng did not expect any danger from absorbing the soul ring. His body's strength had surpassed most soul masters.
With many trump cards and only time remaining, success was inevitable.
Time slowly passed. The first challenge Dugu Feng handled was the Unicorneel's soul shock.
He set multiple defenses in his spiritual sea.
The amplification from his soul bone increased his spiritual power by nearly thirty percent, forming the first line of defense.
Bi Lin Chi Poison, a powerful mental toxin, was the second line.
Then came his Asura Domain, the dark red Asura power enveloping the entire spiritual sea.
When the Unicorneel's soul and soul ring energy arrived, it retained its original form—a long snake body with a sharp horn atop its head.
The Unicorneel was aggrieved and unwilling; strong resentment transformed into shockwave energy.
"Pierce!"
A sharp buzzing sounded as a green light shot from the horn.
The green beam was like an arrow from a bowstring, stabbing into Dugu Feng's mind.
His whole body trembled.
"Ignore defense, can only be countered with energy!"
His Asura power defense failed.
Only the Bi Lin Chi Poison and his original spiritual power could counter the green light.
Mental energy could only resist mental energy.
Dugu Feng realized the horn's terror.
Though manifested as soul shock, the Unicorneel's innate skill likely worked the same way.
He suddenly thought of Bibi Dong's second martial soul's sixth skill—Eternal Creation.
Indeed!
In the original story, Bibi Dong's sixth and seventh soul rings were hundred-thousand-year rings.
Her sixth skill was a domineering single-target attack, releasing crossed green waves from her arms; the attack ignored physical defense and halved energy defense.
Once hit, the enemy could only rely on soul power to consume the attack.
Wasn't this exactly the Unicorneel's horn attack?
If the sixth soul ring had this skill, that would be perfect.
Dugu Feng consumed the Unicorneel's soul attacks in his spiritual sea with mental power.
Soon, his spiritual sea was full of holes and healing slowly.
The worse it looked, the more excited Dugu Feng became.
It showed the Unicorneel's soul skill was powerful.
Its soul shock lacked energy replenishment; as long as Dugu Feng kept the advantage during absorption, it would be exhausted eventually.
The Unicorneel's soul visibly thinned and grew transparent, eventually dispersing into energy merging into Dugu Feng's spiritual sea.
Like heavenly dew, his wounded spiritual sea instantly recovered.
He felt invigorated.
Each soul shock cleansed his spiritual power.
He endured the soul shock of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
The gains were obvious.
With soul shock overcome, absorbing the soul ring was halfway done; what remained was the soul ring's energy inside.
Glowing red light surrounded his body, merging with his original purple soul power.
Dugu Feng's body underwent an indescribably powerful baptism.
The hundred-thousand-year soul ring's energy gradually transformed him qualitatively.
His skin pores turned completely purple-gold.
His entire being emitted a holy aura unlike humans.
A quantitative change became qualitative.
Dugu Feng's cultivation from the spirit bead refined his body, toxins strengthening his physique.
Repeated soul ring absorptions and support from three external soul bones and his intelligent skull bone, Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone, and Azure Wood Jade Dragon's right arm bone had pushed his body to human limits.
Now, absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring again.
His body finally transcended humanity, heading toward divinity.
The golden light signified his surpassing of human limits.
On his forehead, the rainbow-colored diamond scales gained a golden radiance.
The golden light slowly sank, circulating inside him, stabilizing the soul ring energy he absorbed.
The Unicorneel's energy grew docile, blending bit by bit.
His sixth soul ring appeared outside his body.
Yellow, purple, dark purple, black, and red—six soul rings aligned beautifully.
The second ring was purple, the fourth black, the sixth red.
Any one of these was enough to shock speechless.
Yet all three together appeared.
Eyes open in absorption, Dugu Feng's eyes shone brightly upon seeing the blood-red sixth ring.
Absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and advancing to Soul Emperor was near perfect.
But it was not over.
Another special feature of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts was their soul bones.
A ray of red light shot out, landing on Dugu Feng.
"Torso bone!"
Startled, Dugu Feng realized the torso bone he expected from the Deep Sea Demon Whale King had come from the Unicorneel.
Looking at its corpse, the horn on its head had vanished, transforming into part of the torso bone.
His face turned serious.
The torso bone was the most important of the six soul bones.
Its reinforcement and enhancement of the body were the greatest.
This sudden torso bone made him uneasy—if his soul skills were insufficient, loss could be great.
Upon entering his body, the torso bone caused his external soul bones—the Eight Spider Spears—to burst out immediately.
After absorbing Tang San's new fourth soul ring external soul bone, the Eight Spider Spears had evolved once.
Along with Dugu Feng's fifth soul ring, also from the Human-faced Demon Spider, the Eight Spider Spears' energy formed a ruby armor.
The armor extended from neck to waist and abdomen, front chest to back, connected to eight spider legs.
It immediately radiated blood-red brilliance over Dugu Feng's upper body.
The ruby armor's energy connected to every bone in his body.
The torso bone also merged with his upper body's skeleton.
This caused energy clashes between the Eight Spider Spears and the torso bone.
Dugu Feng sensed even the scorpion pincers' energy in his arms and the fox tail external soul bone at the spine's end were poised in defense.
They seemed ready to retaliate if the torso bone's energy trespassed.
"Hmph? All inside me, and yet still stirring up trouble!"
Dugu Feng snorted coldly.
The diamond scales on his forehead released golden light again.
The light divided into beams, illuminating the torso bone and the energies of the three external soul bones.
Tensions dissolved instantly.
(END CHAPTER)
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