Douluo: Unparalleled General, Starting by Deceptive Thousand-Snow-Peak 35

Chapter 35: Tear Bone, Ghost Howling Heavenly Pearl

Lan Xue quickly stepped forward, “Huang’er, are you really going to absorb this 1200-year soul ring? This earthbound spirit’s attack power isn’t strong, but it’s sinister and eerie, with extremely heavy evil energy. I’m worried it will affect you.”

“Mother, don’t worry, I’m least afraid of ghosts!” Nan Feihuang smiled. 煞气 (Sha Qi – a fierce, aggressive energy) and 罡气 (Gang Qi – righteous energy), are both the nemesis of ghosts.

As a reborn warrior, Nan Feihuang naturally possessed Gang Qi, and his ghost god body allowed him to generate Sha Qi.

Two originally opposing energies, yet perfectly harmonized within him.

Therefore, he had absolute confidence.

Nan Feihuang drew the soul ring towards himself and sat cross-legged.

Seeing that the soul ring absorption had begun, Lan Xue could only put aside her worries and protect her son.

Absorbing a 1200-year soul ring wasn’t too difficult for Nan Feihuang. During the first half-hour, Lan Xue saw her son’s expression was normal, and gradually relaxed.

But after half an hour, something strange happened. Nan Feihuang’s face gradually became grim. His body remained unharmed, but his soul seemed to be under attack. Logically, a mere thousand-year soul ring shouldn’t cause soul shock.

Nan Feihuang’s spirit awoke in a mysterious place.

“Could this be… inner vision? So this is… the inside of my body?” Nan Feihuang looked around in confusion. If it were inner vision, he should see his bones or organs. But he only saw a blue expanse, his feet on the ground, as if stepping on water, rippling waves.

Ahead, a large tree inexplicably appeared.

“No, this isn’t simple inner vision. This is my spirit sea, and this tree… is my soul seed.” Nan Feihuang gently stroked the tree trunk. The reason for his arrival here must be that his soul was affected by something.

At this moment, a dark, gloomy light fell, staining Nan Feihuang’s mysterious blue spirit sea into darkness.

Nan Feihuang looked up and saw a pitch-black pearl hovering above the tree, as if trying to invade his soul seed.

“Hmph, worthy of being an earthbound spirit, to actually have such a method. Wanting to seize my soul seed? You’re dreaming!” Nan Feihuang reached out, grabbed his spear, leaped up, and slashed at the pearl.

One black and one blue light clashed repeatedly here.

Within this spirit sea, his martial soul could still be used, and even more harmoniously.

“Single-handed Eighteen Strikes!” Nan Feihuang used a move from the Single-handed Eighteen Strikes, the halberd rotating and piercing, completely disrupting the earthbound spirit’s dark energy.

Next was a simple strike, scattering some evil spirits.

Nan Feihuang discovered that within the spirit sea, his understanding of halberd techniques had deepened.

In the outside world, Lan Xue watched her son’s face shift from black to blue, her heart filled with worry. Now even she didn’t understand what was happening to Nan Feihuang.

But she couldn’t interfere with the soul ring absorption, and could only anxiously wait outside.

“Huang’er, you’ll be alright. Mother believes in you!”

Nan Feihuang was, of course, fine. He was happily practicing his skills with the evil spirit. Being in the spirit sea, his mind was clear, making it easier to achieve the state of complete unity between himself and his halberd.

After Nan Feihuang used all the Single-handed Eighteen Strikes, he finally mastered this martial skill.

Nan Feihuang had previously divided the proficiency of martial skills into five levels: Knowing, Familiar, Skilled, Profound, and Transcended.

Knowing, meaning learning, entry-level.

Familiar, meaning skilled, small achievement stage. Nan Feihuang had reached this level after more than a year of hard training.

Skilled, meaning proficient, mid-level achievement.

Profound, meaning superb, high-level achievement.

Transcended, meaning mastered, perfect realm.

Once Nan Feihuang practiced the Single-handed Eighteen Strikes to the fourth level, he would be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort when cultivating other halberd techniques.

If he reached the fifth level, then he could learn any halberd technique instantly and master it immediately.

Like the Overlord Xiang Yu and the ghost god Lü Bu of the past.

Soon, the earthbound spirit’s remnant soul was annihilated by Nan Feihuang, and the spirit sea returned to normal, but the pearl floating in the air did not disappear.

It merely changed from black to blue-green.

“Ghost Howling Heavenly Pearl.” Looking at the pearl, Nan Feihuang blurted out its name.

The reason he knew the pearl’s name was because it had become part of his body.

The pearl, hearing Nan Feihuang’s call, flew towards his face and merged into the posterior lateral wall of his nasal bone and the inner wall of his eye socket.

This area is the lacrimal bone, a pair of thin bones, about the size and shape of a fingernail. It is the smallest bone in the face, about the same size as the small pearl. The lacrimal fossa contains the lacrimal sac. It connects to the maxilla in front and the ethmoid labyrinth orbital plate in the back.

Yes, this Ghost Howling Heavenly Pearl is a soul bone, but not a skull bone.

Normal skull bones are generally absorbed into the forehead.

A soul bone attached to the lacrimal bone is undoubtedly an external attached soul bone!

Nan Feihuang smiled slightly, awakening from the spirit sea, surging pure soul power emanating from his body.

One yellow and one purple soul rings surrounded him.

Just as Lan Xue was rejoicing, Nan Feihuang opened his eyes, his left pupil showing a blue-green color.

“Heterochromia iridum? Huang’er, did you successfully absorb the soul ring? But your eyes?” Lan Xue asked worriedly.

“Mother, don’t worry, I’m fine. Near my left eye, an additional lacrimal bone appeared, called the Ghost Howling Heavenly Pearl. Because of its proximity to my left eye, when I use this soul bone, my left pupil will be affected by the Ghost Howling Heavenly Pearl’s light, turning blue-green.” Nan Feihuang explained.

“Lacrimal… lacrimal bone? Could this be… an external attached soul bone!!” Lan Xue was overjoyed.

An external attached soul bone! This is the second most sought-after treasure on the Soul Master Dream List, second only to a ten thousand year soul ring soul bone.

Furthermore, external attached soul bones have two special properties: once completely fused, they cannot be removed; even if someone tries to kill for the bone, it won’t come out.

Another is its evolutionary nature; it will evolve with the increase of its owner’s soul power. Therefore, the earlier an external attached soul bone is absorbed, the better. If the chance of obtaining a normal soul bone from a soul beast is one in a thousand, then the chance of obtaining an external attached soul bone is less than one in ten thousand.

Although Nan Feihuang’s Ghost Howling Heavenly Pearl is only around a thousand years old, as his power increases, it will eventually evolve to surpass the level of a ten thousand-year soul bone.

This external attached soul bone has three abilities:

First, it’s an all-attribute enhancement. This is a common ability of almost all soul bones. Even spiritual soul bones only differ in the focus of enhancement. It mainly enhances spiritual power, but also slightly enhances physical strength and speed. External attached soul bones are particularly noticeable. When using this soul bone, Nan Feihuang could feel his spiritual power increase by 30%, and other aspects by 10%. The current increase isn’t large because the age is still too low; as the soul bone grows, it will naturally continue to strengthen.

Second, is the Ghost Eye, the blue-green left eye that appeared earlier. It can see through the opponent’s soul power operation, predict their moves, observe their weaknesses, and even their vital points.

Third, is the soul bone skill, Soul Shock. A spiritual attack that causes the opponent’s soul to continuously shake, inflicting massive mental damage.

(End of Chapter)

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