Douluo Dalu: This Soul Master is to Weird

Time passed, and before long, the sun had set, and the moon had risen, casting its glow over the Star Dou Forest as night descended.

At this moment, the refining process of the mutated Scale Armor Beast's soul ring was nearing completion. The fluctuations of soul power emanating from Mu Yang's body were gradually stabilizing.

However, just as Mu Yang thought everything was under control, a sudden sharp pain erupted in his chest. Immediately after, the pain spread throughout his entire body, sparing only his head.

"Ah—!"

As the excruciating pain surged through him, Mu Yang couldn't help but let out a cry of agony.

Hearing Mu Yang's anguished cry, Shui Bing'er, who had been tending to dinner by the campfire nearby, quickly ran over with a worried expression.

"Auntie, what's happening to Mu Yang?"

Seeing the beads of sweat trickling down Mu Yang's forehead, Shui Bing'er asked anxiously.

"I'm not entirely sure either. Earlier, when Xiao Yang was refining the soul ring, he didn't show any signs of being unable to endure it. But now... Wait a moment, I think I understand!"

Frowning as she pondered the cause of this sudden change, Shui Yanyu suddenly recalled a rare case mentioned in the academy's ancient texts.

Before Shui Bing'er could ask further, a smile appeared on Shui Yanyu's face as she reassured her, "Bing'er, don't worry. This should be a good thing!"

When attaching a soul ring of 10,000 years or more, as long as the soul master's body can endure the impact of the soul ring's energy and their spirit can withstand the residual soul shock from the beast's will, there should be no danger during the refining process.

Given that Mu Yang was now experiencing such changes and appeared to be in considerable pain, there was only one possible explanation.

Shui Bing'er: "???"

At that moment, a brilliant blue crystal light began to radiate from Mu Yang's chest.

Under the night sky, the blue crystal glow was particularly dazzling and immediately caught the attention of Shui Bing'er and Shui Yanyu.

In the next second, the two saw the radiant blue crystal light spreading outward from Mu Yang's chest.

In the blink of an eye, Mu Yang's entire body, excluding his head and neck, was enveloped in the shimmering blue crystal glow.

"Mmhm~"

Another wave of intense pain coursed through his body, causing Mu Yang, who had just started to adapt, to let out a muffled groan.

Under Shui Bing'er's worried gaze, the dazzling blue crystal light surrounding Mu Yang's body gradually condensed and solidified. It transformed into a suit of armor, shimmering and translucent, covering his entire body from the neck down. The armor was made up of countless crystal-clear scales of varying sizes.

"This is... an external soul bone?"

Seeing the blue crystal armor that appeared on Mu Yang's body, Shui Bing'er couldn't help but widen her eyes in astonishment.

"Indeed, it's a rare anomaly, an external soul bone with a value comparable to a 100,000-year soul bone! And for Xiao Yang, the value of this external soul bone is undoubtedly even higher than that of a 100,000-year soul bone."

Shui Yanyu's expression revealed a look of "as expected," and she nodded with a smile as she spoke.

When the anomaly first appeared, Shui Yanyu had already guessed that Mu Yang had hit a stroke of luck and obtained an incredibly rare external soul bone. Otherwise, there would be no explanation for why such a change had occurred.

Of course, Shui Yanyu's knowledge and perspective didn't reach the level of those who knew of the existence of fierce beasts or certain reincarnators. She wasn't aware that 100,000 years was not the upper limit for soul bones and that there were 200,000-year or even million-year soul bones.

The reason she claimed that this external soul bone was more valuable than a 100,000-year soul bone was because she knew that external soul bones could increase in age alongside a soul master's cultivation.

When a soul master advanced to a Title Douluo with nine rings, the external soul bone's age could increase to 100,000 years.

Although, in Shui Yanyu's eyes, Mu Yang's external soul bone could at most reach 100,000 years, making its age comparable to an ordinary 100,000-year soul bone, external soul bones were extraordinarily rare. If Mu Yang hadn't encountered one this time, his chances of obtaining one in the future would have been almost zero.

Ordinary 100,000-year soul bones, on the other hand, were a different story. Once Mu Yang's twin martial souls reached their peak, as one of the continent's strongest, he could scour the Star Dou Forest, the Extreme North, or even the vast oceans to easily collect a full set of 100,000-year soul bones.

With this rare external soul bone, Mu Yang now had seven soul bone slots instead of the usual six. This advantage was extraordinary, giving him a significant edge over most soul masters.

Unknowingly, time passed, and as the first rays of sunlight pierced through the darkness of the forest, Mu Yang slowly opened his eyes.

'I never imagined that I, Mu Yang, would also have the fate of a protagonist.'

Feeling the qualitative change in his soul power, Mu Yang glanced at the magnificent blue crystal armor covering his body and gently stroked the sturdy, crystalline scales. Overjoyed, he couldn't help but think to himself.

Although advancing to the fourth ring Soul Ancestor had caused his soul power to surge significantly, resulting in a temporary decline in control, Mu Yang could sense that, due to the high age of his fourth soul ring and the soul power boost from refining the external soul bone, his soul power level had reached Rank 43. Moreover, it wasn't just the beginning of Rank 43; he was already in the mid-range.

'Knock, knock—'

Tapping her fingers on the external soul bone armor covering Mu Yang, Shui Bing'er asked with a smile, "Mu Yang, how does it feel to gain an external soul bone?"

"Bittersweet?"

After thinking for a moment, Mu Yang replied.

Earlier, when he was fusing the external soul bone, it almost caused him unbearable pain.

To be honest, whether in his past life or this one, he had never experienced such intense pain. It was as though he was enduring torture. Even the pain he felt back when he consumed the Eight Petal Mysterious Ice Grass and Blazing Delicate Apricot was far less severe.

Fortunately, the suffering wasn't for nothing. As long as he survived, gaining such a precious external soul bone was worth the hardship.

However, perhaps due to its insufficient age, the external soul bone armor wasn't perfect. It failed to protect his entire body, leaving out the areas above his neck.

Mu Yang estimated that for this external soul bone armor to evolve into a full-body armor that protected him from head to toe, he would need to reach nine rings as a Title Douluo in the future, when the soul bone's age reached 100,000 years.

Still, the flaws didn't outweigh the benefits. As long as enemies didn't aim for his neck or head, the defense provided by this external soul bone armor alone would allow Mu Yang to ignore the majority of ten-thousand-year-level powerful attack soul skills from five-ring Battle Soul Kings.

"It looks quite similar to the scales on that mutated Scale Armor Beast. I assume it comes with a defensive-type soul bone skill?"

At this point, Shui Yanyu pointed at the external soul bone armor on Mu Yang's body and asked.

Mu Yang nodded. "Yes, the soul bone skill is called Crystal Body. It provides immunity to 30% of both physical and energy attacks. There's no time limit on its usage; as long as I continuously consume soul power, I can maintain it."

The soul bone skill attached to a soul bone is inherited from the abilities of the soul beast that produced it.

He was lucky this time—the external soul bone he acquired inherited the mutated innate soul skill of the Scale Beast, which provided a damage reduction effect.

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