To be honest, the scene unfolding before them was challenging everyone's understanding of reality.
Before today, Yu Yuanzhen and the others could never have imagined witnessing something so bizarre.
A person's body splitting apart.
Not exploding.
Not being injured.
But separating into individual pieces and flying through the air as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
Arms floated one way.
Legs drifted another.
Even parts of the torso separated and hovered independently.
The entire scene looked less like a Spirit Master demonstrating a Spirit Bone skill and more like some strange supernatural phenomenon.
For a moment, everyone present stood frozen.
Silence filled the courtyard.
Then—
"Stop! Stop right there!"
Yu Yuanzhen suddenly raised a hand.
His expression twitched uncontrollably as he clutched his chest.
"Xiaogang, change back immediately!"
"This... this is a little difficult for me to accept."
His voice carried genuine distress.
Yu Yuanzhen considered himself a man who had seen countless wonders.
In his younger days, he had traveled across the Douluo Continent.
He had entered dangerous Spirit Beast forests.
He had fought powerful enemies.
He had witnessed all kinds of rare Martial Souls and bizarre Spirit Abilities.
But today's spectacle completely exceeded the limits of his imagination.
Good heavens!
A body that could break apart at will.
Not only that, but every separated piece could move independently.
Was this still the Douluo Continent?
Or had his son somehow awakened a Martial Soul from another world?
"Oh."
Hearing his father's words, Yu Xiaogang finally snapped out of the excitement of obtaining a brand-new Spirit Bone ability.
Looking around, he noticed the strange expressions on everyone's faces.
Only then did he lower his head and observe himself.
An arm floated lazily through the air.
One leg was spinning in circles nearby.
His torso hovered several meters away.
Even Yu Xiaogang felt a chill run down his spine.
When viewed from another person's perspective...
The scene really was rather disturbing.
With a thought, he activated the ability once more.
Golden light flickered.
The separated body parts immediately flew back toward one another.
One by one, they reassembled.
Within seconds, Yu Xiaogang stood there completely intact, looking exactly as he had before.
Only after confirming this did everyone visibly relax.
Yu Yuanzhen wasted no time.
He immediately stepped forward and began examining Yu Xiaogang from head to toe.
His hands moved quickly, checking every part of his son's body.
After confirming there were no hidden injuries or abnormalities, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Your Spirit Bone skill..."
Yu Yuanzhen paused.
His expression became complicated.
"Honestly, I don't even know how to evaluate it."
As he spoke, the previous scene replayed endlessly in his mind.
The image of body parts flying through the air refused to disappear.
The more he thought about it, the stranger it felt.
Yu Xiaogang smiled helplessly.
"It's actually pretty simple, Father."
"You can treat this Spirit Bone skill as a defensive Spirit Ability."
"A defensive Spirit Ability?"
Yu Yuanzhen blinked.
Then his eyes gradually brightened.
The more he thought about it, the more reasonable the explanation became.
"You're right."
"Ordinary defensive abilities block attacks directly."
"They rely on armor, barriers, or resistance."
"But your Spirit Bone skill doesn't block attacks at all."
"It simply makes the attack miss."
The more Yu Yuanzhen analyzed it, the more amazed he became.
"Ordinary defensive abilities have limits."
"If the enemy's attack is powerful enough, those defenses can eventually be broken."
"But your ability completely skips that process."
"The attack never lands in the first place."
"How can someone break a defense that doesn't even exist?"
Hearing this, everyone nodded.
Indeed.
That was the terrifying part.
The ability wasn't creating protection.
It was removing the target altogether.
If a sword swung toward Yu Xiaogang's arm, the arm simply wasn't there anymore.
If a spear thrust toward his chest, the chest separated before impact.
No matter how powerful the attack was, it couldn't hit something that wasn't occupying the same space.
The concept itself was outrageous.
Yu Yuanzhen suddenly slapped his thigh.
The louder he analyzed the skill, the more ridiculous it sounded.
"Brilliant!"
"This ability is absolutely brilliant!"
Then another question occurred to him.
"How long can it remain active?"
Yu Xiaogang thought for a moment.
"That's one of the strange aspects of this Spirit Bone."
"Based on my current observations, the ability can remain active for a total of ten minutes per day."
Everyone nodded.
Ten minutes sounded reasonable.
Then Yu Xiaogang continued.
"However, I can activate and deactivate it whenever I want."
The courtyard instantly fell silent again.
Everyone stared at him.
Yu Yuanzhen's eyes widened.
Bibi Dong's lips twitched.
Even the usually calm Liu Erlong couldn't maintain her composure.
Activate it whenever he wanted?
Deactivate it whenever he wanted?
Wasn't that absurd?
Bibi Dong immediately stepped forward.
"So if you use two minutes during one battle..."
"You'll still have eight minutes remaining afterward?"
Yu Xiaogang nodded.
"Exactly."
Before anyone else could react, Yu Yuanzhen shook his head.
"No."
"You're thinking too narrowly."
Everyone looked toward him.
Yu Yuanzhen's eyes gleamed with excitement.
"The true value of this ability isn't measured in minutes."
"It's measured in moments."
He raised a finger.
"Imagine this."
"The enemy launches a fatal attack."
"One second before it lands, Xiaogang activates the skill."
"The attack passes harmlessly through empty space."
"The moment danger is gone, he deactivates it."
"How much time was consumed?"
Everyone immediately understood.
Only a fraction of a second.
Yu Yuanzhen continued.
"If used correctly, ten minutes could last through countless battles."
"Because the ability only needs to be active during the most dangerous moments."
Bibi Dong's expression grew darker and darker.
Unfortunately...
Everything Yu Yuanzhen said was true.
Spirit Master battles were often decided in an instant.
One mistake.
One opening.
One successful attack.
That was enough to determine victory.
And Yu Xiaogang now possessed an ability capable of erasing those critical moments entirely.
How was anyone supposed to fight him?
Yu Xiaogang nodded in agreement.
His understanding was similar.
As long as he used the ability only when necessary, its effectiveness would reach an astonishing level.
The ability wasn't strong because it lasted ten minutes.
It was strong because those ten minutes could be divided infinitely.
A second here.
Half a second there.
Another instant somewhere else.
Used in this way, it became terrifying.
Bibi Dong's body trembled slightly.
Not from fear.
From frustration.
Pure frustration.
"So..."
She took a deep breath.
"If I want to defeat you now..."
"I first have to exhaust all ten minutes of your invincible state?"
Yu Xiaogang smiled.
"More or less."
Bibi Dong nearly choked.
More or less?
What kind of answer was that?
The more she thought about it, the more unfair the ability seemed.
Yu Xiaogang was already powerful.
His combat instincts were exceptional.
His understanding of battle far surpassed most Spirit Masters.
And now he had obtained a defensive ability that bordered on invincibility.
How was she supposed to win?
Even if she managed to corner him, he could simply activate the skill and avoid the decisive attack.
The battle would instantly return to square one.
It was enough to make anyone despair.
Watching Bibi Dong's increasingly dark expression, Yu Xiaogang couldn't help but laugh.
Unfortunately for her...
Things were even worse than she imagined.
What he hadn't told anyone yet was that the ability didn't simply refresh every day.
Instead, it slowly regenerated through spirit power recovery.
In other words, the ten-minute limit wasn't truly fixed.
Given enough time, it could recover continuously.
Furthermore, there was another discovery.
His Spirit Bone skill possessed natural synergy with his Third Spirit Ability—
Radiant Domain.
When Radiant Domain was active, the recovery speed of the Spirit Bone increased noticeably.
Certain special applications of elemental transformation also became possible.
The interaction between the two abilities was remarkably smooth.
As if they had been designed to complement one another from the very beginning.
This realization filled Yu Xiaogang with admiration.
No wonder Spirit Masters desperately sought Spirit Bones and spirit rings from the same Spirit Beast lineage.
The compatibility between related abilities was simply extraordinary.
One plus one wasn't equal to two.
Sometimes it wasn't even equal to three.
It could become four.
Five.
Or even more.
As he reflected on everything he had gained, Yu Xiaogang felt increasingly confident about his future path.
The road of extreme elemental cultivation.
The road of absolute specialization.
This path wasn't merely making him stronger.
It was creating an entire combat system.
A complete framework where every ability strengthened every other ability.
And if this trend continued—
If future spirit rings and Spirit Bones joined this growing system—
The possibilities would become limitless.
Nine spirit rings?
Six Spirit Bones?
Those were merely foundations.
What truly mattered was how those powers worked together.
And Yu Xiaogang had only just begun to explore their potential.
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