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Tang Ni, who had retrieved both the Golden Dragon Spear and the soul bone, looked at the still-weakened Xiao Lin and smiled.
"This is for you."
Tang Ni tossed Jia Na's soul bone right in front of Xiao Lin, then sat down right next to him.
"Xiao Lin, you brat, you actually have an External Soul Bone."
"Hmm?"
Xiao Lin was currently suffering from severe soul power exhaustion, so his reactions were a bit sluggish. It took him a moment after Tang Ni asked to finally process her words.
"Oh, right. Don't tell anyone else about it."
It wasn't that Xiao Lin didn't trust the current Ye Lingling and the others; he just found it tedious to explain things, and he didn't want to maintain too high of a profile.
Tang Ni took a deep, long look at Xiao Lin, then nodded silently to give her word. However, she couldn't help but think to herself that she needed to work even harder. Since Xiao Lin had an External Soul Bone, she absolutely had to get one too.
Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, you already have a path to death! Tang Ni thought fiercely to herself.
"What about Ye Lingling and the others? What do we do with them?"
After a long silence, Tang Ni suddenly asked.
Over the past few days, she had already become close sisters with Ye Lingling, the only other girl in their group. Naturally, Tang Ni was quite worried about their current state.
"They'll be fine. When it comes down to it, Medusa's petrification is merely a soul skill. It's still far from touching the ultimate laws of existence, so it's impossible for them to remain petrified forever."
"Once the soul power maintaining the petrification dissipates, they will be safe."
Even though Xiao Lin said this, he still turned his head back out of curiosity to glance at Ye Lingling and the others.
Even for a soul skill, a crowd-control effect shouldn't last this long, right?
Back then, when the Demon Eye Evil Tree severed the spiritual and physical connection between him and Tang San, they had still broken free from the control very quickly.
If a control-system soul skill were truly this overpowered, what would be the point of the so-called power-attack system and agility-attack system Soul Masters?
Take the Shi brothers, for instance.
He didn't know what was going on with the Shi brothers in this lifetime, but they had somehow transitioned from being pure defense-system Soul Masters into defense-system Soul Masters with a certain degree of control capabilities.
Furthermore, Xiao Lin would absolutely rate their taunt skill as an S-rank soul skill. It completely bypassed rank differences; it was a soul skill capable of forcing even a Titled Douluo to lose focus for a brief moment.
Granted, against a Titled Douluo, it might not even hold them for 0.001 seconds, but making a comparison like this truly highlighted just how absurd the petrified state on Ye Lingling and the others actually was.
"Strange. Could it be a problem caused by this soul bone?"
Because that fallen degenerate had only dropped a single ten-thousand-year left leg soul bone, Xiao Lin wasn't entirely certain about what was truly happening.
"So, what's the plan now?" Tang Ni looked at Xiao Lin, who was already recovering rapidly, and asked directly.
In her mind, waiting here for Ye Lingling and the others to recover was clearly not a wise decision. They needed to retreat as quickly as possible to prevent any potential pursuers from hunting them down.
"Yeah, let's carry Ye Lingling and the others out of here."
"I'll carry the Shi brothers," Xiao Lin added at the end.
He put away the ten-thousand-year soul bone and immediately stood up. By now, his physical stamina had already fully recovered; he was only lacking in soul power. Therefore, hauling the Shi brothers wouldn't be an issue.
Summoning his Horned Dragon Staff, Xiao Lin tied the two muscular brutes of the Shi brothers to the staff, hoisting it over his shoulders like a carrying pole before heading further north.
To prevent any ambush from potential pursuers, Xiao Lin chose to head toward what was technically the safest location for them right now—the core region of the Far North.
Behind Xiao Lin, Tang Ni carried Ye Lingling in her arms, following closely behind. Secretly competing with him, Tang Ni noticed that Xiao Lin was still walking ahead of her, prompting her to quietly quicken her pace.
Within the sea of consciousness.
The two Great Dragon Kings were currently evaluating Xiao Lin's eccentric battle tactics from earlier. Even though the two Dragon Kings didn't particularly look highly upon this unorthodox style of fighting, they still acknowledged Xiao Lin's quick-wittedness.
"I've seen how clever Xiao Lin has been ever since he was a kid. Seeing this leaves me at ease," the Fire Dragon King stated shamelessly, expressing immense satisfaction with Xiao Lin's wicked intelligence.
If he had possessed such deceptive tactics back in his day, why would he have ended up perishing together with the Ice Dragon King?
"Tch, what does that have to do with you? That being said, Xiao Lin controlled his soul power remarkably well, with barely any waste. His combat intelligence is indeed decent," the Ice Dragon King retorted with disdain before turning around to praise Xiao Lin as well.
No matter what, Xiao Lin was the successor they both highly regarded. He was a candidate to achieve Godhood in the future; the stronger Xiao Lin became, the greater their hopes of resurrection.
"Sigh, let's stop talking about Xiao Lin. Don't you think that human Soul Master from just now was a bit too unnatural?" The Fire Dragon King was referring to Jia Na.
He could never have imagined that a human Soul Master would resort to such perverted actions just to become stronger—forcibly fusing the powers of other Soul Masters into one body. Not even among soul beasts did such a creature exist!
"Indeed. Who in their right mind would fuse such weak and pathetic powers?" the Ice Dragon King lamented.
What kind of existences had the two Dragon Kings witnessed in their lifetime? They were all naturally powerful divine beasts who had met their ends early on, so they naturally had never seen such a crude method of fusion.
Hearing the two Dragon Kings discussing this, Xiao Lin actively joined the conversation.
"Soul beasts aren't naturally powerful like you two Dragon Kings. According to what you both said, doesn't the soul power of the Douluo Continent originate from the divine power of the Dragon God and the other Gods?"
"Ordinary animals originally obtained this power and trod down different paths of evolution. Naturally, some became powerful while others remained weak. Some had incredible adaptability, while others possessed poor compatibility."
"This is entirely normal, but I feel that this path of evolution for human Soul Masters is fundamentally flawed. How can becoming stronger rely completely on external objects, entirely dependent on the soul rings of soul beasts?"
"The correct direction for evolution should be for humans to condense soul rings on their own to obtain great power."
This was the conclusion Xiao Lin had drawn based on the rules of the Douluo Continent.
"Soul Masters should create powerful cultivation techniques one after another, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and then condense their own soul rings whenever they are about to break through."
"Furthermore, soul rings shouldn't be the primary means of attack; self-created soul skills should be the true method of combat."
The more Xiao Lin spoke, the more reasonable it sounded to him.
How could anyone obtain powerful soul skills without putting in any hard work? Didn't this just encourage Soul Masters to abandon their brains and cast aside their wisdom?
"Xiao Lin, what you say makes sense. When we soul beasts want to create a soul skill, we also rely entirely on ourselves." The Ice Dragon King nodded in agreement.
He wasn't entirely sure why this world functioned this way either. Other worlds and other galaxies were completely different. Could this also be a calculated design by Lord Dragon God?
That was the Ice Dragon King's theory, and it was naturally the Fire Dragon King's thought as well. Lord Dragon God had forbidden soul beasts from becoming Gods, and that included the Dragon Clan.
However, Lord Dragon God clearly did not wish for humans to occupy every single divine throne either. The Fire Dragon King actually felt that this was Lord Dragon God's way of preventing human Gods from becoming too overwhelmingly powerful.
"Compared to other worlds, Planet Douluo has the greatest potential. It's entirely possible to even turn it into a Divine Realm," the Fire Dragon King remarked, feeling more and more certain that this was exactly what Lord Dragon God had intended.
"A Divine Realm?" Xiao Lin felt as though he had just overheard some incredible piece of classified information again.
"Right, Great Dragon Kings, can you tell what kind of soul skill is attached to this new soul bone I obtained?" Xiao Lin wasn't particularly interested in ordinary ten-thousand-year soul bones, unless it was of the same caliber as his Chaos Right Leg Bone.
"Can't tell."
"Never felt this kind of soul power fluctuation before."
"It seems to carry the same ability as that fellow."
"It should be a fusion-type soul skill."
"What use does this kind of soul skill even have?"
The two Dragon Kings had lived pasts that were far too glorious; they simply had no concept of what a garbage soul skill looked like.
"Alright, it should be a fusion soul skill then." Even though the two Dragon Kings weren't completely certain, Xiao Lin trusted them deeply.
So, who should I give this soul bone to? Tang San probably won't think much of it either. Should I give it to Xiao Wu? Or maybe sell it to Ye Lingling and her group?
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