Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 345: A More "Suitable" External Soul Bone
The poisonous stinger beast is a mouse with poisonous stings that looks like a hedgehog. Although it also has the ability to fire thorns from its back to attack, its overly clumsy shooting is completely unable to cause any damage to Tang San. Just after firing two poisonous stings, it was shot through the head by Zhuge's divine crossbow and died.

Looking at the poisonous stinger beast and the purple spirit ring lying on the ground, Tang San swallowed his saliva, walked up without hesitation, and absorbed the poisonous stinger beast's spirit ring.

Looking at this scene, Chen Ming smiled with satisfaction.

He had selected this poisonous sting beast from the rioting spirit beasts and deliberately led it to Tang San. However, this poisonous sting beast did not have any tricks, or rather, it did not have any bad tricks.

Chen Ming was very considerate. He strengthened the spines on the back of the stinger beast and injected some vitality into its body.

If it was just absorbing the spirit ring, then this little vitality would be almost negligible when it came to Tang San. But Chen Ming's enhancement also brought another possibility.

That is the external soul bone.

Yes, Chen Ming wanted to give Tang San a "gift". Although the quality difference between the human-faced demon spider and the poisonous stinger beast was huge, a thousand-year-old human-faced demon spider could hunt down three or four thousand-year-old poisonous stinger beasts as food, but the external soul bone was a priceless treasure.

After taking away the Eight Spider Lances, it’s not too much for Chen Ming to give him a Backstab of the Venomous Stinger in return, right?
Although without the deadly poison of the Man-Faced Demon Spider, without the attribute of devouring, and without the passive ability that could amplify all attributes as long as it was released, it was unable to provide Tang San with sufficient combat capability.

But that was also an external spirit bone, an external spirit bone that could grow properly. Although it was not as good as the Eight Spider Lance in all aspects, and even its growth rate was much worse, it was still an external spirit bone.

Although it only occupies the position of an external soul bone, which means that Tang San cannot absorb the Eight Spider Lance even if he gets it in this life, but putting aside this little problem, there are still many benefits, right?

Well, to put it in plain terms, Chen Ming wants to use those low-quality and low-effect spirit bones to occupy Tang San's spirit bone position.

Of the six conventional soul bones, the limb bones can actually be disassembled under certain special circumstances, while the head bones and torso bones are connected to the origin and are almost impossible to disassemble.

The external soul bone may be peeled off before it is completely absorbed, but after it is completely absorbed, it will completely become a part of the soul master's origin. Even if the gods take action, there is no guarantee that it will not cause irreversible impact on the soul master's origin.

There is a saying in the original book that spirit rings value age, while spirit bones value quality. For spirit masters, a 100,000-year spirit ring, even a 100,000-year soft-bone rabbit spirit ring, is stronger than a 90,000-year top-level spirit beast. Unless it is very suitable for the martial spirit, or the quality of the spirit beast is extremely high, the spirit ring is generally better with a longer age.

Because the soul ring is the embodiment of the soul beast's cultivation.

The reason why soul bones are so important is that they represent the embodiment of the bloodline power of the soul beast. Some high-quality soul bones of 10,000 or 20,000 years old are even more valuable than soul bones of 40,000 or 50,000 years old produced by ordinary soul beasts.

The soul bones produced by soul beasts like the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, even if they are only a thousand years old, are worth more than most ten thousand year old soul bones of average age and quality.

Just like in the second part of Douluo Dalu, Unrivaled Tang Sect, Wang Dong's Golden Ray Soul Bone came from the ten thousand year old Golden Earth Dragon King. Because he has the blood of the golden dragon, which is noble even among the dragon clan, the skills he produces are extra powerful and versatile.

As a soul bone that has just passed ten thousand years old, its quality and rarity are even considered to be no less than that of a hundred thousand year old soul bone.

The growth of external soul bones refers to the growth in years. It cannot be said that there is no growth in quality, but unless one encounters a great opportunity, the improvement in quality is more of a by-product of the growth in years, and the degree of increase is not high.

Some external soul bones from low-level soul beasts, even if they have grown to a hundred thousand years old, will still be weaker in quality than some ten thousand year soul bones with powerful bloodlines.

External soul bones like the Poison Thorn Beast are inherently seriously deficient. Even if they grow to a hundred thousand years old, the increase they may bring may still be weaker than some high-quality soul bones of fifty thousand years due to quality issues, and their skills will only be worse than those of fifty thousand year soul bones.

In the original novel, Tang San's head bone is a top-grade 50,000-year soul bone from the previous pope Qian Xunji. After being fused with the Heart of the Sea God, it becomes a soul bone comparable to a 100,000-year soul bone. The external soul bone is the Eight Spider Lance, which is the only super artifact Tang San made by himself in the future. The soul bones of the highest quality and age are also one of the important factors that allowed Tang San to always kill enemies of higher levels before he became a god.

Since Chen Ming used the thousand-year-old human-faced demon spider soul bone and mixed it with the ten-thousand-year-old human-faced demon spider's bloodline to create a pseudo ten-thousand-year-old soul bone to occupy Tang San's head bone, it was naturally impossible for him to give up the two positions of external soul bone and torso bone.

Although it is said that after absorbing the trunk bone, it is generally impossible to absorb the external soul bone in the spine. But Chen Ming is afraid that Shura God will give Tang San a cheat, even if Tang San absorbs the trunk bone, he will give Tang San an external soul bone that can drive the trunk bone to grow together.

So Chen Ming specially got a poisonous stinger beast with good ingredients as a gift for Tang San.

Under Chen Ming's surveillance, Tang San indeed underwent special changes during the process of absorbing the spirit ring.

With a burst of pain, Tang San subconsciously

He curled up his body, and then with a fluctuation of soul power, sharp spikes pierced out from both sides of Tang San's spine, forming a sparse and somewhat ugly "armor".

Each of these barbs was dark purple in color, infected with a deadly poison, and had a barb on the tip, making Tang San's back look like a humanoid poisonous beast.

Although it looked very tough and seemed to provide a lot of protection for Tang San's back, Chen Ming could see clearly that this external soul bone was connected to Tang San's spine and was a bone spur protruding from the spine.

If it is not damaged, then nothing will happen. But if it is destroyed or damaged by external force, then not only will the external soul bone be seriously damaged, but Tang San's spine will also have problems.

Of course, this problem is not a big problem in the true sense, and even the Eight Spider Lance in the original world line has the same problem. But Chen Ming has already had some ideas of using this external soul bone to give Tang San a little surprise and slow down his cultivation progress.

Doesn't Tang San like to use hidden weapons? Can't even stones kill people?

In the original novel, the Eight Spider Lance gave Tang San direct combat capabilities, but it did not enhance his hidden weapon ability. Isn't this a pity for Tang San who thinks he is the best hidden weapon in the world?
Now that his soul bone has been replaced with the poisonous stinger beast's external soul bone, can it amplify Tang San's hidden weapon ability?
Chen Ming thought that he could guide Tang San to aim his hidden weapon at his back thorns, and then break off a few thorns in each battle to use to hit people. This patchwork could also bring a lot of shackles to Tang San's progress in cultivation.

The spirit ring of the 1,500-year-old poisonous thorn beast did not bring much pressure to Tang San. It could even be said that the pressure Tang San felt was not as great as when his own spirit master absorbed the spirit ring of the ghost vine.

A few moments later, Tang San opened his eyes, and the spirit rings on his body changed from two yellow to two yellow and one purple, officially breaking through to the level of Soul Master.

At this moment, his soul power was level 31, the most common state of an ordinary soul master after absorbing an ordinary soul beast. Compared with the state of being reborn after absorbing the soul ring of the human-faced demon spider and the eight spider spears in the original world line, it was really a million miles away.

Just as Tang San was feeling the surge of power in his body, Xiao Wu finally caught up with Tang San. Looking at the humanoid stinger on the ground, Xiao Wu subconsciously went around it, not intending to get entangled with these low-level spirit beasts, and was ready to continue chasing after her brother Tang San.

But Tang San was not blind. After seeing Xiao Wu's figure passing in front of him, Tang San immediately shouted and made an Erkang hand, calling Xiao Wu who ignored him because she was too anxious.

Looking at Tang San, who looked like he had been shot with dozens of arrows in the back and turned into a hedgehog, Xiao Wu paused for a moment, then rushed to Tang San crying and hugged him.
Tang San subconsciously hugged Xiao Wu who rushed into his arms, but the problem was that Xiao Wu, who opened her arms to hug Tang San, slightly overlooked something.

Amidst Xiao Wu's screams, her arms were pierced deeply into the flesh by several long thorns on Tang San's back. Because the thorns were not only poisonous but also had barbs on the tips, Xiao Wu could only twist her body in pain in Tang San's arms.

(End of this chapter)