Douluo: Dream Overlord

Shi Nian was searching through the corpses of soul beasts.

Starting with century-old soul beasts, when a soul master dies, a soul bone will be formed in their body depending on the intensity of the soul beast's resentment or other emotions.

Soul bones possess some of the skills of soul beasts. When the skills in a soul ring and a soul bone are combined, it becomes the complete ability of the soul beast.

As Shi Nian was groping the mind-controlling demon, he suddenly smiled and stopped at its head.

Using his soul power, he cracked the head of the Mind-Sealing Demon, revealing a terrifying, scarlet eye.

The eyes are red and crystalline, reflecting a scarlet light when illuminated by sunlight.

"My God! It's an external soul bone!"

Shi Nian grabbed the eye, his eyes filled with greed and malice.

Soul bones are priceless in the world of soul masters. It can be said that once news of them is released, it will attract countless powerful individuals to compete for them, including many titled Douluo.

This is because a soul bone is different from a soul ring; it does not have the binding characteristic of a soul ring.

That is, apart from the killer, no one else can absorb the soul ring; they can only let it dissipate.

Soul bones are ownerless items; anyone can absorb them, and there is no binding between them.

Of course, the 100,000-year-old soul bone is a separate matter.

The probability of a Soul Bone appearing among Soul Beasts is extremely low, only one in a thousand or even less.

Typically, only powerful soul beasts that experience special circumstances at the time of their death are likely to produce soul bones.

Soul bones can enhance a soul master's attributes, and their growth potential is more valuable than that of soul rings.

Furthermore, external soul bones are not limited by the age of the soul beast and will evolve as the soul master's strength increases.

Soul bones are divided into six categories: skull, torso bones, left arm bones, right arm bones, left leg bones, and right leg bones.

The torso bones are the strongest, followed by the skull, then the right arm, left arm, left leg, right leg, etc. Each type of soul bone can only be absorbed once.

A person can absorb six soul bones, corresponding to the limbs, head, and torso respectively. The timing of absorption and the degree of attribute compatibility affect the effect of the soul bones.

Soul bones are classified into several grades from low to high quality: 100 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years, and 100,000 years. High-quality soul bones come with special effects.

The effect of 100,000 years also comes with two or more soul skills!

If too much is absorbed, it will cause the body to explode and die; at most, the soul bone will be replaced.

There are also structural soul bones, which are included in this list but are relatively independent, namely external soul bones.

There are many types of external soul bones. As soul bones independent of each location, they can absorb a second soul bone in the area without exploding and dying.

External soul bones are the most special and rare, and can evolve as the master's soul power increases. They are the second most precious existence in the soul master world, after 100,000-year soul rings.

Even titled Douluo who are indifferent to ordinary soul bones will go crazy for external soul bones, and the continent will surely be engulfed in bloodshed.

It's hard for anyone not to be tempted when faced with an externally attached soul bone.

Even worse, some have gone so far as to kill their own family and friends, showing no mercy to any of them.

Judging from the location where the soul beast that possessed this external soul bone dropped it, it should be the brow bone.

If he absorbs it himself, he will definitely break through the Soul Emperor cultivation level and officially enter the Soul Saint realm.

With a ten-thousand-year-old head soul bone already in hand, and this external soul bone added to the mix, his mental strength would probably increase several times over!

Shi Nian looked at the soul bone in his hand, filled with greed.

He glanced back at the time he had spent in meditation, and memories of the past surfaced in his mind.

A hint of reluctance flashed in his eyes. Even tigers don't eat their cubs, and he couldn't bear to kill his son, whom he had raised for over ten years.

After all, he was born to her late in life, and she herself was already this old.

If this kid dies young, I'm afraid I won't have any descendants in the future.

After hesitating for a moment, Shi Nian took a deep breath and put the soul bone into the soul tool.

"Sigh, that brat got off easy."

Shi Nian gave a bitter laugh: "I gave up a tremendous opportunity for you!"

He dared to say that if it weren't his son here today, but his wife, brother-in-law, or anyone else, he would have killed them without hesitation.

But with his only son still alive, he retained the last vestige of humanity; he wasn't shameless enough to steal his son's soul bone.

There's an unspoken rule in the world of Soul Masters: whoever kills a Soul Beast gets to keep the Soul Bone it drops.

If you're not satisfied, then let's see what you've got.

Since Shi Nian didn't intend to take his son's soul bone, then he would abide by the rule.

After putting away the soul bone, Shi Nian sat beside Shi Guang and continued to protect him.

At this moment, Shi Guang was unaware that he had just narrowly escaped his first life-or-death crisis since his transmigration.

In the spiritual world, he confronts the resentful entity of the mind-devouring demon in a spiritual form.

All that could be seen was a vast expanse of white in the spiritual world of time, surrounded by endless white light.

As a spiritual entity, Time stood on the ground, gazing at the Mind-Sealing Demon's resentful form hovering in mid-air opposite him, its body shrouded in black energy. A look of apprehension flashed in his eyes.

This was the first time he had entered his own mental world in this way.

This seems to be because his mental strength is too low to construct a realistic scene.

The mind-controlling demon's single eye was blood red, and a resentment, connected through mental energy, entered Shiguang's mind.

"Human! Die! I! I will possess your body!"

The Mind-Capturing Demon uses its resentment as a vehicle to launch spiritual energy attacks against Time.

Seeing the approaching black energy, Shi Guang tensed up and rolled away to dodge the attack.

"Psychological attack?"

Shi Nian looked at the Mind-Controlling Demon and said with a smile, "It's like everyone knows how to do it."

Martial Soul Summoning - Remnant Dream!

A fleeting, ethereal dream appears beside me, while time watches over the mind-controlling demon.

Although the spirit rings could not be manifested in the spiritual world, he subconsciously released his second spirit skill.

"Second Soul Skill - Sensory Confusion!"

As the soul skill was applied to the Mind-Sealing Demon, it felt dizzy and disoriented, spinning around like a headless fly.

Shi Guang sneered, never expecting that his second soul skill could still be used in the spiritual world.

Then you're finished!

His second spirit ring came from a phantom cat that was about a thousand years old. This kind of spirit beast mainly uses disrupting spirit power and interfering with the opponent's vision as its attack method.

After transforming into a soul ring of time, it brought him a sensory confusion effect.

He can consume soul power to temporarily distort the target's five senses, causing confusion in their vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

When a target's five senses are distorted, they will perceive the things in the present moment as their favorites. If this distortion continues for a long time, the target will eventually realize that something is wrong.

Alternatively, the remnant dream martial soul of time can be used as a vessel, through which he can autonomously distort the things he identifies as targets, but this consumes a great deal of soul power.

He has now simply confused the mind-controlling demon's vision and interfered with its sight.

This mind-controlling demon is merely a combination of its resentment and is inherently intellectually deficient.

Now, time seems to be in its grasp, and the power of life and death is in its hands.

A hint of amusement flashed in Time's eyes as he watched the Mind-Stealing Demon wandering around the place.

"Now, our time has begun."