Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 262—Dr. Qian Lingyun, a scholar of soul bones

"You seem to be very happy!" Electrox floated out from behind Qian Lingyun, stroking his non-existent beard while staring at Qian Lingyun's barely suppressed smile.

"Ah!" Qian Lingyun was so frightened that her legs trembled and she stumbled forward several steps.

She nearly tripped over her own feet and fell over. She quickly grabbed onto a towering tree for support, gave Electrolux a slightly reproachful look, and exclaimed dramatically, "Wow, teacher, do you know how scary it is to suddenly appear in broad daylight! I almost fell to my death!"

"Don't give me that! Do you think I don't know your personality?"

Electrolux scoffed at Qian Lingyun's quirky and mischievous nature. After spending so many years with her, he knew that beneath her seemingly delicate and charming exterior lay an extremely schizophrenic personality and virtually nonexistent moral boundaries.

"Tsk tsk tsk, teacher, your serious criticism is going to hurt my feelings!" Qian Lingyun's expression changed, her previous innocent and naive demeanor vanished, replaced by a lazy sigh as she leaned against a large tree with her eyes lowered.

"I don't have many relatives, and you are one of them. For my healthy growth, it would be better if you could encourage me more."

"..." Electrox's phantom lips twitched slightly. He didn't say anything, but based on his understanding of Qian Lingyun, he could already guess that behind this brat's sudden emotional appeal, there must be some strange trouble hidden.

Logically speaking, since he had seen through the little rascal's ill intentions, the next step would simply be for him to righteously refuse and severely criticize Qian Lingyun, this little impudent one.

Unfortunately, this lonely old man fell for it.

While Qian Lingyun considered him family, he also regarded this little girl as his successor!

Finally, after a brief silence, Electrox scratched his platinum blonde hair in frustration and growled almost in a roaring tone:

"You little debt collector, tell me, what troubles this old man with this time? You'd better say it all at once, or don't blame me for taking it back."

"Huh!" Qian Lingyun looked up in surprise, her captivating red eyes fixed on Electrolux. She trembled as if about to cry, and said, "What? Does the teacher think I'm that kind of woman?"

"Isn't that right? Okay, since you're not that kind of woman, then there's nothing to worry about, right?"

"Since everything's alright, I'll go back and rest!" Electrox replied with a forced smile.

"Tsk, as expected of a teacher, you have a good eye for people!" Qian Lingyun scratched her head awkwardly, rubbing her hands as she tentatively asked, "These ordinary undead creatures are fine for refining soul bones to bribe low- to mid-level soul masters, but bribing soul masters with nine rings or higher is really difficult..."

"You mean...we're going to use the Bone Dragon to forge a Soul Bone?" Electrox asked expressionlessly, looking at the hesitant Qian Lingyun. After a moment's thought, he said in a low voice:

"That's true. The Bone Dragon possesses strength equivalent to your Title Douluos. If you temper the Bone Dragon into it, it can indeed greatly enhance the abilities of the Soul Bone itself, but the trouble it will cause is definitely not comparable to those small fry from before."

"If you can refine the bone dragon into it, then you can be considered to have barely entered the hall of knowledge in the field of alchemy."

Qian Lingyun was a little unsure of Electrolux's meaning and couldn't help but ask, "Then, teacher, do you mean...?"

"What I mean is, just go for it! You can't grow without a heart that yearns to challenge yourself to reach higher levels."

After speaking, Electrolux forcefully ruffled Qian Lingyun's carefully styled long hair into a mess, then laughed and disappeared behind her.

Electrolux's encouragement gave Qian Lingyun a lot of confidence. She took a deep breath, and the previous hesitation was gone from her eyes. She turned around and walked towards the unopened gate to the dead.

In the gloomy sky, dozens of enormous figures hovered aimlessly.

But the ground here was completely empty; not even a single moving skeleton could be seen.

It took Qian Lingyun a great deal of effort to reach this place. She set her sights on a giant skeletal dragon that was flying at the lowest altitude and waved to it.

Hey!

Sensing the unusual energy fluctuations emanating from the ground, the dragons opened their menacing maws, filled with sharp fangs, and their piercing roars echoed one after another over the empty valley.

"I've decided on you!" Qian Lingyun lowered her eyes to look at the adult bone dragon in front of her.

Its massive head, over eight meters long, emitted a faint golden light, and its eye sockets flickered with bright golden soul fire, strangely radiating an aura of light. The golden light in its eyes flowed down its facial bones like liquid.

Its enormous head obediently pressed against Qian Lingyun's outstretched palm, emitting a silent roar.

Qian Lingyun casually placed the secret head soul bone in mid-air, her red lips slightly parted, and she chanted the obscure and difficult-to-understand incantation. The bone dragon's terrifyingly huge body did not change at all while she was chanting the incantation.

Only its golden soul fire pulsed wildly, drawing out more and more golden light, which slowly hovered above the arcane soul bone.

The Bone Dragon truly lived up to its reputation as one of the most powerful creatures in the undead demiplane. Even with all of Qian Lingyun's efforts to strip away its power, it still took more than half an hour.

Even at the very end, the huge energy cluster floating above the head of the secret technique still maintained the shape of a giant bone dragon. In contrast, the original massive body of the bone dragon cracked inch by inch after losing the support of soul energy, turning into countless wisps of dust that scattered away.

Having successfully completed the first step in cultivating the Bone Dragon Soul Bone, Qian Lingyun wiped the sweat from her forehead and stared intently at the secret soul bone beneath the 'Bone Dragon Energy Cluster'.

Now that the most troublesome first step has been completed, the remaining second step, based on her previous experience, only requires injecting energy and maintaining the stability of the two soul forces themselves.

After 50% of the extracted necromantic energy is incorporated into the soul bone, the remaining energy will automatically merge into the soul bone, requiring no further effort from her.

As expected, under Qian Lingyun's precise control of her soul power, the bone dragon energy was gradually injected into the secret soul bone.

The original milky-white aura of the Mystic Soul Bone had vanished without a trace, leaving only the dazzling golden light emanating from the Bone Dragon's soul fire.

Isn't a special soul bone made by a bone dragon just as good as a slightly inferior 100,000-year soul bone?

As he thought about it, the remaining golden light outside the soul bone seemed to be drawn in by some mysterious force, and frantically poured back into the secret soul bone.

Its speed was even faster than the previous times.

Even Qian Lingyun couldn't help but mutter curiously, "What's going on? The energy injected has barely reached thirty percent, so why is it already experiencing self-inflicted backflow?"

"Could it be that the power extracted from higher-level undead creatures flows back to the source faster, and the proportion of pre-existing soul power is also faster? What's the logic behind this?"

(End of this chapter)