Shi Yu smiled slightly and said, "That's natural. Shi Yu wouldn't claim credit for what you two have done."
Shi Yu's heart was already blooming with joy. It seemed Da Ming and Er Ming had quite a collection of Soul Bones. Even if Shi Yu couldn't find ones suitable for Shi Yu, it would still be a great gain.
"This third plan is actually for my personal needs."
"You can see that my current strength isn't strong. This is because after getting a new body, I need to cultivate from scratch, and I'm still in the initial stage."
"To quickly improve my current combat power, I've been thinking of refining some undead war beasts."
"But I'm troubled by the lack of suitable skeletons to use as materials for refining. I wonder if you have any relatively powerful Soul Beast skeletons you could give Shi Yu?" Shi Yu said, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"This..." Both Da Ming and Er Ming felt a bit hesitant and didn't really want to do this.
They were also Soul Beasts, so naturally, they didn't want to see the remains of their fellow Soul Beasts being used after death, unable to rest in peace.
"If it's difficult, never mind. Shi Yu will find another way," Shi Yu said understandingly.
"We don't mean to refuse," Da Ming explained.
He sighed and said, "Alright, although it's not very dignified for those Soul Beasts, they are already dead, so they probably don't care."
"We haven't buried many Soul Beast remains, but they are all left behind by relatively powerful Soul Beasts after death. You can come with us to take a look."
"Okay," Shi Yu was happy inside, but on the surface, Shi Yu remained relatively calm, only showing appropriate gratitude and appearing very composed.
Senior followed Da Ming and Er Ming to the most central part of this forest. There was also a lake here, possibly a nostalgic imitation of the Lake of Life in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Shi Yu curiously surveyed the surrounding environment and saw some small mounds. Could they be where the Soul Beast skeletons were buried?
His guess was quickly confirmed. Er Ming revealed his true form and roughly dug, and soon large pits appeared here.
Shi Yu's gaze was drawn to one of the pits. That pit was the smallest, but the things inside might be the most precious.
Soul Bone. Shi Yu felt the energy fluctuations of Soul Bones within it, not just one piece, but many pieces, possibly reaching double digits in number.
Shi Yu liked it in his heart, but on the surface, Shi Yu was very calm, as if Shi Yu didn't care about these Soul Bones at all.
Da Ming wasn't surprised by his reaction. With Ilex's identity and vision, Senior probably wouldn't care for these Soul Bones either.
Soul Bones were treasures to Soul Masters, but to Ilex, they might be similar to ordinary bones, perhaps not even as valuable as other Soul Beast skeletons to Senior.
Shi Yu followed Da Ming to the edge of this pit and looked down, seeing pieces of Soul Bones covered in mud, their radiance almost obscured.
There were skull bones, torso bones, arm bones, and leg bones, a complete range of types, with the number estimated to exceed twenty pieces.
"These were all left behind after those Soul Beasts died. Some were killed by other Soul Beasts, and some died under heavenly tribulation."
"Among them, there were six Soul Beasts that died under heavenly tribulation, and these six Soul Beasts all left behind Soul Bones."
"Five pieces are quasi-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones, and one piece is a quasi-two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone," Da Ming explained.
The reason for adding 'quasi' was because these Soul Beasts failed to successfully pass the tribulation and did not truly reach the hundred-thousand-year or two-hundred-thousand-year level. The Soul Bones they left behind could not be called true hundred-thousand-year or two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones.
Of course, it was also inappropriate to say their age was ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years.
Because these Soul Beasts had already reached the hundred-thousand-year mark, they just needed to leap like a fish turning into a dragon to achieve the final qualitative change.
In this situation, the Soul Bones left behind are counted as hundred-thousand-year, yet there is a difference compared to true hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones, hence the 'quasi' prefix.
"Shi Yu heard that hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones can provide two Soul Skills. Can these quasi-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones also provide two Soul Skills?" Shi Yu asked curiously.
Shi Yu hadn't come into contact with quasi-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones and wasn't very clear about their properties.
Of course, one thing was certain: they were definitely stronger than ten-thousand-year Soul Bones, and their value was infinitely close to true hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones.
"Shi Yu can't say for sure, after all, Shi Yu hasn't absorbed them, nor have Shi Yu had anyone else absorb these Soul Bones."
"But based on my research, absorbing these quasi-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones has a high probability of providing two Soul Skills."
"It's just that the power of these two Soul Skills will be relatively weaker, slightly weaker compared to the skills of true hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones."
"This weakness probably won't be much, maybe a 10-20% reduction in power," Da Ming said.
Shi Yu nodded slightly. In that case, the value of these Soul Bones was still very high.
If one didn't care about the 10-20% difference in power, they could still be considered as true hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones.
"The other Soul Bones are also at least fifty-thousand-year level. Outside, they would definitely be considered top-grade Soul Bones and would cause a lot of Snap Up ," Da Ming introduced.
After Soul Beasts reach fifty thousand years, their intelligence also becomes relatively high. When such Soul Beasts die, the two brothers also pay more attention to them, just like humans handle the remains of the deceased properly.
This is also why the Soul Bones here are all at least fifty-thousand-year level. They didn't handle the deaths of Soul Beasts below fifty thousand years, and even if Soul Bones were left behind, they didn't collect them.
In this forest, they have tried their best to prohibit fighting and killing, but the nature of Soul Beasts is here, and it's impossible to truly prohibit it.
Dozens or hundreds of Soul Beasts die every day. If they had to handle all of them, they simply wouldn't be able to keep up.
It's worth mentioning that internal fighting and competition among Soul Beasts is a normal natural law.
It often reaches a balance point. As long as there is no external interference, this kind of killing will actually increase the number of Soul Beasts, which is beneficial to the population.
Shi Yu's gaze swept over these Soul Bones one by one, carefully sensing, hoping for the presence of Space or Time attribute Soul Bones.
Shi Yu was disappointed; there were no Soul Bones related to Time or Space here.
However, it wasn't without any gain. Shi Yu felt a familiar aura.
"Man-Faced Demon Spider?" Shi Yu's mind stirred, and Shi Yu took a few extra glances at one Soul Bone.
This Soul Bone seemed to be a torso bone, looking like a human spine.
It's just that the shape of the branching bones of this spine was a bit strange, looking like spider legs, four on each side.
The Soul Bone was covered in mud, but a faint purple light could still be seen.
This Soul Bone felt the most special and kindred to Shi Yu, sharing something in common with the energy of the Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone on Shi Yu's back.
After looking closely for a few moments, Shi Yu could basically confirm that this was a Soul Bone left behind by a Man-Faced Demon Spider Soul Beast after death, and it was a relatively valuable torso Soul Bone.