The barren mountain turning into a forest was a heaven-defying transformation. Both Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan were stunned by what they saw. Dugu Bo said in surprise:
"Xiao Li, if I remember correctly, your second soul skill is a healing ability. How does it also have this kind of effect?"
Hearing this, Wang Li turned around and said to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan:
"That's right, it is still a healing skill. But the ones being healed are the Blue Silver Grass covering the mountains and fields. After multiple evolutions, my Blue Silver Domain allows me to command wild Blue Silver Grass and make them grow rapidly to fight enemies."
"Just now, the wild Blue Silver Grass suffered heavy losses under the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's decaying black light. When I used my second soul skill to cover them, they basically became impossible to destroy."
"Alright, Sister Yan, give it the final blow."
Dugu Yan took a deep look at Wang Li. Was this Centipede Heavenly Dragon weak? Not at all. It was simply that Wang Li was too powerful.
The decaying black light from earlier contained terrifying corrosive poison. If it directly struck a person, even a Soul Saint would have their body rapidly deteriorate and lose vitality within a short time. Even Soul Douluo or Titled Douluo would have to be extremely cautious and avoid letting their bodies come into contact with such poison.
No matter how many soul rings a soul master had, their body could never be completely immune to poison. At most, they could use strong soul power to suppress the spread of toxins within their body.
Wang Li had not even made a move himself. Just by relying on the Blue Silver Grass covering the mountains, he had easily subdued a forty-thousand-year soul beast full of deadly poison. Such a method was truly powerful.
At this moment, Wang Li controlled the Blue Silver Grass to drag the Centipede Heavenly Dragon to the ground, but he still did not release its restraints. From the outside to the inside, it was tightly wrapped in layers of Blue Silver Grass, and even inside its body the grass had rooted deeply.
Dugu Yan stepped forward. The Centipede Heavenly Dragon's ferocious appearance was intimidating, but she was not an ordinary girl. Her pupils lit up as her spiritual power gathered in her eyes.
At the moment their eyes met, the unwillingness and resentment in the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's eyes vanished completely. What it saw was the Biling Divine Dragon soaring through the sky. The overwhelming spiritual pressure filled it with terror.
"Biling Demon-Breaking Divine Light!"
Immediately, two beams of light burst from Dugu Yan's eyes and struck the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's hideous head in an instant.
Boom! Boom!
Its head exploded directly. Even though it was like a centipede with many segments, it was completely dead.
Black streams of energy spread out from the corpse, swirling wildly before condensing into a deep black soul ring.
Dugu Yan stared at the soul ring, her determination growing stronger. She then said to Dugu Bo and Wang Li:
"Grandpa, Xiao Li, I'll absorb this soul ring first."
After saying this, she summoned her martial soul and called the black soul ring to her. The ring slowly floated toward her, settled onto the martial soul, and merged into it.
Dugu Yan prepared herself and began absorbing the power contained within the soul ring. The force inside was domineering and immense. A forty-thousand-year soul ring was truly terrifying.
Beside her, Dugu Bo felt somewhat uneasy. In his decades of experience, only quasi-Soul Saints at level seventy would absorb soul rings of forty to fifty thousand years as their seventh ring.
However, when he glanced at Wang Li, he felt somewhat relieved. With Wang Li as an example, and with two immortal herbs and two soul bones strengthening her, there was no reason for Dugu Yan to fail.
Looking again at Dugu Yan, the process was not completely smooth. Her brows were tightly furrowed and her face was filled with pain, showing that the power of the soul ring was extraordinary.
But that was all. As time passed, about three hours later, the surging aura around her gradually calmed down.
Opening her eyes, Dugu Yan let out a long breath, stood up, and said excitedly:
"Grandpa, Xiao Li, I succeeded!"
The worry in Dugu Bo's heart finally eased. He immediately asked:
"Yan Yan, how is it? A forty-thousand-year sixth soul ring,what kind of soul skill did you obtain?"
Even Wang Li was curious.
Dugu Yan explained:
"I inherited the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's Decay Poison. This sixth soul skill is called Biling Extinction Death Light. It releases the Decay Poison in the form of a beam."
"Decay Poison can strip away vitality and cause a creature's body to deteriorate. Releasing it as a beam instead of poison mist gives it terrifying speed and powerful penetration."
"I'm confident that with this soul skill, I can truly kill a Soul Saint. As long as their body touches even a little of the Decay Poison beam, their chance of survival is extremely small."
Dugu Bo took a sharp breath. This was an attack skill, and an extremely terrifying one. It truly lived up to coming from a forty-thousand-year Centipede Heavenly Dragon.
Decay Poison was incredibly lethal.
Wang Li was also shocked, but after the shock came delight. This skill was extremely domineering. It was not very useful against him because his vitality was extremely strong.
But against others, he could hardly imagine many people who could resist the erosion of Decay Poison.
Dugu Yan then said to Wang Li:
"Xiao Li, let your Blue Silver Grass release the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's corpse."
Wang Li nodded. With a wave of his hand, all the Blue Silver Grass retracted. The lifeless corpse of the Centipede Heavenly Dragon fell to the ground without moving.
Dugu Yan activated her martial soul. Her sixth soul ring suddenly shone, the deep black ring causing her aura to surge dramatically.
Her emerald eyes turned completely black, like something from hell, capable of taking away all vitality. They carried dominance, majesty, coldness, and darkness.
She opened her mouth and fired a black beam. It was incredibly fast and instantly pierced through the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's corpse.
The corpse, which had already lost its life force, rapidly decayed under the beam. Flesh rotted into liquid, the shell shattered into powder, and the Centipede Heavenly Dragon completely disappeared from the world.
However, after the corpse vanished, a shining object remained where it had been. It was dazzling and emitted powerful fluctuations.
Dugu Bo and Wang Li looked at each other and immediately realized the truth.
"A soul bone?!"
Dugu Yan also suddenly understood.
"So it's a soul bone. I felt like there was still something in that corpse that resonated with my soul power."
Wang Li waved his hand and used Blue Silver Grass to pull the soul bone out. After examining it carefully, he said:
"It's a right leg bone. Sister Yan, since you absorbed the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's soul ring, you might as well strike while the iron is hot and absorb this soul bone too. It will definitely greatly enhance your strength."
Dugu Bo said in disbelief:
"Have we been blessed by the Goddess of Luck? Some people kill soul beasts their whole life and never encounter a soul bone. Yet we keep getting them one after another. Every time we kill a soul beast, not only do we get a soul ring, we even get a soul bone!"
Wang Li controlled the Blue Silver Grass to bring the right leg soul bone to Dugu Yan and said:
"It's actually not that exaggerated. Sister Yan's head soul bone was the prize from the Soul Master Tournament, and the left arm bone was obtained by trading Time's soul bone with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Only this one came from killing a soul beast."
"My head soul bone and left arm soul bone both came from hunting soul beasts beyond my limits by myself. The risk was high, so the reward was high. That feels normal."
Dugu Bo glared at him.
"What do you mean normal? Do you know how many Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo don't even have a single soul bone? Our whole family has soul bones. We must be blessed by a god."
Dugu Yan took the right leg bone from Wang Li's Blue Silver Grass branch. She knew that even if she offered it to them, neither Dugu Bo nor Wang Li would accept it.
She said:
"Grandpa, Xiao Li, wait a little longer. After absorbing that soul ring beyond my limits, I'm now at level sixty-two soul power. Let's see what improvements this soul bone brings."
After saying this, Dugu Yan began absorbing the soul bone, her third one,the Right Leg Bone of the Centipede Heavenly Dragon.
This time it took even longer. During the process, Dugu Bo even went out to hunt a hundred-year soul beast, skinned it, removed the organs, cleaned it, and started cooking it.
Four hours later, just as the meat soup finished cooking, Dugu Yan woke up.
Beside the campfire, Dugu Bo served her a bowl of hot soup and said gently:
"Yan Yan, eat something first."
Holding the bowl, she took a small sip but it was a bit too hot. Then she told Dugu Bo and Wang Li about her gains.
"I'm level sixty-three now. Absorbing a soul ring beyond my limit and this soul bone gave me a huge boost. Once I stabilize my current level, I should soon break through to level sixty-four."
"Besides increasing my basic attributes, this soul bone also gave me a powerful skill called Godspeed, which is the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's innate ability."
"When activated, Godspeed allows me to reach speeds comparable to teleportation for a short time. But it consumes a lot of soul power and puts pressure on the body. Maintaining that speed requires a large amount of soul power and a very tough body."
Wang Li raised an eyebrow and said:
"The left arm soul bone gives concealment, the right leg soul bone gives Godspeed, and only the head soul bone provides an attack skill, the Biling Demon-Breaking Divine Light. Sister Yan still lacks offensive abilities."
Dugu Bo snorted in annoyance.
"You always think about attack. In the soul master world, life-saving abilities like these are what everyone dreams of. Concealment and Godspeed are both divine skills in my opinion."
Dugu Yan said to Wang Li:
"Although the left arm and right leg bones didn't give me offensive skills, their basic boosts greatly increase the power of my soul skills. With Concealment and Godspeed, I'm confident I can handle a Soul Saint with ease."
After talking, the three of them finished eating and cleaned up the area. Looking at the starry sky, Dugu Bo smiled and said:
"Now that we've successfully helped Yan Yan obtain her sixth soul ring and even gained a right leg soul bone, it's time to return to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well."
Wang Li looked at the sky and thought that today was enough. Then he said seriously:
"Grandpa, Sister Yan, we'll return to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well today. Tomorrow, please come with me to a mountain range on the border between the two empires. In a forest nearby, there's a ten-thousand-year Blue Silver King soul beast."
"I once sensed its approximate location through my Blue Silver Domain. Once we get closer, I can determine the exact location. I want to hunt it as my seventh soul ring and achieve my martial soul true body. I'm already level seventy."
As soon as he finished speaking, both Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan were shocked.
Dugu Bo looked Wang Li up and down in disbelief.
"I always knew your martial soul mutated and that you cultivate quickly, but this is ridiculous. You were already in the sixties, and now you're level seventy? After surpassing your limits to reach level sixty-five and training for only half a year, you've reached seventy? Xiao Li, you're only fifteen! Most fifteen-year-olds haven't even graduated from intermediate soul master academy, yet you're about to become a Soul Saint?"
Wang Li waved his hand innocently.
"Cultivating quickly isn't my fault. I just train normally, but my soul power keeps rising rapidly."
Dugu Yan was completely shocked. She had just reached level sixty-three and thought she had caught up to Wang Li, only for him to say he had reached seventy.
She rushed over, pounced on him, and rubbed his face in frustration.
"Xiao Li, you're putting a lot of pressure on your sister!"
Dugu Bo looked up at the sky and rubbed his temples. He had extremely high talent to become a Titled Douluo, but he had only become a Soul Saint in his thirties or forties.
Now Wang Li, at such a young age, was about to reach that level. It made him feel a little bitter. The new generation was replacing the old.
After the two youngsters finished their playful fight, Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan and Wang Li into the air and left the mountain range, flying toward the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
After Wang Li left, the mountain range returned from the Blue Silver Mountains back to the Iron Mountains. All the Blue Silver Grass returned to normal, but the benefits they had received from Wang Li were real.
They had become taller and more vigorous. With the growth rate of Blue Silver Grass, perhaps after thousands or tens of thousands of years this place could develop into a Blue Silver Forest. Even if a Blue Silver Emperor could not be born, a Blue Silver King might appear.
Soon after, Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan and Wang Li back to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. After a night of rest, everyone regained their energy.
The next day,
Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan and Wang Li and flew toward the border mountain range mentioned by Wang Li. That mountain range was not far from Fasno Province, only a few days away.
Perhaps when Tang Hao brought Tang San to live in seclusion in Holy Soul Village, it was because Holy Soul Village in Fasno Province was close to the Blue Silver Forest deep within the border mountains,the place where the Blue Silver Emperor was born.
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