Chapter 35: Tear Bone, Ghost Xiaotian Bead

Lan Xue hurriedly stepped forward, "Feihuang, do you really want to absorb this 1,200-year Spirit Ring? Although the attack power of this Earth-Bound Spirit is not strong, it is gloomy and eerie, with extremely heavy evil energy. I am worried that you will be affected."

"Mother, don't worry. The thing I fear least is ghosts!" Nan Feihuang smiled. Both baleful energy and righteous energy are the banes of ghostly entities.

As a reincarnated Battle General, Nan Feihuang was born with righteous energy, and his Ghost God Body allowed him to naturally generate baleful energy.

These two originally opposing types of energy were perfectly harmonized within his body.

Therefore, he had absolute confidence.

Nan Feihuang guided the Spirit Ring toward himself and sat cross-legged.

Seeing that the absorption of the Spirit Ring had already begun, Lan Xue had no choice but to set aside the conflict in her heart and stand guard for her son.

Absorbing a Spirit Ring of over a thousand years was not too difficult for Nan Feihuang. For the first half hour, Lan Xue saw that her son's complexion remained normal and gradually set her mind at ease.

But after half an hour, a strange thing happened. Nan Feihuang's complexion gradually turned ugly. His body surface remained unaffected, but his soul seemed to have suffered some kind of attack. Yet, logically speaking, a mere thousand-year Spirit Ring should not cause soul tremors.

Nan Feihuang's spirit awoke in a mysterious place.

"Could this be the Internal Vision realm? So, this is the inside of my body?" Nan Feihuang looked around in confusion. If it were the Internal Vision realm, he should be seeing his own bones or internal organs, but he only saw a blue expanse. His feet stepped on the ground as if stepping on water, sending out ripples.

Ahead, a large tree appeared inexplicably.

"No, this is not a simple Internal Vision realm. This is my Spirit Sea, and this tree is my Soul Seed." Nan Feihuang gently stroked the trunk of the large tree. Coming here inexplicably must mean his soul had been affected by something.

At this moment, a burst of dark, pitch-black light spilled down, dyeing Nan Feihuang's mysterious, deep-blue Spirit Sea into a patch of darkness.

Nan Feihuang looked up and saw a pitch-black bead hovering above the large tree, seemingly wanting to occupy his Soul Seed.

"Hmph, worthy of being an Earth-Bound Spirit, to actually have such methods. You want to seize my Soul Seed? You're dreaming!" Nan Feihuang reached out, summoned his Halberd into his hand, leaped up fiercely, and slashed at the bead.

Two beams of light, one black and one blue, began a continuous clash here.

Within this Spirit Sea, his martial soul could still be used, and it was even more compatible.

"Single-Handed Eighteen Picks!" Nan Feihuang unleashed a Single-Handed Stab from the Single-Handed Eighteen Picks, the Fangtian Halberd spinning as it thrust in, completely disrupting the black energy of the Earth-Bound Spirit.

Following this was a simple Slap, scattering a portion of the evil spirits.

Nan Feihuang discovered that within the Spirit Sea, his comprehension of halberd techniques had reached a deeper level.

Outside, Lan Xue watched her son's complexion shift between black and blue, her heart filled with worry. Now, even she did not understand what was happening to Nan Feihuang.

But she had no way to interfere with the Spirit Ring absorption and could only fret outside.

"Feihuang, you will definitely be fine. Mother believes in you!"

Nan Feihuang was, of course, fine. He was currently happily using that evil spirit to practice his skills. Being in the Spirit Sea, his mind was clear, making it easier to reach the realm of Body Halberd Unity.

When Nan Feihuang had executed the entire Single-Handed Eighteen Picks, he finally cultivated this set of martial techniques to the realm of Expertise.

Nan Feihuang had previously divided the proficiency of martial techniques into five realms: Mastery, Proficiency, Expertise, Greatness, and Perfection.

Mastery, meaning to learn, the introductory realm.

Proficiency, meaning to be skilled, the minor success realm. Nan Feihuang, after more than a year of hard training, had been at this realm previously.

Expertise, the medium success realm.

Greatness, the major success realm.

Perfection, the realm of reaching the pinnacle of perfection.

As long as Nan Feihuang practiced the Single-Handed Eighteen Picks to the fourth realm, he would surely achieve twice the result with half the effort when practicing other halberd techniques in the future.

And if he reached the fifth realm, then any halberd technique in the world, he could learn upon seeing it, and master upon learning it.

Just like the Chu Bawang and the Ghost God Lv Bu of the past.

Soon, the remnant soul of the Earth-Bound Spirit was destroyed by Nan Feihuang. The Spirit Sea returned to normal, but the bead floating above did not disappear.

It had merely changed from black to a cyan-blue color.

"Ghost Xiaotian Bead." Looking at this bead, Nan Feihuang blurted out, calling it by its name.

And the reason he could know the name of this bead was because this bead had already become a part of his body.

The bead heard Nan Feihuang's call and flew toward his face, merging into the posterior lateral wall of the lacrimal bone and the medial wall of the eye socket.

This part is the lacrimal bone. The lacrimal bone is a pair of thin bones, similar in size and shape to a fingernail. It is the smallest bone in the face. It is about the same size as this small bead, and the lacrimal sac is located within the lacrimal fossa. It connects to the maxilla in the front and the orbital plate of the ethmoid labyrinth in the back.

That's right, this Ghost Xiaotian Bead was a soul bone, but not a Head Bone.

A normal Head Bone is generally attached to the forehead to be absorbed.

And a soul bone attached to the lacrimal bone, without a doubt, belongs to an External Spirit Bone!

Nan Feihuang smiled slightly, waking up from the Spirit Sea, as surging, pure soul power radiated from his body surface.

One yellow and one purple Spirit Ring circled his body.

Just as Lan Xue was rejoicing, Nan Feihuang opened his eyes, and his left pupil actually appeared cyan-blue.

"Heterochromia? Feihuang, you succeeded in absorbing the Spirit Ring, but your eyes?" Lan Xue asked worriedly.

"Mother, don't worry, I'm fine. Near my left eye, an extra lacrimal bone has appeared, named the Ghost Xiaotian Bead. Because it is close to my left eye, when I use this lacrimal bone, my left pupil will be affected by the light of the Ghost Xiaotian Bead and appear cyan-blue," Nan Feihuang explained.

"Lacrimal... lacrimal bone? Could this be, an External Spirit Bone!!" Lan Xue was pleasantly surprised.

An External Spirit Bone! This was a rare item ranked second on the list of Spirit Masters' dreams, second only to a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring or soul bone.

Moreover, External Spirit Bones have two special characteristics. One is that once fully fused, they cannot be stripped away; even if others wanted to kill to take the bone, it would not drop.

The other is its evolutionary nature; it evolves as its owner's soul power increases. Therefore, the earlier one absorbs an External Spirit Bone, the better. If the probability of a normal soul bone appearing from a Spirit Beast is one in a thousand, then the probability of an External Spirit Bone appearing is not even one in ten thousand.

Although the age of Nan Feihuang's Ghost Xiaotian Bead was only around a thousand years, as his cultivation increased, it would sooner or later evolve to a level surpassing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

This External Spirit Bone had three abilities.

First, an increase in all attributes. This is a common ability for almost all soul bones. Even for mental-type soul bones, they just have different focuses, mainly enhancing mental power, while also providing slight enhancements to physical strength and speed. This is especially evident with External Spirit Bones. When using this soul bone, Nan Feihuang could feel his mental power increase by thirty percent, and other aspects by ten percent. The increase was not large right now because the age was still too low, but as the soul bone grew in the future, it would naturally continue to become stronger.

Second is the Ghost Eye, which was the cyan-blue left eye that appeared on Nan Feihuang earlier. It could see through an opponent's soul power circulation, predict an opponent's moves, observe the opponent's weaknesses, and even their vital points.

Third is the Spirit Bone Skill, Soul Shock, a mental-type attack that causes the opponent's soul to continuously tremble, producing massive mental damage.

(End of chapter)