Chapter 180

As these days passed, everyone's life remained quiet and regular.

Shu Yan obtained that Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone from Xu Jiujiu. Initially, they had entrusted the Star-Shattering Douluo to come forward and take it, after which it was handed over to the two of them. Ice Explosion is a divine-level ice-attribute skill. Even though Shu Yan already possessed the Elemental Explosion ability that came after his domain evolved, that ability was attached to the domain. It could be used as a hidden trump card, but it could not be exposed to the eyes of his opponents.

By comparison, the Ice Explosion divine skill brought by the soul bone was much simpler. It was not only practical but its power was not inferior to Elemental Explosion. More importantly, the Ice Empress could also provide him with a 400,000-year left arm bone in the future. After the two soul bones fused, his left arm bone would very likely possess three soul skills, and all three of these soul skills would be extremely suitable for him.

After seeing this soul bone, the Ice Empress's mood was visibly worse. An Ice Jade Scorpion possessing Ice Explosion must have royal blood, and breaking through 100,000 years in the future was a certainty. After she and the Snow Empress left, the Extreme North Land needed guardians. Although Xiao Bai and A Tai were powerful, they were still more than a little lacking compared to when she and the Snow Empress were there.

A Luan needed to break through 200,000 years and successfully undergo bloodline atavism again to transform into a true Extreme Ice Ice Phoenix, yet a 70,000-year Ice Jade King Scorpion was hunted at this critical juncture. It would be strange if the Ice Empress's mood were good.

However, just as Shu Yan said, the origin of this soul bone indeed had nothing to do with the Star Luo Empire. Star Luo was a southern country and the only one among the original three Douluo nations that did not border the Extreme North Land. There were not many ice-attribute soul masters in the entire empire. The origin of this soul bone was quite mysterious; upon deep investigation, the clues inexplicably broke off. The reason was also very simple: this soul bone was originally snatched by someone before it drifted into the Star Luo Empire. As for who exactly snatched it, it was truly hard to verify now.

After obtaining the soul bone, the Ice Empress only held it and observed it for a while before returning it to Shu Yan. Her expression was somewhat downcast. Facing Shu Yan's comfort, she just stubbornly turned her head away and ignored him. Shu Yan was somewhat helpless; he continued to comfort the Ice Empress for a few words, then returned to the secret chamber to prepare to absorb this soul bone.

The 70,000-year Ice Jade King Scorpion left arm bone was indeed a rare, top-quality soul bone. But normally, with his current total soul power and quality, this soul bone could at most increase his soul power by one level. Facts proved that Shu Yan's conjecture was correct.

Shu Yan had nothing to say about this. An ordinary 70,000-year ice-attribute soul bone now didn't even have the possibility of increasing his soul power by one level. That this soul bone could increase his soul power by one level was already lucky. With his physical fitness and even spiritual power, even absorbing a 400,000-year fierce beast soul ring and soul bone now could only be described as just right. And so, the Ice Empress had just happened to be stuck at this "just right" stage.

These past two years had been particularly fulfilling, causing Shu Yan to almost forget another major event.

If he remembered the time correctly, in a while, the original protagonist Huo Yuhao would also leave the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and head to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his soul ring. Obviously, there were benefits to his early transmigration. By the time the original plot officially started, he would already be a top-tier Soul Douluo. If he dragged it out for another two years, he might even become a Titled Douluo or even a Super Douluo. I'm afraid that in a few years, he would probably be a god. By then, regardless of Shrek or the Sun Moon Empire or whatever, it would all be redundant!

If he also possessed a second martial soul, those two divine beasts of the Clear Sky Sect would undoubtedly be excellent sources of soul rings. The Azure Dragon had dual wind and thunder attributes, while the Titan Giant Ape was purely earth-attribute. The most ridiculous thing was that after the former divine beasts descended to the mortal world, only the Azure Dragon possessed Limit Douluo-level cultivation, while the Titan Giant Ape was at level 98. If one excluded the possibility of Tang San temporarily "hacking" them to restore their strength, I'm afraid those two Limit Douluos of the Sun Moon Empire were both stronger than them. It could be considered a strange anomaly.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, another half month went by. Su Tong had already gone into seclusion to break through to the Soul Emperor realm. Although the cultivation speed of extreme-attribute soul masters was a bit slower between level 30 and 70, the advantage was that there were no bottlenecks. She didn't spend much effort breaking through to the Soul Emperor realm; it was more just a lack of some insights.

Ling Luochen's breakthrough was two days faster than Xu Jiujiu's. Xu Jiujiu wasn't slow either. Dugu Yan was currently level 58. Every day, besides dutifully acting as a maid, she was almost entirely immersed in cultivation, and her progress was not slow. The three women broke through to the Soul Emperor realm together, so obtaining soul rings naturally had to be completed together. Where to go to hunt for souls became a problem.

After comprehensive consideration, everyone decided to go to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Although Di Tian had previously implicitly threatened them not to persecute the precious soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, saying it was one thing, but whether to do it or not still depended on Shu Yan's arrangements.

At first, Shu Yan intended to take them to the deep sea to hunt sea soul beasts to obtain soul rings, but after thinking about it later, he gave up for the time being.

If possible, Shu Yan wanted to try to have some dealings with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and even the Silver Dragon King. The former carried the luck of the soul beast clan, and the significance and importance of its existence were immense; the other was the second-generation Soul Beast Co-Ruler, the Silver Dragon King, whose strength once rivaled that of a God King. Neither of them was an ordinary character.

Speaking of the soul beast clan's luck on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Shu Yan had reason to suspect that Tang San split his daughter's soul into three in order to control all the luck of the two peak races on the Douluo Continent simultaneously. At the same time the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sacrificed itself, he transferred all the soul beast clan's luck, finally creating a stitched-together monster, Tang Wutong, and even a submissive dog of luck.

As for Wang Qiu'er, Shu Yan didn't have any aversion to her. She was more or less the same as Wang Dong'er, who was her counterpart. To put it bluntly, she was a dog leash created by Tang San to tether the Son of Luck; it was actually somewhat pathetic.

Shu Yan was even thinking, if all the luck on Huo Yuhao were to come to him, would the person Wang Dong'er liked inexplicably become him? Don't let the Radiant Goddess Butterfly resonate with his Ice Empress martial soul and then form a martial soul fusion skill; that would truly be the biggest joke in the world.

As for Gu Yuena... forget it. Once she fell under the Tang family's curse, becoming a "love-brained" fool was only a matter of time. After all, even Xiao Wu, who was a Soft-Boned Demon Rabbit, could sit by and watch her husband take action against all soul beast races. In the end, in her mind, love was destined to be higher than racial interests.

Shu Yan had nothing to say about this. Everything in this world was contradictory in itself, and the human heart would always change. There was no eternal justice in the world, only supreme interests. Take one step at a time; no one knew where they would end up in the end.

The number of people hunting for souls this time was still not large: Xu Jiujiu and the three women, plus the Ice and Snow Dual Emperors, and finally Shu Yan, who had other motives—a total of six people. After telling Ruan Qinyu and the others, everyone flew to the Star Dou Great Forest without stopping.

(End of chapter)