Chapter 191: 191. Chapter 189: Pseudo External Attached Soul Bone

191. Chapter 189: Pseudo External Attached Soul Bone

After comforting Bang Chui, Li Xuan went to the side of the Kongming Grass, bent down, and picked up the Kongming Eye from the ground.

Since the Kongming Grass began to evolve, this thing has been lying on the ground; Li Xuan's attention was on the Kongming Grass, so he didn't tend to the Kongming Eye.

The Kongming Eye felt heavy in the hand. It was icy cold, and inside it was a black core about the size of a soybean, wrapped in a transparent crystal‑like material; without seeing it, Li Xuan could not have imagined it was the fruit of the Kongming Grass.

"The texture, the feel—this doesn't look like a fruit at all, it's exactly like a polished gem," Li Xuan muttered while rubbing the Kongming Eye in his hand.

"Brother, what is this thing?" Bang Chui came over with a curious expression and asked softly.

"It's the fruit it produced. Here, take a look." Li Xuan extended his hand and handed the Kongming Eye to Bang Chui.

Bang Chui took the Kongming Eye from Li Xuan's hand and placed it in front of him for careful observation.

"A fruit produced by a hundred‑thousand‑year spatial‑attribute plant soul beast does look impressive, but I can't sense any medicinal power. It feels a bit like a soul bone, yet it doesn't look like one…," Bang Chui said, frowning, his face serious as he voiced his speculation to Li Xuan.

As a hundred‑thousand‑year soul beast, Bang Chui is quite knowledgeable, but he has never seen a soul bone like this.

"It probably can't be a soul bone. Can a fruit become a soul bone?" Li Xuan looked at Bang Chui with puzzlement, then took the Kongming Eye back from his hand and applied a Medicine Appraisal Technique.

As a Light Screen appeared, Bang Chui's guess turned out to be true—the item was indeed a soul bone, just a slightly different one.

【Soul bone: Kongming Eye (pseudo)】

【Age: 100,000 years】

【Quality: Red (growable)】

【Location: Eye】

【Type: external attached soul bone】

【Introduction: The fruit produced every 100,000 years by the 100,000‑year Kongming Small Cave Heaven Grass condenses the essence of that grass, but it is only a step away from becoming a soul bone. After absorption, one can continue devouring the Kongming Eye and Void Pearl or Kongming Crystal to raise the soul bone's quality. When the soul bone reaches gold quality, it can evolve into a complete million‑year external attached soul bone, gaining four soul skills. Currently only the basic soul skill of the Kongming Eye can be activated: Small Cave Heaven; later soul skills will appear as the soul bone improves.】

"Could it be a malformed external attached soul bone? Absorbing Void Pearl and Kongming Crystal can raise it to the million‑year realm?" Li Xuan slowly furrowed his brows and muttered.

Looking at the Kongming Eye in his hand, Li Xuan's heart also began to race.

The quality of this soul bone is beyond doubt.

Spatial attribute…

Growth potential…

External attached soul bone…

Combined, these three points make the soul bone's value exceptionally high.

But the most important point in absorbing a soul bone is that it must match one's own attribute; Li Xuan is also unsure whether the attributes of the few soul‑skill slots the Kongming Eye will obtain in the future will align.

If the future soul skills turn out to be of little use, Li Xuan would truly waste the slot of an external attached soul bone.

Even a million‑year soul bone can be cultivated by Li Xuan, but as a spatial‑attribute external attached soul bone, the Kongming Eye does stir his heart.

The greatness of the spatial attribute is indisputable; after all, "Space reigns, time sanctifies" is not baseless.

However, this soul bone needs time to mature, so it cannot be converted into Li Xuan's combat power in the short term, which does have some impact on him.

Thus Li Xuan is betting on the skills this soul bone can generate; if it only yields a storage Small Cave Heaven, its value is not high.

But if it grants skills like spatial translocation, teleportation, or spatial blade, the soul bone's value can truly manifest.

"If I can obtain a teleportation‑type soul skill, that's enough; it's worth absorbing!" Li Xuan quickly decided to absorb this soul bone.

This is Li Xuan's first time absorbing a soul bone; although he lacks experience, he has activated countless Void Pearls and Kongming Crystals, so activating the Kongming Eye should not differ much from activating a Kongming Crystal.

With that in mind, Li Xuan went to the Hot Spring, sat cross‑legged, placed his hands before his dantian, and supported the Kongming Eye.

Then Li Xuan mobilized the soul power within his body, directly pouring it into the Kongming Eye.

As Li Xuan's soul power continuously poured into the Kongming Eye, the black core inside began to flow, and under an unknown force it started to stretch slowly, elongating…

Finally, the black core inside the Kongming Eye turned into a vertical eye! The whole Kongming Eye also became like a cat's eye stone, looking even more brilliant and dazzling.

Li Xuan also noticed this change, and still thought the soul power inside the Kongming Eye had been fully absorbed, already preparing to withdraw the wedding.

But after waiting a long time, the Kongming Eye kept nonstop absorbing the soul power in Li Xuan's body. Although Li Xuan's soul‑power level isn't that high, the soul power in his body is unusually pure, and his soul power is more robust and heavy than his peers', so it shouldn't completely drain his own soul power.

As the soul power kept being consumed, Li Xuan could feel himself forming a connection with the Kongming Eye; as long as enough soul power is input, Li Xuan can open the space inside the Kongming Eye.

But as time passed, the soul power in Li Xuan's body gradually ran out.

Li Xuan hadn't expected his body's soul power to be completely drained by the Kongming Eye.

"How big is the space inside! My whole soul power isn't enough! How much soul power does this require…?" Li Xuan stared at the Kongming Eye in shock, his tone full of disbelief.

But now that it has come to this, Li Xuan cannot give up halfway, so he took a handful of Yunling Pills from the Void Pearl and stuffed them into his mouth.

Although the Yunling Pills no longer aid Li Xuan's cultivation, they are just right for restoring soul power.

Just as Li Xuan's soul power was about to be completely exhausted, he shoved a Yunling Pill into his mouth; the pill dissolved instantly, turning into a large mass of pure soul power, poured into Li Xuan's dantian, then through his arm into the Kongming Eye.

Repeating this several times, the Kongming Eye's rate of absorbing soul power finally slowed.

Li Xuan also let out a sigh of relief.

Earlier, eating the Alchemy Pills made him a bit nauseous; the pills dissolve on entry, don't fill the stomach, but overconsumption can cause stomach acid.

Finally, the Kongming Eye stopped absorbing soul power, but just as Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, the Kongming Eye suddenly turned into a Black Light that shot straight at Li Xuan's forehead.

Li Xuan subconsciously tried to reach out to block the Black Light, but his speed was still too slow; the Black Light pierced his forehead, striking his skull.

Li Xuan was knocked down outright.

Before Li Xuan could react, an intense pain like the opening of a celestial veil erupted instantly.

"Damn it! What on earth is this Kongming Eye!" Li Xuan struggled to climb up from the ground, sat beside the Hot Spring and began to circulate his technique, suppressing the pain.

The severe pain persisted; within a few minutes, Li Xuan's back was soaked with cold sweat. After a few more minutes, the veins on his forehead bulged, his complexion turned as pale as paper, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Li Xuan hadn't expected that simply opening the space of a Kongming Eye would cause such a dangerous change.

Li Xuan gritted his teeth and endured for half an hour; only then did the pain gradually fade. When he opened his eyes again, he was exhausted, lying motionless beside the Hot Spring.

At that moment, Li Xuan suddenly felt a special energy flow into his body, gradually restoring his dried meridians to normal, while the soreness throughout his body and the slight pain on his forehead also recovered bit by bit.

Weary, Li Xuan opened his eyes, and as soon as he did, he saw Bang Chui standing not far away, his hands releasing a green energy that poured into his body.

"Bangchui, is this your soul skill?" Li Xuan asked Bangchui weakly.

"Second soul skill! Reviving all things! Healing and restoring power effects." Bangchui flashed a brilliant smile.

Being able to help Li Xuan made Bangchui very happy.

Li Xuan nodded, then closed his eyes, enjoying Bangchui's soul skill.

A few minutes later, Li Xuan felt he had almost fully recovered, so he got up from the ground.

"Brother, I saw you absorbing a soul bone just now; I couldn't disturb you then, so I didn't use a soul skill." Bangchui, seeing Li Xuan get up, hurried to his side and explained to him.

"It's fine, Little Bangchui, keep playing here; I'm going to comprehend the soul skill." Li Xuan ruffled Bangchui's hair, then said with a smile.

"Alright, brother, you also take care of your safety." Bangchui said thoughtfully to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan smiled and nodded, then sat back beside the Hot Spring and began to comprehend the soul skill of the Kongming Eye.

As Li Xuan entered cultivation mode, a stream of information entered his mind from his forehead.

Li Xuan began to carefully absorb this information about the soul skill.

After more than ten minutes, Li Xuan slowly opened his eyes.

Li Xuan had basically comprehended the soul skill carried by the Kongming Eye.

Li Xuan closed his eyes, and through the Kongming Eye at his third eye, he linked to a massive space of one million cubic meters called Small Cave Heaven.

Small Cave Heaven was pitch black; unlike the space inside the Palm Heaven Bottle, its interior resembled a Soul Guide Device—relatively stable and with little change—making it ideal for storing supplies.

The space inside the Palm Heaven Bottle, however, was a portable Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan.

Compared with the Palm Heaven Bottle, Small Cave Heaven is far inferior, yet it still serves a great purpose for Li Xuan now.

Li Xuan slowly opened his eyes and shut the Small Cave Heaven space.

Then, Li Xuan affixed several Void Pearls and Kongming Crystals from his belt onto his forehead.

The spaces of the Kongming Crystals and Void Pearls automatically merged into the Kongming Eye.

Li Xuan could also feel that after absorbing the other spaces, Small Cave Heaven had expanded a bit.

Li Xuan thought for a moment, then merged all the Kongming Crystals and Void Pearls into the Kongming Eye, increasing its space.

The Kongming Eye is far more convenient than the Void Pearls and Kongming Crystals.

So Li Xuan's storage belt can be retired.

However, the materials used to forge this belt are precious; after melting them, they are taken to Lou Gao for polishing and forging.

After fully consuming all the Kongming Crystals and Void Pearls, Li Xuan went to the Hot Spring to wash his face and refresh himself.

Now Li Xuan is exhausted; otherwise, he would definitely soak in the Hot Spring.

As Li Xuan lowered his head, he saw his own reflection in the Hot Spring pool.

A black line had appeared on his forehead.

"Isn't that equipment from Erlang Shen?" Li Xuan scratched his head, looking at his reflected self in the Hot Spring with a puzzled expression.

Li Xuan took a deep breath, slowly controlled his soul power, and infused it into the black line on his forehead.

As Li Xuan's soul power poured into the black line, it gradually cracked open, revealing a new eye the size of a normal eyeball.

"So I've really become three-eyed," Li Xuan said with a laugh, shaking his head; the state wasn't ugly at all, actually quite handsome.

"What a pity, at this stage I can't unleash its true power; I can only open a space," Li Xuan said helplessly, shaking his head.

It was because I absorbed a fake external soul bone; with enough time to develop, I can fully develop the third eye's ability.

Li Xuan shook his head, then simply washed his face and returned to his bed to lie down and rest.

When Li Xuan absorbed the Kongming Eye, he basically exhausted all the soul power in his body, even taking many Alchemy Pills to restore it.

Li Xuan, lying on the bed, fell asleep quickly.

……

Li Xuan slept for a full day and night, and only woke up the next day when the sun was three rods high.

"So comfortable. The Kongming Grass issue is solved now, and there's nothing else I need to handle; I'll just wait quietly for the forging workshop to finish, then I can ask Lou Gao," Li Xuan thought, getting a little excited at the thought of his Heaven-Shaking Cannon.

After all, that Heaven-Shaking Cannon is a treasure that can go toe‑to‑toe with a Title Douluo.

If I finish the Heaven-Shaking Cannon a day earlier, my safety will improve considerably.

Thinking of that, Li Xuan wondered what stage Ladi Canyon's construction had reached now.

He changed into fresh clothes, got onto a carriage, and headed straight toward the back of Ladi Canyon.

It had been a long time since Li Xuan last inspected Ladi Canyon; this time he also wanted to examine closely what Ladi Canyon had actually become.

(End of Chapter)