Chapter 113: Ultimate Power Enhancement

He had displayed this soul bone before all the Honorary Elders, but none of them had any way to absorb it.

When the Golden Crocodile Douluo was young, he had once attempted to turn this soul bone, which no one could tame, into his own aid, but he nearly died due to the baleful energy entering his body; it was only because the High Priest of that generation took action that the Golden Crocodile Douluo was saved.

Ever since then, the Golden Crocodile Douluo had ignored this palm bone.

If Qian Daoliu were to do it himself, he would be able to absorb it; even though he had already absorbed a Right Arm Bone, he could forcibly use the Divine Power of the Angel God to press this palm bone into merging with himself.

It was just that, for him, there was truly no necessity for that.

Who would have thought that upon hearing this, Zhou Heng's eyes lit up, and his entire person immediately became eager to try.

"Grand Pontiff, may I give it a try?"

"Trying is fine." Qian Daoliu nodded, reluctantly agreeing to Zhou Heng's plan.

He had taken out this soul bone precisely because he wanted to let Zhou Heng attempt to absorb it; if Zhou Heng could absorb it, that would be best, and if he could not, he was currently before the statue of the Angel God and close to the Angel Holy Sword, so as long as he borrowed the power of the Angel God, he could forcibly interrupt the absorption process.

At that time, after resting a little, there would be no issue with the right palm.

It could be said that Qian Daoliu's biggest problem was that this person's personality was somewhat hesitant.

If it were not for his personality being slightly too conservative, given his talent, it is uncertain if he might have truly completed the Nine Tests to become a god back then.

Zhou Heng took the Right Palm Bone of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and almost the instant his fingers touched the palm bone, he felt a thick resentment and ferocity from within it.

This was the hatred and malice that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had condensed within its bloodline, firmly intertwined with the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's bloodline power and vitality.

Even though the Angel Martial Soul possessed the ability to purify, it could purify the resentment within this Right Palm Bone.

But as the price for purification, this Right Palm Bone would lose the portion of its characteristics that made it a soul bone, becoming an ordinary bone.

Wanting to resolve this intertwined resentment without destroying the bloodline power within the soul bone was far more difficult than going to find another normal Ten-thousand-year Spirit Bone.

Zhou Heng pressed the palm bone against his right hand and closed his eyes to begin absorption.

As the fusion progressed, a stinging pain came from Zhou Heng's palm, and a violent malice intruded into Zhou Heng's Spirit Sea, wanting to completely crush Zhou Heng.

Even though not even a Title Douluo would dare say they could easily suppress this resentment.

But inside the Spirit Sea, it was entirely Zhou Heng's world.

In the outside world, it would indeed take some effort for Zhou Heng to defeat a nearly ten-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

But in the spirit world, Zhou Heng glanced at this baring-its-fangs-and-brandishing-its-claws little bear, and the resentment of this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was completely frozen within Zhou Heng's Spirit Sea.

Whether it was anger or resentment, at this moment it was completely still, as if it had turned into a sculpture made of spiritual power.

Zhou Heng did not choose to destroy it directly, because he was quite curious about how a Spirit Beast like the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, which was not skilled in spiritual power, managed to leave its resentment inside the soul bone.

If he could figure out this skill, perhaps he could secretly plant traps for others in the future.

For example, preparing a few problematic soul bones for that fellow Tang San, so that Tang San's growth would be influenced by him.

Zhou Heng's physical strength was already very high, and after suppressing the ferocity within this soul bone, the fusion was exceptionally smooth.

In about half an hour, this External Spirit Bone, which no one in the Spirit Hall had been able to absorb for hundreds of years, was completely refined by Zhou Heng, as the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's own Ultimate Gold attribute merged into Zhou Heng's right palm.

The Indestructible Golden Nature belonging to the Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum within Zhou Heng's body also gradually began to react.

The Soul Core rotated, and wisps of special soul power were injected into the right palm; this eighty-thousand-year soul bone, as if it had seen a rare delicacy, crazily absorbed this special metal-attribute power, and borrowing Zhou Heng's thick vitality, the quality and age of the soul bone rapidly increased.

Under these extremely special circumstances, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear bloodline power within the External Spirit Bone was activated, and the bloodline power hidden in its depths gradually awakened, making this soul bone even more miraculous.

After another half an hour, the growth of the soul bone finally came to a halt; the original eighty-thousand-year age, under the effect of the Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum's Indestructible Golden Nature, completely crossed the ten-thousand-year threshold, and it was itself completely refined by Zhou Heng into a part of his body.

Strictly speaking, this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone could no longer be called a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear soul bone.

Zhou Heng's origin had caused an irreversible change to the soul bone; as time passed, the mark belonging to the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear within the soul bone would gradually fade, and the entire soul bone would continue to be reshaped into a form suitable for Zhou Heng.

After sensing it carefully, Zhou Heng also learned the two soul skills within this External Spirit Bone.

The first soul skill was Dark Gold Terrorclaw, the signature ability of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear type of Spirit Beast, known as indestructible and capable of tearing even space.

In the hands of the strongest of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear lineage—Xiong Jun—it had evolved into the even more powerful Tearing Heaven Claw.

It could be called a powerful skill capable of settling the outcome in battle; at a ten-thousand-year age, even the bodies of ordinary Beasts would be directly torn apart.

The second soul skill came from the source of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, which was an existence known as the Behemoth.

The source of the Behemoth was a powerful God King from another world; this type of Spirit Beast fed on Dragons and was a great enemy of the Dragon race.

The Douluo Continent itself was closely linked to the Dragon race, so there were no true Behemoth Spirit Beasts or martial souls within the world; there were only various Spirit Beasts possessing Behemoth bloodlines, and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was one of them.

This skill was named Unstoppable, and it was the signature ability of an existence like the Behemoth.

Once activated, it would significantly strengthen attack power for a continuous period, and every melee attack would be imbued with powerful metal-attribute power, with every attack causing area-of-effect damage.

To put it another way, it was equivalent to turning every subsequent basic attack into a weakened version of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw.

It was just that although this skill was powerful, it also possessed a huge price.

This skill not only consumed a large amount of soul power but also simultaneously consumed a large amount of vitality; every time a weakened Dark Gold Terrorclaw was unleashed, there would be a massive consumption, and it could be considered a life-burning type of skill.

An ordinary Spirit Master, even if they only activated this soul skill briefly, would cause irreversible damage to their body.

It was a double-edged sword that gambled with one's life.

It was just that this problem was nothing to Zhou Heng; after all, the Soul Core within his body could not only convert soul power into the Ultimate Five Elements attributes, but it could also convert soul power into vitality.

As long as he controlled the degree and did not burn out his vitality all at once, Zhou Heng could replenish the deficit in a short time.

Using the golden nature of the Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum as a primer, Zhou Heng, in the process of refining the Dark Gold Terrorclaw, simultaneously introduced the metal attribute within the Dark Gold Terrorclaw into his own body.