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Chapter 77: Fusion, Dark Gold Claw
🕑 Added 2025-03-02 04:36:59 +0000 UTC
Xu Yuan’s heart is not pure.
He himself admitted this.
He knew that he was too distracted and wanted to master too many aspects. Even in combat, he did not devote all his energy to the spearmanship, but spent nearly half of his attention on the development of the Tianyuan Brush.
Fortunately, he has a good helper, a Five Elements Spear Spirit who is truly devoted to spears and was born for spears.
The spear spirit merged with him, the spear spirit’s perception was his perception, and his perception would also drive the improvement of the spear spirit. The two complemented each other.
This unique relationship made Xu Yuan’s marksmanship progress very rapidly, surpassing many marksmanship prodigies.
However, this was still the result of him not devoting himself to his marksmanship.
At this moment, in the battle with the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, Xu Yuan entered a magical state.
At this moment, Xu Yuan felt that he had transformed into the Five Elements Spear Spirit.
This is completely different from the previous mental connection that was established with the help of the first soul skill bestowed by Yaoyao, where the feeling of the two senses merged into one.
This time, Xu Yuan was in unity of mind and spirit.
He felt it, felt the thinking of the spear in his hand, felt the excitement of the Five Elements Spear Spirit.
He transformed himself into a spear and felt the spear’s dominance.
The spear is the king of all weapons.
Rule everything and look down on everyone!
The spear force gathered, carrying with it the boundless vitality of heaven and earth, and merged into Xu Yuan’s spear.
Dream space.
With a split second of control, Xu Yuan aimed his spear directly at the neck of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
One shot to the throat.
The heavy body of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear fell heavily to the ground with a loud bang.
Xu Yuan did not rest either. He held the Tianyuan Five Elements Spear and picked up the right hand. Sure enough, he found a metacarpal bone shining with dark golden light.
The soul bones that human soul masters can absorb cover the entire body, but normal soul bones are only in six parts, namely the arms, legs, torso and skull. The soul bones in these six parts are the most common. The quality is judged by whether they are complete. The bone position covered by a complete right arm bone will also include the forearm, and even to the area connecting the palm bone. The same is true for the leg bones.
Except for the six most common parts, the soul bones in other places are all external soul bones, including the metacarpal bones.
There are also some that are based on a certain part of the bones and extend out into skeletal parts that do not belong to the normal human body. They are also external soul bones.
Unlike normal soul bones, external soul bones are capable of growth. Once completely integrated by the soul master, they will not fall off even if the soul master is killed. Moreover, the external soul bones will be absorbed by the soul master simultaneously with the absorption of the soul ring.
A more special example Is the metacarpal bone of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear is very special, with all its strength concentrated on a pair of Dark Gold Terror Claws. After death, there is almost a 10% chance that a right metacarpal bone will condense. The right metacarpal bone will not be integrated into the soul master along with the soul ring, but will fall off like a normal soul bone.
The soul bone dropping mechanism was not within Xu Yuan’s research scope, so he didn’t care about it.
Looking at the right metacarpal bone in front of him, Xu Yuan absorbed it without hesitation.
The guardians in the Soul Ascension Platform are made of soul bones, so their strength must be even stronger. After killing the guardian, the soul bones dropped need to be absorbed before they can be brought back to reality from the Soul Ascension Platform.
Otherwise?
Otherwise it would be troublesome, and Xu Yuan would have the opportunity to ask his uncle to cash in the spoils directly.
But it is obviously impossible for ordinary soul masters. They can only try to fuse the soul bones. Only if the fusion is successful will they have a chance to bring the soul bones back completely.
Generally speaking, the guardian is the strongest being on the same level of the Spirit Ascension Platform. There may be few soul masters in the entire continent who can kill the corresponding guardian under the required cultivation level of the Spirit Ascension Platform.
The Soul Ascension Platform is divided into three levels, and this is also partly the reason for the restriction on the soul master’s cultivation.
Even if there are excellent soul masters who can pass the level, they dare not try it casually, because the information about soul bones is completely blocked.
Even Xu Yuan’s uncle, a former Spirit Pagoda Envoy, didn’t know which Spirit Ascension Platform was the guardian of which Soul Bone was made. The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear didn’t only produce the Dark Gold Terror Claw’s attached Soul Bone, but also the Soul Bone of the six normal parts.
Even if one guesses that the guardian of the East China Sea Spirit Pagoda might have been made based on the Dark Gold Terror Claw, how many level 30 Soul Masters would dare to say that they could fuse this right metacarpal bone?
The Spirit Transferring Tower itself will also reduce losses. If they really encounter a Soul Master with extraordinary talent, they will drive the guardians away from these Soul Masters when they are monitoring them.
Xu Yuan is a special case, while Class Zero in the original work has the halo of the protagonist.
Xu Yuan’s blood boiled, and he felt the pain of his right metacarpal bone being shattered. He gritted his teeth and persevered.
The reason why the threshold for absorbing the Dark Gold Terror Claw is high is because it needs to be completely integrated into the original right metacarpal bone, just like when Huo Yuhao fused the Ice Emperor’s torso bone, but the Ice Emperor’s torso bone was the method chosen by Huo Yuhao himself, while the absorption of the Dark Gold Terror Claw is a mandatory replacement of the original bone.
Of course, if the original skeleton is stronger, it can also devour the Dark Gold Claw in reverse.
This is also because the terrifying power of the Dark Gold Claw is all compressed into the tiny metacarpal bones, which is a devastating blow to normal human metacarpal bones.
If you want to fuse, you have to experience the pain of having your bones shattered.
This is not the end yet.
The bone remodeling process must be endured, otherwise all the previous efforts will be in vain.
All of Xu Yuan’s energy and blood flowed into his right hand. With the help of the flow of time in the dream space, he stretched the timeline while feeling the pain, allowing himself to have more precise control over the process.
The qi and blood wrapped around all the broken bones and merged with the dark gold claws, undergoing the so-called reshaping.
Completely replaced by Dark Gold Terrorclaw?
Impossible.
Xu Yuan didn’t allow it.
There was another burst of pain. After Xu Yuan had endured the most painful stage, he was exhausted and directly withdrew from the Spirit Ascension Platform.
Yaoyao was humming and calling in Xu Yuan’s spiritual sea.
“Hmph~~” (It really makes the monster worry)
It waved its small hand that was condensed from a spirit body, mobilizing Xu Yuan’s mental power to activate the dream space.
Without the source of pain in his body, Xu Yuan now only had the pain that remained in his mind, which only needed time to ease. This could be done in the dream space, shortening the time wasted in reality.
Half an hour later, Xu Yuan finally calmed down.
Rubbing his brows, Xu Yuan left the Spirit Pagoda and came to East China Sea College.
“You must be Mr. Xu Yuan, right?” Director Long from the junior department greeted him with a smile.
Director Long was also very excited when he received Wu Zhangkong’s greeting before, and he has been waiting for Xu Yuan to come these days.
This is the genius of Shrek’s inner courtyard.
“Where are the seniors?” Xu Yuan asked.
Director Long’s face stiffened for a moment.
“What’s wrong?” Xu Yuan realized that the other party was in a bad mood.
“The soul guide train they were riding on encountered a terrorist attack, and it took some time to cooperate with the official registration. Now they have rented a soul guide car. It will probably take a few days to return to Donghai City.”
