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Chapter 54: I Must Get His External Spirit Bone
🕑 Added 2025-07-30 10:47:26 +0000 UTCDugu Bo was very pleased with Ignaz's response, while Dugu Yan, who sat beside him, turned away, secretly delighted. Her cheeks grew even redder and hotter.
Dugu Bo stretched his muscles and bones, looking up at the darkening sky. This trip had indeed been quite tiring.
"Little Iggy, Yanyan, let's rest here for the night and return to Heaven Dou City tomorrow. This place looks quite good."
Dugu Bo began setting up poison mist around the open area, which had few tall trees. He then took out a tent from his storage device and tossed it in front of Ignaz.
"Little Iggy, go set up the tent!"
"Me?"
"What? Do you expect this old man and Yanyan to do it themselves?"
Dugu Bo gave Ignaz a displeased look. Ignaz immediately understood and went to set up the tent.
Dugu Yan, sitting by the campfire, couldn't bear to see Ignaz being ordered around like this.
"Grandfather, you're really awful. There are already set-up tents in your storage, but you're making Brother Iggy build one from scratch."
Dugu Yan glared at Dugu Bo before running to Ignaz's side and saying gently:
"Brother Iggy, let me help you."
"Alright—"
Just as Ignaz was about to continue speaking, he saw Dugu Bo's green eyes staring intently at him. He immediately changed his tone:
"No need, leave this to me. A girl like you shouldn't tire herself out."
"It's okay!"
Dugu Yan immediately turned to look at Dugu Bo, who was warming himself by the fire. Dugu Bo turned his back and sighed, muttering to himself:
"Sigh! Yanyan, why don't you understand your grandfather's good intentions? If this boy isn't properly disciplined, what will happen if he bullies you in the future?"
"Girls really can't be kept at home once they grow up!"
With the man and woman working together, a large tent was quickly erected. The three of them sat around the campfire, eating grilled fish and spirit beast jerky.
Dugu Bo looked at the two chatting and laughing beside him, then cleared his throat with a frown:
"When I was treating young Tianheng's injuries earlier, I accidentally discovered a bone on his hip that emanated different spirit power fluctuations. It looks like a fairly high-quality external spirit bone!"
"External spirit bone?"
Hearing this, Dugu Yan, who had been quite happy, was now surprised. External spirit bones were extremely rare. She had spent a year with him and never knew Yu Tianheng had an external spirit bone. No wonder his cultivation could improve so quickly—it was thanks to the external spirit bone's effects!
"Based on its shape and location, it should definitely be a tail-type spirit bone."
Based on his investigation, Dugu Bo quickly guessed the general function of the spirit bone. He was actually quite surprised when he discovered it—that was an external spirit bone! Even if it was just a hundred-year spirit bone, its value far exceeded his own 70,000-year head spirit bone.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's ability to obtain such a tremendously valuable treasure from the spirit master world and let Yu Tianheng absorb it showed his extremely important status within the clan, far beyond what a mere clan master heir position could compare to.
After hearing this, Ignaz merely smiled calmly, then patiently explained to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan:
"This external spirit bone came from the Vast Sea City auction house. I was fortunate to see it before. It's a fish tail bone from a top-tier sea spirit beast called the Scaled Dragon Beast, around five to six thousand years old."
"I originally thought Duke Yu Luo would absorb it after successfully bidding, or that the spirit bone would be taken by someone else. Who knew it would be given to Yu Tianheng?"
"Oh, so this was the treasure from that Vast Sea City auction?"
Dugu Bo felt somewhat regretful about this. Duke Yu Luo had invited him to attend at the time, but he had been obsessed with poison refining and searching for ways to detoxify his body, so he hadn't gone. Otherwise, that Scaled Dragon Beast's external spirit bone would definitely have been his.
Ignaz looked at Dugu Yan, who was listening attentively beside him, a flash of killing intent crossing his eyes.
"Little sister, that Scaled Dragon Beast's external spirit bone would also suit you perfectly. If I get the chance, I'll help you take it. With it, your Scaled Dragon martial spirit might directly complete the dragon transformation stage."
He had long coveted the Scaled Dragon Beast's external spirit bone at the auction house, but due to his status and position at the time, he hadn't had the ability to obtain it.
But Ignaz's circumstances were different now. He had already made enemies with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan—they definitely wouldn't let him go, and probably wouldn't spare the Dugu family either.
Since he now knew the exact location of the external spirit bone, even if he didn't need it himself, he could give it to his little sister.
"Boy, I need to remind you that this approach is quite dangerous. By then, even I might not be able to protect you! And most importantly, if an external spirit bone completely fuses with a spirit master, even if you kill Yu Tianheng, that spirit bone will disappear!"
After hearing Ignaz's idea, Dugu Bo was quite pleased—at least this boy truly valued Yanyan—but such actions were quite risky.
"Brother Iggy, we should do less killing and robbing. Your safety is the most important thing!"
Dugu Yan grasped Ignaz's hands, looking at him with a face full of worry. She was very moved that her Brother Iggy had such thoughts, but this involved the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and she had never witnessed killing before, so she still felt some resistance in her heart.
Ignaz gently patted Dugu Yan's small hands, comforting her: "Don't worry, little sister. I was just talking casually. Your Brother Iggy values his life quite a bit, especially in front of you."
In fact, when he spoke of this matter, he had already committed it firmly to memory. He must obtain the Scaled Dragon Beast's external spirit bone—he just needed to wait for the right opportunity. The complete fusion of external spirit bones was what worried him most.
In the original story and anime, Tang San's external spirit bone completely fused, seemingly requiring both Zhi Lin Spirit Douluo's external pressure and Tang San's frequent use of the Eight Spider Lance spirit bone—internal and external forces working together to achieve complete fusion.
Although he, Ignaz, had encountered Dugu Bo's spirit power pressure several times, the Thunder Dragon Fish Crown Bone on his head didn't seem to show signs of complete fusion.
If that was the case, then there was still time to seize the Scaled Dragon Beast's external spirit bone.
"Alright, little Iggy, it's good that you can think it through. It's getting late, you two should go rest. I'll take the first half of the night watch, and you take the second half."
Hearing this, both Ignaz and Dugu Yan blushed, especially Dugu Yan, who was so embarrassed she could curl her toes.
"The two of us are going to rest together... isn't that a bit inappropriate?"
Dugu Bo looked at the somewhat embarrassed pair, especially Ignaz, whose mind was currently filled with improper thoughts. He immediately brought them both inside the tent and used tree branches to draw a boundary line, saying with a serious expression:
"Don't get any ideas, boy. If I catch you being handsy while sleeping, don't blame me for crippling you."
Dugu Bo had originally wanted to let the two develop their feelings further, but his granddaughter was still young and couldn't allow them to become more intimate, especially before marriage—such behavior was absolutely forbidden.
