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--- Chapter 65 ---
Dugu Bo has successfully brought others to the land. However, their eyes never left the shore, watching for someone to return.
"Xiao Yuan is going to be fine, right?" asked Dugu Yan.
Liu Erlong puffed her chest, "That boy is a tough cookie. Even I couldn't beat him, and some spirit beasts won't put him into trouble."
"You haven't seen much of his tough side, so it's normal if you don't know."
Hearing this, Han Yue glanced at Dugu Yan and added, "My brother is strong, unbelievably strong. You can't measure his strength with spirit rank alone."
Although Liu Erlong and Han Yue sound like they are exaggerating Han Yuan's feat, Dugu Bo, Dugu Xin, and Ye Xuelan, who lived through the Douluo Continent longer than their granddaughter and daughter, knew the sheer aura Han Yuan radiated earlier topped a well-seasoned Spirit Sage Expert.
It's hard to believe a half-step Spirit Ancestor could have such a strength at that age, too.
"Look!" Ye Lingling shouted as she pointed at the sky.
A purple-silver light slices through the air, leaving a beautiful arc in the sky.
"He's back..." Dugu Yan sighed in relief.
BOOM!
Han Yuan descended from the sky, threw the half-dead Moonfish Queen to the ground, and said humorously, "Sister, I got your package."
"Kill it, and get your fourth spirit ring."
Han Yue smiled as she decisively struck down the Moonfish Queen's head with a spear of condensed moonlight. As the black spirit ring manifested on the now-dead spirit beast, Han Yue said, "Thank you, Xiao Yuan."
"I know you'd come back."
Han Yuan smiled back and cleansed the spirit ring for her, "Go and absorb the spirit ring."
"Mm." Han Yue nodded, sitting on the ground and meditating to absorb the 20,000-year-old spirit ring.
After Han Yue entered her deep meditation, Han Yuan's smile gradually vanished, and he canceled the Purple Silver Lightning Mode - Stage 3 immediately, which consumed his spirit energy and spiritual power like crazy and also left him with severe physical pain throughout his body.
"Damn it, my body is not ready for that much force." Han Yuan gritted his teeth in pain, gasping for air.
"Xiao Yuan!" Ye Xuelan hurriedly summoned her Nine Heart Begonia and cast a healing skill on Han Yuan, making him feel much better.
Han Yuan sighed in relief, "Thank you, Auntie."
Dugu Bo walked to Han Yuan and carefully grabbed his hand to check his condition, "This, I couldn't believe you developed and dared to use such a dangerous self-created skill, Young Master."
"Even though your body is immune to lightning energy, the compressed spirit energy and heat it brought was too much for your meridian and body to handle."
"I couldn't imagine the pain you went through, Young Master. It must be no less than my poisoning."
"Also, if you use this self-created skill even a little longer, your meridian could explode and cripple you..."
Ye Xuelan's face slowly darkened upon hearing Dugu Bo's analysis. She stared at Han Yuan with a questioning look, "You're so reckless!"
Han Yuan chuckled carelessly, "I can endure some pain as long as my sister is happy. As for exploding meridians, I have medicine to restore and grow them stronger than before."
"You're really a hopeless siscon!" Liu Erlong couldn't endure it anymore and threw shade at Han Yuan.
"What is siscon?" Everyone tilted their heads.
"No, don't tell them-!" Han Yuan wanted to stop Liu Erlong from talking nonsense, but it was too fucking late.
Liu Erlong cleared her throat and explained, "Siscon, also known as sister complex, is people with strong attachment and obsession with their sister or sisters. It can also refer to the act of feeling a strong sense of affection or attachment to a sister."
"Simply put, Xiao Yuan is obsessed with Xiao Yue, whether safety or living conditions. He'd do anything to make her feel content!"
"Uugh..." Han Yuan looked defeated. If he isn't so sore, he'd smack this female tyrannosaurus.
Dugu Bo patted Han Yuan's shoulder, "It's okay, Young Master. We understand."
"Who wouldn't do everything for their loved ones?"
Han Yuan stared at Dugu Bo with a frown, 'I don't want to hear that from you! You granddaughter complex!'
After a few minutes, Han Yuan 'completely' healed. The healing power of Nine Heart Begonia is indeed the strongest in the world.
Han Yuan stretched his body a few times before saying, "That feels much better~!"
"Anyway, let's check the spoils."
"Dean, Uncle, Senior Dugu, you guys store the spirit beast's corpse you killed, right?"
Liu Erlong, Dugu Xin, and Dugu Bo nodded, "Yup."
"However, it was a bit wasteful not saving those spirit rings. Although Xiao Yuan purified more than 80% of them..." Liu Erlong sighed helplessly because some spirit beasts they killed would provide a good spirit skill.
Unfortunately, Han Yuan was busy fighting alongside them and couldn't purify all the spirit rings.
"This makes me want to learn True Spirit Theory even more." Ye Xuelan also lamented.
"Mm..." Ye Lingling agreed with her mother.
"If only I could also learn it." Dugu Yan pouted because she didn't have lightning, holy, or light elements.
They piled the corpses and discovered they had killed more than thirty spirit beasts over 10,000 years old. Each is powerful and distinct to the mangrove forest's habitat, and calling some Kings of the Shore wasn't wrong either.
After checking the corpses, they luckily discovered four spirit bones so far.
"Hiss, four spirit bones in one hunting?" Dugu Xin sucked a cold breath.
"I've never heard of it before."
"How could this happen?"
"Yeah." Liu Erlong nodded in agreement. "I've slaughtered my way to the Star Dou Forest a few times, and I never get this many spirit bones from killing spirit beasts."
"But why so?" Ye Xuelan pondered in confusion.
Dugu Bo rubbed his chin and said, "From what I know, spirit bones only manifested in the spirit beast's corpse when that spirit beast possessed extreme resentment."
"Strictly speaking, we caused a small spirit beast tide, which triggered a great resentment in their hearts."
"Even then, getting four spirit bones is nuts!"
Han Yuan commented calmly, "Senior Dugu is correct, but you forget that the amount of spirit beasts in the ocean is many times more than that on land. They weren't excessively hunted like spirit beasts on land, which allowed them to reproduce more and maintain a stronger bloodline."
"And a stronger bloodline means their talents are stronger."
"In fact, I'm sure the ocean has countless 100,000-year-old spirit beasts or even the legendary 1,000,000-year-old spirit beast!"
"And since you know about my Demonic Pill, you also know about Neidan, which spirit beasts with great bloodlines and talents could form. Spirit bones also work under the same rules."
"Honestly, I expected we got more spirit bones." He chuckled softly.
"Four, I don't know, just a few..."
Liu Erlong and others had their mouths twitching.
"I want to beat you up soooo bad, Xiao Yuan." Liu Erlong waved her fist in annoyance. "You're lucky that you're smart and handsome, so I don't want to beat you up."
Han Yuan ignored Liu Erlong's antics and looked at the last corpse, the Moonfish King. "Well, let's check the last one..."
After checking the corpse, Han Yuan reached the head and pulled a head bone. "Head-type Spirit Bone, 60,000-year-old, with spiritual and yin attributes..."
"Damn, that fit Xiao Yue perfectly!" Liu Erlong commented.
Everyone nodded in agreement as the Moonfish King's spirit bone would fit perfectly with Han Yue, who has the 'Glorious Holy Moon' martial soul and absorbs the Moonfish Queen's spirit ring.
In fact, it's somewhat romantic and sad.
Han Yuan looked at the head spirit bone, which 'naturally' was shaped like a silver tiara with several white pearls, and said, "Let's wait until my sister is done with the spirit ring."
Thirty minutes later, Han Yue opened her eyes and mumbled, "I made it to the Spirit Ancestor Realm. My current spirit rank is... 45?"
"How amazing. The effect of Xiao Yuan's Immortal Pills is great."
Han Yuan walked to Han Yue, "Congratulations, Sister. However, it's not over yet. Please absorb this head spirit bone."
"It comes from the Moonfish King, which fits your martial soul."
"This... Okay." Han Yue wanted to tell Han Yuan he should absorb it but then realized the others also gave her an encouraging look.
So, Han Yue meditated again and absorbed the head spirit bone.
Ten minutes later, Han Yue's spirit rank was raised by one level and reached level 46.
Dugu Bo sighed, "Young Lady is seventeen. Even though she consumed Immortal Pills, reaching the Spirit Ancestor Realm plus the abnormal spirit ring configurations made her genius among genius already."
"I don't think Spirit Hall has such talents."
Han Yue smiled, "All my achievements are due to Xiao Yuan's help. So, please praise Xiao Yuan more, Senior."
"You..." Liu Erlong doesn't know what to say about this girl.
"No wonder Xiao Yuan became Siscon!"
"..." Han Yuan.
Can we stop with the Siscon already?
After that, the group finally moved again and left the area.
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...
"Hahaha, interesting!" A laughter echoed in the void.
"At first, I was only interested in that boy, but who would have thought he'd lead me to a potential inheritor of Moon Goddess and Flower Goddess?"
"This boy is remarkable!"
"With such luck..."
"There is no mistake..."
"He must be the Douluo Planet's son of luck!"