Chapter 202: Is the energy contained in the inherited soul bone low?
Tianmeng Iceworm puffed out its chest and said, "Of course I can. If your soul ring configuration wasn't strong enough, I wouldn't have told you this."
"Didn't I say before that my life essence can give you ten Hundred-thousand Year Soul Rings? But your soul ring configuration is quite high, plus you can obtain god-bestowed soul rings through your divine trial."
"And with your Physique, a god-bestowed soul ring will certainly reach the Hundred-thousand Year mark. I've calculated it, and I still have surplus life essence, so I can naturally help enhance your parents' ninth soul rings."
"Although the enhancement doesn't mean their ninth Soul Skill will change from one to two, the amplification to their bodies from a Hundred-thousand Year soul ring is indispensable."
"Simply put, a Hundred-thousand Year soul ring enhanced by my life essence, aside from having one less Soul Skill compared to a Hundred-thousand Year soul ring obtained through normal hunting, provides the same overall attribute enhancement to a Soul Master's body."
"And what you previously speculated—that a Soul Master's ninth soul ring must be a Hundred-thousand Year to have the potential to reach level ninety-eight or even ninety-nine—that theory is actually correct."
"Without a Hundred-thousand Year soul ring, a Soul Master cannot reach level ninety-eight, let alone ninety-nine. This seems to be a restriction imposed by this plane on Soul Masters."
"Of course, if one doesn't have a hundred-thousand Year soul ring and a Soul Bone, it's not impossible to break through to level ninety-eight by other means, but the success rate is extremely low. For example, a Soul Master with a Sword Martial Soul, who possesses an extremely strong Sword Intent."
"By honing their own Sword Intent, there's a chance they can break through the ninety-seventh level bottleneck and reach ninety-eight, but that's the limit. Breaking through to ninety-nine is almost impossible!"
Hearing Tianmeng Iceworm say this, Hu Bai recalled such a person in his memory.
Chen Xin's grandfather!
Chen Xin's grandfather seemed to have been level ninety-eight during his lifetime, belonging to the same era as Qian Daoliu, but he apparently didn't have a Hundred-thousand Year soul ring yet and broke through to level ninety-eight!
And in the original work, when Chen Xin broke through to level ninety-seven, he also said that he felt ninety-seven was his limit in this life, and no matter how hard he tried, he probably couldn't break through to ninety-eight.
Let alone ninety-eight, when others lose an arm or a leg, their soul power regresses.
Chen Xin, on the other hand, lost an arm, but his soul power actually broke through from ninety-six to ninety-seven because of it!
Among them, Sword Douluo's comprehension of the Sword Dao played a large part!
Although Sword Douluo's arm didn't have a Soul Bone like Tang Hao's, even so, losing an arm, it's impossible for soul power not to decrease; it would be affected to some extent.
But Chen Xin completely ignored this impact!
In the Spiritual Sea.
"Tianmeng, I didn't expect you to have this ability?" Ice Empress originally also thought that Tianmeng's life essence could only be used by Hu Bai himself.
And just as she was about to offer some advice, Tianmeng spoke first.
"Hehe, how about it, Bingbing, am I amazing?" Tianmeng Iceworm chuckled and was about to pounce.
But the Snow Empress stood in front of the Ice Empress, and a gust of wind and snow directly blew Tianmeng away.
"Hmph, only you have the ability? As the Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, do we not have a few Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts under our command?" Snow Empress snorted coldly.
Hu Bai, however, said, "Since Tianmeng can enhance my parents' soul ring years, then there's no need to go to the Extreme North, and both of you are already with me."
"The Extreme North now only has one Titan Snow Demon Ape left. If we force other Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts to sacrifice again, I don't think that's very good either."
Hu Bai knew that in the Extreme North, there was also a Hundred-thousand Year Snow Bear that had a good relationship with Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
Besides this one, there shouldn't be any other Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts.
Otherwise, during the Peerless Tang Sect period, Ice Empress and Snow Empress could have just let all the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts in the Extreme North sacrifice themselves for Huo Yuhao, and he would have easily obtained several Hundred-thousand Year Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
But why didn't they do that? Wasn't it because they had to consider the ecological balance of the Extreme North?
For this reason, Titan Snow Demon Ape, one of the three Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, did not become Huo Yuhao's Soul Martial Soul.
Afterward, at Hu Bai's inquiry, Xie Tian and Hu Leyao also discussed the soul skills they had acquired.
The skull bone Xie Tian obtained was a fifty-five-thousand-year-old Immovable Suppressing Prison Mountain Skull Bone.
It originated from a Soul Beast called the Suppressing Prison Demon Mountain Tortoise, which possessed earth attributes and exceptionally condensed and stable mental power.
It came with the Soul Bone Skill, Prison Mountain Gaze.
Upon use, a substantial brown light would shoot from the eyes, locking onto the target, imposing powerful mental power suppression and gravity restraint, significantly reducing their movement speed and combat will.
The other Soul Bone was a seventy-thousand-year-old Mountain Breaking Right Arm Bone.
The accompanying Soul Bone Skill was Mountain Breaking Power.
Upon use, it could provide an amplification to Xie Tian, making his attacks imbued with a 'Mountain Breaking' characteristic, greatly enhancing destructive power against hard objects, capable of producing effects similar to vibration and pulverization.
Of course, one thing was quite unexpected for Xie Tian: the soul power increase brought by this seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone was actually not as much as the fifty-five-thousand-year skull bone.
After Xie Tian raised this question,
Bibi Dong explained that this was because this Soul Bone was one of the Clear Sky Sect's Legacy Soul Bones, having been absorbed by at least two people, so the energy within the Soul Bone had been somewhat consumed.
Xie Tian felt that absorbing these two high-quality Soul Bones barely allowed him to increase his soul power from the original level eighty-five to level ninety.
However, after thinking about it, he also felt it was normal.
When a Soul Bone is newly formed and absorbed for the first time, the soul power increase it provides to a Soul Master is definitely the greatest.
Moreover, as a Soul Master's cultivation improves, the soul power contained within the Soul Bone will decrease.
Although after a Soul Bone is absorbed, a portion of the Soul Master's soul power will fill the Soul Bone.
And with the loss of that body part, the Soul Master's soul power might even drop as a result.
But this did not mean that Xie Tian could inherit the soul power stored within the Soul Bone by Tang Hao after absorbing this Soul Bone.
Because that soul power belonged to Tang Hao, Xie Tian could not absorb it.
When he absorbed these two Soul Bones, the soul power belonging to Tang Hao had already dissipated into the air.
Hu Leyao's situation was similar to Xie Tian's; she also barely increased from level eighty-six to level ninety.
Although her two Soul Bones were not Legacy Soul Bones, their years were not as high as Xie Tian's two.
The Right Leg Bone was only thirty thousand years old, and it was the lowest-year Soul Bone among Tang Hao's six Soul Bones.
It was named the Instant Prison Right Leg Bone, originating from a mutated Soul Beast called the Abyss Prison Mountain Rhinoceros, which violently moved between mountains and abysses, possessing both immense strength and explosive speed.
Its Soul Bone Skill was Instant Prison Mountain Collapse Charge.
Upon use, the right leg would deeply squat as if a mountain was accumulating power, and then it could burst forth with extremely fast speed!
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