Chapter 129: Yun Yuan's Skills +10, Soul Ring Age Increased
Immediately afterward, Yun Yuan turned his gaze toward the dead Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. His spiritual power directly enveloped the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's corpse.
Only now did Yun Yuan remember that he still had not absorbed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul bone.
Before long, Yun Yuan's spiritual power discovered the million-year torso soul bone within the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's body.
With a thought from Yun Yuan, his spiritual power materialized and directly extracted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's million-year torso soul bone.
"Grandmaster, Bo Saixi, I'll trouble you once again."
After speaking, Yun Yuan sat cross-legged in the air once more and pressed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's million-year torso soul bone against his torso.
Then, Yun Yuan began circulating his soul power to refine the million-year soul bone. The million-year torso bone transformed into azure starlight and fused into Yun Yuan's body.
As time passed, several hours later, Yun Yuan opened his eyes once more, his aura rising slightly again.
At this moment, a smile appeared on Yun Yuan's face once more.
After absorbing this million-year soul bone, his two external soul bones underwent changes under the influence of the million-year soul bone's energy.
The soul bone age had officially advanced to 100,000 years. This also meant Yun Yuan's external soul bones now possessed two soul bone skills.
Adding the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul ring and soul bone together, Yun Yuan had obtained a total of ten skills from this trip.
Two hundred thousand-year soul bone skills, four million-year soul ring skills, and four million-year soul bone skills.
"Grandmaster, Bo Saixi, this time, after hunting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, I obtained a total of ten skills. The harvest was truly abundant."
After sensing his own skills, Yun Yuan revealed a brilliant smile and shared his joy with Qian Daoliu.
"Ten skills? Could it be that million-year soul rings and soul bones each possess five soul skills? Isn't that far too heaven-defying?"
Hearing Yun Yuan's words, Qian Daoliu was deeply shocked. The difference between a one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring and a one-million-year soul ring seemed even greater than the difference between a ten-thousand-year soul ring and a one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
Seeing Qian Daoliu misunderstand him, Yun Yuan shook his head and explained:
"Grandmaster, million-year soul rings and soul bones only possess four soul skills. The reason I obtained ten soul skills is because the age of my two external soul bones has already increased to the one hundred thousand year level, which additionally granted me one skill each."
The additional skill granted by the one-hundred-thousand-year Wind Thunder Wings external soul bone was a passive skill that could remain permanently active, called Wind Thunder Extreme Speed.
It possessed two passive effects. First, his personal speed increased by 100%. Second, affinity with wind and thunder power.
When using wind or thunder attributes, damage received an additional 50% increase. When struck by wind or thunder attribute attacks, he additionally gained 30% damage reduction.
This one-hundred-thousand-year passive skill, combined with Yun Yuan's one-hundred-thousand-year right leg bone's Wind Thunder Control, could truly be described as adding wings to a tiger.
The additional skill granted by the one-hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terror Claw external soul bone was an active skill called Terror Claw Imprisonment, a control-type skill.
This was not an area-control skill but rather a single-target control skill. The instant the Dark Gold Terror Claw was unleashed, it enveloped the enemy as phantom claws intertwined into a cage.
Not only did it physically restrain and imprison the target, but it could also seal soul power and slow spiritual power.
As for the eight skills granted by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul ring and soul bone, they were not very different from those in the original work.
The four soul skills granted by the million-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King soul ring were named Deep Sea Demonic Tide, Demonic Whale Sky-Rending Tail, Demonic Whale Roar, and Demonic Whale Domain.
Deep Sea Demonic Tide: Condenses tens of thousands of tons of seawater into a thousand-meter tsunami wave that engulfs and crushes everything, accompanied by paralysis and suffocation effects.
Demonic Whale Sky-Splitting Tail: Forms a hundred-meter phantom demonic whale tail that sweeps horizontally and tears apart space. Blue-purple lightning arcs incinerate all things, breaking defenses below the god level and carrying spatial shattering effects.
Demonic Whale Roar: A god-level sound wave that forcibly stuns all enemies within a thousand meters for five seconds, shakes divine souls, seals 50% of enemy soul skills, shatters spiritual power, and counters spiritual-type abilities.
Demonic Whale Domain: Expands into an exclusive ten-li barrier that suppresses enemy soul power by 70%, forcibly restrains targets, and continuously corrodes with water and lightning.
The four skills granted by the million-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King soul bone were named Heart of the Ocean, Deep Sea Furious Waves, Demonic Whale Rage Tide Slash, and Myriad Seas Submission.
Heart of the Ocean: An ultimate water-affinity skill. Within the ocean, it endlessly mobilizes sea power, doubles soul power reserves, and regenerates personal injuries.
Deep Sea Furious Waves: A single-target offensive skill that condenses ultimate water and lightning into towering furious waves with power comparable to a god-level strike.
Demonic Whale Rage Tide Slash: Single-target execution skill. Condenses water and lightning soul power into a blade that ignores defensive soul skills and deals damage equal to 25% of the target's maximum vitality.
Myriad Seas Submission: Within ocean territory, all personal attributes increase by 50% while suppressing all sea soul beasts and sea soul masters.
Among them, Heart of the Ocean and Myriad Seas Submission were passive skills that could remain permanently active.
In addition, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul ring skills and soul bone skills could also resonate together. By fusing the dual water and lightning attributes, the power of the skills doubled, while their range additionally expanded by half.
This was the terrifying strength gained from absorbing a million-year soul ring and a million-year soul bone. A single million-year soul ring was enough to rival ten one-hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
If Yun Yuan had not possessed the Sea God's Light, then even with Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi assisting him, hunting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in the ocean would still have required an enormous price.
Now, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's million-year foundation had all transformed into nourishment for Yun Yuan's growth.
After Yun Yuan hunted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and absorbed its soul ring and soul bone, the golden panel engraved with "Sea God Nine Trials" in his spiritual sea suddenly reacted.
This signified that Yun Yuan could now write his own divine trial rewards for the first three Sea God Trials. If the rewards fell within the Sea God's acceptable range, then the divine trial rewards would be granted to Yun Yuan.
Within the spiritual sea, Yun Yuan's divine sense entered the area. He was about to write down his divine trial rewards.
Yun Yuan's gaze landed upon the panel corresponding to the reward for the first divine trial. His spiritual power transformed into a brush as he wrote down his thoughts within the panel.
"Reward for the first trial of the Sea God Nine Trials: The inheritor's first five soul rings shall reach 99,999 years, while the sixth soul ring shall surpass one hundred thousand years."
For this very first divine trial reward, Yun Yuan's appetite was already quite enormous.
After all, one-hundred-thousand-year soul rings were different from ten-thousand-year soul rings. Even for a god, granting a one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring would still be painful.
Otherwise, the soul rings of Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi, these two high priests, would not merely consist of eight black and one red.
In Yun Yuan's view, the ninth one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring possessed by Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi was likely obtained through personally hunting one-hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.
Yun Yuan's requested divine trial reward would likely cause any other god to hesitate for a long time, but the Sea God was different. He had always been a generous god.
Furthermore, Yun Yuan's position within the Sea God's heart was different. For such an unprecedented inheritor, the Sea God was extremely tolerant toward Yun Yuan.
The moment Yun Yuan finished writing the first divine trial reward, the Sea God within the God Realm granted Yun Yuan the reward without the slightest hesitation.
Within the sea region where Yun Yuan stood, azure light suddenly appeared above him and descended upon his body.
Immediately afterward, Yun Yuan's soul rings appeared: one yellow, one purple, four black, one red, and one gold. The soul rings began to transform.
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