74: Dragon King's remains, soul bones

Spiritual power slowly spread, like a scanner transmitting the surrounding terrain back to Su Ye's mind.

At this moment, he was stepping on a piece of red crystal.

Looking around, the surroundings were densely packed, like scattered rocks, all made of such solid scarlet crystal.

"Only five meters?"

Su Ye frowned.

After consuming the Autumn Water Dew, his spiritual power was already far greater than before, easily covering two to three hundred meters, but now here, his spiritual power was only five meters.

Is it the lingering pressure of the Dragon King...

Su Ye muttered, feeling the strong spiritual suppression here.

『Fire Dragon Blood Crystal』: The essence formed by the fusion of dragon blood left behind after the death of a dragon and earth minerals, containing the power of the dragon bloodline. Due to the passage of time, the power is slowly fading.

Fire Dragon bloodline?

Su Ye's heart stirred, and he exclaimed that he had struck it rich.

Within a five-meter radius, it was all Fire Dragon Blood Crystals, some as tall as two or three meters, and in such large quantities. If synthesized...

Casually... God King level Fire Dragon King essence blood!

"With such surging energy, I basically don't need to worry about fire and water attribute inner cores."

"My fire attribute soul ring can also be enhanced in power again."

Wonderful!!

Resisting the urge to immediately start mining, Su Ye casually threw the blood crystal back.

The most urgent task now is to find soul bones; the Water and Fire Dragon King soul bones are the main prize!

Soul bones are like external equipment; as long as one can withstand the torment, there's no need to worry about energy exploding within the body.

Although Dragon Kings are gods, even Mountain Dragon Kings have torso bones, so there's no reason the Water and Fire Dragon Kings wouldn't have soul bones.

With this goal in mind, Su Ye began searching in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Indeed, Fire Dragon Blood Crystals were everywhere here; it seemed this was the energy source of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Before long, enveloped within the Fire Dragon Blood Crystals, a colossal entity, entirely scarlet, blocked Su Ye's path.

It was a hundred meters high; no matter how Su Ye jumped, he couldn't leap over it.

Massive ribs hung like inverted blood moons; it was a gigantic dragon-shaped skeleton composed of scarlet crystals, its total length exceeding a thousand meters.

Fire Dragon King Remains』: The bones left behind after the death of the Dragon Race's Fire Dragon King, containing the essence of its body...

"The remains are here, so the soul bone should be nearby!"

Confirming that the obstruction was the Fire Dragon King's remains, Su Ye's heart couldn't help but leap with joy.

Generally speaking, soul bones are found with the Soul Beast's corpse; searching the corpse will definitely yield a soul bone.

The Fire Dragon King's corpse was too large, and the scanning range was too small, making it troublesome to search. Su Ye didn't hesitate at all and immediately used his Golden Phoenix Martial Soul to fly into the skeleton's interior.

Inside the fiery red and transparent flowing magma, there was no concept of time. Su Ye was neither anxious nor impatient, fully immersing himself in the great task of treasure hunting.

After an unknown amount of time, a floating item appeared within Su Ye's spiritual power detection range.

It was a claw shaped like an arm, divided into the upper arm, forearm, and sharp claws. Each heavy, armor-like joint seemed separated, connected by a link of scarlet energy.

The five curved fingers of the sharp claw were like wolf claws, incomparably sharp, capable of tearing apart anything.

Fire Dragon King Soul Bone』: The soul bone left behind after the death of the Fire Dragon King, composed of the right arm bone and palm bone. The internal energy loss is severe, currently retaining only demigod level power.

"It's actually... two pieces?!"

Su Ye's eyes narrowed. The right arm bone and palm bone; the latter was an External Soul Bone, a soul bone capable of constantly evolving by absorbing energy.

External soul bones are top-tier among soul bones, an existence superior to torso bones.

Whoosh... Su Ye took a deep breath, quickly calming his restless mood.

It's not impossible for a Soul Beast to provide two soul bones.

Bibi Dong once obtained left and right arm bones from a hundred-thousand-year-old Death Spider Emperor.

The Fire Dragon King was at least a half-step God King; it's perfectly normal for two soul bones to be born from its energy after its death.

"However..."

"Does this count as two soul bones?"

Feeling the wondrous energy emitted by this arm soul bone with his fingers, Su Ye's heart grew increasingly startled.

The soul bone before him seemed to be a combined set.

"Never mind!"

"As long as it's a Fire Dragon King soul bone, that's fine!"

Su Ye grinned, not dwelling on the issue.

The soul bone emitted an extremely hot temperature; it seemed to contain heavenly fire, pure and utterly yang, accumulated over ten thousand years, capable of destroying everything in the World.

The Fire Dragon King soul bone, in terms of both quality and accompanying attributes, had already reached the pinnacle of this World.

And now, it was in his hands!

Taking the soul bone, Su Ye explored the Fire Dragon King's remains again but did not find any other items.

Reasonably, dragons have dragon cores within their bodies. He wondered if it had already dissolved and now become part of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Swish!

With his Golden Phoenix wings flapping, Su Ye directly entered the cold spring area and began searching there.

The soul bone from the Water Dragon King's remains was also a dragon claw, but it was a left arm soul bone plus a palm bone.

Entirely made of ice crystals, compared to the Fire Dragon's thick, heavy, bear-paw-like fiery claws, the Water Dragon King's soul bone was lighter, thinner, and more slender.

The five claws were tipped with five icy blades, their inner sides showing streamlined cutting edges, like a meat grinder used for killing.

From the moment Su Ye arrived here, to his exploration and obtaining the soul bones...

From beginning to end, there was no sign of the Water and Fire Dragon Souls reviving, which greatly relieved Su Ye.

It seemed that as long as there wasn't a special situation, the dragon souls here wouldn't be alerted.

Su Ye didn't absorb the soul bones one by one but absorbed both simultaneously.

The Water and Fire Immunity physique grants immunity to attributes. Fire and water attribute energy attacks would become akin to attribute-less energy damage to Su Ye, rather than causing no damage at all.

Absorbing the energy of a God-level soul bone individually would cause pain no less than shattering bones and recasting them.

Water and fire generate and counteract each other; the two energies could neutralize each other. Absorbing them simultaneously was the most suitable choice for Su Ye.

Boom—!

At the point where the yin and yang springs met, two swimming dragons of water and fire energy circled. The spring energy, thick like batter, was rotating, but the stirring speed was extremely slow.

"Ugh—" Su Ye felt the dual extremes of ice and fire, an unspeakable tormenting pain in his arm bones that almost made him faint.

The sweat on his body was simultaneously evaporated on one side and turned into ice crystals on the other. Soon, Su Ye was completely enveloped in white and red crystals.

On one side was a World of eternal ice, with cold winds like knives, and on the other was a lava hell that burned everything, with flames soaring into the sky.

Fire is yang, water is yin.

A portion of the terrifying energy contained within the two soul bones flowed into Su Ye's physical meridians; another portion was used by the yin-yang energy vortex to replenish the soul sea within his body.

Of course, a large portion also returned to nothingness due to the water and fire canceling each other out.

Su Ye didn't feel it was a waste.

External Soul Bones can absorb energy to evolve. With so many blood crystals here, he could refine and absorb them using the twin dragon claws as a medium.

Subtract first, then add. Safety was more important.

In the World of ice and fire, day and night were indistinguishable, and years passed unnoticed. The bone-scraping pain gradually faded from Su Ye's arms.

His hands were also completely replaced by two dragon claws.

The right claw was like an ice blade, cold and sharp.

The left claw was like a fire palm, with bursting flames.