Elder Qi Lin helped Mu Yuan ask for leave at the academy, and Du Busi took Mu Yuan and left Heaven Dou City, heading straight for the East Sea.
As they approached East Sea City, the expressions of the master and disciple turned somewhat ugly.
Du Busi, in particular, had his brows tightly knitted.
“When I passed by here before, this place was perfectly fine.”
He gazed into the distance; a thick, bloody baleful aura permeated the air.
There was a village there, originally quiet and peaceful, but now it was shrouded in a bloody mist.
“Evil Soul Master!”
Mu Yuan’s expression was ugly as he looked at the village ahead.
Acting in such a manner, it was undoubtedly an Evil Soul Master.
Du Busi stared at the blood mist; within it, a figure seemed to be busy.
“Don’t move around, I’ll go resolve this.”
Saying this, Du Busi had already dashed out.
He didn’t have a saintly heart, nor did he claim to be righteous.
But seeing an Evil Soul Master committing atrocities, he didn’t mind taking action to exterminate the other party.
His speed was extremely fast, transforming into a dark green afterimage, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed into the blood mist.
With a loud boom, screams emerged from the blood mist.
Mu Yuan watched from afar, his gaze changing slightly.
Because the commotion had lasted a bit too long.
“With Sect Master’s strength, he hasn’t taken him down after so long?”
Of course, Du Busi hadn’t unleashed his full power; he hadn’t used his Martial Soul True Body or his second awakening.
But even so, it was incredible that he couldn’t take him down in a minute.
“This Evil Soul Master must at least be at the Spirit Saint level, right?”
While Mu Yuan was pondering, the blood mist ahead grew thinner, and Du Busi slowly walked out.
In his hand was a bone emitting a crimson glow.
“Spirit Bone!”
Mu Yuan’s pupils constricted.
Du Busi gestured for Mu Yuan to come forward.
“Take a look at this Spirit Bone.”
He said, tossing the Spirit Bone, which radiated an ominous aura, into Mu Yuan’s hands.
Mu Yuan looked at it and could feel the thick, lingering stench of blood on the Spirit Bone.
Observing it up close, the crimson glow wasn’t because the Spirit Bone was stained with blood, but because this Spirit Bone was releasing it spontaneously.
This was a right arm bone, very complete, even including the hand bones.
“It’s an Evil Soul Master; his slaughter must have been for this Spirit Bone.”
“Spirit Bone?” Mu Yuan was surprised: “Could it be that someone in this village possessed a Spirit Bone?”
“No.” Du Busi shook his head.
His expression was solemn.
“A secret technique soul bone.
This is a very special type of Spirit Bone.
Because the drop rate of Spirit Bones themselves is not high, some Spirit Masters have explored some evil secret methods.
By killing hundreds of the same kind of Spirit Beast in a short time and condensing them with a special secret method, the probability of producing a Spirit Bone can be greatly increased.
A Spirit Bone condensed in this way is a secret technique soul bone.”
Mu Yuan naturally knew about secret technique soul bones.
But he still couldn’t understand what this crimson spirit bone had to do with a secret technique soul bone.
And what relationship did it have with this Evil Soul Master and the slaughtered village?
Du Busi looked at the puzzled Mu Yuan and sighed.
Even though he was neither purely good nor evil, he still felt a chill down his spine at the Evil Soul Master’s actions.
“This crimson spirit bone was condensed using the secret technique soul bone technique, only this Evil Soul Master didn’t kill Spirit Beasts; he killed people.”
Mu Yuan gasped, wishing he could throw away the crimson spirit bone in his hand.
“This Spirit Bone has already been condensed.
I saw its abilities just now.
It should have the Soul Power amplification that a secret technique soul bone ought to have, and besides that, it can also release blood energy to take form.”
Mu Yuan’s expression changed slightly.
He understood what Du Busi meant.
Condensing eight arms with blood energy.
In his concept of the Eight-Armed Demon God, the eight arms were the foundation, and the power of the Divine Demon was also the foundation.
As long as he could gather these elements before his second awakening and dig into them to a certain extent, it would be possible to use the second awakening to completely condense it, becoming the form of his Spirit after the second awakening.
His gaze flickered, and after hesitating repeatedly, Mu Yuan gritted his teeth and pressed the Spirit Bone against his right arm.
This was a secret technique soul bone; it could inherently fuse with Spirit Bones of similar parts.
If he obtained a right arm bone suitable for himself in the future, Mu Yuan could choose to fuse them directly.
At that time, this secret technique soul bone would also fuse with the new Spirit Bone, and the abilities of the secret technique soul bone would perfectly integrate into the new Spirit Bone.
Watching Mu Yuan be so decisive, Du Busi nodded slightly.
The Evil Soul Master from just now wasn’t actually strong.
The reason it took some time was because he saw two blood-colored arms growing from the Evil Soul Master’s back and wanted to see the source of that ability.
If it were a Spirit Ability, he would naturally resolve it simply.
After some probing, he confirmed the source of this ability, and only then did he completely kill him, killing the person to take the bone.
As for using this Spirit Bone himself, he never thought about it.
First, he already had a right arm bone.
Second, his right arm bone didn’t match this Spirit Bone.
Yes, it didn’t match.
If they didn’t match, they couldn’t fuse.
On the contrary, it was Mu Yuan who happened to need such a Spirit Bone.
Mu Yuan closed his eyes tightly, sweat dripping from his forehead.
In his mental World, countless grievances were rising.
Because this Spirit Bone was formed by the grievances of many humans who died tragically, fusing with this Spirit Bone itself was a kind of torment.
“Vajra Demon Subduing!”
Dark golden light burst forth, and Mu Yuan transformed into an angry Vajra.
Grievances?
It wasn’t my doing, what does it have to do with me?
With Vajra Power attached to himself, Mu Yuan slaughtered in his mental World.
Any grievance was crushed by his Vajra Power, and any negative emotion was violently suppressed by him.
Three hours later.
Mu Yuan opened his eyes.
He didn’t feel that his strength had increased at all from fusing the Spirit Bone.
The battle in his mental World seemed to have reflected into reality; he was completely exhausted.
“It seems this Spirit Bone has improved you quite a bit.”
Du Busi looked at Mu Yuan, seeing a trace of lingering dark golden luster in Mu Yuan’s eyes.
Just now, the intent of the Vajra Demon Subduing radiating from Mu Yuan was truly astonishing.
“Mental intent interfering with reality; this kid’s Mental Energy is very strong.”
Du Busi had also been wondering just now why an arm Spirit would have such strong Mental Energy.
“East Sea City is not far now.
Let’s enter the city first, rest for two days, and then head out to sea.”
…
Three days later.
Mu Yuan and Du Busi set out to sea.
They rented a small boat; it had a spirit tool engine at the stern, making it very convenient to navigate.
At first, Du Busi didn’t really want to use it.
Spirit Masters of the Body Sect had a repulsive attitude towards spirit tools.
This was a rather inexplicable repulsion.
As Spirit Masters, they only believed in their own Soul Power and Spirit Abilities, always feeling that relying on external objects was shameful.
It was only after Mu Yuan’s strenuous persuasion that Du Busi finally accepted this spirit tool boat.
Combat is combat, life is life.
If you don’t enjoy convenience when you can, isn’t that just being stupid?
Even if you really have a psychological barrier, you just don’t have to use spirit tool cannons when fighting.
Anyway, in this era, there were no spirit tool products like Battle Armor or mechas.
Most spirit tools used for combat were spirit tool cannons, so not using spirit tools in combat didn’t have a huge impact.
At least, there hadn’t been a qualitative difference yet.
Of course, the reason why Soul Engineers and pure Spirit Masters hadn’t yet determined a winner was simply because there were too many strong experts on the Spirit side, and there hadn’t yet appeared a strong expert who had achieved success in both Spirit and spirit tool paths on the Soul Engineer side.
Mu Yuan knew that accepting spirit tools was the general trend, and he would definitely continue to persuade Du Busi and other disciples of the Body Sect to use spirit tools in combat in the future.