After a short while, Yun Yibai was sitting on the sofa, with Dugu Yan leaning against him, her arms wrapped around his left arm. Her face was slightly flushed.
Yun Yibai's right hand was holding the storage soul guide ring.
"Let me see what treasure this ancient sect relic has left behind!" Yun Yibai said as he injected his soul power. The next moment, an object wrapped in a delicate silk cloth appeared in his hand.
Yun Yibai slowly unwrapped the silk cloth, revealing the item inside—a black iron box!
He thought to himself, Could it be a sect's inheritance soul bone inside this box?
This strange feeling of familiarity made him uneasy. A box, sealed… It must be something important to be protected by a sect like this. It could either be a rare herb that can enhance cultivation or, more likely, an inherited soul bone.
Sometimes, reality is indeed so wonderful. The more you think about something, the more it seems to appear.
Under Dugu Yan's watchful eyes, Yun Yibai opened the ancient iron box.
A surge of energy exploded out, blowing both of their hair back. Perhaps because it had been sealed for so long, the power suddenly erupted before quickly settling into calmness.
Yun Yibai and Dugu Yan's eyes then focused back on the iron box, and inside it lay a soul bone that emitted a faint glow.
This soul bone was pale golden, as though it had been polished by time, smooth and jade-like. Mysterious patterns flowed across it, exuding an ancient and powerful aura. Yun Yibai's gaze became serious. Even with time, he could still feel the immense power contained within this soul bone.
"It's a soul bone!" Dugu Yan exclaimed in surprise. She hadn't expected their luck to be so good—this storage soul guide, which had seemed a bit strange before, actually contained such a treasure!
"As expected of the black market near the Heavenly Sword Mountain, located on the border between the Tiandou and Xingluo Empires. They found a soul bone," Dugu Yan sighed.
"Damn, this luck!" Yun Yibai muttered, though the smile on his face was unmistakable.
Dugu Yan looked at Yun Yibai's face, unable to hide his smile. "You're taking advantage of the situation, yet pretending otherwise!"
"But your luck is a bit too good. This is another head spirit bone."
"By the way, does this ring contain any records about this soul bone?" After the initial shock, Dugu Yan asked. Yun Yibai shook his head.
"Then I suppose we'll only find out its secrets after absorbing it."
"It's a pity, though. Another head spirit bone." If before, they had been particularly excited about the head soul bones, now Dugu Yan wasn't so enthusiastic about it.
They had already obtained three head spirit bones, and although one more remained in the Spirit Hall, Dugu Yan was confident that it would eventually be theirs.
What Dugu Yan didn't know was that Yun Yibai had another 10,000-year-old head spirit bone. Counting the head soul bone fragments Yun Yibai had already absorbed, once the Wuji Academy's team won the championship, their faction would almost have four head spirit bones.
Dugu Yan thought to herself that if this soul bone were not a head soul bone, Yun Yibai could absorb it.
Originally, the three soul bones from the championship prize included one called the Wisdom of the Spirit head bone, which was most suitable for Yun Yibai. The other two—Explosion Flame Right Arm Bone and Speed of the Gale Left Leg Bone—didn't align with Yun Yibai's attributes at all.
Yun Yibai didn't say anything. His gaze, however, was fixed on the silk cloth that had wrapped the iron box. He felt that this cloth, stored alongside the soul bone, could not be ordinary.
Yun Yibai placed the iron box back into the storage soul guide ring and kept the silk cloth.
"Could there be some secret in this exquisite silk cloth?" Dugu Yan also stared at it.
"Even in a storage soul guide, regular cloth wouldn't withstand the test of time. But this silk cloth, just like the iron box, has been preserved for such a long time, so it must be extraordinary."
"Perhaps we can try infusing it with soul power," Yun Yibai suggested, and began channeling his soul power into the silk cloth.
"It's working!" Dugu Yan's face lit up as she saw writing appear on the cloth.
Yun Yibai concentrated and continued to infuse more soul power into the silk cloth. As his soul power seeped in, the text on the cloth gradually became clearer.
"Looks like our luck is still good. This cloth records some important information," Yun Yibai said, his eyes fixed on the text that was slowly revealing itself on the silk.
Dugu Yan leaned in to take a closer look and saw that the cloth recorded a segment of history about an ancient sect, along with the origin and characteristics of the soul bone.
"In the 2323rd year of the Angelic Calendar, my Jinming Sword Sect was struck by a wave of soul beasts."
"As the strongest soul Douluo of the Jinming Sword Sect, my grandfather died, and my father also tragically died at the hands of the soul beasts. These mad soul beasts even summoned a 100,000-year-old soul beast."
"The sect's disciples became food for the soul beasts, and in the end, we could not hold out until the Spirit Hall's rescue arrived."
"I, too, was severely wounded in the battle. Had my grandfather and father, both soul Douluo, not protected me, I would have perished before them."
"I am no longer able to stop the flow of my life force. Death is my inevitable fate."
"To the one who inherits, the treasure in this ring is the heirloom of the Jinming Sword Sect, a 40,000-year-old head spirit bone, the inheritance soul bone of the Jinming Sword Sect. It comes from a 40,000-year-old soul beast, the Empty Shadow Golden Peng!"
"This soul bone comes with the skill of spatial teleportation, which is extremely effective in battle. This soul bone is highly beneficial to our sword martial soul masters."
"Its previous owner was my grandfather, an 86th-level powerful assault system soul Douluo, but he had to face a 100,000-year-old soul beast. To protect me..."
"This was a catastrophe, but for the sake of humanity's survival, we will not regret our actions."
"I hope that the one who inherits this treasure will do their part to help ensure the survival of humankind."
The text on the silk cloth wasn't long, but it conveyed significant information about the soul bone and its abilities.
Dugu Yan remarked, "They're still using the Angelic Calendar. How long ago was this?"
"Also, this soul bone's age has reached 40,000 years, and it's a space-type soul skill," she added.
Yun Yibai carefully folded up the silk cloth. The soul bone had been stored for so long that the energy within it had already dwindled, and its contribution to increasing soul power would be minimal. Thus, he had already decided on who should claim it.