In a remote valley.
Trees provided shade, and dense fog surrounded the area. A gentle breeze blew, bringing a cool and refreshing breath.
A layer of faint purple covered Lu Feng's eyes. Through the layers of dense fog, he saw a waterfall plunging down at the end of the valley.
"Luo luo!"
Luo Wu Pao barked several times toward the front and walked into the valley, shaking its big head.
A rumbling sound gradually reached their ears. After about ten minutes, Lu Feng arrived at the edge of a pool.
Looking up, the waterfall was over two hundred meters high and about thirty meters wide. Water splashed everywhere, mist rose, and a thick layer of moss grew on the rocks nearby.
"Sou!"
Luo Wu Pao's body turned into a stream of light and merged into Lu Feng's body. The next moment, a burst of golden light surged from Lu Feng, and huge dragon wings spread out, lifting his body straight up.
In the middle of the waterfall's cliff face, there was a stone platform, polished smooth by the water flow.
Lu Feng landed on the stone platform, pressed his ear to the rock wall, raised his right hand, and tapped lightly on the cliff face.
"Thump, thump, thump." An echo came back.
"This is the place." Lu Feng's eyes sharpened. His right fist was covered with a layer of brilliant gold as he smashed it against the rock wall.
"Boom." The rock wall shattered.
A dark, gloomy cave entrance was revealed. It wasn't wide, only enough for two or three people to pass through, and it was pitch black inside.
Lu Feng retracted his Martial Soul and walked slowly inside.
"Drip."
A drop of water fell on Lu Feng's head. Since it never saw sunlight, the water drop was much colder than the flow outside.
After a moment, Lu Feng's vision suddenly opened up.
Before him was a huge stone chamber, simple and empty. Several moonstones were embedded in the surrounding stone walls for lighting.
In the center of the stone chamber was a small mound of earth, upon which grew a slender stalk of Blue Silver Grass.
This Blue Silver Grass looked slightly longer than ordinary Blue Silver Grass. Most peculiarly, its leaves bore many fine golden veins.
Due to the lack of sunlight all year round, it looked a bit wilted.
Perhaps sensing Lu Feng's arrival, the branches and leaves of the Blue Silver Grass trembled slightly.
"Huh? It actually has consciousness?" A sharp glint flashed in Lu Feng's eyes.
"Tsk, I really don't know what Tang Hao was thinking. If he had planted Ah Yin back in the Blue Silver Forest, maybe she would have recovered her cultivation by now."
"But now..."
Lu Feng raised his right hand slightly. The next moment, a small green snake spiraled out along his right arm.
Azurewood Flood Dragon.
A Wood-attribute Beast Martial Soul, Black quality, upgraded from the [Grass Python].
"Sou!"
The green snake opened its big mouth and swallowed the Blue Silver Grass whole. In an instant, Lu Feng seemed to hear a miserable scream.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss!" The small green snake flicked its tongue, evidently very satisfied with this delicious meal.
Although Ah Yin had degenerated into a grass form, the royal bloodline of the Blue Silver Grass still flowed within her.
The Martial Soul Seal Method recorded that ancient heroic spirits had a move called the 'Devouring Mantra', which could devour energy of the same attribute to enhance their own combat power.
Lu Feng speculated that the reason Soul Masters needed to absorb soul rings to break through bottlenecks was also to absorb the origin power within the soul rings.
After the Azurewood Flood Dragon devoured the Blue Silver Emperor, its movements became sluggish. It seemed a bit full, and it quietly closed its eyes.
Lu Feng retracted his Martial Soul into his body and then began to search the stone chamber.
"Creak."
Lu Feng pressed a protruding point on the stone wall. With a creaking sound, a pitch-black box fell from above, landing in front of Lu Feng and kicking up a cloud of dust.
The box was long and narrow, about 1.5 meters long and one foot wide, with no lock on it.
"Huu!"
Lu Feng curved his palm slightly, and a powerful burst of energy erupted from his palm, flipping the lid of the black box open.
"Clang."
The lid smashed heavily onto the ground. Inside the black box lay a crystalline, blue-gold leg bone.
"Tch, I overestimated Tang Hao's intelligence. Such a precious soul bone, and he didn't even set up a trap." Lu Feng curled his lips and smiled.
Approaching it, the leg bone shimmered with specks of starlight. Even just by looking at it, one could feel its superb attributes.
"As expected of a hundred-thousand-year soul bone!" Lu Feng smiled.
Lu Feng held the soul bone in his hand. Strangely, it gave him a sense of life, as if this right leg bone possessed life itself.
"Plan successful, retreat!"
In a hidden cave.
Lu Feng sat cross-legged, soul power surging, the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone lying horizontally in front of him. As he cultivated, wisps of blue energy continuously overflowed from the soul bone and seeped into his body.
"Huu~"
Lu Feng slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a turbid breath.
[Obtained Black Skill [Healing] Fragment *1]
[Black Skill: Healing (10/10) (Synthesizable)]
"Finally got this skill!" Lu Feng propped himself up, excited.
"'Wildfire cannot destroy it; the spring wind blows it to life again.' As expected of the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor soul bone skill, even severed limbs can regrow on their own!"
It had been half a month since Lu Feng left Holy Spirit Village.
For half a month, Lu Feng had been hiding in this cave cultivating almost the entire time. He had already extracted both skills from the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone.
As for the other skill, [Flight], it was useless to him, so he had dismantled it.
"Sure enough, I can rely on the [Devour] skill to absorb the energy within soul bones!" Lu Feng felt the abundant soul power in his body and secretly clenched his fists.
Level 50!
His soul power had reached a bottleneck.
If he absorbed another high-quality ten-thousand-year soul ring, Lu Feng felt his soul power could break through directly to level 53, or even level 54.
At this moment, the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone had turned pale blue, and the rich life energy within it had disappeared. But one could still feel its extraordinary nature.
The effects of a Soul Master absorbing a soul bone were mainly two: increasing soul power and obtaining soul skills.
Since obtaining the [Devour] skill, Lu Feng had only experimented a few times, and all on soul beasts, with mediocre results.
After obtaining Shi Nian's skull bone, Lu Feng began nurturing the soul bone with soul power, trying to extract the skills from it.
In the process, Lu Feng discovered that his soul power had increased slightly.
After careful sensing, he discovered he could devour the energy within the soul bone. It was just that Shi Nian's soul bone had already been absorbed once, so most of the energy had been consumed.
Lu Feng discovered something interesting.
If he had already absorbed the energy of the soul bone and synthesized the soul bone skills by picking up fragments, this was equivalent to having completely absorbed a soul bone.
And the remaining soul bone...
A cunning smile curled the corner of Lu Feng's mouth as he put the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone into his Soul Tool. "Hehe, got two soul bone skills for free!"
Immediately, his brow furrowed again. "Should I give it to Zhuqing or Yan Yan?"