The Mountain Douluo Chapter 31 (Patreon)

With Gu Rong stepping back into the shadows to presumably go find and watch Ning Rongrong while she was on the way here from the Glazed Seven Treasures Sect. I meanwhile focused on all the Soul Bones I got.

So! I couldn't upgrade the Soul Bones right here as they were. I sadly could only absorb the shitty century-aged Spirit Bones and then upgrade them after they were absorbed into my body.

This was definitely a bit of a loss, because the amount of spirit energy I could get from a Century Spirit Bone at this point was... Negligible. 

With how my body has been upgraded and been refined over the years with Heaven and Earth treasures. Along with that supreme divine pill, I woudn't get a single level's worth of spirit energy from even a nine hundred-plus-year spirit bone.

But... While I could fairly 'easily' make a Hundred Thousand Year spirit bone with a thousand century spirit bones. There was no way in fucking hell, right now I could get one at all.

And the whole point of the spirit bones in question was for me to be able to enhance my body using the spirit bones to greatly enhance my core foundation of bodily strength.

"The question is... What spirit bone should I use? Honestly the chest spirit bone is probably the best method?" I mused to myself as I looked over the pile of torso spirit bones.

Because they say that spirit bones were all random in their skills, which related to the origin of a spirit beast, as well as your own martial soul. The sort of spirit bones were also very often tied to which part of the body they matched with.

Torso spirit bones were very often defensive in nature as it was the core of the body, while head spirit bones were ALWAYS spiritual in nature, with magical effects.

So, a good torso spirit bone with a particularly useful spirit bone was the real hope. In reality, the Torso bone was like the seventh Spirit Ring in a martial Soul. It's main value was being as high in age as possible as it provided the most enhancement to your body.

Taking out the torso spirit bones from the storage bracelet that Gu Rong left behind, I quickly noticed that each spirit bone had a small note tied to it. Describing the age, likely themed spirit ability, where it came from, and especially whether it had been absorbed beforehand.

After looking through the low level spirit bones I woudn't touch at all if I didn't have my ability to fuse more spirit bones into the one I absorbed. I found a couple which I thought were rather interesting.

'Immortal Vitality Rhino's Torso Bone- Past user was a Food type Martial Soul who belonged to the Seven Treasure Sect. It passively boosted the user's Martial Soul 'Beef Noodle Soup' to give a weaker healing and strong stamina recovery effects when consumed but made his abilities cost more.' 

'Titan Earthworm Torso Bone- A fresh spirit bone that hadn't been absorbed yet due to its lower age. But seeing as it came from that Earthworm, it would likely have an ability relating to making a clone, high-speed regeneration, or some form of earth manipulation.

The first one was rather decent and would probably give me a more significant strength boost. The second which was almost certainly going to give me a potent increase to my innate vitality was the better option. 

Plus, if I could actually get a self-healing spirit bone like Ah Yin's leg bone that Tang San absorbed in canon then everything would become much easier.

Plus, the rich earth elements that would grow from the Titan Earthworm spirit bone would also enhance my Mountain Martial Soul over time as it grew in strength.

Taking the spirit bone, I took a deep breath before I pushed it against my chest with it phasing through my clothes and heat filling my body as the ribcage-like spirit bone merged into my body and replaced my own ribcage.

And seeing as it was only a Spirit Bone with a cultivation age of seven hundred years, when I was able to at this point, absorb up to a fifty thousand-year spirit ring. I was able to absorb the damned thing within only ten minutes, according to the sand timer I had set up.

With a loud pop, I stretched with a sigh of relaxation as I could my body indeed was a bit stronger... Like my current limit on my spirit rings were around fifty thousand years currently. In absorbing this spirit bone, that range went up another three or four thousand years.

But! Once I enhanced this spirit bone up to the thousand-year level, my tolerance would give up to seven to ten thousand years extra! And once I get it up to ten thousand years of cultivation, I could absorb a spirit ring up to seventy-five thousand years!

And once this Spirit Bone reached ten thousand years, it would indeed be quite useless as it did give me exactly what I was looking for in a potent regeneration skill!

'Hell, maybe when it reaches a Hundred Thousand Years in cultivation. Maybe it will allow me to easily heal even if I were cut in half at the waist. That's how earthworms work after all, and their healing is even more insane in this cultivation world.' I mused to myself.

Still, I was more than satisfied with this spirit bone's ability, as you couldn't go wrong with more survivability. 

'Though with Gu Rong hanging out and watching my movements with Ningrong and Zhuqing. I won't be able to train with my External Soul Bone either.' I mused to myself helplessly.

Still, having a Title Douluo guardian in some way for a bit would only mean I was safe while Dugu Bo was busy helping Dugu Yan absorb that elixir and probably getting her a new soul ring.

Standing up to stretch further I mused to myself. "Hmm, I should probably make this Torso Bone reach ten thousand years of cultivation so that my next Soul Ring will be able to be easily absorbed as well." 

But there was another thing I was thinking about in particular. With a powerful Torso bone, it woudn't be a loss to add a spirit ring to my Mountain Martial Soul, as it's not like I couldn't also enhance the ages of my spirit rings.

I really wanted to see if I added a space-aligned ring to it. If in doing so, could treat it as an internal space where I could grow immortal herbs on it as I would also create a self-reinforcing element system that would bring about the power of Creation to it.