Chapter 153: Xie Xan's Breakthrough

Chapter 153: Xie Xan's Breakthrough

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With the wingspan ranging to 7 meters and a body as long as 3, the 42000-year-old Ravaging Blind Raven was an absolute monster. Its feathered head had no space for eyes and with only a single beaker and a pair of sharp talons, the cunning Raven had made a lunch out of its prey but this allowed the trio to move around. Not willing to miss out on the benefits of the Soul Shock this time, Ja Sun's innate ability to calm the spirit beasts wasn't used. In fact, this lack of usage while the constant increase in strength made Ja Sun wonder about the limit of cultivation of a spirit beast that he can now convince to commit suicide.

It is a fierce and magnificent spirit beast, no doubt about it, but its hunters were equally sharp and quick-witted. Before the Raven could grab the considerably smaller peacock with its talons and take-off, the strands of Blue Silver grass shot out instantly, wrapping the beast in a tight hold.

*Kkaaawwwwwww*

It screeched and instantly spread its senses once again while the feathers on its body grew sharp. However, its mind was struck with something heavy. Something... final.

The beast fell into a daze and a crimson shadow shot out like a twister that instantly sliced off the Raven's head who couldn't even put up any defenses in time for the sudden assault.

*Thud*

*Spssshhh*

A pool of blood began forming due to such a spreading injury especially from the neck of the beast. Silently, the crimson aura around Xie Xan vanished along with his spirit rings and he gazed at the black spirit ring rising from the Raven's body. There was a purple spirit ring still within the location where the peacock breathed its last but it only provided 80 years of cultivation to Ja Sun's two spirit souls.

"So... am I lucky enough this time? Is there a spirit bone?" Xie Xan mumbled as he touched his chin.

"Focus," Ja Sun barked, "Thr Ravaging Blind Ravens are gifted with mental energy." He felt the potency of the beast's mental reserves so he could judge. "The soul shock will not be easy probably."

"I would have to face one of these days. The quicker the better," Xie Xan recollected his breathing and without feeling disgusted by the blood around him, he sat down stating, "Try to not snatch the spirit bone if there is one."

"But if there is a spirit bone inside the peacock, it's mine," Ja Sun crossed his arms.

"Ehm," Ah Yin cleared her throat.

"Mine," Ja Sun rejected flatly, darkening her expression in return.

With a smile, Xie Xan pulled the spirit ring towards himself while Ja Sun began searching the two corpses. However, they weren't graced by luck to gain a spirit bone again.

They grew silent and calm while Ah Yin and Ja Sun expanded their methods to keep an eye on the situation. There was a quick reaction to Xie Xan's situation. His body began trembling while the veins around his head started to pop out. The first hurdle to absorb a black spirit ring is the Soul Shock and even if it doesn't get too easier by time, the first one is supposed to always hit the hardest.

Ah Yin got to work instantly. The sudden consumption of the mental energy Xie Xan had developed over the years with his constant training and endurance would also lead to exhaustion of spirit energy that would try to fill the void and this would end up being the source of Xie Xan's demise.

Usually, a sixth spirit should be of the age of about 25000 years but by breaking through his capacity and absorbing a similar ring as his fifth ability, Xie Xan could clearly reach higher. However, Xie Xan needed to capitalize on this advantage. He internally felt that even with his capacity drastically increasing, his body wouldn't hold out against anything above 40000 and even a 40000-year-old spirit ring would be his break-even point.

But with how potent the Ravaging Blind Ravens are with their mental energy to compensate for their lack of sight, Xie Xan would need Ah Yin's constant support.

Suddenly, Ja Sun's and Ah Yin's expressions changed. They felt another entity entering their range.

"It's another Ravaging Blind Raven. A weaker one but still above 20000 years of cultivation. Possibly the mate of the one we killed," Ah Yin could clearly sense it using her domain.

Activating his spirit transformation, Ja Sun's body went through some changes once again. His dark hair turned silver and the green mark on his forehead turned into the tattoo of the third eye. Arms growing silver fur and palms turning into talons wrapped by Vajra Gauntlets that shaped themselves accordingly. His legs went through a similar transformation and his feet turned into tough talons too but this time they pierced through his sandals.

"I'll calm it down. If there's anything else, contact me. I will be nearby," Ja Sun mumbled as he began walking away when Ah Yin suddenly called out.

"You look good like this..."

Stunned, Ja Sun looked at her with a strange expression, "Are you high? This isn't the time."

But unfazed and equally curious of what other changes does this transformation brings, Ah Yin smiled, "Then you know what's the right time, correct?"

"Yes, your new mate," Ja Sun replied. He was successful in his task of calming down the spirit beast who didn't feel remorse for the death of a loved one but a source of sustenance instead.

"Is that..." Ah Yin whispered.

Six spirit rings surrounded Xie Xan Yellow, yellow, Purple, Purple, Black, and Black.

"Rank 62 Spirit Emperor, Xie Xan, am forever in your debt not only because of the immortal herb but this external spirit bone."

Xie Xan confirmed their wild guesses.

An external spirit bone!

Aside from Bibi Dong, Xie Xan would be the second one on the team to have an external spirit bone but what did it do?

This was a question that made the couple curious.

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After the trio returned while shooing away the raven since it was barely of any use, Xie Xan took quite a bit of rest before explaining his situation. His eyes had turned normal and he could activate his 'spirit bone' as he wished. It was truly a strange thing, calling eyeballs a spirit bone, that is. But an external spirit bone has never been limited by shape or size and that's what makes them so special. Even Ja Sun only had an 'artificial' external spirit bone in the form of Vajra Gauntlets.

"It's called the Blind World External Bone," Xie Xan grinned, "When activated alone, my point of view turns entirely different. I become immune to illusions and am capable of seeing the flow of spirit energy around me. It will take some time to get used to it... however, the pupils technique you couldn't make use of... The Asura Sight Technique would be perfect with this external spirit bone."

Ja Sun was brimming with envy. Too bad that if the external spirit bone is taken out from the body, they simply lose their functions.

As Xie Xan said, this was an amazing ability and the best part of the external spirit bone is that it grows with the user.

"What about your sixth ability? You said that if you activate your spirit eyes 'alone'. Does that mean that there will be a better effect in tandem with your spirit skill?"

Ja Sun questioned and Xie Xan nodded. This was a known phenomenon. If a spirit bone and the spirit rings emerge from the same beast it would have a better effect.

Even Ja Sun's cloning technique worked well with the disguising portion of his skull bone.

"If used with my sixth spirit skill, the spirit bone will let out a mental attack on anyone who looks in my eyes so long I wish for it."

"Then what's your sixth spirit ability?" Ah Yin inquired, already curious.

"It's..."

Xie Xan smiled and began explaining things.

{A/N: I don't like revealing skills early because there won't be any point to it to explain now and then again later when it is actually used. But you guys can check the auxiliary chaps in webnovel since I have that updated. But mind you, it will be a spoiler. I haven't added Xie Xan's and Ah Yin's sixth ability and the spirit bone she received from Qian Daoliu and Hu Lana's page still needs to be formed but the rest are complete.}

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Xie Xan's breakthrough and fortune brought no small amount of surprise once they returned. Especially for Hu Lana. She had always been Xie Xan's target to surpass and now he had truly surpassed her in rank and spirit bone. But with how developed and rooted their relationship was, this only made Hu Lana practice more. Meditation wouldn't affect the baby so Hu Lana could have minor breakthroughs without any troubles.

But as they say, good things often come in the form of triplets.

Before the matches finally began within the Spirit City, Yu Xiaogang had reciprocated Ja Sun's efforts of contacting him.

But startling Ja Sun was Yu Xiaogang's demand.

If Ja Sun wanted to speak with him, he must have Liu Erlong by his side.

However, sensing the trouble in the force, Ja Sun realized that what he truly called Liu Erlong was 'Yu' Erlong. Her technical clan name since she had always adopted her mother's surname.

Hearing this, 'Yu' Erlong wanted to meet the man with the nuts to call her that and agreed with a clearly outraged expression.

Setting a date, Ja Sun and the team dove back into the paperwork with Xie Xan starting to train with his spirit bone activated to get used to it. Since the external spirit bone consumed a lot of spirit energy already, Xie Xan would request Ah Yin's assistance to quickly pump him with spirit energy.

Of course, with their Spirit Emperor ranked partners training, their Spirit King ranked counterparts Ja Sun and Hu Lana, raised quite a ruckus within the office, not letting others continue their work until... Bibi Dong scolded them and things were set straight again.

The day of Ja Sun's appointment with Yu Xiaogang arrived and he brought two beautiful women: Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua, to either of his sides with quite a smug expression.