Chapter 88: The Fourth Soul Ring
Walking in front of the corpse of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King, Xia Liang was secretly surprised.The twelve-meter-long body of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King lay quietly on the ground. It had been clearly pierced by a huge arrow that was half a meter wide, and was also affected by the energy wave generated by the arrow's explosion. It stood to reason that it was impossible for the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King to retain its body intact.
But at this moment, its body looked as if nothing had happened. There were no signs of burns from the black flames, nor any holes from being pierced by arrows.
If the undead realm had not sealed the soul of the red-eyed tree demon king within it, Xia Liang would definitely have thought that the red-eyed tree demon king was not dead.
Could it be that the powerful ability of blood and flesh regeneration allowed the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King to restore his complete body before his death?Putting aside all doubts in his mind, Xia Liang first put the body of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King into the tricolor ring, and then quickly evacuated the place.
The arrow shot by the skeletal Susanoo just now caused too much noise, which might attract a stronger soul beast. The remaining tiny soul power is really unable to deal with the emergency.
So no matter what questions you have, it's better to leave first.
In a cave in the valley forest.
After making sure that there were no traces of soul beasts or soul masters within a radius of several hundred meters, Xia Liang immediately took out the body of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King after entering the cave.
To be on the safe side, he planned to search the soul of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King first, and then decide whether to absorb its soul ring after understanding the origin of this mutant soul beast.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Xia Liang closed his eyes and concentrated, using meditation to restore his soul power. At the same time, his consciousness also entered the spiritual world.
With the blessing of the realm of the undead, in the gray spiritual world, every memory carried by the soul of the Red-Eyed Dryad King is played like a movie theater.
It took Xia Liang twenty minutes to finally figure out the mutation of the red-eyed tree demon king.
In order to avoid the situation of not being able to absorb the soul ring in time, he first guided the black ten thousand year soul ring floating on the body of the Red Eyed Tree Demon King into his body.
While maintaining the absorption of the soul ring, Xia Liang also continued to search the memories of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King's soul in the spiritual world.
Just as expected.
The Red-Eyed Tree Demon King was originally a demon-eyed tree of the same clan as the Ten Thousand Demons King in the original novel.
Although it has only lived for a thousand years, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King's cultivation has reached three thousand years. At this time, it already has a certain ability to protect itself.
In the second millennium, a plant called Black Spirit Flower suddenly grew next to the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King.
The Black Spirit Flower is a type of flower of the other shore, nurtured by the dark elemental force of heaven and earth. Legend has it that the Black Spirit Flower is the flower that leads to the underworld and can evoke the memories of the dead.
Originally, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King wanted to cultivate this black spirit flower for a thousand years, and then devour it when he broke through the bottleneck of ten thousand years of cultivation. However, he did not expect that his life span was coming to an end, and if he could not break through the bottleneck of ten thousand years of cultivation, he would not be able to survive.
In desperation, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King had to swallow and fuse the black spirit flower in advance.
Although it failed to extend its lifespan, its soul was able to re-possess a body due to the Black Spirit Flower's ability to awaken the memories of the dead, thus awakening its undead attributes.
With the help of darkness and the attributes of the undead, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King constantly searched for corpses and souls of the dead in the outer areas of the Star Dou Great Forest to devour, and finally he was able to break through his ten thousand years of cultivation.
Originally, he thought he had a chance to reach the same level of fierce beasts as the clan leader, the Ten Thousand Demon King. But how could the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King have thought that what awaited him was actually the spirit ring of a spirit master?After searching through the memories carried by the soul, Xia Liang not only learned about the life of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King, but also learned through his memories how powerful the Ten Thousand Demon King, one of the ten fierce beasts, was.
The King of Ten Thousand Demons possesses the ultimate wood attribute, and even the Beast God Emperor Tian, the ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest, dares not underestimate him.
Xia Liang couldn't help but sigh that he was still too weak compared to these ferocious beasts.
Thanks to the search of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King's soul memory, he figured out that the reason the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King body remained intact was because after being pierced through the body by the Susanoo Bow, it activated its proud flesh and blood regeneration ability, which allowed the mutilated body to quickly recover to its complete state.But because his soul was shot and sealed in the realm of the undead, even if the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King body was restored to its original state, without his soul he would only be a corpse.
In addition, after the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King entered ten thousand years of cultivation, it possessed a move related to the attributes of the undead. It could occupy the bodies of other weak plants and resurrect after death in the form of undead possession.
However, the realm of the undead has the effect of sealing the souls of the dead.
The undead possession skill of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King was just restrained.
If it were someone else, they might not be able to truly kill the red-eyed tree demon king.
About five hours passed.
Xia Liang finally succeeded in absorbing the soul ring of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King.
In the process of absorbing the soul ring, he found that the soul ring did not come with any soul shock. This was probably because the soul of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King had been sealed in the realm of the undead.
All in all, it was very easy to absorb this ten thousand year soul ring. The reason why it took so long to complete the absorption of the soul ring was because in addition to the soul ring, the Red Eyed Tree Demon King also exploded a soul bone.
Judging from the shape, this is a soul bone that is very similar to the torso bone.
However, this soul bone was absorbed along with the soul ring and is an energy entity. It should not be a torso bone, but an external spinal bone.
This is exactly the case.
After confirming that the soul bone that exploded from the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King was an external spine, Xia Liang tried to transfer the soul bone to the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul.
The previous speculation that the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul can only absorb external soul bones is valid.
In fact, the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul itself is equivalent to Xia Liang's external soul bone, so it grows along with the growth of his own skeleton.
In a sense, Xia Liang's martial soul should be an external soul bone, and this external soul bone martial soul is his skeleton after death.
After testing the effects of the soul skills attached to the external spine in the spiritual world, Xia Liang was a little excited.
Because this external spine, like the external soul bone Eight Spider Lance, not only became a part of the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul, but also became another weapon of the skeletal Susanoo form.
The external spine exploded by the Red-Eyed Dryad King perfectly inherited its powerful dark and undead attributes.
The sword formed by the attached spine can, with the blessing of the dark attribute, devour the souls of the killed and seal them in the spine of the Undead Skeleton Martial Spirit itself.
It is different from the effect of being trapped in the realm of the undead.
When the soul of the killed person is sealed in the spine of the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul, the soul of the killed person will gradually be refined by the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul, and the best parts of the killed person's body will grow as bones.