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Huyan Zhen's face was grim.
Looking at the expressions of Su Wen and Dugu Bo.
He didn't see any dissatisfaction towards Su Wen on Dugu Bo's face. In fact, judging from Dugu Bo's reaction, it was purely a protective attitude.
What exactly was the relationship between Su Wen and Dugu Bo?
Huyan Zhen felt as awful as if he had eaten shit.
"The Elephant Armored Sect ranks among the seven great sects of the continent. Do you only have one five-thousand-year spirit bone?" Dugu Bo also mocked.
Huyan Zhen felt terrible.
A head spirit bone!
A head spirit bone!
Did you not hear me?
Among the six types of spirit bones, the head spirit bone was the most precious.
These two obviously chose not to hear it.
Although the Elephant Armored Sect ranked among the seven great sects, and wasn't at the bottom but ranked sixth, it ultimately lacked the foundation of the Upper Three Sects.
Among the seven great sects on the continent, the Upper Three Sects had a separate title because of their long heritage and unshakable status.
Most of the other sects, like the Elephant Armored Sect, didn't have such a long history.
The Elephant Armored Sect did have spirit bones, but they couldn't be used casually. There were only three ten-thousand-year spirit bones. One was kept in the sect's treasury by Huyan Zhen due to redundancy, and the other two were on Huyan Zhen himself.
Besides the ten-thousand-year spirit bones, this five-thousand-year head spirit bone was considered the one with the highest comprehensive value, originally intended by Huyan Zhen for his grandson, Huyan Li.
"Hm?" Seeing Huyan Zhen's hesitation, Dugu Bo roughly judged the Elephant Armored Sect's actual situation.
"Huyan Zhen, you should know the significance of Little Wen's thousand-year second ring. Asking you for only two ten-thousand-year spirit bones is already giving you face."
Huyan Zhen was silent.
"The Elephant Armored Sect only has one ten-thousand-year spirit bone available," he said through gritted teeth.
"Oh? Then bring that five-thousand-year spirit bone you mentioned just now as well. To make up for the difference, add a thousand-year spirit bone," Dugu Bo said lightly.
While saying this, he secretly harbored killing intent towards Huyan Zhen, making Huyan Zhen feel a fatal threat.
He's going to kill me!
Huyan Zhen gritted his teeth and agreed to Dugu Bo's solution.
"Fine. I am willing to give three spirit bones to settle this grudge. However, the spirit bones are in the sect; I don't carry them with me."
"No matter. I'll personally accompany you," Dugu Bo waved his hand, indicating this wasn't a problem.
Su Wen returned to the team, while Dugu Bo went with Huyan Zhen to the Elephant Armored Sect to retrieve the spirit bones.
Elephant Armored Sect.
Handing over the three spirit bones to Dugu Bo, Huyan Zhen's heart was bleeding.
The value of a head spirit bone was no less than that of a ten-thousand-year spirit bone.
In other words, the Elephant Armored Sect effectively had four ten-thousand-year spirit bones, and now lost two of them.
Nearly half of the sect's foundation flew away directly.
"Mm. Huyan Zhen, I hope the news of Su Wen having spirit bones won't spread, and no one will attack him in the future. Otherwise, I will definitely come to your Elephant Armored Sect again to demand an explanation." Dugu Bo left this sentence before leaving, making Huyan Zhen furious again.
"ROAR!"
Huyan Zhen possessed his spirit. The huge Diamond Mammoth stomped on the ground, making the ground tremble and the surrounding houses teeter.
Su Wen returned to the team and was called out alone by Dugu Bo at night.
"You kid, don't go out recording any terrain for a while," Dugu Bo instructed.
Although he warned Huyan Zhen in the end, there was only one life. If Su Wen died, even if he poisoned all the younger disciples of the Elephant Armored Sect to death, Su Wen wouldn't come back to life.
Su Wen nodded, indicating he understood the pros and cons.
"Look at these three spirit bones and see if you need any." Dugu Bo took out the three spirit bones for Su Wen to choose.
Su Wen shook his head. "Grandpa Dugu, you should keep these spirit bones."
Dugu Bo looked at Su Wen in surprise.
"Here is a ten-thousand-year spirit bone and a five-thousand-year head spirit bone with value comparable to a ten-thousand-year one."
Su Wen nodded, indicating he hadn't misjudged.
"You kid... don't tell me the two spirit bones you already have are a head spirit bone and a right leg bone?" Dugu Bo suspected.
The ten-thousand-year spirit bone in his hand was exactly a right leg bone.
Now that Su Wen wasn't interested in any of these three spirit bones, the most likely reason for rejecting the two most tempting ones was that Su Wen already had spirit bones in those two locations.
Su Wen's mouth twitched.
This...
Misunderstandings arise like this.
Coincidence is such a disgusting thing.
"Grandpa Dugu, I don't have any spirit bones." He explained helplessly, "I don't plan to fuse spirit bones right now either."
Dugu Bo ignored the first half of Su Wen's sentence, his attention attracted by the second half.
"Why? Spirit bones can be encountered but not sought. Even this old man dares not say I can gather a full set of spirit bones. Shouldn't you absorb them when you have the chance?" Dugu Bo wanted to hear Su Wen's thoughts.
As a Titled Douluo, Dugu Bo naturally didn't hold this view, but among all Spirit Masters below the Titled Douluo level in the Spirit Master world, this view was common.
Only factions with deep foundations like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Titled Douluo had the qualification to choose.
"Spirit bones are precious, but compared to spirit rings, they still have shortcomings."
"Oh?" It was the first time Dugu Bo heard the saying that spirit bones had shortcomings compared to spirit rings. He looked at Su Wen curiously.
"Spirit ring combinations can be optimized for compatibility, but spirit bones don't have compatibility. If a Spirit Master absorbs multiple spirit bones, unless they are from the same source, rejection will occur between them."
"As long as there is no fundamental conflict, spirit rings won't be dangerous. However, after absorbing spirit bones, the conflict between multiple spirit bones might cause the Spirit Master to be unable to withstand it and die suddenly."
Su Wen said modestly, "I dare not say how confident I am in gathering a full set of ten-thousand-year spirit bones, but there is always a chance to obtain three or four. And three or four is the stage where spirit bone conflicts begin to manifest."
A Spirit Master has to endure the conflict between spirit bones after absorbing about four of them.
And for these four spirit bones, should one absorb four ten-thousand-year ones, or absorb whatever one sees, even thousand-year ones?
Su Wen expressed that since he had hope of obtaining four ten-thousand-year spirit bones, he naturally chose the former.
Dugu Bo was thoughtful.
"This kid... could it be that both spirit bones on him are ten-thousand-year ones? Such good luck?"
He remembered that the twenty-thousand-year Mirror Image Beast hunted last time didn't drop a spirit bone.
Then where did Su Wen get the spirit bones?
For the head spirit bone, Dugu Bo tentatively assumed it dropped when Su Wen absorbed the thousand-year spirit ring for his second ring beyond the limit.
But what about the other right leg bone?
"Xiao Zhan? Or Huo Tianyang?"
Dugu Bo stopped his thoughts and didn't delve deeper.
In the end, Su Wen took the two non-ten-thousand-year spirit bones, but didn't absorb them on the spot.
"A three-thousand-year Phantom Beast spirit bone, and a five-thousand-year Giant Water Rhinoceros head spirit bone."
Accepting the two spirit bones, Su Wen had other uses for them.
(End of this chapter)