Chapter 117: I Really Want to Make a Set of Dragon King God Gear!
During the riot phase inside the Spirit Ascension Platform, spirit souls were no laughing matter.
At the very least, Zero Class was running for their lives in complete disarray.
Of course, no one looked more miserable than Xu Xiaoyan.
At the moment, she was tempted to strangle Xie Xie herself. If he hadn't gone and ticked off that Flame Lion pride, they wouldn't all be in this mess.
Meanwhile, Jiang Chen and his companions were still wandering leisurely through the forest.
Gu Yue moved with the composure of a lioness returning to her domain, inspecting every creature in her path. Despite the riot, she stayed perfectly calm and detached.
"What exactly are you trying to accomplish?"
Gu Yue eyed Jiang Chen suspiciously. What purpose did he have wandering around the Tower's simulation?
All three of them were soul beasts—they didn't need to hunt spirit souls to evolve their rings.
If they wanted to change their soul rings' colors, they could do it at will—make them rainbow, LED lights, whatever they pleased.
"Here it comes," Jiang Chen said quietly.
In the far distance of the simulated Star Dou Forest, a massive aura erupted. It washed across the entire forest like a tidal wave, sending hordes of spirit beasts fleeing in terror.
The ground trembled violently. Trees toppled as a gigantic bear, covered head to paw in dark golden fur, pounded its chest against the earth.
Mountains shuddered, the sky quaked.
Over five meters tall, its eyes gleamed with chilling malice—
A ten-thousand-year Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear!
Its arms were thick and muscular, tipped with golden claws longer than a meter each—razor-sharp, whistling through the air with ear-splitting force.
For some reason, the Spirit Transmission Tower always liked using Dreadclaw Bears as Spirit Platform guardians. What, did they think the Bear King was easy to bully?
Jiang Chen remembered encountering one as a guardian even in the junior Spirit Ascension Platform—one that had an external spirit bone.
Back then, though, when he finally entered the platform, the spirit bone was mysteriously gone.
Likely because his new method of "spirit soul contracts" had already altered the platform's energy flow, messing with its original event patterns.
After all, the Tower sometimes added rare items like spirit bones to spice things up—advertising success stories to the public. "So-and-so killed a spirit beast in the platform and earned a hundred-thousand-year spirit bone!" Every few millennia they ran the same marketing scheme.
Even the entry price of the low-level platform had soared to ridiculous heights.
Of course, Jiang Chen knew the truth: the Tower always planted good loot inside to keep attention high. And this particular bone—he'd heard about it straight from the Bear King's mouth.
When the massive dark-gold bear finally stomped into sight, all three of them stood their ground.
The creature roared, aura bursting outward, its savage glare fixated on them.
It was ready to declare dominance—this was its territory. Outsiders had no right to stand here.
Perish!
"ROAR—!"
But Gu Yue only snorted softly.
Under her frigid gaze, the intimidating Dreadclaw Bear froze mid-roar. The rage in its eyes dimmed into confusion, the killing intent dissolved.
Silver Dragon King pressure—crushing, absolute.
The mighty beast who'd wanted to prove its dominance stood trembling instead.
"Wuh…?"
Embarrassed, the bear shook its head. Was it really scared senseless just from a look? How humiliating for a Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear!
Determined to salvage its pride, it roared again—this time turning toward the cold, silent Snow Empress.
"Pathetic," she murmured.
Two simple words, yet the air itself seemed to freeze solid.
The bear's defiance vanished, replaced by the sensation of falling into a glacier. Its muscles locked, its soul power stuttered, and the roar died in its throat.
The poor beast was utterly dumbfounded.
A ten-thousand-year guardian beast of the Spirit Platform—and he couldn't even roar properly?
Unacceptable!
"I need your spirit bones," Jiang Chen said calmly. "Please go to sleep."
Before the bear even understood what had happened, it looked down to see a pair of tiger claws buried deep in its chest.
"Third Soul Skill—Evil God Claw!"
His body blurred into shadows and reappeared behind the beast, unleashing a strike that ignored all physical defense.
Of course, its effectiveness partially depended on relative strength—but the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear wasn't ready for him at all.
In an instant, its massive life force was ripped away.
"ROOOAR—!"
It finally managed one proper roar… right before collapsing.
Its body began to fade, its life energy dissipating into motes of light.
Of course, spirit souls killed in the Platform didn't truly die—they'd respawn later. Normally, such a kill would grant the victor roughly one-tenth of the target's age in cultivation energy.
To Jiang Chen, though, that was meaningless.
As the bear's body disintegrated, two dark-golden bones remained—one for each arm, glimmering faintly with cloud-like carvings.
Left and right Dark-Gold Bear Arm Bones.
Jiang Chen inspected them. Rare finds indeed.
There were six basic types of spirit bones: torso, skull, both arms, and both legs. On top of that, there were external bones—unique, non-transferable artifacts that perished with their owners, like Tang San's Eight Spider Spear which he refined into an artifact of godly rank.
"You went through all this just for those?" Gu Yue frowned.
It was true—ordinary soul beasts didn't need human-designed enhancement bones, and even after transforming into human form, their compatibility was lower than a true human's.
Not every soul master came from a beast bloodline, after all.
Jiang Chen smiled faintly. "I'm not keeping them."
He already had his eye on something greater.
Specifically—a complete Dragon King God Set.
If the Angel God could forge a full Angelic soul bone set, then surely he could create a Dragon King version!
External bones that evolve automatically with the host were nice—but he preferred something divine from the start.
From dragon parts themselves.
He already possessed the Fire Dragon King's corpse, while the Ice Dragon King's essence was sealed inside the Ice God Pearl. Extracting bones from that one would be tricky—but not impossible.
The Fire Dragon King, however, was fair game.
He just needed to come up with a way to trick Gu Yue into helping craft it.
He really did want that god-tier Dragon King armor.
A set like that started at God King level!
If she found out what he was plotting, though, she would absolutely lose her temper again.
"These bones," he said finally, "will be for Huo Yun'er. Her talent still falls short compared to the others—this will even things out."
(END CHAPTER)
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