Dugu Bo's gratitude was clearly visible to everyone present.
And seeing his sincere attitude, both Yu Yuanzhen and the Grand Elder felt extremely satisfied.
As high-ranking figures of a major sect, they valued talent highly—but more importantly, they valued people who understood gratitude.
Strength alone was not enough.
A truly worthy ally needed loyalty and sincerity as well.
After another round of pleasant conversation, Yu Yuanzhen suddenly shifted the topic toward Dugu Bo's martial spirit.
"Now that Elder Dugu's martial spirit has evolved," he said with a smile, "have you considered giving it a new name?"
The moment those words were spoken, Dugu Bo's eyes lit up slightly.
A martial spirit evolution was already an extraordinary event.
And one that occurred directly through his own cultivation path was even more meaningful.
In the future, whenever poison-attributed serpent martial spirits were mentioned throughout the Douluo Continent, his name would inevitably become impossible to ignore.
Under such circumstances, giving the evolved martial spirit a proper name was naturally important.
Dugu Bo lowered his head and thought quietly for a moment before finally speaking.
"Since it evolved from the Jade Phosphor Serpent…"
"Then let it be called the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor."
The name was simple.
Yet domineering.
The moment people heard it, they would immediately understand that this was no ordinary serpent martial spirit.
At the same time, the title also preserved the legacy of the Dugu Family.
That alone was enough.
"Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor…"
Yu Yuanzhen nodded approvingly.
"Simple, direct, and overbearing."
"Not bad at all."
The atmosphere immediately became even more harmonious.
After another exchange of compliments and congratulations, Dugu Bo finally shifted his attention toward the nearby corpse of the Medusa spirit beast.
As was customary after hunting spirit beasts, the next step was naturally to inspect the body for spirit bones.
However, Dugu Bo himself didn't hold much hope.
After all, the benefits he had already obtained today were astonishing enough.
Not only had he successfully absorbed the Medusa's spirit ring, but his martial spirit had even evolved because of it.
His future path toward becoming a Titled Douluo had now become far smoother than before.
If a spirit bone dropped on top of all that…
Wouldn't that be far too outrageous?
Just as Dugu Bo prepared to process the corpse, Yu Yuanzhen suddenly stopped him.
"Elder Dugu, wait a moment."
Dugu Bo turned around slightly in confusion.
"What are the Sect Master's instructions?"
Yu Yuanzhen laughed loudly before casually placing a hand on Yu Xiaogang's shoulder.
"It's like this."
"My son believes his luck is extremely good lately."
"So he wants to inspect the corpse on your behalf."
"Perhaps his good fortune will allow him to discover a spirit bone."
The moment those words were spoken, Yu Xiaogang immediately rolled his eyes internally.
Once again, his father had casually pushed all responsibility onto him.
Meanwhile, Dugu Bo's expression became slightly strange.
He looked at Yu Xiaogang with an odd gaze.
Because of his good luck…
He wanted to search the body personally?
What kind of bizarre reasoning was that?
Still, Dugu Bo didn't care much.
It was merely the corpse of a spirit beast.
Who searched it made little difference.
Thus, he took several steps backward and gestured politely.
"Young Sect Master, please."
Yu Xiaogang could only walk forward helplessly under everyone's gaze.
At that moment, Yu Yuanzhen looked encouraging and confident.
The Grand Elder looked curious.
Lin Lang looked interested.
And Dugu Bo still wore that faintly strange expression.
Yu Xiaogang suddenly felt as though some very weird label had been attached to him.
Without speaking further, he crouched beside the Medusa's corpse and began inspecting it carefully.
The first area he checked was the torso.
Nothing.
No spirit bone appeared.
He then moved toward the side portions of the body and sliced them open methodically.
To be honest, while inspecting the corpse, Yu Xiaogang's urge to complain internally was growing stronger and stronger.
A serpent spirit beast didn't even possess proper limbs.
So why could serpent spirit beasts still produce limb spirit bones?
The entire concept felt completely unreasonable.
What exactly was the logic behind spirit bone generation?
Unfortunately, no one in the Douluo Continent truly understood such mysteries.
After finishing the inspection of the limb-related areas, the result remained the same.
Nothing.
No spirit bone.
Yu Xiaogang wasn't disappointed.
Dugu Bo and the others were equally calm.
After all, spirit bones were incredibly rare treasures.
If they dropped so easily, then Titled Douluo experts wouldn't desperately pursue them their entire lives.
Many Titled Douluo didn't even possess a single spirit bone.
Compared to ordinary soul masters, Yu Xiaogang was already absurdly fortunate.
Especially after obtaining that enormous collection of spirit bones from the underground cavern previously.
That level of luck alone was enough to make countless people jealous to death.
Only Yu Yuanzhen looked slightly disappointed.
Because after repeatedly witnessing his son's outrageous luck, he had genuinely started believing that Yu Xiaogang could pull a spirit bone from anything.
Now it seemed he had thought too highly of fate.
Shaking his head slightly, Yu Yuanzhen also withdrew his gaze and stopped paying attention.
At the same time, Yu Xiaogang finally reached the last remaining area.
The head.
Since no limb spirit bones had appeared, the probability of finding a skull spirit bone was naturally even lower.
After all, skull spirit bones were among the rarest and most valuable types of spirit bones in existence.
Yu Xiaogang himself no longer held any expectations.
Casually, he raised the blade in his hand and began cutting into the Medusa's skull.
Meanwhile, his thoughts had already drifted elsewhere entirely.
Compared to a hypothetical spirit bone that probably didn't exist, he was far more interested in researching the ten-year spirit bones he already possessed after returning to Heaven Dou City.
Those spirit bones represented a completely unexplored field.
If his research succeeded, it could potentially overturn the understanding of soul masters across the entire continent.
But just as he was distracted—
Clang!
The blade suddenly stopped.
It felt as though it had struck metal.
Yu Xiaogang froze slightly.
At first, he didn't think much about it.
After all, even spirit beasts possessed ordinary skull bones.
However, when he sliced the wound open further—
A faint green glow suddenly burst outward from inside the skull.
The light instantly reflected directly into Yu Xiaogang's eyes.
And in that moment—
Every thought in his mind disappeared completely.
His entire body stiffened.
Slowly…
Very slowly…
Yu Xiaogang lowered his head and stared blankly at the glowing wound before him.
The green light was real.
It was unmistakable.
For a moment, his brain stopped functioning entirely.
Then—
"Holy shit!!"
The curse burst out uncontrollably.
His voice echoed loudly throughout the area.
Not far away, Yu Yuanzhen and the others immediately snapped their heads around after hearing the shout.
And then they saw it.
The green light erupting from the Medusa's skull.
Everyone froze.
Then—
"What?!"
"Heavens!"
"A skull spirit bone?!"
Shock exploded across everyone's faces.
Yu Yuanzhen, the Grand Elder, Dugu Bo, and Lin Lang rushed toward Yu Xiaogang at almost the same time.
Their eyes widened in disbelief as they stared at the glowing skull.
"Xiaogang!"
"Hurry and take it out!"
Yu Yuanzhen laughed excitedly, his face completely flushed with excitement.
"Hahaha!"
"Another spirit bone!"
"And it's actually a skull spirit bone!"
"A sixty-thousand-year skull spirit bone!"
At that moment, Yu Yuanzhen felt completely certain of one thing.
His son absolutely possessed heaven-defying luck.
Otherwise, how could his fortune possibly be this outrageous?
Beside him, the Grand Elder, Lin Lang, and Dugu Bo were equally excited.
Especially Dugu Bo.
This was actually the first time in his entire life witnessing a spirit beast drop a spirit bone with his own eyes.
Previously, Yu Xiaogang's acquisition of the Radiant Elemental Dragon spirit bone had happened elsewhere, so Dugu Bo never witnessed it personally.
Now, seeing a spirit bone emerge directly from a spirit beast corpse—
The impact on him was enormous.
Under everyone's excited gazes, Yu Xiaogang took a deep breath and quickly extracted the spirit bone carefully.
Dark green light shone brilliantly in the air.
The atmosphere instantly became heavy.
A sixty-thousand-year skull spirit bone.
Just how valuable was such a treasure?
Even Titled Douluo experts would fight desperately over something like this.
After the initial excitement slowly settled, another question naturally emerged.
Who should absorb it?
The moment that thought appeared, the Grand Elder's expression immediately became somewhat painful.
His gaze unconsciously drifted toward Yu Yuanzhen's forehead.
More specifically—
Toward the thirty-thousand-year skull spirit bone Yu Yuanzhen had already absorbed previously.
The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became.
"If only I had stopped the Sect Master back then…"
"If he hadn't absorbed that thirty-thousand-year skull spirit bone…"
"Then he could absorb this sixty-thousand-year one now…"
The Grand Elder felt as though his heart was bleeding.
A sixty-thousand-year skull spirit bone!
And they had no suitable candidate for it anymore!
For a while, nobody spoke.
Everyone simply stared at the spirit bone silently.
Even Dugu Bo couldn't suppress the longing in his eyes.
After struggling internally for several moments, he finally clenched his teeth and spoke.
"Sect Master…"
"Why don't you absorb this spirit bone instead?"
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