Chapter 43: A 240,000-Year Trunk Bone! Plotting a God-Tier Ring Detonation!

Huo Yuhao could not make head or tail of Zhuge Lan's inward grumbling.

"Brother Tianmeng, Elder Yi, do you have any idea what this means?"

The Ice Jade Emperor Silkworm remained silent.

——As someone who lived merely to drift along and idle away his days, he found it even more baffling.

"You can interpret it as willpower cultivation," Electrus concisely explained. "Because of the existence of martial souls and soul rings, this world lacks innovation and neglects inner cultivation. The artistic conception of Tai Chi fills this exact shortcoming. The more powerful an entity is, the more profound benefits they will reap from it."

Huo Yuhao finally understood.

"So this is what Brother Lan usually refers to as... dimensional reduction strikes, right?"

"The child is teachable," Zhuge Lan said with satisfaction. "Have you figured out what to do with that 240,000-year soul bone?"

Mentioning this caused Huo Yuhao's expression to twist instantly into that of a pitiful melon.

The resource package given by Mu En over a month ago had been digested by him only to the extent of scratching the surface.

Among them, the most valuable item was undoubtedly this 240,000-year torso bone.

The problem, however, was...

This torso bone originated from a 240,000-year beast, the Dragon Horse, possessing a pure light attribute and belonging to the close-combat powerhouse category.

Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao's attributes were spiritual and ice, meaning his compatibility with this torso bone was rather low.

On the contrary, Wang Dong...

Light attribute, flight-type martial soul, and a powerhouse attack system!

To say they were compatible would be an understatement; it was practically tailor-made.

Yet Mu En had given this torso bone to Huo Yuhao.

There was no need to ask.

It was undoubtedly out of consideration for the mysterious demigod.

——Wang Dong's grand-uncle and second uncle back home were not enough to make Mu En ingratiate himself to this extent.

This left Huo Yuhao in a dilemma.

A 240,000-year torso bone!

If he had encountered such a fortuitous opportunity in the past, he would have absorbed it at the very first moment.

So what if the attributes didn't match? Its age was high enough!

The sheer fortune value generated alone would be at least five digits.

However, he now had Brother Lan; a 240,000-year soul bone translated to 240,000 points of fortune, which he could eventually accumulate if he saved up, and the attributes would be an absolute, perfect match.

Therefore.

Knowing full well that this soul bone was much more suitable for Wang Dong, and that they were both closed-door disciples of Mu En, he could not bring himself to simply absorb it in secret.

Doing so would also waste a soul bone slot in vain.

Yet, on the other hand, to let such a precious soul bone be given away to Wang Dong for free...

He was truly reluctant.

Thus, he tangled himself into a little bitter melon.

Zhuge Lan watched this and found it endlessly amusing.

If anyone else had been as conflicted as Huo Yuhao, he definitely would have cursed them to smithereens.

But since it was Wang Dong, the absolute Huo-Dong CP—

Then he might as well prepare melon seeds and a stool, and just sit back to watch the show.

"If all else fails, just trade for it," the Ice Jade Emperor Silkworm suggested unbearably. "As the young sect master of the Clear Sky Sect, Wang Dong will definitely be willing to invest resources to cultivate you."

***

Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up!

Indeed!

He was reluctant to part with it, because when all was said and done, giving it away outright hurt too much.

Losing the soul bone meant losing fortune value as well.

But if he could trade it for resources that suited him better, it would be a win-win situation!

At this thought.

Huo Yuhao gave his body a casual rub and frantically dashed back to the dormitory, bursting through the door directly due to his overwhelming excitement.

By the time he snapped to his senses and realized he had forgotten to knock, he had already caught sight of that "jade-like back" once again.

"Ah!!!"

Huo Yuhao consciously shut the door and stepped back outside, rubbing his face unnaturally.

Strange!

Why did the back of a boy make his heart race like that?

'It must be caused by emotional agitation.'

Within the spiritual realm.

Zhuge Lan, who was currently riding on the back of the Ice Jade Emperor Silkworm and outputting energy, chuckled merrily upon reading that thought.

"Why doesn't this Shrek Academy have physiology classes? It's simply misleading the youth."

"Physiology classes?" Electrus asked curiously.

"It's about teaching the differences in human body structures and conducting timely sex education."

"Zhuge's homeland is actually so... open-minded?"

"Only by having a correct understanding of the world can one enlighten their mind early and avoid situations like little Yuhao's, where the answer is placed right before his eyes and yet he fails to see it."

Electrus nodded in agreement.

With such advanced concepts, it was no wonder it could nurture an outstanding talent like Zhuge Lan.

"Screech—"

Wang Dong opened the dorm door, glaring angrily at Huo Yuhao.

"Why are you back so fast today? And you didn't even knock!"

"Sorry, I got too excited and forgot," Huo Yuhao said nonchalantly. "Come inside first, I'm going to show you a big treasure too."

He hooked his arm around Wang Dong's shoulder and pulled him into the room, completely oblivious to the latter's bizarre expression.

——Showing a big treasure?

Was it that kind of thing he had in mind...

Could it be that his identity had finally been exposed?

Just as his mind was wandering wildly—

Huo Yuhao had already produced that torso bone, its pure white halo illuminating the room, and the dense soul power fluctuations made Wang Dong's eyes pop wide open.

An absolute soul bone exceeding 100,000 years!

And its attributes were an extreme match for his own!

This...

"Where did such a high-quality soul bone come from?" Wang Dong asked in a daze.

"Teacher gave it to me," Huo Yuhao scratched his head, saying. "But I think it suits you better..."

Wang Dong's expression turned solemn!

***

His first reaction was not—why was this soul bone given to you and not me.

Instead, it was—

"No!"

"Since the teacher gave it to you, it belongs to you!"

"I cannot accept it!"

"Put it away quickly, it will be troublesome if others discover it!"

To be able to refuse a 100,000-year soul bone so decisively proved that Wang Dong also possessed immense willpower.

This only served to strengthen Huo Yuhao's determination even more.

——Such an outstanding "other half" deserved to be treated with absolute sincerity!

"Who said I was giving it to you for free?" Huo Yuhao feigned a frown. "This soul bone matches you, and its age reaches a staggering 240,000 years, so I was thinking of trading it with you. Cultivation resources, self-created soul skills, matching soul bones and the like—the overall value shouldn't differ too much, you know."

Put that way, Wang Dong became interested.

He cast a yearning glance at the torso bone, a fierce urge to claim it welling up inside him.

Yet, very soon, he furrowed his brows again.

"A 240,000-year torso bone?"

"The ancestral soul bones within our sect are only a set of around 80,000 years, and there's no way they would trade those to you."

"This is getting a bit tricky..."

Wang Dong frowned, racking his brain to think of valuables belonging to his family.

Only to find that there was nothing that could possibly match it.

"You can write a letter back and ask your grand-uncle and second uncle,"

Huo Yuhao reminded him—

"After all, they are the sect masters; they certainly know many secrets you aren't aware of."

"For instance, Brother Lan mentioned before that your Clear Sky Sect possesses a divine skill whose value is equally priceless."

Reminded thusly, Wang Dong recalled something.

"The Great Clear Sky Hammer requires a Clear Sky Hammer to learn. Are you talking about Ring Detonation?"

"That is the absolute unpassed secret of the Clear Sky Sect. Even within the main family, candidates are strictly handpicked, and it is never imparted to anyone who isn't astonishingly talented."

"Yuhao, you..."

Wang Dong shook his head, indicating that the chances were slim.

"Is that so," Huo Yuhao scratched his head. "Then I wouldn't know."

At the same time, he mentally asked Brother Lan, saying the information was inaccurate!

"Hmph hmph, just have him ask, leave the rest to me," Zhuge Lan replied vaguely.

Daring to doubt him?

Normally speaking, an outsider indeed couldn't learn Ring Detonation.

But if it was the son-in-law of the Clear Sky Sect, that was a different story entirely.

Even if they couldn't trade it for Ring Detonation, the Clear Sky Sect had stood in this world for tens of thousands of years; they could always pull out some heavy-hitting goods.

If all else failed, they could trade using a "favor," promising to accomplish a few tasks for Huo Yuhao, which would grant a corresponding fortune value bonus.

In short, it was impossible to run at a loss.