Chapter 158: Oscar's External Spirit Bone: Eight Spider Spears

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"Moonlight, charge!"

Mùtiān commanded, and the martial soul, Moonlight, also known as the three-headed Earth Fire Lizard, swayed its three heads and charged towards Huo Wu with teeth bared.

"What a peculiar beast martial soul," Huo Wu commented briefly. Instead of engaging with this beast martial soul that seemed nothing like a beast, she attacked Mùtiān instead.

Without the Sun Goddess martial soul by her side, Huo Wu's soul skills' power would be somewhat diminished.

Although dealing with a Soul Elder was still well within her capabilities, Huo Wu wasn't one to waste her soul power recklessly.

Capture the ringleader first.

Huo Wu's target was Mùtiān himself.

"Bang!"

After a punch, Huo Wu immediately stepped back, her brows furrowed. She thought to herself, "Absolute defense? Or is it that, until these three Earth Fire Lizards are defeated, I can't harm Mùtiān himself?"

In reality, Mùtiān also broke out in a cold sweat after receiving that punch from Huo Wu.

After Austin Griffin abandoned Mùtiān and chose Tang San's Haotian Hammer as its host, although Moonlight still provided him with nearly invincible defense, using defensive soul power against others' attacks also consumed his own soul power.

Just now, Huo Wu used nearly seventy percent of her strength, while Mùtiān's soul power consumption was close to fifty percent. If he were to receive two more attacks like that, his defense would collapse.

Noticing Mùtiān's expression and the slightly illusory appearance of the three Earth Fire Lizards, Huo Wu understood that his defense wasn't invincible and required soul power to offset her attacks.

If she exerted her full power, she could undoubtedly break through, but she wasn't sure if Mùtiān could withstand it.

Most likely not.

Her full-powered attack, even as a Soul Saint, would not be easily resisted.

Meanwhile, Oscar used his second soul skill, chanting the soul incantation: "I've got a Kongkang sausage!"

As soul power surged between his hands, a sausage over a meter long, as thick as a bowl, and gleaming with metallic luster, emerged from his hands.

It was more accurate to call it a stick than a sausage.

To make the sausage martial soul capable of attacking, Yu Xiaogang had to rack his brains—

Sausages were food, edible. But Yu Xiaogang believed that such food could also become a martial soul. After all, some dried sausages were extremely hard, comparable to iron stone, difficult even for swords to cut.

For this reason, Yu Xiaogang's first consideration was to enhance Oscar's sausage martial soul's hardness.

Secondly, hardness alone was not enough; there also needed to be a factor that could cause effective damage to enemies: poison.

That's right, Yu Xiaogang still thought of poison and couldn't forget about it.

Based on these two points, Yu Xiaogang planned a Soul Beast like the Human-Faced Demon Spider for Oscar's second soul ring.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider could spit silk, but the most terrifying aspect of this Soul Beast was its hard exoskeleton and lethal toxin.

In Yu Xiaogang's consideration, if Oscar's sausage martial soul absorbed the Human-Faced Demon Spider's soul ring, its hardness would inevitably be enhanced to a terrifying degree.

Moreover, sausages, as food, were hard on the outside and soft on the inside, complementing well with the Soul Beast that had an exoskeleton.

Oscar's sausage martial soul was absolutely compatible with the Human-Faced Demon Spider.

After Oscar absorbed the Human-Faced Demon Spider's soul ring, the sausage he created with his second soul skill became extremely hard, reaching a length of over a meter, resembling an iron rod.

It was imbued with the Human-Faced Demon Spider's poison, immune to Oscar himself, but if it struck someone's skin, the Human-Faced Demon Spider's toxin would seep into their body, paralyzing them.

Although it couldn't immediately poison someone to death, the paralyzing effect was quite effective.

More importantly, Li Yusong's martial soul was precisely a stick. With his teachings in stick techniques and Oscar's robust physique, he could become a melee control-type attacker without any issues.

However, absorbing the Human-Faced Demon Spider's soul ring didn't just add a weapon to Oscar...

Boom!

Kicking Moonlight away, Huo Wu faced Oscar, who was coming at her with a stick, and threw a punch.

The fiery fist met the end of the stick, erupting with a loud noise.

Oscar, after all, only had the soul power of a thirty-level Soul Elder, weaker than Huo Wu. He was pushed back by her, but Huo Wu felt a slight numbness in her hand, as if some of her fingers had lost sensation.

"Poisonous?"

"You, a food system Soul Master, added a poisonous soul ring to your martial soul?"

"Isn't your food martial soul meant for eating?"

Huo Wu was a bit puzzled. What kind of food system was this?

After steadying himself, Oscar smirked, "Who says food can only be eaten? I have the heart of a warrior. My sausage martial soul's second soul skill was chosen by my teacher to break through the limits of length and hardness. Coupled with Teacher Li Yusong's instruction in staff techniques, my strength surpasses even fatties like you."

"Using sausages as weapons?" Qin Ming, who was watching, exclaimed, gaining a new perspective on Yu Xiaogang. "Indeed, he's the former grandmaster of soul theory. Truly imaginative."

"Not worth mentioning." Yu Xiaogang's face showed a hint of a smile, but he was somewhat concerned about Qin Ming's use of the term "former."

"Brother San, this Oscar guy feels a bit sinister... But can sausages really be used as weapons?" Xiao Wu asked.

"They can be used as weapons, but food is ultimately meant to be eaten. Using it as a weapon is inferior," Tang San narrowed his eyes. "And it's poisoned. The sausage martial soul's tolerance to poison is not as high as other martial souls'. Without a solution, he's setting a trap for himself."

Hiss!

Just as Tang San finished his evaluation, Oscar's clothes tore apart, and eight black spears emerged from his back, resembling spider legs, combined with Oscar's muscular physique, looking quite menacing.

"Is that a spirit bone?!" Qin Ming was stunned, looking at Yu Xiaogang incredulously. "Master, your disciple actually has a spirit bone! But, isn't it risky to expose it like this?"

"It's not a big deal because this is an external spirit bone, second only to a hundred-thousand-year spirit bone in value," Yu Xiaogang's face showed a smile. "Oscar's second soul ring is from a nearly eight-hundred-year Human-Faced Demon Spider. Oscar spent a lot of effort to insert a dagger into the Human-Faced Demon Spider's brain... According to my theory, the more painful the death of a soul beast, the greater the chance of producing a spirit bone. Oscar was fortunate enough to obtain this external spirit bone from the Human-Faced Demon Spider."

"And this kind of spirit bone can evolve along with cultivation. However, the downside is that once fully absorbed, others can't take it away. Even if Oscar dies, this external spirit bone won't fall off but will shatter along with his demise."

"Oscar spent three years perfecting the absorption of this spirit bone. Therefore, compared to others who possess spirit bones and can only hide them, Oscar can use this external spirit bone more boldly."

"Of course, when he goes to the Great Spirit Arena to participate in soul fights, I won't allow Oscar to use the abilities of the external spirit bone."

Everyone envied Oscar's good fortune, except for Xiao Wu, whose expression turned sour.

Although the Human-Faced Demon Spider was a rather despicable soul beast that she didn't particularly like, was it necessary to torture it before killing it?

Was it difficult to tell Oscar in advance how to pierce the weak point of the Human-Faced Demon Spider before killing it?