Chapter 498: Fateful Divine Bone

The nameless skeleton left behind a valuable treasure: three complete sets of Tier 4 bone body advancement materials, and two sets each of Tier 5, Tier 6, and Tier 7 bone body materials. The Tier 8 bone body advancement materials, however, were incomplete and a mixed collection, seemingly cobbled together from various sources. These bone body advancement materials included both Dao Bone and Golden Body types.

Soul crystals were also provided for corresponding advancements: ample quantities for Tier 3, Tier 4, up to Tier 7. However, there weren't enough Tier 8 soul crystals to complete the advancement.

Zhao Xing first used his Bone Force to refine a set of Tier 4 Dao Bone materials, primarily consisting of Bone Spirit Stones, Fire Origin Crystals, and Moon Marrow. "Crack, crack, crack!" The Bone Spirit Stones shattered, impacting his original Stellar Dao Bone. Then, numerous Fire Origin Crystals ignited, melting all his bones and absorbing the Bone Spirit Stones. The Moon Marrow permeated, giving Zhao Xing's bone body its final reshape.

After the refinement, Zhao Xing checked his status panel.

Name: Zhao XingProfession: Grand FarmerRealm: Three-Calamity True Spirit (Primordial Split Soul, 96x amplification)Bone Body: Silver Moon Dao Bone (1/10000)Bone Force: Tier 4 (1/1000)

"My bone body advanced, becoming tougher and capable of bearing greater power," Zhao Xing mused, moving his skeleton. He realized that when he had the Stellar Bone Body, his Azure Lotus, Red Lotus, and Azure Sea spiritual energies were only about one-tenth of what they were when he possessed a flesh body. No matter how much he cultivated, the bone body could only contain that much spiritual energy. Now, it had recovered to approximately one-fifth of his Dharma Body state. "The bone body advancement also allowed me to recover a significant amount of my spiritual energy," Zhao Xing thought to himself. As for his inner world, it remained sealed.

"Next, I need to absorb Tier 4 soul crystals to match my True Spirit with my bone body."

"Whoosh~" Zhao Xing crushed the soul crystals. They were red and rhomboid, resembling firewood, and were added to his True Spirit spark. "This feels wonderful." Zhao Xing felt as if he were warming himself by a bonfire on a cold winter day; his soul felt warm and nourished.

After absorbing an entire set of Tier 4 soul crystals, Zhao Xing glanced at his panel, which now displayed:

Four-Calamity True Spirit (1/96)

"The soul splitting from the Primordial Straw Man Technique has increased my absorption capacity," Zhao Xing thought. "Now, in addition to my main True Spirit, I also have ninety-six split True Spirits that need to evolve simultaneously." If there were a mirror, one would see that while Zhao Xing's True Spirit spark appeared as a single mass, it was actually ninety-six split souls and his main soul, forcibly kneaded together by the laws of the God Realm of White Bones. The splitting effect of the Primordial Straw Man Technique remained unchanged even within the God Realm, making Zhao Xing admire its creator.

"Moreover, in the God Realm of White Bones, there's no need to undergo tribulations; True Spirits can transform simply by acquiring soul crystals. This place is truly an excellent cultivation ground for Primordial Techniques!" Zhao Xing even regretted not splitting his soul more in the first place. With Wei Tianchen and Venerable Zhujian present, he wouldn't lack soul crystals before reaching the Demigod realm.

After consuming five sets of Tier 4 evolutionary soul crystals, Zhao Xing achieved a five-fold amplification for his Four-Calamity True Spirit. Since his True Spirit spark needed to be perfected before it could consume the next tier of soul crystals, Zhao Xing had to stop absorbing for now.

"I wonder if Wei Tianchen and Zhujian have taken down Bonefell City yet. These aren't enough to sustain me," he mused.

Bai Lan Jun, standing nearby, was utterly dumbfounded. "Senior, you consumed five sets of Tier 4 soul evolution resources, and nothing happened to you? How did you do that?!" Zhao Xing not only effortlessly devoured the soul crystals but could also digest several times the normal amount of resources. His True Spirit spark appeared incredibly condensed and internalized, like the core of a sun, whereas the other Tier 4 True Spirit sparks Bai Lan Jun had seen looked like scattered flames. The difference was stark!

"How did I do it? Naturally, I'm extraordinarily talented," Zhao Xing replied. "Little Bai, you can't learn this."

Bai Lan Jun became even more convinced that Zhao Xing was an extraordinary figure. Not only did he have subordinates stronger than even a Tier 9 True Spirit spark, but he also exuded an aura of mystery. Bai Lan Jun could see a flame mark on Zhao Xing's ribs, and a faintly unsettling power around his pelvis. Besides his Bone Force, Zhao Xing could also cultivate two other powers here: the Azure Flower and Red Lotus powers, which Bai Lan Jun couldn't comprehend at all. As a Six-Calamity True Spirit, Bai Lan Jun was considered a master, yet he couldn't fathom Zhao Xing's origins.

"Little Bai, are your senior brothers and sisters all the personnel your Divine Fire Sect sent here?" While waiting for Wei Tianchen and Zhujian, Zhao Xing chatted with Bai Lan Jun.

"No, Senior. Including me, the sect should have sent eighteen people."

"Should have?"

"Senior, I've 'died' before, and I can't even confirm how many times because my memory is forgotten," Bai Lan Jun's skull flickered. "Actually, I only remember Hu Qing and Yan Jun. The other fifteen people, they just told me they were my fellow disciples, but I don't remember them."

"However, we can still confirm our identities through our sect's secret techniques and tokens. Also, on the annual day of the lunar eclipse, we can communicate with our sect in the Yang Realm to confirm certain things."

"You can only communicate with your sect in the Yang Realm on the day of the lunar eclipse?"

"Yes," Bai Lan Jun nodded. "Because the Bone Underworld Realm was formed by that magical moon. When it's full, even a God-Venerate's methods cannot cross the yin and yang to communicate with us, let alone send items."

"Only during a lunar eclipse can a rift be opened."

"I see. How long does it last?"

"About three days."

"Are you here to establish a branch of the Divine Fire Sect?"

"Something like that. We're also responsible for investigating the secrets here and seeing if we can send things back to the Yang Realm."

"You can send things here, but you can't send them back?"

"Yes, that's how it is currently," Bai Lan Jun's voice carried a hint of vexation. "Logically, the Divine Fire Formation is omnidirectional. In other places, the Underworld and Yang Realm cannot stop us, but here, it's only one-way."

"People and artifacts from the Yang Realm can come, but items from the Bone Underworld Realm cannot be sent back to the Yang Realm."

Zhao Xing pondered thoughtfully. If 'Yuan's' world-establishing dao enlightenment was meant to create an idealized God Realm, similar to Gu Luohe's ideal 'Eternal Realm,' then it was clearly imperfect now. For instance, soul-merging rebirth caused memory loss and even forgetting secret techniques, which was clearly inferior to the common reincarnation techniques in the Profound Spirit Star Domain. The only advantage was that it preserved one's cultivation realm. An Eight-Calamity True Spirit, reborn through soul merging, wouldn't start from scratch but at least as a Three-Calamity True Spirit.

"Upon realizing the peculiarities of the Tribulation-Free Bone God Realm, the God Realm powerhouses in the Yang Realm have tried every means to send people here, hoping to gain benefits. Perhaps even using Yuan's setup to achieve dao enlightenment."

"Yuan allows external matter to enter but not to leave. Clearly, the God Realm's operation still relies on absorbing external energy, or perhaps he is also absorbing the power of other God Realm cultivators to aid his own enlightenment," Zhao Xing speculated. The continuous influx of resources, manpower, and even divine artifacts from other God Realms—wasn't Yuan essentially siphoning their lifeblood? Of course, Yuan also left a temptation: in the Tribulation-Free Bone God Realm, one could grow stronger without enduring tribulations, and even achieve godhood!

"Getting entangled in a place like this, it's really not easy to get out," Zhao Xing thought. He genuinely didn't want the old fellow Wei Tianchen to die now; relying solely on Zhujian might not be enough to protect himself. Although the old imperial physician was an enemy, he possessed many methods and could even rival a newly ascended Freedom God. His survival would, after all, be somewhat beneficial to Zhao Xing.

"Whoosh~"

"Who's there?!"

"Ah, it's... it's a King!"

Yan Jun and Hu Qing stared in horror at the golden skeleton that suddenly appeared inside the cave. Under the terrifying pressure, their jaws trembled uncontrollably, making clattering sounds.

Venerable ZhujianProfession: Martial Artist (Sword Sect)Realm: Twelve-Calamity True SpiritBone Body: Sun-Radiant Golden Body (0/10000)Bone Force: Tier 10 (424/1000)Martial Arts: Three Thousand Sword Realms, Mind Sword Art, Great Thousand Sword Array, Great Thousand Sword Array (Artifact), Bright Moon Sword Body—

At this moment, Venerable Zhujian had undergone a significant transformation; his bone body had advanced from Silver Moon Golden Body to Sun-Radiant Golden Body. His Bone Force had reached Tier 10, and most of his sword arts were now unsealed.

"It seems they successfully killed Zhuo Ying and absorbed his bone body power," Zhao Xing thought to himself. However, since Zhuo Ying was only Tier 10, Zhujian's Golden Body remained Sun-Radiant tier, not a special type of bone body. According to Bai Lan Jun's description, bone body ranks were Stellar, Silver Moon, and Sun-Radiant, corresponding to Tiers 1 through 9. Beyond Tier 9, there were extremely powerful special types, but they were rarely seen, which is why even Demigods only possessed Sun-Radiant tier Golden Bodies or Dao Bones. Nevertheless, Zhujian could now exert most of his original strength.

"What are they muttering about?" Venerable Zhujian couldn't understand Hu Qing and Yan Jun at all, finding the two incomplete skeletons somewhat noisy.

"They are Little Bai's fellow disciples," Zhao Xing transmitted. "There was a battle outside the cave just now." Zhujian nodded, not paying much attention to these two minor characters.

"Bonefell City has been taken by us. Zhuo Ying is dead. Wei Tianchen is in the city; I've come to pick you up."

Zhao Xing patted away non-existent dust from his body, then waved his hand to reassemble Bai Lan Jun's skeleton, which had been disassembled by Zhujian earlier. "Little Bai, let's go. My two subordinates have already secured Bonefell City for me." Bai Lan Jun's eyes gleamed with admiration for Zhao Xing, falling prostrate in reverence. How long had it been? The mighty Bonefell City was already occupied by Zhao Xing's subordinates. Yes, the powerful enemies his senior brother and sister encountered outside must have been the disturbance caused by the battle of Kings.

"Senior, can we bring my senior brother and sister? They can help..." Bai Lan Jun pointed to the two trembling in the corner.

"No problem," Zhao Xing agreed. He felt Bai Lan Jun could be useful, as his ability to set up teleportation arrays made him a rare talent in the God Realm of White Bones.

Venerable Zhujian, holding the gourd given by Wei Tianchen, unsealed the Azure Water Golden God Realm. Then, he led them flying out of the cave.

Bonefell City's walls were primarily constructed from eight giant beast leg bones, with other massive bone structures used as support. The overall design had a distinctly underworld aesthetic. Most residential buildings and structures were made of bone material; some were simply hollowed-out bones used as dwellings. The City Lord's Manor was, quite literally, a massive skull, with two fangs and bone horns soaring skyward, making it unique in the city center.

"These bone structures are incredibly hard, but they lack spiritual essence, making them unable to be infused with Bone Force. They're extremely heavy and difficult to cut, suitable for buildings but not for weapons."

"Wei Tianchen and I didn't expend much effort to eliminate Zhuo Ying, the former City Lord. However, when we tried to govern the populace, the language barrier caused a lot of chaos."

"This place used to be quite prosperous, with a sizable population." Venerable Zhujian looked at the broken bone fragments below and the green wildfires burning everywhere, sighing with emotion. A language barrier was truly deadly, especially in the God Realm of White Bones, where only two types of true word edicts were common, and they were difficult for non-scholars to learn quickly. It was easy to conquer an empire, but difficult to rule it.

Zhujian and Wei Tianchen had reached a consensus: they would rely on Bonefell City to collect enough advancement resources. "Now, only you can step forward to govern this city," Venerable Zhujian said. "I came to pick you up immediately after changing my bone body." Zhao Xing almost burst out laughing. Zhujian and Wei Tianchen truly suffered from a lack of knowledge.

"No problem, I'll take care of these matters." Zhao Xing instructed Bai Lan Jun, Hu Qing, and Yan Jun to use Dragon Tongue spiritual energy to broadcast messages in all directions, calling out to those who intended to evacuate Bonefell City to escape the turmoil.

"Roar!"

Bai Lan Jun's message was simple, roughly conveying: "Folks, don't leave! The wise and mighty Senior Zhao is not a bad person. Bonefell City will be just as it was before, and even better!"

Zhao Xing almost couldn't maintain his composure: "Little Bai, is that how you pacify people?"

Bai Lan Jun replied, "Senior, you might not know this, but Bonefell City is prone to frequent wars. Lord Zhuo Ying would harvest a wave of True Spirit sparks every few years, sending them back to the Soul Well."

"Due to the True Spirit's characteristic of forgetting, the people here are relatively... relatively..."

"Mentally challenged?" Zhao Xing supplied.

"Yes, that's exactly it. They don't understand anything too complex."

"Alright." Zhao Xing looked around and found that it was indeed true. Some bone beings stood blankly in the street, not even attempting to dodge when things fell. They clearly looked like they had just emerged from soul merging, their minds still somewhat muddled. Yuan's God Realm seemed imperfectly constructed in terms of the reincarnation system. Zhao Xing watched as a Tier 3 pink skeleton, having just climbed out of the Soul Well, was burned to death by bone-poison wildfires generated by the aftermath of a battle, only to return to the Soul Well. Her original bone body was pulverized, leaving behind some crystalline matter, while the rest integrated into the ground. Another white skeleton then crawled out from within the soul merging, though this time it was a One-Calamity realm being, and it was unclear if it was the same one.

"Reincarnating repeatedly from the Soul Well, after a few more times, they probably won't even know who they are anymore."

"At that point, these bone beings, even if they came from outside, will become 'natives' of the God Realm, living new lives here, forming new memories, and creating new individuals," Zhao Xing pondered. Perhaps this was what Yuan truly desired? The Soul Well came with a 'forgetfulness soup' function. Yuan wasn't trying to make people immortal but rather to achieve true life reincarnation.

"Zhao Xing, come here for a moment." Just then, Wei Tianchen's voice came from inside the City Lord's Manor. Bai Lan Jun, meanwhile, took his senior brother and sister to maintain order as instructed by Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing flew into the interior of the giant skull. Zhao Xing and the others now cultivated in the typical body type of the Xuanhuang Realm; even a taller humanoid skeleton was only about ten meters high. The City Lord's Manor, a giant beast skull, was over eight thousand meters tall. Much of its bone material had been hollowed out, excavated into numerous rooms, and even built upon. Wei Tianchen stood on a platform in the central area.

"Physician Wei, what are your plans next?"

Wei Tianchen had also changed his bone body, transforming into a Tier 10 Sun-Radiant Dao Bone, though his was entirely purple. He was currently holding a large, grayish-white spotted bone, seemingly examining it.

"Take a look at this bone first," Wei Tianchen said, tossing over a bone approximately five meters long and half a meter wide. Only then did Zhao Xing clearly see that it wasn't spots but rather etched patterns and runes.

"This was found beneath Zhuo Ying's Bone King Throne. I don't know what it records; can you decipher it?"

Zhao Xing examined it, finding it to be a rather abstract form of runes he had never seen before and couldn't understand. "I don't know, I can't understand it."

"However, I can ask Bai Lan Jun to see if he can make sense of it."

"Then I'll leave it to you," Wei Tianchen said. "It was found among Zhuo Ying's treasured possessions, so it should be valuable."

After a pause, Wei Tianchen threw over a bone ring. "Inside are resources sufficient to cultivate up to an Eight-Calamity True Spirit. Since you cultivated the Primordial Clone, each set of advancement materials in here has ninety-seven portions."

"Your strength is too weak; you can't resist Fan Qianrou's restrictions. Even if you cooperate with my research, you need to be strong enough."

Zhao Xing understood that Wei Tianchen planned to fatten him up before "slaughtering" him, but these resources were exactly what he wanted. "Alright, I will cultivate diligently."

Time flowed by, and in a blink, it was the 375th year of Yuan's reign. Zhao Xing and his companions had been in the Xuanhuang Realm for thirty-three years.

Twenty years ago, Bonefell City's population had recovered to pre-war levels, and even far exceeded them. This wasn't primarily due to Zhao Xing's governance; rather, it was because Wei Tianchen and Venerable Zhujian began to aggressively expand into the surrounding areas after occupying Zhuo Ying City. They continuously expanded, plundering neighboring territories, mainly for soul-merging resources.

These were thirty-three years of continuous warfare, with the two repeatedly challenging the Kings of surrounding territories and bringing the resources back to Zhuo Ying City. The Bonefell Territory had expanded its domain fivefold. They had killed over thirty-four bone kings; almost every year, a bone king fell to their lethal hands.

In thirty-three years, Venerable Zhujian advanced from a Twelve-Calamity True Spirit to a Thirteen-Calamity True Spirit. Wei Tianchen, however, showed no signs of a breakthrough; Fourteen-Calamity Bone Kings were simply too rare. They could only slowly accumulate resources by collecting Bone Spirit Stones and True Spirit sparks generated from soul-merged bone beings through taxation and then refining them.

Zhao Xing's thirty-three years were entirely dedicated to cultivation. Wei Tianchen and Venerable Zhujian didn't care about low-tier resources; for them, the sparks and Bone Spirit Stones produced by non-King bone beings were of little use, which all benefited Zhao Xing. Even with Zhao Xing's soul splitting, requiring ninety-seven times the resources at each stage, the two demigods' campaigns were more than enough to sustain him.

"Whoosh~~"

Azure Lotus spiritual energy emerged from Zhao Xing, then slowly intensified, transforming into the more dazzling Red Lotus spiritual energy. Following that, it faded, becoming the ethereal Azure Sea spiritual energy. Finally, a fourth type of spiritual energy radiance emerged from within his bone marrow. Zhao Xing's bone body was coated in a layer of black light, dazzling and captivating.

Azure Flower spiritual energy: 4124/10000Red Lotus spiritual energy: 3101/10000Azure Sea spiritual energy: 2042/10000Profound Soul spiritual energy: 1141/10000

"The fourth type of spiritual energy, Profound Soul spiritual energy, enhances True Spirit power.""Azure Flower spiritual energy is all-encompassing, highly adaptable, and usable in special environments.""Red Lotus spiritual energy contains a strong destructive Dao.""Azure Sea spiritual energy enhances mind and will spells."

When Zhao Xing finished, no longer circulating spiritual energy, his bone body displayed the dark gold of a Tier 8 Sun-Radiant Dao Bone. His thirty-three years of cultivation yielded more than just the breakthrough in the Heart Sealing Technique. His True Spirit had ascended to an Eight-Calamity True Spirit, and his bone body was now a Tier 8 Sun-Radiant Dao Bone.

"An Eight-Calamity True Spirit, only one step away from being a Demigod."

"Thanks to the passive soul splitting of the Primordial Straw Man Technique, my True Spirit is ninety-seven times more powerful than a normal Eight-Calamity True Spirit." Zhao Xing couldn't help but marvel at his own fortune. Apart from the ordeal of stripping flesh, spiritual energy, and Extreme Land cultivation methods upon entering the God Realm, he hadn't encountered a single True Spirit tribulation afterward, yet he had already become an Eight-Calamity Emperor. The Heavenly Mother's Essence he obtained in the Baihan Realm hadn't even been needed.

"If the forces of the Profound Spirit Star Domain knew about Yuan's Tribulation-Free Bone God Realm, they would probably swarm into the Xuanhuang Realm like mad."

"Achieving the Eight-Calamity Emperor level in just thirty-three years... could this place truly allow one to become a Freedom God?"

"What exactly is the treasure I'm summoning?" Zhao Xing looked in a certain direction. After thirty-three years of cultivation and becoming stronger, he felt that the object he was summoning was getting closer, and the sensation was becoming clearer. However, he still didn't know what it was, whether it was a person or an object.

"Thump, thump, thump~" Just then, footsteps sounded from outside the door, and a fire-red skeletal giant, eight to nine meters tall, approached.

"Senior, your subordinates have sent back another batch of spoils from the front."

The fire-red skeletal giant was, of course, Bai Lan Jun, who had now advanced one tier to a Seven-Calamity True Spirit with a Tier 7 bone body. Bai Lan Jun's bone body displayed a fiery red color primarily due to the secret technique he cultivated. In the God Realm of White Bones, there were many cultivation methods based on Bone Force. For instance, the grayish bone left by Zhuo Ying had been deciphered by Zhao Xing. It was an incomplete secret technique primarily using Bone Force, named the Soul Spark Tempering God Method.

Bone body transformation wasn't solely achieved through consuming and absorbing resources; that was merely a rapid method. The Soul Spark Tempering God Method, however, used the True Spirit spark to temper the bone body, allowing it to transform beyond Tier 10, potentially even into a Divine Bone! In other words, it was a method for a Freedom God to achieve godhood. However, Zhuo Ying had only obtained a fragmented mid-section of the technique, and it was unclear where it began.

"Zhujian is very interested in this method. He's been killing other soul spark beings, trying to complete this technique, but he hasn't found anything in thirty-three years," Zhao Xing thought. "I wonder if there's anything in this batch of spoils."

Zhao Xing took the bone ring from Little Bai and began inventorying the spoils. He glanced over them and saw a pile of purple bones with many patterns and runes. Seeing these, Zhao Xing remembered a former acquaintance, the Purple Bone Heavenly Venerate. "Purple Bone was also a bone being. He was originally from the White Bone Divine Sect in the Xuanhuang Sect Realm. Could his existence have a connection to Yuan?" However, Purple Bone had died in the collapse of the Yuanhai Ancient Kingdom, so there was no way to verify.

"Hm?" Just then, an item caught Zhao Xing's attention.

"Swoosh~" A purple hand bone appeared before Zhao Xing's eyes.

"This finger bone... it feels a bit strange." Zhao Xing looked at the purple finger bone, feeling a faint sense of familiarity. The purple finger bone didn't emit any Bone Force aura; it looked very ordinary, as if it had merely been painted.

"No, I'm not examining it correctly." A thought flashed through Zhao Xing's mind, and he cast his Qi Sight technique.

"Whoosh~" A brilliant ray of destiny aura erupted.

"A Destiny Bone? This is a special bone body type!" Zhao Xing finally understood where the familiar feeling came from. He had spent so many years in the Great Zhou, with destiny being infused into his body, even enhancing his cultivation and lifespan during his weaker periods through destiny. He could be said to be very knowledgeable about the destiny system.

"I didn't expect such a thing to exist in the God Realm of White Bones." Zhao Xing thought for a moment, then snapped off his own index finger bone and installed the purple finger bone in its place.

"Hmm?" A faint, vibrant purple aura spread, and Zhao Xing immediately felt a difference. He immediately opened his panel to check. In his panel, Zhao Xing's destiny rank, which was originally Derived Sixteen, had reached Tier 21 after installing this purple finger bone. This Tier 16 was based on a two-tier bonus from the Five Emperor Coins and a one-tier bonus from the Destiny Golden Elixir given by Ji Che.

"It actually added five tiers?!" Zhao Xing was somewhat shocked. "And this is just a finger bone. If it were a complete bone body, how high would the bonus be? Could this be the bone of a Destiny God?"

Destiny Tier 20 was a very special threshold. Essentially, Emperor-level cultivators from super-factions could reach Derived 20 with various treasures. However, advancing one more tier beyond that was extremely difficult. To naturally possess high-level destiny without relying on external boosts, one typically had to switch to cultivating the Dao of Destiny, triggering a Destiny Tribulation during their True Spirit tribulations to advance. Among the people Zhao Xing had seen, generally only those named characters in the lore inherently possessed destiny above Tier 20. For example, Zuo Qiyu, who cultivated the Primordial Straw Man Technique, or Emperor Hongshan, who opened the Haitong Ancient Path and the Annihilating Star Ancient Path. Those with over Tier 30 destiny were "Children of the Version," like Gu Luohe or Bowi. As for the data of God Realm cultivators like Great Emperors, he couldn't see it; it seemed that only Destiny Gods had destiny data, while other Gods did not. Derived 49? That was merely a legendary speculation; no one had ever truly witnessed it.

Now, a single finger bone provided a five-tier boost, making it hard for Zhao Xing not to suspect that it was a finger bone of a Destiny God. "Wei Tianchen mentioned three ways to achieve godhood. Since the end of the Five Emperor Era, the Destiny Godhood method has vanished. Could it exist in the Xuanhuang Realm? The Xuanhuang Realm has always had a divine dynasty destiny cultivation system. Is there some connection between the two?"

Numerous thoughts flashed through Zhao Xing's mind. He immediately grabbed Bai Lan Jun and asked, "Where did Zhujian fight to? Where were these spoils obtained from?"

Bai Lan Jun touched his skull as if thinking: "Venerable Zhujian is attacking Anshan City. These spoils should have been obtained from there."

"However, there are also spoils sent by Lord Wei here, so it's unclear whether they were obtained from Anshan City or from Lord Wei's exploration of the 'Nine Yin River'."

Zhao Xing immediately stood up: "I need to go out for a trip. Little Bai, go prepare the fire pit."

"Yes, Senior," Bai Lan Jun immediately retreated.

Zhao Xing pulled out another bone body from his bone ring.

"Split!"

His True Spirit spark instantly divided into two, half separating from his main body and entering the other Tier 8 Sun-Radiant Dao Bone. This wasn't the Primordial Straw Man Technique but a type of Soul Spark Separation technique from the God Realm of White Bones. If he could find more segments of Destiny Divine Bone, the benefits would be self-evident.

On his way to the fire pit, Zhao Xing was also reviewing information on the two locations. "Anshan City is the territory of a Tier 12 Bone King. The chance of finding a Divine Bone there should be small, otherwise Venerable Zhujian wouldn't have easily defeated him."

"The Nine Yin River, on the other hand, is a forbidden area discovered by Wei Tianchen and his forces during their thirty-three years of campaigns. Bone Kings often go to the Nine Yin River to explore for treasures."

"There are frequent reports of bone beings acquiring powerful treasures in the Nine Yin River, even leaping to become Kings, but many more bone beings die there."

"Assuming there's a Divine Bone, it's more likely to appear in the Nine Yin River."