At this moment, seeing that the Blazing Fire Battle Team had finished distributing the soul bones, Bibi Dong's expression became serious as she spoke, "The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament has officially concluded. Now, the Spirit Hall has an announcement to make."
Immediately, all eyes in the venue focused on Bibi Dong.
"I believe many of you have heard of the name 'Clear Sky Douluo' Tang Hao. He is the Spirit Hall's number one wanted criminal, but few people truly know the grievances between my Spirit Hall and Tang Hao.
Fourteen years ago, Tang Hao colluded with the transformed soul beast, the Blue Silver Emperor, and deliberately assassinated the former Supreme Pontiff of the Spirit Hall.
It was precisely due to the tragic passing of the previous Supreme Pontiff that my Spirit Hall was forced to pressure the Clear Sky Clan into sealing its gates and retreating from the world.
All these years, my Spirit Hall has been unable to capture Tang Hao, yet just recently, he brazenly committed another crime—he destroyed the Heaven Dou Spirit Temple, an utterly heinous act.
Furthermore, Tang Hao's wife was a transformed soul beast, and his son, Tang San, carries at least half soul beast blood in his veins.
Tang San awakened the Blue Silver Grass martial soul instead of the Clear Sky Hammer, which is enough to prove that his inherited bloodline leans more toward soul beasts than humans.
But that is not even the most severe issue. Like father, like son—Tang San has now followed in his father's footsteps, colluding with the transformed soul beast, the Soft Bone Rabbit. If the two of them continue, what will their offspring be considered? Humans?
If we do not stop this situation from spreading, will the future of the continent's soul master world become the domain of 'beastmen'?
To prevent a repeat of the ancient era, when soul beasts ruled the continent and humans were reduced to mere blood food, facing extinction, I, the Supreme Pontiff, now call upon the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, along with their subordinate kingdoms and duchies, to post wanted notices for Tang Hao and his son in every town within their territories.
Should anyone discover the whereabouts of Tang Hao and Tang San, they must report immediately to the local Spirit Hall branch. At that time, our Spirit Hall will dispatch the Elder Hall's enforcers to capture them and bring them to Spirit City for a public and righteous trial!"
Bibi Dong's words were forceful and filled with righteous indignation.
As soon as she finished speaking, the entire Supreme Pontiff's Mountain fell silent. Representatives of various factions looked at Bibi Dong in shock.
'Goodness, Spirit Hall is actually revoking Tang San's status as a human?'
Mu Yang couldn't help but think to himself.
Tang San: From this day forth, I am no longer human!
After a brief moment of thought, Mu Yang realized that stripping Tang San of his human status was only a superficial move. On a deeper level, Spirit Hall was using this to elevate its own prestige, branding Tang Hao and his son as traitors to humanity while also driving a wedge between them and the two empires.
Would the two empires comply with this? Most likely, they would.
After all, Spirit Hall was using the righteousness of the human race as leverage, leaving the two empires with little choice but to agree.
Of course, even if they did agree, the two empires would surely put in minimal effort, merely going through the motions.
After all, if Tang Hao were truly captured, Spirit Hall would lose a formidable enemy—which would not align with the interests of the two empires.
After officially announcing the continent-wide manhunt for Tang Hao and Tang San, Bibi Dong didn't stir up any further trouble. After allowing Ning Fengzhi and Huo Lie, two prestigious guests who had traveled from afar, to say a few polite words, she declared the tournament officially over.
Though the Soul Master Tournament had concluded, its effects had not yet settled and would continue to grow.
The reason was simple—due to the consumption of Whale Glue, which granted additional limit-breaking soul rings, this year's tournament participants were significantly stronger than those of previous years. The number of competitors who had reached Rank 40 or higher was noticeably higher, and several teams had main members who had all reached the four-ring level.
Moreover, over the course of the tournament, a total of ten five-ring Soul Kings had emerged, among whom were top-tier geniuses whose true combat power far exceeded their soul power levels.
Simply put, judging by the strength of the participants in this tournament, it was evident that the soul master world was entering a 'golden era.' In the near future, many formidable experts were sure to rise.
Mu Yang, however, had no intention of paying much attention to these matters. Once the tournament ended and his team returned to their hotel, he went straight to his room.
'Sixty thousand years…'
Sitting cross-legged on his bed, Mu Yang retrieved the Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull Bone from his soul tool storage bracelet and began contemplating.
Setting aside battle armor and martial soul fusion techniques, soul techniques based on spiritual power were undoubtedly his strongest trump card in battle at present.
Refining a head soul bone would enhance his spiritual power, and the stronger his spiritual power, the more effective his spiritual techniques would become.
If he refined this sixty-thousand-year-old Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull Bone, his upper combat limit would increase significantly, and he would also gain a spiritual attack-type soul bone ability.
However, refining this head soul bone was not without its issues.
Unlike external soul bones, which could grow alongside a soul master's soul power level, a refined head soul bone's age would not increase unless a special opportunity arose.
Moreover, since it was a head soul bone—a vital area—he couldn't remove it the way Tang Hao had in the original story, by sacrificing limbs or lowering his soul power level.
After all, losing limbs might still allow one to survive, and with the regenerative effects of a healing-type soul bone ability like "Wildfire Burns Without End, Spring Winds Blow Again", they could eventually regrow.
But the head and torso were different—those were irreplaceable. If they were severed, it would be game over.
For ordinary soul masters, a sixty-thousand-year soul bone was already extremely valuable, especially a head soul bone, which was even rarer. It was an item that countless soul masters across the continent dreamed of obtaining.
However, in Mu Yang's ambitious eyes, the Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull Bone's age still seemed somewhat lacking.
Even if he didn't aim for a million-year soul bone, shouldn't he at least seek one at the hundred-thousand-year level?
After some thought, Mu Yang temporarily set aside the head soul bone and activated his innate ability—Deduction—to test out his theory.
Soul bone age is fixed?
Although soul bones appeared to be tangible, solid objects, Mu Yang understood that they were actually solidified energy forms, not literal bones dropped from soul beasts.
Since they were energy-based, was it possible to use a special secret technique to allow the six standard soul bone slots to evolve in the same way as external soul bones?
Soul bones cannot be replaced?
If soul bones were energy-based and could be refined by soul masters, was there a way to develop a special secret technique to extract refined soul bones without any risks or costs?
After a long while, as his theoretical framework started to take shape, Mu Yang nodded in satisfaction. He then chewed on a Red Jade Revival Ginseng to replenish his depleted spiritual power.
As expected, excluding the power of deities, it was theoretically possible to develop techniques to both enhance soul bone age and replace existing soul bones. However, fully deducing these techniques would require time.
Of course, since these were only preliminary deduction attempts, the progress bar had just begun moving, so Mu Yang couldn't yet calculate how long it would take to complete these techniques.
But this was already enough—since his innate ability indicated that deduction was possible, the emergence of these secret techniques was only a matter of time.
Likewise, this meant that he could now refine the Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull Bone without worries, knowing that he wouldn't have to be concerned about its age being too low and eventually becoming a burden.
Without further hesitation, Mu Yang began refining the Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull Bone.
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