Chapter 9: Family Affection, the Vague and Ethereal Luck? The Power to Control All Elements!
Hu Bai cursed himself internally. If he counted his age from his previous life, he was already a grown man, yet he was crying. It was truly too sentimental.
But his tears wouldn't stop, precisely because he had those memories, he understood even more clearly what an external Spirit Bone meant to a Spirit Master!
Hu Le Yao gently brushed away Hu Bai's tears with her right index finger, her expression growing even softer: "Silly child, you're my son. Alright, this Spirit Bone, if it stays with you, might evolve into a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone in the future.
As for me, I'm already a Spirit Saint, and I already have my most important seventh spirit ring. This Spirit Bone, if it stays with me, most likely won't reach a hundred thousand years.
Although external Spirit Bones are very, very rare, Bai'er, you are the Luck Child of our Family. Look, because of you, your father and I were saved two years ago, and your father even obtained his first Spirit Bone in his life.
And this time, we not only encountered the top-tier plant-type Spirit Beast, Thunderclap Hell Vine, due to the weather, but also unexpectedly obtained an external Spirit Bone.
One coincidence is a coincidence, but consecutive coincidences, are they still coincidences? Perhaps, in the unseen, this is the good fortune you bring us. If you truly feel indebted to me, how about this... when you obtain another Spirit Bone suitable for me in the future, you can give it to me, how about that?"
In fact, the three things Hu Le Yao mentioned were originally intended to comfort her son. After all, something like Luck was too distant for them, and there was no corresponding record in their Family's ancient texts.
It only recorded that when a Spirit returned to its ancestral form, it would possess extremely powerful abilities, but what specific abilities, that remained a mystery.
And now it seems, the abilities the Nine-tailed Sky Fox brought to Hu Bai are natural element affinity (confirmed), Charm aura (confirmed), and wisdom (speculated).
However, Hu Le Yao's words made Hu Bai slightly stunned. He thought of something: the Nine-tailed Sky Fox, in some myths, was originally considered a type of Auspicious Beast!
As an Auspicious Beast, it would naturally receive the favor of Luck!
In the Douluo I timeline, there was no clear Luck Child. Qian Renxue's Innate level twenty was because she was already chosen as the Angel God's successor, so she had a God-bestowed ten-level spirit power. Strictly speaking, she wasn't a Luck Child.
As for Tang San, his Soul was suspected to have been brought from another World by the Asura God. At most, he was a pseudo-Luck Child, after all, he had Tang Sect Hidden Weapons and Cultivation Techniques on him.
As for himself, there was no character named Hu Bai in the original work. He was not like Tang San, who was a Possession, but truly reincarnated into this World.
But he and Tang San both possessed memories from their previous lives. Calculating this, he believed he couldn't reach the level of a Luck Child.
If he hadn't appeared, perhaps the Luck Child of this generation should be Bibi Dong?
Although some of her past actions were indeed criticized, in terms of talent and growth, she was definitely a child of destiny!
But now Hu Bai no longer thought so. These successive coincidences could no longer be described as mere coincidences. Was his Luck too good?
Were Spirit Bones really that easy to drop?
Moreover, whatever he lacked, it appeared!
However, something like Luck was too vague and ethereal. He couldn't be sure now whether this was an ability brought by his Spirit in the unseen.
All he could do now was to be down-to-earth and make his Family live better. In his previous life, he was originally a commoner and had received national relief, so he had a very good impression of commoner organizations like Spirit Hall.
Compared to the Two Great Empires, Spirit Hall at least genuinely provided commoner Spirit Masters with transparent competition opportunities and also distributed Spirit Master subsidies.
Although about seventy percent of these Spirit Master subsidies came from the Two Great Empires, if there hadn't been Spirit Hall's 'negotiation' in between, would the Empires have paid?
Certainly not!
"Tsk tsk tsk, I never thought I'd live to see my son cry. It's truly a rare sight, hehe. This trip to the Star Dou Great Forest wasn't in vain!"
Xie Tian saw Hu Bai's emotions gradually stabilize, so he started joking, unable to resist teasing his son a few times. This was truly very novel.
Hu Bai directly ignored his scoundrel father's words, took the vertical pupil external Spirit Bone from Hu Le Yao's hand, took a step forward, and spread his arms, wanting to embrace Hu Le Yao.
But unfortunately, his body was too small. In Xie Tian's eyes, it was like a spoiled child throwing himself into his mother's arms.
Hu Bai mumbled: "Mom, don't worry, if I get the chance in the future, I will definitely find a suitable Spirit Bone for you, I swear!"
"Good, good, my son is the best."
"Alright, quickly absorb this Spirit Bone. With your Cultivation, it will probably take several days. After this external Spirit Bone is absorbed, your spirit power will probably directly Breakthrough to level twenty. We need to think carefully about what attribute Spirit Beast would be suitable for your second spirit ring."
Hu Le Yao gently stroked Hu Bai's snow-white long hair.
She truly loved her son's appearance. Hu Bai, after his Spirit possessed him, would become even more charming and fairer due to his Spirit, and a pair of fluffy fox ears would grow on his head, making him look like an unblemished Nine-tailed Fox Immortal.
Hu Bai was not a sentimental person; it was just that he was truly experiencing the warmth of Family for the first time.
Although his Family had lived very warmly before, it was without involving interests, but now with blatant interests before them, Hu Le Yao, as a mother, could give them up without hesitation, which deeply touched Hu Bai's body and Soul.
He was also serious; if his Spirit could truly bring the force of Luck, then please let both his parents become Titled Douluo with full Spirit Bones!
This was his most sincere wish.
Titled Douluo was easy to say; he knew the location of the Immortal Herb, and later he would see if he could ask Yue Guan, who was quite familiar with him, to make a trip to Sunset Forest.
With their talent, after consuming the Immortal Herb, as long as they didn't die prematurely, they would casually become Titled Douluo, but wanting full Spirit Bones truly required Luck!
In this life, he had parents to protect, an older brother and a younger sister to protect; although this younger sister had some problems in the original work, the problems were not big, and there was still a long time ahead, so he needed to quickly correct her!
Subsequently, under the protection of the two, Hu Bai began to absorb this external Spirit Bone.
The conditions for absorbing an external Spirit Bone were not as strict as those for a spirit ring; a low-Cultivation Spirit Master wanting to absorb a Spirit Bone of a higher age only needed to spend a bit more time.
Gradually, a day passed, and in Hu Bai's mental space, the vertical pupil Spirit Bone was slowly fusing with him.
At this moment, Hu Bai could feel the unwilling resentment from the Three-Eyed Magic Fox within this Spirit Bone, but a Spirit Bone was, after all, different from a spirit ring; resentment was just resentment, and this extremely tiny trace of resentment posed no threat to him at all.
But!
In the mental space, the Nine-tailed Sky Fox appeared behind Hu Bai's transparent mental body, and a suppressive force from its Bloodline directly transformed into a large hand, grasping this resentment.
Absolute suppression!
As a Divine Beast, how could the Nine-tailed Sky Fox allow the resentment of a low-Bloodline Three-Eyed Magic Fox to attach to this Spirit Bone? It immediately opened its mouth wide and inhaled this trace of resentment!
Refined in an instant!
Another two days passed, and the resentment in the Spirit Bone completely dissipated, a vertical pupil appearing in the center of Hu Bai's forehead.
However, perhaps because the Three-Eyed Magic Fox's resentment in the Spirit Bone was completely devoured, the originally blood-red vertical pupil turned white, like that of the Nine-tailed Sky Fox, matching Hu Bai himself even better!
As expected, Hu Bai's own spirit power also directly rushed to level twenty!
In just half a month, who would believe such a Cultivation speed if he told them?
Even Bibi Dong in her youth would probably say she felt ashamed.
Now, the couple no longer worried about being punished by the Supreme Pontiff for returning late; with such talent and strength, what was there to punish?
"Son, what abilities has this Spirit Bone brought you? Is it mental impact? Or an illusion-type Spirit Ability?" Xie Tian asked impatiently.
Hu Bai felt it for a moment and revealed a joyful expression: "Neither. After absorbing this Spirit Bone, my basic mental force has increased a lot. The Spirit Ability it currently grants me is an amplification-type Spirit Ability: for a certain period, all attributes are increased by fifty percent, and mental force is additionally increased by two hundred percent.
Furthermore, if I encounter a mental attack, it will automatically manifest and provide me with a layer of mental protection. The stronger my mental force, the stronger this protection will be."
Don't think this automatic protection function is useless; even Hu Le Yao, a Spirit Saint, would be severely injured if she suffered a Spirit Saint-level mental attack without any defense.
Of course, if she was prepared, it would be nothing.
Xie Tian and Hu Le Yao were utterly stunned by the skill granted by this Spirit Bone: a fifty percent increase in all attributes, an additional two hundred percent increase in mental force, and automatic protection—holy cow!
This Spirit Bone skill was too excellent; could this be the reason for the rarity of external Spirit Bones?
To be honest, this was also their first time witnessing an external Spirit Bone. Bibi Dong had a wing external Spirit Bone that not only increased speed but also amplified all attributes, but the couple didn't know that.
And the Two-thousand-year Eight Spider Lances that Tang San obtained in the original work also brought him a fifty percent increase in all attributes, while Hu Bai's external Spirit Bone was Ten-thousand-year, naturally a bit stronger!
Therefore, Hu Bai's current mood was imaginable.
"Bai'er, without using your Domain, try element control now and see if your control over other elements, besides lightning, has strengthened?" Hu Le Yao said.
Hu Bai nodded. After his Spirit possessed him, with the enhancement of the external Spirit Bone, many glittering elemental lights appeared around him. They gathered much faster and were brighter than when he first awakened his Spirit!
Moreover, Hu Bai was pleasantly surprised to find that normally, besides lightning, his best control should have been over fire elements, but now he discovered that his control over wood elements was almost on par with fire elements!
And his control over dark elements also showed significant improvement!
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