The figures of the Sea Princess and her two daughters vanished in an instant, and the entire sea region was subsequently sealed off, with no further signs of any water flow or fluctuations. As a result, the Thunder Prison Lightning Vine right leg soul bone skill, Thunderous Hell, that Xu Zihuang had just activated seemed to have lost its medium of propagation, its power sharply reduced.
An unparalleled immense pressure followed closely from all directions. A deep blue light flickered in the parallel sea region five hundred meters away from Xu Zihuang and the others, and three figures emerged from it.
It was precisely the Sea Princess and her two daughters. At this moment, the Sea Princess's eyes had turned into a crystal-clear blue, the azure radiance even deeper than the ocean itself. Rings of blue ripples released from them dyed this entire sea region the same color, as if forming a blue crystal cube with a diameter of several kilometers.
At the same time, a terrifying spiritual pressure descended upon Xu Zihuang and the other three. Although Elder Xuan, Elder Gu, and Du Busi were Limit Douluo, they were not spiritual-attribute soul masters after all, and their spiritual power had only just entered the tangible and qualitative realm. For a moment, their spiritual seas all felt a sense of being suppressed.
Elder Xuan and the other two were powerhouses who had been renowned on the continent for many years, but they had never encountered an opponent whose spiritual power was strong enough to suppress them like this. And this Sea Princess was clearly such an existence, her spiritual power was so immense that it probably was not much inferior to that of the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord.
Xu Zihuang's gaze sharpened, and his deep purple eyes instantly transformed into a brilliant golden color.
On top of the original six red hundred-thousand-year soul rings of the Purple Radiance Thunder Prison Dragon, six more red rings and one golden ring appeared around him, making seven in total.
Seeing that golden soul ring that seemed to possess endless majesty, the ice-cold face of the Sea Princess could not help but reveal a thick expression of astonishment and shock.
As a super ferocious beast with a cultivation of six hundred thousand years, her perception could not possibly be wrong. The bright golden soul ring that had just risen around Xu Zihuang was definitely a million-year soul ring.
She could never have imagined that this human soul master before her would possess a million-year soul ring at just the seventieth rank. This could no longer be described with the four words "extraordinary talent." One must know that even the current Sea God had only obtained a million-year soul ring by chance when completing the last soul ring for his second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, by slaying the nearly million-year cultivation Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
The Sea Princess now understood why this human soul master had been chosen by the Sea God as his successor. Even from the standpoint of soul beasts, she had to admit that Xu Zihuang possessed astonishing natural talent granted by heaven.
However, what shocked the Sea Princess the most was that Xu Zihuang's spiritual power realm had actually also reached the peak of the tangible and qualitative stage, clashing head-on with her spiritual pressure without falling behind in the slightest.
Back when Xu Zihuang had dared to confront the two Limit Douluo, Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, a large part of his confidence had come from his spiritual power at the peak of the tangible and qualitative realm. Although using the golden-rank original martial soul second awakening had only forcibly elevated his spiritual power to the demi-god level, there were still differences even within the demi-god level of spiritual power.
The demi-god-level spiritual power achieved by using the golden-rank original martial soul second awakening on the foundation of peak tangible and qualitative spiritual power was definitely different from that achieved by forcibly reaching demi-god level from the initial entry into the tangible and qualitative realm.
It was also because the god-level realm was rather special that Xu Zihuang's use of the golden-rank original martial soul second awakening could not directly and forcibly cross an entire boundary in spiritual power.
And the reason his spiritual power realm had been able to break through again in such a short time was that he had absorbed the dragon soul energy of several spiritual-attribute giant dragons within the Dragon Valley.
Elder Xuan and the other two, whose spiritual seas had suddenly felt the pressure ease, sensed the terrifying spiritual pressure emanating from Xu Zihuang and were immediately startled in their hearts.
So Yu Tianhuang's spiritual power realm had already reached such a level long ago. No wonder he was so confident in wanting to hunt the six-hundred-thousand-year cultivation Sea Princess as his eighth soul ring.
Spiritual power at the peak of the tangible and qualitative realm could at least guarantee that he would be able to suppress the Sea Princess's soul resentment during the process of absorbing the soul ring. Apart from this most troublesome part, the energy impact caused to the soul master by a spiritual-attribute soul beast soul ring was relatively not that overbearing.
This had been the case back when Xu Zihuang absorbed that pure spiritual-type hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant. Once the soul resentment was suppressed, the subsequent process of absorbing the soul ring would be almost smooth sailing.
"Elder Xuan, I think there is no longer any need for negotiation now, right?" Xu Zihuang asked with a profound gaze as he lowered the Thunder God Spear he had been holding high, turning to Elder Xuan beside him.
Du Busi and Elder Gu, who had earlier been suppressed back to their original forms by the mermaid clan's martial soul combination technique, exchanged a glance, then simultaneously shifted their gazes to Elder Xuan.
"Prepare to take action," Elder Xuan said with a complicated expression as he sighed, the look in his eyes gradually becoming resolute. He could naturally sense the dense killing intent the Sea Princess had shown toward them. Moreover, the Sea Princess had been resolute from beginning to end and unwilling to become Yu Tianhuang's soul spirit. And the Sea Princess's soul ring was extremely important to Yu Tianhuang. If he could absorb the Sea Princess's soul ring and soul bone, Yu Tianhuang's strength would undoubtedly soar once again; this was something that could be foreseen.
But in the end, it all came down to differing standpoints. Human soul masters hunted soul beasts, and soul beasts preyed on humans as food; this opposition had been passed down since ancient times.
However, what truly made Elder Xuan resolve himself was another matter. A year ago, when Yu Tianhuang had returned to the Sea God Pavilion of Shrek Academy, he and Elder Mu had discovered that Yu Tianhuang had received the Sea God's favor.
He subconsciously took Yu Tianhuang's desire to hunt the Sea Princess as his eighth soul ring to be guided by the Sea God. The Sea Princess must have done something like the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King back then, harming other sea soul beasts in the ocean, something intolerable to the Sea God.
Killing the Sea Princess itself might very well be a trial.
In this brief moment, Xu Zihuang had already completed his counter-suppression of the Sea Princess's spiritual power. Strange dark red ripples spread out, and the sea region previously controlled by the Sea Princess's innate ability instantly condensed into dark red crystal.
All the sea soul beasts the Sea Princess had summoned had their forms frozen solid within this dark red crystal.
"Stop!" The Sea Princess's expression changed drastically, and even Li Ya and Li Jing beside her were greatly alarmed. As fellow top races in the ocean, how could they possibly not understand this overbearing innate soul skill of the Evil Demonic Orca clan?
The reason the Evil Demonic Orca clan had always been able to suppress the Demonic Soul Great White Shark clan was precisely because of this innate soul skill capable of solidifying everything. Once the seawater was solidified, sea soul beasts that lost their support would see their own strength rapidly decline, and the vast majority would find it difficult to even display half of their peak-period power.
Xu Zihuang's Mirror of Destruction was practically an unsolvable existence for ordinary sea soul beasts. Unless they were from particularly powerful races, such as the Deep Sea Demonic Whale clan, could they contend against it.
The Sea Princess and her two daughters seemed to already be able to envision the scene of countless sea soul beasts from the extreme northern ice sea perishing here.
In her urgency, the Sea Princess could only fully mobilize her own spiritual power to protect these subjects of hers.
Extinguish!
Mirror of Destruction was ruthlessly activated. The dark red crystal shattered, and a massive cubic gap several kilometers in diameter appeared across the entire extreme northern ice sea. The gap was bottomless, with deep blue seawater walls on all four sides, as neat as if carved by blade and axe. In that instant, even the seawater seemed to stagnate.
If viewed from high altitude, one would surely be deeply shocked by the scene before them. The vast and boundless extreme northern ice sea was as if a portion of the sea region had been erased from existence.
At the center of this cubic gap, Xu Zihuang and the other three stood in confrontation with the Sea Princess and her two daughters.
With the Sea Princess's full assistance, the countless sea clans imprisoned by the Mirror of Destruction had ultimately suffered no casualties. Of course, this was also because Xu Zihuang had never intended to exterminate those sea soul beasts in the first place; his goal had merely been to make the Sea Princess and her two daughters lose the support of the seawater.
"Xuan Zi, Old Bone Dragon, there's no need to talk about any righteousness with soul beasts, right?" Du Busi laughed heartily.
"To be safe, let's attack together. I don't think you want to see Yu Tianhuang's soul ring and soul bone slip away for nothing, do you?"
Du Busi took the lead, striding toward the Sea Princess and her two daughters. Elder Xuan and Elder Gu also knew full well that the opportunity created by Yu Tianhuang was once in a thousand years, and they surrounded the Sea Princess from three sides.
However, as they moved, Elder Xuan was not idle. He snorted in annoyance.
"Isn't your Body Sect always like this? You speak as if you, old poison, have ever talked about righteousness."
"Enough, Xuan Zi, old poison freak. Don't argue at a time like this," Elder Gu helplessly mediated.
"First seal off the sea region so she can't rely on it."
The Sea Princess's expression was extremely gloomy, with cold light surging in her eyes. She promptly used her previous method once more, transferring her two daughters to the water walls on either side of the cubic gap.
Du Busi, Elder Xuan, and Elder Gu forcefully compelled the Sea Princess to rise toward the high sky!
Moments later, only deep blue, dark green, earthy yellow, and pitch-black colored lights continuously flickered in the high sky.
And the massive cubic gap in the extreme northern ice sea also began to close.
"Rumble—"
Seawater poured down from all four sides, producing thunderous roars. The terrifying booms echoed continuously through the sea, and the sea region within a radius of dozens of kilometers boiled from the inside out. Various floating ice and icebergs on the surface shattered into pieces, triggering a chain reaction with the boiling sea region that spread far and wide.
Waves surged, and water ripples churned. This earth-shaking momentum was like the descent of heavenly might.
Li Jing and Li Ya, worried about their mother's safety, swam upward from the still-unclosed water walls on both sides to meet. Although their massive fish tails only swayed gently in the seawater, their speed was astonishingly fast.
The mermaid clan not only possessed innate talents in the spiritual attribute but was also the fastest-swimming race in the ocean.
Below, the seawater churned and took a long time to calm. Li Ya and Li Jing had already flown out of the seawater.
"Mother!" They gazed at the high sky and anxiously called out once with voices infused with their own spiritual power. Their fish tails rested upon the waves, and in the blink of an eye, they climbed to over a thousand meters high.
With their hundred-thousand-year level cultivation, they naturally were not incapable of flight. But they could not leave the seawater; only by carrying their bodies this way on seawater could they exert their full strength.
This was, after all, the vast ocean. As Li Ya and Li Jing trod the waves upward, the dense water vapor from the entire sea continuously surged into the air, making it viscous.
They were not trying to intervene in the battle between Limit Douluo, but hoped to allow their mother to rely on seawater and borrow the power of the ocean. That way, even if she could not win, she would still have room to retreat.
But these two mermaid princesses had overlooked the existence of Xu Zihuang.
With a flash of purple-gold lightning, Xu Zihuang, holding the Thunder God Spear, blocked the path in front of Li Ya and Li Jing.
"Human, why have you come to our homeland? Mother has led the sea clans of our extreme northern ice sea and has never invaded your human territory. Why do you want to destroy the peace of our pure land?" Li Ya raised her head and gazed at Xu Zihuang, mist filling her beautiful eyes, looking pitiful and arousing tenderness. This first contact with humans had made her feel the greed and malice humans held toward their soul beasts, completely overturning her past perceptions and making her seem to mature instantly.
"Why must Mother become your human soul ring?!"
Xu Zihuang gazed calmly at Li Ya, her lost and despairing expression reminding him of his former self. During those three years of imprisonment, he had spent every moment in despair and hatred, from the initial fierce resistance to later numbness.
He too, had once felt indignant and unfair. Why had such things happened to their family?
But in the end, he had thoroughly recognized reality.
"There is no why. All of this is because of your weakness." Xu Zihuang let out a light laugh as if mocking himself.
"No matter how high-sounding your reasons are, no matter how just your persistence is, as long as you are weak, you can achieve nothing. Weakness is the original sin."
"Li Ya, stop wasting words with these despicable humans. Kill him, then go support Mother!" Li Jing urgently shouted with an anxious expression, raising her hands upward.
Countless streams of seawater transformed into water arrows, shooting straight toward Xu Zihuang in the high sky.
Xu Zihuang expressionlessly waved the Thunder God Spear in his hand, golden light shining in his eyes as he casually neutralized those dense high-pressure water arrows capable of piercing refined iron.
Hearing her sister's reminder, Li Ya calmed her own emotions. She knew that the urgent task now was to get their mother out of danger.
She closed her eyes, crossed her hands, and pressed them against her chest. A pleasant singing voice began to sound from her mouth. With her body as the center, rings of blue light halos spread outward, drifting imperceptibly toward Xu Zihuang's direction.
Mermaid's Song. A mixed soul skill of sound wave and spiritual attributes, similar to the fourth soul skill Siren's Howl of Vina's brain martial soul, but Li Ya's Mermaid's Song was a pure control-type soul skill.
Xu Zihuang did not seal his hearing, because this soul skill carried spiritual-attribute effects—simply sealing hearing would have no effect at all.
Li Ya was worthy of being a mermaid princess who had inherited the mermaid clan's royal golden bloodline. The Mermaid's Song she displayed even made Xu Zihuang feel a slight dizziness and oscillation, but that was all.
A pleasant whale chant sounded quietly, instantly covering Li Ya's singing voice, and all negative effects were dispelled along with it.
Ever since his first soul ring had been upgraded to the hundred-thousand-year level, the effect of Xu Zihuang's first soul skill, White Whale's Chant, immunity to all negative effects, had truly lived up to its name. Now, no control effects from any spiritual-attribute soul skills could affect him.
That is to say, even if the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord faced him now, its spiritual-attribute control-type soul skills would be ineffective against him.
Compared to Li Ya, Li Jing's abilities on the spiritual level were much weaker; she was more proficient in water-attribute and ice-attribute capabilities. Countless ice spears condensed under her control. Seeing Xu Zihuang easily neutralize her younger sister's spiritual-attribute soul skill control effects, she felt increasingly astonished and doubtful.
But before she could attack Xu Zihuang, he once again waved the Thunder God Spear in his hand. A low thunderous rumble followed closely, and streaks of black-purple lightning as thick as water barrels descended from the sky without warning.
Thunder Prison Lightning Vine right leg soul bone skill, Forest of Lightning.
Every bolt of lightning in the Forest of Lightning possessed power sufficient to easily slay ten-thousand-year cultivation demonic whale-type soul beasts. Li Ya and Li Jing themselves were not skilled in defense, so the two mermaid princesses had no choice but to dodge in panic.
The ineffectiveness of spiritual-attribute abilities against Xu Zihuang had already doomed them to an outcome of being suppressed in all directions. The scales of victory had already tilted. And Xu Zihuang had not struck any killing blows against Li Ya and Li Jing either.
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