Under the suppression of Xu Zihuang's Forest of Thunder soul skill, the thousand-meter-tall waves raised by Li Ya and Li Jing came to an abrupt halt and began falling back toward the sea surface. Streaks of black-purple lightning filled this stretch of sea.
Among the sea soul beasts that had been rescued by the Sea Princess, those dozens of demonic whale-type soul beasts with ten-thousand-year or higher cultivation were the first to recover due to their powerful bodies and racial advantages. Yet they did not dare surface at all, nor even approach the surface, for fear of being struck by the black-purple thunderbolts.
Looking down from high altitude, one could only see patches of enormous shadows moving deep beneath the sea. These were precisely the demonic whale-type soul beasts that had been rendered powerless before Xu Zihuang's attack.
The other sea soul beast races fared even worse. Even the demonic whale-type soul beasts with their exceptionally strong physiques did not dare approach the range of the Forest of Thunder; once trapped inside, their only fate would be death.
Xu Zihuang had almost single-handedly suppressed all the sea soul beasts of the entire Extreme Northern Ice Sea.
Li Ya and Li Jing, realizing that spirit-attribute soul skills were ineffective against Xu Zihuang, immediately changed their approach. They led over a hundred merfolk swimming rapidly across the seabed, spreading out to faintly form a deep-blue rune. They themselves acted as the eyes of this strange rune, their soul power and spiritual power fluctuations resonating with one another.
Immediately afterward, a massive water column erupted from the ice sea, soaring into the sky like an enormous waterspout that pierced heaven and earth, shooting straight into the clouds.
Xu Zihuang raised his head and gazed toward the battlefield even higher in the sky, instantly detecting Li Ya and Li Jing's intention.
His figure flashed once more, positioning himself directly in front of the water column. Xu Zihuang raised his right hand, and a profound, mysterious black light sphere took shape in his palm. This light sphere was not pure black; it also incorporated gradual shades of blue, purple, and cyan. In an instant, it expanded to over a hundred meters in diameter.
Dark Demon Evil Lightning!
This was the true form of Dark Demon Evil Lightning. Compared to the method of compressing it to the extreme to form primordial matter before releasing the restraint, the normal-state Dark Demon Evil Lightning was somewhat weaker in power, but it had the advantage of being easier to control. Moreover, when it exploded, it delivered a large-area multi-attribute mixed attack.
The Dark Demon Evil Lightning rolled toward the water column.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom—"
Thunder roared as the Dark Demon Evil Lightning erupted with terrifying might. The violent impact force generated by the mixed energies of wind, lightning, evil, destruction, darkness, and space directly shattered the water column raised by the two mermaid princesses and their clansmen, turning it into countless water droplets that fell toward the sea surface.
Bathed within it, Xu Zihuang coldly withdrew his Thunder God Spear. The only soul rings left around him were the seven golden soul rings of the Golden Pupil.
The sixth soul ring, a blood-red hundred-thousand-year soul ring, suddenly flashed. A layer of brilliant golden light membrane enveloped several dozen kilometers of sea, even covering the area where Elder Xuan, Elder Gu, Du Busi, and the Sea Princess were battling.
Spirit Force Field! Xu Zihuang's largest-range spirit control-type soul skill. If he wished, he could even affect an area of over a hundred kilometers. However, only by limiting the range to its current scale would the control effect suffer no attenuation.
All kinds of negative effects from spirit control-type soul skills appeared on the sea soul beasts below the sea. Even the Sea Princess, thousands of meters up in the air, was affected to a certain degree.
Li Ya and Li Jing still unwillingly tried to stir up waves to aid their mother, but they could never break through Xu Zihuang's defensive line.
While suppressing the sea soul beasts below, Xu Zihuang calmly turned his attention to the battle in the high sky.
The pitch-black Bone Dragon King, the imposing Taotie Divine Ox, and the dark-green giant flickered with light and shadow in the air. The three elders, Xuan, Gu, and Du had unleashed their martial soul true bodies. Working together, they had already forced the Sea Princess into continuous retreat.
In the martial soul true body state, all attributes of a soul master received amplification, including spiritual power.
Although the Sea Princess's spiritual power realm was stronger than that of the three elders, it was unrealistic for her to heavily wound three Limit Douluo whose spiritual power was also at the tangible and qualitative realm. Moreover, she had lost the support of seawater.
A thread of bright red blood overflowed from the corner of the Sea Princess's mouth. Her aura weakened, and her eyes were filled with desolation. Facing the joint assault of three Limit Douluo, she had already suffered severe injuries.
"Despicable humans, even if I die, I will never let you have your way!"
Watching the attacks coming one after another from the three elders, the Sea Princess's eyes instantly turned golden. Her enormous fish tail swayed, and a golden light silhouette slowly appeared behind her, her own appearance.
The light silhouette raised its hands upward, and a blue hexagonal crystal appeared, floating in midair.
The energy attacks released by the three elders through their comprehension of their own martial soul essences instantly disintegrated beneath this crystal.
Ocean Heart. A powerful ability that only golden-bloodline inheritors of the mermaid royal clan could control, a legendary super soul skill. It had two functions: first, immunity! It granted immunity to all energy attacks once. Second, amplification, it fed back the energy contained in the immunized attack into the Ocean Heart user, causing their power to surge dramatically and combine with their own strength for the next attack.
The Sea Princess held the Ocean Heart and directly immunized the three elders' attacks. Her body completely transformed into brilliant gold. Her terrifying spiritual aura surged violently, stirring the sea thousands of meters below into towering waves.
Then she raised the Ocean Heart high. A blue light pillar burst forth from it, shooting straight toward the three elders. This light pillar contained all kinds of energies, water elemental energy, ice elemental energy, as well as Elder Xuan's earth elemental energy and Elder Gu's darkness-attribute elemental energy, among others, finally fused with the Sea Princess's terrifying spiritual power.
This strike was named the Curse of the Ocean Heart.
The moment this blue light appeared, the entire sky above the Extreme Northern Ice Sea darkened. Countless bolts of lightning flashed in the air, creating a feeling as if the heavens were collapsing and the earth was splitting apart.
The Sea Princess's full-power, desperate killing strike at this moment had already far surpassed the level of Limit Douluo attacks.
"Despicable humans, I will make you bury yourselves forever in this Extreme Northern Ice Sea!" The Sea Princess shouted fiercely. The brilliant golden light on her body grew even more dazzling, and her entire aura surged once again.
To trap the three elders into directly receiving this Curse of the Ocean Heart, she did not hesitate to burn the golden bloodline within her body. Her spiritual power realm actually showed signs of breaking through the peak shackles of the tangible and qualitative realm.
The expressions of Elder Xuan, Elder Gu, and Du Busi changed slightly. Under the Sea Princess's near-mad spiritual pressure, they felt as if even the origins of their martial souls were being suppressed. However, no excessive panic appeared in their eyes.
Especially Du Busi, who even gave the Sea Princess a mocking smile.
Just as the blue light pillar was about to envelop the three elders, a brilliant golden pupil silhouette quietly emerged, guiding it into the void.
Xu Zihuang stood proudly in the high sky, gazing at the Sea Princess, whose expression was one of shock.
Without prior preparation, the innate ability "Void" of Xu Zihuang's Golden Pupil martial soul true body was practically unsolvable. Who could have thought that such a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering attack could be so easily neutralized by him in this manner?
What followed was the counterattack belonging to the three elders.
Elder Gu stood atop the thousand-meter Bone Dragon King, his gaze slightly focused. With a thought, a dark prison that seemed capable of imprisoning heaven and earth manifested from the void, locking down the Sea Princess's figure.
Elder Xuan circled his hands. Behind him, the Taotie Divine Ox let out a heaven-shaking roar. In his hands appeared a condensed, thick earthy-yellow light sphere.
This light sphere looked extremely mystical. Its interior seemed solid, yet floating above it were segmented patches, each emitting strange radiance.
Under Elder Xuan's control, this yellow light sphere rose upward and transformed into a thick, imposing earthy-yellow continent that descended from the sky to suppress everything below.
"Hmm?" Seeing this scene, Du Busi's movements slowed by half a beat, his face showing surprise.
"Xuanzi, you're simulating a continent? You've actually reached this step?"
At the Limit Douluo realm, ordinary soul skills basically had no effect in battle. More was required in terms of comprehending the true essence of one's own martial soul and communicating with the power of heaven and earth.
The dark prison released by Elder Gu was of this kind, possessing a darkness imprisonment effect. However, compared to Elder Xuan directly simulating a continent, Elder Gu was clearly a step behind in his comprehension of his own martial soul.
Elder Xuan's face showed no excessive pride. The reason he could reach this step was entirely due to that Earth Dragon Golden Melon. That Earth Dragon Golden Melon had a lifespan of ninety thousand years and perfectly matched the attributes of his Taotie Divine Ox martial soul. Its medicinal effect was even better than Elder Gu's Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and Du Busi's Strange Velvet Heaven-Piercing Chrysanthemum.
The Sea Princess's face instantly turned deathly pale. She had just gone all out in a desperate strike; after erupting, she had entered a period of weakness. Under the dual suppression of Elder Gu and Elder Xuan, her consciousness was on the verge of collapse. There was no longer any need for Du Busi to act.
Xu Zihuang acted decisively. His figure flashed and arrived in front of the Sea Princess. With indifferent eyes, he thrust his right hand through her chest.
Purple-gold lightning condensed into a blade—Lightning Blade!
Seeing this scene, Elder Xuan could not help but open his mouth, but in the end said nothing. At this point, anything he said would be meaningless.
As her pupils began to lose focus, the Sea Princess stared fixedly at Xu Zihuang. Coincidentally, the space between Xu Zihuang's brows flashed, revealing a golden trident-shaped rune.
A trace of despair and self-mockery surfaced deep in her eyes, and her consciousness froze there.
Elder Xuan raised his right hand, and the previously simulated continent became Xu Zihuang's landing point. The Sea Princess's body turned into specks of blue-gold light and disappeared. In the place where she had been, there now appeared a blood-red soul ring imprinted with six golden patterns, along with a crystal-clear blue-gold heart. This blue-gold heart seemed to be beating, with hazy blue-gold light continuously flickering across its surface.
Xu Zihuang's pupils contracted. Elder Xuan, Elder Gu, and Du Busi, who had arrived behind him, also frowned upon seeing this blue-gold heart.
"A heart? Does this count as a soul bone?" Elder Xuan asked in surprise. Even with Shrek Academy's ten-thousand-year foundation, there were no records of this type of soul bone.
Elder Gu said hesitantly, "Judging from the rich soul power fluctuations it contains, this should count as an external soul bone, right?"
Du Busi first gave Xu Zihuang a look of uncertainty, then said gravely, "This is indeed an external soul bone. One of our sect's ancestors once obtained something similar. That ancestor's martial soul was the heart, and he successfully completed a golden-level martial soul second awakening. Although I don't know the specific abilities of this blue-gold heart, absorbing it would at least temper the body thoroughly from the inside out."
"Perhaps this time you can use it to cultivate your body secret art to perfection."
As he spoke, Du Busi glanced sideways at Xu Zihuang.
"However, judging from the soul power fluctuations contained in this blue-gold heart, you won't be able to complete its absorption in a short time. So you should absorb the soul ring first."
Elder Xuan and Elder Gu's gazes also fell on Xu Zihuang. Elder Gu asked seriously, "Tianhuang, are you confident?"
Xu Zihuang nodded solemnly.
Elder Xuan then added, "Very well, we won't say anything more. Tianhuang, adjust your condition first, then absorb the soul ring."
Xu Zihuang did not hesitate. He sat cross-legged on the continent simulated by Elder Xuan. After about a quarter of an hour, he had adjusted his condition to its peak and used his soul power to summon the Sea Princess's soul ring.
The blood-red light, so dense it was nearly solid, poured into his body from all directions as if finding an outlet. The blue-gold heart also seemed to be stirred, adhering to his left chest before turning into streams of blue-gold airflow and light that circulated throughout his body.
Despite enduring such a fierce energy impact, Xu Zihuang's aura remained steady throughout. Whether in terms of spiritual power realm or physical strength, he was only stronger than a Limit Douluo. The only thing he lacked was soul power cultivation.
"This kid is really a freak."
Even with Du Busi's temperament, he could not help but exclaim in admiration. To simultaneously absorb the soul ring and soul bone of a six-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast and still do it so effortlessly, on the entire continent, this was probably the only case.
Elder Xuan and Elder Gu also relaxed, smiling with anticipation in their eyes as they imagined the scene after Yu Tianhuang finished absorbing the Sea Princess's soul ring and soul bone.
Du Busi seemed to think of something. He grinned, turned, and flew toward the sea below.
"Since we're already here, the sect master can't leave empty-handed."
The other two ten-thousand-year merfolk would make perfect soul rings for his god-granddaughter.
Weina's martial soul was the top-tier spirit-attribute body martial soul, the brain, and she had completed a silver-level body martial soul second awakening. She was also a twin martial soul. With the Body Sect's secret arts, at level seventy she was fully capable of absorbing ten-thousand-year soul rings.
A family should be neat and complete.
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