Chapter 96: The Powerful Fourth Soul Skill (Part 2)
The two Gai Yues smiled slightly: "This soul skill effect is naturally top-tier among the same level, but Xiao Ao's fourth soul ring is at the thirty-thousand-year level. It can already compare to the sixth soul ring of a top-tier Soul Emperor, or even the seventh soul ring of a weaker Soul Saint. If you think about it this way, then this soul skill isn't really that stunning for Xiao Ao."
Hearing Gai Yue's words, Dugu Yan thoughtfully nodded. Finally, she realized that Gai Yue made perfect sense. If an ordinary thousand-year fourth soul ring could possess such effects, it would absolutely be a top-tier soul skill.
But for Oscar, who had absorbed a soul ring beyond his level, this soul skill effect absolutely couldn't reach the level of making him show excitement on his face. After all, Oscar had seen great things—how could he be excited by something of this degree?
Dugu Yan turned to look at Oscar: "Xiao Ao, confess honestly?"
Oscar looked at Dugu Yan's cute expression and smiled, then said: "Teacher's description of the soul skill effect is completely correct, but also not entirely complete."
He paused, then continued: "The reason Teacher's clone could only possess sixty percent of your main body's strength after consuming my fourth soul skill is because my soul skill also has a limitation. Besides soul masters at the same level or below my level, for every additional soul ring a soul master has compared to me, the clone's strength will decrease by ten percent."
"You have four more soul rings than me, so the clone's strength decreased by forty percent, leaving only sixty percent of your main body's strength."
"And if it's a soul master at the same level as me, or with fewer soul rings than me who consumes my soul skill, then their clone will inherit one hundred percent of their strength, and it will be a complete copy."
Hearing Oscar's explanation, Gai Yue instantly understood. If that was the case, then Oscar's soul skill was worthy of his cross-level absorption achievement.
When a soul master at the same level consumes his fourth soul skill, they can possess a clone that is one hundred percent replicated and mentally connected—this is completely a case of one plus one being greater than two!
Even Gai Yue himself could feel that he and his clone could simultaneously use the same skills, achieving combined attacks similar to martial soul fusion techniques. That effect would absolutely be much more powerful than one person's strength...
Thinking this way, Gai Yue became somewhat excited. If Oscar broke through to the Titled Douluo level in the future, and then he himself consumed this soul skill, wouldn't he completely achieve the feat of fighting two enemies alone?
One must know that was the Titled Douluo realm. Every level difference among Titled Douluos was like heaven and earth. And himself? Directly using his disciple's soul skill to cheat? From one person becoming two people with identical martial souls, soul skills, and even soul bones?
And when Dugu Yan heard Oscar's explanation, she also instantly understood the terrifying aspect of this soul skill.
Similarly, Dugu Yan was thinking—if Oscar cultivated to the Titled Douluo level and had both her and her grandfather Dugu Bo consume this fourth soul skill, not to mention herself, wouldn't her grandfather Dugu Bo become two people?
And Oscar himself had the same idea. After all, one Dugu Bo was enough to change the outcome of a battle. What about two Dugu Bos? Wouldn't the entire battlefield have no intact space left? All covered in Dugu Bo's deadly poison?
After learning the complete effects of Oscar's soul skill, Gai Yue couldn't calm down for a long time. Oscar then calmly added: "Teacher, actually this soul skill isn't as powerful as you think, because it has another limitation—it can only be consumed once per day. Consuming it a second time will only have the effect of restoring soul power."
Hearing this, Gai Yue rolled his eyes at Oscar: "And you call this a limitation? Have you ever seen a soul master fighting every single day?"
He paused, then sighed with emotion: "In the food-type domain, you kid are simply a monster! Even more monstrous than your talent in swordsmanship!"
Oscar smiled slightly: "After all, this is my major. It's only natural for my soul skills to be a bit more powerful."
As Oscar spoke, he then looked at Gai Yue and Dugu Yan with a calm expression: "Teacher, Sister, what if I told you my fourth soul skill's effects don't stop here? What would you think?"
The two people, who had originally been immersed in the power of Oscar's fourth soul skill and unable to extricate themselves, instantly jolted upon hearing these words. The two identical Gai Yues simultaneously looked at Oscar in disbelief: "What did you say? This isn't even the full effect of your fourth soul skill?"
Oscar felt a bit numb being stared at by two teachers, chuckled and replied: "Yes, this is just one of the effects of my fourth soul skill. The other effect requires a drop of Teacher's blood to demonstrate."
Hearing this, the two identical Gai Yues looked at each other. However, the clone and main body were mentally connected. Gai Yue and "Gai Yue" looking at each other was just seeing the confusion in his own eyes.
But although confused, Gai Yue still cut his finger and flicked a drop of blood toward Oscar.
Oscar raised his hand and used soul power to wrap the blood, preventing it from scattering. After obtaining Gai Yue's blood, the fourth soul ring on Oscar's body surface flickered with dark black soul power light again.
As the soul power light flickered, he chanted the soul incantation again. However, this time the incantation was slightly different from before.
"Fourth Soul Skill: Mirror Image Copy Sausage!"
As the incantation was chanted, endless soul power light wrapped around Gai Yue's drop of blood and began to swirl. Then, an ice-blue sausage emitting cold air, in the shape of a mini Frost Moon Sword, appeared in Oscar's hand.
Looking at the shape of the sausage in Oscar's hand, plus the fact that Oscar had just asked Gai Yue for a drop of blood, the two identical Gai Yues and Dugu Yan all had a general guess about the second effect of Oscar's fourth soul skill.
Then they saw Oscar directly hand this sausage to Dugu Yan, and heard Oscar say: "Sister, give it a try."
Dugu Yan blankly took the ice-blue sausage that looked like a small mini Frost Moon Sword, then ate it. When the sausage entered her mouth, she first felt bone-chilling cold, then under the effect of soul power, it directly transformed into pure soul power flowing into her body.
After feeling the changes Oscar's fourth soul skill brought her, Dugu Yan once again looked at Oscar with an incredulous expression, then looked at Gai Yue.
"Yanyan, what is the effect?" The two identical Gai Yues couldn't help asking.
Dugu Yan didn't answer. Instead, under Gai Yue's puzzled gaze, she slowly raised her right hand. In the next moment, a Frost Moon Sword identical to Gai Yue's martial soul appeared in Dugu Yan's hand.
When Gai Yue saw that Dugu Yan could actually use his martial soul, he was instantly stunned. Then he formed a guess about the other effect of Oscar's fourth soul skill.
At the same time, three soul rings—two yellow and one purple—rose from Dugu Yan's body. Then they saw the purple third soul ring on Dugu Yan's body surface flash.
As the soul skill was released, in the next moment, the Frost Moon Sword in Dugu Yan's hand danced as if performing, and endless ice sword qi instantly crisscrossed toward the two Gai Yues.
"Third Soul Skill: Frost Moon Splendor!"
"What?!" Gai Yue was instantly extremely surprised to see that Dugu Yan could even use his soul skills.
Gai Yue couldn't help thinking to himself: "The second effect of Xiao Ao's fourth soul skill directly copied the blood provider's martial soul and soul skills? What about soul bone skills? After all, the first effect of Oscar's fourth soul skill's clone copied martial soul, soul skills, and soul bone skills."
However, Gai Yue's reaction wasn't slow. Among the two identical Gai Yues, the clone instantly released his martial soul. The Frost Moon Sword in his hand released endless ice aura. The clone's figure flashed and arrived in front of Gai Yue's main body. The clone's ice sword was held horizontally in front of his chest, directly blocking Dugu Yan's attack.
Although the clone only had sixty percent of Gai Yue's strength, this was sixty percent of Gai Yue's strength at the eighty-eighth level—far from what the current forty-level Dugu Yan could match.
But this wasn't over. Although the third soul skill was blocked, Dugu Yan slowly raised her right arm. Ice-blue soul power light condensed on her right arm, and a sword-shaped ice-blue element suddenly burst forth.
"Ice Dragon Python Right Arm Soul Bone Skill: Ice Age!"
Terrifying ice suddenly burst from Dugu Yan's right arm. This was obviously not her own right arm soul bone skill, but Gai Yue's soul bone skill copied through Oscar's fourth soul skill.
Terrifying freezing power suddenly burst forth, surging toward Gai Yue's clone. The terrifying ice power directly froze the environment around Dugu Yan.
Seeing this scene, Gai Yue raised an eyebrow. He knew Oscar's fourth soul skill absolutely wasn't simple, after all, the previous sausage was like this.
But facing his own soul bone skill that Dugu Yan had copied, Clone Gai Yue just slowly raised his right arm. Similarly, ice-blue light swirled, but it wasn't an attack—it directly absorbed all of Dugu Yan's attack.
And Dugu Yan, because she had fully activated this soul bone skill copied from Gai Yue, her soul power was almost exhausted. She retracted her martial soul and stopped attacking, but the copied martial soul also didn't disappear.
Gai Yue also retracted his clone at this time, looking at Oscar with some shock: "Xiao Ao, these two effects of your fourth soul skill are similar but completely different. Doesn't this mean your fourth soul skill possesses two forms of skills?"
Speaking here, even Dugu Yan couldn't help sighing: "Xiao Ao, your soul skill can completely compare to a hundred-thousand-year soul skill, right? One soul skill with two effects—isn't this only possible with hundred-thousand-year soul rings?"
Looking at the shocked two people, Oscar's smile remained: "Actually, I'm quite surprised too, but this is the fact."
"My fourth soul skill has two effects. One is the Mirror Image Clone Sausage that Teacher used before. The second is this Mirror Image Copy Sausage."
"As you probably noticed the change in my incantation just now, my full incantation has two versions. One is 'Mirror Tiger Paint Cat Mirror Image Clone Sausage.' This effect doesn't require anyone's blood to create. The effect is that after the user consumes it, they can condense a clone without consuming soul power. If the user has the same number of soul rings as me, then the clone can possess one hundred percent of the main body's abilities—a completely identical clone in terms of martial soul, soul skills, and soul bones. If the level is above mine, for every additional soul ring, the clone's strength decreases by ten percent."
"The second effect's full incantation is 'Mirror Cat Paint Tiger Mirror Image Copy Sausage.' The effect is that it can completely copy one hundred percent of the blood provider's martial soul, soul skills, and soul bone skills. The strength displayed depends on the user's own soul power level."
"If the user's own physical quality and soul power strength are even stronger than the blood provider's, then at the same level, a soul master using my fourth soul skill can display even more powerful strength. This point completely depends on the user's own strength."
"And after using the Copy Sausage, unless soul power is exhausted, one can continuously possess the abilities of the blood-providing soul master. There is no time limit."
Hearing Oscar's such detailed explanation, both Gai Yue and Dugu Yan couldn't help but open their mouths in surprise.
One soul skill with two skill effects? And both such powerful effects? Oscar's fourth soul skill is completely comparable to a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, right? Is this the benefit brought by cross-level soul ring absorption?
And even among hundred-thousand-year soul skills, their power might not necessarily be as strong as the two effects of Oscar's fourth soul skill, right?
And Oscar's own thoughts were actually similar to Gai Yue's and Dugu Yan's. He originally only hoped to obtain the Copy Sausage ability. He didn't expect to have unexpected gains this time?
And in the original work, Oscar's own Copy Sausage could only display seventy percent of the blood provider's strength. Even with the enhancement of his head soul bone, it could only reach eighty percent!
And it seemed it could only copy the blood provider's martial soul and soul skills, not soul bone skills! And it could only be used for three minutes!!
But Oscar's current Copy Sausage could perfectly copy the blood provider's martial soul, soul skills, and soul bone skills? And could display one hundred percent strength? Most importantly, after consuming Oscar's Copy Sausage, there was no time limit—only until soul power was exhausted!
And if the user was already powerful enough, they could explode with even more powerful strength?!
Now just the effect of this Copy Sausage already far exceeded the original work's power, not to mention that Oscar's fourth soul skill actually had two different effects?
When no one's blood was used, the original Copy Sausage became the Clone Sausage. And this was clearly the skill of Oscar's head soul bone in the original work!
But what surprised Oscar was that in the original work, Oscar's sixth soul ring was only a bit over twenty thousand years and dropped a soul bone, while his fourth soul ring came from a thirty-thousand-year Mirror Image Beast, yet no soul bone dropped?
Could it be because his fourth soul skill already possessed the characteristics of the Mirror Image Beast's two most powerful skills, so no soul bone dropped?
Actually, what Oscar didn't know was that the reason he could have two skill effects in one soul skill, besides his current talent, was also because this Mirror Image Beast willingly allowed itself to be absorbed by Oscar.
Because when Oscar was about to kill this Mirror Image Beast, one sentence he said made the Mirror Image Beast lose its will to resist.
At that time, Oscar told Gai Yue that if he couldn't absorb this thirty-thousand-year soul ring, there were still two Mirror Image Beasts in the canyon. And those two Mirror Image Beasts were the wife and child of this thirty-thousand-year Mirror Image Beast.
Oscar didn't know that his unintentional sentence caused some changes in his fourth soul ring.
Of course, this was fundamentally because Oscar's current talent was powerful enough to carry the two skill effects of the Mirror Image Beast. Otherwise, even if the Mirror Image Beast actively sacrificed itself, he couldn't have such gains.
After all, although Oscar's martial soul was just a sausage, after evolving through so many soul ring absorptions, absorbing two immortal-grade medicinal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, plus the body tempering evolution in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, his Sausage Martial Soul was already vastly different from before.
If Oscar's Sausage Martial Soul was previously a top-tier food-type martial soul, then now his Sausage Martial Soul had absolutely surpassed this level. Not to mention reaching the god-level like the Six-Winged Angel, but it was definitely not far off.
Oscar himself knew this, he just didn't have an intuitive feeling about it.
Now that his fourth soul ring possessed two effects, it was enough to show that Oscar's martial soul itself had already surpassed the level of top-tier martial souls.
And Gai Yue and Dugu Yan also discovered a rather special point—that was the subtle changes in Oscar's two incantations.
The Clone Sausage's incantation was "Mirror Tiger Paint Cat." If understood literally plus by ability, it meant the user copied themselves—the tiger was the original, the cat was the copy.
The Copy Sausage was "Mirror Cat Paint Tiger"—the blood provider was the cat, and the copied ability was the tiger!
This well explained why the Copy Sausage could allow the user to display even more powerful strength than the blood provider. Of course, the premise was that your foundation must be above the blood provider's.
And the simplified versions of Oscar's fourth soul skill's two incantations were respectively Mirror Tiger Paint Cat Mirror Sausage and Mirror Cat Paint Tiger Mirror Sausage.
The Clone Sausage was "Mirror Tiger Paint Cat" and "Mirror Sausage," while the Copy Sausage was "Mirror Cat Paint Tiger" and "Mirror Sausage."
(End of Chapter)