The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 88 A Deadly Arrow

Feeling the overwhelming aura of soul power, Xia Liang couldn't help but swallow hard. Fortunately, the necromancy attribute of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul was stronger than that of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King, so he wasn't suppressed in terms of aura.

However, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King, with its ten thousand years of cultivation, possesses the potential to become a ferocious beast. Could he, on his own, successfully hunt down such a top-tier plant soul beast?

After a soul beast breaks through ten thousand years of cultivation, it will usually learn a new soul skill. For example, the ten-thousand-year-old human-faced demon spider has learned a desperate skill such as Spider God Possession.

While deep in thought, Xia Liang suddenly noticed that the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King did not feel joy for its successful advancement. Instead, it stood still, resting with its blood-red eyes closed.

Is this a new ability gained from advancing to a higher level?

After consuming the milk drink that shielded him from detection by his aura and mental energy, and the Spirit Hundredfold Mushroom, Xia Liang placed his palms together, and three palm-sized spirit rings, one yellow and one purple, fused together between his palms.

He wanted to take advantage of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King's moment of enlightenment to unleash a full-force arrow with his Ossified Susanoo in its strongest form.

If he could kill the Red-Eyed Treant King with a single arrow to the head, he would have a place for his fourth spirit ring.

If you cannot harm the Red-Eyed Treant King, then retreat immediately.

Driven by the talent of Fusion Ring.

The eight-meter-tall ossified Susanoo's half-skull form has undergone a new change.

The ossified Susanoo's entire left arm was covered with black, bony scales, and the purple Susanoo bow on its wrist appeared even larger under the cover of these bony scales.

Ossified Susanoo's entire right arm swelled to twice its size, and bony armor grew from his right shoulder. He gained even greater power from the Netherworld Bear.

On the chest of Ossified Susanoo, a carapace of an iron-backed scorpion materializes, making it even more defensive.

Finally, a pair of horns grew from the skull of the ossified Susanoo.

All these changes occurred in the very next second after the Fusion Ring talent was activated.

When Xia Liang channeled the energy he gained from the Fusion Ring into his own body, the strongest and most stable ossified Susanoo half-skull form completely enveloped him.

This is the Bone-Transformed Susanoo in its Fusion state. Before its soul power is completely depleted, it can maintain combat time for at least ten minutes.

If soul power is consumed at the same time, it can only be maintained for a maximum of three minutes.

Compared to the Bone-Transformed Susanoo previously shown to Yu Tianheng, the Bone-Transformed Susanoo in the Fusion Ring state will receive an additional 30% boost to all attributes, in addition to the original three Soul Skills' stacked amplification.

As the number of Soul Rings increases, the percentage increase in all attributes will also increase.

The Fusion Ring state can activate the characteristics of the soul beast corresponding to each soul ring, thus forming the bone-transformed Susanoo in this beast-armored form.

In short, the Bone-Transformed Susanoo in its Fusion state can use the exact same abilities as Xia Liang, including the ranged attack effect of the Bone Dragon's external left palm bone and the Bone Dragon's thrust.

With the ability to shield one's aura and mental energy detection, and being 300 meters away, Xia Liang didn't need to worry about the Bone-Transformed Susanoo being discovered. Using his X-ray vision to break through the obstacles such as trees and boulders in front of him, he controlled the Bone-Transformed Susanoo's left arm to slowly rise.

The massive Susanoo bow, armed with bony scales, aimed ahead. The ossified Susanoo's right hand made a drawing motion, and a black arrow, formed from soul power, spatial attributes, and fire energy, appeared illusory on the bowstring.

This arrow must be a killing arrow.

Therefore, Xia Liang used two-thirds of his soul power to condense arrows, and reserved the remaining one-third of his soul power for spatial jumps in order to avoid unexpected dangers in time.

Three hundred meters away in the dark stone forest, the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King remained standing motionless, as if it had entered hibernation, completely unaware of the presence of danger.

At the same time, an arrow burning with black flames had already been formed on the Susanoo Bow, and Xia Liang's X-ray vision locked onto the Red-Eyed Treant King's eye.

With a thought, Susanoo's right hand, which was holding the Bone-Transformed Bow, suddenly loosened its grip.

In a flash of black light, the arrow burning with black flames disappeared into space, ignoring all obstacles in its path, and shot straight towards the Red-Eyed Treant King's brow.

This arrow must be a sure-kill arrow; even if it cannot kill, it must severely damage the soul and greatly reduce the opponent's strength.

Therefore, this arrow must be enhanced by the effect of attacking souls in the Undead Domain.

The Undead Domain currently only covers a radius of fifty meters. To attack the soul of the Red-Eyed Treant King, one must get within fifty meters of it.

The moment the bone-transformed Susanoo fired the black arrow, Xia Liang had already made his decision: since he had already made his move, he might as well take a gamble. He absolutely could not let this red-eyed tree demon king escape, otherwise finding another ten-thousand-year-old soul beast like it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

In order to cover the Red-Eyed Treant King with the Undead Domain, he immediately activated the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone skill, which combined flight and spatial jump, and appeared twenty meters away from the Red-Eyed Treant King even faster than the arrow he had shot.

Suddenly enveloped by the domain of the undead, the Red-Eyed Treant King finally sensed the danger, and its blood-red and eerie eyes snapped open.

Just then, an arrow that had traveled through the air pierced through the red-eyed tree spirit's body and exploded upon hitting the ground.

Boom boom boom boom boom.

The compressed and condensed soul power and fire energy exploded in an instant, forming a black sphere of light covering an area of ​​twenty meters in radius.

The red-eyed treant was first shot through the body without any warning, and then affected by the fire energy wave generated by the arrow explosion. These damages, amplified by the effects of the Undead Domain, directly attacked the soul.

Even though Xia Liang himself only has level 40 soul power, it can be enhanced and amplified by three soul skills, and with the fusion state of the bone-transformed Susanoo, all attributes are increased by 30%.

These conditions combined are enough to kill a Soul Emperor.

It is entirely possible to severely damage the soul of a top-tier ten-thousand-year-old soul beast that is completely unprepared.

And that was indeed the case. When the arrow pierced through the Red-Eyed Dryad King's body, struck the ground, and exploded into a giant black sphere of light, the Red-Eyed Dryad King's soul endured unimaginable destruction within the massive black sphere of light.

The stone forest, covering an area of ​​twenty meters in radius, was almost entirely engulfed by raging black flames, turning into a sea of ​​fire.

Xia Liang instantly teleported thirty meters away. His bone-transformed Susanoo withstood the energy impact of the exploding arrow, but after a series of coordinated attacks, his soul power was less than one-tenth of its full strength. It was no longer possible for him to use the Bone Dragon Dagger to complete a long-distance spatial teleportation to escape.

However, it seems there's no need to evacuate anymore.

The Red-Eyed Treant King was caught completely off guard and struck by a deadly arrow. Even if it survived, its soul would be severely damaged.

If the opponent's soul is severely damaged, in close combat, the Bone-Transformed Susanoo in its Fusion state can definitely beat the opponent to death.

With the activation of the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone skill, and the recovery process of the soul skill "Wildfire Cannot Burn Out, Spring Breeze Blows Back to Life," Xia Liang's depleted stamina quickly returned to full strength, and the bone parts of Ossification Susanoo that had been damaged by the impact were also repairing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Unfortunately, Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone, like Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia, cannot recover its soul power; otherwise, this would truly be a divine skill.

The black sphere of light that enveloped an area of ​​twenty meters gradually dissipated.

Xia Liang could no longer hear the screams of the Red-Eyed Tree Demon King. When the black sea of ​​fire that had burned the surrounding objects died down, a corpse lay quietly on the ground.

One more chapter to be posted tonight. I'm currently writing. I owe two chapters from before; I'll make up for them once I have a backlog.

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