Douluo Dalu II: The Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 177 Heavenly-Rank Soul Core? A Soul Core of Spiritual Destiny!

Before Zhu Ziyang, a diamond-shaped crystal with gold and silver stripes was spinning rapidly. The crystal contained a rich spiritual fluctuation and emitted a strange and unique energy fluctuation. This was his first soul core.

At this moment, his mind was immersed in the soul core, and everything about it was displayed before his eyes. The soul core was rhomboid in shape, completely transparent and colorless, with golden patterns on the upper half and silver patterns on the lower half. These two patterns were quite similar to Zhu Ziyang's pupils.

The Soul Core of Spirit and Destiny, the Heavenly Soul Core located in the upper dantian among Zhu Ziyang's Three Talents Soul Cores, represents one of the "divine" aspects of essence, energy, and spirit. It is a soul core formed by fusing Zhu Ziyang's spiritual power, golden destiny power, silver destiny power, and pure soul power. In a sense, it is a three-attribute soul core with spiritual, temporal, and spatial attributes.

He was very excited. After storing the spiritual core in his upper dantian, he suppressed his excitement.

At this moment, his soul power and mental power were drained by the condensation of this soul core, and a sense of emptiness lingered around him. However, he was not worried at all, because after possessing the soul core, both the recovery speed of his soul power and the recovery speed of his mental power were several times faster than before.

All of this indicates that Zhu Ziyang has reached a point where there are no more bottlenecks in his cultivation levels before becoming a Super Douluo!

Zhu Ziyang had too many insights in his heart. Soul power level, spiritual power realm, soul rings and soul skills, soul bones and soul skills, etc. He needed to recover his condition first before he could truly sort out these gains.

He opened his eyes and saw the concerned looks on Mu En and Xuan Zi's faces. He smiled and nodded in acknowledgment.

"Good child, don't speak yet, recovery is the priority!" Mu En said with a face full of relief and satisfaction, "A six-ring Soul Emperor with a Soul Core, you have already made too much history, I have no doubt about that!"

Zhu Ziyang smiled without saying a word, then took out half of the 100,000-year-old snow lotus from his Star Flame Ring. This 100,000-year-old snow lotus was perfect for his current state; its reputation as a nourishing delicacy was well-deserved. The restrictions left on the snow lotus by the Snow Emperor had long since become useless after the Ice Emperor joined the group.

Without hesitation, he swallowed the snow lotus in a few bites, closed his eyes, and began to focus all his efforts on recovery.

In about an hour and a half, Zhu Ziyang recovered to his peak condition. He stood up and felt better than ever before.

"Ziyang, congratulations!" Mu En looked at the radiant Zhu Ziyang with a smile of satisfaction on his face and said, "You've successfully condensed your first soul core, and a spiritual one at that! This means that the Three Talents Simultaneous Soul Core Technique no longer presents any obstacles or difficulties for you!"

"Hehe, this is all thanks to your help, teacher and Elder Xuan," Zhu Ziyang said with a smile.

"In the end, it was your own hard work that made you stand out!" Xuanzi sighed, his face filled with envy. He had also tried to condense three soul cores, but unfortunately, his talent was insufficient and his temperament was unstable, so he failed.

"Excellent! You really deserve credit for your hard work!" Mu En agreed wholeheartedly. "Without strong talent and unwavering determination, even the most powerful external forces wouldn't have led to such great success! Ziyang, your soul power level should be close to level 64 now!"

"Level 63, peak!" Zhu Ziyang sensed it for a moment and then replied.

"Hahaha, level 63! I'm already looking forward to good news from this Elite Tournament!" Moon said, his eyes shining. "With your current strength, unless other teams have a Soul Douluo, and not just one, I don't know how our team can lose! Ziyang, show your talent as much as possible on the field; this era ultimately belongs to you!"

"I will, teacher!" Zhu Ziyang smiled slightly.

Mu En didn't ask any further questions, but instead said to Xuan Zi, "Alright, let's get ready to go back. Xuan Zi, take the corpse of this Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon with you; it's a valuable item!"

"Hehe, Elder Mu, I would have made it even if you hadn't told me," Xuanzi chuckled. "Dragon meat! That's the most delicious meat in the world! I'll treat those little guys in the inner courtyard to a nice meal when we get back!"

Xuanzi's face shone brightly. Zhu Ziyang couldn't help but feel sorry for the Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon. It was truly tragic. It must have offended the heavens and earth to end up with such a miserable death!

On his way back to Shrek Academy, Zhu Ziyang finally had time to check his gains.

Without a doubt, the Soul Core is the biggest gain, and besides the Soul Core, there is also the improvement in mental strength.

Before condensing his soul core, Zhu Ziyang's spiritual power was at the peak of the formless and tangible realm. Now, with the combined support of the 100,000-year-old Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon head bone and his spiritual soul core, his spiritual power has reached the realm of tangible and tangible power, and it is very stable and consolidated.

Having both form and substance, this is the third level of spiritual power. Upon reaching this level, a Soul Master's spiritual power can be materialized, and at the same time, spiritual consciousness is born. At this level of spiritual power, the Soul Master's soul can temporarily exist outside the physical body.

At this moment, Zhu Ziyang's spiritual space underwent a tremendous change. The area of ​​his spiritual sea expanded several times over, and pure, transparent spiritual energy filled the entire spiritual sea. His spiritual energy became incomparably pure, returning to its original, innate, and immaculate state. In the center of the spiritual sea was a spiritual island that had also doubled in size. The island was no longer barren and desolate; instead, a palace had appeared. Inside the palace, besides the soul eggs of the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, and the soul crystal of the Silver Dragon Wolf, there was also a magnificent and imposing throne.

As for Electrolux, he was sitting leisurely on the edge of the island, conjuring a fishing rod with a wireless handle in his hand.

The sky above the spiritual space no longer bears any trace of the Soul Dome, nor the projections of ultimate light, ultimate ice, and the power of death. Only a golden and silver sun shines with a soft light, a reflection of the spiritual core within the spiritual space.

The appearance of the spiritual core caused Zhu Ziyang's spiritual power to begin to grow autonomously. Even when Zhu Ziyang was not cultivating, his spiritual power would still increase, but the speed would be very slow. Just how slow? If he wanted to grow to his current level from scratch, it would probably take three or four hundred years.

At the same time, because the golden and silver powers of destiny were integrated into the soul core, these two powers were truly under Zhu Ziyang's control. The golden power of destiny contains spatial attributes, and the silver power of destiny contains temporal attributes, which is why the spiritual soul core is said to be a three-attribute soul core. After truly mastering the two powers of destiny, the abilities they granted to Zhu Ziyang—time stillness and spatial teleportation—were also greatly enhanced.

"Teacher, you seem quite relaxed!" Zhu Ziyang said with a smile, standing next to Electrolux. Indeed, standing beside Electrolux, after his mental power reached a tangible and substantial level, Zhu Ziyang was finally able to materialize a physical body within his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Hahaha, my disciple is so promising, what harm is there in me taking it easy?" Electrox replied with a laugh. "Ziyang, without realizing it, you have grown to such a level. I have a feeling that soon a god will notice you."

"Haha, I hope so!" Zhu Ziyang said with a laugh.

After exiting the mental space, Zhu Ziyang examined the four soul skills he had obtained from the Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon.

First, there are the Soul Bone Skills. The two main Soul Skills of the Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon Bone are Illusionary Eyes and Purple Spirit Shield.

Illusory Eyes of Heaven is the strongest skill of the Illusory Purple Spirit Dragon. It shoots out a light from its eyes that looks directly into the soul of the enemy. Enemies who are looked at by it will fall into a dream. Enemies with weak spiritual power will sink into the dream until their soul withers! After this soul skill was transferred to the soul bone, when Zhu Ziyang released it, a purple crystal eye phantom was generated directly above his head. From the eye phantom, a beam of light that can make the enemy fall into a dream was released.

The Purple Spirit Shield is a soul skill derived from the physical characteristics of the Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon. The scales of the Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon possess the ability to resist mental attacks. The Purple Spirit Shield forms a shield around Zhu Ziyang, resembling the scales of the Purple Spirit Dragon, and can absorb all mental attacks.

The soul skill of the Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon's skull made up for Zhu Ziyang's weakness in mental aspect, at least making him capable of both offense and defense.

Next are the Soul Ring skills. The two Soul Skills that the Jing Shi Xiu Ming Sickle obtained from the Illusionary Purple Spirit Dragon Soul Ring are Jing Shi Mind Slash and Jing Shi Ring of Light.

The Slash of the Mind of Peace: The blade of the Scythe of Peace is imbued with the aura of ultimate light, unleashing several consecutive slashes of light. Once these slashes hit their target, they will severely damage their mind, extinguishing their fighting spirit and will to fight!

The Ring of Light of Peace: Zhu Ziyang uses the Peaceful Life-Saving Scythe to release the aura of light, which condenses into a ring. All his companions within the ring, as well as Zhu Ziyang himself, will receive a 50% increase in soul power and spiritual power.

In comparison, the soul ring skill is somewhat inferior to the soul bone skill, but Zhu Ziyang is still satisfied. After all, it is a soul ring skill of 100,000 years. How bad can it be?

They returned to Shrek Academy late at night. Zhu Ziyang went back to his room and prepared to rest.

The night was deep and dark!

(End of this chapter)