The Glory of the Sun and Moon in the Peerless Tang Sect

The sound of raindrops falling on Poseidon Lake was crisp and melodious, and the air was filled with a damp and cold atmosphere, but Ning Tian, ​​leaning against Xu Zihuang, felt warm.

The journey of a little over two quarters of an hour seemed exceptionally short under these circumstances.

In front of the girls' dormitory building of the Martial Soul Department, Ning Tian wrapped her arms around Xu Zihuang's waist and back, their bodies pressed tightly together, while Xu Zihuang, who was holding an oil-paper umbrella, gently stroked Ning Tian's soft hair with her other hand.

"Go back and rest first."

"Mm." Ning Tian looked up and met Xu Zihuang's gaze gently for a moment before walking into the dormitory building not far away. Before going upstairs, he didn't forget to glance back at Xu Zihuang a few times.

She was always so understanding and would never delay Yu Tianhuang's cultivation time because of her own selfish desires. In most cases, she was very rational.

Moreover, she was well aware that she needed to put in more effort in her cultivation to keep up with Yu Tianhuang's pace.

Xu Zihuang watched Ning Tian's figure disappear from his sight.

In such rainy weather, few students would wander outside.

Alone, he carried an oil-paper umbrella to the edge of the Sea God Lake. With a light touch of his toes, he leaped into the air. Thin, dark red crystals condensed beneath his feet, and using this as leverage, he gracefully stepped into the void above the Sea God Lake.

In the misty rain, the ripples on the vast Lake Neptune, caused by the falling raindrops, became even more intense, but his heart remained largely undisturbed.

From the very beginning, he was prepared to sacrifice many things. As a normal person, he could have emotions, but he would always maintain a balance and would never let them affect his grand ambition of revenge and unifying the continent.

Just like over the past year and a half, his relationship with Ning Tian had been gradually warming up, but he had never felt any resistance to it. If it could bring him enough benefits, he wouldn't hesitate to offer his body for it.

As my thoughts raced, Poseidon Island in the center of Poseidon Lake came into view.

He shifted his body and landed steadily in front of the Sea God Pavilion in the center of Sea God Island.

The rain intensified, and a sudden clap of thunder boomed. Irregular, bluish-purple lightning flashed high in the sky, piercing through the clouds.

Xu Zihuang, who had returned to the Sea God Pavilion, seemed to have thought of something. He put the oil-paper umbrella in his hand into his storage soul tool and used his second soul skill to condense a dark red crystal mirror, which then ascended into the sky.

He had personally tested the ability of the Thunderous Hell Vine's right leg bone to evolve through the tempering of thunder power and the nurturing of thunder-attribute soul power a long time ago.

Although he could normally use the power of this soul bone to alter the weather and summon lightning, the lightning power he drew was even stronger in such thunderstorms, resulting in a better tempering effect on the Thunderous Hell Vine.

As he ascended to a height of over a thousand meters, the Seagod Island below appeared much smaller. A strange fluctuation of soul power swept over him, and golden-purple light suddenly shone brightly on his right leg.

In an instant, a bolt of blue-purple lightning, as thick as a bucket, struck Xu Zihuang's body with pinpoint accuracy. The violent lightning raged across his skin, even causing his long black hair to fly wildly. However, this blue-purple lightning not only did not harm him, but was quickly swallowed up by the golden-purple light on his right leg, which also became brighter, crackling with lightning.

Xu Zihuang, sensing something, discovered that the right leg bone of the Thunderous Hell Vine, which had been nurtured by his ultimate lightning-attribute soul power for a year and a half and tempered by dozens of times summoning heavenly lightning power, had undergone a significant transformation under this opportunity.

This already exceptionally high-quality top-tier soul bone should now be around 70,000 years old. At this rate, it should evolve into a 100,000-year soul bone in another five to ten years. Of course, compared to hunting 100,000-year soul beasts under normal circumstances, the resulting 100,000-year soul bone will have one less skill, but that's a minor flaw that doesn't detract from its overall value.

Moreover, possessing the ultimate lightning attribute, he can use this lightning power to temper his body.

It could be said that this Thunderous Hell Vine right leg bone might not be the best soul bone, but it was certainly the most suitable soul bone for him.

The spectacular sight of lightning striking the sky above Poseidon Island lasted for several hours, finally subsiding in the latter half of the night. Afterwards, Xu Zihuang returned to the Poseidon Pavilion to begin his cultivation for the evening.

Once a Soul Master reaches a bottleneck in their Soul Power, they will not stop improving simply because they haven't acquired a Soul Ring. As long as a Soul Ring is acquired in the future, any excess Soul Power accumulated during previous cultivation will still be reflected in their overall cultivation level.

He already had a plan for the types of spirit beasts he intended to hunt for his fifth spirit ring. However, all of these spirit beasts were exceptionally powerful, top-tier spirit beasts with noble bloodlines. To successfully hunt them, he would need not only absolute strength but also a certain amount of luck. Therefore, he was not in a hurry to attach spirit rings to himself.

Better to have none than something of poor quality.

The night passed in cultivation, and when Xu Zihuang finished and opened his eyes, it was already the next morning. The rain had just stopped, and the sun was rising in the east. He subconsciously looked towards the wooden window in his room, where glistening water droplets were sliding down the tree trunks and branches outside.

"Tianhuang, come to me." Old Master Mu's gentle voice suddenly rang in his ears.

Xu Zihuang immediately got up and went to the hall on the first floor of the Sea God Pavilion, where Elder Mu used to teach him.

As usual, Old Master Mu lay on a recliner at one end of a long wooden table with a kind expression.

"Elder Mu." Xu Zihuang bowed to Elder Mu.

Old Master Mu smiled and waved his hand.

"There's a soul beast outside the Sea God Pavilion that's suitable as your fifth soul ring. I caught it on a whim these past few days. Although this soul beast's cultivation is over 50,000 years, with your physical strength and mental power, absorbing its soul ring shouldn't be a problem. Go."

Old Master Mu's words left Xu Zihuang both surprised and enlightened; no wonder he hadn't seen Old Master Mu in the lobby of the Sea God Pavilion last night. A strong sense of anticipation followed.

No one can resist the temptation of advancement, not even him.

Elder Mu's words just now were spoken casually, but a soul beast that could provoke a ninety-nine Limit Douluo to take action must be extraordinary.

"Yes, Elder Mu." Xu Zihuang replied and walked out of the Sea God Pavilion without further hesitation.

Despite being somewhat prepared, his pupils still contracted slightly when he saw the soul beast outside the Sea God Pavilion.

It was a very strange-looking soul beast, hovering in the air. It looked somewhat like a balloon, but what was hovering was not a balloon, but a huge eye. This huge eye was over two meters in diameter and was silvery-white.

Ten tentacles, each nearly ten meters long, drooped limply to the ground, their color a pure, unblemished silver-white. The tentacles shimmered with silver light, but its aura was unusually weak. Suppressed by a layer of golden light, its enormous eye, covered in silver patterns, was almost touching the ground.

"Evil Eye Tyrant?"

Indeed, what appeared before Xu Zihuang was the Evil Eye Tyrant. The Evil Eyes are a race that lives only in the Demon Forest of the Sun Moon Empire. Only those Evil Eyes with over ten thousand years of cultivation can be called Evil Eye Tyrants.

Among the Evil Eyes, the most powerful is the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler, ranked second among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts. Legend has it that this Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler's cultivation is already close to 800,000 years old, and he once challenged the Beast God Di Tian, ​​emerging unscathed.

Judging from the fact that the Evil Eye Tyrant in front of us has only one silver-white tentacle, it has only one attribute: the mental attribute.

The pure mental attribute type is the most exalted, noblest, and most powerful among the Evil Eyes. It is even very likely that it is descended from the Evil Eye Tyrant, the Evil Emperor.

"I discovered this Evil Eye Tyrant in the Demon Forest. It's an extremely rare pure mental attribute Evil Eye. Pure mental attribute Evil Eyes have several particularly powerful and suitable talent soul skills for you." Elder Mu's voice rang out again behind Xu Zihuang, confirming the identity of this pure mental attribute Evil Eye Tyrant.

"The most vulnerable spot of the Evil Eye Tyrant is its pupil."

Xu Zihuang, of course, would not doubt the truthfulness of Elder Mu's words. Dark red ripples spread out, and a strange light flashed in his eyes as he held a crystal spear in his hand.

With 50,000 years of cultivation and being a pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant, this top-tier mental-attribute soul beast was far beyond his expectations as his fifth soul ring.

Although the Evil Eye Tyrant before him had only cultivated for over 50,000 years and was still some distance from reaching the maximum age of the Soul Rings he could currently withstand, the noble bloodline of this pure spiritual-type Evil Eye was enough to make him not need to obsessively pursue the maximum age.

The Evil Eye Tyrant stared at Xu Zihuang, its enormous silver eyes filled with a human-like rage and resentment. Its pupils dilated, and concentric rings of silver light radiated outwards from its form. However, these silver light patterns were completely blocked by the protective barrier of pure light, unable to harm Xu Zihuang in the slightest.

The pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant, with its 50,000 years of cultivation, was indeed powerful, but for a Limit Douluo like Elder Mu, it was merely a matter of casually suppressing it. The golden light shield suddenly contracted, and the Evil Eye Tyrant was suppressed to the point of being unable to move. Not to mention using soul skills, it couldn't even use its own mental power.

His breathing became much weaker again.

In the next instant, its huge silver eye was pierced by the dark red crystal spear in Xu Zihuang's hand.

The Evil Eye Tyrant's true form has always been very fragile, especially after it loses its own spiritual power and various innate soul skills to protect it.

"Pfft—" The dark red crystal shattered, and silver blood gushed out from the wound. The ten tentacles with silver patterns flailing wildly, but after a moment they all stopped in mid-air and then fell limply to the ground.

Strangely, no spirit rings appeared.

"Huh? The Evil Eye Tyrant is indeed a strange soul beast." Old Mu appeared beside Xu Zihuang at some point. He raised his thin right hand, and a diamond-shaped silver crystal was drawn through the wound that pierced the Evil Eye Tyrant and fell into his hand.

The powerful soul force was contained within, and a silver halo shimmered on the crystal.

Even with Elder Mu's extensive experience, this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

The Evil Eyes are a race belonging to the Sun and Moon Continent, so Shrek Academy doesn't have much research on these creatures. In Shrek Academy's tens of thousands of years of history, students and teachers possessing spirit-attribute martial souls have been extremely rare, so naturally they wouldn't venture into the depths of the Demon Forest, a place almost as dangerous as the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, to hunt Evil Eyes.

At most, there are records of killing ordinary evil eyes, or evil eyes that have been around for a hundred or a thousand years. There are hardly any records of evil eye tyrants with cultivation levels of ten thousand years or more.

Not only Elder Mu, but Xu Zihuang was also extremely surprised. Born into the royal family of the Sun Moon Empire, he had the opportunity to come into contact with many secrets in his childhood.

While the Sun Moon Empire has numerous records of killing the Ten-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant, and there are clear accounts that a Ten-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant leaves behind a rhombus-shaped crystal core upon death, that core can only retain a portion of the Tyrant's soul energy. After the physical body perishes, a soul ring will appear.

The pure spiritual-type Evil Eye Tyrant before them, with 50,000 years of cultivation, had its soul power entirely contained within that silver rhomboid crystal core. In other words, it did not perish because of it.

From his memories of his past life, he only knew that a pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant with 100,000 years of cultivation could do this. Judging from the current situation, this is very likely a natural ability of such a pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant.

Perhaps this pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant with 50,000 years of cultivation is also a direct descendant of that Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler.

Xu Zihuang and Elder Mu were surprised for different reasons, but his reaction was quite appropriate.

"Interesting, what a powerful soul barrier." After playing with the silver rhombus-shaped crystal core in his hand for a while, Elder Mu handed it to Xu Zihuang and smiled calmly.

"Tianhuang, melt it with your ultimate lightning. Lightning can subdue not only all evil spirits in the world, but also the power of the soul."

Xu Zihuang understood and extended his right hand to take it, at which moment, dark purple lightning surged in his palm. Enveloped in this dark purple lightning, the silver crystal began to flicker violently.

A shrill scream filled with extreme resentment and malice resounded through the sky at that moment.

The jet-black spirit ring finally bloomed after the silver crystal completely melted, its darkness both oppressive and profound.

Both are ten-thousand-year soul rings, but this soul ring produced by the pure mental type Evil Eye Tyrant also has a faint silver light flickering around it, which is the fluctuation of mental power, and Xu Zihuang can clearly sense it.

Even before the fusion had begun, the immense energy contained within was enough to terrify anyone. The soul power and spiritual power that the Evil Eye Tyrant had cultivated for 50,000 years were all contained within it, making the surrounding air seem to freeze.

Such a domineering 50,000-year spirit ring is extremely difficult for many level 80 spirit masters to fuse with. The spirit power within the spirit ring's energy is secondary; the main problem is that the pure mental power gained by the Evil Eye Tyrant after 50,000 years of cultivation is something not everyone can withstand.

If it weren't for his spiritual power breaking through to the level of tangible yet intangible, Xu Zihuang wouldn't have been very confident about fusing with this spirit ring.

While Xu Zihuang was melting the silver crystal with his ultimate lightning, Elder Mu also examined the corpse of the Evil Eye Tyrant. Unfortunately, no soul bone was found.

This shows how precious the soul bone is.

The more powerful the soul beast, the greater the chance of it dropping a soul bone, but this is only based on theoretical assumptions. More often than not, it depends on luck.

However, both the old man and the young man appeared quite composed. At Mu Lao's level of cultivation and age, there was nothing left for him to worry about. His only wish now was to nurture Yu Tianhuang as quickly as possible, which was why he traveled thousands of miles to the Demon Forest within the Sun Moon Empire to find such a pure spiritual-type Evil Eye Tyrant with 50,000 years of cultivation for Yu Tianhuang.

Xu Zihuang, on the other hand, simply looked down on it. A head spirit bone is far too important for a spirit master, especially one with a mental attribute like himself. His minimum requirement for his future head spirit bone was at least 100,000 years old.

Subsequently, at Elder Mu's instruction, Xu Zihuang began to fuse his fifth soul ring.

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The 50,000-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Ring was drawn into Xu Zihuang's body and merged with him. What he felt at first was not the vast soul power contained within it, but the terrifying spiritual power and crazy will that seemed to be able to tear a person's soul apart.

These forces erupted within him in an instant. Despite his tangible yet intangible spiritual power and strong willpower, his body still trembled slightly.

If he were to fuse this spirit ring alone, he could completely use the destructive power of the Purple Thunder Prison Dragon to erase the soul power of the pure spirit-type Evil Eye Tyrant within the spirit ring. However, given Elder Mu's current situation, he simply cannot use this power and can only withstand it head-on.

Fortunately, his physical strength and mental power are now vastly different from before. Although the energy contained in the Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Ring is strong, it is still far from exceeding the limits his body can withstand. After a brief tremor, his aura returned to normal.

The jet-black soul ring power enveloped Xu Zihuang's body, with a faint silvery light emanating from it.

Having adapted to the energy surge, Xu Zihuang's subsequent fusion process was no longer in doubt. As time passed, the spirit ring of the 50,000-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant began to slowly imprint itself onto his Golden Eye Martial Soul, body, and soul.

Moreover, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, which had been sleeping in Xu Zihuang's spiritual sea, also awoke, quietly breaking the seal on its spiritual origin and most fundamental power, and further merging with Xu Zihuang's body.

A fourteen-year-old Soul King, twin martial souls, an ultimate martial soul, a spiritual power level that is tangible yet intangible, and physical attributes comparable to a soul beast—any one of these qualities, if possessed by an ordinary soul master, would instantly elevate that master to the status of a top genius.

But all of this was concentrated in Xu Zihuang alone. Coupled with his maturity far beyond his years, Tianmeng Bingcan couldn't think of anyone else in the world who had a better chance of reaching that level than Xu Zihuang.

That's why he spared no effort in integrating his own power into Xu Zihuang's body.

Time flew by. Even with Xu Zihuang's physical strength and mental power, it took him three days and three nights to fuse with the soul ring of the 50,000-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant.

Advancing from Soul Master to Soul King represents a leap in strength for any Soul Master, signifying that they can be considered a high-level Soul Master. Soul Kings are the backbone of any medium-sized or even large sect, and the vast majority of teachers in advanced Soul Master academies are only at the Soul King level.