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

"boom--"

The golden sword light and the black vortex collided, producing a deafening roar. The surface of the nearby Sea God Lake trembled.

Centered on the point of impact, large areas of the ground cracked and collapsed, extending nearly a hundred meters in all directions before gradually receding.

Xu Zihuang still held the longsword Shark Tooth, standing gracefully in the same spot.

But Xu Sanshi, who had thrust forward with the massive black shield, was forced back, his golden sword light seemingly embedded in the black vortex. The black vortex was filled with golden light, and it seemed that it would be completely swallowed up by the golden light in the next moment.

But at that moment, Xu Sanshi's right arm, with its bulging veins, suddenly turned into a dazzling white crystal. A layer of diamond ice crystals instantly covered his right arm, then spread throughout his body, enveloping half of his body and the black tortoise shell in front of him.

The skill of the 30,000-year-old diamond mammoth right arm bone, and the diamond ice crystal.

It not only protects the physical body but also benefits the martial soul. It's a perfect match for Xu Sanshi's Xuanming Turtle Shield martial soul. Otherwise, why would the Xuanming Sect behind Xu Sanshi have paid eight million gold soul coins and three Xuanwu Divine Pills for this?

With such a full-force attack, using all his trump cards, even a Soul Saint-level expert would not be able to break through his defenses in a short time.

But the moment the golden sword light touched the diamond ice crystal, it seemed to be destroyed from the inside, and dense patterns appeared inside the diamond ice crystal.

But Xu Sanshi ultimately blocked the golden sword light.

After retracting his martial spirit, Xu Sanshi felt a tingling numbness in his right arm and looked at Xu Zihuang as if he were a monster.

Both were Soul Kings, and their soul power cultivation was almost the same. However, he was forced to reveal all his trump cards by Yu Tianhuang's sword.

Perhaps, just as Beibei had told him, they would never be able to catch up with Yu Tianhuang in their lifetime.

Xu Zihuang, seemingly lost in thought, met Xu Sanshi's gaze and spoke instinctively.

"Senior Brother Xu, shall we try again?"

That sword strike just now gave him a mysterious and profound feeling. He guessed that it was probably what was called intent.

Ji Juechen of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy spent his entire life comprehending the sword intent within his extraterrestrial meteorite iron sword.

If Xu Zihuang wanted to, he could do the same thing, and even better than Ji Juechen.

However, this is not the path that suits him. He doesn't need to take a risky approach and specialize in this one thing. His two martial souls still have unlimited potential waiting for him to develop.

This just proves what Fan Yu said.

He simply lacked the interest, while the others lacked the talent.

Xu Sanshi grumbled and cursed in annoyance.

"Again? What a load of rubbish! I have no masochistic tendencies. If you want to spar, go find that sly bastard Beibei. He's been all lovey-dovey with Xiaoya lately, isn't he smug? Let him come here and get some torture too."

Left with no other option, Xu Zihuang had to give up.

Dejected, Xu Sanshi sat down on the smooth pebble next to Xu Zihuang and curiously examined the long sword Shark Tooth in Xu Zihuang's hand.

Although Yu Tianhuang's terrifying attack just now relied more on the soul power and spiritual power fused and compressed by the Sovereign's Battle Technique, the longsword Shark Tooth also looked quite extraordinary.

Thinking of this, he chuckled with interest.

"By the way, Tianhuang, does your Soul Guidance Department have any Soul Guidance Devices that are particularly suitable for us defensive Soul Masters? I'd like to have a few custom-made when I have some free time."

“Of course there is. Another level-six soul tool I made should be quite suitable for you, Xu Sanshi.” Xu Zihuang smiled gently and took out another soul tool that resembled an armor bracer from his collection.

The main body of this wristband is silver-white scales that resemble a small mirror, with a faint blue glow. As soon as it appeared, it adhered tightly to Xu Zihuang's left hand.

The wristband was engraved with exquisite patterns. Compared to the plain and unadorned longsword Shark Tooth, this soul tool was much more beautiful, small and delicate. It also had a slightly feminine feel.

"However, I intend to give this soul tool to Ning Tian."

What could Xu Sanshi say after being teased by Xu Zihuang and then thoroughly humiliated? He could only give Xu Zihuang the middle finger with disdain, his eyes full of resentment.

"Sigh, everyone's in pairs. I wonder when Nannan and I will be able to get together."

Xu Zihuang didn't keep them in suspense. He swung the longsword Shark Tooth in his right hand, and a thin sword light slashed towards the Xuan Turtle that had already burrowed into the Sea God Lake.

Driven by instinct, the Xuan Turtle emerged from the water and spewed a stream of black, icy air directly at Xu Zihuang.

It instantly swallowed the sword light. The intense chill caused the nearby lake water to freeze instantly, forming a huge ice surface.

Just as the black, icy current was about to strike Xu Zihuang and Xu Sanshi, the wrist guard on Xu Zihuang's left hand emitted a deep, eerie light.

Xu Zihuang clenched his left fist and held it horizontally in front of him. A silver-white shield, shimmering with a ghostly blue light, instantly appeared, like an ice mirror formed from condensed ice crystals, extremely beautiful and dazzling.

A cylindrical stream of black cold air landed on it, then, as if refracted by light, changed direction and swept past Xu Zihuang's side.

This is another level-six soul tool crafted by Xu Zihuang, a top-grade level-six defensive soul tool. Its main material is the most prized brow scale of the ten-thousand-year-old Mirror Shadow Beast. The Mirror Shadow Beast is an extremely powerful yet rare soul beast, nearly extinct ten thousand years ago, living only in wild soul beast settlements in the northern part of the continent.

Oscar, one of the original Shrek Seven Devils, absorbed the soul ring of a Mirror Beast with 20,000 years of cultivation, which gave him the heaven-defying soul skill that could replicate the abilities of other people's martial souls.

This ten-thousand-year-old Mirror Shadow Beast's brow scale once fetched a price of over ten thousand gold soul coins, making it an excellent material for crafting many powerful soul tools. Like the teeth of the ten-thousand-year-old Demon Soul Great White Shark, it was obtained by Ning Tian using the energy net of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Chapter 247 The Azure Mirror

This top-grade level 6 defensive soul tool can defend against both physical and energy attacks simultaneously.

This is far superior to a level six soul-guided shield of the same level. Soul-guided shields are among the most common defensive soul-guided devices, and there are usually two types: one for defending against physical attacks and the other for defending against energy attacks.

The level-six defensive soul tool made by Xu Zihuang not only has the functions of both, but can also reflect or refract energy attacks within its range.

That's how he guided the Xuan Turtle's innate soul skill, Xuan Water Ice Seal, to deflect it. Relatively speaking, simply deflecting an energy attack consumes less soul power. However, directly reflecting an energy attack requires a significant increase in soul power.

This ability originated from a talent soul skill of the Mirror Shadow Beast. When the Mirror Shadow Beast uses this soul skill, its silver-white scales will emit a faint blue halo, and it calls this level-six defensive soul tool the Azure Mirror.

In order to create this Azure Mirror, Xu Zihuang closely observed the soul power fluctuations of the Mirror Beast when it used this soul skill many times, as well as the various changes on its mirror-like scales.

He certainly couldn't possibly make a special trip to the northern part of the continent to search for the Mirror Image Beast; instead, he kept one in the arena at Shrek Academy. However, the Mirror Image Beast in captivity only had a cultivation level of a little over a thousand years. Yet, even this thousand-year-old Mirror Image Beast was something Elder Gong had searched for a long time in the northern part of the continent to find and capture.

Ten thousand years ago, the secret of Oscar's sixth soul skill, one of the original Shrek Seven Devils, somehow spread throughout the soul master world. After all, quite a few people knew about it. Besides the original Shrek Seven Devils who were close to Oscar and the teachers at Shrek Academy, Hao Te, the Snow Soul Demon Bear soul master who once helped Oscar hunt down the ten-thousand-year-old Mirror Shadow Beast, was also aware of it.

For this reason, a wave of hunting Mirror Shadow Beasts later swept through the Soul Master world.

Even today, the Mirror Beast is rarer than the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. It's likely that there aren't even any Mirror Beasts with over ten thousand years of cultivation on the entire continent.

This Azure Mirror was designed and crafted independently by Xu Zihuang. All the components, including the crucial core magic array, were made by him. While its pure defensive capabilities may not match a level six invincible shield, its versatility is far greater. As for which is superior, that's a matter of opinion.

When Xu Zihuang successfully created the Azure Mirror some time ago, Fan Yu's reaction was even more astonished than when he saw the longsword Shark Tooth. To rely on one's own understanding and independently design and create a top-tier level six defensive soul tool with effects comparable to an invincible shield is something even a seasoned level seven soul master might not be able to achieve.

How could this not shock Fan Yu?

Although Yu Tianhuang and He Caitou researched in different directions, he was certain that Yu Tianhuang's talent in making soul tools far surpassed that of He Caitou.

Just as Elder Mu said before, Yu Tianhuang is the most promising genius from their original Douluo Continent side to break through and become a level 10 Soul Master.

The only slight pity is that the materials required to make this Azure Mirror are too demanding, making it very difficult to replicate. Otherwise, Fan Yu could have applied to have a batch made at Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance Department and then promoted it among the three original Douluo Empires.

He wasn't after the immense profits hidden within; his true aim was to promote the development of soul-guided technology within the three major empires of the Douluo Continent. The Azure Mirror created by Yu Tianhuang contained many of his own ideas. These ideas and approaches often led to the creation of many new soul-guided devices.

This is why Fan Yu admires Yu Tianhuang so much. Innovative and open-minded thinking are extremely rare qualities for a Soul Master.

Xu Sanshi, who was very close to Xu Zihuang, subconsciously looked in the direction of the black cold current that was being refracted, and saw Bei Bei, Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan walking towards him.

He abruptly stood up and strode towards the three of them. The gloom on his face was instantly replaced by flattery and ingratiation.

"Don't be afraid, Nan Nan, I will protect you." Xu Sanshi shouted, releasing his Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield Martial Soul. At the same time, he subtly gave Xu Zihuang a thumbs up, feeling a surge of secret pleasure.

Yu Tianhuang had clearly discovered Jiang Nannan and the others' arrival long ago, and deliberately deflected the Xuan Turtle's Xuan Water Ice Seal in this direction, creating an opportunity for him to show off.

"That bitch really doesn't miss the slightest opportunity." The gentle and refined Beibei's lips curled into a slight smile.

Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan followed behind her side by side, talking quietly.

Although Jiang Nannan is a grade above Tang Ya, they are actually the same age. Like Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan entered Shrek Academy at a very young age.

The admission requirements for Shrek Academy's outer court are that applicants be no older than twelve and have a soul power cultivation level of fifteen. Early admission is permitted as long as the cultivation level is sufficient.

They came from similar backgrounds and were both kind-hearted, differing only in personality. Now that they had both been admitted to the inner academy, they naturally became acquainted.

However, before Xu Sanshi could arrive, Tang Ya had already made her move. She wasn't intentionally trying to ruin Xu Sanshi's plans, but rather she was itching to test the ice and fire resistance that the Crimson Thorn right arm bone had given her.

Tang Ya raised her fair right hand, and blue soul power surged in her palm. Strands of blue-black Blue Silver Grass were released from it, forming a wall of Blue Silver Grass in front of the three of them.

Immediately afterwards, the tip of her right arm turned crimson, and a scorching aura swept over it. The crimson light instantly extended to the blue-black wall of blue silver grass.

The black, icy current touched the blue silver grass wall enveloped in crimson light, instantly producing a series of hissing sounds and sending up white mist. The scorching heat and the icy chill mingled, the two energies canceling each other out.

Tang Yana's Blue Silver Grass walls, which were normally extremely vulnerable to the high temperatures of flames and the low temperatures of frost, remained completely intact. However, a thin layer of ice crystals inevitably covered them.

Under her control, the flames on the Blue Silver Grass wall rekindled. The ice crystals shattered, and the Blue Silver Grass wall dispersed, transforming back into individual strands of Blue Silver Grass, which she then reclaimed.

This is another enhancement she received from the ten-thousand-year-old Crimson Flame Thorn right arm bone: ice and fire resistance. Now, for ice and fire attribute soul skills of the same cultivation level to damage her Blue Silver Grass martial soul, only those with attributes superior to the Crimson Flame Thorn are acceptable.

Of course, the Crimson Flame Thorns themselves aren't particularly powerful; there are many ice-attribute and fire-attribute soul beasts and martial souls with stronger attributes. The Xuan Turtle belongs to this category.

However, compared to before, her Blue Silver Grass martial soul is no longer so vulnerable to ice and fire attribute soul skills. This largely compensates for the shortcomings of her Blue Silver Grass martial soul, not to mention that the Crimson Flame Thorn right arm bone also gave her a powerful area-of-effect attack soul skill.

It can be said that any suitable ten-thousand-year-old soul bone can greatly enhance a soul master's abilities.

Not everyone possesses such profound resources as Xu Zihuang. Ordinary ten-thousand-year soul bones are a burden and a hindrance to Xu Zihuang, but for ordinary soul masters, they are invaluable treasures.

Seeing Tang Ya happily retract the Blue Silver Grass, Xu Sanshi stood there dumbfounded, his face darkening, his head full of question marks.

Are you kidding me? The opportunity that Tianhuang painstakingly created for me has been ruined like this?

Beibei gave him a helpless look, and then she and Tang Ya walked past him to Xu Zihuang.

Xu Sanshi looked at Jiang Nannan awkwardly.

"Nan Nan—"

"Hmph." Jiang Nannan glared at Xu Sanshi with disgust, but considering the special circumstances tonight, she ultimately refrained from reacting. Although she came from a commoner background and her knowledge and connections were far inferior to others, she still possessed emotional intelligence.

Xu Sanshi is a typical sycophantic, manipulative guy, truly befitting his title as a Xuanming Turtle Shell Shield Soul Master. Despite Jiang Nannan's extremely poor attitude towards him, he acted as if he had received a great benefit, following behind her with a grin.

If it weren't for the lingering frost on Jiang Nannan's pretty face, he probably would have already taken advantage of her.

On the other side, Tang Ya's eyes gleamed as she examined the longsword Shark Tooth and the Azure Mirror in Xu Zihuang's hands. They had actually seen Xu Zihuang and Xu Sanshi fighting from afar earlier, witnessing firsthand the power of Xu Zihuang's two top-grade soul tools.

"Tianhuang, did you make both of these soul tools?" Tang Ya's smile faded slightly as she asked seriously.

Xu Zihuang said, neither confirming nor denying.

"This longsword is called Shark Tooth, and this wristband-shaped soul tool is called Azure Mirror. They are a level 6 melee soul tool and a level 6 defensive soul tool, respectively."

"Azure Mirror? What a lovely name." Tang Ya parted her red lips charmingly, her gaze never leaving the Azure Mirror.

It is human nature to love beautiful things. The Azure Mirror created by Xu Zihuang is exquisite, luxurious yet elegant. The azure light dances on the silvery-white surface, giving it a profound and tranquil feel.

But what Bei Bei cared about was something else entirely. That was that Yu Tianhuang had become a level six Soul Master.

A fourteen-year-old level six Soul Master is a historic achievement, even in the Sun Moon Empire. Ever since he met Yu Tianhuang, he found himself constantly being attacked.