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

Mu Xue said with a complicated expression, "Master Mo, Vina is right. There's no need to refuse."

Since both Vina and Muxue had said so, Mo Feiyun could only accept the gift with deep emotion. How could he not be moved to be treated with such courtesy by the princess of his own country?

Vina smiled and returned to her seat, the shyness she felt greatly lessened by the incident.

Mu Xue took Vina's hand, forgetting all about teasing her, and said helplessly.

“Vina, sometimes I feel like you really don’t seem like a princess.”

"Alright, my dear Sister Xue. What's wrong with being a princess? Aren't princesses human too? Compared to the constraints of the palace, I much prefer life outside of it." Vina chuckled.

Mu Xue was speechless.

"Come on, you are His Majesty's most beloved daughter. Do you think the rules of the palace can bind you?"

On the other side, Lang Ya took a sip of tea from his porcelain cup with a smile on his face, glanced at Vina, and then at Xu Zihuang beside him, seemingly lost in thought.

Just then, the smile on his face vanished instantly, and he and Xu Zihuang looked towards the northwest.

Lang Ya narrowed his eyes, and the surrounding air began to distort violently. Rippling light spread out, and everything seemed to become unreal.

However, these distorted, wavy water patterns perfectly avoided Xu Zihuang and his group.

Vina, Muxue, and Mo Feiyun all noticed these unusual occurrences. Mo Feiyun immediately became alert, his sharp eyes scanning his surroundings.

Vina, who knew Langya best, changed her expression slightly and quickly asked, "Teacher, what happened?"

Langya snorted and said coldly, "Some fools have their eyes on us."

His gentle and friendly attitude towards Xu Zihuang and Vina doesn't mean he's a good-tempered person. In fact, many members of the Body Sect are like that—arrogant and domineering, relying on their strength.

"Judging from their appearance, they must be repeat offenders. I didn't expect there to be a Soul Saint among them."

"Senior Langya, Your Highness, Miss, I'll go and deal with them." Mo Feiyun's face turned cold, his killing intent palpable.

These bandits, who robbed passersby and committed countless atrocities, have taken countless lives on their hands. There is absolutely no need to show them any mercy. Moreover, if we don't act first, the situation will become dire once the bandits surround us.

With him and Langya there, they naturally had nothing to fear from the bandits. However, it would inevitably involve Princess Vina and Muxue. As a qualified guard, he had to nip the risk in the bud.

Before Vina and the other two could speak, Xu Zihuang put down the porcelain cup in his hand and stood up.

"Uncle Mo, let me do it."

Xu Zihuang's voice wasn't loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.

Apart from Lang Ya, who had some guesses about Yu Tianhuang's true strength, the remaining three—Vina, Mu Xue, and Mo Feiyun—all had their pupils shrink.

Mu Xue couldn't help but offer a reminder.

"The one leading this is a Soul Saint."

Xu Zihuang smiled calmly and took out a silver-white bow and an exquisite golden arrow from his storage soul tool.

The silver-white bow was the Level 5 Soul Tool Windbreaker Bow that he had made at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, while the golden arrow was a modified Thunderfire Arrow. The internal structure and core magic array remained unchanged, but the originally sharp arrowhead had been replaced with a spindle-shaped piece of metal.

Unlike Langya and Mofeiyun, Vina and Muxue did not have such a deep-rooted aversion to soul tools. Having come into contact with many soul tools, they recognized the origin of this shuttle-shaped metal at a glance.

"This is a fixed-mount soul-guided cannon?!"

Xu Zihuang nodded, and then, amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, gracefully drew his bow and nocked an arrow.

As soul power was injected, the silver Wind-Breaking Bow was instantly transformed into azure. The azure light gradually enveloped the arrow, which was then fired without making a sound, disappearing into the night sky at incredible speed.

Even Lang Ya was somewhat confused at this point. The bandits were at least eight kilometers away, and he could understand why Yu Tianhuang was using a soul skill to fight them. Many mental attribute soul skills have astonishing attack ranges and distances, requiring only the use of external mental power to lock onto an enemy. With Yu Tianhuang's mental power at the tangible and tangible level, a strike range of up to ten kilometers in diameter was possible.

However, ensuring that the fixed-mount soul-guided cannon attached to the arrow accurately hits the target is not so easy; various situations need to be considered.

……

The gentle moonlight bathed the vast Lingbei Grassland in a silvery-white hue, and the blue-silver grass, tinged with the moon's silvery glow, swayed in the wind, creating a serene and hazy scene.

A figure hovered silently in the night sky, appearing to be a young man in his twenties. However, behind him stretched a pair of enormous blue wings.

Two yellow and two purple spirit rings, four bright and conspicuous, were hidden within the two enormous cyan wings on either side. Without careful observation, it would be difficult to spot him thousands of meters in the air.

Without a doubt, the young man was a Beast Soul Master with a flying-type martial soul. His martial soul was called Azure Roc, and while his combat strength was only average, his speed was among the best of flying-type martial souls. He was particularly adept at long-distance flight.

The ability to fly is an innate martial spirit instinct of the Azure Roc Martial Spirit, and it is not difficult to ascend to a height of about two thousand meters.

The young man gazed at the distant crimson flames, a hint of coldness and greed flashing in his eyes, before falling downwards.

There were about twenty people gathered on the ground beneath him. Each of them rode a horned horse and gazed into the distance.

The leader was a middle-aged man over fifty, with gloomy eyes, and his appearance bore a six or seven-tenths resemblance to the young man. They were clearly father and son.

The horned-scaled horse beneath the middle-aged man was also the largest, a horned-scaled horse with a hundred years of cultivation. The bulges on the foreheads of each horned-scaled horse emitted a dark light, forming a black light shield that isolated their aura.

Heavenly Horn Shield, the innate soul skill of the Horned Scale Horse.

The young man withdrew his martial spirit when he was still dozens of meters above the ground, and landed steadily on the back of a horned-scaled horse, saying excitedly.

"Father, there are three men and two women in total. The two older ones are probably guards, and the remaining one man and two women look to be under twenty years old. They seem to be scions of a large family who are traveling."

This wasn't the first time the Qingpeng bandit gang had done something like this on the Lingbei Grassland. Young men from wealthy families traveling abroad were the most lucrative targets.

"on!"

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, then suddenly waved his hand.

The group of subordinates excitedly licked their lips, their eyes filled with a bloodthirsty glint.

Suddenly, a blue dot of light appeared in their field of vision. This blue light rapidly expanded and underwent two changes in succession.

First, it incorporated crimson flames and deep purple lightning, at which point it was clearly an arrow. Moreover, the arrow's speed increased dramatically the instant the flames and lightning appeared, drawing a beautiful and dazzling arc through the air.

"Arrows?"

In the next instant, an orange-red spot of light separated from the tip of the arrow, and its speed increased once again.

These things happen in the blink of an eye.

"Not good! Scatter!" the middle-aged man roared, his expression changing drastically. As a Soul Saint level expert, he keenly sensed an extremely dangerous aura emanating from the orange-red light.

One white, two yellow, two purple, and two black spirit rings appeared around his body almost simultaneously.

But it was all too late.

A deafening roar shattered the tranquility of the grassland. Crimson light suddenly expanded outwards, and intense heat swept across an area nearly a kilometer in diameter. In the very core area, all living things were instantly annihilated.

A huge mushroom cloud rose into the air.

Langya, Vina, Muxue, and Mofeiyun's eyes were already glazed over.

Then, they witnessed an even more shocking scene.

Purple! Purple! Purple! Black! Black! Red! The last eerie blood-red soul ring slowly rose to the position of Xu Zihuang's chest before stopping, pulsating gently, the blood-red light reflecting on Xu Zihuang's face.

Xu Zihuang looked up in the direction of the mushroom cloud. As his fifth spirit ring shone, he raised his right hand. Silver light condensed at the tip of his slender right index finger, transforming into a silver needle that looked almost tangible.

This was something he could only achieve after his spiritual power broke through to the realm of tangible and substantial existence, transforming Mount Sumeru into a mustard seed and fusing the area-of-effect attack spiritual attribute soul skill, Spiritual Storm, into his fingertips. Although it became a single-target attack, its destructive power was far more terrifying.

Above the churning mushroom cloud, a celestial roc with a wingspan exceeding ten meters appeared, its wings tattered and broken, its aura extremely weak, barely maintaining its balance. Its eyes were filled with terror.

Before the terror in his eyes could fade, a silver needle pierced his brow. His consciousness and soul, contained within his sea of ​​consciousness, were instantly annihilated.

Chapter 301 The Body's Secret Techniques and Continuing the Journey

Their souls and spirits were annihilated.

The middle-aged man's eyes dimmed, and he could no longer maintain his Qingpeng true form. He transformed into human form and fell from the sky, where he was swallowed by the high-temperature airwaves left by the Level 6 high-explosive fixed-position soul guide cannon.

This is the terrifying aspect of a fixed-position soul-guided cannon. Even with the middle-aged man's Soul Saint level cultivation, being hit head-on by this level-six high-explosive fixed-position soul-guided cannon would only result in his death. He survived only by releasing his martial soul to ascend into the air at the first moment, moving away from the explosion center of this level-six high-explosive fixed-position soul-guided cannon, and by using his martial soul true body to withstand the high temperature of the explosion.

The others, including the horned horses, were directly melted by the terrifying heat.

From the very beginning of designing the Thunder Rocket, Xu Zihuang had the idea of ​​connecting a fixed-mount Soul Guidance Cannon to the front end of the Thunder Rocket. It was only after a period of experimentation that the project was finally completed.

Leveraging the unique properties of the rare metal alloy Thunderflame Gold, the main material of the core array, the soul power stored in the charging array is guided to activate the fixed soul-guided cannon at the front of the Thunderfire Rocket.

Through this multi-stage combination, the maximum strike range of this rocket can reach an astonishing 15 kilometers.

It should be noted that the range of a typical level 6 fixed-mount soul-guided cannon is only about eight to ten kilometers.

However, compared to a regular fixed-position soul-guided cannon, calibrating this improved high-explosive lightning rocket is much more difficult. This is because the lightning rocket undergoes three stages of acceleration during its launch, making it difficult to control its flight trajectory. Xu Zihuang's ability to accurately hit the target was entirely due to the combination of his tangible, materialized spiritual power's external perception and the innate abilities of his Golden Eye Martial Soul.

However, if it's just about providing fire support, then this isn't an issue.

Furthermore, since the Thunder Arrow is pre-charged with soul power in the charging array on the core magic circle, it can be fired with ordinary crossbows. Of course, this means it will lack the initial acceleration and the sound and aura-eliminating effects of the Wind-Breaking Bow, but the impact on range and power is not significant.

A northerly wind howled past, dispersing the dust and smoke from the northwest. A wave of hot air, carried by the northerly wind, swept in, causing the surrounding temperature to rise rapidly.

Xu Zihuang calmly stored the Wind-Breaking Bow into his storage soul tool. The six soul rings—three purple, two black, and one red—that would shock anyone also disappeared.

Langya, Vina, Muxue, Mo Feiyun, and the others were still in shock, staring at Xu Zihuang as if he were a monster.

"A sixth spirit ring of 100,000 years?! One-hit kill of a Soul Saint?!" It was as if two voices kept echoing in their minds. Those of them who did not have in-depth knowledge of spirit tools might not be able to see the special and abnormal nature of Lei Huojian at a glance, but the first two points were the most direct manifestations.

Vina originally thought that Long Aotian, the number one young talent in their Body Sect, could rival Yu Tianhuang in terms of talent and strength. However, Yu Tianhuang has now proven with irrefutable facts that he is a genius in a class of his own in this era.

He single-handedly suppressed the pride of an era.

Absorbing and fusing a 100,000-year soul ring at level 60 is something even their Body Sect's Sect Master, Du Busi, couldn't achieve. Add to that the ability of a second awakening of a Gold-level Body Martial Soul and a second Martial Soul resembling a mutated Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex with the potential to be the ultimate lightning attribute, and the future is destined to be the era of Yu Tianhuang.

Xu Zihuang sat down again, as if he had done something insignificant, and continued to savor the mellow tea in his porcelain cup.

"A sixth spirit ring after 100,000 years, how did you do that?" Mu Xue was no longer the aloof girl she once was; her expression was incredibly complex, and even her voice trembled slightly. Even though Yu Tianhuang was sitting right across from her, she felt a sense of unreality. It was as if the young man before her and she existed in two different worlds.

Xu Zihuang smiled slightly, his calm tone devoid of any boasting.

"Maybe I'm just more talented."

Mu Xue's dark eyes reflected Xu Zihuang's gentle smile, causing her to feel a sense of unease. Soul Masters all admire strength, especially a gifted young woman like her, born into a prominent Soul Master family.

In some ways, Mu Xue and Ning Tian actually have a lot in common.

Vina, standing to the side, observed the interaction between the two, her delicate eyes gleaming with a subtle light, lost in thought. However, her gaze lingered mostly on Xu Zihuang.

After calming his turbulent emotions, Mo Feiyun gave Xu Zihuang a deep look, and then tentatively asked.

"Brother Yu, those people were hit by your fixed-position soul-guided cannon just now?"

“Yes, that was a level 6 high-explosive fixed-position soul-guided cannon. Apart from that Soul Saint, no one else could have survived it.” Xu Zihuang nodded.

Mo Feiyun pressed on with great interest, "Then how did you lock onto the target from such a distance?"

The Heavenly Soul Empire has always been extremely averse to soul tools, especially traditional soul masters like Mo Feiyun who come from a prominent soul master family. But after witnessing firsthand the astonishing power and long-range effectiveness of the fixed-mount soul cannon, a slight wavering began to appear in his heart.