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

But that giant demon whale has now perished here.

Ma Xiaotao looked around at the sea and asked thoughtfully.

"Did one of the academy's elders bring you here to hunt soul beasts? Come to think of it, this guy does possess several impressive spiritual attribute talent soul skills."

Yu Tianhuang's fourth soul ring has an age limit of 35,000 years, so she has no doubt that Yu Tianhuang can absorb the soul ring of this giant demon whale.

"Which elder brought you here?" Ma Xiaotao became more and more puzzled as she thought about it.

As far as she knew, the silver beam of light that had just pierced the sky didn't seem to be the ability of any of the academy's elders. The only one whose ability seemed somewhat compatible was Zhang Lexuan, the senior disciple of the inner academy.

Even if the eldest senior sister were here, it probably wouldn't be so easy to deal with that giant demon whale with 50,000 years of cultivation.

Dark purple lightning flashed as the giant demon whale's brain rapidly shrank under the intense heat, but Xu Zihuang's exquisite control perfectly locked in its nutrients. The color also deepened, condensing from the original bright golden paste into a translucent gel that was close to pure gold.

This is precisely the characteristic of top-grade whale glue. Its quality is almost comparable to the 100,000-year-old whale glue that the ancient man gave him.

However, that piece of 100,000-year-old whale glue was only the size of a fist, while the whale glue refined from the brain of the giant demon whale in front of them was as big as a millstone.

Xu Zihuang calmly stored the whale glue in his storage soul tool and said to Ma Xiaotao with a normal expression.

"Senior Sister Xiaotao, I came out to gain experience all by myself this time."

Ma Xiaotao raised an eyebrow, clearly not quite believing it.

"You're not trying to tell me you took care of this giant demon whale, are you?"

Xu Zihuang nodded and smiled slightly, neither confirming nor denying.

"Senior Xiaotao, do you think it's necessary to deliberately avoid you if the senior students are present?"

Ma Xiaotao paused for a moment, but still waved her golden-red flame wings behind her with some doubt, landing in front of Xu Zihuang and examining him carefully.

As he grew older, Xu Zihuang became almost half a head taller than Ma Xiaotao.

This upward-looking perspective made Ma Xiaotao feel somewhat uncomfortable. Moreover, she had to admit that Yu Tianhuang's appearance and demeanor were truly impeccable. In stark contrast to Gongyang Mo's effeminate beauty, his innate confidence was genuinely attractive to the opposite sex.

Ma Xiaotao snorted softly, thinking that Yu Tianhuang's words did indeed make a lot of sense. However, it was clearly not so easy for her to accept the reality before her in a short period of time.

Wouldn't that mean that brat Yu Tianhuang is now stronger than me?

"You brat, what exactly is your cultivation level now?"

“Soul Emperor,” Xu Zihuang replied calmly.

"Soul Emperor?" Ma Xiaotao's eyes remained filled with doubt.

Even throughout Shrek Academy's ten-thousand-year history, only a handful of students have broken through to the Soul Emperor level at the age of sixteen. But she didn't think much of it. She had done it herself, even though she was almost seventeen at the time. Going back three hundred years, the last person to break this record was the equally gifted Elder Mu.

Yu Tianhuang's talent is only greater than hers and Elder Mu's.

However, for a Soul Emperor-level cultivator to annihilate a demonic whale with 50,000 years of cultivation is simply too astonishing. While Shrek Academy's inner disciples are undoubtedly excellent, there should be limits to fighting opponents of higher levels.

"Was that silver beam of light your soul skill?"

Xu Zihuang said calmly, "That's my head soul bone skill, Evil Gaze."

Ma Xiaotao's gaze immediately sharpened.

She naturally recognized the skill "Evil Gaze," as it was the innate soul skill of the Evil Eye Tyrant, a special soul beast from the Sun Moon Empire. But the power of that silver beam of light just now was simply too astonishing.

Even from tens of kilometers away, it was so clear.

At this moment, she couldn't help but recall the spiritual power she had sensed earlier, and a possibility immediately came to mind.

However, just as she was about to ask another question, she noticed that Yu Tianhuang suddenly raised his head and looked towards the sea in the northeast direction.

Xu Zihuang's deep purple eyes instantly turned into a brilliant gold, with a halo of brilliant gold with an illusory texture flowing around his pupils.

Ma Xiaotao subconsciously followed Xu Zihuang's gaze and her expression changed drastically.

A large area in the northeast, including both the sky and the sea, was completely bathed in gold.

Golden flames blazed across the sky.

A mystical firebird, its body wreathed in golden flames, hurtled rapidly towards them from the sky. The intense heat distorted the space within a radius of tens of kilometers, and countless icebergs and floating ice floes melted away in the blink of an eye. The seawater seemed to boil, with vast plumes of steam rising to the surface.

Even from such a great distance, they could feel the scorching heat emanating from them.

"Domain?" Xu Zihuang's mind stirred slightly.

Only a domain can achieve such an effect. And every soul beast that possesses a domain is an extremely powerful being.

These golden firebirds were the Golden Flame Birds that Shen Ce had mentioned, top-tier fire-attribute flying soul beasts that possessed a trace of the Three-Legged Golden Crow bloodline.

Of course, among this group of Golden Flame Birds, only the leader possesses a domain. The other Golden Flame Birds were simply amplified by the domain, their auras surging and then feeding back into the domain itself.

These golden firebirds, numbering over a hundred, resemble crows, but their feathers are entirely golden.

The lead golden flame bird's wings, wreathed in golden flames, stretched to over seven meters in length. Most strangely, a third leg, seemingly formed from golden flames, sprouted from its abdomen. Its powerful soul energy and aura far surpassed those of the fifty-thousand-year-old demonic whale that had previously perished at Xu Zihuang's hands.

The golden bird's soft cry echoed through the sky. Without further hesitation, Ma Xiaotao released her phoenix wings and carried Xu Zihuang into the air.

"Let's get out of here first! These Golden Flame Birds are not easy to deal with. I saw them hunt down a Demon-Striped Tiger Shark with ten thousand years of cultivation and devour its brain. They must have been attracted by the aura of this giant Demon Whale's brain."

The Demon-Patterned Tiger Shark is also a very powerful and ferocious sea spirit beast, whose combat strength is not much inferior to that of the Demon Soul Great White Shark.

In mid-air, Xu Zihuang's wrist was tightly gripped by Ma Xiaotao, her expression subtle. No matter how unlikable Ma Xiaotao's personality might be, she wasn't inherently bad.

A dark red crystal mirror solidified beneath his feet, and he used it to break free from Ma Xiaotao's grasp on his right hand.

"You brat, what are you trying to do—" Ma Xiaotao was furious, but her voice stopped abruptly the next moment.

Five jet-black spirit rings appeared one after another around Xu Zihuang. When she saw the last ring, a dazzling blood-red spirit ring, her expression froze completely.

"One hundred thousand year soul ring?!"

The extremely slim possibility she had previously considered has finally become a reality.

Xu Zihuang glanced at Ma Xiaotao with a calm and unhurried expression and smiled.

"Senior Sister Xiaotao, the cultivation level of that leading Golden Flame Bird is around 65,000 years. It should be very suitable to become your seventh soul ring."

Under normal circumstances, a level 70 Soul Master can absorb a seventh Soul Ring that is between 30,000 and 50,000 years old. However, with Ma Xiaotao's powerful Martial Soul and the amplification from several high-quality Soul Bones, absorbing a Soul Ring of about 65,000 years old is entirely within her capabilities.

It should be noted that Ma Xiaotao's sixth spirit ring was over 40,000 years old.

Ma Xiaotao was still immersed in the shock of witnessing Xu Zihuang's five black and one red soul ring combination, and remained silent for a long time. Meanwhile, the flock of Golden Flame Birds was less than five kilometers away from them, and waves of heat swept over them one after another. The corpse of the giant demon whale was faintly emitting a burnt smell.

With a sharp screech, all the Golden Flame Birds flapped their wings.

Countless feather-shaped golden flames shot towards Xu Zihuang and Ma Xiaotao like arrows.

Just as Ma Xiaotao was about to react, she saw the blood-red soul ring, which was ranked sixth, next to Xu Zihuang begin to glow.

"weak."

Xu Zihuang's calm voice rang out, and as the illusory image of golden eyes appeared behind him, strange, twisted golden light patterns spread outwards, instantly covering a thirty-kilometer radius of the sea. The domain released by the leading Golden Flame Bird suddenly shrank by half. Each Golden Flame Bird was affected by mental weakness and could no longer receive the amplification from the leading Golden Flame Bird's domain, so naturally, they could not give back or enhance the domain's effect.

"interference."

"paralysis."

"dizziness."

"confusion."

Then Xu Zihuang's voice rang out one after another, and his sixth soul skill, the Mental Force Field, inflicted different negative statuses on the flock of Golden Flame Birds. The mental interference caused the dense, feather-like golden flame arrows to deviate from their original trajectory, perfectly avoiding the area where Xu Zihuang and Ma Xiaotao were located.

Mental paralysis and dizziness caused all the Golden Flame Birds with cultivation levels below ten thousand years to fall helplessly into the sea. The five Golden Flame Birds with cultivation levels above ten thousand years barely resisted the effects of mental paralysis and dizziness, falling towards the sea surface for a few seconds before taking off again, but their minds were immediately thrown into complete chaos once more.

In a state of mental confusion, they frantically attack their companions, and even the leading Golden Flame Bird.

This is where the truly monstrous aspect of Xu Zihuang's sixth soul ring skill, the Mental Force Field, lies.

The top-grade soul bones that solidify soul skills generally record the innate soul skills that the soul beast controlled in its lifetime, but the soul skills formed after the soul ring is combined with different martial souls often differ.

A Soul Master's Soul Ring skill may be based on a Soul Beast's innate Soul Skill. However, the more powerful a Soul Master's Martial Soul is, the stronger the Soul Skill they will gain from absorbing Soul Rings, and it may even produce some positive changes.

To give an example, if a Soul Master with a high-level vine-type martial soul and a Soul Master with a common Blue Silver Grass martial soul both absorb a hundred-year-old Mandragora Snake's soul ring when their Soul Power reaches the level 10 bottleneck, the former's Soul Skill will inevitably be more powerful than the latter's.

Because Xu Zihuang's Golden Eye Martial Soul was of such high quality, the Mental Stance Soul Skill he gained by fusing with the soul ring of the 100,000-year-old pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant underwent a very rare but beneficial change. He could now produce the effect of any kind of mental control Soul Skill according to his own will. This was something even the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord could not do.

The same applies to the second 100,000-year soul ring technique he used next.

Although the lead Golden Flame Bird was also affected by various mind control-type soul skills, it was only suppressed due to its powerful cultivation, and did not lose its combat power directly like the other Golden Flame Birds.

Its third leg, formed from condensed flames, shone brightly, and it raised its head and shrieked. The golden flames wrapped around its body suddenly expanded outward, blasting away the other five ten-thousand-year-old Golden Flame Birds that were attacking it. It turned into a golden afterimage that swept through the air, heading straight for Xu Zihuang.

The lead golden roc was completely enraged.

But before it could get within a kilometer of Xu Zihuang's body, it froze in place.

A thousand meters away from Xu Zihuang, the void shattered, and tentacles hundreds of meters long emerged. The tentacles resembled those of the Evil Eye Tyrant, but their color was a noble and dazzling gold and silver. The patterns on the tentacles were also different from those of the Evil Eye Tyrant; instead, they resembled the obscure golden patterns around Xu Zihuang's golden pupils.

Sixteen tentacles danced in the air, seemingly existing between illusion and reality. The art style was bizarre, yet it didn't feel grotesque at all.

Two of its tentacles were tightly wrapped around the body of the leading Golden Flame Bird, the golden patterns shimmering with a strong, brilliant golden light.

The skill of a 100,000-year-old soul ring: Touch of the Soul.

This is the second soul skill that the 100,000-year-old pure spirit-type Evil Eye Tyrant soul ring bestowed upon Xu Zihuang.

No matter what kind of creature it is, even a plant, once touched by these sixteen tentacles, it will immediately face annihilation. This is because these tentacles possess a soul-devouring effect. Upon contact, they unleash a powerful mental shockwave, penetrating the opponent's body. First, they destroy the opponent's mental world, and then they devour and absorb their soul as a powerful tonic.

This is also one of the most commonly used innate soul skills of pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrants. Pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrants do not need to eat; for them, the best nourishment is pure mental power and soul.

The Golden Flame Bird, with a cultivation level of 65,000 years, struggled frantically, radiating intense golden light, as if it had transformed into a dazzling golden sun. The mental shockwave from the Soul Touch could be resisted with soul power and mental strength, but it failed to break free immediately, effectively sealing its fate.

As one thing weakens while the other gains, its vitality visibly diminishes.

"Senior Sister Xiaotao," Xu Zihuang whispered to Ma Xiaotao.

Ma Xiaotao suddenly realized what was happening and quickly flew towards the Golden Flame Bird. During her flight, a powerful dark blue light appeared in her eyes. As she focused her gaze, suddenly, two beams of dark blue light shot out from her eyes, striking the Golden Flame Bird precisely in the head.

This was precisely the soul skill attached to her skull, a skull imbued with concentrated spiritual wisdom—a highly concentrated, single-target spiritual attack soul skill. It was derived from a Saint Illusion Demon Ape with 80,000 years of cultivation. The Saint Illusion Demon Ape was among the top-tier ape-type soul beasts, a spiritual attribute soul beast.

Ma Xiaotao's head-shaped soul bone skill is similar to Xu Zihuang's Evil Eye Gaze, both attacking the spiritual essence within the opponent's sea of ​​consciousness. However, its power, attack range, and attack distance are far inferior to Evil Eye Gaze.

While an 80,000-year-old soul bone and a 100,000-year-old soul bone may seem to have similar lifespans, they are actually worlds apart.

Moreover, the bloodline of the pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant is far more noble than that of the Holy Illusion Demon Ape.

Chapter 307 Spatial Control Ability and the Demon Soul Great White Shark

While Ma Xiaotao used her head soul bone skill to attack the leading Golden Flame Bird, Xu Zihuang also controlled five of his golden and silver tentacles to kill the other five Golden Flame Birds with ten thousand years of cultivation.