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

The five shattered voids closed, and five tentacles that emerged from them gradually blurred into light and shadow before disappearing.

But in the next instant, the five tentacles emerged from the sky thousands of meters away and struck the bodies of the five ancient golden flame birds with precision.

These five Golden Flame Birds, whose cultivation level was only over 20,000 years, had no strength to resist. The golden patterns on their tentacles shimmered, and their spiritual world was instantly destroyed by the powerful mental shockwave.

If Xu Zihuang wished, he could even devour the spiritual power and souls of these five ten-thousand-year-old Golden Flame Birds through the Touch of Soul. However, he disdained to strengthen himself in such a way. External force is ultimately external force, and it is certainly not as stable as the realm he improves through his own hard work. Moreover, spiritual power and soul are too important for a Soul Master, and doing so could easily lead to mistakes.

The reason why those evil spirit masters are so fanatical and crazy is inseparable from this kind of cultivation method.

Also perishing here were the Golden Flame Birds with cultivation levels below ten thousand years. Affected by the various mind control-type soul skills brought about by the mental stance, they lost control of their bodies and sank into the sea.

It can be said that Xu Zihuang single-handedly crushed this powerful clan. Even elite Soul Douluos from Shrek Academy's inner court, such as Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo, might not have done better. This isn't to say that his current personal strength far surpasses Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo, but rather because Soul Masters with the Spirit attribute are too unique.

His spiritual power has reached a tangible and tangible level, and he has recently acquired four spiritual attribute soul skills at the level of 100,000 years. Even ordinary titled Douluo would probably find it quite troublesome to face him.

Of course, it's unlikely he'll defeat a Title Douluo-level expert head-on, given the difference in their soul power cultivation. However, if he uses all his trump cards, he's confident he can escape unscathed from a Title Douluo.

Two beams of brilliant blue light shot from Ma Xiaotao's eyes, piercing through the head of the leading Golden Flame Bird and extending for dozens of meters, remaining condensed and undispersed. This penetrating mental attack caused no physical damage to the Golden Flame Bird, but rather completely obliterated its soul at the spiritual level.

Under normal circumstances, this Golden Flame Bird, with a cultivation of 60,000 to 5,000 years, might have been able to resist with its powerful innate soul skills. However, it had already been severely injured by Xu Zihuang's 100,000-year soul ring skill, Soul Touch, which was when its spiritual sea defense was at its weakest.

The dazzling golden light emanating from the Golden Flame Bird's body suddenly subsided, and its golden eyes lost their luster. A dense black light gradually condensed above its body, forming a deep black spirit ring. Then, a small, gleaming golden bone, resembling a golden crystal, slowly separated from its body, rose gently, and hovered in the very center of the black spirit ring.

Without a doubt, this is a soul bone. And it's a right arm bone of extremely high quality.

Xu Zihuang's figure floated downwards, and before that, he had taken out the Demon Whale and stepped on it as he fell heavily onto the sea.

The sound of surging waves and the starting of the Demon Whale attracted Ma Xiaotao's attention. At this moment, Xu Zihuang had already steered the Demon Whale past Ma Xiaotao, using his Soul Touch to pull the Golden Flame Bird and the Soul Bone towards them.

"Senior Sister Xiaotao, it's not safe to absorb soul rings in the sea. Let's go to the island where the Golden Flame Birds live."

As he spoke, Xu Zihuang placed the corpse of the Golden Flame Bird across the empty space behind the Demon Whale. As for the soul bone, he stored it in his storage soul tool.

Ma Xiaotao had no objection to Yu Tianhuang's arrangement. When a Soul Master absorbs a Soul Ring, they need to withstand the violent impact of the Soul Ring's power, and indeed need to be in a stable place. A huge iceberg would be fine, but icebergs with a radius of tens of kilometers have long been broken by the impact of the waves. So, it seems that only that island is suitable.

Moreover, she had already fused with a right arm soul bone a long time ago, so she had no interest in the soul bone dropped by the Golden Flame Bird.

Having witnessed Yu Tianhuang's incredibly impressive spirit ring configuration and formidable personal strength firsthand, she still felt a sense of unreality, like something out of a dream. So much so that when she subconsciously flapped her golden-red fiery wings to catch up with the Demon Whale, she remained silent, gently biting her red lips.

This brat's current strength...

Arrogant by nature, she once again felt a strong sense of defeat towards Yu Tianhuang.

Ma Xiaotao knew that even if she fused with the Golden Flame Bird's soul ring and advanced to the Soul Saint level, she still wouldn't be a match for Yu Tianhuang. Five black and one red soul rings—this combination was more than enough to compensate for the less than ten-level difference in soul power between them.

The island where the Golden Flame Bird lived was only about sixty kilometers away from the sea area where they were. This nearby sea area was the territory of the giant demon whale and the flock of Golden Flame Birds, and they had not encountered any attacks from other soul beasts along the way. Traveling at full speed, Xu Zihuang and Ma Xiaotao arrived one after the other in less than half an hour.

The island is crescent-shaped, surrounded by jagged rocks. Due to the unique climate of this icy sea, almost no vegetation grows on it. In the center of the island sits a series of irregular stone pillars, ranging in height from ten to several tens of meters. This is the most distinctive feature of the island.

Previously, the flock of Golden Flame Birds had come out in full force. Without them, the island felt quite desolate, with only the howling sea wind and the sound of waves crashing against the rocks.

Xu Zihuang put away the Demon Whale and threw the Golden Flame Bird's corpse onto the rocks at the edge of the island. After a soul beast dies, its soul ring can last for an hour without dissipating. That deep black soul ring still exuded an aura that was as oppressive as ever.

The fiery wings behind Ma Xiaotao dissipated, and she landed next to Xu Zihuang.

Xu Zihuang glanced at Ma Xiaotao and asked, "Senior Sister Xiaotao, with your physical strength, absorbing the soul ring of this Golden Flame Bird shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"You brat, who do you think you are?" Ma Xiaotao's eyebrows shot up, her pink eyes widening. Although her problem with her internal heat had been resolved, her temper remained as fiery as ever.

This is purely a matter of her personality. It's not that she'll feel indebted to Xu Zihuang after receiving this favor. Rather, she'll remember it in her heart and repay it with practical actions in the future.

After saying that, Ma Xiaotao casually picked up the corpse of the Golden Flame Bird and flew towards the stone pillar area in the center of the island. But just as she flew into the air, she suddenly turned around and looked at Xu Zihuang.

"During my absence, has anything significant happened at the academy?"

"Senior Sister Xiaotao, time is of the essence. Let's talk about it after you've absorbed your spirit ring," Xu Zihuang said calmly, shaking his head. Given Ma Xiaotao's personality, it wasn't appropriate for him to reveal the news of Elder Mu's passing right now.

Seeing Xu Zihuang's calm expression, Ma Xiaotao didn't think much of it. She flew towards the center of the island again, but this time, she paused and asked with an unnatural expression.

"How is your relationship with Ning Tian now?"

“It’s fine.” Xu Zihuang was taken aback, then replied with a puzzled expression.

"Pretty good?" Ma Xiaotao gave Xu Zihuang a deep look, but didn't delve any further. Her fiery wings flapped again, and she left.

For some reason, she always felt that Yu Tianhuang wasn't a peaceful person. Yu Tianhuang was too perfect in every way.

However, she asked that question not only because of this.

Ma Xiaotao went to the center of the island to begin fusing her spirit rings. Xu Zihuang, on the other hand, explored the island. The island was slightly smaller than Shrek Academy's Seagod Island, and he soon finished his exploration and arrived at the stone pillar area in the center of the island.

Ma Xiaotao was sitting cross-legged on a smooth rock, guiding the Golden Flame Bird's spirit ring to merge with herself. Although the spirit ring, with an age of 65,000 years, was violently impacting her body, Xu Zihuang could tell that it was still within Ma Xiaotao's tolerance.

Xu Zihuang lightly touched the ground with his toes and sat down atop an exceptionally thick stone pillar. The view from here was expansive, offering a panoramic view of the entire island. His spiritual attribute soul core, located between his brows, absorbed the surrounding天地元力 (heaven and earth elemental energy) on its own, helping him recover his depleted spiritual and soul power. Gazing into the distance, he began to carefully recall the insights he had gained from using Soul Touch earlier.

The skill "Touch of the Soul" was indeed given to him by that 100,000-year-old pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant. However, like "Mental Stance," his "Touch of the Soul" possesses a more unique effect: control over spatial power.

Within the area reached by his spiritual power, the sixteen golden and silver tentacles could break through the void from anywhere. Of course, the farther away the sixteen tentacles were from him, the greater the consumption of his soul power and spiritual power.

These insights will be of great benefit to him in the future when he condenses his second and even third soul core.

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm also knows all this. This lazy creature loves the low-temperature environment of this icy sea and has unusually abundant energy.

"Zihuang, your Golden Eye Martial Soul naturally possesses time and space attributes. In that case, that Old Evil Eye is the perfect ninth spirit ring for your Golden Eye Martial Soul. The Light of Time and Space that this guy comprehended caused even that bastard Di Tian to suffer a considerable loss."

When the Evil Eye Tyrant challenged the Beast God Emperor Tian, ​​Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was one of the witnesses. In fact, the Evil Eye Tyrant had come specifically to seize it.

If the Evil Eye Tyrant, whose cultivation level is as high as 790,000, successfully devours the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, he might actually have a chance to touch that level.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm spoke lightly, but Xu Zihuang was well aware of the difficulty involved. His first martial soul, Golden Eye, and his second martial soul, Purple Emperor Thunder Prison Dragon, ideally had their ninth soul rings as Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler and Beast God Emperor Heaven, respectively.

In other words, if he wants to turn the Evil Eye Tyrant and the Beast God Emperor Tian into his own soul rings, he must have the strength to rival these two top experts in the soul beast world when his soul power reaches level ninety.

Even with his exceptional talent, he wasn't entirely confident about this.

However, Tianmeng Bingcan's words reminded him of something.

"Tianmeng, transmit to me the image of the Evil Eye Tyrant using the Light of Time and Space."

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm instantly understood Xu Zihuang's meaning.

"Zihuang, what do you want?" It asked excitedly, and then quickly used its mental power to transmit its memories from back then to Xu Zihuang.

Xu Zihuang's gaze was deep.

"I'm not sure what I can achieve from this. But I think the Evil Eye Tyrant's mastery of the power of time and space can give me some inspiration."

Meanwhile, on a branch of the Jingyang Mountains.

After searching for several days with Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei and Tang Ya finally found a suitable target.

What came into their view was a wolf-shaped soul beast that was less than 1.5 meters long, covered in silvery-white fur, making a low growling sound as it warily looked at Bei Bei and the other two.

This is a silver wolf with a cultivation level of around 1,500 years.

Tang Ya said eagerly, "Beibei, let me do it."

Beibei smiled and nodded. Tang Ya was now a Soul King level expert, so dealing with a thousand-year-old Soul Beast was naturally no problem for her.

Standing behind Bei Bei and Tang Ya, Huo Yuhao's eyes also shone brightly. Regardless of his resentment, the thousand-year-old silver wolf before him was indeed suitable to become his third spirit ring, and he was happy with that. Having searched for so many days, he was already quite impatient.

In his excitement, he unleashed his Spirit Eye Martial Soul. Two slightly dim yellow spirit rings rose from beneath his feet.

His first two spirit rings were taken from a Fear Demon Dragon with two hundred years of cultivation and a Purple Spirit Wolf with two hundred years of cultivation, both of which are considered very powerful spirit-attribute spirit beasts. Unfortunately, both of them were only two hundred years old.

"Teacher Xiaoya, I'm here to help you!" Huo Yuhao shouted, and his second spirit ring lit up.

The second soul skill is Mental Weakness. However, due to the age limit of the soul ring, it can only affect a single target, and its attack range is also limited.

Golden light appeared in his spiritual eyes, followed by a halo of pure white light that fell upon the thousand-year-old silver wolf.

However, Huo Yuhao clearly underestimated the mental strength of this thousand-year-old silver wolf. The next moment, he suffered a backlash from the soul skill, and the stinging sensation in his sea of ​​consciousness made him let out a muffled groan, and he sat down on the ground in a very disheveled state.

Fortunately, the backlash from his soul skill wasn't too severe, so he didn't lose consciousness immediately.

"Yuhao?!" Tang Ya looked at Huo Yuhao with concern. The thousand-year-old silver wolf, enraged by Huo Yuhao's soul skill, had already launched its attack.

Its entire body of silver fur suddenly shone brightly, and it opened its mouth to spit out a silver ball of light towards Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao.

The silver sphere silently approached, then transformed into dozens of wind blades in the air less than ten meters away from the three of them.

Bei Bei calmly shielded Huo Yuhao behind her, their eyes meeting.

The two were so in sync that Tang Ya instantly understood what Bei Bei meant.

Two yellow, two purple, and one black spirit rings appeared around her almost simultaneously. The third spirit ring, in purple, shone brightly.

Without warning, a dark blue-silver cage imprisoned the thousand-year-old silver wolf. Then, her right arm was covered with a crimson light, which extended all the way to the blue-silver grass that rose from the ground behind her.

After Tang Ya fused with a hundred-year-old ghost vine at level twenty, several inch-long spikes appeared on her Blue Silver Grass. These spikes could be displayed at her will. Crimson light condensed on these spikes, and as the color deepened, it quickly turned purple. The next moment, countless purple light spots shot towards the thousand-year-old silver wolf in the Blue Silver Cage.

The skill of the right arm bone of the Eternal Crimson Blaze Thorns: Thorn Rain!

Under Tang Ya and Bei Bei's astonished gaze, the thousand-year-old silver wolf emitted a six-colored halo.

When the countless purple light spots formed by the thorn rain landed on this thousand-year-old silver wolf, they broke through several layers of light shields.

Rippling water, soaring flames, sturdy barriers, rapid whirlwinds, a screen of light, and a dark sky.

Although the thousand-year-old silver wolf was eventually blasted more than ten meters away by Tang Ya's ten-thousand-year soul bone skill, Thorn Rain, and lost its ability to resist, the power of Thorn Rain was blocked by nearly half by the six layers of light shield.

Beibei, who casually blocked the dozens of wind blades, said thoughtfully.

"Tianhuang is right, this silver wolf does have something unique about it. It must be using its powerful mental strength to control various elements."

Tang Ya's feelings were even deeper than Bei Bei's. If a silver wolf with over five thousand years of cultivation had appeared before them, they might have actually been able to escape unscathed from her right arm's soul bone skill, Thorn Rain.

However, she didn't delve into it further and just chuckled.

"It seems that this silver wolf will most likely grant Yuhao a very powerful soul skill."

Behind the two, Huo Yuhao, sitting on the ground, lowered his head and clenched his fists, his eyes beneath his black hair particularly gloomy. To ordinary people, he might be a noble Soul Master, but compared to inner court disciples like Bei Bei and Tang Ya from Shrek Academy, what was he?

Every time he regained a little confidence, it would be destroyed by cruel reality.

"Yuhao, quickly absorb its spirit ring! Beibei and I will protect you!"

It wasn't until Tang Ya reminded him that Huo Yuhao stood up, composed himself, and, in a fit of rage, ended the life of the thousand-year-old silver wolf with a dagger.

Noticing Huo Yuhao's unusual behavior, Bei Bei raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything.

However, Huo Yuhao encountered another setback during the absorption of the spirit ring. His physical talent was too poor, and the age of his second spirit ring was too low. Under the impact of the purple thousand-year spirit ring's energy, his body trembled uncontrollably. Blood even spilled from his mouth and nose. He was only holding on by sheer willpower.

In contrast, Ma Xiaotao, who was also absorbing a soul ring on an island thousands of kilometers away, had a much more stable aura.

Her profound foundation allowed her to survive the most dangerous moment of absorbing a spirit ring beyond her age limit, but it still took her nearly ten hours, from dawn until late at night.

Xu Zihuang also sat cross-legged on top of the stone pillar, cultivating.