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

Just then, a cold voice suddenly rang out, seemingly containing suppressed anger.

"The far northern sea is a pure land for my sea people. Why are you humans so aggressive?"

Within the icy sea, countless deep blue lights surged forth. These were not waves, but pure energy fluctuations, harnessing the power of the ocean. As soon as these deep blue lights appeared, Xu Zihuang felt as if he had suddenly crashed into an extremely viscous liquid, making it impossible to move an inch.

Even powerful Limit Douluo like Elder Xuan, Elder Gu, and Poison Immortal changed their expressions slightly. This oppressive aura had already reached the Limit Douluo level.

Without a doubt, the only one with such strength in the far north ice sea is the mermaid king, the sea princess, whose cultivation has reached 600,000 years.

Seeing the Sea Princess's strong hostility towards them, Elder Xuan was taken aback for a moment, then quickly shouted, "I think you must be the Sea Princess, the ruler of this icy sea, right? Don't misunderstand, we didn't harm any of the sea spirit beasts here, we just have something we want to discuss with you."

"Negotiation? Do you mean you want my mother to become your human's soul ring?" Another cold laugh came from all directions, but compared to the Sea Princess's voice, this voice was crisper, though the tone was even more vicious.

"Greedy and despicable humans, do you think we would believe you?"

After a moment of silence, the Sea Princess's voice, devoid of any emotion, rang out again.

"Humans, I have no intention of negotiating with you, nor will I abandon everything to depend on a human. If you leave now, I can forgive and forget. If you remain obstinate, I will let you perish in this far northern sea."

Xu Zihuang's arrival in the far north of the Ice Sea with three Limit Douluos—Xuan Lao, Gu Lao, and Du Busi—has thoroughly enraged the Sea Princess. The Sea God clearly sees her as a tool to enhance his own power, and given the precedent of the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, she is naturally unwilling to sit idly by and await her doom.

Since that sea god had inherited his position ten thousand years ago, he had never made any contribution to the myriad races in the sea, which made it difficult for her to believe him.

"Alright, Xuanzi, stop nagging."

Before Elder Xuan could say anything more, Du Busi interrupted him, somewhat annoyed.

"Since we've already said all that, what else is there to say? Let's just attack. I, the sect master, refuse to believe that the combined strength of the three of us is insufficient to defeat a mere soul beast."

Poison Undying is arrogant by nature and not as easy to talk to as Elder Xuan. He didn't even submit to Limit Douluo like Elder Mu and Long Xiaoyao back then, so how could he possibly be willing to let a soul beast ride on his head?

"Hahahaha! You think you can make me die at the bottom of the sea?!"

Amidst his arrogant laughter, Poison Undying had transformed into a hundred-meter-tall dark green giant. His terrifying aura surged forth, instantly suppressing the deep blue light, preventing it from advancing an inch.

Although the Sea Princess possesses combat power at the level of a Limit Douluo, she has not yet condensed a second soul core. In terms of overall strength, she is actually slightly inferior to a human Limit Douluo who possesses a dual soul core with the same resonance.

Even with the power of the ocean, it would be impossible to suppress a Limit Douluo like Poison Undying.

Of course, given the Sea Princess's powerful and unique talents, even a Limit Douluo would have to be extremely wary if she were to fight to the death at any cost.

Unfortunately, she is now facing not just one Limit Douluo, but three.

The Sea Princess snorted coldly, and the deep blue light instantly intensified. It caused no impact, but Xu Zihuang, Elder Xuan, Old Man Gu, and Poison Immortal all felt a complete upheaval; the sky and ocean seemed to twist in unison.

This is a power akin to the might of heaven, and it possesses the characteristic of absolute certainty. Even the three Limit Douluo, Xuan Lao, Gu Lao, and Du Busi, were not immune to its influence.

The earth-shattering sensation lasted for several minutes. When the massive energy around them stopped fluctuating, they found themselves in a deep blue world.

This deep blue world is not a domain, but the ocean!

Elder Xuan was quite frustrated by Du Bu Si's reckless actions. But what was done was done, and further discussion was pointless. In order for Yu Tian Huang to grow up as quickly as possible, they could not possibly give up the Sea Princess's soul ring and soul bone. What they needed to do now was to work together to suppress the Sea Princess as soon as possible.

The ocean is the home ground of sea spirit beasts, who will be suppressed there, while sea spirit beasts like the Sea Princess will thrive in their environment.

With this shift in power, a super soul beast like the Sea Princess might even have the potential to directly confront the three Limit Douluos in the ocean.

Gu Lao's thoughts were similar to Xuan Lao's, but his state of mind remained completely calm. His sole purpose from beginning to end was to help Yu Tianhuang obtain the Sea Princess's soul ring and soul bone, regardless of the means he would use.

Xu Zihuang looked up and saw only a deep blue expanse, surrounded by complete darkness. At depths exceeding two hundred meters, ordinary people cannot see light. The fact that Xu Zihuang and his companions were just a thousand meters above sea level means they are now a thousand meters below sea level.

At such depths, even powerful soul beasts living in the deep sea, such as the Deep Sea Demon Whale and the Evil Demon Orca, struggle to detect the presence of light. They rely more on sound waves they emit for navigation.

However, none of this mattered to Xu Zihuang. His Golden Eye Martial Soul could see through all illusions in the world, providing a clearer picture than anything detected by projecting spiritual power.

The only things affecting him were the immense water pressure and the icy cold currents deep in the ocean.

Xu Zihuang shared the images he saw with Elder Xuan and others by copying the spiritual sharing of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

Within a radius of tens of kilometers, various sea spirit beast groups gathered. Judging from their auras, they were all beings with cultivation levels exceeding ten thousand years. Even the so-called ocean overlords, the demonic whale-type spirit beasts, numbered in the dozens, lurking in the deeper seabed. However, there were no deep-sea demonic whales or evil tiger whales present. This was because these two types of spirit beasts were not only extremely powerful but also exceptionally domineering, utterly disobeying the commands of other spirit beasts.

The closest sea spirit beast clan to Xu Zihuang and his group was the mermaid clan led by the Sea Princess. Besides the Sea Princess, there were also two mermaids, Liya and Lijing, both with over 100,000 years of cultivation, plus hundreds of other mermaids with 10,000 years of cultivation. Each mermaid emanated a powerful spiritual aura.

The Sea Princess, by connecting the spiritual power of the entire clan, unleashed a powerful martial soul combination technique, Heaven and Earth Replacement, which briefly suppressed Xu Zihuang and his group of four.

Soul Fusion Skills represent the fusion and sublimation of two elements, while Soul Combination Skills are purely additive. While additive effects are not as terrifying as sublimation, they can still be extremely frightening when the number of additives reaches a certain level.

Princess Hai and Lijing both glared angrily at Xu Zihuang and his group of four with frosty expressions, while Liya seemed somewhat hesitant.

The Sea Princess held a silver spear and pointed it forward. Instantly, powerful mental fluctuations transformed into a vast, almost tangible net, enveloping Xu Zihuang and his companions.

"Hypocritical humans! Since you've come to hunt down my merfolk, why bother with this pretense?! Kill them!"

"Buzzing—" The first to move were the dozens of demonic whale-like soul beasts lurking deep in the ocean. Their deep, resonant roars spread endlessly into the distance. As if receiving a signal, all the sea soul beasts gathered in this vast area became restless.

The three elders tacitly protected Xu Zihuang in the center, while Xu Zihuang, who had communicated with them beforehand, calmly looked at the Sea Princess in the distance and smiled coldly.

He stretched out his right hand, and the magnificent purple-gold Thor's Spear appeared in his grasp. As he raised the spear high, his right leg also shimmered with purple-gold light, echoing the spear's movement.

Normally, the deep sea contains very little elemental energy other than water. However, thanks to Xu Zihuang's Thunderous Hell Vine right leg soul bone, this sea area was instantly filled with violent lightning elemental energy.

Blackish-purple lightning orbs rapidly condensed and rose into the seawater. An extremely terrifying aura seemed poised to destroy the entire world.

"Thunder Hell".

A strange, soft murmur seemed to resound, and simultaneously, countless blackish-purple lightning orbs exploded, completely staining the entire sea area blackish-purple. Almost instantly, lightning danced in the air. Even the seawater could not stop the blackish-purple lightning from raging wildly within.

Thunder-attribute soul skills are not countered by any other attribute, and conversely, they do not have a significant suppressive effect on other attributes. However, there is one exception: water attribute.

When a lightning-attribute soul master encounters a water-attribute soul master, if it weren't for the vast difference in their cultivation levels, it would be a complete one-sided defeat. Water can act as a natural conductor of lightning, and can even enhance the effects of lightning-attribute soul skills to some extent.

The Soul Bone Skill Thunder Hell that Xu Zihuang is currently unleashing is a prime example. Its coverage area in the seawater reaches an astonishing tens of kilometers, completely transforming the entire sea into a lightning domain.

One by one, the powerful ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts were electrocuted and lost consciousness, drifting towards the surface of the sea. Even the dozens of enormous demonic whale-like martial souls felt a tingling sensation throughout their bodies and were immobilized.

The mermaid clan, led by the Sea Princess, fared even worse. Although the mermaids possessed powerful spiritual attributes, their physical defenses were their weakest point. The beautiful and elegant mermaids, within the range of the Thunder Hell, were enveloped in black and purple lightning, their delicate bodies trembling uncontrollably.

As a result, their combined mental network was disrupted prematurely.

The only ones who seemed to be in a better situation were the Sea Princess, Liya, and Lijing, all mermaids with over 100,000 years of cultivation. A layer of icy blue armor spontaneously appeared around their bodies, a unique defensive ability possessed by the royal family of their mermaid race.

The pure ice armor, free of impurities, was perfectly suited to block lightning. However, Xu Zihuang's Thunder Hell was not an ordinary lightning-attribute soul skill, but a 100,000-year-old soul skill of ultimate lightning attribute, and it was also amplified by the Thunder God's Spear.

In the blink of an eye, fine cracks appeared on the ice armor worn by the Sea Princess and her two daughters, before it shattered with a crash. A look of horror appeared in their eyes.

But the sea princess quickly regained her composure, a cold glint in her eyes. A strange power appeared without warning, and their slender bodies transformed into countless bubbles, disappearing from the spot.

Chapter 488 Overpowered Suppression and the Mermaid's Song

The figures of the Sea Princess and her two daughters vanished in an instant, and the entire sea area was sealed off, with no further signs of water movement. As a result, Xu Zihuang's Thunderous Hell Vine right leg soul bone skill, Thunder Hell, which he had just unleashed, seemed to have lost its medium of propagation, its power drastically reduced.

An unparalleled, immense pressure followed closely behind from all directions. A brilliant blue light flickered in the parallel sea area 500 meters away from Xu Zihuang and his companions, and three figures appeared.

It was indeed the Sea Princess and her two daughters. At this moment, the Sea Princess's eyes had turned into a crystal-clear blue, the azure light deeper than the ocean itself. Rings of blue ripples emanating from them painted the entire area of ​​the sea the same color, as if forming a blue crystal cube several kilometers in diameter.

At the same time, a terrifying mental pressure descended upon Xu Zihuang and his companions. Although Xuan Lao, Gu Lao, and Du Busi were Limit Douluo, they were not spirit-attribute Soul Masters; their spiritual power was only at the initial stage of the tangible and tangible realm. For a moment, their spiritual seas felt as if they were being suppressed.

The three elders, Xuan and his companions, were renowned experts on the continent for many years, but they had never encountered an opponent whose spiritual power could suppress them to such an extent. This Sea Princess was clearly such an existence; her spiritual power was probably not much inferior to that of the Evil Eye Tyrant.

Xu Zihuang's gaze sharpened, and his deep purple eyes instantly turned into a brilliant gold.

In addition to the original six red 100,000-year soul rings of the Purple Thunder Prison Dragon, he now has seven more soul rings, six red and one gold.

Upon seeing the golden spirit ring that seemed to possess endless majesty, the sea princess, with her icy expression, couldn't help but show a deep look of astonishment and shock on her pretty face.

As a super ferocious beast with a cultivation level of 600,000 years, her perception could not be wrong. The bright golden spirit ring that rose up next to Xu Zihuang was definitely a million-year spirit ring.

She never imagined that this human Soul Master would possess a million-year Soul Ring at level seventy. This was beyond what the phrase "extraordinary talent" could describe. Keep in mind, even the current Sea God only obtained a million-year Soul Ring by chance when he killed the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, a creature with nearly a million years of cultivation, while completing the final Soul Ring for his second Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer.

The Sea Princess finally understood why this human Soul Master had been chosen by the Sea God as his successor. Even from the perspective of a Soul Beast, she had to admit Xu Zihuang's extraordinary and unique talent.

However, what shocked the Sea Princess the most was that Xu Zihuang's spiritual power had also reached the peak of tangible and tangible realm, and was currently clashing with her spiritual pressure, showing no sign of being at a disadvantage.

Xu Zihuang dared to confront Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, two Limit Douluos, largely because of his tangible and tangible peak-level spiritual power. Although he used his Gold-level Body Martial Soul for a second awakening, his spiritual power was only forcibly raised to the demigod level, but even demigod-level spiritual power has different levels.

There is definitely a gap between achieving demigod-level mental power through a second awakening of a gold-level body spirit at the peak of the tangible and tangible realm, and forcibly achieving demigod-level mental power through a second awakening of a gold-level body spirit when one's mental power has just entered the tangible and tangible realm.

It is also because the realm of gods is quite special that Xu Zihuang was unable to force his spiritual power to cross a realm directly by using the second awakening of his gold-level martial soul.

The reason he was able to break through his spiritual power level again in such a short time was because he absorbed the dragon soul energy of several spiritual attribute dragons in Dragon Valley.

The three elders, whose spiritual seas had been under significantly less pressure, were startled when they sensed the terrifying spiritual pressure emanating from Xu Zihuang.

It turns out that Yu Tianhuang's spiritual power had already reached such a level. No wonder he was so confident in hunting down the Sea Princess, who had cultivated for 600,000 years, as his eighth spirit ring.

A spiritual force at its peak, possessing both tangible and substantial qualities, can at least guarantee the suppression of the Sea Princess's resentment during the absorption of the spirit ring. Aside from this most troublesome aspect, the energy impact of a spirit beast's spirit ring on a spirit master is relatively less domineering.

This was the case when Xu Zihuang absorbed the pure spiritual-type 100,000-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant. Once the resentment in his soul was suppressed, the subsequent absorption of the soul ring was almost a natural process.

"Elder Xuan, I think there's no need for further negotiation now, is there?" Xu Zihuang asked Elder Xuan beside him, his eyes deep and unfathomable, as he lowered the Thunder God Spear he had been holding high.

Poison Immortal and Ancient Elder, who had been suppressed back to their original forms by the Mermaid Clan's martial soul combination technique, exchanged a glance, and then simultaneously turned their gazes to Elder Xuan.

"Prepare to make your move."

Elder Xuan sighed with a complex expression, his eyes gradually hardening. He naturally sensed the chilling killing intent emanating from the Sea Princess. Moreover, the Sea Princess had remained resolute throughout, unwilling to become Yu Tianhuang's soul spirit. Furthermore, the Sea Princess's soul ring was extremely important to Yu Tianhuang. If he could absorb the Sea Princess's soul ring and soul bone, Yu Tianhuang's strength would undoubtedly experience another leap forward—this was foreseeable.

Ultimately, however, the root cause lies in their differing stances. Human Soul Masters hunt Soul Beasts, while Soul Beasts prey on humans for food; this antagonism has persisted since ancient times.

However, what made Elder Xuan make up his mind was something else entirely. A year ago, when Yu Tianhuang returned to the Sea God Pavilion at Shrek Academy, he and Elder Mu discovered that Yu Tianhuang had been favored by the Sea God.

He subconsciously interpreted Yu Tianhuang's desire to hunt down the Sea Princess as his eighth spirit ring as guidance from the Sea God. He believed the Sea Princess, like the Deep Sea Demon Whale King before her, must have harmed other sea spirit beasts, thus incurring the Sea God's wrath.

The act of killing the sea princess may itself be a trial.

In that brief moment, Xu Zihuang had already countered the Sea Princess's mental power. Strange dark red ripples spread out, and the sea area that the Sea Princess had previously controlled with her innate ability instantly condensed into dark red crystals.

All the sea spirit beasts summoned by the Sea Princess solidified their forms within the dark red crystal.

"Stop!" The Sea Princess's expression changed drastically, and Liya and Lijing beside her were also shocked. As members of the top races of the ocean, how could they not be familiar with the incredibly domineering innate soul skill of the Demon Orca race?

The reason why the Demonic Orca Clan has been able to consistently suppress the Demonic Soul Great White Shark Clan is because of this innate soul skill that can solidify everything. When seawater is solidified, the sea soul beasts that lose their support will rapidly decrease in strength, with most unable to even unleash half of their peak power.

Xu Zihuang's Mirror Annihilation is virtually unstoppable for ordinary sea spirit beasts. Only exceptionally powerful races can contend with it, such as the Deep Sea Demon Whale clan.

The three women, including the Sea Princess, seemed to be able to see the countless sea spirit beasts from the far north perishing there.

In desperation, the sea princess had no choice but to use all her spiritual power to protect her people.

Off!

The Mirror's Destruction was unleashed with a vengeance. The dark red crystal shattered, and a massive cubic gap, several kilometers in diameter, appeared across the entire far northern sea. The gap was bottomless, its sides lined with deep blue seawater, as clean and sharp as if carved by a knife. For a moment, the seawater seemed to freeze.

If viewed from high above, one would be deeply awestruck by the sight before them. The vast, boundless Arctic Ocean appears as if a section of the sea has been erased from the sky.

In the center of this cubic gap, Xu Zihuang and his three companions faced off against Princess Hai and her two daughters.