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

With the Sea Princess's full assistance, the countless sea creatures imprisoned by the Mirror's Destruction were spared no casualties. Of course, this was also because Xu Zihuang never intended to kill those sea spirit beasts; his goal was simply to deprive the Sea Princess and her two daughters of their reliance on the seawater.

“Xuanzi, Old Bone Dragon, there’s no need to talk about morality with soul beasts, is there?” Poison Undying laughed.

"Just in case, let's attack together. I don't think you want to see Yu Tianhuang's acquired soul rings and soul bones fly away for nothing, do you?"

Poison Immortal charged towards the Sea Princess and her two daughters. Elder Xuan and Elder Gu, knowing that the opportunity created by Yu Tianhuang was once in a lifetime, surrounded the Sea Princess from three sides.

But during the operation, Elder Xuan was not idle; he snorted irritably.

"Isn't this how your Body Sect always acts? It's not like you, old poisoner, have ever spoken of morality."

"Alright, Xuanzi, Poison Old Monster, let's not argue now," the old man said helplessly, trying to smooth things over.

"First, blockade the sea area to prevent her from using it as a base."

The sea princess's face was extremely gloomy, and her eyes were filled with a cold light. She promptly used her previous methods again to transfer her two daughters to the water walls on both sides of the cubic gap.

Poison Immortal, Elder Xuan, and Ancient Elder forcibly compelled Princess Dihai to ascend into the sky!

A moment later, only deep blue, dark green, earthy yellow, and pitch black light flashed continuously in the high sky.

And this huge cubic gap in the far northern sea has begun to close.

"Boom!"

The seawater poured down from all sides with a deafening roar. The terrifying roar echoed endlessly across the ocean, and the sea, stretching for tens of kilometers, began to boil from the inside out. Various floating ice floes and icebergs on the sea surface shattered, triggering a chain reaction that spread far and wide with the boiling water.

The waves surged and the water churned. This earth-shattering roar was like the wrath of heaven descending.

Worried about their mother's safety, Regent and Liya swam upwards to meet each other through the two still-open water walls. Although the huge fish tail only swayed gently in the seawater, its speed was astonishing.

Mermaids not only possess innate spiritual abilities, but they are also the fastest swimming race in the ocean.

The seawater below surged and was slow to calm down. Liya and Lijing had already flown out of the seawater.

"Mother!" they cried out anxiously, their voices filled with the power of their own spirits, as they gazed at the sky. Their fishtails, supported by the waves, instantly propelled them over a thousand meters away.

With their cultivation levels of 100,000 years, it's certainly not that they can't fly. However, they cannot leave the seawater; only by using the seawater to support their bodies can they unleash their full power.

This was, after all, a vast ocean. As Liya and Lijing stepped onto the water, the dense moisture from the ocean surged into the air, making it viscous.

They didn't want to interfere in the battle between Limit Douluos, but rather hoped that their mother could rely on the seawater and draw upon its power. That way, even if they were outmatched, they would have the strength to retreat.

However, the two mermaid princesses overlooked Xu Zihuang's presence.

A flash of purple-gold lightning appeared, and Xu Zihuang, wielding the Thor's Spear, stood in front of Liya and Lijing.

"Humans, why have you come to our home? Our mother, who rules over the sea races of the far north, has never invaded your human territory. Why do you want to destroy the peace of our pure land?" Liya looked up at Xu Zihuang, her beautiful eyes filled with tears, appearing pitiful and endearing. Her first encounter with humans had revealed their greed and malice towards them, her soul beasts. Her previous understanding had been completely overturned, and she seemed to have matured considerably in an instant.

"Why must a mother become a spirit ring for you humans?!"

Xu Zihuang met Liya's gaze calmly. Liya's distraught and desperate expression reminded him of his past self. During the three years of confinement, he spent every moment in despair and hatred, from initial fierce resistance to eventual numbness.

He also felt indignant and resentful about this, wondering why such a thing had happened to his family.

But in the end, he came to a complete understanding of reality.

"There's no reason why, it's all because of your weakness." Xu Zihuang chuckled lightly, as if mocking himself.

"No matter how noble your reasons may be, no matter how righteous your insistence may be, if you are weak, you can do nothing. Weakness is the original sin."

"Lia, stop wasting your breath on these despicable humans, kill him, and then go support Mother!" Lijing shouted urgently, raising her hands upwards.

Countless streams of seawater transformed into water arrows, shooting straight towards Xu Zihuang high in the sky.

Xu Zihuang waved the Thor's Spear in his hand expressionlessly, his eyes shining with golden light, effortlessly deflecting the dense high-pressure water arrows that were powerful enough to pierce through fine iron.

Hearing her sister's reminder, Liya calmed herself down. She knew that the most urgent thing now was to get their mother out of danger.

She closed her eyes and clasped her hands together at her chest. A beautiful song began to flow from her lips. Centered on her body, concentric circles of blue light radiated outwards, drifting relentlessly towards Xu Zihuang's location.

Mermaid Song. A hybrid soul skill combining sound waves and mental attributes, similar to Vina's fourth soul skill, Banshee's Howl, from her Brain Martial Soul. However, Liya's Mermaid Song is a pure control-type soul skill.

Xu Zihuang did not block out his hearing because this soul skill has a mental attribute effect, and simply blocking out his hearing would have no effect at all.

As expected of a mermaid princess who inherited the golden bloodline of the mermaid royal family, Liya's mermaid song made Xu Zihuang feel slightly dizzy and shaky, but that was all.

A melodious whale call suddenly rang out, instantly drowning out Liya's singing, and all the negative effects were dispelled.

Since his first spirit ring was upgraded to the 100,000-year level, Xu Zihuang's first spirit skill, White Whale's Roar, truly lived up to its name as an immunity to all negative effects. Now, the control effects of all mental attribute spirit skills cannot affect him.

In other words, even if the Evil Eye Tyrant were to face him now, his mental control-type soul skills would be ineffective against him.

Compared to Liya, Lijing's mental abilities are much weaker; she is more proficient in water and ice attributes. Countless ice spears condensed under her control. Seeing Xu Zihuang easily dispel the control effect of her sister's mental attribute soul skill, she became increasingly surprised and suspicious.

Before she could even attack Xu Zihuang, he swung his Thor's Spear once more. A deep rumble of thunder followed, and streaks of blackish-purple lightning, as thick as buckets, descended from the sky without warning.

Thunderous Hell Vine's right leg soul bone skill: Forest of Lightning.

Every bolt of lightning in the Thunder Forest possessed the power to easily annihilate a ten-thousand-year-old demonic whale-like soul beast. Since Liya and Lijing were not skilled in defense, these two mermaid princesses had no choice but to frantically dodge.

The fact that mental abilities were ineffective against Xu Zihuang sealed their fate, meaning they were destined to be completely suppressed. The scales of victory had tipped. And Xu Zihuang didn't intend to kill Liya and Lijing.

Chapter 489 Special External Soul Bone

Under the pressure of Xu Zihuang's Lightning Forest Soul Skill, the thousand-meter-high wave that Liya and Lijing had jointly created came to an abrupt halt and plummeted towards the sea surface. Streaks of dark purple lightning filled the sea area.

Among the sea spirit beasts rescued by the Sea Princess, the dozens of demonic whale-type spirit beasts with cultivation levels exceeding ten thousand years were the first to recover due to their powerful physical forms and species. However, they dared not surface at all, or even approach the surface, for fear of being struck by the dark purple lightning.

Looking down from the sky, all that could be seen were enormous shadows moving in the depths of the sea. These were the demonic whale-like soul beasts that were helpless against Xu Zihuang's attacks.

As for the other sea spirit beast races, the situation is even worse. Even the powerful magical whale-type spirit beasts with strong physical abilities dare not approach the Thunder Forest; once they are trapped inside, they will only perish there.

Xu Zihuang almost single-handedly suppressed the sea spirit beasts in the entire far northern ice sea.

After realizing that their spirit-attribute soul skills were ineffective against Xu Zihuang, Liya and Lijing decisively changed their approach. They led hundreds of mermaids, rapidly swimming across the seabed and spreading out to form a faint, deep blue rune. They seemed to be the focal points of this strange rune, their soul power and spiritual energy fluctuations resonating with each other.

Immediately afterwards, a huge column of water shot into the sky from the icy sea, like a giant waterspout piercing through the heavens and earth, reaching straight into the clouds.

Xu Zihuang looked up at the battlefield higher in the sky and instantly realized Liya and Lijing's intentions.

His figure flashed again, blocking the water column directly in front of him. Xu Zihuang raised his right hand, and a deep, mysterious black sphere of light formed in his palm. This sphere of light was not pure black; it also incorporated gradients of blue, purple, and cyan. In an instant, it expanded to a diameter of over a hundred meters.

Dark Demon Thunder!

This is the true form of Dark Demon Lightning. Compared to compressing it to its extreme to form primordial matter and then releasing it, Dark Demon Lightning in its normal state is weaker, but it is easier to control, and after exploding, it is a wide-range, multi-attribute mixed attack.

The dark, demonic lightning crashed down upon the water column.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom—"

Thunder rumbled, and the Dark Demon Thunder unleashed its terrifying power. The violent impact of the six elemental energies—wind, thunder, evil, destruction, darkness, and space—directly shattered the water columns raised by the two mermaid princesses and their people, turning them into countless droplets that fell towards the sea.

Bathed in its light, Xu Zihuang coldly withdrew the Thunder God Spear. Only the seven spirit rings of the Golden Eye remained beside him.

The sixth-ranked blood-red 100,000-year soul ring suddenly flashed, and a layer of brilliant golden light enveloped the sea area for tens of kilometers, including the area where Elder Xuan, Elder Gu, Poison Immortal and the Sea Princess were fighting.

Mental Field! Xu Zihuang's most wide-ranging mental control soul skill. If he wanted, he could even affect an area hundreds of kilometers away. However, the control effect wouldn't diminish if the range was kept within its current limits.

The negative effects of various mind control-type soul skills appeared on the sea soul beasts below the sea, and the sea princess, who was thousands of meters in the air, was also affected to some extent.

Liya and Lijing were still unwilling to give up and wanted to stir up the waves to help their mother, but they were unable to break through Xu Zihuang's defenses.

While suppressing the sea spirit beasts below the sea, Xu Zihuang calmly kept an eye on the battle situation in the sky.

The jet-black Bone Dragon King, the imposing Taotie Divine Bull, and the dark green giant flickered with light and shadow high in the sky. The three elders, Xuan Lao and his companions, unleashed their Martial Soul True Forms, and with their combined strength, they were already suppressing the Earth Sea Princess, forcing her into a steady retreat.

In the state of Martial Soul True Body, all of a Soul Master's attributes will be amplified, including mental strength.

Although the Sea Princess's spiritual power was stronger than that of Elder Xuan and the other two, it was unrealistic for her to seriously injure a Limit Douluo whose spiritual power was also at the tangible and material level. Moreover, she had lost the support of the seawater.

A trickle of crimson blood spilled from the corner of the Sea Princess's mouth. Her breath was weak, and her eyes were filled with desolation. Facing the combined attack of three Limit Douluos, she was already severely injured.

"Despicable humans, even if I die, I will never let you have your way!"

Seeing the attacks coming one after another from Elder Xuan and the other two, the Sea Princess's eyes instantly turned golden, and her enormous fish tail swayed. A golden figure slowly appeared behind her, revealing herself.

The figure of light raised its hands upwards, and a blue hexagonal crystal appeared, floating in mid-air.

The energy attacks released by Elder Xuan, Elder Gu, and Poison Immortal, who had comprehended the true meaning of their own martial souls, instantly dissipated under this crystal.

Heart of the Ocean. A powerful ability possessed only by those with the golden bloodline of the Merfolk royal family, a legendary super soul skill. It has two functions: First, immunity! Immune to all energy attacks once. Second, amplification, feeding back the energy contained in the immunity to the attack to the user of Heart of the Ocean, causing a sudden increase in their power, which is then combined with their own power to unleash a powerful attack in the next attack.

Holding the Heart of the Ocean, the Sea Princess became completely immune to the attacks from Elder Xuan and his companions. Her body also transformed into a brilliant gold. A terrifying spiritual aura surged, stirring the vast ocean thousands of meters below, causing towering waves to crash against it.

Then, she raised the Heart of the Ocean high. A blue beam of light burst forth from it, shooting straight towards where Elder Xuan and the other two were. This beam of light contained various kinds of energy, including water elemental energy, ice elemental energy, Elder Xuan's earth elemental energy, and ancient dark elemental energy, and finally, it was infused with the Sea Princess's terrifying spiritual power.

This attack is known as the curse of the Heart of the Ocean.

When this blue light appeared silently, the sky above the entire Arctic Ocean darkened, and countless lightning bolts flashed in the air, giving the impression that the sky was collapsing and the earth was sinking.

The Sea Princess's all-out attack at this moment was far more powerful than any attack from a Limit Douluo level.

"Despicable humans, I will make you perish forever in this far northern icy sea!" the sea princess roared, the brilliant golden light on her body becoming even more dazzling, and her aura soaring once more.

In order to trap Elder Xuan and the other two and force them to directly bear the curse of the Heart of the Ocean, she did not hesitate to burn the golden bloodline within her body. Her spiritual power level even showed a tendency to break through the shackles of the tangible and material classic peak.

Elder Xuan, Elder Gu, and Poison Immortal's expressions changed slightly. Under the Sea Princess's almost insane mental pressure, their martial spirit origins felt suppressed. However, their eyes did not show much panic.

In particular, Poison Undying gave the Sea Princess a mocking smile.

Just as the blue beam of light was about to envelop Elder Xuan and the other two, a golden eye appeared quietly, guiding them into the void.

Xu Zihuang stood proudly high in the sky, gazing at the bewildered sea princess opposite him.

Caught completely off guard, Xu Zihuang's Golden Eye Martial Soul True Body's innate ability, Void, was virtually unstoppable. Who could have imagined that such a powerful attack could be so easily neutralized by him?

Next, it was time for Elder Xuan and his two companions to counterattack.

Ancient stood atop the thousand-meter-tall Bone Dragon King, his gaze slightly narrowed. With a thought, a dark cage, seemingly capable of imprisoning heaven and earth, appeared from the void, binding the Sea Princess's form.

Elder Xuan then circled his hands, and the Taotie Divine Ox behind him roared deafeningly. A thick, earth-yellow ball of light appeared above his hands.

This ball of light looked extremely strange. Its interior seemed to be solid, but it was suspended in pieces, each emitting a strange light.

Under Elder Xuan's control, the yellow orb of light rose and then transformed into a fertile, earth-yellow continent that pressed down from the sky.

"Huh?" Upon seeing this, Du Bu Si's movements slowed down by half a beat, and he showed a look of surprise.

"Xuanzi, you're in the simulated continent? You've actually reached this level?"

Once you reach the Limit Douluo realm, ordinary soul skills become largely ineffective in battle. What you need to focus on is understanding the true essence of your own martial soul and connecting with the power of heaven and earth.

The ancient dark cage it released was just like that, possessing the effect of dark confinement. However, compared to Elder Xuan, who directly simulated the continent, his understanding of his own martial soul was clearly inferior to Elder Xuan's.

Elder Xuan's face didn't show much pride. His achievement was entirely due to the Earth Dragon Golden Melon. That Earth Dragon Golden Melon was ninety thousand years old, and its attributes perfectly matched his Gluttonous Divine Ox Martial Soul. The medicinal effects of his Earth Dragon Golden Melon were superior to the ancient Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid and the indestructible Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum.