Hu Liena pursed her lips, wanting to retort but unable to find the words.
It was true. There were many powerhouses in the world. To say nothing of others, just the Grand Priest Bo Saixi alone was someone she could never be a match for.
But she was still young, and her soul power was only at the eight-ring Soul Douluo level. She still had plenty of room to grow. Even if she could not be a match now, it was only a matter of time.
She just did not know whether she could beat her teacher now.
Bibi Dong: My disciple is truly filial!
"Come, Nana, test the effects of the soul bone skills and soul skills."
Chu Chengzhou pinched his girl's fair, rosy cheek and spoke.
Hu Liena nodded. Soul power flashed at her brow. A black-purple, eerie evil eye surfaced behind her head. She then tested her newly obtained soul bone skills and soul skills in turn.
After more than half an hour, Chu Chengzhou had figured out the effects attached to the Evil Eye Tyrant's two soul bones and the soul rings.
The Evil Eye external soul bone was a bit special. It was completely different from Chu Chengzhou's Holy Light Dragon Armor, Xiao Wu's Qiankun Ear, and Bibi Dong's Six-Winged Purple Light Wings. The three of them all had external soul bones that were connected to the body.
But Hu Liena's Evil Eye external soul bone was detached from the body. It was not an eye that grew directly at the brow. It was more like a special soul tool.
In addition, in principle, soul bones of one hundred thousand years and above all carry two soul bone skills, but the Evil Eye external soul bone was an exception, carrying only one.
Soul bone skill: Destructive Light. Driven by soul power and spiritual power, it is a spiritual attack-type soul bone skill. Specifically, a black-purple beam filled with destructive aura bursts from the Evil Eye external soul bone. Its power is extremely great.
Compared to the external soul bone, the Evil Eye Tyrant head soul bone was much more normal, carrying two skills.
Soul bone skill: Evil Eye Gaze. A spiritual control-type soul bone skill. It can forcibly stun the target. The exact duration depends on the relative strength of spiritual power on both sides, but is at least five seconds.
However, Chu Chengzhou tested it and found that the forced stun effect of Evil Eye Gaze has an upper limit on what it can affect.
In his normal state, when his spiritual power had not stepped into the Divine Origin Realm, he would be forcibly stunned for five seconds.
But whether wearing Nine Heavens Chaos Armor or after entering Transform Spirit state, once his spiritual power stepped into the Divine Origin Realm, the forced stun could not take effect on him.
The second soul bone skill of the Evil Eye Tyrant head soul bone: Light of Space-time. It contains the mystery of time. Unlike ordinary spiritual attacks and spiritual control skills, it is somewhat like a negative buff. Once it hits, the target's spiritual origin will fall into a weakened state.
In his normal state, Chu Chengzhou took a direct hit from Hu Liena's Light of Space-time and immediately felt like when Qian Renxue had hollowed him out back then. In fact, it was even worse. His spirit drooped to the extreme.
Fortunately, his Time Dragon spirit summon Xiao Guang had mastered the divine ability Time Reversal. Otherwise the situation would have been serious.
Hu Liena's eighth soul skill also had two effects.
Eighth soul skill: Nine Heavens Starfall. It draws down one hundred and eight strands of starlight from the sky. Those struck by the starlight will suffer strong spiritual paralysis. The exact effect depends on the relative strength of spiritual power on both sides. It is a group spiritual control skill.
Eighth soul skill: Star-Moon Field, a domain-type soul skill.
It draws down the radiance of the stars and moon. Within the range of the Star-Moon Field, all opponents whose spiritual power is weaker than one's own will be suppressed to a certain extent.
Those suppressed will suffer dizziness, sluggishness, weakness, confusion, and other negative states. The weaker the opponent, the stronger the negative effects, and vice versa.
Mm. The soul skills were good, and the soul bone skills were good too, but this still did not change Hu Liena's ranking in the continent's soul master world.
With average soul skills and soul bone skills, aside from Tang Chen, who was trapped in the City of Slaughter and half-crippled and thus uncertain, Hu Liena, whose spiritual power was close to the peerless realm, could not beat Chu Chengzhou, nor could she beat demigod-level Bo Saixi and Qian Daoliu.
Even with these impressive soul skills and soul bone skills, Hu Liena still could not beat those three.
As for Bibi Dong, she had the strength, but restricted by the Rakshasa God Trial, she could not fully exert it. Chu Chengzhou could not say for sure whether teacher or disciple was stronger right now.
Early the next morning, after saying farewell to his four girls, Chu Chengzhou left Seagod Island and set out back for the continent.
The Life Ancient Tree spirit summon Xiao Qing had gained a Resurrection divine skill, and the Time Dragon spirit summon Xiao Guang could exempt Xiao Qing from the price required to use Resurrection. It was time to revive his several mothers-in-law and father-in-law who had died early and give his girls a surprise.
Near noon, a platinum dragon shadow flew at extreme speed from the western sky above the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then, to the astonishment of the sect's Titled Douluo, landed in the back mountain cemetery.
He spread out his spiritual power to send a voice transmission to Fengzhi. Chu Chengzhou's gaze shifted from the human-shaped dark-silver statue kneeling before the grave to his mother-in-law's tomb.
Then he reached out and scooped. As spatial ripples rose, the big red coffin that had been in the tomb chamber appeared before the gravestone.
"My fault, my fault."
He bowed three times to atone, then opened the coffin lid.
With a waft of rot, what met Chu Chengzhou's eyes was a decayed skeleton dressed in a gorgeous long dress.
More than ten years had passed. His mother-in-law's body had long decayed, leaving only bones. The clothing, however, was of excellent quality, likely woven from the silk of a high-year soul beast of the silkworm type. There was no sign of decay.
Next, Chu Chengzhou manifested the True Spirit Banner martial soul. The pure golden first million-year soul ring shone. In the air above the cemetery, a tree's shadow appeared, vast enough to blot out the sky.
"Xiao Qing, give me a Grand Resurrection."
Pointing at the bones in the coffin, Chu Chengzhou spoke to Xiao Qing.
Chu Chengzhou: Resurrect, my mother-in-law!
Rustle rustle.
The branches of the sky-covering tree shadow, saturated with the aura of life, swayed and rustled.
As surging soul power flowed, a beam of emerald light full of life shot into the sky and enveloped the entire coffin.
At once, under the infusion of boundless life force, the decayed bones in the coffin regained vitality, shed the rot, turned pure white again, and then flesh rapidly grew.
Through the brilliant emerald glow, Chu Chengzhou saw clearly as the bones that had long since decayed turned, in an instant, into a beautiful woman who looked about thirty, her features five parts similar to Ning Rongrong's.
In the next second, once the body was restored, with the rippling of the life laws, yin and yang reversed, the soul revived, and the once lifeless body emitted spiritual fluctuations again.
After that, the brilliant emerald pillar dimmed. In midair, the greatly weakened Xiao Qing shrank rapidly and turned into a three-foot-long sapling that fell into Chu Chengzhou's hand.