Transformed into his martial soul true body, the Taotie Divine Bull, Xuanzi saw that golden soul ring shining in the world. Even in his state of madness, he couldn't help but be shocked.
"This... a million-year soul ring!! How is this possible!" Xuanzi's bull mouth emitted a buzzing, rumbling low roar like an earthquake.
As the second-in-command of Shrek Academy, Xuanzi had read many ancient texts, including secrets from ten thousand years ago about Sea God Tang San.
The records stated that Sea God Tang San's second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer's ninth soul ring, was a golden soul ring, produced from the million-year soul beast, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's strength was second only to gods, the strongest soul beast in recorded history.
Because of this, Xuanzi naturally knew what a golden soul ring represented.
Xuanzi's enormous blood-red bull eyes stared fixedly at the six black and one gold—seven soul rings on Wang Chen's body.
The six black soul rings weren't anything special; they were either from a second martial soul or elevated in age through cruel and bloody secret techniques.
But that golden soul ring was truly too unbelievable.
Xuanzi couldn't help but think, "This little beast, from the thickness of his soul power, is just an ordinary Title Douluo. With this level of strength, how could he possibly hunt a million-year soul beast! And even if he could hunt it, he shouldn't be able to absorb it."
However, no matter how unbelievable it was to Xuanzi, the golden soul ring was right before his eyes, so he could only accept the fact.
After the momentary shock, the killing intent in Xuanzi's bull eyes became even more intense.
With Xuanzi's discerning eye, even though Wang Chen was fully armed and his face was covered by a mask, making his appearance unclear, he could still determine through aura that Wang Chen's age wasn't great.
Xuanzi thought darkly to himself, "This little beast is so young yet has such strength, and even a million-year soul ring. Most crucially, he's hostile to my Shrek Academy and suspected to be from the Sun-Moon Empire.
If this little beast is allowed to continue cultivating, given time, he will inevitably become a great enemy to Shrek Academy and the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
In the future, Shrek Academy and the Douluo Three Kingdoms might even be destroyed by this little beast's hands.
This child absolutely cannot be spared. Today, even if this old man risks his life, he must kill this little beast to eliminate future threats!!"
Xuanzi roared, "Little beast, come and die!"
The massive Taotie Divine Bull's horns lit up with several soul rings, the red soul ring shining even brighter.
A dozens-of-meters-large earthy yellow energy orb gathered on the Taotie Divine Bull's horns. Then, Xuanzi thrust his bull head, and the energy orb swept toward Wang Chen like lightning.
The orb moved at incredible speed, shrinking and condensing during its flight, compressing from dozens of meters to one meter in the blink of an eye. Wherever the orb passed, it left a deep black ravine, as if space itself couldn't contain its existence.
This energy orb was no simple thing; besides multiple soul skills, it also contained combat techniques and rich earth attribute origin power, along with Xuanzi's slight insights into space. Its power was so great that even a level 97 Super Douluo would die upon contact.
Xuanzi's killing intent toward Wang Chen had reached the extreme, so he struck with a fatal blow right away, without probing or holding back, determined not to let Wang Chen live one second longer in the world.
At the moment Xuanzi launched his attack.
After using his martial soul true body, Wang Chen underwent a massive change.
As a million-year soul beast, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had very weak combat power, but its million-year cultivation level was genuine.
A million-year soul beast could be said to be just one step away from godhood.
And the strength of the seventh soul skill, Martial Soul True Body, depended solely on the soul ring's level, that is, its age, and had nothing to do with the soul beast's own strength.
A million-year martial soul true body was a demigod-level powerful soul skill.
A Title Douluo-level hundred-thousand-year martial soul true body wasn't even worthy to carry its shoes.
The originally faint white artifact spirit martial soul separated from the natal soul tool, the God-Suppressing Spear, and then merged into Wang Chen's body.
In an instant, dazzling golden light emerged on Wang Chen's body, making him sacred and noble, like a deity.
Merely standing in mid-air, he seemed like the center of heaven and earth, with everything in the world reduced to his backdrop.
Every soul master, upon breaking through to level 70, regardless of the soul ring obtained, would undergo a qualitative change in their martial soul.
And the martial soul would truly integrate with the soul master's body, allowing the use of martial soul true body.
However, the effects of martial soul true body varied for different soul masters.
For beast martial soul soul masters, they would fully transform into the form of their martial soul. Then, depending on the martial soul, attributes would increase to varying degrees.
For example, a soul master with a fire dragon martial soul, after using martial soul true body, could double their strength, speed, defense, and other attributes, with fire attribute power also receiving a significant boost.
But for weaker martial souls, like a lizard, even after using martial soul true body, the increases in various attributes wouldn't be great.
After all, transforming into a giant dragon versus a lizard—the enhancements were definitely different.
This was why, at the Soul Sage level, the gaps between soul masters would widen further.
The situation for tool soul masters was slightly different from beast soul masters; their seventh soul skill was Tool Soul True Body. Using themselves as the soul of the tool martial soul, it maximized the attributes emphasized by the tool martial soul.
For example, soul masters with the Seven Killing Sword or Clear Sky Hammer martial souls, after using tool soul true body, wouldn't gain much in other aspects, but their attack power would receive a terrifying boost.
Martial soul true body was comprehensive, while tool soul true body focused on one point. In terms of attack, tool soul true body was more terrifying than martial soul true body.
Thus, before level 70, beast soul masters had an advantage over tool soul masters due to greater bodily enhancements from beast martial souls. But after level 70, tool soul masters would surpass them with tool soul true body.
There were also support-type martial souls, like the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda; the tool soul true body effect wasn't to boost personal attributes but to reduce soul power consumption.
And some special martial souls, like food-type soul masters, whose seventh soul skill wasn't martial soul true body but still producing food.
Wang Chen's artifact spirit martial soul was also a special type of martial soul.
After using martial soul true body, the artifact spirit martial soul merged into Wang Chen's body. At this moment, Wang Chen was equivalent to the artifact spirit itself, with infinite spirit origin flowing through his body.
In this state, Wang Chen's comprehension of spirit origin deepened another layer.
Previously, no matter how Wang Chen used spirit origin, it was ultimately separated by a layer, needing to draw it from the martial soul. But now, the spirit origin was within his own body.
Moreover, because the million-year soul ring was at a demigod level, under the effect of the million-year martial soul true body, Wang Chen sensed something deeper than origin power—that was rule power.
Rule power was a powerful force that only Limit Douluo could sense, and only truly extraordinary Limit Douluo could comprehend rules through prolonged sensing.
Under the perspective of spirit rules, Wang Chen perceived the world and saw things he couldn't see before.
He saw that mountains had spirits, water had spirits, all things in the world had spirits.
But their spirits were ignorant, without wisdom, so in the past, Wang Chen could imbue them with his spirit origin to influence and control them.
Wang Chen sensed the spirits of all things in heaven and earth, like the ruler of all, even feeling that with a wave of his hand, he could mobilize the spirits of heaven and earth, gathering the power of all spirits to empower himself.
Unfortunately, this was just a feeling; to achieve it, he would probably need to truly comprehend the spirit rules.
Just as Wang Chen's mind wandered due to the spirit rules.
Xuanzi's attack swept toward him. That earthy yellow energy orb shook space, its power extremely astonishing.
Looking at Xuanzi's attack, Wang Chen's eyes focused. Immediately after, a strand of golden energy merged into the God-Suppressing Spear.
In an instant, the God-Suppressing Spear suddenly changed from silver-white to gold.
On the golden God-Suppressing Spear, dense silver-white spatial power condensed. Its mere existence made the surrounding space viscous.
The God-Suppressing Spear, originally only at the level of a level 9 soul tool, instantly became countless times stronger, directly reaching peak level 9 soul tool. With the power of a spatial soul tool, it could completely match a Limit Douluo like Ye Xishui.
This was the effect of Wang Chen's million-year seventh soul ring: an ultra-large-scale comprehensive amplification and strengthening of weapons.
The magnitude of this amplification was simply immeasurable.
Under the amplification of the million-year soul skill, the God-Suppressing Spear, aside from functional shortcomings due to Wang Chen's craftsmanship—not being too comprehensive—in other aspects, was no inferior to Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier.
And the power of the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier needed no further explanation; with the spatial soul tool Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier, Kong Deming's strength was enough to rival Limit Douluo.
Of course, amplifying the ordinary God-Suppressing Spear to rival the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier wasn't without cost; the cost was massive soul power consumption.
This consumption made even Wang Chen somewhat alarmed. He roughly estimated that with his soul power, he could only maintain it for thirty seconds; after thirty seconds, his soul power would be completely exhausted.
Wang Chen gripped the God-Suppressing Spear, now amplified to peak level 9 soul tool, feeling his rapidly depleting soul power, and immediately dared not waste even a bit more time.
With one spear thrust, Spatial Imprisonment, activate!
But this time, the power of Spatial Imprisonment was completely different from before. How could the Spatial Imprisonment from a peak level 9 soul tool God-Suppressing Spear compare to the previous one?
Whether in power, range, or duration, it had undergone a qualitative change from the past.
In the direction pointed by the God-Suppressing Spear's tip, spatial power continuously compressed, intending to solidify everything within the range.
The earthy yellow energy orb released by Xuanzi directly stopped ten meters away from Wang Chen, then influenced by spatial power, directly dissipated into nothing.
As a level 98 peak Super Douluo, Xuanzi's perception of spatial power was already very strong; at this moment, he naturally felt the terror of Spatial Imprisonment.
Xuanzi immediately let out an angry roar, bright yellow blooming from his body. On the Taotie Divine Bull's over ten-meter-large horns, all nine soul rings surprisingly lit up like burning flames with brilliant light. Xuanzi's aura received another significant boost compared to before, clearly having used a secret technique.
Immediately after, a mass of yellow light gradually grew in Xuanzi's hand, forming a comical weapon.
The weapon was thick at the top and narrow at the bottom; if looked at closely, one could see that Xuanzi's weapon resembled a chicken leg very much.
Xuanzi exploded with a shout, his whole body muscles suddenly swelling, and he swung the chicken leg weapon, heavily striking against the imprisoning space around him.
Clearly, Xuanzi wanted to break the spatial imprisonment with a powerful attack.
But everything was in vain. The power of a peak level 9 soul tool wasn't something a level 98 peak Super Douluo could resist.
Xuanzi's chicken leg weapon smashed into the space, but the imprisoning space was extremely solid, merely fluctuating a bit, then firmly trapping Xuanzi, making him unable to move.
After being imprisoned by space, Xuanzi immediately used all his strength to struggle frantically, his appearance quite similar to the deceased Yan Shaozhe.
After using the Spatial Imprisonment skill, Wang Chen's face was now pale as paper. Clearly, the consumption of a peak level 9 Spatial Imprisonment was extraordinarily huge.
If not for the mask covering it, anyone could see that Wang Chen must be extremely weak at this moment.
However, although Wang Chen's soul power was now less than ten percent, seeing Xuanzi imprisoned, he still couldn't help but curve his lips into a smile.
What he needed to do now was attack Xuanzi as much as possible. If he could kill Xuanzi, that would be best. Even if he couldn't kill him, he had to severely injure him, making him unable to pursue after breaking free.
If he couldn't do that, once the Spatial Imprisonment ended and Xuanzi broke free, what awaited Wang Chen would inevitably be Xuanzi's relentless pursuit to the death.
After all, Wang Chen had killed Yan Shaozhe and even taken Yan Shaozhe's soul bone; if Xuanzi could let it go, that would be strange.
Wang Chen watched the imprisoning space fluctuate under Xuanzi's struggles, roughly guessing that Xuanzi would need at least ten seconds to break free.
Wang Chen's figure flashed, arriving in front of Xuanzi. He exerted full strength, stacking secret techniques and combat skills, then thrust with one spear. On Xuanzi's dozens-of-meters-large Taotie Divine Bull body, a hole less than one meter was poked, with earthy yellow energy spilling out from the wound.
Seeing this, Wang Chen couldn't help but raise his brows. This old geezer Xuanzi had thick skin and tough flesh; his attack power was insufficient, only damaging the surface of Xuanzi's martial soul true body.
Moreover, the energy invading Xuanzi's martial soul true body was directly eroded by Xuanzi's thick energy, unable to truly severely injure Xuanzi himself.
At this moment, Xuanzi was imprisoned by space and couldn't move, but his gaze was blood-red. "Little beast, good methods, but are you just tickling this old man?
You think you can break this old man's martial soul true body? Dream on. Once this old man breaks free, see how this old man kills you, hahaha!"
Looking at Xuanzi, Wang Chen thought darkly to himself, "What a pity, the skill the God-Suppressing Spear carries is Spatial Imprisonment. If it were something like spatial cutting or tearing, it wouldn't be imprisoning Xuanzi but directly killing him. Even if not dead, he'd probably lose half his life."
Wang Chen looked at Xuanzi with sharp eyes, planning to use his final plan.
Ring explosion, blow up the million-year soul ring!
Once the million-year soul ring exploded, the released energy would inevitably be terrifying to the extreme.
Probably, even the energy from exploding the first six black soul rings combined wouldn't match one-tenth of the million-year soul ring.
What Wang Chen was worried about now wasn't the amount of energy, but whether his body could withstand such terrifying energy.
Wang Chen took a deep breath, then activated the ring explosion secret technique.
The golden soul ring cracked a small opening. Clearly, to avoid being burst, Wang Chen had put in great effort.
But even so, once the terrifying energy from the million-year soul ring injected, it directly expanded Wang Chen's meridians several times.
Some thinner meridians even ruptured, with the terrifying energy bursting out of the meridians, then impacting various parts of Wang Chen's body, making his whole person feel as if he were about to be torn apart.
But correspondingly, Wang Chen's cultivation was directly elevated to level 98 in a short time.
If not for Wang Chen's poor physical quality, unable to withstand too much energy at once, his cultivation could directly rise to level 99 Limit Douluo without any issue.
Wang Chen endured the tearing pain in his body, looking at Xuanzi's Taotie Divine Bull form, and grinned ferociously. "Xuanzi, this time it's not just tickling!"
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