Douluo Dalu: This Soul Master is to Weird

Seeing the mutated Scale Armor Beast completely frozen without resistance, Mu Yang nodded in satisfaction.

With his own abilities alone, he wouldn't have been able to handle this mutated Scale Armor Beast, whose age was as high as 27,000 years.

However, with the martial soul fusion skill at his disposal—especially when the special ice flame it created was even more "annoying" than his own Ice Flame—capturing a soul beast less than 30,000 years old was a piece of cake.

Unless it was a pureblood dragon, a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, or a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!

Yet, just as Mu Yang thought victory was within his grasp, he noticed the body of the frozen, flame-engulfed mutated Scale Armor Beast starting to emit a faint blue crystalline glow.

Seeing this, Mu Yang immediately raised his guard.

When a soul beast's body glows, it's usually a sign of activating a skill. Typically, the Scale Armor Beast is just a "steel turtle"—strong in defense and physical strength but otherwise unimpressive.

However, this particular Scale Armor Beast, with its blue crystalline appearance, was mutated. It couldn't be treated as an ordinary Scale Armor Beast. Due to the unpredictability of mutations, it might have some heaven-defying innate soul skills.

But soon, Mu Yang lowered his guard again.

Although the mutated Scale Armor Beast continued to emit the blue crystalline glow while frozen and burning, there was no other movement. This meant that the skill it activated was likely a defensive one.

That made sense, as the Scale Armor Beast was a defensive soul beast. If it mutated, gaining additional defensive innate soul skills wouldn't be unusual.

In fact, this was good news. A soul beast with multiple defensive innate soul skills would likely enhance the effect of its soul ring skills.

For soul masters with the same martial soul and soul power level, the strength of their soul skills doesn't just depend on the age of the attached soul ring—it also greatly depends on the strength of the soul beast.

For instance, attaching a soul ring of the same age from a pure dragon soul beast versus a mixed-blood dragon-type soul beast will yield different results. Without considering compatibility between the soul ring and martial soul, the former's soul skill will be significantly stronger than the latter's.

Even if this mutated Scale Armor Beast didn't achieve a qualitative change in bloodline compared to ordinary Scale Armor Beasts, attaching its soul ring could still enhance the effect of the resulting soul skill.

A minute later, seeing that the mutated Scale Armor Beast, engulfed in special ice flames, showed no significant signs of damage, Mu Yang raised an eyebrow. He couldn't help but admit that its defensive capabilities were truly formidable.

Two minutes later, as the battle dragged on, Mu Yang's expression turned less pleasant.

After a while, noticing that more than half of his soul power had been consumed, Mu Yang's face darkened.

At this rate, it seemed like even draining all his soul power wouldn't be enough to burn this mutated Scale Armor Beast to death!

Goodness, could this Water Crystal Scale Armor Beast's innate soul skill be some sort of damage immunity? Like reducing 50% or even 60-70% of incoming damage?

Already a "steel turtle," and now equipped with a damage-reducing innate skill—did it evolve into a "titanium alloy turtle"?

"Ahem, well, Aunt, can you give me a hand here?"

Mu Yang's sheepish voice came from the mouth of the Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow, beneath its phoenix armor.

Unbelievable. Even with a martial soul fusion skill, he still couldn't hunt down the soul beast he needed for his advancement? Ridiculous!

If not for the fact that this mutated Scale Armor Beast had an age as high as 27,000 years, meaning its spiritual power was likely no weaker than his, he would've directly activated the True Illusion technique from Divine illusion Secret Art to kill it through spiritual means.

However, in the world of Douluo, it was extremely common for soul masters to be unable to defeat the soul beasts required for their next advancement.

For example, a soul master who reached level 50 would need to attach a 10,000-year fifth soul ring, based on the optimal soul ring configuration.

But aside from pure auxiliary and healing types, a 10,000-year soul beast is at least equivalent to a level 50 Soul King in strength.

This level of power is naturally not something an average level 50 soul master can handle.

However, soul masters with martial soul fusion skills are different. As long as the martial soul fusion skill is combat-oriented, it can elevate their strength by one or even two major levels.

This way, soul masters with combat-oriented martial soul fusion skills wouldn't need to worry about being unable to hunt the soul beasts necessary for their advancement.

Unfortunately, Mu Yang turned out to be an anomaly.

At level 40, he could already withstand a soul ring that even ordinary level 60 soul masters couldn't attach. But now, even with a martial soul fusion skill capable of boosting his strength by one or two major levels, it wasn't enough!

Of course, this was due to the abnormality of the mutated Scale Armor Beast. If it had been a regular Scale Armor Beast of the same age, he would have easily taken it down.

"Heh, it's rare to see our family's little genius face a setback," Shui Yanyu teased.

Mu Yang: "..."

"Ice Sparrow, Possession!"

A pale blue glow emerged around her body. A sparrow's shadow flickered behind her as Shui Yanyu's martial soul possessed her, and her eight soul rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black—lit up.

The age of this mutated Scale Armor Beast wasn't low, and its defense was formidable. Without using her martial soul and soul skills, Shui Yanyu couldn't heavily injure it in one strike.

"Sixth Soul Skill: Extreme Ice Plume!"

In the next moment, Shui Yanyu's sixth soul ring shone. As her immense ice-attributed soul power surged, a beautiful feather about ten feet long, glowing icy blue, condensed in midair behind her. Then it shot forward like a streak of icy blue light, targeting the still-frozen mutated Scale Armor Beast.

"Boom!"

The beautiful feather, now an icy blue streak of light, struck the crocodile-like mutated Scale Armor Beast's lower body with precision. Amid a dazzling explosion of icy blue radiance and thunderous noise, countless chunks of icy flesh, shattered bones, and broken scales splattered outward.

When the explosion subsided, Mu Yang looked over to see that the mutated Scale Armor Beast, which the Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow had been unable to deal with earlier, had been reduced from its previous ten-meter-long massive form to less than six meters. The entire lower half of its body, including its tail, had turned into mangled flesh and bone.

What could be said? After all, she was an eight-ring Soul Douluo—one of the rare experts on the entire continent. Aside from a few of the most extraordinary soul beasts, handling a soul beast under 30,000 years old was an effortless task for her.

Moreover, the skill Shui Yanyu used was her sixth soul skill, a single-target offensive ability. Even without releasing her martial soul avatar or amplification skills, its power was nothing to scoff at.

Having destroyed the mutated Scale Armor Beast's tough crystal scales, the rest was simple.

With its titanium-alloy-like shell gone, the turtle that even the Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow couldn't harm had now become a soft target.

The Ice Flame Dragon pounced downward, spewing its special ice flame directly into the gap in the mutated Scale Armor Beast's severed lower body, letting the flames burn its interior relentlessly.

Before long, the mutated Scale Armor Beast, already severely injured and on the brink of death from Shui Yanyu's attack, succumbed to its injuries. Dense golden light spots floated outward, and a pitch-black 10,000-year soul ring gradually formed.

Dispersing his martial soul fusion skill, Mu Yang switched to his Ice Fire Immortal Jade Ginseng martial soul and stepped forward to guide and absorb the soul ring.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the inner region of the Star Dou Forest:

"Damn it!"

After unleashing his sixth soul skill once more to temporarily repel the ferocious Radiant Flame Winged Tiger in front of him, She Long cursed under his breath.

Glancing at the not-too-distant Ci Xue, who was similarly entangled with another Radiant Flame Winged Tiger, She Long shouted without looking back toward Qian Renxue, who stood behind him with her Six-Winged Angel martial soul possessed:

"Young Mistress, this area is already far from the core region of the Star Dou Forest, and high-aged soul beasts are rare. Please withdraw for now!"

"Uncle She Long, Uncle Ci Xue, be careful," Qian Renxue said decisively. Aware that her own strength was insufficient and that she couldn't help the two, she didn't hesitate to spread her angel wings and swiftly flew toward the outskirts of the forest.

"Roar!"

Seeing their child's killer fleeing, the two massive Radiant Flame Winged Tigers roared furiously and immediately tried to abandon their fight with She Long and Ci Xue to pursue Qian Renxue.

Naturally, She Long and Ci Xue couldn't allow the two tigers to chase Qian Renxue. As her bodyguards, they couldn't let anything happen to her. Otherwise, they'd have no way to face the Grand Priest Qian Daoliu.

"Hmph! Beasts, I've had enough of you! Ninth Soul Skill: Destruction of the Nether Thunder Serpent!"

With an angry roar, She Long's ninth soul ring lit up. Wielding his snake spear, he unleashed his surging soul power, and a massive black-purple serpent-shaped thunderbolt shot out with a deafening crackle.

Now that Qian Renxue, the burden, was no longer present, She Long didn't have to worry about protecting her and could finally go all out.

Thanks to regularly consuming whale jelly, Qian Renxue's physical constitution far surpassed that of ordinary soul masters of her level. Combined with the 99,999-year-old angel head soul bone, her physical and spiritual resilience was strong enough to handle a sixth soul ring over 30,000 years old.

While the Sunset Forest had soul beasts over 30,000 years old, finding one with compatibility was just as crucial as its age.

The Six-Winged Angel's attributes were sacred and fire. Ideally, the soul beast to be hunted should possess either sacred and fire or dual light-fire attributes. That's why Qian Renxue had traveled with She Long and Ci Xue all the way to the Star Dou Forest to find a suitable soul.

Initially, the hunt in the Star Dou Forest had gone smoothly. Shortly after entering the core area, they encountered a Radiant Flame Winged Tiger of around 30,000 years old with dual light-fire attributes.

Without hesitation, Qian Renxue had She Long severely injure it, and she delivered the finishing blow herself.

After spending half a day refining and absorbing the soul ring, Qian Renxue broke through the level-60 bottleneck, reaching level 62 Soul Emperor.

But before she could celebrate, trouble arrived.

The Radiant Flame Winged Tiger she had killed wasn't an orphan—it had parents.

And the strength of its parents was no joke. Though not 100,000-year soul beasts, their ages were close to 90,000 and 80,000 years, respectively.

With their high age, they weren't much weaker than the "weakling Douluos" She Long and Ci Xue. Add to that the burden of protecting Qian Renxue, and the fight had dragged on since dawn, spanning from the core region to the inner region of the Star Dou Forest without a clear winner.

Fortunately, they had reached the inner region, where high-aged soul beasts were less frequent. With her level-62 Soul Emperor strength, Qian Renxue could at least protect herself unless she was incredibly unlucky.

Thus, She Long instructed Qian Renxue to retreat so he and Ci Xue could fight the two Radiant Flame Winged Tigers without distraction and finally vent their frustrations.

She Long: "I may be weak for a Douluo, but I'm not so weak that I can't handle an 80,000-year soul beast!"

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