Douluo: Manifesting the Black Abyss and White Flower at the Start

Lu Jingming looked at the dark-golden soul bone he'd dug from the Mountain-Moving Ape's left arm, feeling quite satisfied. Even though it wasn't as rare as Zhang Lexuan's torso bone, among the six types of soul bones, the left arm ranked fourth—pretty good.

After all, the Mountain-Moving Ape clearly had the most powerful arms, so dropping an arm bone was to be expected.

Lu Jingming didn't rush to refine this soul bone—he had plenty of time back at Haiyuan City.

Right now, the most important thing was to leave the dangerous core zone of the Star Dou Forest, to avoid any trouble.

Before leaving, Lu Jingming stored the massive corpses of the Silvermoon Flood Dragon King and the Mountain-Moving Ape in his storage soul device.

Even in death, the bodies of these hundred-thousand-year soul beasts radiated immense power and contained unimaginable value.

They were top-tier materials for making soul devices—every bone and scale could become a key component in crafting the best devices.

Moreover, these two precious corpses held the potential to create top-level fusion warriors.

If Herta extracted their genetic information and life essence, the best fusion genes could be manufactured.

But cultivating fusion warriors with hundred-thousand-year soul rings required astronomical resources.

Although Haiyuan City had gained plenty of funds from the simulated universe, every development project still needed massive investment—nothing could move forward without real backing.

Haiyuan City's current income came from the simulated universe, soul devices, sea soul beasts and ocean treasures, plus Ningguang's Jade Chamber.

Ningguang was truly a commercial genius—with her keen business acumen and sharp market insight, she'd quickly turned the Jade Chamber into Shrek City's top chamber of commerce.

Its business had expanded into the Star Luo, Heaven Soul, and Dou Ling Empires, dominating every industry from entertainment to dining to construction, becoming a symbol of quality and reputation.

The Jade Chamber's annual Sky Authority Auction was famous far and wide.

When it was held, guests flocked from all directions, rare treasures appeared, and wealthy buyers competed fiercely—bringing enormous wealth to Haiyuan City.

Naturally, in this era where soul devices were the core technology, the soul device industry was the most lucrative.

But Haiyuan City only had Herta as its foundational soul engineer.

With Herta's personality, mass-producing soul devices for sale was nearly impossible.

The soul devices Haiyuan City sold were just her casual works, few in number, but even these defective products brought Lu Jingming huge profits.

Overall, under the careful management of Changli and the others, Haiyuan City's economy and power were developing at an astonishing rate.

Although every aspect required vast investment, with the abilities of Herta and Ningguang, Lu Jingming never worried about money.

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"Sister Lexuan, what kind of soul skills did you get?" On the way back, Lu Jingming held Zhang Lexuan's jade-like hand, his gaze curious as he asked gently.

A hundred-thousand-year ring was a dream power-up for any soul master, and now that she had one, he wanted to know what skills she had gained.

Soul skills were a soul master's trump cards in battle.

Once you understood an opponent's soul skills and their scope, you could find ways to counter them and gain the upper hand. But with Lu Jingming, Zhang Lexuan had nothing to hide. She answered softly, "I gained two hundred-thousand-year soul skills: Twin Moons Bury the Sky and Descent of the Moon Goddess."

She then explained in detail what they did.

Twin Moons Bury the Sky: When activated, it released both a Silver Moon and a Blood Moon.

The Silver Moon hovered above, greatly boosting her stats and speeding up her soul power recovery, letting her remain at full fighting strength throughout the battle.

The Blood Moon, however, stood for slaughter and destruction. It could unleash massive area attacks for indiscriminate damage or condense into a powerful single-target strike for a fatal blow.

Descent of the Moon Goddess was even more powerful.

After activation, it boosted all of Zhang Lexuan's stats, instantly raising her power to a new level.

At the same time, the strength and casting speed of all her soul skills increased dramatically, letting her strike faster and harder in battle.

Not only that, but the Silvermoon Flood Dragon King's torso bone also gave her two hundred-thousand-year soul bone skills, both extremely powerful.

Moonlight Concealment: This soul bone skill allowed Zhang Lexuan to instantly become moonlight and blend into the void, achieving spatial teleportation.

The second skill, Moonlight Domain, was a rare domain-type skill.

Within the Moonlight Domain, her health and soul power recovery rate increased sharply, wounds healed rapidly, and all negative states were cleansed.

Moreover, within the domain, damage from other elements was reduced.

If used at night under moonlight, the domain's effects doubled. In short, Moonlight Domain was an extremely versatile and powerful ability.

With four such powerful hundred-thousand-year skills, plus refining both a hundred-thousand-year ring and soul bone in succession, Zhang Lexuan's cultivation soared like a rocket, reaching level eighty-four.

She was now only twenty-two years old. With her talent, and Lu Jingming's supply of pure Honkai energy, she had every hope of reaching Titled Douluo before age twenty-five.

With her current strength, even an ordinary Soul Douluo was no match, and she could even go toe-to-toe with some Titled Douluo experts—though there was still a gap versus Super Douluo.

Just as the trio stepped out of the Star Dou Forest, a massive wave of spiritual pressure swept over them.

This spiritual power was immense—if it hit ordinary people, they'd instantly be rendered thoughtless.

But all three were far from ordinary. They remained calm and completely unaffected.

They also sensed keenly that the source of this immense spiritual power was more than a hundred miles away—what they felt was only a remnant aftershock.

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