In the next moment, a fierce light flashed in the eyes of the Sky Azure Bull Python, its heart blazing with hatred.
After charging for a brief moment and forcefully enduring a wave of attacks from the three, a cyan claw shadow silently shot forth. However, the target was no longer Huo Lie, the strongest among the three, but Feng Zhen, who was relatively the weakest.
Innate Soul Skill of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Sky Azure Bull Python: Sky Azure Sluggish Divine Claw!
Sluggishness: multiplies the six senses and movement speed delay of the target by ten times. The specific duration depends on the spiritual power strength between both parties.
The speed of the cyan claw shadow was extremely fast. It gave Feng Zhen almost no time to react before landing on him.
In that instant, Feng Zhen felt that his six senses and movement abilities had been dulled by many times over.
Before Feng Zhen could think more, the Sky Azure Bull Python's body once again radiated with an intense cyan light. Disregarding the damage to its body, it once again unleashed its innate soul skill: Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder.
Similar to the ninth soul skill of ordinary Title Douluo, even a hundred-thousand-year soul beast would find it difficult to release the same innate soul skill multiple times in a short span.
But that wasn't absolute. If one pushed their potential and ignored the body's limits and damage, while they couldn't use it excessively, releasing it twice in a short time was still feasible.
In the eyes of Huo Lie and Mu Xiyue, this instance of Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder didn't appear any faster than the previous one.
But in Feng Zhen's eyes, whose six senses had been severely dulled by the Sky Azure Sluggish Divine Claw, this Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder was ten times faster than the one before.
Let alone activating any skill to block, the moment he realized he couldn't defend against the cyan dragon-shaped thunderbolt with his strength, the Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder had already arrived before him.
However, just as the cyan dragon-shaped thunderbolt was about to hit, Feng Zhen saw a flash of dark red and orange-red light in his vision, as if something had blocked the space between him and the cyan lightning.
"Boom—"
Accompanied by a violent thunderous roar, dazzling cyan brilliance erupted, and Feng Zhen, clad in Spiritgold Battle Armor, was swallowed entirely by a small sea of cyan thunder that burst forth.
After all, he was a powerhouse of the nine-ringed Title Douluo realm, and coupled with the possession of a three-word battle armor, both Huo Lie and Mu Xiyue were already considered elite-level experts within the soul master world.
The Sky Azure Sluggish Divine Claw released by the Sky Azure Bull Python was too fast and silent, and it had specifically targeted Feng Zhen, leaving the two no time to react.
But when the Sky Azure Bull Python released the Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder again, the two, already on guard, reacted instantly. They immediately activated secret techniques, conjuring the Mirror of Lava and Mirror of Extreme Flame, greatly weakening the power of the cyan dragon-shaped lightning bolt at the critical moment for Feng Zhen.
Otherwise, with Feng Zhen only having the strength of a 95-level Title Douluo even after donning the three-word battle armor, and without activating his Martial Soul True Body, taking a hit from the Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder would have left him seriously injured at the very least.
"Xiyue, retreat!"
If the Sky Azure Bull Python could sense the battle several dozen li away had already ended, then of course Huo Lie could sense it too. Seizing the brief opening after the Sky Azure Bull Python's burst, he immediately called out to Mu Xiyue, flashed into the still dissipating cyan thunder sea nearby, grabbed Feng Zhen, and rapidly withdrew from the battlefield.
The Spiritgold Battle Armor had wing components, so Mu Xiyue's speed went without saying. Unless one was a hundred-thousand-year flying soul beast, they most likely wouldn't be able to catch up to her.
Even though Huo Lie was carrying Feng Zhen in one hand, his flight speed remained extremely fast, far beyond what the wingless Sky Azure Bull Python could match.
In the blink of an eye, the figures of the three vanished into the sky.
"Moo—"
Staring in the direction the three had fled, the giant bovine head raised skyward, and the Sky Azure Bull Python's mournful cry echoed through the forest canopy.
On the other side, time was pushed back slightly.
Under the long-lasting burn of the Iceflame Fire, the Titan Giant Ape, who had been both frozen and burned all this time, finally couldn't hold on anymore. Its jet-black fur was scorched, its entire body frozen, and its massive eyes, once as bright as yellow crystals, finally dimmed completely.
In the next moment, the Titan Giant Ape lost all signs of life, and countless golden light particles fluttered out from its massive body.
Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape, deceased!
Before long, amidst the spreading golden light, a bright red hundred-thousand-year soul ring gradually formed.
At the same time, a perfectly intact right arm soul bone, earthy yellow in color and exuding a heavy aura, appeared above the Titan Giant Ape's corpse.
Upon disengaging their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the form of Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow twisted, reverting into the figures of Mu Yang and Shui Bing'er.
Right after, Mu Yang raised his hand and, channeling his power, drew the hundred-thousand-year right arm soul bone that had burst forth from the Titan Giant Ape's corpse into his grasp.
Without taking a close look at the hundred-thousand-year soul bone, Mu Yang casually stored it into his soul tool storage bracelet.
Just then, a black figure flapped its wings and descended before the two of them.
After the two leapt onto the back of the ten-thousand-year Black-Feathered Vulture, Mu Yang switched his martial soul to Icefire Immortal Ginseng and began to guide the Titan Giant Ape's soul ring.
The moment it was affected by the martial soul's pull, the bright red hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape soul ring floated toward Mu Yang.
As the one to absorb this hundred-thousand-year soul ring, Mu Yang instantly felt an unprecedentedly massive pressure descend as the Titan Giant Ape's soul ring approached, as if it was going to crush his body outright.
If it were an ordinary level-70 soul master, even before the proper refinement process began, they would likely already feel immense discomfort under such overwhelming pressure.
But the strength of this pressure was only relative. For Mu Yang—who possessed the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone, had forged a golden body via the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and cultivated the body-tempering supreme technique Sun Refining Body—this level of pressure was essentially nothing. Calling it a breeze brushing the face might be a stretch, but at the very least, he could easily withstand it.
In the next second, the Titan Giant Ape soul ring floated near, then rapidly shrank and settled onto the Icefire Immortal Ginseng martial soul.
Immediately, Mu Yang felt a violent yet heavy torrent of energy surge into his body via the Icefire Immortal Ginseng martial soul as a medium.
Not daring to be careless, he mentally communicated and ordered the Black-Feathered Vulture mount beneath him to withdraw from the battlefield. Then, Mu Yang promptly activated the Iceflame Meditation Technique and began converting the soul ring energy surging into his body into his own Iceflame soul power.
As the Iceflame Meditation Technique circulated, the soul ring energy flooding into his body was rapidly refined.
As for the terrifying pressure accompanying the addition of a hundred-thousand-year soul ring?
Although the refining difficulty of the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape soul ring was certainly greater than that of a divine-bestowed hundred-thousand-year soul ring, Mu Yang—who was now a level-70 quasi-Soul Sage—possessed a physical constitution far superior to Tang San's at the same level in the original work.
Tang San was able to endure the pressure of fusing with a divine-bestowed hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring. With a foundation far beyond Tang San's, Mu Yang naturally had no problem enduring the pressure from a 'wild' hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring.
Of course, the pressure on the physical level wasn't the only trial to successfully fuse with the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape soul ring. To complete the refinement, he still had to pass a trial on the spiritual level.
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