The ten-thousand-year Silver Moon Wolf King...
Su Yun brought Su Ming and found their target.
On the small hill slope before the father and son stood a silver-white wolf with a metallic sheen, its slender and athletic build on full display. Its pair of silver eyes stared fixedly at the two.
"Awooo!"
The Silver Moon Wolf King's howl was immediately answered by dozens of replies. All around the hillside, golden wolves covered in golden fur emerged, glaring viciously at Su Ming and his father.
The golden wolves surrounded the Silver Moon Wolf King. Clearly, protecting the Wolf King was more important than hunting the two humans.
The presence of a Silver Wolf was life itself to a golden wolf. The metal veins it could find were the golden wolves' sustenance, the resource for their advancement.
Often, any single Silver Wolf could easily gather a pack of golden wolves and establish a wolf pack.
"There are quite a few golden wolves. But for some reason, among the guards of this ten-thousand-year Silver Moon Wolf King, there isn't a single ten-thousand-year golden wolf. That works; I'll deal with the Silver Moon Wolf King directly. You be careful."
After speaking, Su Yun's back-mounted flight Spirit Tool unfolded, and seven Spirit Rings slowly rose from beneath his feet.
His Martial Spirit didn't manifest; instead, five Spirit Cannons appeared on his body. With a simultaneous roar—Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!—a volley of fire sent the golden wolves scattering in all directions under the bombardment.
Some golden wolves tried to save the Silver Moon Wolf King but found they couldn't withstand the Spirit Cannon shells at all and were blown apart.
"Awooo!"
The Silver Moon Wolf King roared in anger, a layer of silvery-white light flickering over its body.
Su Ming, watching from a distance, caught that strand of silver light.
"So it really is the space element."
Silver Wolves can mobilize six elements. The fundamental reason lies in their consumption of Spirit Secret Silver, which increases their affinity for various rare metals, allowing them to control the six elements through their exceptionally high mental power.
When a Silver Wolf advances to the ten-thousand-year level and its bloodline evolves, it also masters an advanced element, such as the space element.
Su Ming remembered that in the original work, the Silver Moon Wolf King that Huo Yuhao obtained was a ten-thousand-year one that had mastered Silver Moon Pounce. The one before him now was also a ten-thousand-year Silver Moon Wolf King.
"Could it be the same one?"
Su Yun paid no heed. The five Spirit Cannons on his body disappeared after the volley. The pair of Level Six flight Spirit Tool wings on his back vibrated, and a powerful thrust erupted, propelling him forward.
A silver flash, and a Silver Moon Wolf King appeared in Su Yun's flight path. Six elemental forces intertwined around its body, forming an elemental net to intercept Su Yun.
Su Yun's expression changed slightly. The flight Spirit Tool's wings beat, and countless air currents no longer shot backward but erupted in front of him, bursting through the elemental net. Su Yun's flight speed also decreased.
He looked at the Silver Moon Wolf King, his eyes shining.
What a fine Wolf King!
He landed on the ground, tapped his toes, and darted in front of the Silver Moon Wolf King. A long sword appeared in his hand. A Spirit Power laser shot from the sword's scabbard, slashing down towards the Silver Moon Wolf King.
The Silver Moon Wolf King, nimble and agile, twisted its body in a peculiar posture, dodging the sword strike.
Then, it let out an "Awooo!" and pounced towards Su Yun.
Su Yun's face changed slightly.
Just as the Silver Moon Wolf King was about to pin him to the ground, the panic on his face vanished, replaced by a cold smile.
A Spirit Cannon appeared on his shoulder. With a Boom!, it fired a massive white shockwave.
A trace of disdain flashed in the Silver Moon Wolf King's silver eyes.
A silver flash, and it disappeared from the cannon's strike zone before the white shockwave was even fired, reappearing to the side of Su Yun.
Su Yun turned his head to look at the Silver Moon Wolf King, a look of shock in his eyes.
The instant the Wolf King's claws swept down fiercely, its silver pupils contracted sharply.
Boom!
From Su Yun's chest, a white shockwave erupted without warning, violently blasting the Silver Moon Wolf King away.
Su Yun even heard the sound of limbs hitting the ground.
That single blast had directly crippled the Silver Moon Wolf King. After the white shockwave dissipated, it had clearly lost one leg front and back, and a hollow cavity appeared in its chest, exposing its internal structure to Su Yun's view.
"Awooo!"
The golden wolf pack howled in lament, only now realizing they needed to protect their King.
Unfortunately, by now, the Silver Moon Wolf King was nearly finished off by Su Yun; it was clearly beyond saving.
So, the golden wolves howled once and quickly retreated.
The highest cultivation among the golden wolves was only six thousand years. Due to the vast difference in strength, they couldn't withstand Su Yun's Spirit Cannons from the start, could only scatter and flee, and were unable to form a protective screen for the Silver Moon Wolf King.
Although the wolf pack had dispersed, Su Yun still flew for an hour with the severely injured, dying Silver Moon Wolf King and Su Ming, chose another mountain peak, and set them down.
Su Ming raised his hand, and the Blade of Life materialized. He plunged it fiercely into the Silver Moon Wolf King's heart.
Su Yun noticed the carving knife in Su Ming's hand, a flicker of surprise in his eyes.
He felt the special wave emanating from the Blade of Life, saw the cold gleam radiating from the carving knife, and could tell its quality was excellent.
"Awooo..."
The Silver Moon Wolf King died.
It died from lacking sufficient guards.
Su Ming also had no time to ponder why the Silver Moon Wolf King had no powerful guards. He directly sat down cross-legged and began guiding the Spirit Ring.
He hadn't even considered turning the Silver Moon Wolf King into a Spirit Soul.
The level of mental power cultivation determines the year limit of a Spirit Soul. Su Ming currently had no way to bypass this.
501 to 5000 is the range of the Spirit Ocean Realm. The Spirit Ocean Realm's mental power can accommodate at most one black Spirit Soul, or three purple Spirit Souls, or, of course, five yellow Spirit Souls.
Su Ming's three main bodies already each had one purple Spirit Soul. And even for the future-oriented Su Ming, whose Martial Soul was spirit-attribute-based, his mental power was still far from the Spirit Abyss Realm, meaning he couldn't fuse with a ten-thousand-year Spirit Soul.
This was also the most obvious drawback of the Spirit Soul system: it could hinder a Spirit Master's pace in breaking limits.
As Su Ming guided the Spirit Ring, an illusory purple Spirit Ring gradually condensed between his eyebrows.
The moment this purple Spirit Ring formed, it gathered two streams of power from the void. The ring shattered, and the two streams of power merged into Su Ming's body.
Trinity!
At precisely this moment, the ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring of the Silver Moon Wolf King also settled around Su Ming.
Torrential Spirit Power poured into his body, and he began the fusion of his first ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring under the Trinity.
Boom!
A loud roar echoed in his Sea of Consciousness.
Countless resentful wails surged into Su Ming's mind, coalescing into the form of a Silver Moon Wolf King. The Wolf King's resentment was astonishing, crashing fiercely against the barriers of the Sea of Consciousness.
The Sea of Consciousness shook violently. The small lake formed by mental power within surged with towering waves. Cracks began to appear around the perimeter of the Sea of Consciousness.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
After three more consecutive impacts, the Silver Moon Wolf King's resentment scattered. The cracks in the Sea of Consciousness also widened significantly. The scattered resentment turned into streams of energy that seeped through these cracks into the interior of the Sea of Consciousness, once again gathering into the form of the Silver Moon Wolf King.
Just as it took shape, the Silver Moon Wolf King let out an "Awooo!" and was about to start destroying things when it suddenly felt something was wrong. It looked back.
It saw the cracked Sea of Consciousness rapidly closing and repairing itself. A significant portion of its remnant soul hadn't even made it inside yet...
Cheating!
The Silver Moon Wolf King wanted to report this; someone here was cheating.
How could a Sea of Consciousness, cracked so badly, repair itself so quickly?
The Wolf King observed Su Ming's Sea of Consciousness but found nothing special. It wasn't until Su Ming's spiritual body materialized that its gaze fixed on what was in the hand of Su Ming's spiritual body.
It was a carving knife glowing with a jade-green light.
A stream of grey mist emerged from the carving knife, coalescing into the faint silhouette of an old man.
(End of Chapter)