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Chapter 498 - Chapter 498: Heart of the Ocean, Mermaid Ensemble, and Yu Ningqing

"Buzz buzz buzz—" A long, drawn-out buzzing sound rippled out along with the appearance of the fallen blood light, as if the heavens and earth could hardly bear such a terrifying energy fluctuation and were letting out a shrill wail.

The blood-colored radiance dyed the space within a radius of nearly a hundred kilometers the same color. The halo twisted and blurred, like a blood-colored purgatory on earth.

This was the power of a Limit Douluo. When fully unleashed, it was enough to easily destroy a major city at the level of Heaven Dou City. From this, it could be seen that the words Du Busi had previously said to Kong Deming were not an exaggeration, but truly possessed such strength and confidence.

However, Ming Dou, as the capital of the Sun Moon Empire, possessed the most advanced soul tool defense system in the world. Its defensive power was absolutely far beyond what Heaven Dou City could compare to.

Moreover, the entire imperial family of the Heavenly Soul Empire had been annihilated by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Legion, and no one had even organized a final resistance. If Ye Xishui's ninth soul skill, Fallen Blood Light, were allowed to fall into Heaven Dou City, except for Du Busi and Gu Lao, such Limit Douluo powerhouses, no one would survive.

Having been repeatedly humiliated and disfigured by Xu Zihuang, Ye Xishui's mental state had already become completely abnormal.

Long Xiaoyao, Du Busi, and Gu Lao had long since stopped fighting and were looking up at the blood-colored light pillar descending from the sky with uncertainty.

"Long Xiaoyao! You actually dare to violate the soul master rules and attack civilians inside Heaven Dou City?!" Du Busi roared furiously at Long Xiaoyao with a ferocious expression, then made a move as if to rush toward Xu Zihuang's side, preparing to block Ye Xishui's Fallen Blood Light at all costs.

"If Heaven Dou City is destroyed by that madwoman Ye Xishui, even if I have to self-detonate my soul core, I'll drag you all down with me!"

Gu Lao's expression also changed drastically as he followed closely behind Du Busi. It was not only that he did not want to see the tragic scene of Heaven Dou City being destroyed, but he was equally worried about Yu Tianhuang's safety.

Long Xiaoyao's eyes widened in pain, and he did not step forward to stop Du Busi and Gu Lao. Although he had his own reasons for guarding Ye Xishui's side, how could he be willing to see Heaven Dou City turn into a realm of ghosts?

"Xishui, you…"

Seeing Du Busi and Gu Lao rushing over anxiously, Ye Xishui laughed maniacally.

"Go to hell! I want all of you to die here, never to be reincarnated! Hahahahahahaha!"

But what no one present had expected was that Xu Zihuang, who was locked onto by Ye Xishui's ninth soul skill Fallen Blood Light, flickered with his figure and actively met it head-on.

Du Busi and Gu Lao were both stunned. Then, as if they had thought of something, the urgency in their eyes disappeared, replaced by a strange meaning.

The golden-red and purple-gold lights dissipated. Xu Zihuang canceled the Flawless Golden Body and the two amplification soul skills brought by the hundred-thousand-year Thunder Beast soul bone. His main body returned to its usual appearance, and the emotions deep in his eyes were exceptionally calm.

It could be said that from the beginning of the confrontation between the two sides, all of Ye Xishui's reactions had been within his expectations. All his previous actions were actually to drive Ye Xishui's mental state into madness, forcing her to unleash such a powerful soul skill with incomparably astonishing destructive power as the Fallen Blood Light.

Xu Zihuang looked up at the Fallen Blood Light about to envelop his body. His right hand formed a virtual grip and rested on the position of his left chest. The Heart of the Ocean immediately bloomed with dazzling blue-gold light, condensing into a blue hexagonal crystal.

Behind him, a huge fish tail swayed. A golden light shadow quietly appeared behind him; it was the appearance of the Sea Princess.

Xu Zihuang held this blue crystal and raised it above his head. As soon as Ye Xishui's Fallen Blood Light fell, it was blocked by this magnificent blue crystal and instantly disintegrated.

Heart of the Ocean effect: immune to all energy attacks once.

Xu Zihuang activated the Heart of the Ocean soul skill and became directly immune to Ye Xishui's ninth soul skill, Fallen Blood Light.

What followed was the other effect of the Heart of the Ocean: amplification!

The energy contained in the Fallen Blood Light was completely integrated into this Heart of the Ocean, and at the same time, it also integrated the spiritual attribute attack of Xu Zihuang's Golden Pupil martial soul.

Xu Zihuang gazed coldly at Ye Xishui opposite him. His entire body had already turned into a brilliant gold. This was not the abnormality of the Flawless Golden Body, but pure spiritual aura. His terrifying spiritual intent instantly surged, giving the space within a radius of dozens of kilometers a feeling of solidification.

Ever since his spiritual power had reached the demigod level, even without activating the golden-level main body martial soul second awakening ability, his spiritual intent possessed the effect of spacetime imprisonment. Although it could no longer control Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui so that they could not move as before, it was still enough to restrict Ye Xishui for an instant, preventing her from dodging the strike he had painstakingly planned.

Red, red, red, red, red, red, bright gold, blue-gold. Eight soul rings rose, and the blue-gold eighth soul ring shone again.

Two more Sea Princess phantoms appeared on either side of Xu Zihuang. These two Sea Princess phantoms were both holding the Heart of the Ocean. Together with the one controlled by Xu Zihuang's right hand, three blood-gold light pillars suddenly shot into the sky, blasting toward Ye Xishui.

These three blood-gold lights fused Ye Xishui's ninth soul skill, Fallen Blood Light, with Xu Zihuang's Golden Pupil martial soul spiritual attribute attack.

It was a pity that he had not yet condensed the second soul core with the destruction attribute and the third soul core with the ultimate lightning attribute. Otherwise, he could have integrated the destruction attribute and ultimate lightning attribute energy into it by relying on the yin-yang complementary three soul cores characteristic. At that time, even a god-level powerhouse could not ignore this strike.

The three blood-gold light pillars fused, and their might suddenly soared. It was not a simple one-plus-one-plus-one superposition, but an essential sublimation.

This was another soul skill of Xu Zihuang's eighth soul ring: Mermaid Ensemble! Mermaid Ensemble allowed him to directly produce triple the effect when casting his own spiritual-type soul skills. It could be called a divine skill among spiritual attribute soul skills. This was also the effect produced only after elevating the Sea Princess's soul ring to the million-year level.

The curse of the Heart of the Ocean was amplified by the Mermaid Ensemble. The power of this strike had already far exceeded the full-force strike of a Limit Douluo-level powerhouse.

The moment the fused blood-gold light pillar extended outward, it was as if the apocalypse had descended. The sky completely collapsed, and countless electric lights flashed within this space. It was truly like destroying heaven and extinguishing earth.

"Old dog, returning it to you." The corner of Xu Zihuang's mouth outlined a faint arc, and his ice-cold voice was filled with thick mockery.

Ye Xishui, who was imprisoned by Xu Zihuang's demigod-level spiritual intent, instinctively sensed a threat to her life. Her pale face was mixed with anger and venomous hatred.

A low dragon roar sounded. A black figure suddenly shot out and fearlessly blocked in front of Ye Xishui. Pitch-black dragon scales instantly covered his entire body.

Long Xiaoyao smiled miserably and quietly looked at Xu Zihuang opposite him. His smile also carried a sense of release. If he could die to protect Ye Xishui, for him, this could also be considered a relief.

And in the next moment, the blood-gold light pillar with a diameter exceeding a thousand meters enveloped their bodies and extended all the way dozens of kilometers away.

This blood-gold light pillar seemed eternal and unceasing, spanning between heaven and earth, like an apocalyptic light crossing ten thousand ages.

It lasted for a full quarter of an hour before the light pillar slowly dimmed.

The clothes on Long Xiaoyao's body had already melted away, and the black dragon scales on his body had also been dyed blood-red. However, the most severely injured part of him was not his body, but his sea of spirit.

Ye Xishui's entire body was actually emitting a bright aura. A pair of golden wings behind her wrapped around the two of them. She was anxiously pressing her hands against Long Xiaoyao's back, injecting soul power into him.

"Xiaoyao!"

But her own condition was not very good either. The attack from Xu Zihuang at the spiritual level was not so easy to resist. With blood flowing from her seven orifices, her sea of spirit was also severely injured. And when she used the Bright Phoenix martial soul ability, the scar Xu Zihuang had previously left on her face appeared even clearer and more ferocious.

A mouthful of blood spurted from Long Xiaoyao's mouth. He took a deep look at Xu Zihuang, then transformed into a black dragon phantom, carrying Ye Xishui on his back and escaping into the void.

"Leave here first!"

"Next time when I come knocking, it will be your death date." Xu Zihuang's soul power consumption was also great at this moment, so he did not choose to pursue. Moreover, he hoped even more that after he broke through to the Title Douluo realm, he could crush them with absolute strength and let Ye Xishui die in endless pain.

As for Du Busi and Gu Lao, they were astonished by the second martial soul Ye Xishui had displayed. Their brief hesitation allowed Long Xiaoyao to take Ye Xishui and escape.

"Bright Phoenix?! Twin martial souls?!"

Although the Bright Phoenix martial soul was powerful, it had few inheritances on the continent. The most famous Bright Phoenix soul master on the continent was Yan Shaozhe, the dean of the Martial Soul Department at Shrek Academy, who was also the direct disciple of the previous Sea God Pavilion Master, Elder Mu.

This could not help but make Du Busi and Gu Lao have some associations.

Gu Lao reacted and immediately stepped forward to concerningly grasp one of Xu Zihuang's wrists.

"Tianhuang, are you okay?"

"I'm not injured, just my soul power consumption is a bit high."

Xu Zihuang smiled and shook his head.

"Gu Lao, about today's matter, I hope you can keep it confidential from Ning Tian. At this point, I don't want her to worry anymore."

"I understand what you mean."

Gu Lao nodded slightly, took a deep breath, and sighed, "However, you have really brought us a huge surprise this time. With Soul Douluo cultivation, heavily injuring two Limit Douluos, in the history of the soul master world, this is the only one of its kind."

On the other side, Du Busi also approached with a strange expression, greatly admiring as he patted Xu Zihuang's shoulder.

"I won't say much about words of thanks."

"Senior Poison is too polite." Xu Zihuang nodded to Du Busi, then seriously suggested to him, "Now that the Heavenly Soul Empire imperial palace has been breached, you should first go and take charge of the overall situation. If possible, it's best to bring Wei Na back to Heaven Dou City from Dragon City. She is the princess of the Heavenly Soul Empire; with her here, she can also stabilize people's hearts."

Thinking of this, the expression on Du Busi's face also became somewhat unsightly. After greeting Xu Zihuang and Gu Lao, he hurriedly headed toward the direction of the Heavenly Soul Empire imperial palace. Inside the palace, powerhouses from the Body Sect and the Heavenly Soul Empire had already begun rescue work, hoping to find survivors.

As for Xu Zihuang and Gu Lao, they returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.

The news that the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace had been raided later caused huge waves across the continent for a period of time. Although the Heavenly Soul Empire side tried its best to block the information, on that night, almost all the people of Heaven Dou City had witnessed this earth-shaking battle high above the imperial palace. It was simply unrealistic to completely block the news.

For a time, the entire Heavenly Soul Empire was in a state of panic.

However, in the following months, Wei Na, as the only direct bloodline of the Heavenly Soul Empire imperial family, endured her grief and proactively shouldered the responsibility of presiding over the overall situation of the Heavenly Soul Empire.

With the support of the people's will and the unanimous backing of the entire Body Sect, Wei Na ascended the throne two months later and became the first female emperor of the Heavenly Soul Empire in ten thousand years.

Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Empire side once again became quiet. Apart from consolidating the territories of the Heavenly Soul Empire that had already been occupied, there were no other actions.

The Heavenly Soul Empire side also longed for a period of stable time to stabilize the domestic situation.

The Star Luo Empire side, however, could not hold back and sent multiple elite soul master teams to harass the southern part of the Sun Moon Empire. Unlike the newly ascended Heavenly Soul Empire, the Star Luo Empire was united from top to bottom in wanting to recapture the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Only by controlling the Ming Dou Mountain Range and using it as a natural defensive barrier would they not appear too passive.

Moreover, the Star Luo Empire side was also very clear that the Sun Moon Empire was accumulating strength in preparation for the next invasion.

However, the Sun Moon Empire responded by mobilizing even stronger soul engineer teams to encircle and annihilate the Star Luo Empire's soul masters. Even the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Legion was deployed. The result was predictable.

In several clashes, the Star Luo Empire's soul masters suffered heavy losses and had no choice but to recall these elite soul master teams back to the country to avoid even greater losses.

Facts once again proved that the so-called Grand Marshal of the Star Luo Empire, the White Tiger Duke Dai Hao, was nothing but an outwardly strong but inwardly weak piece of trash. Facing the powerful Sun Moon Empire, he had no countermeasures at all. Without Xu Zihuang's help, they could not even break through a single Ming Dou Mountain Range.

During this period, Xu Zihuang had been staying at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, accompanying Ning Tian. More than two months later, they finally welcomed their first child.

Top floor of the central castle of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.

The spacious and luxurious room was brightly lit. Ning Tian was lying on the wide, soft bed in the center of the room with a tired face, but her eyes contained a sweet and happy meaning.

The healing-system tool soul Douluo, who had previously examined Ning Tian's body at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, released her Healing Scepter martial soul to nourish Ning Tian's body.

Ye Guyi, Gu Lao, and Ning Xingxu were also guarding Ning Tian's bedside.

Ning Tian held Xu Zihuang's hand. The two of them looked together at the small life lying beside her, wrapped in soft silk satin.

"Tianhuang, give our daughter a name."

From the delicate texture, it could be seen that this was top-quality silk satin. A pink, jade-like little fellow was sleeping peacefully within it.

Perhaps because Ning Tian had been using various top heavenly materials and earthly treasures ever since she became pregnant, this little fellow had extremely abundant nutrition during development. Or perhaps it was because Ning Tian had taken that special immortal herb, the Water Immortal Jade Muscle Bone.

This little fellow had no wrinkles at all, like a newborn. Not only was she not ugly, but she was instead exceptionally adorable. Her skin was extremely fair and tender, and her hair was a strange purple-gold color, as if she had been favored by the plane since birth, gathering the beauty of heaven and earth.

Xu Zihuang seemed to be touched. His gaze was slightly dazed, then he smiled.

"Let's call her Ningqing, Yu Ningqing."

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