In the blood-colored sky behind the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, intense spiritual fluctuations surged.
All the soul beasts in the Evil Demon Forest were suppressed by this terrifying spiritual intent. They prostrated on the ground, not daring to move in the slightest. Here, the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord was the ruler of everything.
Yet Xu Zihuang remained expressionless as he floated high in the air, staring directly at the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord. His entire aura was completely restrained, to the point that even the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord found it somewhat impenetrable.
If it weren't for this, given the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's temperament, it would have long since attacked and destroyed Xu Zihuang.
As expected of the existence ranked second among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, one that had once contended with the Beast God Di Tian. Setting aside its strength for now, this level of rationality alone already surpassed many super soul beasts. If it had been Bear Lord instead, it wouldn't have had so many thoughts and would have charged straight in.
"Ignorant? Fearless?" Xu Zihuang smiled mockingly at the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord.
"I am neither ignorant nor fearless. I am simply unrivaled in this world."
Xu Zihuang's calm voice echoed through the high skies of the Evil Demon Forest core area. At the same time, circles of incredibly shocking soul rings began to rise from beneath his feet one after another, accompanied by a strange buzzing sound.
Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Bright Gold! Blue Gold!
There were still eight soul rings, but after breaking through the Title Douluo bottleneck, the aura he displayed had undergone a heaven-and-earth transformation compared to before. Brilliant golden light filled the space on Xu Zihuang's side, contending equally with the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord. The sky seemed to have been completely split apart—one side was a strange blood-red, the other a divine, brilliant gold, clearly separated.
"Hmm?"
Hearing Xu Zihuang's arrogant words that showed no respect for the heavens, the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord originally wanted to mock him, but at this moment, clearly sensing Xu Zihuang's aura, it forcibly stopped itself. A trace of shock and anger appeared in its enormous pupil.
What shocked it was that the human soul master before it was far more powerful than it had imagined. What angered it was that it sensed two traces of its own bloodline aura from Xu Zihuang. This meant that at least two of its direct descendants had died at Xu Zihuang's hands, and their soul rings had been absorbed by him.
"So it's you?!" The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord let out an angry, sharp screech.
"You're the one who killed my son and grandson?!"
Although it had many descendants, the pure spiritual-type Evil Eye Tyrants with unadulterated bloodline numbered only a handful.
Its youngest son and grandson had both inherited its purest bloodline, they were pure and noble, pure spiritual-type Evil Eye Tyrants.
Unlike most top soul beasts, the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord reproduced relatively more easily. What was difficult was maintaining the purity of its descendants' bloodline.
However, this was only one of the reasons for the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's anger. What truly enraged it was that Xu Zihuang's actions had almost completely cut off its escape route.
It had been breeding offspring precisely to cultivate a perfect body container. That way, even if it failed its eighth heavenly tribulation, it could rely on its powerful spiritual origin and soul power to possess one of its descendants and be reborn.
By a cruel twist of fate, the two pure spiritual-type Evil Eye Tyrants that had become Xu Zihuang's fifth and sixth soul rings were both candidates the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord had chosen.
Moments later, the raging fury in the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's enormous silver pupil gradually returned to calm. A strange glint appeared in its gaze as it looked at Xu Zihuang.
"Human, you are very strong. You are the only human soul master I have ever seen who can contend with me on the spiritual level. Among your human race, you should also be considered a heaven-defying genius. No wonder you targeted my clansmen. Since my youngest son and grandson died at your hands, that was their fate. But this matter cannot end here between us. You must pay a corresponding price. You shall replace them and become my new body. Hehehehehehehehehe…"
The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord suddenly burst into laughter. Its eighty-one tentacles continuously waved in the air, twisting the sky. The overwhelming spiritual pressure surged once again.
Its eighty-one tentacles instantly turned crimson and lashed toward Xu Zihuang from all directions.
This was the powerful innate soul skill of the Evil Eye Tyrant race, Soul Touch. Each dark-red tentacle was like a whip, but even more terrifying was the brilliant silver glow contained within. It wasn't just the spiritual shock and blast power attached to Soul Touch, but also incorporated the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's comprehension of spatial power.
Facing the dark-red tentacles whipping toward him, Xu Zihuang showed no fear.
Among the six red and two gold soul rings orbiting around him, the sixth blood-red soul ring shone. Sixth soul skill, Soul Touch!
Golden-silver tentacles drilled out from the void. Although there were only sixteen of them, far fewer in number than the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's eighty-one dark-red tentacles, these sixteen golden-silver tentacles could each tear through space and accurately block the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's attacks.
The sixteen golden-silver tentacles released by Xu Zihuang were like heavenly chains from the gods, perfectly restricting the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's dark-red tentacles and entangling with them.
Golden-silver and dark-red lights flashed violently in the sky. The massive energy fluctuations and spiritual impacts caused the surrounding space to shatter layer by layer. Within the shattered cracks was pitch-black darkness, faintly flickering with specks of starlight. They were clearly fine spatial fissures.
"Spatial power?! You have already grasped spatial power?!" The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord cried out in shock. Whether out of panic or complete rage, its enormous pupil suddenly became profound. A dark-red thorny light wheel quietly appeared around the outer edge of its silver pupil.
At the same time, the phenomenon of a blood sun and silver moon appeared behind it.
This Evil Eye Tyrant Lord had also cultivated the Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores. Its two soul cores were a spiritual-attribute soul core and a spatial-attribute soul core, corresponding respectively to the blood sun and silver moon.
Under the enhancement of the Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, the color of the dark-red thorny light wheel around the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord became even more eerie, as if stained with blood.
Thorny Light Ring!
"Buzz—" The sky seemed to shake violently. Xu Zihuang felt as though countless sharp thorns had pierced his spiritual sea, attempting to drag his entire spiritual sea out of his body.
It was no exaggeration to say that although the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's overall strength was inferior to that of the Beast God Di Tian, its attainments in the spiritual domain were even superior.
If an ordinary Super Douluo were here, their spiritual sea would likely have been directly stripped from their body. Without a spiritual sea, whether a human soul master or soul beast, they would completely lose the ability to resist.
However, in front of Xu Zihuang, no matter how powerful the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's spiritual soul skills were, they held no meaning. Because the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord and he were simply not on the same level spiritually.
Peak "tangible and qualitative" spiritual power and demigod-level spiritual power appeared to be only one step apart, but that one step was an insurmountable chasm.
It wasn't that the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord lacked the foundation and potential to reach demigod-level spiritual power, but that it lacked the necessary opportunity. Xu Zihuang's ability to reach this stage was certainly due to his astonishing talent, but the divine imprints left by the Time God and Space God had also played an indispensable role. It was only after absorbing the Sea Princess's soul ring that his spiritual power broke through the shackles of the god-level boundary.
Xu Zihuang gazed at the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord with an indifferent expression. Behind him, a phenomenon also appeared.
A noble and radiant golden sun, a majestic and domineering purple moon, and a vast black starry sky serve as the background for the golden sun and purple moon. This was the true phenomenon triggered by the Yin-Yang Complementary Three Soul Cores, an unprecedented existence.
Xu Zihuang's gaze sharpened. The negative effects inflicted on him by the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's earlier innate soul skill, Thorny Light Ring, were instantly swept away. Moreover, dense golden cracks appeared on the thorny light wheel outside the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's body, which then shattered with a boom.
"Roar—" The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's shrill and furious roar caused the entire Evil Demon Forest to tremble. Large swathes of trees turned to dust in an instant. Silver blood overflowed from its enormous pupil, and its body shook violently.
From an outsider's perspective, it looked as though Xu Zihuang had heavily injured this Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, who had lived for seven hundred and ninety thousand years, with just a single glance.
"Why?! Why is it like this?!" More and more silver blood threads filled the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's pupil, and the emotions within had already turned into terror.
"Yin-Yang Complementary Three Soul Cores! Demigod-level spiritual power! How could a mere human possibly achieve this?! Aaaaaaaaah!"
It hadn't even used its most powerful innate soul skill, Light of Time and Space. Although it was unwilling to admit it, it knew that even if it used the Light of Time and Space, it would likely change nothing.
The soul skill Thorny Light Ring that the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord had used earlier was also one of its most powerful innate soul skills. It could be called a perfect soul skill integrating control, attack, and defense. Not only could it directly affect and attack the enemy's spiritual sea, but it also had another heaven-defying effect: whatever damage the user received would be fed back to the opponent by fifty percent, turning it into spiritual damage.
Yet Xu Zihuang, through his overwhelming superiority in the spiritual domain, had completely nullified the fifty percent spiritual damage feedback from the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord.
To the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, Xu Zihuang was essentially a dimensional suppression. The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord was far too heavily countered by Xu Zihuang.
Xu Zihuang remained quietly floating in the air, not pressing his advantage. With an expressionless face, he once again gave the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord a choice.
"Submit or die, it is up to you to choose. If you choose to submit, I can let you follow them and step into that domain alongside me."
As he spoke, streaks of light and shadow appeared behind him. They were none other than Xu Zihuang's five soul spirits that had taken human form.
The languid white-gold-haired young man, Tianmeng Iceworm; the exquisitely beautiful yet wild girl—Thunder Hell Prison Vine; the black-haired, blood-eyed demonic woman—Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
The remaining Thunder Beast had transformed into a golden-haired, beast-eared loli, her large golden eyes also filled with closeness toward Xu Zihuang. Finally, the Silver Scaled White Whale appeared as a silver-haired, purple-eyed girl. Her eyes were as clear as two noble purple crystals, but compared to the other four soul spirits, her eyes clearly lacked a bit of liveliness, as if something was missing. However, this ethereal quality of hers made her even more striking.
Aside from the Silver Scaled White Whale, the other four soul spirits all wore excited expressions.
Especially Tianmeng Iceworm.
Back then, the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest to challenge the Beast God Di Tian, mainly to seize him. Now, seeing the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord in such a miserable state, Tianmeng Iceworm felt indescribably pleased and delighted inside.
Who told you to treat me like that back then! Hmph! Now the tables have turned!
Tianmeng Iceworm grinned smugly at the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord and said with a strange laugh, "Old Evil Eye, you've gotten lucky this time. Zihuang is someone chosen by the gods. If you know what's good for you, hurry up and offer your soul ring and soul bone to Zihuang."
"You're that Iceworm?!" The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord looked at Tianmeng Iceworm with uncertainty, its deep voice sounding somewhat weak.
"That's right, it's me."
Tianmeng Iceworm proudly puffed out its chest.
"Didn't expect that, did you? That I could escape from the Star Dou Great Forest. But I have long since become Zihuang's soul spirit. If you are willing to follow Zihuang and become his soul spirit, you can naturally retain your spiritual body and wisdom just like me. Of course, you will definitely have to stand behind me."
Tianmeng Iceworm wasn't worried that the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord would harbor ill intentions. With Xu Zihuang's personality, even if he ultimately chose to sign a contract with the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, it would definitely be a master-servant contract. Moreover, the divine imprint existing in Xu Zihuang's spiritual sea was not something the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord could influence.
Thus, it was naturally happy to rely on Xu Zihuang's power to vent its anger properly.
"So, what is your choice?"
Xu Zihuang's eyes opened and closed. Deep within his gaze, not a trace of emotion had surfaced. His eyes once again fell upon the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord.
He did not necessarily need the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord to become his soul spirit. Although if the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord willingly fused with him, the absorption of the soul ring and soul bone would undoubtedly be the most perfect, in reality, it wouldn't make much difference to him.
The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord seemed to understand something. Recognizing its current situation, its tone became resigned.
"I must admit that humans are indeed the most favored race by the heavens. Neither Di Tian nor I is destined to touch that realm. Since you are willing to give me this opportunity, I shall follow you and witness the scenery I have never seen before."
Looking at the calmness deep within the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's pupil, Xu Zihuang chuckled lightly and once again used the Huanglong Claw to connect to the Huanglong Space.
"This will be the wisest choice you make in your life."
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