Douluo: Peerless Black Tortoise Moon God

Chapter 357 The Sea Princess's Demise, the Mermaid Clan's Annihilation, and the Six Hundred Thousand Year-Old Head Soul Bone
When Xu Tianxi activated his Martial Soul True Body for the first time in battle, his figure vanished instantly, replaced by a silver vertical eye that shone with a rose-gold halo. This eye released a tremendous surge of spiritual power that stopped the waves and made the Sea Princess change color.

Xu Xiaoyun, Kong Deming, and Tongtian Bazu did not hesitate either. They flew out and stood on one side, locking their auras onto the Sea Princess, cutting off her retreat and also cutting off the retreat of the Mermaid Clan.

We have come here today to bring calamity; we will not stop until the enemy is completely wiped out, and there is no reason to leave any future troubles!

Suddenly, thousands of full moons descended from the sky, turning the clear sky into night, and the azure ocean into a silvery white, making the sea princess's face even paler.

She witnessed her people being trapped by the moonlight, turning into silver sculptures, their life force and spiritual energy beginning to solidify.

And she... was powerless to do anything.

With his eyes focused, he unleashed a towering pillar of spiritual energy that shot straight towards the Sea Princess.

The moment the Sea Princess saw that beam of light, she felt as if she had been abandoned and stripped away by the most important destiny in the world. It was a mysterious feeling, indescribable yet real.

Her clansmen were unable to help her form an array, and her two daughters, each with 100,000 years of cultivation, were also taken down by the three Limit Douluo-level warriors who were providing support. The Sea Princess had no choice but to drag her crippled body and endure the onslaught.

A long, weary, and powerless song flowed from her throat, drawing upon the energy of the ocean to defend the sea princess from her enemies. It was the sea princess's most prized mermaid ensemble, capable of multiplying her spiritual power in a short period of time.

Coupled with the repeated mental shocks, even a Limit Douluo would not dare to underestimate it.

However, the Sea Princess was no longer the Sea Princess she once was. The substantial mermaid chord sound waves clashed with the vertical beam of light, but were utterly destroyed in less than a few breaths. The Sea Princess's body was struck as if by lightning and she was sent flying.

Her body quickly became ethereal, like a shattered piece of exquisite porcelain, and a desperate, bitter smile appeared on her face.

"If I were in my prime, how could you have defeated me so easily with this method? I sensed my spiritual essence within your power. You humans are truly despicable!"

Back when she was defeated, her 600,000-year-old spiritual essence was forcibly stripped away by the Tongtian Bazu. It wasn't just a matter of damaging her foundation; it was a matter of forcibly destroying it.

In the past two years, she has only been able to catch her breath briefly, but in reality, her mental state has been deteriorating and her strength is constantly draining away. If this continues, she will perish before the seventh tribulation.

Her soul power was still intact, but for a spirit-type soul beast like her, the significance of intact soul power was not very great, because in the ocean, there was boundless ocean power that could replace the function of soul power, and the most important thing to mobilize ocean power was mental power.

In her clash with Xu Tianxi, she was defeated very quickly. The enemy who attacked her seemed not to be a mere seventh-ring human, but rather the terrifying and unparalleled evil-eyed tyrant ruler of the land, whose power could cause spacetime to change with a single blow.

Even at her peak, she might not have been able to gain the upper hand, but she would never admit it.

"You came to our door seeking your own deaths, daring to attack my dragon clan. Do you think I can't attack you too?!"

Upon hearing this, Tongtian Bazu roared in anger and slashed down with his palm, just as he had shattered the Sea Princess's body in the past, directly splitting her flesh into countless bubbles.

Seeing their chieftain in dire straits, the merfolk uttered desperate and painful groans, praying for the arrival of the sea god.

"Lord Sea God, your most loyal servant is facing a life-or-death crisis in the mortal realm. If you can see this, please unleash divine punishment to punish these arrogant enemies..."

Mermaid Princess Lijing and Liya chanted hymns in the language of spirit beasts, praying to the heavens.

"With our lord here, how dare you plead with the sea god at a time like this? You're courting death!"

Di Tian couldn't stand such words. With a flick of his arms, his dark dragon claws hovered in the air, broke through the water, and fell, killing the two mermaid sisters instantly. Their bodies were shattered, and their souls were extracted and given to Gu Yuena.

“My lord, you’ve been needing to research materials lately, so I’m entrusting these two scoundrels to you,” Di Tian said in a serious tone.

"Alright." Gu Yuena nodded, her expression indifferent, and took away the souls of the two mermaids.

She is in charge of communicating with Electrolux about artificial spirit technology research. They have already reached the level of ten-thousand-year spirits and are now researching the even higher level of one hundred-thousand-year spirits. This step requires some materials.

In the two years since the establishment of the Heavenly Court, many old, weak, sick, and dying ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts have been sent to the Heavenly Court to join the immortality system.

This provided Electrox and Gu Yuena with ample research material, and with the help of these two god-level powerhouses, they quickly and thoroughly understood its essence.

However, 100,000-year-old soul spirits are different. Most 100,000-year-old soul beasts are proud and arrogant, and there are very few exceptions like Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. They want to fight for themselves and are unwilling to become soul spirits unless they are defeated. Therefore, Ilex and Gu Yuena can only study those few core members of the Heavenly Court.

As time went on, more materials were needed, but the soul beasts on Douluo Continent were not easy to deal with, since they all nominally revered Gu Yuena as the ruler of all soul beasts, or at least that's what Gu Yuena herself thought.

The ocean spirit beasts have no such concerns, especially the Sea Princess clan, who actually dared to follow the Sea God Island to force the Tongtian Baxia clan. They are definitely lackeys of the Sea God. It would be too good for them to be captured and used as experimental materials!

Xu Tianxi brought Gu Yuena here for this purpose as well. If the advancement of soul spirit technology always requires the sacrifice of some soul beasts, then let's make good use of these ocean soul beasts. He will kill whoever helps the Sea God, since the Sea Princess clan is his mortal enemy.

If the research goes smoothly, the souls of those two 100,000-year-old mermaids can be transformed into 100,000-year-old spirits in the future, making full use of their value and turning them into the foundation of the Heavenly Court.

Having witnessed her two daughters being killed by Di Tian and their souls being extracted, the Sea Princess, upon regaining her physical body, was in excruciating pain, crying out incessantly.

"You slaughtered the people of the Sea God, he will surely punish you! He will..." Xu Tianxi sneered inwardly, but did not argue further. The moonlight pressed down on the mermaids, and the boundless moonlight poured down, causing the world to change color and the blue sea to crack. After sealing most of the mermaids, he concentrated his strength on the dying sea princess.

The siege against the Sea Princess did not last long. With the fifth beam of light piercing through her body descending from the vertical eye, the Sea Princess's body did not re-condense.

Her pupils dilated and became lifeless, and she murmured, "Why won't the Sea God come to save us? Why won't he come to save us?"

"Swish"

Withdrawing his Martial Soul True Form, Xu Tianxi put his hands behind his back and strolled from mid-air to the Sea Princess, repeating what he had said to the Purple-Robed Dragon Lord.

"You are about to die. If you have any last words, leave them now so I can deliver them to the sea god for you."

The sea princess, her heavy eyelids fluttering, murmured, "Could you... spare... my people...? They... are... innocent..."

She was about to perish, and waves of regret overwhelmed her heart. In the past, she had followed the crowd to force the Tongtian Baxia clan, which resulted in her being severely injured and her future cut off. Now that she was dying, she didn't know what kind of miserable fate awaited her clansmen.

Xu Tianxi glanced at her in surprise and said coldly, "You are the patriarch of the Sea Princess clan. The victor is king and the loser is villain. You have 600,000 years of cultivation. Don't you even understand this?"

He cannot use the strategy of uniting the enemy, otherwise how can the interests of his own people be protected? To expand his own territory, he often has to swallow up the interests of his enemies.

Even for the purpose of deterring other sea spirit beasts, he would not spare the Sea Princess clan.

The goal is to let all the sea spirit beasts know that helping the Sea God will lead to no good end, and that the Sea God and Sea God Island don't even have the ability to protect their subordinates!
“You…” Rejected by Xu Tianxi, the Sea Princess felt a chill in her heart, then revealed a miserable smile, whether she was mocking herself or laughing at her enemy was unknown.

Yes, she is the patriarch of the Sea Princess clan, but now it seems that she has personally caused her daughter and her clan to encounter an invincible enemy, thus severing their lineage. She can only swallow all the bitter fruit herself.

"Shh!"

Xu Tianxi pierced the Sea Princess's chest with his sword. The Sea Princess's eyes quickly lost their luster, and her body became illusory, as if she would disappear at any moment.

In her final moments, she seemed to remember something, murmuring, "I regret not heeding the Snow Empress's words..."

"boom--"

As the Sea Princess perished, a massive spirit ring rose up, a red spirit ring just like the Purple-Robed Dragon Lord's, adorned with six golden rays.

"I would like to trouble you all to protect me."

Xu Tianxi cupped his hands in greeting to those around him, sat down cross-legged in mid-air, and used his mind to guide the Sea Princess's soul ring to his body, beginning to absorb it.

The process of absorbing the Sea Princess's soul ring was not too difficult. After all, her most powerful spiritual essence had been taken away. Although the impact of the soul power accumulated over 600,000 years was enormous, it was not unbearable for Xu Tianxi, who had a strong physical body, pure soul power, and a spiritual soul core protecting him.

About an hour later, Xu Tianxi, looking calm and composed, stood up and exhaled a breath of fresh air.

"It's done."

Beneath his feet, a new soul ring had appeared on top of his seven soul rings, signifying that he had officially entered the realm of the eight-ring Soul Douluo and that his cultivation had taken another big step forward.

"Okay, okay! Hahahaha..."

Seeing this, Xu Xiaoyun and Kong Deming clapped and laughed. Xu Tianxi was only eighteen years old, yet he already had the cultivation of an eight-ring Soul Douluo. At this age, this record was unprecedented in the history of Douluo Continent, and he had unlimited potential in the future!
Xu Tianxi smiled in response, then asked Tongtian Bazu beside him, "Grandmaster, what part of the Sea Princess's soul bone is it?"

Tongtian Bazu smiled slightly and presented a beautiful soul bone that shimmered with light. Its streamlined structure looked smooth and clear, and its rich spiritual light and shadow were intoxicating. Just seeing it made Xu Tianxi feel happy and refreshed.

"Six hundred thousand head soul bones, that's unprecedented in human history, isn't it? After absorbing it, apart from certain places or powerful figures related to gods, there shouldn't be any powerful figure in this world who can suppress you on a spiritual level."

Tongtian Bazu was in a state of leisure and composure.

"I must thank my great-grandmaster for making this possible; otherwise, I would not have had such an opportunity."

Xu Tianxi clasped his hands in thanks to Tongtian Bazu, his face beaming with joy. He accepted the soul bone and was about to begin activating his spiritual power to absorb it.

Just as Tongtian Bazu said, unless it is an existence like the Evil Emperor, or the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was not completely drained of its soul power, it is almost impossible to find a soul bone stronger than her in this Douluo plane.

Just then, Di Tian's voice came again, and he chuckled, suggesting in an encouraging tone:
"When you have some free time, take a stroll through the Demon Forest of your Sun Moon Empire. I'm quite looking forward to seeing how you'll fare after your battle with that old evil eye."

Xu Tianxi looked surprised for a moment, then nodded slightly, "I will definitely not disappoint Di Tian."

(End of this chapter)