Douluo: The Unrivaled Demon Lord

Chapter 79 The Octopus King of the Illusory Sea ②
If you were to ask what the most abnormal ability of the Phantom Sea Octopus King is, it would undoubtedly be its incredibly powerful self-healing ability.

Things like limb regeneration are a piece of cake for him. In some ways, he is similar to Shu Yan. As long as the brain is intact, the physical body can be restored and regenerated in a very short time.

However, Shu Yan relied on the immense life energy from the Gold of Life, while the Illusionary Sea Octopus King relied entirely on its racial instincts.

……

The sky above suddenly turned a brilliant gold, filled with a divine aura. Three golden sword energies, each over five meters long, swooped down and left three deep wounds on the Illusionary Sea Octopus King.

"Humans, how dare you!"

A deep, terrified, and furious voice rang out. The Illusionary Sea Octopus King, already severely injured by the Heavenly Tribulation, was violently churning in the seawater. Although it was a 100,000-year-old soul beast, its strength was severely damaged. At most, it now possessed the strength to barely match a human Title Douluo. Facing the encirclement and attack of two Title Douluos and three Soul Douluos, it had absolutely no chance of survival!

Hmm... Shu Yan, who only had the cultivation of a Soul King, was subconsciously ignored by it.

"Daring? We've got even bolder stuff up our sleeves!"

A cold snort came from above. Her fifth soul ring flashed beneath her feet. Then, she held a slender, golden sword and pointed it straight at the sky. A golden soul power shot into the sky, and divine soul power created a golden domain with a diameter of about three hundred meters around her.

Angelic Martial Soul Fifth Soul Skill: Angelic Domain!

Within the domain, allies receive attribute boosts, while opponents have some of their attributes weakened and their movement speed slowed down. The angel's soul power will also continuously dissolve and decompose the soul power within the opponent's body.

Although Angel's Domain cannot compare to Angel's Domain, which is associated with the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, in essence and in effect, Angel's Domain is a weakened version of the complete Angel's Domain. Its effects are so remarkable that it is among the top-tier of all domain-type Soul Skills.

At this moment, the Soul Douluo from the Han family finally released his Martial Soul. Eight Soul Rings—two yellow, three purple, and three black—rose up, and a golden staff appeared in his hand.

The Golden Rope Martial Soul is a mutated version, a control and support type Martial Soul, the Golden Staff!

His seventh, fifth, and third spirit rings lit up simultaneously, and five golden lights rushed into the bodies of the five people. Then, a strong golden light burst out from the five people, and each person's aura surged in a short period of time.

"Dimensional Cutting!"

Shu Yan made the first move, sending a silver slash straight towards the brain of the Illusionary Sea Octopus King like an arrow.

The brain is the true life core of the Phantom Sea Octopus King, and it is also the part of its body with the strongest and most abnormal defense and self-healing ability. Even someone as strong as Shu Hong may not be able to completely destroy the defenses outside the brain of the Phantom Sea Octopus King in a short time due to its powerful self-recovery ability.

But Shu Yan is different; his fifth soul skill is specifically designed to counter beings with strong defensive or self-healing abilities.

Apart from Han Ruoruo, the other three simultaneously restrained the Illusionary Sea Octopus King's movements. The Dimensional Slash struck the Illusionary Sea Octopus King's brain directly. In an instant, a huge hole was torn open in the outer defense of the Illusionary Sea Octopus King's brain, and the surrounding flesh surged and regenerated. However, a silver soul power greatly slowed down its own self-healing ability. Han Ruoruo's jade hand trembled slightly, but she still immediately threw out the Golden Rope.

The Golden Rope transformed into a golden streak and pierced straight into the opening. The Illusionary Sea Octopus King roared in despair, but soon, with a sharp, long howl, the Illusionary Sea Octopus King's eyes gradually lost their luster, and its massive body slowly stopped struggling, floating quietly on the surface of the sea.

The next moment, a burst of intense golden light suddenly erupted from the body of the Phantom Sea Octopus King, and the Golden Rope burst out of its body, signifying that the life of the Phantom Sea Octopus King was completely ended at this moment.

The crimson energy gathered, causing the surrounding space to seem to solidify slightly. A huge crimson soul ring slowly condensed on the corpse of the Illusionary Sea Octopus King, and a fierce and powerful soul aura spread out. Even an old senior like Grandpa Han couldn't help but reveal a trace of envy in his eyes.

"Ruo Ruo, are you confident?" After the initial hint of envy, Old Master Han's mood turned into worry.

Absorbing a 100,000-year soul ring places extremely high demands on a soul master's physical fitness and mental strength. If Han Ruoruo needs to obtain her ninth soul ring this time, then Grandpa Han will definitely not have any worries, because absorbing a 100,000-year soul ring at the ninth ring level will be almost stress-free for Han Ruoruo.

But now all Han Ruoruo needs is the eighth spirit ring. A 100,000-year spirit ring is indeed beyond her limit in terms of age.

In this situation, if an accident occurs, Han Ruoruo would most likely face a life-threatening situation. If she is lucky, she would probably end up like Zhang Lexuan.

Han Ruoruo hesitated for only a moment before nodding firmly.

"Grandpa, I'm going to try no matter what."

Grandpa Han shook his head helplessly; he had expected this all along.

Shu Yan approached Han Ruoruo and then whispered:
"Go for it, Sister Ruoruo!"

Han Ruoruo blinked her beautiful eyes, then nodded with a light laugh.

……

As the immense energy entered her body, Han Ruoruo let out a muffled groan uncontrollably, her body trembling violently.

"It's still a bit of a stretch. Hopefully, Ruoruo's willpower can hold out until the absorption is complete..."

Yu Bingyan sighed softly, and then said.

On the other side, Shu Yan's gaze remained fixed on Han Ruoruo, while Xie Ji in the Sea of ​​Spirit was not idle either. With Shu Yan's cooperation, she had devoured the soul and resentment of the Illusionary Sea Octopus King the moment it died, which could be considered as indirectly relieving the pressure on Han Ruoruo.

……

After devouring the soul of the Illusionary Sea Octopus King, Shu Yan felt his consciousness become clear, his mental strength was growing rapidly, and his soul power also increased slightly at level 58.

Shu Yan also gained some understanding of the feedback that Xie Ji could give him after devouring his soul.

Generally speaking, Xie Ji consumed nearly 40% of the gains from devouring souls, while Shu Yan absorbed the remaining 60%.

Of this energy, nearly 70% will be used in the mental power field, and only about 30% will be used to improve his soul power cultivation.

Even so, such a rate of improvement is still terrifying.

Shu Yan even began to understand those evil soul masters and those crazy evil soul masters. If one could rapidly increase their cultivation level simply by devouring others, many people would find it hard to resist the temptation. Once they started, they would gradually become addicted and sink deeper and deeper into it. After all, the thrill of rapidly increasing one's cultivation level and gaining powerful strength is extremely alluring.

In a sense, they are no longer the masters of power, but have become its slaves...

(End of this chapter)