Douluo: Lord of Arms

Chapter 44 Sword Control
"It seems that the Spirit Ascension Platform is not that dangerous during the riot period! Teacher Wu still underestimated us!" Because of a series of easy victories, Zhang Yangzi's love of showing off in front of others was highlighted again.

"Okay, talk less. Teacher Wu is still watching outside! Do you want to make the exam more difficult for yourself?" Xie Xie rolled his eyes after hearing what Zhang Yangzi said.

"No! No! If it weren't for the captain, we wouldn't be able to do it so easily. This assessment task is already difficult enough for us." Zhang Yangzi quickly replied when he heard Wu Changkong's name.

"Alright, Yangzi, now that we've dealt with the hundred-year-old soul beast up ahead, let's take a break and recover our soul power."

"Yangzi! Did you observe what kind of soul beast that hundred-year-old soul beast is?"

Zhang Yangzi's expression suddenly changed. "Captain, it's the Man-Faced Demon Spider! It's setting traps for hunting!"

Lin Xingyu narrowed his eyes and smiled: "It's okay, lure it over here, aren't we just looking for a place to rest? Let it set up a place for us to rest."

"Captain, will it succeed?" Xie Xie asked with some doubt.

"It's okay, give it a try. If you fail, it's okay. If you succeed, you'll have a temporary safe place and won't have to look for another place to repair it."

Everyone quietly approached the century-old human-faced demon spider. When they were at the right distance, Gu Yue, without the slightest hesitation, suddenly raised his right hand, and a fiery flame instantly ignited in his palm. In the blink of an eye, fireballs, engulfed in surging heat, whizzed towards the human-faced demon spider like cannonballs.

The hundred-year-old human-faced demon spider didn't dodge or evade, and directly used several of its spider spears to break up the fireballs. Then a large yellow-green net flew directly towards everyone. Several fireballs formed by the glazed true fire on Lin Xingyu's body directly met it. With a series of explosions, the glazed fireballs finally dissipated completely, and then the large yellow-green net was burned out.

The human-faced demon spider observed the situation of Lin Xingyu and the others and seemed to find it a bit tricky, so it actually began to set traps around them in front of them openly.

"Captain, aren't you going to take action yet?" Xie Xie asked nervously.

"It's okay, don't worry! This time, I'll do it! You don't have to do anything, let me show you the power of my soul skills!" Lin Xingyu casually comforted Xie Xie.

Hearing Lin Xingyu's words, Gu Yue and others looked over curiously. They knew that Lin Xingyu's third soul skill was to condense weapons, but they didn't know what other functions this soul skill could play. It could easily kill the hundred-year-old human-faced demon spider.

Aya on Lin Xingyu's shoulder had a solemn expression on her face, and the red-gold sword floating in her hand became brighter and brighter.

Gradually, the human-faced demon spider seemed to sense something, became hesitant, and seemed to want to retreat.

The next moment, a flash of red-gold light passed by Lin Xingyu's shoulder, and then an explosion occurred directly on the human-faced demon spider. The explosion directly shattered most of the human-faced demon spider's body, and yellow-green blood flowed all over its body.

Tang Wulin and the others stared at the scene in amazement.

"It's not dead yet. Is its vitality so strong?" Lin Xingyu was a little surprised when he saw that there was no spiritual power coming out of the human-faced demon spider.

As Lin Xingyu's voice came, everyone felt as if they had just woken up from a dream.

"Jin Xi, go kill it!"

Wang Jinxi walked forward in a daze, activated his Bone-Moving Dragon Claw, and dealt the human-faced demon spider a final blow. "Captain, how did you do that?" Xie Xie couldn't help but ask.

Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and Zhang Yangzi couldn't help but look over.

Lin Xingyu smiled this time and said, "It's nothing. It's just one of my combined soul skills. You have to keep it a secret for me."

"Alright, this human-faced demon spider has provided us with a good outer defense. Let's all rest well and recover our soul power."

Seeing that Lin Xingyu was unwilling to explain in detail, everyone came back to their senses and began to meditate.

Just now, Lin Xingyu used a combination of soul skills that he called "Sword Control".

After being transformed into weapons by the Xuanbingjia, the objects infected by soul power are full of metallic properties. Lin Xingyu molded the Glazed True Fire into a sword shape and then transformed it into a weapon. However, he only shaped the sword body without the hilt, and kept filling the sword body with Glazed True Fire.

So the small sword is in a stable and unstable state, and may explode at any time. Then Lin Xingyu uses the force field formed by electromagnetic force as the power, and uses mental power to guide the small flying sword to be shot out.

The small flying sword has the effects of breaking magic, being strong and sharp. After hitting the target, a secondary explosion will occur directly. The weapon made of the black soldier armor will explode directly into pieces of metal fragments. The glazed true fire will be detonated for the second time, and it can directly deal terrifying damage in an instant.

The damage caused by this combination of soul skills is naturally terrifying, but it requires advance preparation and guidance, which takes a certain amount of time. After Lin Xingyu's soul Aya is upgraded to a thousand-year soul, Aya can unleash Lin Xingyu's first three soul skills. This is also the advantage of the current soul system compared to the soul rings obtained by hunting soul beasts ten thousand years ago!
So Lin Xingyu asked Aya to prepare this soul skill in advance and release it directly when needed.

This combination of soul skills gave Lin Xingyu a great surprise when he tried it for the first time. The power of the soul skill can be called terrifying, and the soul power consumed is very small. The disadvantage is that it requires time to prepare in advance, but the soul of Aya made up for this shortcoming.

The soul power and mental energy consumed by this combination soul skill was not as terrible as that consumed by Lin Xingyu's own combat skills. Lin Xingyu's own soul skills would drain his soul power after performing them twice, but he could perform this "Sword Control" multiple times.

And in terms of destructive power alone, it is not much worse, and in some aspects it is even more terrifying!
Lin Xingyu and the other six people were guarding on the outside, while the others took turns meditating to recover their soul power and physical strength as quickly as possible.

When the others saw the spiritual energy generated by the soul beasts that were poisoned to death by the human-faced demon spider being absorbed by them, Tang Wulin and the others also understood what Lin Xingyu meant by creating a safe resting place.

During the riot period, the soul-raising platform caused a huge increase in the number of soul beasts. These soul beasts fought, killed, and fled each other in various places. Many soul beasts ran into the traps set by the human-faced demon spider in a panic, and eventually died here and turned into pure spiritual power.

Thirty minutes later, everyone seemed to have recovered.

Lin Xingyu asked: "How do you feel about yourself? How many more years can you absorb spiritual energy?"

Wang Jinxi smiled bitterly and said, "If I absorb all the spiritual energy that hasn't been absorbed yet, my soul should be able to reach 500 years. My soul limit should be 600 years. After that, my spirit will not be strong enough." As he spoke, Wang Jinxi looked at the spiritual energy that had not been absorbed on his body. This was indeed a change. Because of Lin Xingyu's stimulation, Wang Jinxi worked harder, his spirit power increased, and his limit was also raised.

Zhang Yangzi continued, "My limit is probably around 650 years. I should be able to absorb spiritual energy for another 300 years. After that, my body won't be able to handle it!"

Xie Xie said, "Yangzi and I are in similar situations. We've almost reached our limit after absorbing the spiritual energy around our bodies." Gu Yue said coldly, "Xie Xie and the others are similar to me."

Tang Wulin said with some annoyance, "My limit is about nine hundred years. My spiritual power is just a little bit short!" Because Tang Wulin only had one spirit ring, his soul power was improving at a relatively fast rate. If it weren't for his lack of spiritual power, if he had absorbed all of this spiritual power, he could have achieved another spiritual improvement!
(End of this chapter)