Douluo Continent: The Ruler of Time, Reigning Supreme

Chapter 104: Life changes at the same time
With the fusion complete, the pair of small black wings seemed to truly become part of the butterfly's body.

With a slight thought, a pair of enormous, magnificent black wings of death, composed of pure dark energy and shadow matter, suddenly unfolded behind her.

With a wingspan of nearly three meters, each feather shimmered with a dark luster, its edges seemingly cutting through space, emanating a chilling aura of death and spatial fluctuations.

Not only that, Xia Die's soul power fluctuations also increased. Refining the soul bone, although not as effective as absorbing the soul ring, still allowed Xia Die to increase her soul power by two levels, and she is now a level 56 Soul King.

With a gentle flap of her wings, Xia Die floated up into the air as if weightless, hovering steadily in mid-air.

This is the most basic, yet extremely useful, ability that the Deathwing's external soul bones granted her—free flight.

Moreover, thanks to her affinity with space, her flight will be far more flexible, faster, and less energy-consuming than ordinary flying soul tools or flying with soul power.

But this is just the beginning.

The butterfly hovered in the air, a faint glint of light flashing in its purple eyes.

The next moment, two huge and eerie scarlet eyes suddenly appeared on her magnificent black wings.

Like the signature deathly still eyes of the Dark Prison Demon Lord.

His scarlet eyes suddenly lit up.

call out!call out!
Two incredibly condensed, scarlet beams of light, radiating extreme death energy, shot out.

It was the powerful soul skill that the Dark Prison Demon Lord had once used—the Netherworld Death Ray.

However, after being influenced by Xia Die's death soul power and martial soul, this Netherworld Death Light has also undergone some changes.

The color became a deeper, scarlet red, and the rules of death contained within it became purer. The sounds of resentment and wailing were instead restrained, transforming into a strange silence that directly eroded the very essence of the soul.

Two crimson beams of death light pierced through the void silently, instantly striking a solid mountain wall not far away.

There was no deafening explosion, only two soft "plop" sounds.

Two fist-sized, bottomless, pitch-black holes suddenly appeared on the mountainside.

The edges of the cave entrance were as smooth as a mirror, and the rocks and even the metallic minerals within them were instantly annihilated by the power of death, leaving no residue.

Although it wasn't as grand as the Dark Prison Demon Owl's personal display due to the limitations of his soul power, its penetrating and destructive power was still not to be underestimated.

After testing her attack soul skill, Xia Die's mind stirred once again.

Her figure suddenly blurred, as if turning into a streak of ink merging into water, and vanished from the spot in an instant.

There was no afterimage, no airflow disturbance; it was as if it had been swallowed up by space itself.

The next moment, hundreds of meters away in another part of the sky, her figure reappeared silently, like a ghost.

This is the second 100,000-year soul bone skill that Deathwing bestowed upon her—Voidwalker.

A powerful ability that allows her to teleport.

Watching that figure with magnificent black wings on its back, resembling a goddess of the night who wields death and space, flashing and leaping through the air, Fei Yan couldn't help but laugh and raise its voice:
"Your Highness, stop playing around and let us see your real gain—how powerful is that fifth soul skill from ten thousand years ago?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Die flashed again, as if traversing the gap in space, and instantly appeared in front of Fei Yan and Long Xiaoyao, with the Wings of Death slowly retracting behind her.

Her expression remained calm as she clarified:
"I'm not playing around, Senior Scarlet Nightmare. I'm just testing the effects of my soul skills and assessing the consumption of soul power."

She is indeed evaluating it seriously.

The "Voidwalker" consumed far less energy than she had expected, unlike the "Nether Death Ray," which drained a significant portion of her soul power at once. This was perhaps because the Deathwing's external soul bone itself had an extremely high affinity for spatial attributes, minimizing energy loss during spatial movement.

This means she can use this life-saving and surprise attack skill more frequently in battle.

"As for the fifth soul skill..."

A deep light flashed in Xia Die's purple eyes.

She sensed the power of her fifth spirit ring and slowly uttered its name:

"My fifth soul skill is called - Same Moment, Same Fate".

"Same moment, same fate?"

Fei Yan and Long Xiaoyao both tensed up; the name gave off a mysterious feeling.

Xia Die didn't explain. Although there was no need to deliberately keep it a secret, there was no need to tell others all about her soul skills.

The effect of "Simultaneous Fate Transfer" is to transfer the 'bad fate' imposed on oneself to a designated target. Currently, it is mainly manifested in two abilities: damage transfer and fate exchange.

Damage transfer can be made public, but fate exchange cannot be exposed at will.

It was precisely because the laws touched upon by this soul skill were too profound and heaven-defying that it almost exhausted all the potential that a 100,000-year soul ring could grant, causing Xia Die, who should have obtained two 100,000-year soul skills, to ultimately only obtain this one.

But Xia Die was well aware of the power of this soul skill.

Although with her current Soul King cultivation level, the transfer effect is not 100%, and she herself has to bear a portion of it, theoretically, when she advances to Title Douluo in the future, has a deeper understanding of soul skills, and her soul power is powerful enough, she will be able to transfer 100% of the damage.

At that time, as long as one is marked by her "Same Moment, Same Fate", all physical, energetic and even soul-level damage she suffers will be fully borne by the marked person, while she herself will remain unharmed.

Besides, she needs more time to study and explore how to use the even more elusive "fate exchange" ability.

However, right now is a good time to test the effect of "damage transfer".

Her gaze calmly fell on Fei Yan—who told this Third Elder to insist on seeing it for himself?

With a thought, the crimson, blood-red 100,000-year soul ring quietly shone on Xia Die's body, unleashing the fierce aura belonging to the Dark Prison Demon Owl.

Fifth Soul Skill: Same Moment, Same Fate - Mark.

Without a sound, an invisible thread of fate has connected Xia Die and Fei Yan, and an imperceptible and undetectable mark has been placed on Fei Yan.

Fei Yan, a level 97 Super Douluo, was completely unaware of this.

"Senior Scarlet Nightmare."

Xia Die said, "Please attack me, don't hold back."

Fei Yan was taken aback at first, but then instantly understood Xia Die's intention—she was being used as a target to experiment with new soul skills.

A hint of curiosity and ruthlessness flashed in her eyes. Since it was Xia Die's own request, she wouldn't hold back.

She wanted to see just how powerful this seemingly mysterious soul skill really was.

Moreover, Xia Die has the Soul Skill "Death Dream," so there's no need to worry about her dying, since she hasn't used this Soul Skill yet today.

(End of this chapter)