Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 295 - The Eighth Soul Ring and the Crown Bone

After struggling for a few moments, Qian Lingyun fell from the Sea Princess's grasp with a thud. She raised her hand to seal her still-bleeding wound and said confidently:

"Even if you are incredibly strong, and your mental power surpasses that of a Limit Douluo, once the poison spreads, you're beyond saving. Death is only a matter of time for you!"

"You damned human! Even if I die, I will..."

Under the influence of the potent toxin, the Sea Princess's entire body turned black, black blood flowed from her seven orifices, and her whole body was covered in a strange black color. Black blood continuously overflowed from her body, and she tightly gripped Qian Lingyun's neck with both hands, like a demon crawling out of hell.

"You're using all your soul power to suppress the poison, just to buy yourself more time to kill me? Well, then you won't be able to use your soul power at all!"

"It's truly tragic that a ferocious beast that has existed for six hundred thousand years has come to such a dead end..."

"But when I think about how I was the one who made this happen, I still feel a little... no, I'm extremely proud!"

Seeing the Sea Princess rushing towards her, Qian Lingyun mercilessly smashed her head with a beautiful headbutt, but... she seemed to have forgotten that her head had not been modified by the Ice Extreme Crystal.

She smashed the head of the 600,000-year-old ferocious beast, and ended up getting injured instead.

"She actually did it!" The Demon Queen said wistfully, watching Qian Lingyun locked in a fierce battle with the Sea Princess.

"To force a sea princess with 600,000 years of cultivation into hand-to-hand combat is truly remarkable!"

With that, she broke her previous silence and stepped onto the surging waves to reach the last few sea spirit beasts that wanted to join the melee.

She crushed a mermaid over 50,000 years old with a single palm strike and sneered:

"Hey, you little minions! Can't you see my allies are busy? Their duel can't be interrupted by you bunch of lackeys!"

On the ice, the human and the fish fought one after another, without any routine or moves, only the constant collision of blood and flesh. Every strike they made was with all their might, every strike was an exhaustion of all their strength.

Later, the Sea Princess, weakened by the poison and on the verge of death, had no ability to resist and could only rely on the toughness of her own bones to barely withstand Qian Lingyun's heavy punches.

"You... won!" With her last bit of strength, the sea princess slapped Qian Lingyun away with her tail. She lay on her back on the ice and managed to utter her last three words.

"Hmm," Qian Lingyun hummed softly, using her sword as a crutch to get up from the ice.

This time, she didn't rush in to finish off the beast, but instead quietly watched its final moments.

Gradually, the sinister blackness spread from the inside out to the sea princess's skin and flesh, and before long, only a dark blue mermaid skeleton could be seen on the ice.

Apart from that, there was only a dark red halo shining brightly on the ice surface; it was a dark red halo with six golden lines.

"I just casually made an impossible request to watch the show, but I didn't expect you to actually do it!"

Before anyone knew it, the Demon Queen had arrived. She tossed the 100,000-year-old soul beast, Liya, which she had been carrying, in front of Qian Lingyun and said gently, "She's yours now! My dear ally!"

"Hmm." Qian Lingyun nodded slightly, glancing sideways at the lonely spirit ring. She couldn't help but complain, "I remember that 100,000-year-old spirit beasts should all have spirit bones, right? Why doesn't the Sea Princess have one? Or is it..."

Seemingly remembering something, Qian Lingyun was overjoyed. She then nodded to herself and whispered, "I need to absorb the soul ring. Would you please protect me, senior?"

"Alright," the Demon Queen responded softly.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Qian Lingyun used her spiritual power to guide the soul ring and soul bone towards them.

The moment her mental energy landed on the spirit ring, she immediately felt an extremely strong repulsive force erupting from it.

It was obvious that it belonged to the sea princess's thoughts.

However, this obviously wouldn't cause Qian Lingyun too much trouble.

If this guy were still alive, Qian Lingyun would naturally be no match for him, but now that the Sea Princess is dead, how could she possibly cause any trouble?

Qian Lingyun only needs to clear the remnant soul inside the soul ring to absorb this powerful soul ring without any worries.

This is a 100,000-year soul ring with six golden patterns!

Among all of Qian Lingyun's spirit rings, only Xue Di's 700,000-year spirit ring surpasses it. However, Xue Di's spirit ring was obtained through sacrifice, which is different from absorbing it on her own.

After stripping the remnant soul from the spirit ring, Qian Lingyun sat down cross-legged without hesitation and began to fuse with the Sea Princess's spirit ring using her spiritual power.

A dark red soul ring entered her body. Qian Lingyun trembled violently. She felt an extremely angry, hateful, and unwilling spiritual force surge into her spiritual sea.

It seems that even if the soul vibration within the soul ring is eliminated, the impact from resentment cannot be driven away.

"Don't worry about absorbing it, I'm here!"

Electrolux's voice drifted from the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness, and it was clear that he was quite satisfied with Qian Lingyun's performance today.

With these words, Qian Lingyun immediately began absorbing the spirit ring, and Ilex's power appeared along with the influx of spirit ring power.

As he had said before, with his help, the vast spiritual power within the spirit ring gradually subsided after being enveloped in gray light.

To be fair, the Sea Princess's spiritual power was extremely vast and boundless, befitting her 600,000 years of cultivation. The essence energy contained in her soul ring alone was enough to instantly fill Qian Lingyun's spiritual sea.

It took two full days and one night for the Sea Princess's soul ring aura to truly merge into Qian Lingyun's body, but fortunately, the fusion was particularly thorough.

"Whoa! Look, the Holy Maiden is awake!" The Soul Douluo excitedly nudged Bai Yuan beside him, then curiously peered at Qian Lingyun as she watched everything that was happening to her.

"Mommy, you're all here!"

Opening her eyes, Qian Lingyun looked around and saw Yuma and the others standing beside her, but the Demon Queen was nowhere to be seen. She couldn't help but ask the others, "Hey, where is Senior Demon Queen!"

"Look, it's down there!" Bai Yuan pointed to the ground. Qian Lingyun looked in the direction of her finger and saw that what was under her was no longer the thick layer of ice, but the blue-purple back of a giant whale.

"Senior Demon Queen, how long did it take me to absorb the spirit ring?"

"Two days and one night!" The Demon Queen conveyed her thoughts through a whale song.

Two days and one night!

"It actually took so long!" Qian Lingyun slapped her forehead, suddenly realizing that something was poking her hand on her normally smooth forehead.

Qian Lingyun borrowed a mirror from Yuma and curiously examined herself in the mirror.

On her forehead was a golden crown exactly like the one worn by the sea princess, with a dazzling blue gem in the center.

If nothing unexpected happens, this crown should be the external soul bone that comes with the Sea Princess's soul ring.

A cool sea breeze blew as Qian Lingyun stood up and walked to the two mermaid princesses. As their second biggest spoils of the trip, she picked them up one in each hand and tossed them in front of the Wu Yun sisters:

"I remember you two sisters aren't far from level 90, are you? They're spirit-attribute spirit beasts, which are a perfect match for you. We'll use them as your ninth spirit rings!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Yu chuckled and waved her hand, saying, "Holy Maiden, don't be silly, we don't level up that fast!"

"Then let's find a way to get them to sacrifice themselves for you, so we can skip those levels and level up directly!" Qian Lingyun rolled her eyes and muttered a few more complaints in her mind.

"Sacrifice? Forget it! Judging from their bitter and resentful looks, they're unlikely to sacrifice themselves for us!" Wu Yun pouted, pointing at the resentful mermaid sisters, and said sarcastically.

"The way they look at me, they practically want to eat me alive. If they weren't your spoils, I would have ripped their scales off."

"I'm going to make a new dress, and I hope it has fish scale sequins! Go, let them feel that death is a relief, and I believe that at that time, they will naturally offer themselves to you."

Everyone: "..." Goodness, even among evil soul masters, you can be called a living Yama!

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