Douluo Continent: Peerless God General, starting by deceiving Qian Renxue

Chapter 36 The Terrifying Eight Gates Golden Lock, the Second Soul Skill

I experienced the function of my external soul bone.

Although the current external soul bone does not significantly improve one's own attributes, is not strong in seeing through the opponent's soul power operation, and has not very powerful soul skills, Nan Feihuang believes that its potential is no less than Tang San's Eight Spider Lances.

As long as you cultivate diligently and help the attached soul bone grow together, you will naturally become stronger one day.

Nan Feihuang closed his eyes, withdrew his soul power, and when he opened them again, his pupils had returned to their normal black color.

After sensing his own soul power, Nan Feihuang's soul power had been raised to nearly level 23 thanks to the super-limited soul ring.

"Huang'er, what is your second soul skill?" Lan Xue asked with concern.

The fact that the second spirit ring is a thousand-year spirit ring is naturally very good, but if the spirit ring skill is mediocre, then everything is in vain.

"Mother, my second soul skill is the Eight Gates Golden Lock that the Earthbound Spirit just used. I'll show it to you." Nan Feihuang jumped to the center of the valley.

Actually, not all of those earthbound spirits escaped; some of the more timid ones are still hiding underground.

"Come out, all of you!" Nan Feihuang roared, stomping his foot on the ground. His powerful soul force shook the surroundings, immediately scaring out dozens of hundred-year-old earthbound spirits.

He wanted to use these earthbound spirits as guinea pigs to test his second soul skill.

The purple, thousand-year-old soul ring flashed, and Nan Feihuang pointed his halberd at the sky, shouting, "Second Soul Skill, Eight Gates Golden Lock!"

Rest, life, block, injury, scenery, death, shock, open!

Eight large characters appeared in the sky.

The orientation is exactly the same as the large array formed by the bound spirits just now.

The formation spread out from Nan Feihuang as its core, and for a moment, all the earthbound spirits were unable to move.

"Crowd control!" Lan Xue was shocked. Even for Soul Masters who specialize in control, it usually takes until level 50 or later for a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring to appear to obtain crowd control skills.

But now, Nan Feihuang actually possesses it in his second spirit ring.

"Mother, this is my second soul skill. It can forcibly control all opponents within the array's range. However, there are limitations. It can only control those whose level is no higher than mine. Those whose level is the same as mine can be frozen for three seconds. After that, for every level difference, the duration increases by one second. As for those whose level is higher than mine, it slows them down by a fixed 30%." Nan Feihuang said.

"What's the scope? How big is it?" Lan Xue asked excitedly.

This soul skill is quite powerful. Just reducing the speed of a high-level soul master by 30% is already a pretty good support effect. Many support soul masters' soul skills, whether they are enhancements or weakenings, at most only reach around 20% in the first or second soul ring.

Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the number one support martial soul in the world, only has a 30% amplification ability at the second ring, which is just enough to offset it.

The important thing is the first ability, which forcibly immobilizes the target for three seconds. Even a single second can dramatically change the course of a battle, let alone three seconds. In many cases, three seconds can be a death sentence.

Not to mention, the duration can gradually increase, and if the range is also very large, this move is no less than any ten-thousand-year soul skill, and may even be superior.

"The range is based on a circle with a diameter of one meter. Every time I level up, it increases by one meter. I am currently level 22, so it is 23 meters. When I reach level 99, it will be a circle of exactly 100 meters," Nan Feihuang said.

Lan Xue gasped in shock.

A circle with a diameter of 100 meters is approximately 7850 square meters.

If a square meter is crowded together, about 10 people can stand there. Of course, this is just a theoretical figure. In war, soldiers will not stand so densely, but in the case of a battle formation, they will not be too spread out. There will still be three or four people per square meter.

In other words, Nan Feihuang's move represents the pinnacle of his crowd control abilities.

It is between 31400 and 78500 people.

Unfortunately, this move is only the second soul skill, and it doesn't consume much soul power. Once he becomes a Title Douluo, he can use it continuously without any problem. But then, what will be the significance of the army for Nan Feihuang?

He could control the entire armies of Xingluo or Tiandou to death by himself, no, he could even control the Soul Master legion to death, even if there were ten thousand Soul Douluos.

Because if he had been a Title Douluo at that time, how many people could have surpassed him in skill?

Looking at her son, Lan Xue sighed inwardly, "A first soul skill that ignores defense and inflicts true damage, a second soul skill that forcibly controls people over a huge area—these are abilities that no soul ring could produce. The only explanation is that Huang'er's martial soul itself must be a true innate god-level martial soul, probably even among god-level martial souls, to produce such terrifying soul skills!"

"Huang'er, let me ask you, can you control the power of your second soul skill? For example, can you actively shorten the control time, or can you only produce a slowing effect on low-level soul masters?" Lan Xue squatted down and gently stroked Nan Feihuang's face, asking expectantly.

"Of course, this move depends entirely on how much soul power I inject into the soul ring. The Eight Gates Golden Lock has eight kinds of energy. Only when all eight gates appear will it have the effect I mentioned. But if only four gates appear, then it will only have a slowing effect, even against those of lower level than me," Nan Feihuang said.

He had actually guessed the meaning behind Lan Xue's question. His second soul skill was too terrifying, an ability that rendered the army meaningless. How could the two great empires of Tian Dou Xing Luo tolerate it?

Upon hearing this, Lan Xue's brows relaxed. It was good that she could control the power. She instructed, "Alright, then promise your mother that in the future, when you're fighting spirits, you'll try to use only half the power of the Eight Gates Golden Lock, just slowing down. Never unleash its full power in front of everyone, understand?"

If it's just a slowdown in one group, while it's not exactly weak, it's not enough to cause concern.

This is exactly the power of the soul skills that a normal thousand-year soul ring can produce.

Nan Feihuang nodded, "I understand, don't worry, Mother, I know what's important."

Lan Xue smiled and picked up Nan Feihuang. "My son is so sensible. Now I can rest assured. Alright, let's go back. We've had quite a lot of success this time. I reckon your father will be ecstatic when he finds out about you."

With an external soul bone and an abnormal second soul skill, Nan Feihuang could guess what kind of smug look Nan Tianchen would have.

In Nan Tianchen's eyes, no matter how strong Nan Feihuang is, he is still his son.

Nan Tianchen's greatest advantage is that, unlike some emperors, he is not wary or suspicious of even his only son.

His attitude towards Nan Feihuang was somewhat like Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards Zhu Biao; the more outstanding his son was, the happier he was.

Most importantly, this guy never felt any guilt about living off women.

Lately, when faced with congratulatory messages from various kingdoms and duchies, his catchphrase is, "My wife is a Title Douluo!"

Several years later, Nan Tianchen's catchphrase changed again.

"You dare offend me? Do you even know who my son is?"

(End of this chapter)