The Glory of the Sun and Moon in the Peerless Tang Sect

Given the current situation, Xu Zihuang suppressed the urge to enter a meditative state and carefully experience the process. There would be plenty of time once the surroundings were safe, so there was no need to rush.

Within a few hundred meters of the warship, the five demonic orcas had been completely suppressed by Wang Xiao and his group. Except for the one with a cultivation level exceeding 20,000 years, which was still struggling angrily, the other four demonic orcas were floating weakly on the surface of the sea.

Among them, the Demonic Tiger Whale, whose cultivation had just reached ten thousand years, perished here amidst the encirclement and slaughter of the Imperial Dragon Soul Master Corps soldiers. A deep black soul ring condensed on its massive corpse, and the faint yet ferocious aura unique to the Demonic Tiger Whale emanating from it sent a chill down Xu Zihuang's spine.

As expected of the overlord of the ocean, even a soul ring with an age of just ten thousand years would be difficult for most soul kings to absorb.

Although the age of a spirit ring is more important, it also depends on what kind of spirit beast it comes from.

Through the powerful vision of his Golden Eye Martial Soul, Xu Zihuang was able to clearly see the entirety of the Demonic Orca. Compared to the Silver Scale White Whale, these Demonic Orca were truly colossal. One of them, with a cultivation level of around one thousand years, was almost twice the size of the Silver Scale White Whale. Its body was extremely robust, lacking any streamlined beauty, but exuding an overall sense of power. It was entirely grayish-black, with a particularly enormous head, occasionally revealing terrifyingly large, sword-like teeth when it opened its mouth.

The two demonic orca whales, each with over ten thousand years of cultivation, were even more than twenty meters long.

This is one of the reasons why Wang Xiao dared not let the two demonic orcas approach the warship. With such a massive size, even without using soul skills, their physical strength alone would be enough to capsize the ship.

Large amounts of seawater were stained red with the blood of the demonic killer whale.

The demonic orcas were inherently bloodthirsty, and the scent of blood seemed to have ignited the savage nature of the last leader. Its ferocious maw opened wide, tearing at the corpse of its mate—the long-dead, millennia-old demonic orca—to replenish its strength. A hint of madness crept into its enormous, dark red eyes.

"Buzzing—"

The sea began to tremble as its massive body swayed.

Countless dark red water blades shot into the sky, like a continuous drizzle. This caused the soul-guiding shields on the Imperial Dragon Soul Master Corps soldiers to ripple with light. The immense impact and pressure from these dark red water blades made it impossible for anyone to concentrate on controlling their flying soul-guiding devices.

Immediately afterwards, the ripple-like red light enveloped the Imperial Dragon Soul Master Corps soldiers in the air almost instantly. Only Wang Xiao, with the highest cultivation level, managed to escape this space at the first moment.

This is another powerful innate soul skill of the Demon Orca: Demon Orca's Demonic Capture.

The most distinctive feature of this skill is its ineffectiveness against physical defense. Once the body comes into contact with the red ripples it generates, regardless of one's strength, one will be forcibly stunned for one second. Only those with extremely strong mental power can shorten the stun duration. Energy can be resisted, but any energy attack released by a soul skill that comes into contact with it will consume the caster's soul power three times during the skill's duration. If it is a demonic tiger whale with 100,000 years of cultivation, the forced stun duration can even reach three seconds.

This is a crowd control skill, an extremely domineering one. Even a top-tier Soul Douluo like Hai Xiao is wary of its forced stun ability. Even with an energy shield for defense, one's soul power will rapidly deplete upon contact with this Demonic Orca's Demonic Capture. Facing such a soul skill, defense is ineffective, and one is inevitably subjected to direct stun.

The reason why the Demon Orca became one of the three overlords of the ocean is closely related to its abnormal innate soul skill.

At this moment, everyone's soul-guiding shields could no longer withstand the energy impact of the demonic tiger whale's demonic possession, and with a loud crash, they all fell into a state of dizziness.

Then another wave of dark red water blades shot out towards the group.

"It seems this demonic orca is about to launch a final counterattack."

Yao Yang, who was constantly monitoring the situation, had his seven spirit rings rapidly pulsating. He was preparing to forcibly interrupt the Demonic Orca's skill.

Just then, Xu Zihuang suddenly took a few steps forward and came to the edge of the deck railing.

A pair of bright golden eyes gazed indifferently ahead, while the only purple soul ring around his body emitted a magnificent halo.

"First Soul Skill, Whale's Roar."

The melodious whale call from before reappeared. The phantom of the silver-scaled white whale appeared out of thin air behind Xu Zihuang, swimming joyfully around his body.

Her medium-length black hair moved without wind, causing her cloak to flutter gently. The strange fluctuations of spiritual energy gave Xu Zihuang a sense of ethereal emptiness.

While still feeling dizzy, the group suddenly felt a jolt of energy and instantly regained their senses. Seeing the dark red water blade that was now almost in front of them, they quickly gathered their soul power and released their soul-guiding shields to protect themselves.

With black wings flapping behind him, Wang Xiao, who was preparing to use his soul skill to protect everyone, suddenly stopped and then decisively changed direction, diving towards the demonic orca.

Its speed was significantly faster than before. The fourth soul skill was activated again, and a pair of tiger claws pierced deeply into the huge head of the demonic orca, while bluish-black wind blades churned wildly beneath its grayish-black skin.

The already battered and bruised demonic orca was struggling less and less.

"Scaled Dragon!" Wang Xiao shouted. A thin, middle-aged man of similar age to Wang Xiao instantly understood and took out a soul-guided spear from his soul tool, stabbing it heavily into the blowhole on the head of the demonic tiger whale, completing the final blow.

Linlong was fortunate enough to break through to level 70 in soul power not long ago. Everyone had been working on it until now in order to help him obtain the precious soul ring of this demonic tiger whale.

Standing atop the corpse of the demonic orca, Wang Xiao breathed a slight sigh of relief. But sensing the dense dark and wind elements swirling around his wings, he couldn't help but look at Xu Zihuang on the deck.

"This is the young master's first soul skill?!"

Even with his extensive knowledge, he found it somewhat unbelievable.

Xu Zihuang's soul skill reminded him of a powerful sect on the Douluo Continent that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, namely the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, which was known as the number one auxiliary weapon spirit sect in the world.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School possesses a core skill—attribute amplification. However, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's attribute amplification only amplifies a single attribute, thereby increasing the power of soul skills. Xu Zihuang's skill, on the other hand, is more like a sublimation of his martial soul's origin, elevating the wind and darkness attributes of his Overlord Martial Soul to a new level.

It's like one is a quantitative change, and the other is a qualitative change. The difference between the two is self-evident. Although the amplification of Xu Zihuang's soul skill is far less than the attribute amplification of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Wang Xiao wasn't the only one with the same idea; Yao Yang, who was by Xu Zihuang's side, also shared it.

It's no exaggeration to say that Xu Zihuang's soul skill almost instantly turned the tide of the battle. Of course, even if Xu Zihuang hadn't intervened, he and Wang Xiao would have been strong enough to handle the situation.

Xu Zihuang withdrew his martial soul and explained to everyone with a smile, "This is the first soul skill I just acquired, the Roar of the White Whale. It's a domain-type soul skill. Centered on me, its effective range is nearly 100 meters. It can remove all negative effects and at the same time increase the mental strength and martial soul attributes of allies by 10%."

Needless to say, the fact that this soul skill is a domain-type skill is enough to demonstrate its power. Although the amplification is not significant, the consumption of soul power is also relatively low. Once his cultivation level increases, the consumption of this soul skill will become negligible.

Most importantly, the amplification effect is the same for all Soul Masters regardless of their cultivation level, but Xu Zihuang's Soul Power consumption does not increase. In other words, even though Xu Zihuang's current Soul Power cultivation is only level 20, it is enough to assist a Title Douluo-level Soul Master.

This is also what makes domain-type soul skills so abnormal.

This soul skill has no control or attack power, but it is destined to make him the core of any team.

Chapter 20 Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Ointment

Xu Zihuang's voice wasn't loud, but everyone heard it clearly.

In just over ten days, the mindset of the Imperial Dragon Soul Instructor Corps soldiers had unconsciously changed. Their respect for Xu Zihuang was no longer solely because he was the only son of Prince Zhengxuan.

"Do as previously instructed, and don't waste time."

It wasn't until Wang Xiao's voice rang out that everyone snapped out of their daze and began to act in an orderly manner.

First, several ice-attribute soul masters joined forces to freeze an area of ​​nearly a thousand meters in the sea to prevent the smell of blood from spreading.

Although the Demonic Orca is one of the three overlords of the ocean, it is not invincible. Most sea spirit beasts might panic and retreat when they sense the Demonic Orca's aura, but there is a very low probability that it will attract a top-tier spirit beast like the Demonic Great White Shark, the Demonic Orca's natural enemy.

The Demon Soul Great White Sharks typically travel in groups of at least a hundred. They pose an even greater threat to the group than the five Demon Orcas.

Although the probability is extremely low.

One side of the thick ice surface connected to the warship's hull, while the other side secured the carcass of the demonic orca. This made the ice surface relatively stable, making it easier for Scaledaki to absorb the soul ring.

Half of the remaining group were assigned to keep watch over the surroundings, while the other half collected materials from the corpses of the two ancient demonic orca whales.

The demonic killer whale is a treasure trove.

The tough hide and sharp teeth can be used to craft high-level soul tools, and the flesh and blood are also highly nutritious for soul masters. The fat and internal organs can be refined into whale oil. As for the most precious part, it is naturally the whale paste in the skull. After the whale paste is dried, it becomes whale glue. Whale glue is a very precious food that can improve a soul master's physique after consumption. For example, if a soul master can withstand the absorption of a thousand-year-old soul beast's soul ring, then after consuming a piece of thousand-year-old whale glue, their body's tolerance can be increased by at least five hundred years.

The ten-thousand-year-old whale glue produced by the ancient demonic killer whale is even more precious, far exceeding the value of thousand-year-old whale glue. It is extremely rare in human history. It is a top-tier item that is in high demand and short supply at auction houses across the mainland.

Whale-type soul beasts are undoubtedly among the most powerful beings in the ocean, not to mention the Demonic Orca, which stands at the very top of the whale-type soul beast pyramid. Only Wang Xiao and his companions, confident in their strength and equipped with powerful soul tools, dared to provoke it.

Conservatively speaking, the group can obtain materials worth at least a million gold soul coins from these two demonic orcas.

Looking at the other three thousand-year-old demonic tiger whales that had been controlled and were now weak, Yao Yang on the deck suddenly said to Xu Zihuang thoughtfully, "Zihuang, you don't need to deliberately search for your second soul ring anymore."

"Brother Yang, you mean the Demonic Orca?" Xu Zihuang withdrew his martial soul and frowned subconsciously. "I remember the Demonic Orca isn't a spirit-attribute soul beast, is it?"

He had learned about the Demon Orca when he was young. After all, this kind of spirit beast was extremely famous.

“Although the Demonic Orca is not primarily a spirit-attribute beast, its spiritual power is in no way inferior to that of spirit-attribute soul beasts of the same cultivation level. It is precisely because the Demonic Orca has almost no weaknesses that it is so powerful,” Yao Yang said with a smile.

"Actually, the Demon Orca that led the pack used the Demon Orca Mirror Annihilation and Demon Orca Demonic Capture, both of which are powerful soul skills driven by both spiritual power and soul power. If you can successfully absorb its soul ring, you will likely obtain one of these two soul skills. Later, Uncle Wang will help you refine some more ten-thousand-year whale fat. With your physical strength, absorbing the soul ring of that Demon Orca with over a thousand years of cultivation in your second soul ring shouldn't be too difficult."

He himself absorbed a thousand-year soul ring when he was level 20. Although the power of the Demonic Tiger Whale's soul ring was more domineering, Xu Zihuang's physical attributes were also far superior to his, and with the amplification of his twin martial souls, there was almost no risk involved.

Xu Zihuang looked tempted, but then shook his head at Yao Yang.

"Brother Yang, I don't plan to absorb the soul ring of that demonic orca."

"What?" This time it was Yao Yang's turn to be surprised. He quickly advised, "Zi Huang, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even if we hunt a more suitable spirit-attribute soul beast later, the soul skill we obtain may not be..."

At this point, he suddenly realized something and looked intently into Xu Zihuang's clear purple eyes.

"Brother Yang, I want to absorb the soul ring of that demonic orca with three thousand years of cultivation." Meeting Yao Yang's gaze, Xu Zihuang nodded firmly.

"Actually, Brother Yang, you've probably noticed that a soul ring with a lifespan of over a thousand years is far from my limit. A soul master with a mental attribute can easily assess a soul master's physical attributes with just a little mental probing, and you know my situation all too well."

After saying that, Xu Zihuang winked playfully.

"Zihuang, you really are..." Yao Yang was somewhat amused and exasperated, but his tone remained firm.

"No, that's too risky. You have twin martial souls, so there's no need to pursue the age of your spirit rings too much. We should prioritize safety. Besides, Uncle Wang wouldn't agree to it."

"No, I agree." Before the words were finished, Wang Xiao's figure had already floated over and landed next to Xu Zihuang and Yao Yang.

"Uncle Wang..."

"The royal family's Purple Radiance Annihilation Dragon Martial Soul has a unique characteristic: it can erase the resentment of the soul in the soul ring through the destructive attribute of the Martial Soul. As long as the young master's physical condition can withstand the energy of the soul ring, there is no need to worry about the soul ring backlash." Wang Xiao looked at the two of them seriously, not only speaking to Yao Yang, but also to Xu Zihuang.

Having followed Xu Zihuang's father for decades, he knew many secrets about the royal martial spirit.

However, what prompted him to agree was Xu Zihuang's successful fusion with that soul bone.

“I’ve carefully examined Zi Huang’s physical attributes, and he can indeed withstand the lifespan of a three-thousand-year soul ring. If that’s the case, then there shouldn’t be any problems. Zi Huang’s Golden Eye Martial Soul is also of the spiritual attribute, and his willpower is strong enough.” Yao Yang pondered for a moment, then didn’t insist on his opinion any further. He had absolute trust in Wang Xiao. Originally, what he cared about was the resentment attached to the soul ring, but now that this problem had been solved, he had no more concerns.

Then, Wang Xiao deftly retrieved several jade vessels from his soul tool. They were filled with a pure golden paste, resembling molten gold, and emitted an extremely enticing aroma.

The heads of the ancient demonic orcas were enormous, with each brain containing nearly a cubic meter of whale oil. This was only a portion of it. However, this was enough for Xu Zihuang at his current level. With his current cultivation and physical abilities, even with Wang Xiao's soul power assistance, the effects of this ancient whale oil could not be fully absorbed in a short period of time.

"Young Master, take it orally and then enter a state of cultivation."

Xu Zihuang naturally followed his instructions. He had experience consuming whale gelatin in his childhood, and whale paste and whale gelatin are essentially the same thing. However, without the need for special heating, the unique aroma after ingestion is even more intense.

Before Xu Zihuang could even properly experience it, a pair of warm, large hands were already placed on his back, guiding the medicinal effects of the Ten Thousand Year Whale Ointment into his limbs and bones.

Chapter 21: Merging the Second Soul Ring of the Three-Thousand-Year-Old Demonic Tiger Whale

With the assistance of Wang Xiao's powerful soul force, it took Xu Zihuang about half an hour to consume and refine three jade bottles of ten-thousand-year whale ointment.

He could clearly feel a warm sensation throughout his body, filling every part of his body with this warm energy.

Having exited his cultivation state, he moved his body slightly, and his bones immediately made popping sounds like popping beans, bringing him an indescribable sense of comfort. The Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Ointment had comprehensively transformed his physical attributes, not only greatly enhancing the resilience of his meridians and bones, but also making his overall strength terrifyingly comparable to that of a power-type Soul Master of the same level.

Yao Yang, who was standing to the side, carefully examined Xu Zihuang's physical condition and realized that his expectations were too conservative.

Back when his cultivation reached the Soul Master level, his physical strength was only this strong.

"Exceptional talent" is no longer enough to describe Xu Zihuang; it's more accurate to say he was blessed with extraordinary natural advantages.

Wang Xiao glanced at Yao Yang silently. He hadn't actually told Yao Yang about Xu Zihuang's successful fusion with the soul bone. It wasn't that he didn't trust Yao Yang enough, but rather that he hadn't yet decided whether to involve Yao Yang in this.

If Xu Zihuang really had that idea, then he would be opposing the entire Sun Moon Empire.

The two, each with their own thoughts, exchanged glances.