Blue Silver Myriad Forms · Yi Wood Return to Origin

Only a few Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts paused, then managed to push forward against the pressure. All the other Soul Beasts scattered in a panic like birds startled by the mere twang of a bowstring.

Dai Mubai's fourth Soul Skill had two forms of attack: mental intimidation and sound waves. Because it was a mental Soul Skill, its user could consciously distinguish friend from foe and prevent it from affecting his own side. Simply put, allies were immune to its damage.

When the former struck an enemy, it also placed a King's Mark on them. Under this mark, all of Dai Mubai's subsequent attacks against them were amplified by 10%.

If that were all, it could not be considered powerful. But this Soul Skill could be released continuously until his Soul Power ran dry, and the marks would keep stacking. The first wave left one mark, making his attack strength 110%; the second raised it to 121%. With his current Soul Power, he could release up to eight waves, at which point his attack power would be over 2.1 times its original level.

Even if he stopped midway, his other attacks would have the same effect as long as the mental marks had not been removed.

This Soul Skill came from an extremely rare Soul Beast, the Golden Light Hou. It had the head of a dragon and the body of a tiger, with black markings scattered through its golden fur. Its roar contained both a dragon's might (heaven) and a king's domineering presence (earth).

He had obtained its Soul Ring because his Soul Power Level had risen so rapidly that people had continued to increase their support for his "faction" in the Star Luo Empire.

So when Dai Mubai said he needed a sufficiently powerful area-attack Soul Skill, the Star Luo Empire offered him a wide selection of Soul Beasts based on the list Xiang Yang had given him. He was also the sort who "wanted it all": rather than focusing solely on either the light or metal attribute, he intended to use the "tiger" to command them both.

As expected of an imperial family named for the White Tiger, they would not overlook any Soul Beast connected to tigers. Among them were quite a few rare Soul Beasts that were exceptionally scarce in the outside world, including some that even Yu Xiaogang had thought long extinct. One could only marvel that they truly were an imperial family that ruled through martial might.

A few seconds passed. Just as Dai Mubai's fourth Soul Skill was about to reach its sixth wave, a Ten-Thousand-Year wolf-type Soul Beast began to retreat of its own accord. Seeing this, the other Soul Beasts gave up as well.

Once Soul Beasts reached ten thousand years of cultivation, their intelligence was no longer much inferior to a human's. Seeing that they could not succeed, they would retreat.

"All right, Mubai, stop the technique," Xiang Yang said from the side.

"Hah!" Dai Mubai stopped and caught his breath. He had been about to rub his throat, but when he caught sight of Zhu Zhuqing watching from the corner of his eye, his gaze immediately sharpened. "Ahem, they chickened out before I even got serious. I hadn't even..." used my ultimate move yet.

Whoosh!

Before he could finish, the Golden-Armored Earth Turtle, which Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor had been about to pull into the poison formation, was suddenly wrapped in a yellow web that shot toward it. At the other end was a spider Soul Beast with a slender body that was gray all over.

At the same time, a fierce force dragged the Earth Turtle toward it. Soul Beasts were much stronger than humans, and the Blue Silver Emperor instantly pulled taut.

Fortunately, Tang San had used a method similar to braiding rope, making it nearly five centimeters wide, so it did not snap.

Watching from the side, Flender immediately said, "That should be a ten-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider. Old Zhao, watch the children. I'll..."

Just then, Tang San called out, "There's no need for you to step in, Dean! Sorry for the trouble, but please just keep an eye on the other Soul Beasts for us. I'll handle this one!"

"Huh?"

While Flender hesitated, Soul Rings appeared around Tang San, one after another: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black!

A Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring! A thirteen-year-old Soul King!

Everyone from Shrek fixed their eyes on him. Although they had all heard about it, even now, seeing it with their own eyes, they still could not help feeling as though it were unreal.

The Blue Silver Emperor's fifth Soul Skill, Myriad Forms Return to Origin, combined with the Blue Silver Domain to form a Self-Created Soul Skill:

"Blue Silver Myriad Forms · Yi Wood Return to Origin!"

A blue-green light spread like the wind, its boundary nowhere in sight.

Then, countless Blue Silver Emperors sprang rapidly from the ground outside the poison formation. They bore some of the traits of the plant Soul Beasts whose Soul Rings Tang San had absorbed before, and as they grew, they bound and joined together...

In the blink of an eye, the traces of the devastation left by Dai Mubai's Soul Skill were swiftly erased, replaced by a blue-green ocean.

Across from them, the Cave Demon Spider could see the changes before it, but its senses told it that these things posed no danger. So when it tried to dodge, it was still a beat too slow. Blue Silver Emperors filled the sky and covered the earth, wrapping around it, tightening and squeezing.

Over the next minute, the Shrek group watched the Cave Demon Spider's resistance and struggles grow weaker and weaker. Even Xiao Wu could not help feeling a little sorry for it. "Eek, what a miserable spider."

Crack, crack, thump!

After the sound of bones breaking, the ball of grass, nearly ten meters across in all three dimensions, finally deflated somewhat. A black Soul Ring gradually emerged.

"Phew!"

Tang San drew back his right hand, which he had just clenched into a fist, and let out a deep breath. Although he had not gone all out, he had used nearly half his Soul Power.

Though it would not take long to refill...

Tang San's fifth Soul Skill came from the sacrifice of the Blue Silver King and his subjects. Because he sought to strengthen his Martial Soul itself, he had cast aside everything flashy. It was a self-amplification Soul Skill, with a current amplification rate of 600%—an increase of five times over the original!

Moreover, after Tang San used the Soul Skill, all abilities related to the Blue Silver Emperor, including the domain's effects, would be greatly enhanced.

The Blue Silver Domain could already control the Blue Silver Grass within its range. It could use their energy, borrow their senses, or even temporarily turn them into Blue Silver Emperors to fight.

Thus, the full effects of [Blue Silver Myriad Forms · Yi Wood Return to Origin], built on that foundation, were:

A domain with a range of 300 meters, a vast supply of Soul Power to draw upon at will, and an endless onslaught: entangling, binding, smashing, whipping, piercing, and more. As long as Blue Silver Grass could do it, any attack Tang San could think of could be used at will.

But considering that drawing on ordinary Blue Silver Grass's Soul Power beyond its limits would cause it to die, he usually only borrowed it to absorb the primordial Qi of heaven and earth and channel it to him. This process benefited the grass as well (losses).

After the enhancement, it took only fifteen minutes to recover all his Soul Power, at a rate of just under one-thousandth per second. As his level or physical strength increased, that rate would increase further.

The battle that had erupted so suddenly was over, and Ning Rongrong began absorbing her Soul Ring. Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing still had no Soul Rings lined up, and none of the Soul Beasts currently present were particularly suitable.

Tang San had no choice but to take out the aromatic silk beauty he had put away, attracting a large number of Soul Beasts once again.

An hour later, Zhu Zhuqing began refining a Soul Ring from a Shadow-Devouring Spirit Cat. This kind of Soul Beast could steal an enemy's strength through physical contact; after ten thousand years, it needed only contact through Soul Power. It was generally considered an ill-omened Soul Beast and was a loner even among other Soul Beasts.

She had chosen this Soul Ring to make up for the tremendous consumption of the Martial Soul fusion skill Hell White Tiger. Dai Mubai stood guard beside her, his emotions unsettled. Alongside his happiness, a somewhat somber atmosphere surrounded him, for he had thought of how, before long, the two of them would face their "archenemies."

Oscar's, meanwhile, came from a common Giant-Palm Spirit Bear. As its name suggested, it had no special abilities apart from its enormous paws.