Blue Silver Emperor's First Soul Ring (Part Two)

The Black-Scaled Poison Python did not stop. Its scales rasped against the Blue Silver Grass on the ground as it slithered in an S-shape, crossing nearly a hundred meters in just a few breaths before reaching Zu Zong. Its enormous jaws opened and bit down viciously.

"So fast!"

With a sliding dodge, Zu Zong narrowly avoided the Black-Scaled Poison Python's massive jaws. Then, after several backflips, he landed steadily behind it.

Without further hesitation, Zu Zong summoned his Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul and formed hand seals.

"Blue Silver Emperor—activate."

"Blue Silver Emperor—Blue Silver Domain activated: Blue Silver Small-Range Entanglement."

When Zu Zong had awakened his Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul, he had simultaneously awakened the rudimentary form of the Blue Silver Domain.

At the same time, the Blue Silver Domain had granted Zu Zong the skill Camouflage. Through changes in the Blue Silver Domain, it could disguise Soul Rings, freely changing their colors and even making opponents unable to see them.

Beyond that, the Blue Silver Domain had three further evolutions, each of which would add a skill:

Blue Silver Range Entanglement. This was the Blue Silver Domain's second evolution skill, with the added effect of area-wide entanglement.

All-Encompassing Forest. This was the Blue Silver Domain's third evolution skill: assimilation and suppression. The suppression skill reduced all Martial Soul attributes by ten percent, including Soul Power output. The longer one remained within the domain, the stronger the suppressive effect became. It could also release Devouring Gold Thread to devour the opponent's energy.

All Rivers Run into Sea. This was the Blue Silver Domain's ultimate evolution. Wherever Blue Silver Grass existed, the domain could transform the life force of all Blue Silver Grass into any form of energy needed by the Blue Silver Emperor, replenishing itself. As long as Blue Silver Grass remained, the Blue Silver Emperor's energy would never run dry. This energy conversion could be life force, Soul Power, or spiritual power. This ultimate domain effect undoubtedly made the Blue Silver Emperor invincible against opponents of the same level when fighting in a forest.

After three months of continuous exploration and training, relying on the superb Soul Power control techniques he had obtained from Itachi,

Zu Zong had not only completely mastered Camouflage, but had also evolved his domain a second time, gaining the skill Blue Silver Range Entanglement.

Of course, with Zu Zong's mere level 10 Soul Power, if he unleashed a large-scale entanglement, the Black-Scaled Poison Python might not die, but he certainly would. Thus, he only used a small portion of it.

The ground beneath his feet cracked as more than a dozen Blue Silver Vines as thick as arms spread out, wrapping around the Black-Scaled Poison Python.

Even the Black-Scaled Poison Python could not react in time to the Blue Silver Emperor Vines' entanglement.

But the Black-Scaled Poison Python was no pushover. Supported by its enormous body nearly six meters long, it was known for its strength and began to thrash wildly.

"Crack! Crack!" One Blue Silver Emperor Vine after another snapped apart.

Zu Zong could not help sighing. "Even Blue Silver Emperor Vines are still fragile without an attached Soul Ring!"

In just over a dozen breaths, the Black-Scaled Poison Python broke free of the Blue Silver Emperor Vines and charged at Zu Zong at high speed.

Zu Zong remained calm. A strange curve lifted at the corner of his mouth. More than a dozen breaths had been enough for him to do many things.

Zu Zong did not continue tangling with it. Instead, he repeatedly leaped backward in an unusual posture, retreating from where he had originally stood.

The Black-Scaled Poison Python grew faster and faster. Within a few breaths, it was right on Zu Zong's heels. Just as it was about to catch him and bite down, it discovered that it could not reach him no matter what it did.

Seven Kunai had already been planted around the Black-Scaled Poison Python. Faint black threads connected each Kunai, glinting with a chilling cold light beneath the moonlight.

This was Steel Wire, which Zu Zong had spotted at the market in Nuoding City yesterday. It was extremely sharp and sturdy.

The Steel Wire was fastened to the rings at the ends of the Kunai handles. Through Zu Zong's superb Kunai Throwing Technique, it formed a Spider Web Trap around the python.

The harder the Black-Scaled Poison Python struggled, the tighter the Steel Wire became. Its hard scales scraped against the wire, throwing off fierce sparks.

Though the Steel Wire was strong, it was still ordinary wire. The Black-Scaled Poison Python's defensive scales were clearly not to be underestimated. As the wire embedded itself into the scales and rubbed against them, it showed obvious signs of snapping.

"Such strong defense. In that case, I can only use this move."

Zu Zong slowly closed his eyes, then opened them again. His eyes had turned blood-red, and three Tomoe in each pupil began rotating counterclockwise.

"Genjutsu: Sharingan."

This was the strongest Illusion Technique Zu Zong could currently wield.

Man and snake met each other's gaze. The Black-Scaled Poison Python's pupils began to change, gradually rotating as three Tomoe identical to those in Zu Zong's eyes appeared within them.

"As expected, the Sharingan will always be a snake's nemesis. Thanks, Snake Uncle!"

Black-Scaled Poison Python: I'm female, damn it.

Orochimaru, hiding within the Cursed Seal in the Fire Shadow world: Achoo! Is someone thinking about me?

Out of caution, Zu Zong did not approach the Black-Scaled Poison Python. He controlled the giant snake to open its mouth, and a Kunai infused with Soul Power shot precisely into its mouth, piercing straight into its brain.

The nearly six-meter-long snake body stiffened almost instantly. That black Kunai had completely sunk into the brain through its mouth.

There was no defense there at all—only a mass of soft flesh.

The next moment, the piercing pain tore the Black-Scaled Poison Python free from the Illusion Technique.

The Black-Scaled Poison Python's body began convulsing violently.

Its intense desire to survive drove the Black-Scaled Poison Python into a frenzy, and it actually broke free from the Steel Wire net in one go. Sand and stones flew across the ground. Wherever its hard body swept, shrubs and small trees were ravaged as though by a tornado, their branches and leaves shattered and scattered everywhere. Yet its brain had ultimately been pierced.

After half an incense stick's time, the Black-Scaled Poison Python gradually stopped struggling.

Only after seeing that the Black-Scaled Poison Python had stopped moving did Zu Zong sit down and gasp for breath. He was not putting on an act; he was already beginning to lose strength.

Facing a Black-Scaled Poison Python with nearly six hundred years of cultivation, such a powerful Soul Beast, his victory had seemed easy. Yet in that instant, he had already used all his strength. First, Blue Silver Small-Range Entanglement had consumed nearly half his Soul Power. Then he had used the difficult Kunai Throwing Technique to set up the Steel Wire web in a short time, consuming considerable physical strength and even causing minor muscle strains.

Finally, he had activated the Sharingan Martial Soul. If that Genjutsu: Sharingan had failed to control the Black-Scaled Poison Python, the outcome would have been completely different, because Zu Zong's Soul Power was nearly exhausted.

Zu Zong looked at the motionless Black-Scaled Poison Python lying on the ground.

He muttered, "Whatever. We've come this far. If I die, I die!"

Out of caution, Zu Zong fired another Kunai, this time at the Black-Scaled Poison Python's eye. With a crack, blood sprayed everywhere as the Kunai sank deeply into its right eye. The Black-Scaled Poison Python still did not move.

Only then did Zu Zong relax. He walked forward and drove the Kunai, which had already entered a third of the way into the Black-Scaled Poison Python's eye, completely in. The Black-Scaled Poison Python finally lost all traces of life.

Faint yellow light particles began gathering above the Black-Scaled Poison Python's body. Unlike Blanklin's Soul Rings that Zu Zong had seen before, the yellow ring produced by the Black-Scaled Poison Python was darker than Blanklin's second Soul Ring but lighter than his third. Even without touching it, Zu Zong could clearly sense the enormous energy contained within.

He stepped closer and raised his right hand. Enduring the weakness of exhaustion—Zu Zong's aside: Running out of Soul Power really feels awful!—he slowly gathered his remaining Soul Power into his palm. Accompanied by a pale blue glow, the Blue Silver Emperor grew from his hand, emitting a faint aura of life as it gently swayed with the fluctuations of his Soul Power.

Drawn by that pale blue light, the Black-Scaled Poison Python's Soul Ring slowly flew toward Zu Zong.

Zu Zong's first sensation was pain—unbearable pain.

It was probably worse than men on Blue Star in his previous life experiencing labor pains.

Zu Zong truly could not understand how those senior transmigrators had managed to make their first Soul Ring a thousand-year one, or even a ten-thousand-year one.

He was already a cheater with a golden finger. Right from the start, he had awakened the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul, which normally required level 50 and a second awakening to appear. His physique had thus surpassed that of ordinary people by far. Not only that, he had also gained the Sharingan as a Second Spirit, strengthening his spiritual power. Yet even so, absorbing a Soul Ring just over a hundred years old had nearly killed him. Fortunately, he endured it.

Two hours later, dawn had long since broken. Sunlight shone upon Zu Zong's handsome face, while the breeze stirred the tips of his hair and his Blue Silver Hair fluttered fiercely in the wind.

Zu Zong had succeeded.

The feeling of comfort brought by absorbing a Soul Ring was impossible to describe with words.

Zu Zong looked down at himself. He discovered that his body seemed to have changed after obtaining the Soul Ring. His height, originally close to 1.3 meters, seemed to have grown slightly and had now completely surpassed 1.3 meters. His shoulders had broadened somewhat, and his already fair skin carried an added lustrous glow.

Even his strained muscles had fully recovered.

Zu Zong took out a Kunai and used its reflective surface to look at his current appearance.

"Holy shit, I'm devastatingly handsome!"

[ Ding, congratulations to the host for raising Soul Power to level 14. Reward: four chances to steal! ]

Please vote with recommendation tickets.