His Martial Soul was Blade Soul, a rare Martial Soul that bordered on the conceptual.
Blade Soul was the soul of a blade, but not the soul of any particular blade or type of blade. It was Liao Mengkai's Martial Soul.
That unusual nature allowed Liao Mengkai to infuse his Martial Soul into any blade. Whether it was a Soul Tool or an ordinary knife, he could merge with it and make it function much like his own Martial Soul.
In theory, Blade Soul could even merge with any metal and transform it into something akin to a Martial Soul.
Liao Mengkai was already among the strongest traditional Soul Masters. With a pair of Soul Tools, he could rival a Super Douluo—and not an ordinary one, either.
Now that both blades had been upgraded to Rank 9 and refined into Life-Bound Soul Tools tied to his very life, the boost to his Blade Soul was tremendous.
(In the Original Work, Liao Mengkai's desperate Ninth Soul Skill could sever a Limit Douluo's meridians and kill him even if it landed on his body. He had the support of a Humanoid Soul Tool at the time, but that still showed how powerful his attacks were.)
But just as Chen Ming prepared to use the limited-use invincibility ability of his Left Leg Bone to withstand Liao Mengkai's counterattack and then kill him, hesitation flashed through Liao Mengkai's eyes.
Under Liao Mengkai's control, the massive blade energy struck Chen Ming's ten sharp claws. Liao Mengkai then used the recoil to hurl himself backward.
Chen Ming's Dark Gold Dreadclaws had already surpassed a hundred thousand years of cultivation. Their precise state could no longer be described by the usual standards for Soul Bones, and their hardness had reached an unimaginable level.
Even when the blade