Whale Song, First Soul Skill

Under normal circumstances, an ordinary Soul Master would spend anywhere from half an hour to several hours fusing a Soul Ring. The stronger a Soul Master's physique and the more energy their meridians could withstand from the Soul Ring, the less time the fusion required.

The Silver Scale White Whale had voluntarily become Xu Zihuang's Soul Ring, making it the equivalent of a perfect fusion without the slightest bit of energy leaking away.

The most obvious sign was that Xu Zihuang had not suffered any pain at all. Instead, he felt exceptionally comfortable. Moreover, he did not need to carefully comprehend the Soul Skill this Soul Ring had given him. It was as though everything had been deeply imprinted in his mind, indescribably smooth and natural.

It was precisely because he understood the effects of his first Soul Skill that Xu Zihuang could almost confirm the identity of this auspicious Silver Scale White Whale.

Furthermore, when his forehead had touched the Silver Scale White Whale's earlier, not only had his Spiritual Power surged, but he seemed to have gained a special ability as well.

Given the current circumstances, Xu Zihuang suppressed the urge to enter a meditative state and examine it closely. There would be plenty of time once the surroundings were safe, so there was no need to rush.

In the battle zone several hundred meters from the warship, the five Evil Spirit Orcas had already been completely suppressed by Wang Xiao and the others. Aside from the one with over twenty thousand years of Cultivation, which was still struggling furiously, the other four Evil Spirit Orcas were floating weakly on the sea's surface.

One of them, an Evil Spirit Orca whose Cultivation had only just reached ten thousand years, had even been slain under the joint assault of the Imperial Dragon Soul Mentor Corps Soldiers. A deep black Soul Ring condensed above its massive corpse, and the faint yet ferocious aura unique to Evil Spirit Orcas made even Xu Zihuang's heart tremble.

As expected of an overlord of the sea. Even a Soul Ring that had only barely reached the ten-thousand-year level would likely be difficult for most Soul Kings to absorb with their physical constitutions.

Although Soul Rings placed greater emphasis on age, it also depended on what kind of Soul Beast they came from.

Through the Golden Eye Martial Soul's powerful vision, Xu Zihuang could clearly see the Evil Spirit Orcas in their entirety. Compared to the Silver Scale White Whale, these Evil Spirit Orcas could truly be called colossal. One of them, with roughly a thousand years of Cultivation, was nearly twice the size of the Silver Scale White Whale. Its body was immensely thick and lacked that streamlined beauty, but it radiated raw power. Its entire body was grayish-black, its head especially huge, and whenever it opened its mouth, it revealed terrifying enormous teeth like blades and swords.

The two Evil Spirit Orcas with more than ten thousand years of Cultivation were even over twenty meters long.

That was one reason Wang Xiao did not dare let those two Evil Spirit Orcas approach the warship. With such massive bodies, even without using Soul Skills, their physical strength alone would have been enough to overturn the vessel.

Large amounts of seawater had been dyed red by the Evil Spirit Orcas' blood.

Evil Spirit Orcas were inherently bloodthirsty. The scent of blood seemed to have stirred the last remaining Evil Spirit Orca leader's savage nature. It opened its vicious maw and tore into the corpse of its mate—the Ten Thousand Year Evil Orca that had already perished—to replenish its energy. Its enormous dark-red eyes held an added hint of madness.

"Bzzzz—"

As its enormous body swayed, the surface of the sea began to tremble.

Countless dark-red water blades shot into the sky like an endless drizzle, making the Soul Guiding Shields around the Imperial Dragon Soul Mentor Corps Soldiers ripple with waves of light. The immense impact and pressure of these dark-red water blades left everyone unable to spare their attention to operate their Flying Soul Tools.

Immediately afterward, rippling red light enveloped the Imperial Dragon Soul Mentor Corps Soldiers in the air almost instantaneously. Only Wang Xiao, whose Cultivation was the highest, escaped the area at once.

This was another powerful Innate Soul Skill of the Evil Spirit Orca: Evil Orca Demon's Grasp.

The greatest feature of this skill was that physical defense was useless. Once the red ripples it generated touched the body, regardless of how powerful one was, they would be forcibly stunned for one second. Only those with exceptionally powerful Spiritual Power could possibly shorten the duration of the stun. Energy could resist it, but any energy attack released through a Soul Skill that came into contact with it would cause the user's Soul Power consumption to triple for the duration of this skill. If wielded by an Evil Spirit Orca with Hundred-Thousand-Year Cultivation, the forced stun could even last three seconds.

This was a group control skill, an exceedingly tyrannical group control skill. Even a peak Soul Douluo like Haixiao greatly feared its forced-stun effect. Even with an energy shield for protection, once Evil Orca Demon's Grasp made contact, one's Soul Power would rapidly drain away. Against such a Soul Skill, defending was not an option, yet failing to defend meant being stunned outright.

The reason Evil Spirit Orcas could become one of the three great overlords of the sea was closely related to this absurdly powerful Innate Soul Skill.

At that moment, the Soul Guiding Shields around the group could no longer withstand the energy impact of Evil Orca Demon's Grasp. Amid booming shatters, they all fell into a stunned state.

Then another wave of dark-red water blades shot toward them.

"It looks like this Evil Spirit Orca is making its final counterattack."

Yaoyang, who had been watching the situation closely, had the seven Soul Rings around him pulse rapidly. He was preparing to forcibly interrupt the Evil Spirit Orca's skill.

But at that moment, Xu Zihuang suddenly stepped forward several paces and came to the edge of the deck's railing.

His pair of brilliant golden eyes gazed coldly ahead as the only purple Soul Ring around him blossomed with a noble glow.

"First Soul Skill, Whale Song."

That pleasant whale cry rang out once more. The phantom of the Silver Scale White Whale appeared out of thin air behind Xu Zihuang, joyfully swimming around his body.

His medium-length black hair stirred without wind, and the cloak on his body slowly fluttered as well. The strange Spiritual Power fluctuations gave Xu Zihuang an ethereal feeling.

The stunned soldiers felt their minds jolt, and they actually regained consciousness in an instant. Seeing the dark-red water blades already right before them, they hurriedly gathered Soul Power and released their Soul Guiding Shields again to protect themselves.

The black wings on Wang Xiao's back flapped as he prepared to use a Soul Skill to shield everyone, but his body suddenly froze. Then he decisively changed direction and dove toward the Evil Spirit Orca.

His speed was noticeably much faster than before. His fourth Soul Skill activated again, and a pair of tiger claws plunged deeply into the Evil Spirit Orca's massive head. Blue-black Wind Blades churned wildly beneath its grayish-black skin.

Already covered in wounds, the Evil Spirit Orca's massive body struggled with gradually weakening force.

"Lin Long!" Wang Xiao shouted in a low voice. A tall, thin middle-aged man about Wang Xiao's age in midair immediately understood. He took out a Soul Guide Spear from his Soul Tool and drove it heavily into the Evil Spirit Orca's blowhole, delivering the final blow.

Lin Long had fortunately broken through to rank seventy in Soul Power not long ago. The group had persisted until now specifically to help him obtain this precious Soul Ring from the Evil Spirit Orca.

Standing atop the Evil Spirit Orca's corpse, Wang Xiao let out a slight sigh of relief. But as he sensed the dense Wind Element and Darkness Attribute lingering around his wings, he could not help looking toward Xu Zihuang on the deck.

"Was that the Young Master's first Soul Skill?!"

Even with his experience, 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: the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, known as the number one auxiliary Tool Martial Soul sect in the world.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect possessed a core skill—Attribute Amplification. However, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Attribute Amplification could at most amplify a single attribute to increase the power of a Soul Skill. Xu Zihuang's skill, on the other hand, seemed more like an elevation originating from the Martial Soul Origin itself, raising the Wind Element and Darkness Attribute of his Overlord Tiger Martial Soul to another level.

One was a quantitative change, while the other was a qualitative transformation. The difference between them was self-evident. Of course, the degree of amplification from Xu Zihuang's Soul Skill was far inferior to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Attribute Amplification.

Wang Xiao was not the only one who had this thought. Yaoyang beside Xu Zihuang thought the same.

It was no exaggeration to say that Xu Zihuang's Soul Skill had nearly turned the situation around in an instant. Of course, even if Xu Zihuang had not acted, Yaoyang and Wang Xiao's strength would have been enough to handle the previous situation.

Xu Zihuang withdrew his Martial Soul and explained with a smile, "This is the first Soul Skill I just acquired, Whale Song. It's a Domain-type Soul Skill. Centered on me, it has an effective radius of nearly a hundred meters. It can remove all negative effects while increasing the Spiritual Power and Martial Soul attributes of allies by ten percent."

There was no need to say more. A Domain-type Soul Skill alone was enough to demonstrate this Soul Skill's power. Although the amplification was not particularly great, its Soul Power consumption was correspondingly low. Once his Cultivation improved, the consumption of this Soul Skill could even be ignored.

Most importantly, Soul Masters of any Cultivation received the same amplification effect, yet Xu Zihuang's Soul Power consumption would not increase. In other words, even though Xu Zihuang's Soul Power cultivation was only rank twenty at present, he could still support a Title Douluo-level Soul Master.

That was the absurd power of Domain-type Soul Skills.

This Soul Skill had no control or Attack Power whatsoever, but it was destined to make him the core of any team.