Strongest Soul Skill, Poison Burst Technique!

Strongest Soul Skill, Poison Burst Technique!

Still, every bit of effort had been worth it. Decades of time and several hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins had successfully produced a Jade Scorpion whose age had only just surpassed a thousand years, yet already possessed nine tail segments. The richness of its origin was several times greater than that of an ordinary Jade Scorpion of the same age. It could already be considered a rare treasure.

If it were auctioned on the market, its price would be no lower than that of an average-quality Thousand Year Soul Bone.

When Chen Shijie had broken through to Soul Elder back then, he had been reluctant to use this Jade Scorpion. Chen Tianyun had been equally unwilling to use this treasure when he broke through. Now that Chen Ming was breaking through to Soul Grandmaster, this gold-devouring beast that had been raised for decades had finally come into use.

Chen Ming activated Martial Soul Possession. The scorpion tail behind him twitched slightly, and the entire tail plunged directly into the Jade Scorpion's head. With a faint pulse of Soul Power, the Jade Scorpion trembled slightly before a purple Soul Ring rose from its body.

"What incredible piercing power. It pierced the head of this mutant Jade Scorpion without using any poison at all. If it struck a person, any defense-system Soul Master below Level Thirty would be pierced in a single blow unless they possessed a top-tier beast Martial Soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon or Diamond Mammoth, even if they had activated two Soul Skills."

Seeing Chen Ming's move, Chen Tianyun clapped and praised him.

"Maybe it's because my physical condition is good and my Martial Soul is of high quality."

Chen Ming stared at the purple Soul Ring and answered casually.

This Jade Scorpion had already been artificially cultivated into a mutant, making it extremely valuable. Even after death, its materials could serve all sorts of purposes and would at least recover over a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Chen Ming did not lack money in this life, but he was not rich enough to waste it casually.

So throughout the process, Chen Ming had not released any poison to contaminate it. He had simply killed it, even deliberately restraining the toxins naturally carried by his Martial Soul, afraid of damaging the precious materials.

The moment he saw the Soul Ring, Chen Ming could feel a hunger from his Martial Soul, as though absorbing this Soul Ring would perfectly complete it.

Chen Ming did not hesitate. After calming his breathing and adjusting himself for a moment, he sat cross-legged before the scorpion and used his Soul Power to guide the Soul Ring in front of him.

The purple Soul Ring trembled slightly, then turned into a stream of light and entered Chen Ming's body. As the fusion began, a scorching, foreign Soul Power appeared within his meridians.

The quality and quantity of this scorching foreign Soul Power were both extremely high. An ordinary Level Thirty Soul Master would have needed to expend tremendous effort to absorb it. Yet it had encountered Chen Ming. Whether in quality or quantity, the Soul Power from the Jade Scorpion was clearly a level inferior to Chen Ming's own Soul Power.

The origin of a Scorpion King suppressed the activity of the Jade Scorpion's Soul Power. Abundant Soul Power and Spiritual Power firmly bound it, guiding it through his broad meridians in an orderly flow.

After several cycles, the Jade Scorpion Soul Ring's resistance greatly weakened. Its previously unified Soul Power gradually separated into individual strands, which Chen Ming's Soul Power slowly dismantled and crushed bit by bit.

After more than a dozen cycles, Chen Ming had completely digested the Jade Scorpion's Soul Power and origin, which began to merge into his body. At that moment, Chen Ming felt his consciousness rise once more into a certain realm.

Because the Jade Scorpion he had absorbed this time was a Soul Beast with the exact same Martial Soul as his own, although its quality was far inferior to the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower, the Soul Skills available for Chen Ming to choose from were far more numerous than when he had absorbed the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower.

There was everything from enhancement and attack to control-type Soul Skills. However, their strengths varied greatly. Most were merely filler, with unsatisfactory effects. Chen Ming glanced through them and set them aside, choosing to search for more functional Soul Skills instead. Yet when he looked, he was truly startled.

Because within the inherited laws of the Jade Scorpion, there was actually a special skill that was outrageously powerful—one could even call it completely overpowered.

Ten thousand years later, its user had, with the cultivation of a mere Soul King, easily severely injured and killed several high-level Soul Emperors from Shrek, and even toyed with a Super Douluo whose Soul Power Level had reached Level Ninety-Eight. Had he not encountered the Child of Fortune, the world's protagonist, and been attacked by the remnant soul of a god-level expert from another world, he could even have retreated unharmed.

That was right. The user of this skill was the Death God Envoy of ten thousand years later, the strongest Soul King in Douluo history—without equal.

However, due to the difference in Martial Souls, the Jade Scorpion skill Chen Ming saw was not Corpse Explosion Technique, but Poison Burst Technique, which operated on the same principle but took a different form. Its power was the same, but its range of application was broader and it was more convenient to use.

Poison Burst Technique, as its name implied, was a Soul Skill that caused Poison Attribute Soul Power to explode. What made this Soul Skill extraordinary was that one portion of Soul Power could unleash ten, or even twenty portions of power at the instant of explosion. Moreover, there was no upper limit to that power. The more poison there was, the stronger it was, and the more terrifying the explosion's force and range became.

Corpse Explosion Technique required two conditions: a corpse and potent poison. Poison Burst Technique required only one. As long as something had been contaminated by potent poison, whether it was a corpse, a living person, or even a stone, Chen Ming could use this skill to turn it completely into a bomb.

Put simply, although this Soul Ring was only a Thousand Year Soul Ring, and the Soul Skill was only a Thousand Year Soul Skill, if Dugu Bo learned of it, he would want to rip off his Ninth Soul Ring and replace it with this skill.

Not poisoned? No problem. My Poison Attribute Soul Power has already marked you! I'll just detonate it. If the poison can't kill you, the blast will!

If Dugu Bo had possessed this skill, he would not have been the disgrace of Titled Douluo, but the Titled Douluo with the strongest burst power.

The only flaw of this Soul Skill was similar to the Ice Explosion Technique of the Ice Scorpion clan: it had to use the user's own Poison Attribute Soul Power to trigger the explosion. If he wanted to harm an enemy, he had to use a medium containing his Poison Attribute Soul Power to approach them, or simply poison them directly.

Under ordinary circumstances, this restriction was somewhat awkward. After all, if the target had already been poisoned, using such a move afterward seemed somewhat redundant. If the poison could not enter the target's body, his intentions could easily be seen through, allowing part of the effect to be avoided.

But for Chen Ming, it was not that this flaw did not exist—it simply did not restrict him much.

After all, Chen Ming's First Soul Skill was called Poison Cloud Technique, and its effect was to create a massive Poison Cloud...

Even with his mind in a certain special realm, Chen Ming still could not conceal the excitement in his heart. He searched through the laws within the Bilin Scorpion bloodline that could become Soul Skills again and again. After discovering no Soul Skill that could compare to Poison Burst Technique, Chen Ming decisively carved the laws of Poison Burst Technique into his Second Soul Ring, forming a Soul Skill.

At the same time, Chen Ming's manifested Martial Soul seemed to have been stimulated by something and began to tremble faintly. As the Jade Scorpion's origin fused into him, Chen Ming felt his Martial Soul begin to change.

It had not become much stronger, but it had indeed become more complete.

If Chen Ming's Jade Scorpion Martial Soul at the time of its awakening had been a large leaking bucket, then after obtaining the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower Soul Ring, the leaks in that bucket had been patched up, though it still held only half a bucket of water.

After obtaining this Jade Scorpion Soul Ring, the bucket had not grown much larger, but it had been filled. Previously, it had held only half a bucket of water, with half its capacity still empty. Now, it had been completely filled to the theoretical limit of what the bucket could hold.

In other words, from this point onward, Chen Ming's Innate Soul Power should no longer be measured as Level Five, but regarded as genuine Innate Full Soul Power.

The medicine Qian Daoliu had prescribed had indeed perfectly cured the problem that had plagued their family for centuries.