"Why? Why?" Qiu'er protested indignantly.
"Why did you suddenly become so much stronger, Brother? Was the sixth soul skill's boost really that great?" She could not understand how the sixth soul skill could provide such an enormous increase.
Mu Xuanheng chuckled. "That's because your own boost was big enough."
He then began explaining the effects of his soul skill.
Its original name should have been Myriad Beasts Pay Homage.
But he felt that name was too conventional, too similar to things like Myriad Swords Pay Homage, so he made a slight optimization.
It became: Five Immortals and Five Creatures, All Bow Before Me.
The five immortals were heaven, earth, human, divine, and ghost; the five creatures were naked, scaled, furred, feathered, and shelled, broadly referring to all living beings.
Its effect was to apply the enhancements that living beings granted themselves to Mu Xuanheng as well.
"Just now, Qiu'er, you strengthened yourself quite a bit, so I added all of it onto myself."
Qiu'er said, "Ah, what an amazing soul skill. Wouldn't that mean an opponent can't even strengthen themselves when fighting you, Brother?"
Gu Yuena said, "Powerful soul skills often come with a price. The more enhancement it gains, the greater the drain on the user, right?"
Her guess was correct. If hundreds of people simultaneously used enhancement-type soul skills and he truly took on the boosts of those hundreds or even thousands of people, he would not be able to sustain it for long.
"Even so, that's already absurdly overpowered. Not to mention that you also had Liya come out and fight, Brother."
Mu Xuanheng said seriously, "Liya is my contracted beast, so of course she counts as part of my fighting strength."
"Hmph, he still has at least one soul beast he hasn't revealed."
The soul beast