Void Sword Qi
According to the order of the queue, Bai Cai is next.
Naturally, Bai Cai chose a thousand-year-old Soul Beast. As a control-type Battle Soul Elder, choosing Hundred-Year Soul Beast would be absolutely cowardly, despicable, and shameful.
Moreover, defeating a fifth-grade Martial Soul Department core disciple and a defensive Battle Soul Ancestor across levels, and choosing Hundred-Year Soul Beast for the entrance exam, inevitably arouses suspicion.
The opponent broke free of the cage, Bai Cai summoned Kirlia.
A hunched, eerie ape grinned, its smile cruel, sinister, and terrifying. It was covered in long fur, seemingly shrouded in lake silt, or like a moldy, rotting corpse. Its eyes were twisted and narrow, its nose sunken, and its upper and lower rows of dense, sharp teeth resembled coupled saw teeth.
The Ghost Ape a superior-blooded ape-like Soul Beast, inherently evil and cruel, with a penchant for gnawing on animal brains; its numbers are extremely rare.
It's worth mentioning that the Ghost Ape can not only cast Curse, create mental Substitute, and construct mental illusions, but also possesses the superhuman strength to tear apart tigers and leopards.
The Ghost Ape, with its thousand-year cultivation, is particularly troublesome. Even Soul Ancestor find it difficult to hunt it down. Shrek once dispatched a Soul Saint to capture it.
The thousand-year-old Soul Beast imprisoned by Shrek Academy students are not exactly a thousand years old, but rather have a cultivation level of more than one thousand years and less than two thousand years.
The Saber-toothed Tiger defeated by Dai Huabin had a true cultivation level of less than 1,300 years, Ghost Ape in front of Bai Cai had a true cultivation level of more than 1,700 years.
Seventeen hundred years is approaching the limit for an ordinary Soul Master's third Soul Ring, and may even meet the requirements for an ordinary Soul Master's fourth Soul Ring.
After all, the Soul Skill produced by the Ghost Ape are quite excellent. Curse, Substitute, and Illusion are all powerful Soul Skill that control-type Soul Master, support-type Soul Master, and defense-type Soul Master dream of.
As an adversary, the Ghost Ape is equally terrifying. If Dai Huabin were to face the Ghost Ape, he would surely die at its hands within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.
A life-or-death battle is not child's play. If the two sides are evenly matched, the outcome may be difficult to determine. If the opponent is 10% stronger, the battle can be decided in a moment. If the opponent is 20% stronger, the battle will last at most the time it takes to drink a cup of tea. If the opponent is 30% stronger, the outcome will be decided within ten moves. If the opponent is 50% stronger, two or three moves are enough to kill the opponent.
Although Dai Huabin's mental strength is excellent, it is only excellent among those of the same level. When facing a strange species like the Ghost Ape, he will basically be unable to break free from the mental illusion unless something unexpected happens.
Unable to retaliate, they were like fish on a chopping board, completely at the mercy of the butcher.
A terrifying howl echoed through the arena, the Ghost Ape's eyes bloodshot, seemingly shedding tears of blood. Mental illusion—its hunting method for survival; once caught in a mental illusion, its prey would be utterly defenseless.
The hunched, eerie ape stretched its body, placed its hands on the ground, and slowly moved forward.
With its ability to use Curse, mental illusions, and the life-saving talent of creating Substitute, as well as its superhuman strength capable of tearing apart tigers and leopards, the Ghost Ape is capable of brutally killing any first-year student (of course, the referee is always watching the battle situation).
Unfortunately, it encountered Bai Cai.
After Kirlia appeared, Setsuna activated her Psychic Shield.
Confusion, a materialized form of mental power, possesses both material and mental Ability. It can protect against not only material attacks but also mental attacks, such as the mental illusions created by the Ghost Ape.
Demons and monsters blotted out the sky, a chilling wind blew, and the crimson, sticky soil resembled a bottomless quagmire. Corpses roared, skeletons were submerged, and hundreds of ghosts tore at the ground. The Bai Cai remained expressionless, and the Ghost Ape stopped in its tracks, its eyes filled with apprehension.
"Is your attack over?"
The Second Soul Ring shone brightly, outlining a lifelike golden butterfly. The golden butterfly danced gracefully, transforming into brilliant golden flames that engulfed the sky and swarmed the demons and monsters.
Myriad Manifestations of the Forest: Dance of the Butterfly Goddess!
Radiant light tore through the mental illusion, Ghost Ape howled mournfully, its eyes white and its fur withered.
Light overcomes darkness and evil; the light emanating from the Dance of the Butterfly Goddess Burn the Ghost Ape's true form.
"Well then, it's my turn."
Golden light permeated the Psychic Shield; what was once formless and shapeless now resembled molten gold. The Dance of the Butterfly Goddess possessed an affinity for the light element, and Confusion imbued it with spirit; light gave form, and spirit gave soul.
The light merges with Confusion, transforming into a special force with tangible substance; it is both omnipresent light and an ever-changing spirit.
The Psychic Shield contracted, light converged, and a terrifying pressure that sent shivers down the spine swept across the arena in an instant.
Du Weilun frowned. Its current power surpasses that of the Soul King; once unleashed, the Ghost Ape will be utterly annihilated.
Taming an ordinary thousand-year-old Soul Beast costs more than 100,000 Gold Soul Coin, let alone Ghost Ape with superior bloodline.
In case the Ghost Ape is accidentally killed, the Beast King Gong Changlong, who manages the arena...
Thinking of this, Du Weilun almost called for a halt, but before he could utter a sound, a purplish-red gourd suddenly struck his head with a crisp sound.
Du Weilun looked back, and the disheveled old man in hemp clothing made a shushing gesture.
"Ghost Ape with a thousand years of cultivation, it's dead, so be it. I'll talk to Changlong later."
"Yan Shaozhe, observe more and ponder more."
The disheveled old man in hemp clothing casually tossed away the chicken bones, muttering, "Such form and substance, the younger generation is truly formidable."
Spiritual power differs from Soul Power, and is simply divided into three levels: formless and intangible, tangible but intangible, and tangible and substantial.
Formless and intangible, most people below the Titled Douluo level are at this level and cannot actively use their mental power.
They are tangible but intangible. Titled Douluo, Super Douluo, and Limit Douluo are basically at this level, able to use their mental power in a rudimentary way, such as fist intent and sword intent.
With both tangible and substantial qualities, among the Soul Master of this era who have reached this level, only Mu En, the Sea God Pavilion, stands out.
It was precisely because Mu En's spiritual power was tangible and substantial that he was able to contend against two Limit Douluo of the Holy Spirit Cult on his own.
My agreement to allocate resources wasn't out of silence, but rather because of this strong sense of purpose.
Upon first observing Bai Cai's battle, Xuan Zi realized that Bai Cai's spiritual power was intangible yet substantial, unlike any other Soul Master.
Once Bai Cai masters the spiritual form and breaks through to the Limit Douluo, she will definitely become the next Mu En, a being who will suppress an era.
Moreover, his Second Martial Soul is the Heavenly Snow Woman, the Ultimate Ice. If he were to kill her and obtain her as Soul Ring, he might even be able to achieve godhood.
Besides Godhood Inheritance, deification through faith is also a viable method. After killing that one, and gaining control of the Extreme North, it might be possible to recreate the miracle of deification through faith.
The Sea God who was Tang San's ancestor did not inherit the previous divine position, but was made a god by relying on the countless living beings in the vast ocean.
The changes in the arena disrupted the viewing platform. Du Weilun was extremely shocked, Yan Shaozhe was extremely excited.
The light was blinding; the Bai Cai slowly closed its eyes.
"The divine is the ultimate of change, the wondrous manifestation of all things, and cannot be questioned by form; hence it is said that 'yin and yang are unfathomable.'"
The Ghost Ape, whose true cultivation level exceeds 1,700 years and which a normal Soul Ancestor cannot handle, is probably a touchstone.
Well then, let's leave it at that.
"Primordial Void Sword Qi - Divine Charm!"