After listening to Mu Tianyi's explanation of his soul skills, Mu En's eyes were full of gratification as he praised him without reservation:
"Good lad, you're far better than your Xuan Zu was back then!"
Leaning on his cane, the old man smiled so broadly that the wrinkles on his face smoothed out.
He had been a genius in his youth as well, but absorbing a five-thousand-year soul ring as his second soul ring was something he had never even dared imagine.
Mu Tianyi scratched his head and smiled, saying nothing more as he turned to look at Zhang Lexuan.
"Lexuan, your turn."
Zhang Lexuan's martial soul was the Silver Moon, built primarily as a long-range artillery mage type.
It also possessed both corrosive and spiritual attributes.
This kind of martial soul was not picky about specific soul beast species. Any soul ring compatible with moonlight and corrosive attributes would work.
As for the age limit...
Based on Zhang Lexuan's needs, something around fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred years would be enough.
The hunt went so smoothly that it was almost boring.
With a sweep of Mu En's senses, the distribution of soul beasts within several miles became crystal clear.
"There's a fifteen-hundred-year Moonlight Toad by the pond to the northeast."
The old man named the target as casually as if he were reading a dish off a menu.
By the time the three arrived, the Moonlight Toad was sprawled atop a boulder beside the pond, basking in the sun.
Its silvery-white skin gave off a faint glow beneath the sunlight. It was roughly the size of a washbasin, its bulging eyes half-open and half-closed as it looked utterly lazy.
Mu En did not even make a move.
He merely took one step forward.
A trace of a Limit Douluo's aura leaked out.
The Moonlight Toad jolted awake, its body going rigid. Its four legs gave way, and it slid straight off the boulder.
Zhang Lexuan pressed her lips together and stepped forward.
Her first soul ring lit up.
Silver Moon: Etching.
A silver-white beam shot from her fingertip, striking the Moonlight Toad precisely in the back.
The toad let out a low croak, and a faint silver mark appeared on its back.
Immediately after—
Her second soul ring lit up.
The yellow hundred-year soul ring, Crescent Moon: Lament.
Zhang Lexuan pushed both palms forward, and a crescent-shaped spiritual wave spread out soundlessly.
The Moonlight Toad's movements froze completely.
A silver-white ray of moonlight condensed in her palm and pierced through the Moonlight Toad's head.
Clean and decisive.
A purple soul ring slowly rose into the air.
Zhang Lexuan sat down cross-legged, her Silver Moon martial soul emerging behind her.
It was the phantom of a crescent moon, cold and luminous, with a faint silver glow around its edges.
The purple soul ring was drawn closer and slowly settled around her.
The process went even more smoothly than Mu Tianyi had expected.
The compatibility between the Moonlight Toad and the Silver Moon martial soul was extremely high. That soft yet corrosive energy flowed into Zhang Lexuan's body with almost no resistance.
About half an hour later.
Zhang Lexuan opened her eyes.
A flash of silver passed through her clear eyes.
"Lexuan, how do you feel?" Mu Tianyi leaned closer.
"Mm." Zhang Lexuan rose to her feet, brushing grass clippings from her skirt. The corners of her lips curved faintly. "It went very smoothly."
"After absorbing this soul ring, my Soul Power Level has also reached level thirty-two."
Leaning on his cane, Mu En looked on expectantly.
"What is your third soul skill?"
Zhang Lexuan closed her eyes and communicated with her martial soul.
A moment later, she opened her eyes and raised her right hand.
The purple thousand-year soul ring beneath her feet lit up.
A phantom of a silver-white full moon condensed in her palm and began spinning rapidly.
The next instant, the full moon phantom rose into the sky and abruptly split apart!
One became two, two became four, four became eight...
Dozens of silver-white spheres of moonlight energy hovered in the air like meteors, enveloping an area dozens of meters wide.
"My third soul skill is called Full Moon: Starfall."
Zhang Lexuan's voice was calm and cold.
"It is a group attack. It bombards an area, and the blast radius carries spiritual disruption and continuous corrosion effects."
She withdrew her soul skill, and the moonlight energy spheres in the sky slowly faded away.
"If the target bears the 'Etching' mark left by my first soul skill, it will deal additional splash damage."
Mu Tianyi whistled.
Damn.
In a team battle, if she applied the Etching debuff first and then dropped a Full Moon: Starfall on them...
The image was too beautiful to behold.
Mu En nodded in satisfaction and tapped his cane against the ground.
"Let's go back."
With the soul ring matter resolved, Mu En led the three of them out of the Star Dou Great Forest.
After all, his presence had already displeased the one deep within the forest.
To avoid unnecessary conflict, Mu En could only choose to show weakness.
By the time the three emerged from the Star Dou Great Forest, the sky was already nearing dusk.
Flying at full speed as a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo, Mu En brought the two of them back to Shrek City in just a few hours.
After entering Shrek City, the three generations of their family went their separate ways.
Since Zhang Lexuan had chosen to join Shrek Academy, Mu En naturally had to arrange everything for her.
Since they had happened to come out today anyway, he helped Zhang Lexuan settle the matter of transferring in.
However, Mu En still exercised a tiny bit of privilege.
After all, Zhang Lexuan was his great-grandson's future wife. Naturally, he would not place her entirely in the Outer Court.
Her food, clothing, lodging, and transportation were all arranged in the Inner Court.
By the time Mu Tianyi returned to his lakeside courtyard, the moon had already risen.
After washing up and changing into dry clothes, he sat cross-legged on his bed once more.
He did not lie down to rest.
Instead, he closed his eyes and began cultivating.
Soul Power circulated through his meridians, and his aura gradually settled.
Behind him, the phantoms of a black and a white Holy Dragon slowly emerged.
The Bright Sacred Dragon was pale gold all over, its scales gleaming with a warm light, sacred and imposing.
The Dark Sacred Dragon was black as ink, its dragon eyes seemingly containing an abyssal aura.
The two hovered silently behind Mu Tianyi, one to his left and one to his right.
Normally, only the phantom of one's primary cultivated martial soul would appear during cultivation.
For example, since the Bright Sacred Dragon was his current primary martial soul, only the Bright Sacred Dragon's phantom should have been behind him.
Yet now, both dragons had appeared at once.
This was intentional on Mu Tianyi's part.
The reason was simple:
Ever since the day his martial souls awakened, he had discovered something unbelievable.
His two martial souls, the Bright Sacred Dragon and the Dark Sacred Dragon, possessed an exceptionally high degree of compatibility.
That feeling of compatibility was not simply that they did not repel each other. It was as if they were two puzzle pieces that were born to fit together.
Mu Tianyi's first thought at the time had been—Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
But he quickly realized a problem.
A conventional Martial Soul Fusion Skill required two people and two different martial souls to achieve perfect resonance in spirit and Soul Power.
But he...
Had only one person.
One person, two martial souls.
Could it be done?
Mu Tianyi searched through all the books in the Sea God Pavilion, yet found no record whatsoever of a "Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill."
This result did not surprise Mu Tianyi.
According to his memories of the original work, it was only ten thousand years later, in the era of Legend of the Dragon King, that the first soul master with a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill was born.
This era was still ten thousand years away from that one.
No one could teach him.
He could only explore it on his own.
Over the past two years, Mu Tianyi could feel that the fusion between the Bright Sacred Dragon and the Dark Sacred Dragon had already reached an extremely high level.
The phantoms of the two dragons could even overlap briefly.
He seemed to be only a thin layer of window paper away from that final step.
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