Eastsea City, Seaview Hotel, penthouse suite.
The night was deep, and the moonlight cast a chill glow over the sea, where countless jade-green waves churned with flecks of silver.
The sweet five-person team had already dispersed from the living room, each returning to their room to rest.
Inside his room, An Lan sat cross-legged, Soul Power circulating smoothly around him.
The shackles of the thirty-ninth-level peak dissolved like water. His Soul Power surged, and he steadily stepped into the realm of a fortieth-level Soul Ancestor, as a fourth pitch-black Soul Ring quietly took shape.
"Life floats in ordered succession, old shadows become the body; flourishing at dawn, withering at dusk, calamity and fate beget each other..."
An Lan held out his palm, and the Red Edge Spear materialized. Crimson patterns flowed along its shaft, its killing edge piercing through the void.
His fourth Soul Skill, Calamity Ash!
All calamities returned to the void—a shot that fate could not miss!
His eyes snapped open, crimson light surging within them. He slowly exhaled, his breath long and steady, then teased, "Kun-Kun, you've finally been useful for once."
The Phantom Sea Spirit Kun had provided him with a total of four Soul Skills:
First Soul Skill [Sun Piercer]: The power of the Sun Piercer could not be resisted by any technique—a shot that ignored defenses!
Second Soul Skill [Startling Swan]: Light as a startled swan, swift as an endless shadow. It let him close in from a great distance in an instant. Each thrust of the spear left afterimages: two rings produced two phantom images, nine rings produced nine. It could deal up to nine consecutive hits—a shot that killed in an instant!
Third Soul Skill [Spirit Link]: An enhancement skill that broke through limits, increasing attack, defense, and mental attributes by two