Extreme Fire! First Soul Skill, Sun Blaze!

Kong Deming turned around, looked at the youth before him, and spoke slowly.

"Because as for the soul ring selection for your first Martial Soul, this old man prepared it for you many years ago."

Xu Tianyao was slightly stunned, asking in confusion, "Prepared it?"

Kong Deming gazed toward the distant, fire-like sky.

A trace of reminiscence flashed through his aged eyes.

"Do you know why this old man brought you thousands of miles to this volcanic cluster?"

Xu Tianyao tentatively replied, "Because there are many fire-attribute soul beasts here?"

Kong Deming shook his head, then slowly uttered four words.

"Red Sun Golden Crow."

Upon hearing these words, Xu Tianyao widened his eyes and exclaimed, "Golden Crow?!"

Golden Crow.

That was the legendary divine bird symbolizing the sun.

Even in various ancient records, it rarely appeared.

Many scholars even doubted whether such a soul beast truly existed.

Yet now, Kong Deming was telling him that there was a Red Sun Golden Crow here!

No wonder his grandfather insisted he cultivate the Sunlight Martial Soul first.

No wonder he spent such a long time and countless treasures tempering his physical constitution to such a degree.

The purpose was to adapt to this Red Sun Golden Crow.

Because in this world, there was likely no soul beast more suitable for the Sunlight Martial Soul than the Red Sun Golden Crow.

Kong Deming smiled faintly, as if Xu Tianyao's reaction was within his expectations.

"When I came here to search for rare mineral veins years ago, I discovered it by chance."

"I haven't disturbed it all these years."

"I had intended to leave this opportunity for any descendant who awakened a sun-type Martial Soul."

"It seems now that there is indeed a destiny in the dark."

"This opportunity has ultimately fallen into your hands."

Xu Tianyao felt a surge of excitement and was just about to say some words of gratitude, when suddenly, Kong Deming raised his head, a sharp glint erupting in his eyes.

"Found it!"

The next moment, he waved his right hand.

A precision-engineered Level 9 soul guidance ray gun appeared in his palm, its muzzle pointed straight at the firmament.

A blinding golden beam instantly tore through the sky.

A massive roar resounded throughout the entire volcanic cluster.

The startled flock of Red Sun Divine Birds scattered in all directions.

Fiery feathers danced across the sky, as if it were raining fire.

And at the very moment the flock dispersed, a figure more dazzling than all the other divine birds was revealed.

It was a divine bird wreathed in golden flames, its wings spanning several meters wide.

Its entire body radiated a light as scorching as the sun.

Even mixed among the divine birds, it was like the difference between the Bright Moon and the stars, so dazzling that it was impossible to ignore.

"It really is here!"

Kong Deming's eyes blazed with intensity.

He stomped his foot, and the surrounding space suddenly twisted violently.

The next second, his figure vanished from where he stood.

High in the sky, the Red Sun Golden Crow seemed to sense danger and let out a sharp, piercing cry.

It then transformed into a streak of golden light, fleeing frantically at lightning speed, looking like a small fragment of the sun.

However, it was facing the continent's number one soul engineer, a man who had mastered the spatial attributes of the Silver Moon Martial Soul to perfection.

"Come here!"

Kong Deming's aged yet domineering voice boomed.

Terrifying spiritual power swept across the heavens and earth like a vast net.

The space for several thousand meters around seemed to be locked down.

The Red Sun Golden Crow felt its body grow heavy, its flight speed plummeting instantly.

Immediately after, a massive hand covered in the radiance of soul power descended from the sky.

It grabbed the creature and forced it down!

No matter how the Red Sun Golden Crow struggled or how violently it unleashed its True Sun Fire, it could not break free from the restraint of that palm.

In the end, it was firmly gripped within Kong Deming's palm.

Xu Tianyao watched this scene, his heart burning with fervor.

Is this the strength of the Sun Moon Empire's number one expert? Is this the power of a Titled Douluo?

With just a wave of his hand, he possessed such overwhelming might—enough to change the color of the heavens and make all things tremble in fear.

People often mocked Douluo as the "floor tiles" of fantasy, but at least it was still fantasy. Xu Tianyao felt quite satisfied.

Kong Deming tossed the half-dead Red Sun Golden Crow in front of Xu Tianyao.

Looking at the behemoth on the ground, which boasted a wingspan of fully ten meters, the sheer impact of its presence was overwhelming to Xu Tianyao.

Its size alone was as tall as a multi-story building.

"Tianyao, kill it. Soul beasts and humans are locked in an endless cycle of death; this is the law of nature. You cannot afford to be soft-hearted."

Seeing Xu Tianyao hesitate, Kong Deming assumed the six-year-old was simply intimidated by the ferocious killing intent of such a massive soul beast, so he urged him to proceed.

Pulled back to reality by Kong Deming's words, Xu Tianyao drew his Level 4 Soul Guidance Ray Gun, aimed it at the Pure Yang Golden Crow's head, and pulled the trigger.

A beam of explosive energy descended, instantly shattering the skull of the thousand-year soul beast. Viscous blood splattered across the ground as a purple soul ring slowly rose.

Xu Tianyao stared intensely at the purple soul ring, immediately sitting down beside the carcass and circulating his Sun Martial Soul to draw the ring toward it.

First soul ring, here I come!

As the purple soul ring slowly settled onto Xu Tianyao's body, a vast, radiant sun rose within his sea of consciousness, emitting ten thousand rays of light.

The dazzling Red Sun Golden Crow from moments ago appeared within his spiritual sea.

The Golden Crow offered little resistance; it simply spread its wings, wrapped them around itself, and finally merged into the massive sun like a brilliant, miniature star.

Xu Tianyao felt every cell in his body cheering. An extreme sense of comfort left him intoxicated.

This was a leap in the hierarchy of life; this was the sensation brought by cultivation.

Two hours later, a piercing cry of a Golden Crow echoed throughout the entire Southern Marsh Volcano Group.

Xu Tianyao slowly opened his eyes. "First soul skill: Sunlight Scorching Light!"

A purple soul ring rose from Xu Tianyao's body. Immediately, a scorching aura gathered between his hands, instantly erupting into a searing, fiery red beam that shot toward a distant rock, melting the stone and leveling the small hill behind it.

Sunlight Scorching Light: a high-temperature energy beam, a long-range assault soul skill possessing immense destructive power and penetration, with an added burning effect.

Given Xu Tianyao's current soul power reserves, he could use it at most five times a day.

Kong Deming looked at the melted rock and the shattered hill, his heart filled with shock as he fell into deep contemplation.

This destructive power, this temperature—could it be the Ultimate Fire?

Indeed, Kong Deming had not realized until now that the Sun Martial Soul was born with the attribute of Ultimate Fire.

His attention during this time had been focused entirely on how to solve the issue of the Sun Moon Martial Soul's inability to be cultivated simultaneously.

The Sun Martial Soul was a superior evolution of the Sun Martial Soul; since the flames of the Sun Martial Soul were already infinitely close to the Ultimate Fire, the Sun Martial Soul must certainly be the Ultimate Fire!

This belated surprise made him even happier. He now felt that this child was like a treasure—the more he dug, the more interesting and valuable he became!