Void Dragon Form

Bibi Dong noticed his expression and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lu Chen opened his eyes and said hesitantly, "Teacher, this Soul Skill... is a little strange."

Yue Guan asked curiously, "Strange? Is it not a lightning-type Soul Skill?"

Lu Chen shook his head.

Gui Mei asked, "A speed-type one?"

Lu Chen shook his head again.

Yue Guan grew even more puzzled. "Then surely it isn't a flying-type one. You can already fly, can't you?"

Lu Chen thought for a moment. "I can't say it has nothing to do with the Azure Thunder Dragon Hawk, but there's not the slightest similarity between them."

At that, all three of them froze.

Soul Ring skills were usually related to a Soul Beast's own abilities. That was common knowledge to every Soul Master.

Even when a Martial Soul's traits caused a Soul Skill to change, one could still see traces of the Soul Beast's original abilities.

The Azure Thunder Dragon Hawk was, after all, a dragon hawk, with obvious traits like lightning, flight, and dragon blood.

Yet Lu Chen's Soul Skill had prompted him to say that there was "not the slightest similarity."

Bibi Dong's gaze shifted slightly. "Explain."

Lu Chen nodded and said seriously, "My First Soul Skill is called Void Dragon Form."

"When I use it, I can transform myself completely into a gaseous cloud."

"In that state, I'm immune to all physical attacks and most energy attacks."

Yue Guan's expression changed.

Gui Mei also looked at Lu Chen.

Bibi Dong didn't interrupt him, only gestured for him to continue.

Lu Chen went on, "And after transforming into a gaseous cloud, I also gain an even more terrifying ability to Devour."

After saying this, even Lu Chen himself felt that the Soul Skill really didn't seem much like the Azure Thunder Dragon Hawk.

The Azure Thunder Dragon Hawk's most obvious abilities should have been lightning attacks and flying speed.

But his First Soul Skill focused on Void Manifestation and Devour.

Though its name included the word "dragon," and it might have had something to do with the Azure Thunder Dragon Hawk's dragon bloodline, aside from that, it was indeed difficult to find many similarities.

Yue Guan couldn't help asking, "Immune to all physical attacks? And most energy attacks? Xiao Chen, are you sure you didn't misread the effect?"

Lu Chen shook his head. "I don't think so."

Bibi Dong looked at him and said directly, "Show us."

She didn't rush to judge.

The only way to know how a Soul Skill worked was to see it tested firsthand.

Lu Chen understood that too.

He stood up, still maintaining Martial Soul Possession, as the deep purple Soul Ring slowly rose beneath his feet.

Then he murmured, "First Soul Skill, Void Dragon Form."

As soon as the words left his mouth, the purple Soul Ring blazed with light.

Lu Chen's body quickly began to change.

Under the watchful eyes of Bibi Dong and the others, it was as if he had lost his fixed shape. His outline blurred rapidly, then turned into a dark purple gaseous cloud.

The cloud was far from small.

In just a short while, it expanded to dozens of meters across and drifted slowly into the air.

Faint dark purple light flowed within the cloud. It didn't look like ordinary mist, but rather a special form made up of Soul Power and his Martial Soul.

Lu Chen's body was no longer visible.

Only the dark purple, nebula-like cloud hovered in the air.

Yue Guan gazed up at it, his eyes full of wonder.

"So he really has... turned completely into a cloud?"

"There's no solid body," Gui Mei said.

Bibi Dong was watching closely as well.

She could sense Lu Chen's Soul Power fluctuations within the cloud, but as a target for attacks, it had almost no bodily structure in any ordinary sense.

Bibi Dong raised her hand and casually condensed a beam of Soul Power at her fingertip.

She didn't use much force, keeping the attack at roughly Soul Emperor level.

The next moment, the beam of Soul Power shot straight toward the dark purple cloud in the air.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei both stared at the beam.

A Soul Emperor-level attack was nothing to them, of course, but for Lu Chen, who had just obtained his First Soul Ring, it was already an extremely powerful test.

Yet when the beam struck the cloud, there was no collision at all.

It passed straight through.

Just like passing through a patch of ordinary fog.

The dark purple cloud wasn't scattered or damaged, and there was no sign that Lu Chen had been hurt.

At last, clear surprise showed in Bibi Dong's eyes.

Yue Guan was also stunned. "It really went right through?"

"It didn't cause any damage," Gui Mei said quietly.

Lu Chen's voice came from within the cloud.

It sounded a little ethereal, but was still perfectly clear.

"Teacher, you can try a physical attack."

"You can make it a little stronger."

Hearing that, Yue Guan immediately grew interested.

As a Titled Douluo, he had seen countless Soul Skills, but this was the first time he had seen one that could transform someone's body completely into a gaseous cloud and let attacks pass straight through it.

Yue Guan smiled. "Xiao Chen, then your Chrysanthemum Grandpa will give it a try."

Bibi Dong didn't stop him.

She also wanted to see just how immune Lu Chen's Soul Skill really was to physical attacks.

Yue Guan raised his hand, and his Martial Soul appeared in an instant.

The Heaven-Reaching Chrysanthemum bloomed in his hand, golden radiance flowing across it as nine Soul Rings rose one after another.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black.

As the aura of a Titled Douluo emerged, the surrounding air seemed to grow heavier.

Yue Guan looked at the dark purple cloud in the air and said, "Xiao Chen, here I come. Be careful."

The next moment, the Sixth Soul Ring on his body lit up.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Golden Stamens Flowing Rosy Clouds."

As Yue Guan's voice fell, a great many golden petals flew from the Heaven-Reaching Chrysanthemum.

The petals looked delicate, yet were as hard as iron. Each one carried a sharp pulse of Soul Power as they swept toward the dark purple cloud in a dense mass.

If an ordinary Soul Master had taken an attack like that, their body would have been sliced to pieces.

But when the golden petals rushed into the cloud, the result was no different from what had happened with Bibi Dong's beam of Soul Power.

Every one of them passed straight through.

No collision.

No resistance.

No sensation of hitting a solid body.

The petals flew out the other side of the cloud, still following their original trajectories, as if there had been nothing in their way.

Yue Guan raised an eyebrow.

He couldn't quite believe it.

He had already seen the beam of Soul Power pass through the cloud, but energy attacks and physical attacks were ultimately different.

Now even his Sixth Soul Skill was completely ineffective. That was beyond what he had expected.

Yue Guan moved a finger, and more golden petals gathered once again.

This time, the petal attack was even denser than before.

They pierced into the cloud from every direction, almost covering the entire area around it.

But the result was still the same.

Every petal passed through without exception.

The dark purple cloud drifted slowly in the air, showing no obvious disturbance from the attacks.

Lu Chen's voice came from within the cloud. "Chrysanthemum Grandpa, I didn't feel any pain."