The Real Deal

Wang Chen had initially felt somewhat helpless about not obtaining an enhancement-type Soul Skill, but when he saw that his Fourth Soul Skill was actually a Teleportation-type Soul Skill, he couldn't help but think, This is the real deal.

Teleportation-type Soul Skills were godly life-saving skills. Any attack beyond one's ability to withstand could be escaped through a Teleportation Soul Skill.

Moreover, Teleportation Soul Skills were also extremely outstanding in battle. They could often turn certain defeat into victory—for example, suddenly appearing behind an enemy, or teleporting in front of the enemy during the instant their attack left them vulnerable, then striking.

Alternatively, he could teleport a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell beside the enemy and blow him up.

All in all, Wang Chen was extremely satisfied with his Fourth Soul Skill.

The Artifact Spirit's Fifth Soul Skill was called Soul. After locking onto an enemy with spiritual power, his next attack would be guaranteed to hit, and it would also carry a spiritual attack, capable of inflicting spiritual damage on the enemy.

The spiritual damage dealt depended on the spiritual power of the Artifact Spirit Martial Soul's master and that of the enemy. The greater the difference between their spiritual power, the greater the damage; the smaller the difference, the lower the damage.

The Artifact Spirit's Sixth Soul Skill was called Burn.

This Soul Skill could be described as injuring the enemy by a thousand while damaging oneself by eight hundred.

By burning the Artifact Spirit Martial Soul master's blood and vitality, it increased the power of the weapon's next attack. The more blood and vitality burned, the stronger the next attack would be.

Wang Chen had tried burning thirty percent of his own blood and vitality to enhance a Soul Tool. He discovered that it directly increased the Soul Tool's attack power by 150%.

Burning fifty percent of his blood and vitality to enhance the Soul Tool could increase its attack power to 250%.

For every additional ten percent of blood and vitality burned, the attack power would increase by another fifty percent.

However, even with Wang Chen's physique, he could burn at most seventy percent of his blood and vitality. If he burned more, he would probably burn himself to death before he could kill the enemy.

Wang Chen had experimented with using his Sixth Soul Skill to burn thirty percent of his blood and vitality. Afterward, it did not cause any significant impact on him. At most, his body would become weak and his combat strength would drop by twenty to thirty percent.

With the powerful Life Force brought by the Gold of Life, he could recover in half a day.

However, burning fifty percent of his blood and vitality was much more serious. His combat strength would be reduced by at least fifty percent, and he would need a day to recover.

Burning seventy percent of his blood and vitality would directly reduce his combat strength by ninety percent afterward, and it would take two days to recover.

If Wang Chen had not absorbed the Gold of Life, giving him abundant Life Force, powerful blood and vitality, and a fast recovery speed, he really might not have dared to push himself so hard.

After all, burning one's blood and vitality was no joke. If something went wrong, it could cause severe damage to one's vital energy and leave the body depleted, making it difficult to recover.

Of course, precisely because of this, the enhancement provided by this Soul Skill was tremendous.

To bring this Soul Skill's power to its peak, Wang Chen believed that he needed to make his own Life Force even more vigorous.

He might even need to reach the point where the blood and vitality he burned matched the amount he recovered.

Wang Chen relied on his own cultivation for his progress in Soul Power. As for his physique and spiritual power, he basically relied on the nourishment of the supreme treasure, the Gold of Life, as well as the improvements brought by absorbing Soul Rings.

Aside from his improvements in Soul Power, spiritual power, and physique, Wang Chen's softer abilities had also improved greatly over the past three years.

After his spiritual power reached the Soul Sage level, apart from deducing the Soul Ring Tempering Secret Art for a second time, Wang Chen had also deduced his cultivation technique, the Meridian Opening Skill, for a second time.

After its second deduction, the Meridian Opening Skill became even more powerful. The Soul Power it produced was purer and of higher quality, and it also gained the ability to passively absorb Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.

Although passive absorption might seem insignificant, its effects were quite impressive. It was equivalent to having a mana-regeneration buff, greatly enhancing his endurance during battle.

One had to know that Wang Chen's Soul Skills were now all ten-thousand-year Soul Skills, and their Soul Power consumption was extraordinarily massive. Without passively absorbing Heaven and Earth Origin Qi to replenish his mana, his Soul Emperor-level Soul Power would be completely exhausted in no time.

Apart from cultivation techniques and Secret Arts, Wang Chen had also deduced commonly used skills such as close-combat techniques to their limits.

For example, spear techniques, close-quarters combat techniques, and Soul Tool crafting methods...

Aside from that, Wang Chen had also learned the powerful Battle Skill of Shrek Academy's Dragon God Douluo Mu En, which combined his spiritual power, Soul Power, and will into one: World Domination.

The requirements for using World Domination were extremely high. One had to possess Soul Sage-level spiritual power.

Moreover, unlike Soul Skills, whose power was limited by the age of their Soul Rings, the power of a Battle Skill depended entirely on the user. The stronger the user's spiritual power, Soul Power, and will, the more powerful the Battle Skill would be.

Furthermore, Battle Skills could be used barehanded, or attached to Soul Skills and Soul Tools for stacked use. Their applications were endless.

In the original story, after Huo Yuhao learned World Domination at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, he defeated a Fifth Level Soul Engineer at the Soul Ancestor cultivation level using this Battle Skill alone.

After using Soul Tools and Soul Skills, he even defeated a Sixth Level Soul Engineer. Although those Fifth Level and Sixth Level Soul Engineers were not particularly strong among those of the same level, this was still enough to prove the might of World Domination.

With Wang Chen's Soul Emperor-level Soul Power and Soul Douluo-level spiritual power, merely by attaching the World Domination Battle Skill to himself,

without using any Soul Skills, Soul Tools, or Secret Arts, he could easily overwhelm Soul Emperors and even fight Soul Sage powerhouses who did not use their Martial Soul Avatars.

The reason he could only fight Soul Sage powerhouses who did not use their Martial Soul Avatars was that Soul Masters became different after reaching the Soul Sage level.

The strength of a Soul Sage powerhouse and a Soul Emperor existed on entirely different levels. The gap between them was far greater than that between the previous ranks.

Anyone capable of cultivating to the Soul Sage realm possessed a Martial Soul that was not weak. Every Soul Sage had been an outstanding talent among their peers as a child—every one of them a genius.

Moreover, a Soul Sage powerhouse's Soul Power had already transformed from gaseous to liquid, allowing them to fly by relying on their own Soul Power.

Their strength was far greater than that of Soul Emperors, especially the enhancement provided by the Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar, which was even more terrifying.

That was why only those who became Soul Sages were called advanced Soul Masters.

However, Wang Chen was confident that by using Soul Skills on the foundation of his Battle Skill, he would definitely be able to defeat a Soul Sage using a Martial Soul Avatar.

With the enhancement of six ten-thousand-year Soul Skills, no matter how powerful a Soul Sage's Martial Soul Avatar was, it would still be forced to wear a pained expression.

If it were a battle to the death, and he used the Ring Burst Secret Technique to enhance his cultivation, then even if a Soul Douluo powerhouse came, they would have to kneel, kowtow twice, and leave.

However, after the battle, Wang Chen's condition would also be extremely poor. After all, once the Ring Burst Secret Technique ended, it would leave him severely weakened and unable to use Soul Skills.

Just as Wang Chen sat in the office thinking, hurried knocking sounded at the door. "My lord, this is bad! People from the Xishui Alliance are here!!"

Hearing this, Wang Chen ended his contemplation and immediately rose from his chair. Soul Power surged on the Golden Soul Tool Ring on his right hand.

The six black Soul Rings around his body suddenly transformed into seven Soul Rings: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, and black.