Mavuika and Columbina

"Tianming, how was it? Didn't that feel amazing? I didn't lie to you, did I?"

As the motorcycle sped along, Mavuika spoke at just the right moment within Xu Tianming's spiritual sea of consciousness.

But the first to answer her was Columbina, who, like her, was temporarily residing in Xu Tianming's spiritual sea of consciousness:

"I just wrapped him in Moon Matrix Power and got to experience the feeling Mavuika mentioned in a roundabout way... Mm, it really did feel amazing."

Hearing the two women's voices, Xu Tianming felt a little helpless. "Hey, hey, hey. Can you two figure out the situation before chatting with me? I'm driving right now. What if talking to you distracts me and I accidentally crash? I'm not afraid of getting hurt, but there's a girl sitting behind me!"

At those words, Mavuika and Columbina immediately realized the seriousness of the issue and both apologized.

"Sorry. It's been too long since I last encountered a motorcycle, and I got carried away. It won't happen again."

"My fault. I didn't consider that the consequences could be so serious."

"It's fine. Just be more careful in the future."

Mavuika and Columbina truly had not meant any harm.

As gods of Teyvat, they had somehow crossed over to Douluo Continent alongside Xu Tianming four years ago, becoming his martial souls in the process. Their consciousnesses resided within his spiritual sea of consciousness.

Fortunately, Xu Tianming was a transmigrator who knew the backgrounds of the two women. Moreover, they regarded him as the game protagonist who had once helped them overcome their hardships. Thus, the three of them had gotten along extremely well over the past few years.

However, most of the authority they had possessed in Teyvat had been lost after crossing over.

Later, after some testing, the three discovered that as long as Xu Tianming's soul power grew stronger, Mavuika and Columbina's powers would gradually recover as well.

Furthermore, whenever Xu Tianming obtained a soul ring, some of the authority the two women had lost would transform into his soul skills.

Even while absorbing soul rings, the authority they still retained could assist Xu Tianming.

Take the four soul rings currently possessed by his Radiant Sun martial soul, for example.

With Mavuika's help, Xu Tianming had directly shattered the limits of ordinary soul masters. His first soul ring had started at two thousand years, granting him the ability to absorb battle intent and convert it into soul power.

Passively, this soul skill was called War Intent Absorption. Centered on himself, it covered an area with a radius of fifty meters.

As long as someone developed the will to fight, the skill would automatically absorb the battle intent of everyone within range, friend and foe alike, storing it as additional soul power that could be actively released.

Actively, the skill was called War Intent Burst. Its effect was simple: after using it, his next attack would carry all the soul power accumulated and converted by the passive effect.

Most importantly, the upper limit of the soul power this skill could store would increase as Xu Tianming grew stronger!

Afterward, his body had been tempered by whale glue and all sorts of heavenly treasures.

His second soul ring had then leaped straight to a ten-thousand-year soul ring!

Although absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring came with a mental assault from the soul beast, with Columbina in his spiritual sea of consciousness, blocking it with Moon Matrix Power had been effortless!

Xu Tianming's second soul skill was called Night Soul Domain.

Once activated, it formed a Night Soul Domain centered on himself with a radius of one hundred meters.

Within the domain, he could select up to ten people to form domain links with. Once the targets agreed, each linked pair would trigger a "Night Soul Transfer," directly increasing one another's soul power by 10%!

Each person could only complete one "Night Soul Transfer" with each other within the domain, but could receive boosts from up to ten Night Soul Transfers, increasing the soul power in their body by 100%.

Moreover, releasing this domain did not consume soul power. Instead, it consumed the "battle intent" Xu Tianming had stored beforehand.

And that meant that as long as he engaged an enemy in battle, Xu Tianming could continuously absorb "battle intent." As long as he could keep absorbing "battle intent," this Night Soul Domain could remain active throughout the fight!

His third soul ring was twenty thousand years!

Its soul skill was called All-Fire Armament.

After using it, Xu Tianming's ability to control fire improved enormously. Furthermore, this soul skill likewise consumed no soul power when used, only battle intent.

His fourth soul ring was thirty thousand years!

Its soul skill was called Burning Radiance Ring.

After use, the Burning Radiance Ring would appear behind Xu Tianming and attack all enemies within one hundred meters of him with heavenly fire. Enemies struck by the heavenly fire would not only suffer damage, but would also have 20% of their soul power burned away on the spot!

When used against people whose soul power rank was lower than his own, the weakening effect would be even stronger. Against those with higher soul power than him, the effect would be slightly reduced.

These four soul skills could all be said to be manifestations of the authority Mavuika had once wielded.

Based on this, Xu Tianming boldly speculated that perhaps once he became stronger in the future, he might have a chance to obtain the authority of Death's Archon that Mavuika had once possessed, and use it to recreate the Rebirth Poem on Douluo Continent.

The motorcycle raced onward.

Though the wind rushing at them was rather strong, Meng Hongchen, pressed close against Xu Tianming's body, felt exceptionally warm.

Her eyes slowly closed as drowsiness washed over her.

When Meng Hongchen opened her eyes again, she discovered that the motorcycle had slowed at some point. The surroundings were no longer a broad road, but a forest filled with trees bearing pitch-black leaves.

A black-gray coniferous forest!

Though she had never been here before, Meng Hongchen knew they had arrived at Evil Demon Forest the moment she saw those peculiar trees.

Noticing her small movement, Xu Tianming casually asked, "Little Meng, have you decided what type of soul beast you want to hunt?"

Meng Hongchen's martial soul was the Vermilion-Clear Ice Toad, a highly venomous soul beast that lived only along the edge of the Extreme North.

Its entire body was icy white, its eyes crimson, and ice and fire interwove within it. It produced a unique frost-corrosive poison, a toxin that could even suppress ordinary ice-attributed soul masters.

If conditions allowed, the soul beasts best suited to Meng Hongchen would naturally be found in the Extreme North, where her ice attribute could be brought to its fullest potential.

However, that place was too far from the Sun Moon Empire. If they truly went there, there would be far too many uncertainties.

"Grandfather said I should find a poison-attributed soul beast around seven hundred years old to absorb, so I can bring the venom of my martial soul to its fullest potential."

"That's easy. Finding an ice-attributed soul beast in Evil Demon Forest would be troublesome, but finding a poison-attributed one couldn't be simpler... But Little Meng, your body was strengthened by whale glue not long ago. You should be able to absorb a thousand-year soul ring now."

At those words, Meng Hongchen's pretty face beneath her helmet instantly flushed. Her arms around Xu Tianming's waist tightened as she pinched him in embarrassment.

"You bad Tianming! Didn't we agree that you wouldn't bring that up again?"