Ye An narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his right hand, and reached straight for his left arm.
The next instant, Ye An drew a bone sword from his left arm.
It was a longsword formed entirely from bone, its blade slender and silvery white. Faint, intricate patterns ran along its spine, resembling the natural grain within bone.
The moment the bone sword left his body completely, Ye An's entire aura changed.
His breathing grew long and steady, every rise and fall of his chest seeming to blend into his surroundings. The wind, the rustling leaves, the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon's roars, even the trembling earth—every sound registered clearly in his perception at that moment.
Unity of Heaven and Man.
It was the Body Sect's most advanced secret technique. Although he could only enter a preliminary state of Unity of Heaven and Man, it still gave his combat strength an enormous boost.
Then the second soul ring beneath Ye An's feet quietly flashed.
His second soul skill, White Bone Tempering, tempered every bone in his body while boosting all his attributes by one hundred and fifty percent.
The next instant, Ye An shot forward without the slightest hesitation, like an arrow loosed from a bow. The bone sword in his hand traced a silvery-white arc through the air as he thrust it straight at the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon!
At the same time, Zhang Lexuan's cool, clear voice suddenly rang out behind him.
"Third soul skill—Moonlight Sky Thrust!"
Silvery-white moonlight poured down like a waterfall, bathing Zhang Lexuan in its radiance. Then she charged toward the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon from another direction!
Boom!!!
With a tremendous crash, Ye An's bone sword collided with the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon's star-like head. The sword tip scraped against its scales with an ear-piercing screech, throwing up a shower of sparks.
With the combined enhancement of Unity of Heaven and Man, his body martial soul's Silver Rank awakening, and his second soul skill, Ye An left a pronounced wound on the star head with just one strike.
The pain sent the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon into a fury. Its silvery-white moonlight head whipped around, opening its enormous jaws to unleash a blast at Ye An.
But the next instant, the third soul ring beneath Ye An's feet quietly flashed.
Until now, he had never had a chance to get close to the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon. Now that he finally had one, he instantly activated his third soul skill, Bone Vein Seal.
The Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon's body inexplicably froze for a moment, and the silvery-white light gathering within its moonlight head instantly dispersed, as though forcibly interrupted.
Although a beam of light began gathering in that head's mouth again a second later,
Zhang Lexuan had already slipped into range.
"Moonlight Sky Thrust, detonate!"
All the moonlight power she had been accumulating was released at that moment, transforming into an even more dazzling silvery-white radiance that erupted against the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon.
The Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon's body was instantly engulfed by that silvery-white radiance, followed by a series of violent, thunderous explosions.
Ye An moved with incredible speed, leaving an afterimage in midair. He hooked his left arm around Zhang Lexuan's waist and carried her straight out of the center of the explosions, landing in a nearby clearing.
The violent rumbling gradually subsided, and the intense silvery-white radiance slowly faded. Once all the dust had cleared, the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon's massive body lay embedded in the ground. Its star head slumped to one side, no longer breathing, while its moonlight head still drew faint breaths and twitched from time to time. Clearly, it was not quite dead yet.
Even after all that, it still wasn't completely dead?
Its vitality really was tenacious...
Ye An could not help clicking his tongue in amazement. Zhang Lexuan needed no reminder from him; she immediately stepped forward to deliver the finishing blow, killing the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon for good.
A short while later, a soul ring as deep and dark as ink slowly rose from the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon's corpse.
"Sister Lexuan, absorb the soul ring. I'll stand guard."
At Ye An's words, Zhang Lexuan nodded gently, sat down cross-legged, and guided the black soul ring onto herself.
Ye An finally breathed a sigh of relief. He leaned against an ancient tree nearby and watched Zhang Lexuan.
"They actually... killed that soul beast?"
Having watched the entire battle from hiding, Yu Bo could not help clicking his tongue. He murmured in amazement, "Given a little more time, this Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon might well have transformed into a true dragon. I never expected the Young Sect Master and his wife to actually kill it together."
Jin Peng nodded in wholehearted agreement.
Unity of Heaven and Man, a Self-Created Soul Skill, Silver-Tier Second Awakening...
This was the future pillar of their Body Sect, the Young Sect Master who could lead it to stand at the very pinnacle of the continent!
With the foundation of a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, coupled with repeated tempering in the Hurricane Cave, both Zhang Lexuan's spiritual power and physical constitution were already exceptional. Although the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon's cultivation age exceeded the ideal soul ring age, she did not experience much pain.
A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Lexuan slowly opened her eyes and stood up. Five soul rings appeared beneath her feet: two yellow, one purple, and two black.
But before Ye An could ask what soul skill she had obtained, Zhang Lexuan's expression changed slightly.
Then her body began spasming uncontrollably. She bent forward a little, a somewhat stifled cry of alarm escaping her lips.
"Sister Lexuan?"
Ye An instinctively stepped forward, but before he could approach Zhang Lexuan, a distinct tearing sound suddenly rang out.
The next instant, a pair of wings abruptly spread from Zhang Lexuan's back! They closely resembled the wings the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon had developed after its mutation, with one half radiating starlight and the other gleaming with moonlight!
The only difference was that the wings the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon had grown were somewhat illusory, while Zhang Lexuan's were completely solid.
Across those solid wings flowed Starmoon Radiance!
"Is that... an external soul bone!?"
After a brief moment of shock, delight immediately filled Ye An's eyes.
He had never expected that killing the Star-Moon Twin-Headed Flood Dragon for its soul ring would also bring Zhang Lexuan an unexpected treasure like an external soul bone!
After all, external soul bones were even rarer than a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring or a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone!
At that moment, Zhang Lexuan was bathed in the radiance of stars and moonlight, making her already exquisite, beautiful face seem even more ethereal. Her aura, too, had become more mysterious and powerful.
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