First Soul Skill and Deep Blue Purification

"Buzz—"

By the river, as the hundred-year soul ring circled Ouyang Ling, a surge of soul power immediately erupted from his body.

The moment he opened his eyes, he said, "Success."

Feeling the power within him, Ouyang Ling rose confidently to his feet.

"How does it feel?"

Qian Renxue's tone was calm, but concern showed in her eyes.

Ouyang Ling flexed his hands and clenched his fingers tightly. "It's the enhancement-type soul skill I expected. And I got a surprise as well."

He looked up at Qian Renxue, putting on a slightly boastful expression.

"Sister Xue'er, want to see?"

Before she could answer, his first soul ring lit up.

Under her smiling gaze, Ouyang Ling explained,

"It gives a basic thirty percent boost to attack. Every time I defeat an opponent, it adds another ten percent, until my body can no longer bear it."

"That's quite a good soul skill."

She Long commented, "It can make you stronger and stronger as you fight."

Ci Xue nodded. "Looks like you'll need to temper your body more from now on. That's the only way to bring out the full power of this soul skill."

"Little Ling."

At that moment, Qian Renxue, who had fallen into thought after hearing the description of his soul skill, suddenly spoke, drawing all three of their attention.

"Does your definition of an opponent have any restrictions?"

The moment he heard that, Ouyang Ling knew Qian Renxue had grasped the most crucial aspect of his first soul skill.

"Of course it does."

The corners of his lips lifted slightly. "But as long as a living creature shows intent to attack me, regardless of how strong or weak it is, this soul skill can judge it as an opponent. Once I defeat it, I receive the enhancement."

In other words, as long as Ouyang Ling was shameless enough, he could find a group of weak "opponents" to fight before a battle, stack his attack boost to the limit, and then make his real opponent face a monster at full firepower!

Once he laid it out like that, She Long and Ci Xue immediately understood.

This soul skill could be used like that?!

What a crafty, underhanded trick!

Young people really did have more ideas.

"Your soul skill is very good."

Qian Renxue was clearly quite satisfied.

She crouched down and tapped Ouyang Ling between the brows.

"I'm very pleased with this surprise."

"But this isn't the surprise I meant."

Ouyang Ling had no intention of hiding it.

Or rather, there was no way to hide something like this anyway.

He spread open his palm, and azure water-element energy filled it.

"Sister Xue'er, I gained another soul skill."

"What?!"

Qian Renxue, who had been preparing to head back, seemed to have heard something unbelievable. Her satisfied smile froze on her face, replaced by utter shock.

This time, even She Long and Ci Xue, who had lived for most of their lives and weathered countless storms, could not remain composed.

Two soul skills—what did that even mean?

Ordinarily, only a hundred-thousand-year soul ring could possess that.

But his was clearly only a hundred-year soul ring!

Had the soul ring mutated?

Or was it caused by his martial soul?

"Little Ling, does your first soul ring have two soul skills?"

Qian Renxue crouched down and stared intently into Ouyang Ling's eyes.

"No, my martial soul gave me one soul skill."

So it was an innate soul skill.

Once they learned it was merely a misunderstanding in terms of interpretation, Qian Renxue and the other two did not pursue it further. Innate soul skills were rare, but... her Six-Winged Angel martial soul even possessed an innate domain.

A domain was far more powerful than a soul skill.

Still, Qian Renxue was curious what kind of innate soul skill her little brother Ouyang Ling had obtained.

Bang—

"Hiss!"

A pink serpent nearly three meters long was seized by Ci Xue at its vital point and smashed viciously against the ground. No matter how fiercely it struggled, it could not escape the control of a Titled Douluo.

Seeing that the Datura Snake was still hissing without any loss of ferocity, even intending to turn back and bite in retaliation—

"Heh—"

With Ci Xue's cold sneer, purple rapidly spread from where his palm touched the Datura Snake.

In an instant, the Datura Snake, which had just been about to counterattack, went limp all over. Its entire body withered away, and within a single breath, it was taking in far less air than it was exhaling.

Gulp—

Ouyang Ling swallowed unconsciously.

What terrifying poison.

He would bet that this level was only a casual test of Ci Xue's abilities.

"Give it a try."

After confirming that the Datura Snake could no longer resist, Qian Renxue motioned for Ouyang Ling to step forward. "Let me see your Deep Blue Purification."

That was right.

The first gift the Pillar of Goodness had bestowed upon Ouyang Ling was one of the Ultimate Sea God Dragon's ultimate techniques—Deep Blue Purification.

It could summon emerald waves filled with the aura of marine life and purify any pollution in the world, one by one. Every external negative effect could be classified as pollution under the judgment of this ultimate technique. And as long as there was enough soul power, there was no upper limit to its purification.

It had to be said that this soul skill could bring Ouyang Ling considerable benefits in the future. After all, poison was also a form of pollution.

"Alright, leave it to me."

As he walked before the Datura Snake, an aura from the ocean immediately rippled around Ouyang Ling.

He pushed both palms forward.

"Deep Blue Purification."

Emerald waves surged out of thin air, sweeping the Datura Snake into their midst.

Nourished by the aura of life, the Datura Snake, poisoned nearly to death, seemed to return to an egg and be nurtured anew.

Before long, the purple coloring that had covered its body faded away, and the dying Datura Snake regained its vitality.

Yet the instant it recovered, its ferocity and instinctive sense of danger drove it to attack again. The protrusion on its head burst apart, and a pink arrow of blood shot forth with a whoosh, aimed straight at Ouyang Ling's brow.

But before it could get close, She Long at the side intercepted it.

At the same time, after Ci Xue used his soul power to examine the Datura Snake's entire body and confirmed that the poison he had administered had indeed been fully dispelled by Ouyang Ling's "Deep Blue Purification," he did not even spare the snake another glance. With a wave of his hand, he sent it away from the area completely, with no intention of killing it.

After all, the Datura Snake had been living its life peacefully before they casually captured it to test a soul skill.

It was only natural for it to resist out of stress during the process.

Killing it after the experiment would have been going too far.

"Young Mistress, all the poison has been removed."

After reporting to Qian Renxue, Ci Xue asked again,

"Should we capture another soul beast for another test?"

"No."

Qian Renxue stopped him, her expression gradually calming.

"This is enough."

Her eyes flickered. After some thought, she looked at Ouyang Ling with a grave expression. "Little Ling, you must not tell anyone that this soul skill can remove any poison."

"Alright."

Hearing Qian Renxue say that, Ouyang Ling could more or less guess her concerns.

It was nothing more than the fact that he would inevitably come into contact with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family in the future. If the Heaven Dou Imperial Family learned of Deep Blue Purification's effects, would Qian Renxue's plan to poison them still be possible? How would she carry it out?

So no matter what, he would agree.

Qian Renxue rubbed Ouyang Ling's head, her face full of gratification. "What a good boy."

"Come on. It's time for us to head back too."