Fifth Soul Skill: Thunder Shadow Instant Kill!

The black Spirit Ring slowly descended. The instant it touched Huang Yun's head, a surge of violent energy flooded into his body like a breached dam.

Huang Yun's entire body jolted, and he nearly lost his balance.

This Thunder Shadow Eagle was older than the Thundercloud Lightning Falcon he had hunted in Thunder Canyon. The energy contained within its Spirit Ring was even fiercer and more tyrannical.

That power was like countless electrified pythons rampaging through his meridians, trying to tear apart his channels and shatter his Soul Power circulation.

Fortunately, after his Indestructible Vajra Body reached minor mastery, the strength and resilience of his meridians were no longer what they had once been.

A faint golden glow emerged beneath his skin, firmly restraining that violent energy within his meridians and preventing it from spilling out.

Huang Yun gritted his teeth and mobilized his Soul Power to guide it with all his strength, drawing the lightning energy into his Soul Power circulation thread by thread and gradually digesting and fusing it.

Fragments of the Thunder Shadow Eagle's memories surged into his consciousness at the same time.

Scenes of dancing with thunderstorms ten thousand meters in the air, instincts honed while hunting prey amid the clouds of the rift valley, and insights gained from countless explosive charges that tore through the sky all turned into pure experience that flowed into the depths of his soul.

With his eyes closed, he felt as though he had personally lived through the Thunder Shadow Eagle's life.

From learning to fly amid Thunderclouds in its youth, to dominating the skies above this rift valley as an adult, to the instant it had been lured from the Thunderclouds and its neck pierced simultaneously by ten Clones.

The absorption process lasted around the time it took to burn two incense sticks.

The Spirit Ring's energy finally calmed from its initial violent state and began to fuse deeply with his Martial Soul.

Huang Yun's Soul Power rose once more, steadily advancing from level fifty to level fifty-two before gradually stabilizing there.

His body also underwent obvious changes.

He felt that his explosive power had made a qualitative leap.

Previously, though he had been extremely fast in battle, he needed a brief moment to gather strength after every explosive dash before launching another.

But now, that sense of interval between charging up had vanished. In its place was a smooth sensation of being able to unleash his full power at any time, as if his body contained a reserve of elasticity ready to be released at will.

The outline of his fifth soul skill also solidified within his consciousness.

Huang Yun slowly opened his eyes, and a blue-black flash of electricity flickered deep within his pupils.

He raised his right hand, and a strand of black electric arc gathered at his fingertips. It was completely different from his previous blue-white lightning—a mutated thunderlight formed after fusing with the Thunder Shadow Eagle's explosive attribute.

He rose to his feet and stretched his limbs, sensing the information of his new soul skill within his body as the corners of his mouth slowly curved upward.

Fifth Soul Skill: Thunder Shadow Instant Kill.

The effect of this soul skill was highly unusual. It did not continuously increase his speed like his first soul skill, nor did it create a domain like his fourth. It was a purely single-use explosive charge skill.

When activated, he could lock onto a target, then instantly vanish from where he stood and appear directly before it at extreme burst speed, delivering a powerful piercing strike.

From activation to impact, the entire process took no longer than the blink of an eye.

Within a radius of five hundred meters, a locked target would almost be unable to react in time.

Moreover, this strike carried the Thunder Shadow Eagle's unique explosive current. Upon hitting the target, it would erupt into a cluster of black electric arcs, inflicting secondary paralysis damage and leaving the opponent unable to move for a short period.

The power of this soul skill also depended on his own base speed.

The faster his base speed was, the faster Thunder Shadow Instant Kill's charge would be, and the greater its power.

And his base speed was constantly increasing, which meant this soul skill's upper limit was terrifyingly high. It would only grow stronger in the future.

"Beautiful. This is perfectly suited to be my fifth soul skill."

Standing atop the stone platform, Huang Yun swept his gaze across the rift valley shrouded in thunder mist, his mood excellent.

He had perfectly absorbed his fifth Spirit Ring, broken through to level fifty-two Soul Power, and obtained a single-target instant-kill charge soul skill. This trip to the Thunderclap Mountain Range had yielded even more than he had expected.

And when he examined things closely,

the effect of his first soul skill had also risen from twelve hundred to twenty-four hundred.

The range of his second soul skill, Teleportation, had increased from four hundred meters to five hundred meters.

The number of clones created by his third soul skill had changed from nine to ten, making eleven in total including his main body.

The Thundercloud coverage range of his fourth soul skill had also increased from four hundred meters to five hundred meters.

Excellent!

Gathering his thoughts, he lowered his head to glance at the Thunder Shadow Eagle's corpse. After confirming that it had no Spirit Bone, he packed up the valuable parts and left without lingering.

Wings spread behind his back, blue-white electric arcs enveloped his entire body. He shot into the sky, quickly passing through the Thundercloud layer above the rift valley and returning to the clear heights.

Thundercloud churned beneath his feet above the Thunderclap Mountain Range. Bolts of Lightning exploded and faded below, their fluctuating light reflecting across his face.

He hovered in the high air, his gaze sweeping over the endless mountains and forests below as he began calculating his next move.

His fifth Spirit Ring was already secured, and his Soul Power had broken through level fifty-two.

Now, as a five-ring Soul King with his first three Spirit Rings obtained beyond his level and his fourth and fifth both ten-thousand-year rings, no one on the continent of the same rank could match his Spirit Ring configuration.

His Indestructible Vajra Body had reached minor mastery. His pure physical strength alone was enough to take head-on the strongest strike of an ordinary Soul Saint.

As for speed, he was outright unbeatable.

He felt that even that so-called Six-Winged Angel, Qian Daoliu, was inferior to him.

With his current strength, as long as he did not confront Dugu Bo head-on, that old man could do absolutely nothing to him.

His attacks could not hit Huang Yun, and he could not catch up either. Huang Yun could kite him and launch sneak attacks. If he could not beat him head-on, then he would fight dirty and annoy him to death, while Dugu Bo could do nothing but endure it.

But once the time was right, perhaps he could use the Immortal Herb password to gain Dugu Bo's favor.

All he had to do was resolve the Martial Soul Backlash Poison afflicting Dugu Bo and his granddaughter. He could simply copy Tang San's method.

But the prerequisite was consuming the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, allowing his blood to become immune to all poisons.

Should he ride this momentum back to Sunset Forest and take the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew?

That was a supreme treasure capable of enhancing Mental Power.

It might even allow him to awaken the eye technique ability of his Martial Soul.

"Why the hell hesitate? Just do it!"

Huang Yun planned to pull off something big.

Besides, Dugu Bo had to help Dugu Yan clear her meridians every month and suppress the backlash poison. He could not remain inside the basin at all times.

He only needed to seize that opportunity and make good use of it.

With that thought, he stopped hesitating and flew directly toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Just after he left, a group of people arrived at the place he had been.

They wore blue-purple clothing emblazoned with the image of a purple Thunder Dragon.

They were the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's party.

"A great battle took place here. I wonder which senior killed the Thunder Eagle."

"It's so large. It must have been at least twenty thousand years old!"

"This is deep within the mountain range. We should leave quickly. If something happens, our elders will not be able to rescue us in time."

After observing the surroundings, the group spoke in shock.

"Let's go. Report this information. The Thunderclap Mountain Range has lost another rare Soul Beast over twenty thousand years old."

The leading man nodded, then quickly departed.