Soul Skill: Mental Shockwave

The Soul Bone floated where the Evil Eye Tyrant had vanished, its entire body a deep violet-gold.

It was shaped like an Evil Eye pupil shrunk several times over, with dark golden patterns flowing across its surface.

Deep within that violet-gold pupil, a faint, exceptionally thin black thread lay quietly dormant, like an ancient eye slumbering in darkness, radiating a chillingly profound aura.

At this moment, outside.

Qian Gu Dongfeng was completely dumbfounded.

He stared straight at the screen, his mouth slightly open and unable to close for a long while.

The primeval forest on the screen had already been blanketed in snow, while the three-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant had not even left behind a trace...

Only Cao Xin stood in the middle of the clearing, holding a violet-gold, eye-shaped Soul Bone.

He truly felt as though he no longer understood the words "Two-Ring Soul Master."

No.

Was this something a Two-Ring Soul Master could do?

Qian Gu Dongfeng turned to look at Zang Xin beside him.

All right.

He saw that Zang Xin wore a satisfied expression.

The corners of his eyes and brows carried the gentle smile of a loving father seeing his child score full marks. His lips were slightly curved upward, and even his back was straighter than before.

Wait a minute!

Shouldn't he be shocked?!

Qian Gu Dongfeng screamed inwardly.

By normal logic, shouldn't Zang Xin be just like him—stunned, incredulous, perhaps even doubting his own eyes?

At this moment, Qian Gu Dongfeng was beginning to question life.

He closed his eyes and opened them again, as if trying to confirm whether he was having some absurd dream.

Had he fallen behind the times?

So that was why he found it surprising to see a two-ring Soul Master instantly kill a three-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant?

Qian Gu Dongfeng took a deep breath.

As the master of the Spirit Pagoda, a Demigod-level powerhouse.

He considered himself well acquainted with the continent's greatest talents.

Yet what had happened before his eyes...

Had completely surpassed the scope of anything he could explain.

Meanwhile, within the Ascension Platform.

Cao Xin reached out and lightly touched the violet-gold eye-shaped Soul Bone floating in midair with his fingertip.

The Soul Bone instantly rippled with dense rings of waves.

Then, the entire Soul Bone transformed into a streak of light and flowed into his body through his fingertip, traveling upward along his meridians before finally entering his right eye.

At once, Cao Xin's right eye turned blood-red.

He felt a scorching energy surge deep within his eye socket. In that instant, the vision in his right eye became blurry and crimson, as if he were viewing the world through a thin veil soaked in blood.

The next moment, Cao Xin fell into an illusion.

Everything before him suddenly vanished.

Then...

A new scene slowly unfolded before him.

The surroundings had changed.

He had arrived in a very peculiar forest.

Every tree here was an eerie violet-black.

Their trunks were covered in twisted knots and cracks, as though countless eyes had been embedded within the bark.

The air was filled with a cold, oppressive aura.

Even the shrubs and wild grass growing on the ground carried an unnatural dark-purple hue.

A name surfaced in his mind.

Evil Demon Forest.

Just as Cao Xin was puzzled...

The heavens and earth instantly turned blood-red.

This violet-black forest was enveloped in a dense bloody radiance in an instant. The sky, the earth, the trees...

Everything was stained crimson, as though the entire world had been submerged in a vast pool of blood.

A colossal giant eye appeared!

That eyeball stretched across the heavens.

It was so enormous that it blotted out the sky and sun.

It nearly covered the entire sky.

With only one glance.

Cao Xin recognized it at once.

The former second-ranked of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts.

A being with seven hundred thousand years of cultivation—

The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord!

That terrifying existence which had once dominated the continent...

Even as nothing more than a phantom remaining within this wisp of spiritual power, it was enough to make any Soul Master tremble instinctively from the depths of their soul.

Then, it looked at him.

A wave of spiritual power filled with evil and destruction spread toward his spiritual sea.

The quality and intensity of that spiritual power completely surpassed the limits of his understanding.

Deep, ancient, vast—as though the entire abyss had opened a gaping mouth inside his mind.

Before it, Cao Xin's Spirit Connection Realm spiritual power shattered at the first touch.

That black torrent crushed through the defenses of his spiritual sea with almost no resistance...

Like a tide rolling over a sandcastle, it surged toward the core of his soul with merciless crushing force.

Terrifying!

Yet Cao Xin did not panic.

He steadied his mind.

Then...

A thought arose in his mind.

This spiritual power cannot affect me.

Concept ability [Set Facts Aside] activated!

An invisible force spread outward.

Causality!

This was the power of the law of causality!

No cause, yet effect.

Skipping the cause and directly reaching the effect.

He did not need to resist the erosion of that spiritual power, nor did he need to employ any process-oriented means...

Instead, he directly set aside the "cause" in the causal chain of "it will affect me"...

Allowing the result of "it cannot affect me" to take effect directly.

In an instant, the illusion vanished.

The blood-red sky, the violet-black forest, the giant eye that covered the heavens—all of it returned completely to nothingness.

Cao Xin's consciousness returned to the snow-covered clearing within the Ascension Platform. The surroundings were quiet once more, and sunlight fell through the gaps in the canopy again.

Afterward, Cao Xin began fusing with the Soul Bone.

That violet-gold energy slowly settled within his right eye and merged with his spiritual power, gradually changing from its initial restlessness and resistance into something docile and compatible.

Three hours later, the fusion was complete.

Cao Xin opened his eyes.

A faint blood-red gleam flashed through his right eye.

Like a scarlet meteor streaking through the night, it immediately sank deep into his pupil and vanished completely.

He rose to his feet and sensed the new power within his right eye, a satisfied curve appearing on his lips.

He had obtained a Soul Skill.

Mental Shockwave.

As the name implied...

It unleashed a mental impact against nearby enemies.

It was a group-type spiritual attack Soul Skill.

The value of this Soul Skill lay in its area of effect and its difficulty to defend against.

When facing multiple enemies...

A single Mental Shockwave could throw every opponent within several yards into mental turmoil at once.

But most importantly...

This Soul Skill could be fired repeatedly.

As long as he had enough spiritual power...

He could activate it more than ten times in succession.

Each blast could maintain considerable base power, creating a continuous suppression effect.

Or he could simply concentrate all of his spiritual power into a single instant of eruption.

He could unleash an immensely powerful Mental Shockwave, strong enough to directly rob opponents of the same rank of their ability to fight.

Cao Xin was quite satisfied with this.

Spiritual attacks were impossible to guard against.

No matter when...

Used well, it was a divine skill.