(Shui Bing'er · Beautiful picture 1)
After Lin Hao successfully absorbed the hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone, the Mirror Shadow Beast Heartguard.
Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo immediately came over.
His face full of anticipation, Chrysanthemum Douluo asked.
"Hao, how are the Soul Bone Skills of your External Soul Bone, the Mirror Shadow Beast Heartguard?"
"What happens when they resonate with your Soul Ring's Soul Skills?"
Lin Hao stood up with a smile and said.
"Teacher, Uncle Ghost, the External Soul Bone, the Mirror Shadow Beast Heartguard, gave me two Soul Bone Skills. I named them Image Clone and Mirror Shadow Illusion."
"Image Clone can copy either me or an enemy, creating a clone with eighty percent of the original's strength. It can be used to fight or confuse opponents."
"Mirror Shadow Illusion can create lifelike mirror images. They can mislead enemies, and I can also spend Soul Power to give them substance, mingling the real and the illusory until it becomes impossible to tell them apart."
As he spoke, a gleam of excitement flashed in Lin Hao's eyes, and he continued.
"And just as you said, Teacher, a Soul Ring and Soul Bone from the same Soul Beast can resonate with each other."
"That boosts both the power and effects of the Soul Ring and Soul Bone Skills."
"So after I fused with the External Soul Bone, both of my fifth Soul Skills, Singular Velvet Sky·Mirror Shadow Transformation and Singular Velvet Sky·Mirror Armor Transformation, increased in power by over twenty percent!"
"Originally, my fifth Soul Skill, Singular Velvet Sky·Mirror Shadow Transformation, could only copy a Soul Master's Martial Soul and Soul Ring Skills, not their Soul Bones or domains. The copied Soul Skills only had eighty percent of the original owner's power, too."
"But now, it can copy an enemy's Soul Bones and domains as well, and the effects of the Soul Rings, Soul Bones, and domains can all reach ninety percent of the original owner's!"
"Besides that..."
The corners of Lin Hao's mouth lifted slightly as he said.
"Since my External Soul Bone, the Mirror Shadow Beast Heartguard, has the skill Mirror Shadow Illusion, which can create illusions."
"I think I should be able to use it to disguise the colors of my Soul Rings, too."
"That way, I can hide my strength and catch enemies off guard at a critical moment!"
Hearing this, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo both brightened, nodding repeatedly in approval.
"Good! Excellent!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo excitedly patted Lin Hao's shoulder.
"Your strength has climbed another step!"
"Let's go. It's time we returned to Spirit City."
As Lin Hao traveled toward Spirit City with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, preparing to leave the Frozen Forest.
He studied how to use his External Soul Bone, the Mirror-Image Heartguard's skill, Mirror Shadow Illusion, to disguise the five Soul Rings of his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Martial Soul, each of which surpassed the optimal configuration.
They had not gone far.
As they passed through a valley blanketed in ice and snow.
The sounds of fierce Soul Skill clashes and explosions suddenly rang out nearby.
Along with the furious cries of a bird Soul Beast and the startled cries of women.
"Is someone in danger?"
Hearing the commotion, Lin Hao chose not to stand idly by. He hurried over with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
Soon, after entering the valley.
Lin Hao spotted a beautiful woman in a long aqua-blue dress, with long hair of the same color, shielding a group of girls also dressed in blue as she struggled to fend off an enormous Ice Phoenix.
The Ice Phoenix's feathers were crystal-clear, as though carved from ice. Its outstretched wings spanned over a hundred feet, and every beat stirred a biting wind. The icy blue breath pouring from its beak froze the surrounding rocks and trees into ice sculptures.
It was an Ice Phoenix with roughly thirty thousand years of cultivation!
The girls in blue clearly had little cultivation. Under the Ice Phoenix's oppressive aura, they turned pale and trembled.
Had the woman in blue not been desperately holding it back, they would likely have already perished beneath its beak.
Although the woman's cultivation was far from weak, at around the Soul Saint level, she was clearly outmatched by the Thirty-Thousand-Year Ice Luan.
She already had wounds in several places, and blood stained much of her long blue dress.
Seeing this, an eager gleam flashed in Lin Hao's eyes. He turned to Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo and said.
"Teacher, Uncle Ghost, I want to help and test my current strength while I'm at it!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo exchanged a glance, then both nodded.
"All right! Give it a try."
Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed in his soft, feminine voice.
Lin Hao had not only broken through to Soul King, but also obtained two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
That made Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo eager to find out just how powerful Lin Hao had become.
So they agreed.
With their permission, Lin Hao grinned and immediately reached out to summon his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Martial Soul.
Disguised by Mirror Shadow Illusion, five Soul Rings rose beneath his feet: "two yellow, two purple, and one black."
Then, without hesitation, he activated his Soul Skills.
Second Soul Skill: Singular Velvet Sky God Transformation!
Third Soul Skill: Singular Velvet Sky Transformation!
As the second and third Soul Rings revolving around Lin Hao lit up simultaneously.
Amid a surge of Soul Power.
A Thunder God Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum wreathed in lightning and an enormous Titan Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum with pitch-black stems and leaves and brilliant golden blossoms rapidly formed in his palm.
After he put the two food system Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemums into his mouth and consumed them one after the other.
His body abruptly swelled, growing to nearly four meters tall. Crackling dark-purple lightning coiled around him, and his skin took on a bronze sheen.
The threefold enhancement of thunder god transformation, Titan Transformation, and copper skin and iron bones activated at once!
Immediately afterward, Lin Hao unleashed his movement technique, Thunder Flash. His entire body became a dazzling streak of lightning as he shot straight toward the Thirty-Thousand-Year Ice Luan!
"Screee!"
Sensing Lin Hao's attack, the Ice Phoenix let out a piercing cry of shock and fury. It opened its beak and blasted a stream of icy blue breath at him.
Wherever the freezing breath passed, even the air froze into tiny ice crystals!
But Lin Hao had undergone Ice and Fire Body Tempering in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
He had long since gained immunity to ice and fire below the ultimate level.
And the freezing breath of this Thirty-Thousand-Year Ice Luan clearly had not reached that level.
Thus, when the freezing breath powerful enough to turn an ordinary Soul King into an ice sculpture swept over Lin Hao, it had no effect whatsoever.
It merely raised a cloud of white vapor before vanishing without a trace!
"What?!"
The woman in blue below widened her eyes at the sight, her face filled with disbelief.
Lin Hao, however, merely grinned, his eyes blazing, and did not hesitate.
Seizing the instant when the Ice Phoenix froze in surprise, he leaped into the sky like a bolt of lightning. Reaching the Ice Phoenix, he drove his right fist forward, dark-purple lightning coiling around it!
"Thunder Fist!"
His fist slammed into the Ice Phoenix's chest, and a savage burst of the power of thunder erupted.
With a shrill, agonized cry, the Thirty-Thousand-Year Ice Luan was sent flying. It crashed heavily into the mountainside, gouging out a massive crater.
After struggling a few times and getting back up, fear flashed in the Thirty-Thousand-Year Ice Luan's eyes. In the end, it spread its wings and fled the valley in disgrace.
Lin Hao landed on the ground, his body slowly returning to normal. He dusted off his hands, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.
After this test in actual combat.
Lin Hao was certain that, now that he had broken through to Soul King, he could threaten Soul Saint-level Soul Masters even without going all out!
The woman in the long aqua-blue dress stared at Lin Hao in disbelief. Only after a long while did she recover, hurriedly step forward, and bow.
"Thank you for saving us, young sir!"
"I'm Shui Linglong, a teacher at Skywater Academy. I brought these students here to hunt for Soul Rings, but never expected to encounter this Thirty-Thousand-Year Ice Luan."
"Had you not intervened in time, the consequences would have been unthinkable!"
As she spoke, Shui Linglong raised her head. After glancing at the approaching Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, she asked gratefully.
"May I ask your name, young sir, and the names of these two seniors?"
"If we have the opportunity in the future, Skywater Academy will certainly visit to offer our thanks!"
Lin Hao was just about to speak.
But Chrysanthemum Douluo spoke first, cupping his hands and saying calmly in his soft, feminine voice.
"There's no need to be so polite!"
"My name is Ai Ju, and this is my brother, Ye Jun."
"As for this boy, he is my disciple, Lin Hao."
"We simply happened to be here and lent a hand. There's no need to dwell on it, miss."
A glimmer flashed in Shui Linglong's eyes at his words. She looked at Lin Hao, then at Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, and pondered silently.
This Lin Hao looked no more than seventeen or eighteen, yet he had already reached the Soul King level.
He could even injure a Thirty-Thousand-Year Ice Luan with a single punch.
Such strength practically defied the heavens!
Yet his two elders called themselves Ai Ju and Ye Jun-names she did not seem to have heard before.
Could they be from one of those legendary secluded families?
At that thought, Shui Linglong grew even more eager and hurriedly said.
"Seniors, you mustn't put it that way."
"Skywater Academy will remember this life-saving debt until our last breath. How could we possibly put it aside?"
"Oh, right!"
"Young Master Lin, seniors, are you leaving the Far North?"
"We happen to be heading back to the academy as well. Why don't we travel together?"
"Also, Young Master Lin, are you currently studying at a Soul Master Academy?"
"If not, Skywater Academy would be delighted to welcome you as a student!"
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