Second Soul Skill, Whale Swallows All Things!

With his previous experience to guide him, Su Yu focused completely on enduring the impact of the Heavenly Abyss Whale's soul ring, then kept his consciousness fixed on the changes within his inner landscape.

Sure enough, as the soul ring fully merged into his body, then appeared alongside his first soul ring and slowly settled around him, a pitch-black fissure also emerged within his inner landscape.

Unlike the universe beyond his perception, which was uniformly gray and silent, that pitch-black fissure stood out starkly.

What surprised Su Yu even more was the great quantity of silver light that burst from the pitch-black fissure as it appeared.

Silver light? Could it be spatial power?

Su Yu's mind stirred as he guessed the nature of that silver light.

Rather than hurry back to the outside world, he immediately moved toward the location of the pitch-black fissure.

Soon, he found two special substances.

One was black as ink, while the other radiated silvery-white light.

Of the two substances, one corresponded to devouring power, and the other to the spatial attribute.

As Su Yu absorbed these two substances, his body began to change as well.

The devouring attribute seems to help me digest things.

No, no, it's not just digestion. Absorbing this pitch-black substance gives me an urge to activate my second soul skill. It looks like this black substance can also be used together with my second soul skill, Su Yu thought.

He turned his attention to the silver substance and absorbed a clump without hesitation.

As the silver substance took effect, he felt inexplicable changes begin within his lower dantian.

Faint, thunderous rumbling echoed in his ears.

Once all the changes had ended, Su Yu said with some uncertainty, "It seems to be expanding the space inside my dantian."

If someone examined the size of Su Yu's dantian region from the outside, they would find absolutely no change.

But if their perception could penetrate Su Yu's dantian and sense its space, they would discover that the space within was expanding!

Su Yu said, "Sure enough, the Heavenly Abyss Whale's soul ring hasn't let me down."

Following some of his earlier ideas, he could actually have chosen a second soul ring oriented toward the mental aspect.

But after Du Busi's reminder prompted him to hunt for his second soul ring in the deep sea, Su Yu postponed that choice.

The Heavenly Abyss Whale had indeed made it worthwhile.

Of course, for his next soul ring, he would have to do everything possible to obtain one oriented toward the mental aspect.

His spiritual power was far too meager at present.

Even after obtaining the two mysterious special substances and verifying their effects, Su Yu did not immediately open his eyes.

He continued examining the effects of the soul skill his second soul ring had brought him.

"Second soul skill, Whale Swallows All Things!"

As he grasped the effects of his second soul skill, Su Yu was once again delighted.

When he opened his eyes, Du Busi was also curious about the effects of his soul skill.

Su Yu did not hurry to answer. Instead, he signaled for Du Busi to take him in search of other whale-type sea soul beasts.

Du Busi had already collected the whale rubber from the Heavenly Abyss Whale they had just killed.

But that single piece certainly would not be enough. They still needed to hunt several more whale-type sea soul beasts.

And these hunts would not be for soul rings.

Su Yu felt no guilt whatsoever about that.

For resources, for cultivation-it was only natural, with no room for any other justification.

I'm a soul master, so I hunt whale-type sea soul beasts and take their whale rubber for cultivation. If I were a whale-type sea soul beast, I would certainly condemn soul masters for doing this, too.

In short, all he needed to do was keep farming.

Soon, they found another ten-thousand-year whale-type sea soul beast.

This time, they found an Evil Spirit Orca.

When Su Yu raised his hand to signal him, Du Busi did not intervene, leaving Su Yu to demonstrate his skill.

After sensing Su Yu's approach, the Evil Spirit Orca raised its enormous, axe-like tail above the water and slashed out a streak of pitch-black axe light.

At the sight of that axe light, Du Busi's eyes brightened slightly. He thought of Long Aotian's soul skills and decided that, given the chance, he could bring Long Aotian into the deep sea to hunt an Evil Eye Orca for a soul ring.

While thinking this, Du Busi also prepared himself to come to Su Yu's aid at any moment.

The axe light cleaved even the sea's surface apart, carving a massive trench as it slashed toward Su Yu.

Normally, even a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor using a defensive soul skill at full strength would struggle to withstand this axe light completely.

Yet as the pitch-black soul ring beneath Su Yu's feet flashed, a pitch-black vortex clearly appeared above his head.

A close observer would discover that a black vortex had also appeared at Su Yu's lower abdomen.

That was his dantian.

As his dantian transformed into this vortex and began to spin, a phantom projection formed between heaven and earth, working in concert with Su Yu.

As that pitch-black vortex spun, it completely swallowed the axe light that had split the sea's surface, without stirring even the slightest wave.

"Whale Swallows All Things creates a massive black vortex that devours everything."

"It can be used to attack, devouring enemies, or to defend, swallowing an opponent's attacks."

"Offense and defense in one!"

It was not merely versatile. Most importantly, the black vortex formed by Whale Swallows All Things possessed astonishing devouring power. Any soul skill whose soul power did not exceed Su Yu's total soul power could be sucked into this vortex.

And among soul masters of the same level, Su Yu's total soul power was absolutely far ahead of the rest.

Moreover, using a soul skill did not consume all of one's soul power. For example, even if a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor used their most costly fourth soul skill, the amount of soul power invested would not exceed Su Yu's total soul power.

Even the soul power a Soul King invested in a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill might not exceed the swallowing capacity of Su Yu's Whale Swallows All Things.

After all, strictly speaking, Su Yu's Whale Swallows All Things was also a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill!

A Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill withstanding another Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill was perfectly reasonable... like hell it was!

At that moment, as Du Busi watched the black vortex Su Yu had created with Whale Swallows All Things withstand an axe-light strike from a ten-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca without a scratch, his pupils contracted.

"What astonishing defensive power!"

Su Yu smiled faintly.

This defensive effect was within his expectations.

The soul power contained in the axe light the Evil Spirit Orca had just unleashed had not exceeded Su Yu's total soul power at all.

Naturally, the black vortex had swallowed it with ease.

As for a soul skill unleashed with more soul power than Su Yu's total reserves, it would naturally swallow a portion of the damage equivalent to his total soul power.

Moreover, Su Yu could even convert the portion of the soul skill swallowed by Whale Swallows All Things to his own use.

With its axe light devoured, the Evil Spirit Orca was finally enraged. Its eyes turned crimson, and it unleashed a furious roar that seemed to freeze the surrounding space.

Su Yu's expression shifted slightly.

A spatial soul skill.

If his prediction was correct, this might be Evil Spirit Orca Mirror Destruction.

As space froze, it seemed to form a mirror, and cracks began to appear in the mirror on Su Yu's side.

A terrifying tearing force was about to descend.