"Huh? You little brat, you're not serious, are you?"
Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo had only been envious at most. Bone Douluo had never expected Gu Yang to actually try a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
"Grandpa, let's give it a try. If it works, great; if it doesn't, no harm done!"
Naturally, Gu Yang could not tell Bone Douluo that they were one hundred percent certain to form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He could only persuade him to try, then use the opportunity to bring out the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, making everything fall naturally into place.
"All right, I'll give it a try with you, you little brat. Do you really think a Martial Soul Fusion Skill is that simple?" Bone Douluo shook his head, clearly holding out no hope himself.
They left the council hall and headed to the mountain behind it.
Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo only followed because they had nothing better to do.
"Grandpa, let's begin!"
"Mm." Seeing Gu Yang's expectant expression, Bone Douluo could hardly dampen his enthusiasm and agreed at once.
As the Bone Dragon Martial Soul appeared, nine Soul Rings emerged one after another beneath Bone Douluo's feet.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black!
All nine rings emerged, and terrifying pressure descended at once.
Feeling that mountain-heavy pressure, Gu Yang finally understood just how terrifying the normally gentle Bone Douluo was at full strength.
Gu Yang also activated Shikotsumyaku. Bones protruded from his body, and his four astonishing Soul Rings were fully revealed beneath his feet.
Purple, purple, black, black!
No matter how many times one saw that outrageous configuration, it was still quite a shock.
The key to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill lay in the resonance between Martial Souls.
Gu Yang stood beside Bone Douluo as Shikotsumyaku and the Bone Dragon Martial Soul sensed each other.
Before long, both their hearts trembled at the same time.
Gu Yang took it well. Having been told by the AI, he knew he would succeed.
Bone Douluo, however, looked utterly bewildered.
Amid their differing emotions, two beams of white light suddenly erupted from their bodies, shooting into the sky while spreading into their surroundings.
Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo, who had initially only intended to watch them make fools of themselves, were left utterly speechless at the sight.
The white radiance grew stronger and stronger, soon enveloping Gu Yang and Bone Douluo completely.
Immediately afterward, a gigantic black circle of light appeared on the ground.
The circle seemed to lead into another space.
Something began to emerge through it.
First came a pair of enormous white bone wings. Thick and sturdy, they spanned well over ten meters when spread, wreathed in faint black death Qi.
The bone wings beat, drawing a gigantic dragon's body out of the black circle.
A draconic beast, a dragon's body, dragon claws.
Its appearance did not differ much from Bone Douluo's Bone Dragon Martial Soul, but it was much larger.
The dragon opened its mouth and roared, its voice piercing the heavens.
Then bones began to grow one after another over its enormous body, crisscrossing and extending until they covered the entire dragon.
It felt as though the Bone Dragon Martial Soul had been clad in a layer of heavy bone armor.
Rather than a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, it was more like a combination of the Bone Dragon Martial Soul and Gu Yang's first Soul Skill-his Soul Bone Fusion Skill.
Red-black radiance could faintly be seen at its head and rear, with indistinct threads connecting the two.
Gu Yang and Bone Douluo had not vanished. Instead, they were now inside the skeletal space in the gigantic bone dragon's head.
The bone dragon had already looked impressive, but compared with this heavily armored giant dragon, Bone Douluo's original Bone Dragon Martial Soul looked more like a little runt.
Thirteen rings of light settled onto the heavily armored dragon one after another: four from Gu Yang and nine from Bone Douluo, precisely their Soul Rings.
Bolstered by the Soul Rings, the heavily armored dragon's imposing presence continued to climb, its majesty unmatched.
When its presence reached its peak, a ghostly light finally glimmered within its hollow eyes.
Gu Yang and Bone Douluo's Martial Soul Fusion Skill was complete.
Corpse Bone Ghost Dragon!
Facing the Corpse Bone Ghost Dragon for the first time, Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo both felt tremendous pressure.
Dragons were beings of incomparable majesty in the Soul Beast Realm, and the Corpse Bone Ghost Dragon displayed that beyond doubt.
"Old Jian, do you dare fight me?"
Bone Douluo's somewhat smug voice rang out from the skeletal space within its head.
Bone Douluo truly had not expected that he and Gu Yang could actually produce a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
It looked like nothing more than a simple layer of bone armor over the Bone Dragon Martial Soul, but only the two of them knew just how astonishing this Martial Soul Fusion Skill truly was.
One hundred percent compatibility!
Even setting everything else aside, the perfectly fitted bone armor alone showed how compatible this Martial Soul Fusion Skill was.
Facing that gigantic dragon, Sword Douluo naturally grew interested.
A sharp gleam suddenly flashed through Sword Douluo's eyes. The next instant, the azure, crystal-like Seven Kill Sword was already in his hand.
Likewise, nine rings-yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black-merged entirely into the Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul.
Unlike Bone Douluo's weighty presence, his displayed a piercing sharpness that thrust straight through the clouds.
Merely looking at it brought a faint stinging sensation.
"The sword is four feet three inches long and three inches wide!"
"Its name: Seven Kill!"
As Sword Douluo announced his weapon, Gu Yang and Bone Douluo both knew he was about to get serious.
He raised a foot and stepped on empty air, and his piercing presence spread in full.
Sword Douluo had once again invoked the power of his domain.
Within the Seven Kill Domain, an opponent's attack, defense, and speed could be greatly reduced. Unless they broke through the Seven Kill Domain, no one within it could unleash their full stren...
Yet before those words were finished, golden light blossomed from the Corpse Bone Ghost Dragon, with the faint phantom of a holy dragon within it.
Bathed in golden light, the Corpse Bone Ghost Dragon raised its head and let out a long roar, its strength completely unaffected by the Seven Kill Domain.
"It's Gu Yang's third Soul Skill!"
Both Ning Fengzhi, watching the battle, and Sword Douluo, fighting it, noticed this.
Their Martial Soul Fusion Skill did not merely increase their strength, but also possessed all of both their abilities?
Realizing this, Sword Douluo knew that any further probing was meaningless.
Azure radiance rose, merging Sword Douluo and the Seven Kill Sword into one.
Sword Douluo's figure vanished, leaving an enormous Seven Kill Sword in his place.
Seven Kill Avatar!
"Old Bones, take this sword strike if you have the guts!"
Before everyone's eyes, the gigantic Seven Kill Sword turned horizontally in the air. Behind it appeared an enormous phantom several meters tall, looking exactly like Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
He gripped the sword in one hand and twisted his body, the gigantic Seven Kill Sword following his movement.
At that moment, the Seven Kill Sword seemed to drain all the power from its surroundings.
The gigantic sword in Sword Douluo Chen Xin's hand pointed not at Gu Yang and Bone Douluo, but into empty space. With a light flick of his wrist, he delivered six seamless sword strokes, and an enormous character for "kill" suddenly appeared in the air.
In an instant, the entire sky darkened. The presence radiating from that sinister "kill" character allowed no one to take it lightly.
Kill Character Technique.
Sword Douluo's unique ultimate technique!
Rumor had it that Qian Daoliu of Spirit Hall had withstood nine "kill" characters from Sword Douluo's father, then ultimately used Angel Soul Power to injure him with a shock, leaving him to die of his incurable wounds.
Now, facing this Kill Character Technique himself, Gu Yang's heart filled with a hundred mingled feelings.
Naturally, Gu Yang and Bone Douluo did not remain idle. Both pressed their palms together.
At the same time, the Corpse Bone Ghost Dragon raised its head. With its own Soul Power as a guide, all the surrounding power of heaven and earth gathered, gradually and rapidly forming a dark sphere of power in its mouth.
The sphere compressed continuously, becoming almost solid.
Whoosh!
Swish!
The two attacks shot forth at almost the same instant and collided violently in midair...