Vast Sea Radiance? Sea God's Light!

Seeing Wang Dong'er's smile, Xu Xingyu knew she still hadn't forgiven him for what he had done and intended to take advantage of this spar to vent her grievances.

So Xu Xingyu could only accept her request. After all, he hadn't handled the matter very well, and there was no harm in letting her vent a little.

He also wanted to see whether Wang Dong'er had made any progress over the past few months. After all, the current Wang Dong'er was more than a little stronger than her original counterpart.

If the current Wang Dong'er fought her counterpart from the original story, Xu Xingyu was certain she could completely trounce her.

After all, if her family hadn't pushed her to cultivate, it was questionable whether the original Wang Dong'er could even have reached the Soul Grandmaster level before Shrek opened for the school year.

But because Xu Xingyu himself was so outstanding, the current Wang Dong'er had begun striving to improve. She no longer took a lazy attitude toward cultivation, instead cultivating her Soul Power bit by bit every day.

Her fundamentals were extremely solid. Xu Xingyu was certain that, given Wang Dong'er's current talent and hard work, if she became a god in the future, she would not merely become a measly Second-Level God like the Butterfly God. She would become at least a First-Level God, if not something greater.

There was no way someone like her would become that fellow Tang San's personal chess piece. In this life, Wang Dong'er would take control of her own fate! After all, fledglings couldn't grow up under their parents' care forever. One day, they had to spread their wings and soar into the distant world to build everything of their own.

That also made Xu Xingyu look forward to Wang Dong'er's future all the more. Perhaps one day he might even witness that famous scene of a loving father and a filial daughter with his own eyes! The only pity was that there was no signal axe or Frostmourne.

After Xu Xingyu agreed to Wang Dong'er's request, the two went outside the dormitory and warmed up, ready to begin their duel.

Wang Dong'er released her Martial Soul right from the start. A pair of azure butterfly wings spread behind her, and two Soul Rings appeared with them: one yellow, representing a hundred years, and the other purple, representing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

But judging by the deep colors of those two Soul Rings, traces of purple had already begun to appear in Wang Dong'er's First Soul Ring, while her Second Soul Ring had approached an age of around five thousand years. On top of that, Xu Xingyu could sense the Soul Power fluctuations coming from Wang Dong'er, whose cultivation was around rank twenty-seven.

It seemed Wang Dong'er really had worked hard at cultivation during this time. Her Second Soul Ring had come from a three-thousand-year-old Golden-Scaled Dragon Fish, yet the Soul Ring's age was now approaching five thousand years.

That meant that, besides cultivating on her own, Wang Dong'er had also made time to visit the Spirit Contract Pagoda's dedicated facilities to improve her Soul Spirit's cultivation, raising the age of her First Soul Ring along the way.

While this gratified Xu Xingyu, it also put him somewhat on guard. Wang Dong'er was no longer someone he could deal with casually; he would have to use at least one or two Soul Skills to defeat her completely.

Considering that this was a fight where they would stop before going too far, he might need more than two Soul Skills to subdue the girl before him.

With that in mind, Xu Xingyu began releasing his First Martial Soul. A dazzling Ziwei Star slowly rose behind him, followed by three purplish-black Soul Rings.

Seeing this, Wang Dong'er's gaze grew serious. A year ago, Xu Xingyu had possessed rank thirty-five Soul Power, and now she could sense that his Soul Power Level had definitely surpassed rank thirty-five. Fortunately, he was still within the Soul Elder range; otherwise, she might truly have had no way to deal with him.

After deciding on a countermeasure, Wang Dong'er unleashed her first Soul Skill, Wing Guillotine. Her butterfly wings turned into two sharp blades, and she attacked Xu Xingyu with them.

As she attacked, a few bubbles appeared. They had no offensive power and could at most obstruct Xu Xingyu's vision, but they contained a special kind of Soul Power that interfered with his Spiritual Detection.

This forced Xu Xingyu to defend himself. Of course, if he wanted to, he could break through Wang Dong'er's move with a single punch.

But his girlfriend was showing him the results of her cultivation over the past few months. Wouldn't ending it just like that be a bit too discouraging?

However, as Wang Dong'er continued to swing her Wing Guillotine, Xu Xingyu noticed traces of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer in the move. Each slash added more force, and if it went on long enough, the move might actually cause him considerable damage.

The move Wang Dong'er was using against Xu Xingyu was a Self-Created Soul Skill she had thought up in her spare time. When Xu Xingyu had sparred with her in the past, he had said that her moves were too monotonous and easy to predict.

To overcome this weakness, Wang Dong'er had sought out her eldest father for more practical combat training. During that process, she had happened to wonder whether her Wing Guillotine could attack opponents with moves similar to the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

After all, Wang Dong'er rarely used her Killing God Clear Sky Hammer, and she had not mastered the technique of releasing both Martial Souls at the same time. Thus, although her First Martial Soul, the Vast Sea God of Light Butterfly, was an assault-type Martial Soul, it lacked moves with that kind of staying power.

Finally, through her tireless efforts, she had succeeded in creating this Self-Created Soul Skill before school started, naming it Butterfly Dances Across the Firmament. During its creation, she had also discovered that by using it in combination with the bubbles blown by her Soul Spirit, Bubble, she could even catch opponents by surprise and leave them unable to defend themselves.

What frustrated Wang Dong'er, however, was that as time passed, the number of times she landed a clean hit on Xu Xingyu had dropped sharply. The bubbles entwined around her had clearly not disappeared, so why was it that, no matter how she swung her wings, Xu Xingyu was like a roundworm in her belly, always able to predict the direction of her attacks in advance and take the best measures to defend or dodge?

Was this Xu Xingyu's Self-Created Soul Skill, Dragon Roams the Sea of Stars? No, that wasn't right. She had seen Xu Xingyu use Dragon Roams the Sea of Stars before. It used unique footwork to draw upon the spatial elements in the plane, making the user's movements extremely unpredictable, like teleportation with no limit on the number of uses.

But now Wang Dong'er could not sense any fluctuations of spatial power. In that case, how was Xu Xingyu managing to dodge her attacks so perfectly?

What Wang Dong'er didn't know was that, as force accumulated in her butterfly wings, the bubbles on her body would be disturbed whenever she moved. At those moments, the bubbles' interference was at its weakest.

Thus, he seized those opportunities to use Spiritual Detection, while also relying on his extensive combat experience to make the best choice.

Although Xu Xingyu was gratified by Wang Dong'er's hard work in creating this Soul Skill, he was also a little disappointed. In his view, the Self-Created Soul Skill was just so-so.

It had the same weakness as the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer: once interrupted by an opponent with greater strength, the user's footwork would be thrown completely into disarray, and the Soul Skill would naturally be broken.

Butterfly Dances Across the Firmament was indeed much more mobile than the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but its power was nowhere near as great. If mobility was what she wanted from a Soul Skill, she would have been better off simply learning the Chaotic Cloak Dance left behind by Tang San.

That was essentially a mobile version of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. Moreover, after so many years of improvements, there was no longer any need to rely on teleportation and flight skills from Soul Bones to use it successfully, as Tang San had.

Meanwhile, Wang Dong'er seemed to notice Xu Xingyu's slight disappointment, and she couldn't help biting her lip. After all, she knew very well that if Xu Xingyu truly wanted to break her Self-Created Soul Skill, it would be no trouble at all.

Even if she accumulated her power to the level of eighty-one strikes, it would be a slight nuisance to Xu Xingyu at most, not a threat.

But after all this, wouldn't she lose face if she just admitted defeat? Seizing an opening, she unleashed her second Soul Skill.

"Vast Sea Radiance!"

As soon as the words left her mouth, Wang Dong'er's Second Soul Ring lit up, and a blue-gold light began attacking in all directions. Xu Xingyu was shocked, for he could distinctly sense the presence of a god in that light.

At that moment, Mu En, who had been watching from a distance, widened his eyes and said, "Th-this is the Sea God's Light!!! How is that possible!"