Killing the Dimensional Void Beast
A contest of Soul Power against the Soul Beast had officially begun. Would he, Su Tianyu, lose his life in the Star Dou Great Forest today, or would this beast become another creature slain at his hands?
After the fierce clash of Soul Power and Soul Skills, the Dimensional Void Beast was the first to reach its limit. Su Tianyu quickly broke the deadlock and successfully resisted the Dimensional Void Beast's innate Soul Skill attack.
Blood poured from the forty-six holes in the Dimensional Void Beast's body, and it lost a portion of its Soul Power. Soon, its Soul Power was overdrawn and its energy depleted. The collapsing spatial storm around them gradually subsided, finally dissipating altogether.
In this contest of Soul Power and Soul Skills, he, Su Tianyu, had ultimately laughed last.
Seeing the Dimensional Void Beast's Soul Skill collapse on its own, a hint of a smile flickered across Su Tianyu's brow. He activated his first and second Soul Rings again, and both blazed with light.
"First Soul Skill, Golden Pupil Illusory Realm! Second Soul Skill, Golden Pupil Transformation!"
A Mental Shock even more powerful than the First Soul Skill surged toward the Dimensional Void Beast. With the Second Soul Skill boosting all his attributes by two hundred percent, the Mental Shock Soul Skill swept forward like a raging tide, quickly forming a massive surge of energy that slammed into the Dimensional Void Beast's body.
Like an exploding nuclear bomb, the immense shock wave swept through the surrounding forest. Trees snapped with a rattling crash, and the area attack only stopped three hundred meters beyond the domain.
Struck by that immense mental power, the Dimensional Void Beast's entire body trembled. Before long, it collapsed limply to the ground, leaving only the faint sounds of panting and breathing.
Looking at the Dimensional Void Beast lying on the soil, Su Tianyu pulled the trigger of the Godly Zhuge Crossbow again, delivering a fatal blow to the fallen Soul Beast.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The moment the Godly Zhuge Crossbow fired again, the arrows tore through the surrounding air with a piercing whistle, speeding toward the Dimensional Void Beast.
The lightning-fast arrows soon reached the Dimensional Void Beast. As though it could see death approaching, the Dimensional Void Beast tried to activate its Soul Skill again to block them.
Unfortunately, the Dimensional Void Beast's body had long since been riddled with holes. The earlier arrows had destroyed its meridians and the pathways through which its Soul Power flowed. When the Soul Beast tried to circulate its Soul Power now, it streamed out through the holes like black smoke, dissipating into the world around it.
After discovering that it had failed to summon its Soul Power, the Dimensional Void Beast's enormous dragon eyes showed resignation to death. Looking at the arrows flying toward it, it slowly lowered its head.
The forty-six arrows from the Godly Zhuge Crossbow soon reached the Dimensional Void Beast. With several wet thuds, they pierced its head and chest, kicking up a spray of bloody mist.
The Dimensional Void Beast struggled on the basin floor for a moment. Before long, its twitching limbs and body stopped moving. Countless purple motes slowly drifted out of its corpse and gathered above it, quickly forming a Thousand-Year Soul Ring that radiated a purple glow.
Seeing the Thousand-Year Soul Ring form above the Dimensional Void Beast's corpse a hundred meters away, Su Tianyu sank onto the soil, sweating buckets. His chest heaved as he greedily drew in the surrounding air through his mouth and nose. Terror still lingered in his eyes as he stared fixedly at the Soul Beast's corpse a hundred meters away. He had nearly met his end in the Star Dou Great Forest.
If the Soul Beast's mental power had not been relatively weak, he, Su Tianyu, might not have been able to defeat it. Moreover, the beast's innate Soul Skills were so powerful that his own Soul Skills could hardly gain an advantage. Its successive innate Soul Skill attacks had left Su Tianyu unable to fight back, and its presence had frightened him into defending passively.
Fortunately, his skills were a cut above and he had more tricks at his disposal. Otherwise, he, Su Tianyu, would have come to grief and died in the Star Dou Great Forest today.
After resting for a while, Su Tianyu sat cross-legged on the soil and cultivated his Soul Power. His Soul Power was completely exhausted, and any Hundred-Year Soul Beast that came along could kill him. Exhausting one's Soul Power in the Star Dou Great Forest was no different from courting death. He had to replenish some quickly, or it would have adverse consequences for his upcoming absorption of the Soul Ring.
As he circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill, the Soul Power drifting through the air around him was rapidly drawn into his body. Su Tianyu was like a black hole, swiftly devouring the Soul Power drifting through the basin.
Su Tianyu sat cross-legged in the basin, swiftly drawing in the Soul Power drifting through the world around him. It formed a funnel-shaped tornado of Soul Power above his head.
Time slowly passed. An hour and a half later, Su Tianyu, who had been sitting cross-legged and cultivating his Soul Power, suddenly opened his eyes. Sensing that his Soul Power had recovered to forty percent, he stood and looked at the Thousand-Year Soul Ring still slowly revolving above the nearby Soul Beast's corpse. A trace of a smile flashed in his eyes.
When a Soul Beast was killed by a Soul Master, its Soul Ring would remain in the world for two hours, giving him just enough time to replenish his Soul Power. If a Soul Master absorbed a Soul Ring without any Soul Power left in his body, the risk of his body exploding and killing him was somewhat higher than if he had Soul Power.
If a Soul Grandmaster had Soul Power left in his body, then, according to the Soul Ring age limits for Soul Masters recorded by Yu Xiaogang, he could absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring more than seventeen hundred years old with a hundred percent chance of success. But if he rashly absorbed a Soul Ring with no Soul Power left in his body, he was bound to fail and suffer a backlash from the Soul Ring's energy.
Su Tianyu quickly went to the Dimensional Void Beast's corpse and sat down cross-legged. He then completed Martial Soul Possession, his eyes gradually turning gold. Using his Martial Soul, he sensed the Thousand-Year Soul Ring above the Soul Beast's corpse and drew it toward him.
Pulled by the Martial Soul, the Thousand-Year Soul Ring above the Soul Beast's corpse flew swiftly toward Su Tianyu. It circled once above his head, then descended heavily upon him.
As Su Tianyu sat cross-legged, he sensed the Soul Ring descend, and a vast surge of Soul Ring energy rushed through his eyes and into his body.
Damn, this is still a bit too much. This Soul Beast's Soul Ring is a bit too old.
Su Tianyu cursed inwardly. He hurriedly focused his mind on absorbing the Soul Ring's energy. Under his control, the Mysterious Heaven Skill circulated at high speed, swiftly refining the Soul Ring, whose cultivation age was as high as five thousand years.
Seen from high above, Su Tianyu's entire face was flushed red as he absorbed the Soul Ring. Straining to absorb a Soul Ring beyond the age limit, his face was now contorted, cold sweat dripped constantly from his forehead to the ground, and his body swelled and shrank as though it might explode and kill him at any moment.