Since Tang San could not act against him openly, Xu Zihuang naturally had no reservations.
From the very beginning, he had never intended to complete the divine trial that Tang San had bestowed upon him. Because if he completed the trial and became the successor of the Sea God, it would instead give Tang San a legitimate reason to interfere with his growth.
That would be actively delivering himself into Tang San's hands, allowing himself to be manipulated.
Xu Zihuang cast an indifferent glance at Tang Wutong. The originally brilliant golden eyes instantly returned to their original deep purple, but the pupils transformed into eerie vertical slits.
In their place, four circles of blood-red soul rings appeared around him. A pair of enormous black-purple dragon wings unfurled behind his back. The dragon wings were covered entirely in a hardened, keratin-like layer, exuding an intense sense of power.
Xu Zihuang's entire body was wreathed in thunderlight as he turned into an afterimage and sped toward the center of the distant thunderstorm.
Although his second martial soul had only four soul rings attached, he was uniquely blessed with twin martial souls. After breaking through to the seven-ring Soul Saint realm, he could freely use the dragon transformation ability of his second martial soul, the Purple Radiance Thunder Prison Dragon.
The so-called dragon transformation meant truly possessing the characteristics of a giant dragon.
Releasing dragon wings for flight not only greatly reduced soul power consumption but also significantly increased his flight speed.
Tang Wutong's expression changed once again. From the cold, murderous intent in Yu Tianhuang's eyes, it was clear this was not mere talk.
He truly intended to help that Deep Sea Demonic Whale slaughter the entire Demon Soul Great White Shark clan!
"Stop!" Tang Wutong let out a delicate shout. The wings of her Radiant Butterfly Goddess fluttered as she tightly followed behind Xu Zihuang.
"Are you insane?! The Demon Soul Great White Shark clan are believers of the Sea God. Slaughtering them like this will bring divine retribution upon you!"
Xu Zihuang did not even turn his head, sneering disdainfully, "Divine retribution? If there is divine retribution, then let it descend."
Since Tang San had already thrown away all shame to scheme against him, why would he care about such things?
Today, the entire Demon Soul Great White Shark clan would perish!
Two figures streaked across the sky, one in deep black-purple ahead, the other in brilliant blue-gold behind. Both martial souls possessed flight capabilities, but Xu Zihuang's soul power cultivation far surpassed Tang Wutong's.
In an instant, the distance between them was stretched wide.
The anxiety in Tang Wutong's eyes grew even more intense. She bit her silver teeth lightly, and her fifth black soul ring suddenly blazed.
Intense blue-gold flames instantly ignited across her delicate frame, making her entire body shine like a dazzling blue-gold sun. Then, in a flash, she transformed into a magnificent blue-gold butterfly and vanished.
At the moment she activated it, the surrounding hundreds of meters turned completely blue-gold, as if countless blue-gold butterflies flickered through the space. The air was filled with traces scorched by the flames of light.
Wang Qiu'er, who remained in place, only saw a blur before her eyes. TANG Wutong had already appeared in front of Xu Zihuang.
Radiant Butterfly Goddess martial soul fifth soul skill: Butterfly God Fall!
This was an impact-type offensive soul skill, yet during the charge, it could elevate the user's speed to the extreme.
Tang Wutong spread her arms wide, blocking Xu Zihuang's path, feeling both furious and exasperated.
"Are you really not afraid of being erased for failing the mission?!"
"Get lost!" This time, Xu Zihuang's response was even simpler and more brutal. A strange fluctuation of soul power rippled from his left leg.
His body underwent a transformation similar to when Tang Wutong had used her Radiant Butterfly Goddess fifth soul skill Butterfly God Fall, but far more thorough.
Every inch of Xu Zihuang's skin, flesh, bones, and even his hair, turned into translucent purple-gold. Even his clothes blazed with dazzling purple-gold light. His long purple-gold hair floated behind him, radiant as if a deity had descended.
Turning the body into thunder itself, this was precisely the soul skill attached to the ten-thousand-year Thunder Beast left leg bone: Source of Thunderlight.
Immediately after, countless purple-gold light points converged toward Xu Zihuang. Wherever the light points drifted, pieces of armor condensed onto his body. The armor was entirely the same purple-gold as his current body.
First came the chestplate, engraved with sharply angled dragon-scale patterns, yet also incorporating the strange golden bamboo-joint-like textures of the Thunder Prison Vine's main body.
The armor quickly covered his entire body, and his aura climbed in geometric progression. Thunder roared, vast and majestic.
Under the raging purple-gold thunder filling the sky, his entire body suddenly grew proportionally to ten meters tall.
At this moment, Xu Zihuang resembled a true Thunder God descending upon the mortal world. An illusory black dragon-shaped shadow coiled around him before merging into the armor. On the backplate, the dragon-shaped pattern was clearly visible.
On his shoulders and behind him twined a purple-gold dragon-shaped ribbon formed entirely of condensed thunder elements, elegant and divine.
With a low shout from Xu Zihuang, a terrifying aura erupted, directly blasting Tang Wutong back over a thousand meters.
Tang Wutong's entire body felt numb, her soul power spiraling out of control as she plummeted toward the sea.
Only when her body was about to sink into the water did she regain control of her body and soul power, stabilizing herself in a sorry state.
Tang Wutong clenched her fists in extreme humiliation.
"He actually dared to tell me to get lost?!"
From childhood to now, when had she ever been shouted at like this?
Moreover, from the earlier clash of auras, she realized that Yu Tianhuang's strength far exceeded her expectations, almost an absolute suppression on another level. It was clear that during the semifinals of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Yu Tianhuang had not used his full power at all.
The daughter of a God King, yet facing such a massive gap with a mere mortal from the lower realm. The enormous contrast left Tang Wutong momentarily unable to accept it.
If her crushing defeat at Yu Tianhuang's hands in the semifinals had only brought frustration, then now it was true despair.
A person like Yu Tianhuang is already qualified to touch that level through his own power alone. Even her father, at the same age, was probably far inferior to the Yu Tianhuang before her.
At that moment, the golden trident mark on Tang Wutong's forehead suddenly flickered.
"Dad?"
As if receiving some instruction, she quickly suppressed her emotions, gave a light nod, and rose once more, heading toward the sea region where the thunderstorm raged.
Meanwhile, in that brief interval, Xu Zihuang had already stepped into the thunderstorm.
Wang Qiu'er, meanwhile, watched coldly from the sidelines. She held no bias toward either the Demon Empress or the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan.
As an Emperor Auspicious Beast born of heaven and earth, she already considered herself nobler than ordinary soul beasts. She felt no anger at the Demon Soul Great White Sharks being killed by Xu Zihuang.
However, Wang Qiu'er's gaze fell on the core area of the thunderstorm. At some point, an eerie blood-red vertical eye had appeared at the center of her brow.
Yet what she saw was the same as she had expected: she could not see through the fates of Xu Zihuang and Tang Wutong, nor her own.
For some reason, Tang Wutong's appearance always made her feel that some conspiracy was brewing.
Wang Qiu'er still clearly remembered the circumstances of her own transformation. An unfamiliar face had suddenly appeared in her mind, influencing her transformation and resulting in her current appearance.
Yet at the time, she had not felt anything strange or wrong about it.
But ever since she first saw Tang Wutong during the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, and now with this sudden Sea God trial, she gradually began to sense something amiss in hindsight.
...
Xu Zihuang stood at the center of the thunderstorm. This stretch of sea had been dyed blood-red by the blood spilling from the Demon Soul Great White Shark corpses. The thick scent of blood lingered in his nostrils. High-level purple and black soul rings floated slowly in midair everywhere, emanating waves of ferocious might.
In just a short moment, more than half of the Demon Soul Great White Sharks had already perished here.
This massive thunderstorm was actually a control-type soul skill similar to a lightning prison unleashed by the Demon Empress. With her unfathomably deep cultivation driving it, any Demon Soul Great White Shark below ten thousand years could not break through the thunderstorm's blockade. The only one capable, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai, was being firmly suppressed by the Demon Empress.
The reason Xu Zihuang could enter the thunderstorm unscathed was due to attribute suppression, as well as the powerful effects of the two ten-thousand-year soul skills from the Thunder Beast's left leg bone.
Unlike the two area-attack soul skills granted by the Thunder Prison Vine right leg bone, Thunder Hell and Thunder Forest, the two soul skills attached to the Thunder Beast left leg bone were both amplification types.
Source of Thunderlight allowed his body to fully transform into pure thunder-element form, turning his body into thunder itself. Only on the foundation of the Source of Thunderlight could the other ten-thousand-year soul bone skill, Thunder God Armor, unleash its maximum power.
Normally, such high-quality soul bones solidify the soul beast's most powerful innate soul skill. For example, in Xu Zihuang's memories from his previous life, the seventy-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion's left arm bone solidified the Ice Jade Scorpion clan's strongest soul skill, Ice Explosion Technique.
When Xu Zihuang fused with the soul bone from the Thunder Beast, influenced by his martial soul bloodline and the trace of Thunder God bloodline in the Thunder Prison Vine, the two attached soul skills underwent a beneficial mutation and developed a special connection.
Even when the Thunder Beast itself used Source of Thunderlight, it could only transform into a half-thunder-element body at most.
The fact that Xu Zihuang's Source of Thunderlight could become a pure thunder-element body already spoke volumes.
But the greatest change was to the second soul skill attached to this soul bone: Thunder God Armor. This soul skill was practically a fusion of Xu Zihuang, the Thunder Prison Vine, and the Thunder Beast's martial soul and innate abilities. It was a full-attribute amplification soul skill of terrifying power. Soul power, attack power, defense power, speed, and thunder power are all doubled.
Such amplification was nearly comparable to the second-word battle armor of later eras.
Under the amplification of Thunder God Armor, Xu Zihuang's various attributes were in no way inferior to a Titled Douluo.
Moreover, just as the Thunder Prison Vine's right leg bone, Thunder Forest and Thunder Hell could fuse into the terrifying domain-type soul skill Forest of Thunder Prison, the Thunder Beast left leg bone's Source of Thunderlight and Thunder God Armor could also fuse into an even more powerful soul skill.
The way Xu Zihuang's body grew to over ten meters tall, along with the various phenomena around him, was precisely the effect of this new soul skill. Its name: Descent of the Thunder God!
Turning the body into thunder, and using thunder to condense the body of a Thunder God.
Though it sounded exaggerated, the current Xu Zihuang was indeed equivalent to an avatar of the Thunder God. All thunder elements in this thunderstorm were now at his command.
This was also one of the reasons he dared to interfere in the battle between the Demon Empress and the Demon Soul Great White Shark King.
His first blood-red soul ring shone. The Thunder God Spear manifested, and then countless purple-gold light points converged again, enlarging the roughly three-and-a-half-meter Thunder God Spear proportionally until it appeared in his right hand.
Xu Zihuang raised the Thunder God Spear high. The originally restless thunderstorm instantly froze, as if he were the sovereign of this domain.
To avoid accidentally harming her own people, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai had moved the battlefield into the air. In human form, the Demon Empress and Xiao Bai faced each other high in the sky.
Compared to the calm and composed Demon Empress, Xiao Bai, on the other side looked extremely miserable. Her body was covered in bloodstains, fresh red blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, and her aura was extremely weak.
When the thunderstorm suddenly stopped, both the Demon Empress and Xiao Bai were drawn by the qi and looked toward Xu Zihuang.
The Demon Empress's gaze was ice-cold.
"A human?!"
Having condensed the Thunder God's body, Xu Zihuang's appearance had changed considerably from usual, so she did not immediately recognize Xu Zihuang, whom she had met once before.
But Xiao Bai, her face deathly pale, had her gaze instantly lock onto the golden trident mark on Xu Zihuang's forehead.
As Xu Zihuang's body grew taller, the golden trident mark expanded as well.
Crystal-clear tears slid from the corners of Xiao Bai's eyes, her cheeks warm. The once domineering and powerful Demon Soul Great White Shark King now looked like a wronged young girl, crying until pear blossoms were drenched in rain.
"Sea God-sama, I knew you would never abandon us!"
The other Demon Soul Great White Sharks, no longer needing to resist the thunderstorm, poked their shark heads out of the sea. Their eyes revealed anthropomorphic fervor and reverence as they sent waves of mental messages.
"Respected Sea God Envoy, you are our guide. May the glory of the Sea God forever shine upon us! Please lead us to repel the evil Deep Sea Demonic Whales!"
Xu Zihuang revealed an enigmatic smile. The Thunder God Spear, gripped in his right hand, suddenly swung downward.
Thick-as-barrels purple-gold thunderbolts precisely struck every single Demon Soul Great White Shark. Like a natural disaster descending, the sharks were annihilated in confusion and despair.
Thunder Prison Vine right leg bone soul skill: Thunder Forest.
But amplified by Source of Thunderlight, Thunder God Armor, and Thunder God Spear, three ten-thousand-year soul skills, and borrowing the thunderstorm unleashed by the Demon Empress—
The power of this strike had already reached the Super Douluo level.
The extreme contrast from joy to despair left the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiao Bai's eyes suddenly vacant. Unwilling to accept reality, she remained dazed, unable to recover.
The Demon Empress, who had grown resentful when Xiao Bai mentioned the Sea God, could not help but burst into wild, delighted laughter.
"Hahahahaha..."
"For the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan to follow the Sea God for tens of thousands of years, only to end up like this. Is this your faith?! Ridiculous! Pathetic!"
Tang Wutong, who arrived a step late, happened to witness Xu Zihuang using his power to exterminate the Demon Soul Great White Sharks. Her pupils suddenly contracted, her body trembling violently.
Yet the instigator, Xu Zihuang, showed no intention of stopping. He extended his left hand forward. A gigantic bow of thunder condensed. The Thunder God Spear in his right hand was then placed onto the bowstring as an arrow.
In an instant, the Thunder God Spear shot toward Xiao Bai high in the sky. The terrifying thunder power distorted the surrounding space, its momentum shocking.
Arrow of the Thunder God!
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