Chapter 78 - Capturing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast

In the peaceful Valley of the Sun and Moon, a violent explosion shook the chopsticks from the high priest's hands. He turned his head to look at the arena and sighed helplessly.

The high priest did not know how many times this had happened. A few days ago, he saw with his own eyes Xu Mingxi stably combine moonlight and starlight. Although he didn't know what he was going to do, he could finally live a peaceful life.

What he didn't expect was that Xu Mingxi had actually started trying to manipulate the large amount of fused points of light, wanting to transform them into various shapes. He wanted to apply them in a real battle.

Controlling the merging of two energies and making them form a creation consumed more mental energy than merging a single starlight and moonlight. The sound of explosions once again rang in the grand priest's ears.

Xu Mingxi was currently sitting cross-legged in the arena, munching on the dry bread brought by the high priest, with his arms stretched forward, carefully controlling the starlight and moonlight not far from him.

Dots of golden and silver light could be seen interlocking and slowly merging into interlocking dots of gold and silver light. Xu Mingxi carefully controlled a large number of gold and silver points of light to gather and form a rope.

"Huh."

Xu Mingxi felt a little relaxed and saw the gold and silver rope break in an instant, turning into stars and disappearing in the air. He fell to the ground in a state of exhaustion, breathing heavily.

Nearly a year and a half had passed since he started the second level, and he was finally able to combine and apply moonlight and starlight. However, this application was too mentally taxing and could only be used at critical moments.

This was enough. Xu Mingxi had experimented with it. This creation was formed by interweaving spots of gold and silver light, combining the speed of starlight with the flexibility of moonlight. It certainly wasn't a problem to temporarily trap one of the soul beings.

After resting for a moment, Xu Mingxi controlled a beam of sunlight to shoot out fiercely, smashing into the solid ice blocking the entrance to the two soul beasts' lair.

During this year and a half, Yangyanwu and Hanyueniao had long since grown sick of Xu Mingxi's frequent outbursts, so they sealed off the cave entrance with thick ice. This was the only way to call them back.

The Yangyanwu seemed annoyed at being disturbed. As soon as it flew out of the cave, it spewed flames at Xu Mingxi. The Hanyuebird circled in the air, waiting for an opportunity.

After tormenting each other for a year and a half, the two sides had fought many times and had long known each other's attack methods and patterns. The two soul beasts flew in the air, waiting for Xu Mingxi to take the first action.

Xu Mingxi naturally wouldn't be polite to them, as he was the one who had to pass the test. The Star Crown Martial Soul appeared, and the fifth soul ring lit up. A large amount of starlight gathered around his body. The third soul ring lit up, and the starlight turned into silk threads, surrounding Yang Yanwu from all directions.

After fighting for so long, he also found that Yangyanwu was stronger, but did not like to dodge and preferred to destroy all his attacks.

As he expected, flames spurted out from Yang Yanwu's body and ignited the starlight threads. Xu Mingxi controlled the flaming threads to turn into starlight and disappear, then condensed new threads to encircle and suppress.

This was a test for the two soul beings. The Hanyue bird wouldn't just sit there and watch. It spat out a cold light that seemed to freeze everything. Xu Mingxi's left arm emitted red light, the sun in the sky became brighter, Yangyanwu's momentum increased, but the Hanyue Bird's momentum suddenly shrank.

Of the two soul skills provided by the hundred thousand-year-old flame-thieving lizard soul bones, one is a powerful scorching sun cannon, and the other soul skill is called a sunny day. Using sunlight in this environment can significantly increase speed and power.

The Fiery Sun Cannon condensed in front of him and shot directly at the Frozen Moon Bird, followed closely by a rope intertwined with gold and silver.

The rope came out of the smoke and dust generated by the collision of the two energy cannons, and before the Hanyue Bird could react, the rope had reached its side, spun upwards and directly trapped it, then fell to the ground.

Yangyanwu knew that he had been deceived. This hateful man directed the fire at his beautiful wife. As a believer in the sun god, the blessing of a sunny day was great for him.   

He screamed towards the sky, his body enveloped in flames, and swooped down towards Xu Mingxi. The high temperature of the flames seemed to burn and corrupt the surrounding air.

After eating the bait, Xu Mingxi's mouth curled up slightly. The Hanyue Bird was wary and liked to dodge and evade, while the Yangyan Crow was hot-tempered and preferred to go head-to-head with its enemies. If he wanted to capture both of them in a short period of time, he could only let Yangyan Crow come at him actively.

Above the star crown, the seventh soul ring instantly lit up, and a huge shadow of the star crown appeared. Xu Mingxi's momentum increased and he let out all his strength.

The sixth soul ring lit up, and the willow-like moonlight swept towards Yang Yanwu, slightly weakening the surrounding flames. The moonlight condensed into streaks and surrounded him from all directions.

Yang Yanwu was not willing to give up. Golden flames flashed in his golden pupils, burning away all the threads of moonlight around him.

But the threads of moonlight came one after another, seemingly endlessly, and Yang Yanwu's little outburst turned out to be limited, and besieged.

Sweat ran down Xu Mingxi's face as he stared at the surrounded Yang Yanwu. Now he had to maintain the gold and silver ropes while controlling the moonlight, which was extremely draining on his mind.

The three came to a stalemate, and eventually the fire shield on Yang Yanwu's body weakened. Xu Mingxi seized the opportunity and wrapped a thread of moonlight around her, enveloping her completely.

"Finally, it's done."

The moment the silver thread wrapped around Yang Yanwu, it broke instantly. The two soul beasts flew back into the air and stared at Xu Mingxi lying unconscious on the ground below. A glimmer of satisfaction radiated on their disciples.

Although they had only used less than 20% of his strength, it was already rare for a Soul Douo to be able to accomplish this.

The high priest walked out of the void, put a pill into Xu Mingxi's mouth, looked at the two soul beasts in the air, and saw them nod. A smile appeared on the stiff face behind the mask.

He had passed the hardest level in the second round, so the rest shouldn't be a big problem for him. It seemed that this time his mission would actually be accomplished.

The pill transformed into a gentle energy that nourished Xu Mingxi's body, and after a moment, he awoke from his coma.

The Yangyanwu and Hanyuebird had returned to their nests. Only the high priest remained there and reached out to pull Xu Mingxi to his feet.

"Senior High Priest, did I pass?"

Xu Mingxi looked nervously at the High Priest. Although he was certain he had passed, he was still a little worried because he hadn't been officially recognized yet.

It wasn't until he saw the high priest nod, that he felt relieved and sat down on the ground. He just wanted to sleep well. The past two years had been too torturous.

The medicine rabbit appeared out of nowhere and jumped into Xu Mingxi's arms. The healing light shone on Xu Mingxi's body, making him groan in pain.

Then, hearing the great priest's sudden laughter, he covered his mouth in shame.