Volume 1: Induction Section 12: Soul Wars
"It turns out that the battle between souls is like this." Zhang Su sighed.
"Well, you're right, it's just that there are a lot of talented people in the Soul Master Realm, what you see now is just the lowest level of soul warfare, it is the tip of the iceberg, the most powerful soul battle in the Soul Master Realm is in the Soul Martial Arts Line, where a large-scale soul master competition will be held every three years, and the top-ranked soul master will be on the soul master list, and now at the top of the list is Mr. Nan Guo, the chairman of our soul hunting company, so he is called the strongest soul master in the soul master realm." Fan Zengming briefly explained the level of the battle between soul masters.
Zhang Su then understood why Hu Xi and Fan Zengming both said that Mr. Nan Guo is the strongest in the soul master realm, Wen Wu is the first and there is no second, the soul master enhances soul power and practices soul skills similar to boxers to enhance strength and practice moves, then there will definitely be a high and low comparison, the best comparison is naturally actual combat, the two soul masters can distinguish the comprehensive strength of the two people after learning from each other, what to say about the hermit, no quarrel with the world, these are mostly tricky statements, before he made a move, he first said that he was so powerful that he was not stained with red dust, this statement is too fake space, Even if it is a sweeping monk in martial arts novels, it is because he really made a move, so others will know how powerful he is, Mr. Nan Guo can still be ranked first on the soul master list at the age of more than ninety, and his strength can be seen.
"However, the battle between these two people in front of you can also be a great inspiration for you when you first enter the soul master realm, after you become a soul master, this kind of battle is even more commonplace, the opportunity is rare, experience it well." Fan Zengming seemed to be guiding Zhang Su, but he didn't explain too much.
Zhang Su didn't ask any more, since Fan Zengming said that he wanted to experience it well, it meant that becoming a soul master required self-enlightenment, and not everyone could give it.
During the battle, Cao Xuanqing watched his soul skill combination offensive easily defused by Pu Zitong, he was somewhat surprised, shook his head, sighed softly, and sighed to Pu Zitong: "It is worthy of the Pu family, the soul master of the opera, the combination of the soul is so ingenious, even my eyes are difficult to find flaws." ”
"You're not bad, use those eyes to find the weaknesses around me, and then use soul mimicry to increase the flexibility and aggression of the soul, and carry out targeted attacks on my possible weaknesses, you belong to the Cao family as a soul skill combiner." Pu Zitong responded.
Cao Xuanqing and Pu Zitong opened their mouths to talk, communicating with each other in the posture of souls, their voices had an ethereal feeling, and they seemed to praise each other, but they showed a hostile look at each other.
"I'm still the same sentence, I'm not interested in you, but I fancy your Pu family, after the marriage, we can play our own games and not interfere with each other, how about it?" Cao Xuanqing asked from above.
"Phew, you want my Pu family, your Spring and Autumn dream is too beautiful, you have died of this heart." Pu Zitong snorted coldly.
"Then don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless, since the conditions for your Pu family to recruit relatives are there, and I defeat you, can your Pu family still break the contract?" Cao Xuanqing's eyes became fierce.
"Let's not talk about whether you can win the first place in the competition after the two, if you lose to me, you are not even qualified to compete!" Pu Zitong's gaze also condensed into a line, and he looked at Cao Xuanqing with a slightly disdainful expression.
Zhang Zhi somewhat understood, what was the reason for the duel between Cao Xuanqing and Pu Zitong to recruit relatives, and suddenly recalled that he accidentally heard Ye Liao of the Ye family say something similar, and he was also eyeing the Pu family, maybe it was the same thing as Cao Xuanqing, but when Ye Liao spoke, his face still showed a greedy expression, and he felt that his personality was a little inferior to this Cao Xuanqing.
Just when Zhang Su was thinking, in the pool, Cao Xuanqing and Pu Zitong shot again.
"Soul Split!"
Cao Xuanqing shouted in his mouth, his body made a movement of picking up and tearing from the middle with both hands to the void in front of him, only to see that there was an extra phantom on the wolf soul of his soul imitation, after the action ended, the phantom also jumped out of the original wolf soul, a big wolf soul instantly turned into two little wolf souls, the two wolf souls separated in two directions, and went around to both sides of Pu Zitong, with Pu Zitong's main soul as the center of the circle, pacing, turning sideways, his eyes emitted a cyan dark light, staring at Pu Zitong's main soul and the two drama souls, Make it look like you're ready to go.
"It turns out that the black thin boy still has his hand." Fan Zengming said, with some admiration in his tone.
Zhang Zhi smiled bitterly after hearing this, Pu Zitong is the gang of our Qicheng Branch, they all say that helping relatives is not helping, if Pu Zitong and Cao Xuanqing are compared, the relationship with Pu Zitong should be closer, Fan Zengming actually began to praise Cao Xuanqing, Zhang Zhen really didn't know what Fan Zengming thought.
"Isn't Miss Pu dangerous?" Zhang Su was more worried about Pu Zitong, after all, the two came together, even if they didn't know each other, they were their own people.
"It's hard to say, there are pros and cons to splitting the soul, the advantage is that the number of souls increases, which can cause psychological pressure on the opponent to a certain extent, and at the same time, there is an extra soul in the battle, and Miss Pu needs to share her experience to deal with it, so that Miss Pu is more likely to show flaws." Fan Zengming explained.
"Doesn't that mean Miss Pu is dangerous? What about the drawbacks? Zhang Su continued to ask.
"Do you really think that souls can be reproduced without damage? This is not the same as the exact same file that you copy and paste out of the computer, a person's soul power is limited, after the soul is divided, the soul power will be distributed to the two souls after the division according to a certain proportion, the wolf soul of the black thin boy is divided equally according to the ratio of five or five, and each little wolf soul only has half of the soul power of the original big wolf soul. Fan Zengming continued to explain.
"The soul power has dropped by half, isn't it easy for the little wolf soul to be broken one by one, although it interferes with Miss Pu's mind, isn't Cao Xuanqing's risk also increased?"
Zhang is puzzled, the soul division needs to disperse the soul power, even if it can achieve the effect of interfering with the opposite side's mind, or say that there is an extra combat power, then the negative effect of the dispersion of strength is not small, and the strength of a single wolf soul must have decreased, will this method really be effective when used in actual combat.
"Indeed, it is an upgraded version obtained by the Cao family after studying dozens of soul splitting soul techniques, which allows the soul to absorb the surrounding soul dust when splitting, and temporarily increases the soul power of the two souls after the soul split, so as to make up for the decrease in soul power after the soul split, at present, the little wolf soul of the black thin boy has seventy percent of the soul power of the original big wolf soul, and the soul power of each wolf soul is still lethal." Fan Zengming explained the principle of dividing the soul and resisting the ritual.
Although Zhang Su didn't know how to distinguish the size of the soul power, he also understood the principle of soul splitting and resisting, if someone could really create a non-destructive soul clone, and then turn one into two, two into four, then this person would definitely be invincible in the world.
Eyes returned to the pool, the two people fighting were still vigilantly looking at each other, and the two wolf souls were besieging each other, looking for Pu Zitong's weakness, ready to attack at any time.
Pu Zitong's soul and the two drama souls formed a circle, forming a solid triangular posture to jointly defend, as if waiting for the other party's shot.
Zhang Su can't say who is more panicked Cao Xuanqing or Pu Zitong, although Pu Zitong's main soul strength is not weak, but the strength of the two drama souls is not strong enough, and it may become a breakthrough for the two wolf souls who are eyeing each other, so under the harassment and attack of the two wolf souls, Pu Zitong will definitely not be too easy to deal with, on the other hand, Cao Xuanqing, according to Fan Zengming's explanation, Cao Xuanqing's little wolf soul is an ascension achieved by temporarily absorbing soul dust from the outside world, and it can only be maintained for a short time. On the contrary, Pu Zitong's winning rate will be greater, and after analysis, Zhang Su's conclusion is almost the same as Fan Zengming's, that is: the outcome is uncertain.
Cao Xuanqing didn't want to waste the precious time after the soul splitting ceremony, so he made a move.
The little wolf soul soldiers rushed towards Pu Zitong in two ways, one little wolf soul was aimed at the play soul holding a rattan rope-like weapon, and the other little wolf soul was aimed at the play soul holding a round shield, and the two little wolf souls consciously bypassed the main soul with strong soul power, and chose the slightly weaker play soul as a breakthrough, and the way of attack was exactly the same as Zhang Su's guess.
Pu Zitong also expected the attack target of the wolf soul, the three souls reversed their positions, the main soul turned to one side, when the two little wolf souls attacked at the same time, the main soul and the oncoming little wolf soul were entangled together, and the other two play souls formed a combination, a rope and a shield, and the other little wolf soul went back and forth, and the five souls were divided into two battlefields, each battlefield formed a situation of equal strength, and the attack and defense were transformed into each other, and the fight was inseparable.
The little wolf soul's claws were raised, and the sharpness of the claws made Zhang Su, who was far away on the balcony, feel a trace of danger, and then the claws fell towards the head of the main soul, and the five fingers tore out a strange yin wind in the soul world, slashing towards the main soul.
The main soul stared with both eyes, and did not show a panicked look, but simply raised the Pu Ming umbrella in his hand above his head, stretched out the umbrella leaf, and the transparent umbrella leaf emitted a little blue light, and the wolf claw was together, no matter how the wolf claw tore, the Pu Ming umbrella was like indestructible, without the slightest damage, and the main soul hiding under the umbrella leaf was even more unharmed.
After the little wolf soul attacked a few times, the main soul found the gap between the little wolf soul attacks and began to counterattack, she controlled the Pu Ming umbrella, and stabbed the little wolf soul in the abdomen with the spikes on the tip of the umbrella, while stabbing and rotating the umbrella leaves, as if she wanted to drill an eye out of the little wolf soul.
The little wolf soul blinked the eyes of the bright light, used the other wolf claw to open the tip of the umbrella that stabbed at him, jumped into the air and flipped it, and kicked the umbrella leaf with two hind paws, and the body bounced off the umbrella blade, and also dodged the next horizontal slash of the umbrella tip, and the body shot backwards, separated by five or six body shapes, a soul and a wolf soul looked at each other, like a huntress and a lone wolf encountered in the wild, each other's eyes were full of killing intent.
Another battle group, another little wolf soul relied on the insight of the eye of Zhige and the flexibility of the wolf soul, launched a crazy offensive against the two weak drama souls, one moment it was a volley kill, and a while crawling on the ground to attack the lower plate of the two drama souls, and several times also bit the rope that controlled the rattan rope drama soul, wanting to pull the soul of that one towards himself by pulling the rope and breaking up the joint defense of the two drama souls.
The drama soul will not act on its own, and Pu Zitong needs to devote a part of his energy to control, Pu Zitong did not cause chaos because of the simultaneous war on the two battlefields, the two drama souls did a tight match in joint defense, and did not leave too many opportunities for the little wolf soul, the round shield blocked the attack of the little wolf soul at the first time every time, even if the little wolf soul kept changing the attack form, the two drama souls could always block the close attack of the little wolf soul in time, even if the round shield did not follow up in time, the rattan rope would arrive in time, It wrapped around the body of the little wolf soul like an octopus tentacle, forcing the little wolf soul to throw off the rattan rope on its body and distance itself from the two play spirits again.
The two sides have not been fighting for a long time, but they have gone back and forth for dozens of moves, and they have dealings with each other, and it can be seen that the difference in strength between the two is not very large, and neither of them has been able to cause substantial damage to the soul of the other party, but a sense of parity has been formed between the offensive and defensive conversions.
Before the little wolf soul was not weakened, Pu Zitong did not dare to be careless, always focused his attention, controlled the trend of the two battlefields, although he did not take the initiative to attack, but also counterattacked in a timely manner, especially after adapting to the attack rhythm of the two wolf souls, defense and attack are even more comfortable.
Zhang Su carefully observed the battlefield situation, and inadvertently found a little change, under the continuous attack, the action rhythm of the two little wolf souls has obviously become faster, constantly moving, the offensive is gradually fierce, and the frequency of the attack is also increasing, even if Pu Zitong shows a little flaw, the two little wolf souls will launch a more fierce offensive, want to find a breakthrough point, tear a hole in the other party, and even damage each other.
Zhang Su could see that the reason why Cao Xuanqing was working so hard should be that the temporary increase of the little wolf soul was about to run out.
After more than a dozen rounds of fighting with each other, whether it was the two little wolf souls, or Pu Zitong's main soul and drama soul, there seemed to be a little injury left on their souls, although it was not enough to be fatal, but it made the soul power consumption more serious, and slowly, the rhythm of the battle between the two sides began to slow down, a bit like two people fighting to the point of physical exhaustion, for the soul master, it should be the soul power, the most obvious thing is that the blue light of the souls of both sides gradually became dim, in contrast, Pu Zitong's main soul and drama soul seem to be more dim.
The two little wolf souls retreated backwards, retreated to the front of Cao Xuanqing's body, and turned back into the big wolf soul again, the big wolf soul still had bright eyes flashing in its eyes, and some green smoke like bright silk was emitted from the eyes of the wolf's eyes, which dispersed outward from the corners of the wolf's eyebrows.
"I actually joined the soul in advance." Fan Zengming said.
"Any questions?" Zhang asked puzzled.
In Zhang Su's eyes, the two little wolf souls merged together again because of the time, and there was nothing strange about it.
"It shouldn't be the end time yet, and it's no problem to hold on for another two or three minutes, but the Cao family kid has merged the two wolf souls into one in advance, and even the soul dust that was temporarily absorbed has been merged together, and the remaining soul power is a lot more than that of Miss Pu, it seems that Cao Xiaozi is going to play the last hole card." Fan Zengming explained the situation on the battlefield.
"What about Miss Pu?" can make Fan Zengming show a surprised expression, Zhang Zhi is a little worried about Pu Zitong.
"Miss Pu should also have an ancestral secret technique useless, it is estimated that it will be used in the last move, no matter who wins or loses, both sides will not be too comfortable, after the last move of the two is released, I will send your soul back to your body, you go below to catch Miss Pu and bring her to your room, she needs some healing." Fan Zengming seemed to have guessed what would happen next, and arranged it for Zhang Su.
Zhang Su didn't know why Fan Zengming knew that Pu Zitong needed treatment, but when he thought that Fan Zengming could be in charge of intelligence in the Qicheng Branch, he should have a certain ability of analysis and insight, so Zhang Su nodded and quietly watched the changes in the battle situation below.
"The second level of soul mimicry, the Great King Gu Xiong!" Cao Xuanqing shouted.
After speaking, Zhang Su saw that Cao Xuanqing's wolf soul had changed in form, the vicious wolf face changed into a fat bear head, the agile and vigorous wolf body changed into a bear body, and the big bear stood up from the pool, and his body was nearly as tall as a one-story residential building.
"I see, the soul of the second weight of the soul splitting and resisting the ritual, and the Gu Xiong of the second weight of soul mimicry, that is to say, the final means of the Cao family kid is the combination of strength-based skills." Fan Zengming understood the meaning of Cao Xuanqing's initiative to merge souls.
Zhang Su watched with bated breath, he also wanted to see what kind of scene it was like to use life and death methods in the duel between soul masters.
"Since you don't want to admit defeat, I won't show mercy anymore!" Cao Xuanqing shouted hoarsely, as if his soul power had reached the limit after condensing the Great Bear form.
"You're going to die that heart!" Pu Zitong snorted coldly, and did not give in in front of the big bear.
"Hmph, then speak with strength."
Cao Xuanqing sneered, raised the huge bear claw, and slapped it fiercely at Pu Zitong in front of him, as if he was going to crush an ant, and the huge soul power condensed a translucent blue light on the bear claw again, and the bear claw was as if it had turned into substance, no longer only the feeling of soul voiding.
The bear's claws swept by, and Zhang Su saw with his own eyes that the layers of fallen leaves in the dry pool were actually blown away by the huge yin wind condensed by this void soul, some were flying in the sky, some were rolling on the ground, and the leaves were like little people, feeling the danger coming, and wanted to escape from the huge bear claws, so as not to suffer an unwarranted disaster.
Pu Zitong didn't hide, under the giant claws of the big bear, there was no chance to dodge at all, she was not in a hurry, gathered the two drama souls to her side, let her soul stand in the middle, and slowly opened the Pu Ming umbrella in her hand, the three souls held the umbrella handle together, and each soul kept releasing a little blue light in her hands, the blue light was as crystal shining as the stars in the night sky, rising along the umbrella handle, and finally gathered on the umbrella leaves, only to see the umbrella leaves of the Pu Ming umbrella continue to grow and expand, It was propped up on the heads of the three souls like a large shiny hood, and the three souls squatted underneath, and the large umbrella sheltered them tightly.
The giant claw of the big bear fell down, slapping fiercely on the huge Pu Ming umbrella, the two moves were connected together, and the resulting soul power impact shook the fallen leaves that were originally scattered and flying again, but what Zhang Su didn't expect was that the bear claw did not break through the defense of the Pu Ming umbrella, but it was only against each other with the Pu Ming umbrella, and it was difficult to fall half an inch.
The three souls under the umbrella shuddered in unison, and the blue light of the souls became even dimmer.
On the umbrella, at the heart of the bear's claw, the spikes at the tip of the umbrella were not broken by the bear's claw, but completely pierced the bear's claw from the bottom up, and some cyan dust and smoke flowed out from the part pierced by the bear's claw, and continued to disperse.
The big bear roared, took the bear claws back, sat on the ground, the soul mimicry was lifted instantly, and the soul changed back to the same black and thin image as Cao Xuanqing, and then, the black and thin soul with a dim blue light returned to Cao Xuanqing's body, and Cao Xuanqing's body, which was originally stationary, turned pale all of a sudden, fell to the ground, rolling on the ground with his right hand, and let out a painful scream, although the hands on the body were intact, but the soul damage affected the perception of the body, which Zhang Su deeply understood.
"It's now!"
Fan Zengming said, patting Zhang Su's soul lightly, and Zhang Su returned to the body that fell to the ground.
Zhang Su came back to his senses, quickly got up from the ground, and quickly ran downstairs according to Fan Zengming's instructions.