Chương 42: Chapter 42: Then came along the Thunder
Xiu Ye took a deep breath in as a white ball of spirit energy entering his body, its energy coursing throughout his entire body and into his spirit soul, elevating it to the 1000 age number.
His yellow soul ring glowed brightly, almost making it golden in color, arcs of lightning cackled around it.
Xiu Ye let out a relieve sigh. "Finally. I finally have a thousand year old spirit soul!" And it only took about an hour.
The smell of blood and rot entered into Xiu Ye's nostrils, making him quickly pinched his nose in disgust.
Surrounding him were several sliced dead bodies of soul beasts, their blood now stained the grass red and created a small pool.
It was a complete slaughter.
The only spot that wasn't affected by the blood was where Xiu Ye is currently sitting on. The how was because he dug a meter width and length circular hole around him, making the blood drip down into the hole.
'I could leave right now as my spirit soul already reached the thousand year old level, but I should make it reach two thousand years. When I get out of here, more specifically the Spirit Pagoda, I would be able to breakthrough the 20th rank and get my second soul ring. With two soul rings of my spirit soul's current age, they should be a thousand years old each and two thousand years old in total.'
'But if I remain here some more and get it to the two thousand year level, my soul rings each would be two thousand years old and in total four thousand years old. Making it reach my current limit and also easier to promote it to ten thousand years old later on.' Xiu Ye's lips turned into a grinned. He stood up from his spot, his left holding onto the sheath of his sword, and turned towards a certain direction.
There, a certain hundred year old soul beast that came along with the Blood Flame Wolves, hid within all the leaves of a couple of trees from view, well, in the naked eyes. But to a spiritual power detection? He wasn't able to see its body but he could clearly see its bloodthirsty presence.
This soul beast wasn't any ordinary hundred year old soul beast. No, it was something of one of the apex level with that level of bloodlust and the intelligence equal or more to a thousand year old soul beast, Xiu Ye was certain that this soul beast is even capable of fighting one.
Most importantly however, is its intelligence. Even when several other thousand and hundred year old dead soul beasts gathered in the same area, it still didn't move from its position. It remained still and silent. Like a hunter.
It knew that it didn't stood a chance against Xiu Ye, especially since it personally saw him bisect a soul beast of the thousand year old level with a single slice, so it waited. It waited for the human to leave, since he wouldn't have a use for a soul beast's body unless it carried a soul bone, or the human gets weak and tired enough for it to attack it.
Xiu Ye narrowed his eyes, his right hand grasping at the Crimson Yang Sword's handle, and he got into a Iaido sword stance.
Killing this hundred year old soul beast wasn't going to be worth it, after all, it was only a hundred years old. It would only give him ten years of cultivation age than a hundred years from thousand year old soul beasts.
Yet, he doesn't know why, but letting this soul beast eat these dead soul beasts is not going to be good. And one of the things he learned from Genryūsai Yamamoto's memories and his own experience, was trusting his gut instincts.
"Sorry whatever soul beast you are but, you gonna have to die." His yellow soul ring glowed of its own color around his body, his Thunder Hammer momentarily flickered into existence on his right shoulder before going back into his inner world.
Tiny lightning bolts appeared within Xiu Ye's eyes, his body slightly bulged and he grown a couple of inches taller, his muscles throbbed with explosive power that could easily punch a boulder into ash.
Lightning Beast, 85% power!
Xiu Ye's three years of training didn't only centered around with his cultivation, projection, and forging. He also trained in controlling and comprehending his spirit soul of what it could do.
Manipulating his soul ability's power output was one of many.
He poured the elemental power of lightning into his sword, making it so his sword attack would be more fast and easy to penetrate anything with its power. The perfect sword technique to use against distant enemies than using fire element, as it only increases the sword's innate fire abilities and destructive powers.
Having to use lightning element with a fire type sword though wasn't really bad, as the two elements doesn't conflict with one another and instead they even compliment with one another.
The soul beast widened its numerous eyes in fear, death was coming for it. So it finally decided to move.
Xiu Ye's eyes widened, without any hesitation, he pulled his sword out of its sheathed and started slashing apart the air around him with a fluid and fast strokes that, to even soul ancestor's eyes, were mere blurs.
To the untrained eye, Xiu Ye was randomly slashing the air around him like a lunatic swordsman. But one with keen eyes would notice, there were thin white silk lines attached to one other like a cobweb. It is a web of web silk strings and Xiu Ye was in the middle of it all.
The web continued to appear more and more in Xiu Ye's eyes, almost covering the entire blood stained grass plain.
'Webs... Bloodthirsty aura... You've got to be kidding me.' Xiu Ye's brow twitched, his eyes focused on the presence of the hundred year old soul beast that was still hiding.
Suddenly, the thin silk web strings started to gather around Xiu Ye. The once invisible strings became visible for anyone to see as threads of the silk grew wide and gathered around as a spherical ball of white web, trapping him in it.
Xiu Ye stood straight in attention, his right hand sheathing the Crimson Yang Sword once more as his eyes surveyed his cage.
It was a complete ball dome of white web, with the hollow inside where he was trapped in was only a meter in diameter and length. White web strings covered the inside like a spider's nest.
Suddenly, purple mist clouds started to appear within the ball of web, the smell of rot and decay was strong and thick. As the mist touched the ground; it started melting it at a incredible speed, yet as it passes the strings of web it didn't melt it.
Xiu Ye narrowed his eyes, he controlled his soul power to cover his entire body in flames and block his sense of smell. Completely blocking the poisonous mess from entering and melting his body.
Electricity started sparking between his fingers and coursed through his sword's blade.
Xiu Ye slightly pulled the sword out but stopped, hesitation appeared in his eyes for a second and pulled the blade back into the scabbard.
He stored enough lightning in his sword to power a small city for an entire year, and he was not about to release it on just cutting apart this cocoon.
Especially since he just sensed five more entities entering his spiritual detection, though with the web dome, he was only able to extend his spiritual power by 5 meters. Those entities just entered his five meters range and was near where his enemy was.
He raised his right hand up in front of him into an open palm and said.
"50% should about do it. Hadō #54. Haien!"
His soul power circulated around inside his body intensely, yet controlled, the energy flowed into his right hand palm and a condensed oblong shaped red colored energy was expelled from his palm and fires out towards the wall of webs.
In an instant, as the red colored oblong sized energy hit the wall, blazing inferno like flames appeared and incinerated the webs from existence, spread across the entire doom within mere seconds. Not leaving even ashes behind.
As the webs were set on fire, a giant black eight legged spider with a woman's face on its belly could be seen hissing in front of Xiu Ye.
It was the dreaded Man Faced Demon Spider! Not only that, but judging from realism of the face on its stomach and its mass, this soul beast was about a hundred years old.
Man Faced Demon Spiders are a dangerous and strong Spirit Beast species. They are also called Predator of Predators due to their strength.
They are extremely vicious and violent soul beasts, the danger of this species is way beyond that of normal soul beasts. Their entire body is a weapon: Its armour is as hard as stone, so dull weapons are unable to penetrate it; its body is filled with dangerous venom that eats starting at the heart and corrodes the bone; its web is venomous and extremely sticky, as well as hard and durable; and its legs are extremely sharp. Moreover, the soul power of Man Faced Demon Spider is extremely tyrannical in nature, which makes it very difficult and even dangerous to absorb.
This was one of the few peak level soul beasts that can kill higher than its own cultivation age.
The Man Faced Demon Spider hissed at Xiu Ye and a purple ball sized goo was blasted towards the latter from its mouth. Which Xiu Ye casually leaned to the side to avoid it.
The purple goo landed on the ground behind him, which in a second, corroded it into a two meter diameter deep hole.
'Holy shit. This thing's poison is dangerous, thankfully Ryūjin Jakka's flames and Yang Qi is capable of resisting the poison.' Xiu Ye sweat dropped in slight nervousness.
Suddenly, at that moment, several other soul beasts started to appear around them. All with the aura of a thousand year old soul beast!
The Man Faced Demon Spider hiss turned into a screech of anger as it looked around to see other soul beasts surrounding it and its food.
A huge wide wave of white webs was released from the tips of its sharp appendages and its ass, covering almost the entire area in a net of webs.
The soul beasts realized that the Man Faced Demon Spider wanted to entrapped them in its web, which had a strong paralysis poison laced on them that can immobilized soul beasts at their level within moments! Moreover, the webs was so tenacious that it couldn't be sliced with the thousand year old soul beasts' claws.
They wanted to escape but the ends of the web net had already landed down on the ground, blocking their exit. As inner net structure of web slowly come down on them, the soul beasts roared in anger.
They will not die like this! If they would, then the one who did this will accompany them! This showed that these soul beasts had completely gone with their instincts to kill than understand things more clearly, making them at the lower type of thousand year old soul beasts.
Because, if these soul beast were more intelligent, they could have just tear through web net if they worked together and used a combined elemental long ranged attack.
The 5 thousand year old soul beasts immediately pounced towards the Man Faced Demon Spider, who screeched at them defiance, and a battle of soul beasts ensued.
All the while Xiu Ye stared at the six soul beasts with cold and unfeeling gaze.
He leaned forward, his left foot back, his sword in a Iaido sword stance, and blue-white lightning bolts sparked around his body and his surroundings.
Slow and deep breaths was taken in, his pupils slowly disappeared and only white glowing eyes remained.
His soul power circulated around his entire body at a fast rate, strengthening his body, mostly in his legs. Soul power and lightning attribute coursed through every single muscles and blood vessels of his at a fast rate.
In Xiu Ye's eyes, memories of a coward, with low self-esteem and a terrible player, played out. He had no parents, no blood related family, and he was always lived in fear for his life at every direction.
Yet, he always tries to lived up to other's expectations. Especially to a certain demon woman.
Xiu Ye breathed in, suddenly, the three diameter ground beneath his feet collapsed as lightning cackled intensely. Rock, dirt, blood and grass scattered up from the collapsed ground.
"Thunder Breathing Style: First Form: Thunderclap and Flash.... Six Fold!"
Six flashes of light appeared and the sound of thunder was heard.
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