"Second meeting?" Ye Guyi's expression froze slightly, while Xu Zihuang's gaze toward the Sacred Unicorn became noticeably deeper.
"Then the first time we met must have been quite a long time ago."
Hearing Xu Zihuang's words, the Sacred Unicorn's eyes immediately lit up, and it gently nodded.
"That was ten thousand years ago. It wasn't just me who met you—there was also the second-generation Angel God from the Spirit Hall whose godly position was shattered."
At this point, the Sacred Unicorn's gentle gaze fell upon Ye Guyi beside Xu Zihuang.
"Since you are her descendant, you must have heard of her."
"Angel God Qian Renxue." Ye Guyi subconsciously murmured.
"Is the rumor true? You really once followed the first-generation Angel God?"
"Indeed." The Sacred Unicorn's eyes were filled with nostalgia and gratitude.
"Back then, she saved me when I was gravely injured and on the verge of death. Afterward, I followed her as she traveled across the entire Douluo Continent, purifying soul beasts with evil bloodlines, until she gathered the faith power of all living beings on the continent and became the Angel God. She originally intended to bring me with her to the Divine Realm, but the rules of the Divine Realm did not permit it."
"Since that's the case, I'll be direct." Xu Zihuang spoke seriously.
"Your abilities are an extremely good match for Sister Lingyi's martial soul. If you are willing, you can also form a contract with her and become her soul spirit, just like that Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. I possess a divine imprint, and I am confident that I have a certain chance of achieving godhood in the future. At that time, you will be able to ascend to the Divine Realm together with us and obtain eternal life. Of course, we will not force you into a master-servant contract; it will be a voluntary equal contract between both sides."
"I am very familiar with this kind of contract method, because that is precisely the ability of the plane where I was born." The Sacred Unicorn shook its head.
"I am willing to form a contract with her and become her soul spirit. But I have one question."
"Please ask." Considering the connection with her ancestor, Ye Guyi showed the corresponding respect toward the Sacred Unicorn. However, at this moment, she already had some guesses in her heart.
If what the Sacred Unicorn said was true, then Elder Yi should come from the same plane as it.
Sure enough, the Sacred Unicorn's question was exactly related to this.
"Where did the method you use to form contracts with soul beasts come from?"
"It was taught to us by one of my teachers. He came from a plane outside the Douluo Continent, named Electrolux." Ye Guyi answered truthfully.
The Sacred Unicorn's pupils suddenly contracted. It took a long while before it calmed its emotions, then spoke with a firm expression: "I have no more questions. Please begin."
Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi exchanged a glance. They had not expected things to progress so smoothly.
"Then I will perform the contract for you both." Xu Zihuang solemnly stepped between Ye Guyi and the Sacred Unicorn.
The Sacred Unicorn even took the initiative to let Ye Guyi touch the horn on its forehead. At the same time, a layer of holy golden-white light rose from both Ye Guyi and the Sacred Unicorn.
Ye Guyi clearly felt that the horn seemed to act as a bridge for heart-to-heart communication, allowing their minds to connect directly.
Xu Zihuang's incantation rang out almost simultaneously. Amid the low chanting, the soul spirit fusion officially began.
Ye Guyi naturally had absolute trust in Xu Zihuang and completely opened her mind. The Sacred Unicorn was the same. Its choice to form a contract with Ye Guyi was not only because of the temptation of eternal life, but even more because of its own subjective will.
From Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi, it saw the hope of returning to its homeland.
Rings of golden light spread outward from the six-pointed star magic array, and gentle light-element fluctuations enveloped the bodies of Ye Guyi and the Sacred Unicorn.
The perfect compatibility in attributes made the fusion between Ye Guyi and the Sacred Unicorn exceptionally smooth. The entire process went naturally and smoothly.
Before long, Ye Guyi's spiritual power began to connect with the Sacred Unicorn. The Sacred Unicorn's body became increasingly illusory, but its eyes grew brighter and brighter, and the horn on its forehead burst with dazzling radiance.
Meanwhile, Ye Guyi was like a golden-white sun, illuminating the entire space as bright as day, making it impossible to look directly at her. Intense soul power fluctuations continuously rose from her delicate body, instantly breaking through the bottleneck of rank 80, and her soul power rank continued to rise.
At this moment, the medicinal effects of the Mixed Origin Immortal Grass and the Yearning Heartbroken Red were truly activated, along with the elevation brought by condensing her soul core.
At Ye Guyi's chest, the golden-white soul core vortex rotated on its own, giving the fair skin at her chest a translucent quality. A blood-red soul ring with three golden patterns slowly rose from beneath her feet and settled into the position of her eighth soul ring.
Two yellow, two purple, two black, two red. Eight soul rings slowly pulsed around Ye Guyi. With this, she officially broke through to the rank of eight-ring Soul Douluo. And she was only twenty-two years old.
The Sacred Unicorn's body had become transparent and simply vanished. Only a strange bone, entirely golden-white and crystal-like, floated where it had been.
Chest bone, rib bones, spine bone, and other forms connected; inside flowed golden light, resting upon the dense soul power vortex. In a flash, it merged into Ye Guyi's body.
What the Sacred Unicorn gave Ye Guyi was precisely the most precious of the conventional six soul bones, the torso soul bone.
Golden light shone brilliantly from Ye Guyi's body. Standing quietly to the side, Xu Zihuang personally sensed that Ye Guyi's soul power cultivation had already risen to around rank 84, approaching rank 85. This was the foundation of a thirty-thousand-year ferocious beast. Even after becoming a soul spirit, the soul ring and soul bone it provided could still bring such a massive increase to Ye Guyi.
Even the quality of Ye Guyi's Sacred Angel martial soul was subtly and gradually improving through the fusion with the Sacred Unicorn.
Although Ye Guyi's Sacred Angel martial soul had developed three pairs of wings when she broke through to the Soul Saint realm, that did not mean her martial soul quality had truly reached the level equivalent to the legendary god-level martial soul Six-Winged Angel.
However, this fusion with the Sacred Unicorn provided exactly such an opportunity. It was just that this process would inevitably take some time.
Thinking of this, Xu Zihuang silently stood guard beside Ye Guyi while also comprehending the abilities of his external soul bone, the Evil God Wings. This external soul bone came from the super soul beast Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and the abilities it granted him would certainly not be inferior to an ordinary ten-thousand-year soul bone.
The moon set and the sun rose; time passed quietly.
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Star Luo Empire, northwest frontier, Mingdou Mountain Range.
Large patches of light flashed here. Countless soul guidance rays and soul cannon beams crisscrossed wildly, stirring up massive energy storms in the sky.
This was clearly a battle involving thousands of soul masters and soul mentors. Such a grand scene could be said to be a confrontation and contest between the highest-level armies on the continent.
In addition to the nine titled Douluo who had followed Xu Jiujiu to rescue the White Tiger Duke, the Star Luo Empire's other eight soul master legions had also arrived at the front lines, instantly relieving the pressure there.
Eight soul master legions, that was a full eight thousand soul masters. If used properly, this force could completely decide the outcome of a war.
Although the Sun Moon Empire had sealed the border with high-altitude detection soul tools, the Star Luo Empire's Fragmented Star Douluo had still relied on his special space-attribute martial soul to risk scouting some information.
That was: the Sun Moon Empire had not stationed a large army at the border at all. They had simply taken the Mingdou Mountain Range line and turned it into their defensive position.
With keen intuition, White Tiger Duke Dai Hao immediately made a judgment.
The Sun Moon Empire's main attack target was not the Star Luo Empire, but the Heavenly Soul Empire. And the probability of this was extremely high. Otherwise, why would the Sun Moon Empire retreat to defend the Mingdou Mountain Range when they clearly held the advantage?
According to White Tiger Duke Dai Hao's original plan, they would dispatch powerhouses to destroy the Sun Moon Empire's aerial blockade at all costs, then launch a surprise assault on the Mingdou Mountain Range. As long as they could break through the defensive line and retake the Mingdou Mountain Range, directly threatening the Sun Moon Empire's hinterland, the crisis facing the Heavenly Soul Empire would naturally be resolved.
However, when Xu Jiujiu, this princess who was experiencing the battlefield for the first time, learned of this information, she panicked somewhat. She knew that if the Heavenly Soul Empire fell, it would be an irreversible massive crisis for their Star Luo Empire. Therefore, as the commander of the eight soul master legions, she resolutely issued the order to counterattack, disregarding White Tiger Duke Dai Hao's dissuasion.
She commanded the soul master legions to fight in her capacity as princess of the Star Luo Empire; even White Tiger Duke Dai Hao could not disobey. Dai Hao was indeed a powerful minister second only to one and above ten thousand in the Star Luo Empire, but that very status also restricted him.
At this moment, the Mingdou Mountain Range was like a gigantic porcupine; at least three thousand firepower points continuously spewed cannon fire outward.
Among them, soul cannons were the main force, supplemented by soul guidance rays.
Soul guidance rays had higher precision than soul cannons, were relatively easy to adjust in attack angle, and possessed greater penetrating power. However, their attack range could not compare to soul cannons. The two complemented each other with their respective advantages.
Long-range bombardment and coverage were handled by soul cannons, while once soul masters broke through to a certain distance, a large number of soul guidance rays would sweep across.
The Sun Moon Empire had constructed an extremely tight soul guidance defensive position in the Mingdou Mountain Range, and the Star Luo Empire had also made corresponding deployments.
This time, the Star Luo Empire had mobilized a full five thousand soul masters and five soul master armies. However, only five hundred participated in the assault, and all of them were powerhouses at the Soul Saint level and above.
Five hundred Soul Saints, what a terrifying elite fighting force this was!
Once cultivation reached the Soul Saint level, the advantages of traditional soul masters became apparent. Only soul tools with a particularly powerful destructive force, or linked soul tools concentrating fire, could harm them.
These five hundred elite soul masters were the source of Xu Jiujiu's confidence.
The Soul Saints on the Star Luo Empire's side were only conducting probing attacks, continuously depleting the Sun Moon Empire's milk bottle reserves while waiting for the right moment.
The sustained combat capability of Soul Saint-level powerhouses was far beyond what the Sun Moon Empire's soul mentors could match. Every Star Luo Empire Soul Saint had reached this level through decades of bitter cultivation, whereas the Sun Moon Empire's soul mentors had basically been forcibly elevated through drugs, leaving their foundations unstable.
If this continued, the Sun Moon Empire's soul mentors would eventually run out of steam. Moreover, these Soul Saints would from time to time seize opportunities to attack the high-altitude detection soul tools in the sky. Each high-altitude detection soul tool was extremely expensive; destroying even one would cause the Sun Moon Empire considerable pain and reduce their visual advantage.
Everything seemed to be proceeding exactly as Xu Jiujiu had anticipated. The soul cannons and soul guidance rays firing from the Mingdou Mountain Range gradually weakened. Naturally, the Star Luo Empire noticed the reduction in the Sun Moon Empire's defensive strength and began pressing forward step by step.
On the Sun Moon Empire's side, the blocking fire from soul cannons and soul guidance rays suddenly surged again, becoming even fiercer than before and madly bombarding the already completely stunned and mentally shaken high-tier soul masters of the Star Luo Empire. In an instant, the powerful legion formed by five hundred Soul Saints virtually collapsed and fled in disarray.
Xu Jiujiu felt as if all her strength had been drained. Her face turned deathly pale, completely devoid of the earlier confidence of certain victory. A few strands of soft golden hair fell messily across her cheeks as she murmured dazedly in her heart.
"It's over… everything is over."
It was entirely because of her decision that the Star Luo Empire's high-tier soul masters had fallen into the Sun Moon Empire's trap. That was more than two hundred Soul Saints; this kind of devastating loss nearly shattered her psychological defenses.
It was only thanks to Star Cloud Douluo Yi Man promptly supporting her that she did not reveal an even more unsightly appearance.
The expressions of the other titled Douluo were equally grim, and the way they looked at Xu Jiujiu had changed from before.
After all, Xu Jiujiu was still a royal princess who had experienced many grand occasions. She took a deep breath and forcibly calmed herself.
She knew that the urgent priority now was to stabilize the situation. Compared to the interests of the nation, what did her own dignity as a princess amount to?
This mishap was not entirely a bad thing; at the very least, Xu Jiujiu had recognized her own inadequacies. She had already decided that from now on, she would fully hand over command of those eight soul master legions to White Tiger Duke Dai Hao.
Star Cloud Douluo Yi Man maintained her composure and spoke gravely to remind Xu Jiujiu.
"Your Highness, we may as well request aid from Shrek Academy. If Yu Tianhuang is there, his special talent ability would be perfect for detecting the soul tool that released that white light. If we want to break through the Mingdou Mountain Range defensive line, this is unavoidable. Moreover, Yu Tianhuang's status in Shrek Academy is rather special, so this could also…"
Star Cloud Douluo did not finish the rest, but how could Xu Jiujiu not understand her intention?
"Grandma Yi Man, you are right. I will personally write a letter to Tianhuang requesting assistance. Our Star Luo Empire's counterattack on the Mingdou Mountain Range was originally meant to relieve pressure on the Heavenly Soul Empire. I believe he should not refuse."
Star Cloud Douluo sighed softly.
"You child, you are just too stubborn. As a girl, wanting to prove your ability does not necessarily have to be done this way."
The speaker had no intention, but the listener took it to heart. In Star Cloud Douluo's blind spot, Xu Jiujiu's gaze gradually became firm and burning.
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