Apocalypse: Master of Soul Beasts

The attack effects of Annihilation of All Beings appear so brilliant and poignant.

The white energy wave carries terrifying Soul Power, even including Wen Yu’s own light and darkness attribute attacks. This light and dark convert into Chaos, yet still mixed with corrosiveness and overwhelming heat!

Exhausting all physical strength, draining all of Wen Yu’s energy, this strike of Annihilation of All Beings is naturally something Ross cannot withstand!

He didn’t even have the chance to utter his final words before being completely obliterated by the shockwave of Annihilation of All Beings!

In the next second, Wen Yu’s body fell straight to the ground...

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The combo skill of Mad Medley and Palpitation—Annihilation of All Beings, its lethality needs no further elaboration, representing the zenith of Wen Yu’s offensive capabilities! However, strictly speaking, this move is not a conventional attack, as the instantly drained physical strength is enough to make Wen Yu entirely lose his ability to counterattack within seconds.

Just an embellishment...

However, the variability of Wen Yu’s skills still allowed Wen Yu to compress the repercussions of Annihilation of All Beings to the extreme.

Accompanied by the launch of Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift, Wen Yu’s Soul Body was immediately injured, yet a sudden surge of newfound strength came from within his body, continuously replenishing Wen Yu’s loss. Combined with a Photosynthetic Spirit Motif, everything returned to its original state.

Well, the aforementioned unconventional attack might have had a slight error...

These are unimportant; what matters is the gains this time!

With the collapse of Ross’s Soul Body, bits of Light of the soul emerged from the place where Ross met his end, quickly gathering at Wen Yu’s chest, where the Soul Shattering Mirror emitted a faint white light that attracted the Light of the soul to gather continuously, swiftly drawing the Light of the soul of Ross back completely, as if a flock of swallows returning home.

The next second, Wen Yu vaguely sensed an inexplicable attraction coming from the Soul Shattering Mirror.

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This attraction did not have a genial, familiar taste, but rather like a cold machine, urging Wen Yu to make a certain choice.

And the target of choice is Ross’s eleven skills.

Wen Yu didn’t use the Soul Shattering Mirror often; the first time was on the Soul Battlefield, and this was only the second time. However, usually, Wen Yu would take out the Soul Shattering Mirror to ponder and observe for a while. Though he couldn’t claim to understand its operational principles thoroughly, he at least had a general grasp.

Similar to tearing enemy skills in the Soul State, the Soul Shattering Mirror absorbs enemy Soul Fragments and extracts their skills from these fragments—extracting skills from the Souls.

The reasoning is simple, and Wen Yu even thought that once he researched the Soul Skills System more deeply, maybe he could achieve such a level.

Another message arrived from the Soul Shattering Mirror, detailing the eleven skills Ross possessed.

Soul Balance Scale...

Geniality...

Soul Pressure...

Soul Realm Deprivation...

Only names were listed, with no detailed skill description, but that’s fine; Wen Yu already set his target.

”Extract Soul Balance Scale.”

When the Spiritual Fluctuation was transmitted to the Soul Shattering Mirror in an instant, Wen Yu was indeed nervous—afraid that the Soul Balance Scale was not as powerful as imagined, worried that its ability to balance soul strength had a time limit.

For a while, a bit of unease welled up in Wen Yu’s heart until the Soul Shattering Mirror emitted a white light, followed by a skill scroll phantom floating out from the Shattered Soul Realm, landing in Wen Yu’s hand. The moment he picked up the skill scroll, Wen Yu immediately read the skill description, feeling a mix of emotions...

How to say it...this Soul Balance Scale didn’t disappoint Wen Yu in some effects, but it had considerable limitations!

Soul Balance Scale (Species-specific Esoteric Level, Active Skills): Manipulate Mysterious and Great Power, forcibly balance two life forms’ soul strength. Once the host learns this skill, consuming a small amount of physical energy allows them to activate the Soul Balance Scale, forcibly performing soul balance with any life form within line of sight—balancing the existing soul strength of both parties to achieve perfect equilibrium and permanently solidifying the caster’s soul strength!

Note: This skill can only be activated once every fifty years!

(Soul as the root, power as the foundation, flesh as the exterior, the unity of the three yields the force of Absolute Balance!)

Permanent balance of soul strength, as Ross just did, taking advantage of Wen Yu’s boosted soul strength with the Dream becomes Reality Skill System, then striking with a Soul Balance Scale.

Not to mention the subsequent battles; just the gains from this Soul Balance Scale could be values unattainable through normal channels for a lifetime! Though therein lies a disappointment for Wen Yu.

The fifty-year cooldown limitation.

Yet, upon reconsideration, Wen Yu thought this cooldown might be eliminated using Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift, thus rendering the so-called limitation nonexistent.

However, there’s another issue—Wen Yu’s own soul strength is quite high, plus the enhancement from Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift, that even a professionist who’s lived for unknown years like the Eleventh Level Old Monster might not match Wen Yu in soul strength. In other words, this skill is not a conventional skill and can only be used as a strategic weapon at certain special times!

Nonetheless, Wen Yu’s power is already akin to a nuclear weapon against normal opponents...it’s awkward, and Wen Yu had a premonition that, for a long time, he’ll encounter no opponents with soul strength vastly superior to his own.

So when should one learn...at Level 8, 9, 10, or 11?

That’s another dilemma...

Moreover, the annotation at the end of the Soul Balance Scale skill...

Wen Yu squinted and scanned the Soul Balance Scale’s skill introduction again—hardly different in wording to Blood and Flesh Balance Scale.

Similar names, corresponding Skill Effects, analogous skill descriptions, along with the final note on the Soul Balance Scale...

”Force of Absolute Balance...”

Wen Yu knew skill chains exist long ago, as represented by Victor’s Real and Illusion series. As for any link between the Soul Balance Scale and Blood and Flesh Balance Scale, the clues are too scarce for Wen Yu to discern now.

Wen Yu squinted for a long time, finally placing the Soul Balance Scale into the space ring. The skill is there, and the skill effect wasn’t wasted by that strike of Annihilation of All Beings. In short, this wave wasn’t lost, and as for when to learn the Soul Balance Scale, that’s a question for the future.

After completing all this, Wen Yu finally stood up, simultaneously retracting the Soul Battlefield.

With the Soul Battlefield losing effect, Wen Yu’s Soul Body returned to the flesh, he twisted his neck, looking into the distance.