Douluo: When the piano sounds, the hidden weapon returns to the factory

Chapter 166 Soul Shock
Feng Yao stared at the sleeping Crystal Turtle of Guixu, which resembled a crystal mountain, a resolute glint in his eyes. Since he had come, he would give it a try and take a gamble! His goal was not to launch a direct attack, but to find that one-in-a-million opportunity to break through its internal defenses!
“If the exterior is indestructible, then break it from the inside! Everything has its inherent frequency, even this near-perfect defense…” Feng Yao’s sharp gaze swept over the seemingly flawless crystal carapace of the Guixu Crystal Turtle. His mind raced, and the Fuxi Qin was already suspended in front of him. He did not activate it immediately, but instead held his breath and focused his mind, his ten fingers brushing across the strings with an almost impossible, ultra-microscopic amplitude.

An extremely risky plan quickly took shape in his mind—to use the all-pervasive nature of the piano's sound to find the resonant frequency of its internal structure and destroy it from the inside!

hum...

He took a deep breath, and the Fuxi Qin floated in front of him. He did not launch an attack immediately, but instead gently stroked the strings with his ten fingers, emitting faint, almost inaudible probing sound waves. These sound waves were not used for attack, but rather, like the most precise probes, carefully penetrated the thick crystal shell of the Guixu Crystal Turtle, reaching deep into its body, attempting to analyze the vibration frequency of its internal structure.

Detection sound waves, extremely faint yet containing incredibly complex waveforms, quietly emanated, like invisible tentacles, carefully seeping into the thick crystal shell of the Crystal Turtle of the Ruins.

However, the process was far more difficult than he had imagined!

The carapace was not only physically invincible, but it could also greatly attenuate, distort, and disrupt soul power fluctuations. Nine out of ten of the probe signals emitted by Feng Yao were directly deflected; only a trace managed to penetrate, and the information returned was fragmented, mixed with intense interference from the immense energy within the giant beast.

Once, twice, ten times... a hundred times!
This was an extremely delicate and mentally taxing process, requiring incredibly precise control. Feng Yao's mental energy was highly concentrated, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Feng Yao's face gradually turned pale, and his mental energy was being consumed at an unprecedented rate. He had to maintain the extreme precision of his low-frequency sound patterns at all times; any slight error could prematurely awaken this terrifying being. Sweat soaked through his robes, and a sharp, needle-like pain even came from between his brows due to the excessive strain on his mental energy.

Just as he was about to give up on this futile attempt, an extremely powerful and exceptionally clear pulse finally pierced through the interference and was captured by him!
"This is... a heartbeat..." Realizing where the fluctuation came from, Feng Yao couldn't help but feel a jolt in his heart.

The heart is like a natural soul core for a living organism, one of the sources of the body's power. If the heart is destroyed by external forces, even the most powerful creature can only perish.

There's only one chance! And you must unleash enough resonant energy in an instant to detonate that heart, or you'll alert the enemy and face utter destruction!
"It's now!"

Bloodshot appeared in Feng Yao's eyes. He bit his tongue sharply, and his soul core began to operate at high speed. The intense pain stimulated his spirit, and powerful energy gathered within him! His ten fingers moved like phantoms as he plucked the strings of the zither, pouring all his soul power and understanding of the power of the Vast Ocean into the strings without reservation!

"Heavenly Sound Domain - Heart-Severing and Meridian-Severing!"

In that instant, Feng Yao broke free from the protective shield of the vast ocean.

Boom! ! ! !

A dull, strange sound, as if it did not resonate in the air but struck directly on the very essence of the soul, erupted!

A colorless sound wave beam, condensed to its extreme and with a frequency so high it distorted space, seemed to traverse the void, ignoring all external defenses. Like the finest yet most deadly poison needle, it precisely struck the very point of that fragile heartbeat!
"Ouch——!!!!!"

The dormant body of the Crystal Turtle of the Ruins suddenly erupted with terrifying energy fluctuations that could destroy the world! Its painful roars were no longer just sounds, but materialized into earth-yellow shockwaves and spatial rifts that exploded wildly in all directions!

The entire grotto collapsed instantly! Countless massive boulders and crystal clusters, each weighing tens of thousands of tons, rained down like rain!
Feng Yao was the first to be hit. Even though he was prepared, the multiple sound barriers he had set up shattered one by one the moment they made contact! The backlash caused him to cough up a mouthful of blood, but Feng Yao had no time to pay attention to his injuries. The Vast Ocean Universe Shield on his left arm and between his eyebrows lit up instantly. Under the protection of his invincible golden body and teleportation, Feng Yao escaped into the Vast Ocean Universe Shield.

The Crystal Turtle of Guixu continued to writhe wildly, its massive body sending tremors through the entire Lost Canyon. It tried to pinpoint the source of the attack, but the wind's attack originated from within, leaving it defenseless! The deadly resonant sound waves spread and amplified within its body, triggering a chain reaction that relentlessly damaged its internal organs, meridians, and even its energy core!
The earth churned like waves, and the Crystal Turtle of the Ruins struggled frantically, trying to expel and crush the "foreign object" inside its body.

After an unknown amount of time, the behemoth's struggles grew increasingly ferocious, yet increasingly powerless. Finally, with a mournful cry that echoed through the earth, filled with resentment and despair, its massive body stiffened abruptly, utterly losing all life, and slowly sank into the shattered earth it had created.

A spirit ring, indescribable in words, slowly rose up.

It was not simply blood red; a thick layer of dark gold was wrapped around it, and the energy fluctuations it emitted caused the entire collapsed grotto to tremble and groan.

Feng Yao waited within the blue space of the Vast Ocean Protective Shield. Sensing the disappearance of that aura, Feng Yao used the Innate Eight Trigrams Disc to painstakingly crawl out of the ruins. Under his control, the surrounding stones moved continuously, and soon the enormous corpse of the Crystal Turtle of the Ruins slowly emerged from the ruins. Looking at the soul ring and corpse not far away, he let out a long sigh.

He succeeded. Despite using every means at his disposal, he managed to hunt down a ferocious beast-level soul beast on his own, at the cost of minor injuries and through a clever method.

Under the light of that special soul ring, a strange movement occurred once again within the gradually cooling, enormous corpse of the Crystal Turtle of the Ruins.

A surge of energy, more solid and restrained than a spirit ring, yet equally vast and boundless, slowly coalesced. On its back, in the thickest, shimmering central region, mysterious earth-yellow and crystal-colored patterns lit up, as if something was being forcibly peeled away from it.

Click... click...

A faint yet chilling cracking sound rang out. A colossal, ancient-looking bone, seemingly bearing the weight of the earth for millennia, slowly rose from beneath its indestructible shell!

That was a torso bone!

But it is completely different from ordinary soul bones. Its entire body presents a warm, jade-like, yet indestructible dark golden hue. The surface of the bone is naturally covered with incredibly complex and mysterious patterns. These patterns sometimes resemble the veins of the earth, and sometimes resemble crystal clusters, as if a miniature mountain range and starry sky have been forged into it. The energy contained within the bone is profound, vast, and carries a strange power that stabilizes space.

This was none other than a top-tier soul bone of the Guixu Crystal Turtle, whose quality far surpassed that of a hundred thousand years old, and might even be superior due to its owner's ferocious beast-level cultivation and mutated Xuanwu bloodline!
Just as the light of the soul ring and the torso bones shone brightly, the corpse of the Kunxu Crystal Turtle underwent another strange change!

Suddenly, a dazzling crystal light burst forth from its thick, mountain-like forelimbs!

This bone was several sizes smaller than the torso bones, but its shape was far more ferocious and domineering! It was a deep, amber-colored hue, its shape resembling a naturally formed heavy arm armor, with several sharp crystal spikes extending from its joints, seemingly capable of easily tearing through space. Inside the bone, a dark red light, like molten lava, could be seen flowing slowly, containing explosive power.

This is a right arm bone!

"Two of them..." Feng Yao endured the pain, his eyes filled with disbelief and shock as he looked at the two soul bones that slowly floated in front of him. It was already a stroke of luck to obtain a soul ring from killing such a being, but this ferocious beast-level Crystal Turtle of the Void had actually produced two extremely powerful soul bones at the same time!

"It seems that the Death Spider King that Bibi Dong killed was no ordinary creature," Feng Yao thought to himself. Faced with this enormous gain that would drive any Soul Master mad, Feng Yao suppressed his excitement and the excruciating pain in his body, maintaining extreme composure.

He took a deep breath, slowly raised his hand, and carefully guided it with his mental power, first storing the two Kunxu Crystal Turtle torso bones and right arm bones, which radiated terrifying energy, into his storage soul tool. The soul bones felt cold and heavy in his hand, as if they contained the power of mountains and the power to tear through space; just touching them made his soul tremble.

Now is not the time to absorb them.

The most urgent task is to absorb this 100,000-year soul ring, which is of the ferocious beast level! He doesn't have much time left to wait for this behemoth to die.

He sat down cross-legged again, ignoring his minor injuries, and used the Kun trigram of the Innate Bagua Plate to adjust his condition to its best. His gaze was fixed firmly on the ferocious beast soul ring that floated in the air, slowly rotating, radiating vast energy and the power of the earth.

"Come on!" Feng Yao shouted, no longer hesitating, and released his soul power and aura with all his might, guiding the ferocious beast soul ring to descend upon himself!

Om-! ! !
The moment the spirit ring was attached, Feng Yao felt as if an entire continent had been crushed upon his soul and body! An unimaginable surge of energy, like a flood bursting its banks, instantly rushed into his limbs and bones! This energy was not only immense, but also carried the weight and desolation of countless ages!

"Pfft—!" Feng Yao suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. His injuries, which had just begun to heal, instantly worsened. Countless tiny bloody wounds burst open on the surface of his skin, and he instantly became a blood-soaked figure!
This energy was far too powerful, far exceeding his expectations! It was far more difficult to tame than when he absorbed the Sea God's divinely bestowed soul ring!

He dared not be negligent in the slightest and immediately activated the Xuan Tian Gong with all his might, guiding the power of the Vast Ocean to protect his heart meridian and spiritual sea, while helping to stabilize the torrent of soul power that was on the verge of collapse.

His body was like a small boat in a raging storm, on the verge of being torn apart at any moment. His consciousness was constantly blurred by the endless pain and the impact of energy, but he forcibly pulled it back with his tenacious willpower.

This is a battle of will and luck! A high-stakes gamble where you have to live or die!
The absorption process was far more painful than imagined. The immense energy almost burst and crushed every inch of Feng Yao's meridians and every cell! Just as his consciousness was about to dissipate and he was about to be swallowed by the endless torrent of energy, his powerful survival instinct and hidden wisdom were fully activated!
"Too heavy...cannot be carried away...guide...transform...use minimal force to achieve maximum effect..." A thought flashed through his almost stagnant mind like lightning.

"Qian represents Heaven, Kun represents Earth..."

His personal understanding of the Eight Trigrams Martial Soul in this life perfectly merged at this critical moment of life and death! He no longer tried to absorb the vast energy in the normal way of absorbing the Soul Ring, but began to build a miniature universe in his body with himself and his own Soul Core as the center.

"Although I don't know what the resonance method of later generations is, I can only try it with my own control..."

Condense the second soul core!

This idea was considered earth-shattering in the Douluo Continent! But he possessed the knowledge of his past life, knew the future development direction of Soul Masters, and had the powerful spiritual foundation brought by his Sea God experience, as well as this almost inexhaustible source of energy!
At this moment, while controlling the rapid operation of the soul core within his body, Feng Yao also diverted a sliver of his mind to perceive his own body.

"The initial soul core is located in the lower dantian, which corresponds to the Kun Earth. Therefore, the best course of action now is to condense your soul core in the sea of ​​consciousness, in order to seek the Qian Heaven..."

"Co-position resonance, literally speaking, means creating a connection between two soul cores, much like the resonance produced by sound..."

At this moment, Feng Yao made an even bolder decision—he began to frantically compress and guide some of the purest soul ring energy, not into the original soul core that was integrated into his dantian, but towards his sea of ​​spirit!

Although the technique was somewhat hasty, when the pure energy arrived at the sea of ​​spirit, under the control of Feng Yao, the energies resonated with each other, miraculously buying him a moment of respite in the destructive torrent, making the energy impact slightly more orderly!
This is an unprecedented opportunity!
With his powerful mental strength, he painstakingly constructed an energy vortex in the sea of ​​his mind, using the inclusive nature of the vast ocean as a foundation and stabilizing it with the resonance of the soul ring in his lower dantian. He frantically extracted and compressed the energy contained in the Guixu Crystal Turtle soul ring, which contained the weight and power of the earth!

Just as Feng Yao was guiding the immense soul ring energy into the sea of ​​spirit, compressing it with all his might in an attempt to condense the second soul core—a sudden change occurred!
Within that ferocious beast's soul ring, the vast and stubborn remnant consciousness of the Crystal Turtle of the Void, accumulated over nearly ten thousand years, seemed to be completely enraged by this act of intruding into its final domain, and suddenly erupted with an extremely terrifying soul shock!

This shock was not an energy impact, but a roar and resistance directly affecting the very essence of the soul! It was as if a million mountains were roaring and collapsing simultaneously in Feng Yao's spiritual sea, trying to completely crush his self-consciousness!

"what--!"

Caught off guard, Feng Yao's process of condensing his soul core was instantly interrupted. His sea of ​​consciousness felt as if it were being torn to shreds, and his consciousness was almost instantly devoured by that desolate, heavy, and bestial ancient will! All his calculations and insights seemed so fragile in the face of this most primal soul power!

Just at this critical moment, when all hope seemed lost—

The Vast Ocean Universe Cover, which had been quietly suspended deep within his sea of ​​consciousness between his brows, suddenly erupted with an unprecedentedly dazzling blue-gold divine light!

A vast, majestic, and supreme divine power descended with a roar, like an endless ocean suppressing all waves, precisely enveloping the raging and roaring remnant soul of the Crystal Turtle of the Ruins!
"presumptuous!"

It was as if a cold snort containing supreme divine power resounded directly in the depths of Feng Yao's soul.

Before this pure divine power, the remnant soul of the Kunxu Crystal Turtle was like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun, letting out a shriek full of fear and resentment, and was instantly suppressed, purified, and vanished without a trace!
The intervention from the gods forcibly cleared away the last and most dangerous obstacle.

I don't know how much time passed; it felt like a fleeting moment, yet also like millions of years...

Having survived the calamity, Feng Yao dared not slack off in the slightest. Taking advantage of this precious gap, he gathered all his remaining spiritual power, frantically guided the energy, and pressed on with all his might!
Om-! ! !
In the center of his spiritual sea, a brand new second soul core, radiating a dark golden luster and with crystal patterns and subtle spatial ripples on its surface, finally became completely stable!
The moment the second soul core took shape, the pressure on Feng Yao to absorb the soul ring was suddenly reduced by more than half! The two soul cores echoed each other like twin stars, forming a perfect energy circulation system, and the absorption and conversion efficiency increased dramatically! The two soul cores echoed each other, and the energy circulation formed its own world.

This soul core is completely different in nature from the soul core in the dantian. Even Feng Yao doesn't know what attribute to use to determine the nature of these two soul cores, which were formed by condensing the energy of soul beasts.

The originally extremely heavy soul ring energy finally became docile, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, and was rapidly absorbed and transformed by the two soul cores, strengthening his physical body, soul, and every martial soul!
Feng Yao suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light, as if the veins of the earth were flowing and spatial ripples were rippling within them! A powerful aura far surpassing anything he had ever felt before erupted from his body, instantly breaking through the level 95 barrier, and it continued to climb!
Level 96!

Ultimately, his cultivation level stabilized at the peak of level ninety-six!

The energy of the ferocious beast's soul ring, combined with the incredible effects of the dual soul core system, enabled him to achieve an unbelievable leap!

(End of this chapter)