Chapter 574: Lingqi's Muffled Kill Style: Suppressing Sea Horse Douluo

"Seventh Spirit Ability: Sea Horse True Body!"

"Seventh Soul Skill: Weapon Soul Avatar!"

Before the Seahorse Sacred Pillar, Lv Lingqi and Sea Horse Douluo, having fully recovered, launched into a fierce confrontation.

Sea Horse Douluo, with his martial soul possessed, was completely different from Ghost Douluo; he was a pure physical-attack-type Title Douluo. Among all his soul skills, only a few were enhancement or defense soul skills; the rest were basically various fist-fighting attacks.

It was difficult to go head-to-head with him, so Lingqi's speed became crucial.

"First Soul Skill: Profound Sea Azure Barrier Wave." Layers of azure water ripples rhythmically pulsed up and down on Sea Horse Douluo's body, wave upon wave, simultaneously stacking energy and boosting his defense—an integrated offensive and defensive enhancement soul skill.

Because his fist techniques had already been completely seen through by Lv Lingqi, Sea Horse Douluo had no choice but to use the method of "overcoming ten thousand techniques with one force," expending massive amounts of soul power to engage in a counter-attack against Lv Lingqi, purely pitting soul power and strength against each other.

In fact, before the battle began, Lv Lingqi had already anticipated this, which was why she chose to rest well first and fully restore her soul power before proceeding with the challenge.

That rest time was not only for Sea Horse Douluo to recover his state, but also for herself.

"Feilian Halberd, disperse!" Lv Lingqi separated the Cross Halberd, flying toward Sea Horse Douluo from both the left and right sides, combined with a heavy left-handed punch from her main body, attacking from three sides.

Moreover, all three attack points were Sea Horse Douluo's weakest defensive spots, places where his fist techniques could not return to defend.

"This girl has truly seen through my fist techniques completely; her combat proficiency is truly too high. Third Soul Skill: Sea-Quaking Wave Fist." Sea Horse Douluo punched the ground, and sea-blue ripples expanded in a circle with him at the center.

Large-scale attacks were precisely the best way to break this kind of encirclement. A full-force strike from a Title Douluo could not be resisted by the dispersed power of Lv Lingqi, and the two small halberds were knocked away.

However, he overlooked Lv Lingqi's left fist, which was not something his Sea-Quaking Wave Fist could shake.

Because on it was a hundred thousand year soul bone, specifically the Evil Orca King Left Arm Bone.

In the original story, what Tang San dropped was a left leg bone, with the soul bone skills being the Orca Evil Axe and the Orca Broken Tooth Slash.

Since the body part was different this time, the soul skills naturally changed as well.

The Orca Broken Tooth Slash remained, only it changed from Tang San's horizontal sweep of the left leg to Lingqi's vertical hand-blade slash of the left arm.

But the Orca Evil Axe changed into the Orca Wave-Breaking Fist, which could triple Lv Lingqi's strength and turn it into a heavy punch to bombard the opponent, invincible and unbreakable.

Lingqi had enough soul bones, and the art she practiced, the Peerless Ghost God Art, was also an extremely violent strength-type art. After all, it was inherited from Lv Bu; even though Lv Lingqi had slightly modified it due to her own constitution, the core essence of this art would not change.

That is: high strength, and even higher explosive power.

Supplemented by the triple-power heavy punch soul bone skill, this punch from Lingqi not only shattered the Sea-Quaking Wave Fist, but even the Profound Sea Azure Barrier Wave that Sea Horse Douluo had set up at the beginning was dispersed in one blow.

Sea Horse Douluo was hit in the abdomen by the punch, and his entire body was sent flying, only stopping when he hit the Seahorse Sacred Pillar.

"Cough, cough!" Sea Horse Douluo landed and spat out a large mouthful of blood. "I really didn't expect that such a girl would have such terrifying fist strength. Hehe, very good. Aside from Hailong Douluo, it has been a long time since I sparred with anyone in fist techniques."

"Fifth Soul Skill: Angry Sea Startling Wave Fist!" Sea Horse Douluo was not angry; instead, he excitedly threw another punch at Lingqi's main body. This was a single-target ultimate move, and its power was much greater than the third soul skill.

"Fourth Soul Skill: Counter-Battle Golden Body!"

Lingqi's Golden Body was an ultimate technique that could only be used when fighting enemies of a higher level than her, allowing her to gradually increase her various attributes that were inferior to the opponent during the battle. Because of her soul bones, cultivation art, and other factors, Lingqi's physical fitness already exceeded Sea Horse Douluo's; if there was anything still inferior, it was the quantity of soul power.

A Spirit Douluo's soul power was inevitably inferior to a Title Douluo's; this was a hard metric.

But the Counter-Battle Golden Body, much like the support of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, began to raise Lingqi's soul power to match Sea Horse Douluo's.

In other words, this was a skill that grew stronger as the opponent grew stronger.

If the opponent was Level Ninety, she would also become Level Ninety; if the opponent was only Level 89, then she could only rise to Level 89.

Of course, "growing stronger with the opponent" also had an upper limit. Generally speaking, when Lingqi encountered a Title Douluo of Level 92 to 93 now, she could use this move to temporarily raise her soul power to their level, but any higher, and it would appear insufficient, as it was only a fourth soul skill after all.

Fortunately, Sea Horse Douluo was exactly Level 93, which did not exceed the limit.

"Orca Broken Tooth Slash!" Lingqi changed her fist into a hand-blade and slashed down, instantly splitting Sea Horse Douluo's fist wind.

Following that, she threw out the Cross Halberd, her first spirit ring flashing, and the Cross Halberd flew toward Sea Horse Douluo, radiating a dense golden light.

"What a formidable combination attack. This girl's soul power level is now not even below mine. In that case, Eighth Soul Skill: Wisdom Sea Meteor Setting Sun Fist—what?"

Because Sea Horse Douluo was startled, he had intended to counter-attack with a high-power skill, but he did not expect that before his fist could even be thrown, he would be struck by Lingqi's halberd.

Originally, this mere first soul skill would not have caused him much damage, but this move had an additional effect he had not expected: it dispersed the soul power the opponent was gathering.

In gaming terms, the "charge bar" for the skill he wanted to unleash was cleared.

His eighth spirit ring had just lit up when it was suppressed.

This time, Sea Horse Douluo was truly a bit anxious. "Damn it, Ninth Soul Skill: Heaven-Bombarding Tornado!"

"Don't even think about it! Imperial Flying Knife!"

"Urgh."

Sea Horse Douluo had intended to unleash his strongest ninth soul skill in one go, but he did not expect Lingqi's attack speed to be shockingly fast as well. The Imperial Flying Knife flew over again, once more dispersing his soul power, and the ninth soul skill failed to execute.

Although Lingqi's attack power was as strong as the Po Clan's and her strength as great as the Power Clan's, she was not a Strong Attack System Spirit Master. Her greatest asset remained her speed. Perhaps her movement speed was not yet equal to the Min Clan's, but her soul power gathering speed and attack speed were definitely second to none in the world.

Aside from defense, Lingqi could be said to have no shortcomings.

Therefore, among the tactics she excelled at, the one she was most proficient in was the Muffled Kill Style.

It was clear that Sea Horse Douluo was going to be "muffled to death" this time, unable to unleash even a single high-level soul skill.

Lingqi kept Xiaobai's warning firmly in mind: do not let Sea Horse Douluo unleash his Heaven-Bombarding Tornado Silence Fist. Back then, Sea God Island had encountered a disaster—an undersea volcano eruption—and the one who stopped this disaster was Sea Horse Douluo. With this single punch, he had leveled the entire volcano.

Among the seven Sea Douluo, perhaps only Hailong Douluo dared to compete with him in fist-fighting; the others, even as strong as Sea Spear Douluo, could only choose to avoid his edge when faced with this punch.

(End of chapter)