[Skill Interpretation: As long as the soul you have marked with your skill reaches the limit of its lifespan, regardless of the opponent’s cultivation level or the distance across time and space, you can reel in the opponent’s soul.]
[Note 1: It can hook all souls whose lifespan limit has arrived.]
[Note 2: It can hook all souls that use secret techniques to forcefully remain in the world without dying, forcibly evading the passage of time (those who extend their lifespan with spirit medicine are not included in this category)]
[Note 3: Please do not use this divine technique lightly. If you mark the opponent, the opponent will also mark you. If by chance the opponent kills you before their lifespan limit, alas, what a tragedy!]
[Note 4: Even if you succeed in reeling in the opponent’s soul, you may not be able to kill them. However, if the opponent is locked by chains, they can’t harm you either. After three days, the skill will become ineffective, and the opponent will be sent back to their body by the laws. You can activate the Soul Hook skill once on the same soul within seven days.]
Zhang Chen’s eyes stared at the skills on the Golden Finger interface, his entire expression filled with shock, and his pupils brimming with horror: "Isn’t this skill too defiant of heaven? As long as the opponent’s lifespan is up, any soul I’ve marked can be directly reeled in?"
Although reeling them in doesn’t mean that I can kill them, and marking the opponent would also alert them, I could cooperate with others, couldn’t I?
Especially for those old people who defy the heavens and change their fate, this skill is really unfriendly!
The existence of a strong person with a physical body compared to one without is utterly different.
Moreover, my light of the True God skill is apparently also a nemesis to souls, right?
In the future, if I encounter any old guys, I could collaborate with others. Under circumstances where I can’t kill the opponent, I could reel in their soul and engage in various humane destruction and torture—it’s simply a divine skill!
Of course, with great danger comes great reward.
However, the skill is somewhat limited; it can only hook those whose lifespan limit has arrived, which is the only flaw amidst its beauty.
"If I were to kill the Fox Spirit’s body, would it count as the Fox Spirit’s lifespan reaching its limit?" Zhang Chen looked at the Fox Spirit’s body in his hand with a hint of contemplation in his eyes.
"It’s worth trying!" A trace of cold light appeared in Zhang Chen’s pupils.
"Perform a soul mark on it for me." Zhang Chen activated the skill on the Fox Spirit’s body in his hand.
[A body without a soul cannot be marked]
At this moment, a prompt came up from his own skill.
"A soul not present in the body cannot be marked?"
Zhang Chen’s eyebrows furrowed, realizing the limitation of his fifth skill. The Fox Spirit’s soul had escaped, not within the physical body, so although this was the Fox Spirit’s body, it couldn’t be marked.
"When the Fox Spirit’s soul arrives, I’ll mark it; after all, I’m about to fall out with the Fox Spirit, so what do I have to fear? If I mark the Fox Spirit and it doesn’t notice, I might as well kill its physical body. Then I’ll try reeling in the Fox Spirit’s soul, and use the golden light to make a jar and seal the Fox Spirit, eradicating it bit by bit with the golden light." Zhang Chen made up his mind, feeling an indescribable sense of pleasure within.
Now, regarding how to kill the Fox Spirit, Zhang Chen already had a guess in his heart. Once the Fox Spirit arrived, he would mark its soul and then devour the blood within its body. By then, with the Fox Spirit’s body’s death, it remains to be seen whether it counts as the lifespan limit being reached.
The True Dragon Destiny is with me now; the Fox Spirit wouldn’t easily make a move to kill me. Even if it were angered, it would be helpless.
Having acquired a new skill, he was eager to experiment on the Fox Spirit to see how effective his skill was.
After all, the Fox Spirit is at the sixth, even seventh tier. Where else would I find such a good experimental subject?
"If I reel in the Fox Spirit’s soul, should I whip it day and night, or have it warm my bed and fold my quilt, or perhaps have it steal for me day and night? It would be best to clean out the entire Prince Pingbian’s Mansion, killing everyone in it, to quell this anger in my heart."
An evil smile appeared in Zhang Chen’s eyes as he put away the Golden Finger interface. His eyes turned to the great tomb before him: "I wonder if there are any mechanisms to leave in this great tomb. Moreover, this True Dragon Tomb is only a trivial part of the Empress Tomb. The Empress Tomb is truly the key place where countless treasures are buried. With a True Dragon having such heaven-defying skill drops and so many points of experience value fallen here, who knows what unimaginable means the Empress might have and what skills could erupt."
"But wait!"
Suddenly Zhang Chen froze, a crucial problem surfacing in his mind: "Even a True Dragon bleeds, and the dragon soul grudge is of everlasting remembrance. What about the Empress?"
"The most crucial thing is that the Empress’s lifespan limit should have been reached ages ago. She ought to have died countless years ago. If she has a remnant soul, wouldn’t it be naturally restrained by me?"
Realizing this made Zhang Chen’s breath quicken; he thought of a new approach for the fifth skill.
Using it to deal with his enemies? That’s too low. If I continuously seek out ancient divine tombs and employ the skill to hook the remnants of those old guys, I’d be their natural nemesis!
Think about it—a bunch of people who died long ago, their lifespan already reached its limit, or why would they bury themselves? If those old guys each have a method for extending their lives, wouldn’t I hook them without fail each time?
Not just those old guys, but even in the battle between the Fox Spirit and True Dragon Obsession just now, had I obtained the Soul Hook skill, the True Dragon Grudge would have been pulled out of the True Dragon Skeleton on sight.
Without the True Dragon Skeleton to rely upon, what right would the True Dragon Remnant Soul have to contend with me?
"It turns out the essence of my fifth skill isn’t to kill the enemy or deal with the living; it’s designed to deal with those old guys. Especially the older they live, the more of a natural nemesis I am—ensuring every hook is a direct hit! To others, those terrifying old guys capable of destroying everything are just little brothers in my hands!" Realizing this made Zhang Chen breathe even heavier; greed filled his eyes.
"From today onward, I, Zhang Chen, should change my name; I, Zhang Chen, will declare myself the Great Enemy of Eternity! The Enemy of Ancient Relics!" Zhang Chen, holding onto the Fox Spirit’s body, had eyes full of joy.
These are the ways to unlock my skills!
"But I wonder if there are any relics in this world that have lived for so many years." Zhang Chen muttered internally.
Zhang Chen sheathed his long blade, attaching it to his waist, then swept his eyes across the scene, the corner of his mouth curling up: "Fox Spirit, oh Fox Spirit, if you don’t come, so be it; but if you do, I must give you a tremendous surprise. I, Zhang Chen the Ancestor, become invincible soon!"
After securing the skill, Zhang Chen tied the Fox Spirit’s body with several layers of ropes and, holding the Luminous Pearl in his hand, once more scrutinized the stone chamber in front of him, hoping to find some surprises.
"This is within the True Dragon Tomb. At that time, the one who built the tomb had extraordinary power. The constructed gate was also extremely heavy. There are no mechanisms within the tomb, regardless, surely that Great Divine Power User wouldn’t have expected that a subsequent earthquake would break through the tomb’s copper wall and iron wall, granting us the opportunity to enter the tomb."
"To me, that Divine Being was something incredible, but before the mighty power of heaven and earth, he is nothing more than an ant!"
Zhang Chen carefully pondered the structure and layout of the great tomb he had dreamt of in the past. His expression revealed contemplation, his pupils filled with flecks of golden light, attentively observing every corner of the great tomb, lest there be any overlooked clues to find any key points.