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Twelve circular, star-colored, translucent little worms swam in Amon's right palm, sometimes up and sometimes down, leaving a trail of afterimages, like a swarm of insects.
Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, and red, seven soul rings emerged on him.
Among them, the sixth soul ring left by the Auspicious Beast was black with an ominous aura, a kind of dark color. The seventh soul ring left by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King exuded a seductive and evil feeling, presenting a scarlet color different from ordinary red soul rings.
Successfully obtaining the seventh soul ring, Amon advanced to Soul Sage. The soul power accumulated from absorbing thousands of soul bones in the past was also displayed at this moment. His soul power level climbed steadily until it stopped at level 80.
At the same time, all the Amons once again felt the feeling of their physical shackles being released, and they all broke through their current level, becoming level 61.
He closed his eyes, carefully comprehending his newly acquired ability: Martial Soul True Body!
This is an ability that all Beast Soul Master Soul Sages possess. The difference lies in the fact that some Beast Souls, due to their own unique characteristics, also grant Soul Masters special skills different from ordinary people.
Amon raised his right hand, pinched the crystal-textured monocle, and chuckled to himself:
"Martial Soul True Body, huh... I prefer to call it Mythical Creature Form."
Before this, Amon's main body could only maintain a human form and could not transform into the "Worm of Time," but after possessing the seventh soul ring, he gained this ability.
Seventh Soul Skill: Martial Soul True Body, also known as Mythical Creature Form, or "Parasite."
The main body transforms into a "Worm of Time" and parasitizes the souls of others. During parasitism, the influence of soul power and physical strength is greatly reduced. Only spiritual power can effectively resist it.
Parasitism is divided into shallow and deep layers. The shallow layer is to perceive everything the host can perceive, but cannot know the host's inner thoughts. The deep layer is, on this basis, to be able to perceive the host's thoughts and control the host's behavior.
It further strengthens the characteristic of "stealing," greatly improving the effectiveness of all previous abilities related to stealing. The range of the fourth soul skill, Steal, remains unchanged, but the success rate of a single attempt greatly increases.
The essence of "parasitism" is "stealing life." Therefore, the range that Amon can "steal" is further expanded. He can steal the relevant concepts of life, including the limbs of living beings, life force, soul bones, Martial Souls, and even souls!
Amon can directly "steal" the target's soul, put it into his own soul space, and devour it using the characteristic of corruption. This cannot directly strengthen his own soul, but it can make up for the soul defects caused by separating the "Worm of Time."
There is a drawback to doing this, and that is that it will drive you crazy!
Using the soul power obtained through corruption and devouring to repair his own incomplete soul will inevitably affect his own personality and will, gradually turning him into a "stranger."
Amon certainly wouldn't use this method to repair the soul of his main body. He would only use these extra souls to create avatars. This can create a large number of avatars in a short period of time, making up for the problem of slow clone growth.
But there is also a problem with this, and that is that the results obtained from the Council of Amon may not be the same as the will of the main body after being mixed with the will of these polluted souls!
This is a very dangerous ability, even for Amon himself. He must be very careful when using it.
In addition, "parasitism" is different from past soul skills. It is not a soul ring skill obtained by attaching a soul ring, but a special ability of the Martial Soul that is awakened after obtaining the Martial Soul True Body. Therefore, not only the main body can parasitize, but also the "Worm of Time" avatars, which are Martial Soul split bodies, can also "parasitize" and "steal life."
After absorbing the soul ring of the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King, Amon confirmed that this was a Soul Beast with more than 900,000 years of cultivation.
This was not much different from his previous estimate. The one who can parasitize a Limit Douluo must be a Soul Beast of comparable level!
In addition to the soul ring, a soul bone also dropped. This was a head soul bone.
It grants Amon two effects: first, body shaping, which allows him to freely control his body tissues and change their shape.
Second, soul condensation, which allows Amon to shape the memory and personality of the avatars more precisely according to his own will when splitting them.
Both are very useful abilities. "Body shaping" can not only change appearance, but also transfer body tissues when injured, using body tissues from unimportant areas to fill important and damaged areas, maintaining the normal operation of the body and achieving the purpose of transferring wounds.
"Soul condensation" makes up for the shortcomings of Amon's split avatars. Previously, he could only roughly determine the personality of the avatars and simply delete or modify their memories of certain things, but he could not perform more precise operations. "Soul condensation" turns what could not be done in the past into a possibility.
"Finally got this ability. Let me see... randomly select some lucky viewers as the targets of 'parasitism'... Well, I've decided on you. However, I have to deal with some things and make some preparations first." Amon smiled and turned his gaze towards the Star Dou Great Forest, his eyes deep.
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The Star Luo Empire declared war under the pretext of attacking Amon. Their first target was also the Tudor Territory, and Night City had become the front line of the battlefield.
Dai Chenghua personally led an army of 700,000 troops, and had been in a stalemate with "Xue Qinghe" here for more than half a year.
There was no scene of overwhelming victory as imagined, which made him very annoyed and worried. Although the Star Luo Empire's imperial power is very strong, far exceeding the Heaven Dou Empire, and is closer to a centralized system in terms of political system, it is not the emperor's sole decision.
The hereditary nobles led by the Zhu family, the newly emerging ministers, and generals can all restrict imperial power. Due to the defeat in the war, many voices against the war have emerged.
"Xue Qinghe"'s side is also not doing well. As far as she personally is concerned, dragging the Star Luo army here with less than half the strength of the opponent is an extremely brilliant achievement, but at this time, the Heaven Dou Empire is in a two-front battle.
In addition to facing the offensive of the Star Luo Empire, the army of Soul Beasts wandering within the kingdom is also a serious problem.
Moreover, the ravages of Soul Beasts have affected production. The loss of several important grain production areas has made the already difficult logistics support even worse.
She has repeatedly ordered to increase taxes, and even pre-collected several months of grain tax. She knows how much damage this will cause to the domestic people's livelihood of the Heaven Dou Empire, but this is also a last resort.
The fact that the two sides can reach this situation is inseparable from the patriotic people of the Amon family in their respective armies.
Before the war, both sides conducted a national conscription. The Amons actively enlisted, contributing to their country.
Although these Amons all look the same, they joined the army in different places. Dozens or hundreds of them mixed into a team of hundreds of thousands, so they seemed inconspicuous.
After enlisting in the army, although they did not show too much strength, they were reused based on their basic physical fitness alone. Generally, they started as a squad leader in charge of ten people.
These Amons, through mental communication, learned the troop deployments and tactical arrangements of both sides, which was equivalent to opening a full map cheat, and there were also people in the enemy acting in cooperation.
The Amons in the Heaven Dou Empire army first showed bravery on the battlefield, gaining promotion after promotion. After gaining a certain position and having a certain degree of autonomy, they carried out some "surprise attacks," repeatedly giving the Star Luo army a head-on blow.
The Amons in the Star Luo Empire army often achieved brilliant local victories, but they were useless to the overall situation, or even harmful, and would prematurely expose certain military intentions.
Due to the uncertainty and variability of the battlefield, it was difficult for the senior commanders of the Star Luo Empire to find these problems when reviewing the battle afterwards, so these Amons were repeatedly commended.
Of course, the Amons also paid attention to trying not to let too many Amons rise to too high positions, because the higher the position, the greater the probability of meeting each other, and the greater the chance of exposure. Most of them stayed at the level of grassroots officers and no longer showed any performance.
"Xue Qinghe" was able to hold back the Star Luo army with less than half the strength, and at least 50% of the credit should be attributed to the Amons who silently contributed to both sides.
It is also a great challenge for Amon to manipulate such a big war through some subtle actions, while he himself is in a low position and has little power.
"However, it's over now. It will be much easier next." An Amon looked at his superior in front of him and muttered to himself in a voice that was almost inaudible.
"What do you want from me?" A thousand-man commander looked at the young man in front of him and said in a gentle tone.
He was very satisfied with this newly promoted subordinate. He was honest, clear-headed, and had a very keen sense of the battlefield. He could often see through the enemy's intentions. He had already decided to cultivate him as a confidant.
"I just want to ask you, sir, have you ever heard of the Amon family? Are you interested in joining us?" This Amon, wearing simple leather armor and sporting a buzz cut, pinched the corner of his right eye and slowly raised the corners of his mouth.
Looking at his slightly evil smile, the thousand-man commander's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately felt bad. He wanted to shout, but when he opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't say anything.
In a trance, he seemed to see a transparent and illusory figure, twisting around him like a python.
In the hazy picture, he had hands and feet, vaguely wearing a black classical robe, wearing a pointed soft hat of the same color, and a crystal-textured monocle on his face.
He seemed to have seen such an image somewhere... That's right, it's the Duke, Duke Amon!
Then, the thousand-man commander lost consciousness and fell backwards to the ground with a thud.
After a while, he opened his eyes again and sat up, supporting himself on the ground.
The guards outside the camp heard the noise and asked, "Sir, what happened?"
"Nothing." The thousand-man commander pinched the corner of his right eye, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled upwards.
The same thing happened in various camps of the Heaven Dou and Star Luo armies.
In one day, thousands of grassroots officers developed the habit of pinching the corners of their eyes.
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