Chapter 136: The Death of the Space Beast! A 100,000-Year Soul Ring and a 100,000-Year Soul Bone Explode
Deep within the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, the heavy, stagnant air suddenly ignited.
Du Busi unleashed a flurry of emerald-green claw shadows, each strike carrying enough devastating force to tear the very sky asunder. Facing this overwhelming assault, the hundred-thousand-year Space Beast refused to sit idly by and wait for death. As an apex Soul Beast possessing spatial attributes, its perception of danger had long evolved into a flawless, razor-sharp instinct.
The creature violently flicked its illusory, starlight-dappled tail. The previously stable atmosphere around it instantly warped, undergoing a visible, sickening collapse. Reality itself seemed to fold inward. A fraction of a second before the emerald claws could shred its shimmering fur, the Space Beast's physical form vanished into thin air. A sharp tearing sound echoed across the battlefield as a jagged crack opened in the Void a hundred meters away, allowing the beast to slowly slink out from the dimensional rift.
"Spatial Jump?" Liu Yuan observed the clash from a safe vantage point. His Double Pupils contracted, locking onto the fading afterimage with cold, analytical precision.
This was the Space Beast's absolute trump card—a supreme life-saving technique that forcibly bypassed physical attacks by rewriting its own displacement coordinates in the blink of an eye.
Du Busi's guaranteed killing blow struck nothing but empty air. His terrifying soul power crashed into the earth below, detonating with the force of a meteor. Debris rained down as the impact plowed a massive, smoking trench dozens of meters deep into the already devastated valley floor.
Yet, the old monster showed no signs of frustration. Instead, the battle lust burning in his eyes flared into an absolute inferno.
"Trying to run?" Du Busi's voice boomed, vibrating with raw, unadulterated power. "In front of this old man, do you really think you can escape!"
He unleashed a deafening roar that literally shattered the cloud cover above. The suffocating pressure of a Level 98 Super Douluo erupted outward, sweeping across the forest like a raging tidal wave. He refused to give the Space Beast a single fraction of a second to retreat into the Void again. Moving like a bolt of emerald-green lightning, Du Busi closed the hundred-meter gap in an instant. His right hand curled into a vicious hook, tearing through the air as he slammed a heavy palm forward.
The shadow of death loomed over the Space Beast. A desperate, cornered glint flashed within its star-glittering eyes. It frantically channeled the origin soul power burning within its core, forcing the surrounding spatial fabric to constantly misalign and fracture.
Du Busi's palm winds shrieked past, each devastating strike missing the beast's skull by a mere hair's breadth. The sheer kinetic force of the near-misses ripped away patches of its fur. Under this relentless, violent onslaught, the hundred-thousand-year apex predator was reduced to a fragile skiff caught in a hurricane, forced into a passive, exhausting cycle of Spatial Jumps just to survive.
Liu Yuan watched with detached calculation. His Double Pupils easily dissected the flow of battle. Spatial Jumps demanded a colossal toll on a beast's soul power reserves, especially when executed under the suffocating, full-force blockade of a Super Douluo. At this blistering rhythm, the creature's defeat was a mathematical certainty.
The hundred-thousand-year Space Beast clearly understood its grim reality.
Catching a microscopic gap between Du Busi's relentless strikes, the creature abruptly halted its retreat. Its previously illusory, shifting form solidified. The light-purple starlight radiating from its fur darkened, condensing into a deep, suffocating shade of violet.
It was preparing for a final, desperate gamble.
Throwing its head back, the Space Beast unleashed an ear-piercing, shrill shriek. The crystalline, cicada-like wings on its back vibrated at such a terrifying frequency they blurred into complete invisibility. In perfect synchronization with its cry, the spatial structure within a ten-meter radius of Du Busi violently mutated.
Countless invisible spatial barriers materialized out of thin air, locking together like the teeth of a steel trap. Du Busi was instantly immobilized. This was a supreme innate ability—Spatial Cage. It possessed the terrifying property of forcibly ripping an independent sub-space away from reality itself, isolating whatever was caught inside.
A split second later, the isolated pocket of space began to collapse inward with frantic, crushing momentum.
The sheer gravitational and spatial pressure was catastrophic—more than enough to instantly grind an ordinary Title Douluo into a bloody pulp. Caught in the epicenter of this extreme compression, Du Busi's movements ground to a sluggish crawl. The air around him grew as dense as solid lead, making even the simple act of raising his arm appear incredibly strenuous.
A flash of savage cruelty ignited in the Space Beast's eyes. Its hind legs dug into the shattered earth, muscles coiling tight before it launched itself forward. The beast's physical body dissolved into a blinding streak of purple light. It channeled the absolute entirety of its spatial origin power into this single, suicidal charge, slamming fiercely toward the locked-down Super Douluo.
This impact carried the apocalyptic force of a localized spatial collapse. It was the Space Beast's ultimate, irreversible killing move.
Bound by the collapsing spatial blockade, Du Busi appeared completely defenseless, left with no choice but to let that devastating purple comet strike his chest.
Yet, staring down this supposedly fatal blow, the old monster's face betrayed zero panic. Instead, the corners of his mouth curled upward, stretching into a smug, deeply mocking grin.
THUD.
A sickeningly dull impact echoed across the valley, sounding like a divine hammer striking the core of the earth. The Space Beast's desperate strike, an attack genuinely capable of leveling mountains, slammed dead-center into Du Busi's chest.
But the expected explosion of shattered bone and flying flesh never occurred.
The kinetic shockwave merely vaporized Du Busi's upper garments, shredding the fabric into dust. Beneath the ruined clothes, his bare chest was exposed—skin glowing with a brilliant emerald-green luster, looking as though it were forged from indestructible divine steel. Through the Secondary Awakening of his Body Martial Soul and the constant nourishment of his tyrannical soul power, his physical body had long ago transcended the fragile limits of humanity.
An impact capable of triggering a localized spatial collapse had been completely absorbed by his raw flesh and bone.
Du Busi stood rooted to the spot, immovable as a primordial mountain. Not a single trace of his aura wavered. He looked down at the exhausted, utterly stunned Space Beast currently pressed against his chest, and let out a low, rumbling chuckle.
"Is that it?" he mocked, his voice dripping with condescension. "Your strength seems a bit lacking."
Standing on the periphery, Liu Yuan felt his heart jolt against his ribs.
'So strong,' he thought, his eyes narrowing in genuine appreciation.
He already knew Du Busi was one of the absolute apex experts on the entire Douluo Continent. However, witnessing the man use his pure, unadorned physical body to tank a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast's spatial origin attack without sustaining a single scratch was a deeply visceral shock. This was the true terror of the Body Sect.
"My turn!"
A vicious, predatory light flashed in Du Busi's eyes. He flexed his restricted arm. Muscles bulged beneath his emerald skin, and with a casual exertion of his terrifying physical strength, he shattered the collapsing Spatial Cage into millions of glittering, glass-like fragments.
Moving with blinding speed, he reached out with his left hand, his fingers digging like steel pitons into the Space Beast's spine, pinning it firmly in place. He drew his right arm back, clenching his hand into a massive fist. Emerald soul power surged, concentrating entirely into his knuckles, before he drove the punch forward with apocalyptic force directly into the beast's neck.
BANG!
The punch landed with a bone-shattering crunch. The sheer kinetic force of the blow nearly folded the Space Beast's body in half. Its eyes bulged. Torrents of dark-purple blood, thick with shredded internal organs, violently erupted from its maw.
The terrifyingly tenacious vitality of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast prevented it from dying instantly, but the sickening sound of its cervical vertebrae snapping echoed clearly through the clearing. Du Busi refused to give the creature a single second to breathe. Pressing his advantage, he unleashed a brutal, merciless barrage. His iron fists rained down like falling meteors, each devastating strike targeting the beast's most critical vital points.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Every heavy, dull thud was accompanied by the agonizing, miserable wails of the dying beast. Under Du Busi's primitive, brutally efficient strikes, the once elusive and majestic Space Beast was reduced to a helpless lamb on a butcher's block. In the face of absolute, overwhelming power suppression, its complex spatial abilities were completely rendered useless.
Finally, after enduring dozens of catastrophic blows, the Space Beast collapsed into the cratered earth. Its breathing was exceptionally weak, a mere rattle in its ruined throat. The pair of crystalline cicada wings on its back had been shattered beyond recognition, reduced to jagged, bloody stumps.
Du Busi slowly withdrew his fists. He exhaled a long, steaming breath, the emerald glow fading from his skin as he turned toward his disciple.
"Liu Yuan, get over here," Du Busi commanded, his tone returning to its usual gruff pragmatism. "This beast has been completely crippled, and its spatial origin is scattered. Now is the perfect time to deal the final blow. Move quickly, lest the stench of blood attracts those more troublesome fellows lurking deeper in the core area."
Liu Yuan did not hesitate. He tapped his toes against the ground, his figure blurring as he instantly arrived at the edge of the deep pit.
He stared down at the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast hovering on the absolute brink of death, his Double Pupils contracting slightly as he analyzed its fading life force.
"My turn," Liu Yuan murmured softly.
A brilliant purple-gold light suddenly ignited within his eyes. Channeled by his surging soul power, two thick Spirit Rays instantly condensed into high-heat, piercing beams of pure destructive energy.
Squelch!
The twin beams of light shot forward with surgical precision, piercing directly through the Space Beast's ruined eyes and instantly incinerating its brain core.
The beast's limbs, which had been violently twitching from the agonizing pain, went completely rigid. Its final, rattling breath escaped its lungs, dissipating into the ruined valley air.
The hundred-thousand-year Space Beast, an apex predator that had dominated this territory for an era, had finally fallen.
The moment its life force was completely severed, an incredibly dense, violent surge of dark-purple energy spilled out from the massive corpse. The energy swirled and condensed in mid-air, drawing in the surrounding ambient power.
In mere seconds, a Soul Ring glowing with an eerie, blindingly blood-red light steadily emerged. Within that crimson halo, tiny, jagged spatial cracks could be seen flickering in and out of existence, radiating a heavy, heart-palpitating pressure.
But that was not all. From the shattered remains of the beast's skull, a transparent piece of bone emitting a faint, ethereal starlight burst forth, hovering quietly beside the blood-red Soul Ring.
It was the absolute top-tier treasure guaranteed to drop from any hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast—a hundred-thousand-year Head Soul Bone!
Staring at the floating treasures, Liu Yuan's usually calm gaze instantly turned burning hot.
"A hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring... and a hundred-thousand-year Head Soul Bone..."
A rare, deeply satisfied smile touched his lips. "This time, I've truly hit the jackpot."
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