Chapter 137: 100,000-Year Dual Soul Skill! Forbidden Domain! Domination
"Absorb it quickly!" Du Busi's voice boomed, thick with undisguised fervor and expectation.
He stood amidst the lingering spatial turbulence, completely ignoring his shredded upper garments. His burning gaze was locked onto the blood-red soul ring floating in the void, alongside a skull soul bone that radiated a brilliant, starlight glow. He stared fixedly at Liu Yuan, his tone carrying an urgent, almost frantic prompting.
As the master of the Body Sect, Du Busi had witnessed the rise and fall of countless geniuses over his long life. Yet, watching a monster like Liu Yuan prepare to absorb a one-hundred-thousand-year red ring at a mere Rank 50 made his throat run dry. The sheer excitement was intoxicating. He desperately wanted to witness the world-shaking qualitative change that would occur once this top-tier spatial energy merged with the Double Pupils.
"Understood," Liu Yuan replied, his voice a calm anchor amidst the chaotic spatial currents.
Without a shred of hesitation, he sat cross-legged directly beside the massive, cooling corpse of the Spatial Beast. He raised a hand, making a swift beckoning motion. The transparent skull soul bone, shimmering with condensed starlight, instantly transformed into a streak of blinding light. It shot forward, sinking perfectly into the center of his forehead. A chilling, ethereal energy immediately flooded his mind.
Liu Yuan closed his eyes. His hands came to rest on his knees, forming a stable, unyielding seal. The origin soul power of his Double Pupils erupted from his body like a waking dragon. The heavy, ancient aura reached upward, forcibly dragging down the one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring that pulsed with an eerie, blood-red glow.
The moment the crimson ring contracted and settled over his shoulders, all hell broke loose.
An extremely violent sensation of spatial tearing ripped through his meridians. It felt as though thousands of invisible blades were trying to shred him from the inside out. Had an ordinary Soul King attempted this, their flesh and bones would have disintegrated into bloody mist the instant they made contact with such chaotic spatial nodes.
But Liu Yuan was built differently. The instant the Gold of Life embedded within him sensed the fatal crisis, it awakened. An incredibly dense, grey-green aura of pure life force surged outward. It coated the inner walls of his meridians and wrapped around his bones like an indestructible lining, forcefully holding his physical form together against the spatial storm.
While his body became a battlefield, an even fiercer storm raged within his Spiritual Sea.
The residual soul will of the one-hundred-thousand-year Spatial Beast materialized, letting out a horrific, unwilling shriek. The phantom beast lunged, attempting to tear apart Liu Yuan's consciousness and drag him into oblivion.
It was a futile struggle. The ancient, oppressive origin of the Double Pupils descended upon the beast's will like a falling mountain. Simultaneously, the rock-steady Divine Sense of Electrolux anchored the Spiritual Sea, turning it into an impenetrable fortress. The remnant soul could not stir up a single wave. Under the terrifying devouring power of the Double Pupils, the beast's final shrieks were crushed into silence, rapidly refined into the purest spiritual nourishment.
The entire absorption process progressed with a terrifying smoothness that left Du Busi silently marveling. Liu Yuan's physical body, tempered countless times to the absolute limit, combined with the infinite margin for error provided by the Gold of Life, achieved the impossible. A cross-rank absorption that guaranteed a gruesome death for anyone else had been turned into a natural, flawless fusion.
Two hours drifted by in tense silence.
The violent, dark purple spatial rifts that had been violently tearing at the air around Liu Yuan gradually smoothed out. The chaotic storm settled, replaced by a deep, impossibly deep aura that felt as heavy as the abyss.
Liu Yuan abruptly opened his eyes. Within the overlapping irises of his Double Pupils, a deep, spatial darkness swirled faintly amidst the brilliant purple-gold light. He parted his lips and let out a long, slow breath. A stream of turbid air, laced with crackling dark purple spatial energy, shot out like an arrow before dissipating into the wind.
Pushing himself off the ground, Liu Yuan gave a low shout. The soul power within him erupted, and the rings beneath his feet bloomed with blinding intensity.
Purple. Black. Black. Black. Red.
The five soul rings rotated rhythmically, their lights complementing one another. Yet, it was the outermost blood-red ring that commanded absolute authority. The suffocating pressure it emitted completely eclipsed the combined weight of the first four. This utterly absurd, mythical ring configuration forced Du Busi to take a sharp breath, his pupils shrinking to pinpricks despite all his mental preparation.
But the transformation was far from over.
As Liu Yuan stood fully upright, the soul power radiating from his body surged like a rising tide. The sheer density of his energy pierced straight through the crimson halo, climbing higher and higher.
"Rank 55?" Du Busi closed the distance in a single stride. His immense spiritual perception rapidly swept over his disciple's body. A look of wild, unhinged joy exploded across the old man's face. "Good! Excellent! A one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring paired with a one-hundred-thousand-year skull soul bone actually forced your soul power to skyrocket by five entire ranks the moment you broke into the Soul King realm!"
Du Busi practically vibrated with excitement. After reaching Rank 50, every single rank required a massive accumulation of energy and comprehension. Yet, with a single absorption session, Liu Yuan had effortlessly bypassed years of grueling cultivation that would have broken an ordinary Soul Master. The sheer speed of his progression defied logic.
"Liu Yuan, quickly!" Du Busi urged, rubbing his hands together impatiently. "Show this old man exactly what kind of ability that Spatial Beast bestowed upon you!"
Liu Yuan gave a slight nod. He was equally eager to verify the limits of his newly acquired strength. He turned his gaze toward an empty stretch of the forest. The Double Pupils in his eyes contracted, locking onto the fabric of reality itself. The fifth, blood-red soul ring flared with a blinding, eerie light.
"Fifth Soul Skill," Liu Yuan announced, his voice echoing with strange resonance. "Forbidden Domain!"
The moment the words left his lips, the tranquil forest underwent a bizarre, sickening folding effect. A transparent barrier, laced with crackling arcs of dark purple lightning, erupted from Liu Yuan. It instantly expanded, swallowing everything within a hundred-meter radius. Inside this zone, the very light bent and distorted. The natural flow of air shattered into fragmented, jagged currents.
Standing right beside him, Du Busi was immediately swallowed by the expanding domain.
The instant the barrier washed over him, the Super Douluo's expression shifted. A flash of genuine surprise crossed his weathered face. He found that his vast, oceanic soul power—the energy of a Level 98 Super Douluo—suddenly felt as though it had been plunged into a thick quagmire. As the energy reached the ends of his meridians, it became alarmingly sluggish.
He tested the air, swinging his arm in a wide arc. The physical heaviness dragging against his muscles was impossible to ignore.
"A weakening effect?" Du Busi frowned, closing his eyes to carefully analyze the sensation. A second later, his eyes snapped open. "No, it is not just a simple weakening. I can feel my physical strength, my movement speed, the flow rate of my soul power, and even the efficiency of my skill execution... all of it is suppressed by a flat fifty percent. Inside this space, I can only use half of my actual capabilities?"
Du Busi stared down at the distorted spatial rifts crawling across the ground beneath his boots. He clicked his tongue in pure marvel. "Isn't this the spatial cage that beast tried to use against me earlier? But why does it feel infinitely more tyrannical in your hands? The beast's version only applied physical pressure to squeeze the body. Your domain has directly rewritten the fundamental rules of this space!"
Liu Yuan maintained his calm composure, the deep light within his Double Pupils burning steadily. He looked at his master, the corners of his mouth lifting a fraction of an inch.
"Master, it does not stop there. That was merely the suppression applied to my enemies. Next comes the amplification applied to myself."
The blood-red ring flared a second time.
"Fifth Soul Skill, Dominator!"
The aura surrounding the young man instantly underwent a terrifying qualitative shift. Faint, dark purple patterns materialized across his skin, glowing with ancient spatial laws. Inside the boundaries of the Forbidden Domain, every single spatial node seemed to bow in reverence, reaching an absolute consensus with Liu Yuan's will.
Du Busi could clearly sense the explosive surge in power. Liu Yuan's physical and energetic presence spiked violently, receiving an total boost. The sheer magnitude of the amplification was staggering. By the Super Douluo's rough estimation, his disciple's overall combat parameters had just skyrocketed by a full sixty percent.
"This boost..." Du Busi's pupils shrank once more. "It isn't just your spiritual power?"
"Correct, Master," Liu Yuan nodded, his voice carrying the absolute confidence of a sovereign. "Within the Forbidden Domain, I can execute instantaneous short-distance spatial displacement., I gain a complete amplification to my physical strength, soul power output, raw attack power, and spiritual perception. Within this hundred-meter radius... I am the absolute dominator of space."
Du Busi stood rooted to the spot, genuinely shocked.
Conventional high-tier soul skills usually targeted a single, specific attribute for extreme enhancement. But Liu Yuan's one-hundred-thousand-year soul skill was an impossibly rare, bidirectional domain. On one hand, it crippled the enemy with a terrifying fifty percent suppression. On the other, it elevated the user with a staggering sixty percent complete boost.
Between this massive addition and subtraction, the gap in combat strength between Liu Yuan and any opponent trapped within his domain would be widened to an impossible chasm.
"Good! What a Forbidden Domain Dominator!" Du Busi threw his head back and laughed heartily, the sound shaking the surrounding trees. His gaze locked onto Liu Yuan, overflowing with immense pride and satisfaction. "This is truly formidable! With these two abilities working in tandem, even if you are only a Rank 55 Soul King right now, the actual combat strength you possess is entirely beyond measure!"
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