Looking at the reflection in the clear spring water, Lu Cheng's eyes were filled with astonishment.
"Heavy pupils?"
He recalled that in the original work, after Huo Yuhao's martial soul spirit eyes underwent their second awakening, Double Pupils were also born—one purple and one gold. It seemed this was a common trait for the second awakening of martial souls.
As he looked around, the secrets of the entire world seemed to have nowhere to hide. He could clearly see existences as small as particles; every petal of Xiao Huo before him was composed of fiery red particles. Everything seemed to stand still, the flow of time becoming eerie and slow.
The Boundless Realm?
Lu Cheng's expression was one of shock.
At the same time, his own Blood Pupils became increasingly eerie and enchanting, even carrying a hint of wickedness. A dark red hue completely stained his original spiritual sea, and this mental force even materialized in reality...
He remembered that in the original work, Huo Yuhao only reached the Mustard Seed/Surreal Level Realm after absorbing the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew...
After all, materializing mental force was a realm that only a Super Douluo could hope to break through. Once achieved, reaching the limit was basically a certainty—the late stage of the Spirit Domain Realm as defined ten thousand years later...
Furthermore, thinking carefully, this was different from Huo Yuhao's Double Pupils.
For the latter, the purple pupil became the white of the eye while the golden pupil occupied the core, looking more like he was wearing contact lenses. But his blood pupils... were truly two pupils squeezed into one eye socket.
Perfectly standard Heavy Pupils.
He had a premonition that his blood pupils might be far more powerful than Huo Yuhao's spirit eyes after the second awakening.
As for the so-called Purple Demon Eye technique, he had no interest in cultivating it, nor did he wish to join the Tang Sect...
"Let's call them... heavy pupils," Lu Cheng murmured.
"A very domineering name. Congratulations, Master, on the second awakening of your martial soul," Xiao Huo chuckled from the side.
"Then... When will Master take me?" A hot breath was exhaled. The fiery red flower beside him was already impatient, even materializing a phantom of a fiery red woman with a long ponytail, gently wrapping around Lu Cheng's neck.
Lu Cheng curled his lips: "Now!"
Inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
After years of nourishment from True Dragon Skeletons, this place had long since grown from a pond less than a hundred meters in diameter into a giant lake over a thousand meters wide. Looking down from the sky, it was like a convergence of Yin and Yang, with red and blue dividing the entire lake into two distinct territories.
You You's attribute was balanced, so she lived at the very center, the convergence point of ice and fire.
Xiao Huo's Blazing Yang Spring, naturally, was located at the outermost edge of the red area. This was the place with the strongest and most vigorous fire attribute in the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. An ordinary soul master would have their physical body and bones corroded into bubbles by the lava-like spring water if they weren't careful.
But Lu Cheng was not afraid at all. He soaked directly into it.
The scalding hot, lava-like spring water constantly washed and tempered his physical body. This was also an exaggerated boost for the physique.
"Let us... become one." Xiao Huo transformed into a phantom of a fire woman. With burning eyes, she stepped into the pool and embraced Lu Cheng, casting a slightly provocative glance at Ma Xiaotao in the distance.
Even though the latter clenched her silver teeth and her pretty face was full of anger, she didn't dare to lightly disturb Lu Cheng's cultivation.
A fourth soul ring sacrifice from a hundred thousand-year spirit beast was an extremely dangerous matter. If anything went wrong, she would probably regret it to death.
"You hussy, just you wait..."
The fiery red stamens completely enveloped Lu Cheng's body, while Xiao Huo's life force was gradually fading. This scene drew many immortal herbs out of the ice and fire yin and yang. Well, watching in bewilderment.
They would not stop Xiao Huo; they only felt pity and confusion for their former companion.
You You: "What a devoted flower. Please wait for another lifetime."
...
Three months passed in a flash.
Ma Xiaotao sat bored by the lakeside, leaning against an ancient tree and fiddling with her nails. Lu Cheng had been silent for three whole months.
According to the timeline, it had been at least... five months since they left Shrek Academy. Now, not only had the first semester ended… Even the two-month winter break was nearing its end...
If they didn't go back soon, they would probably be expelled.
She knew Lu Cheng's resistance toward Shrek and wouldn't try to keep him there for Shrek's sake. She also felt that Shrek wasn't worthy of Lu Cheng, but at the very least... he should see the senior sister one last time before leaving.
Rumble-
Just as Ma Xiaotao was hesitating, the water surface, which had been calm for months, suddenly rippled. The figure of Lu Cheng sitting cross-legged on the lake began to move, and a sun-blotting Golden Crow phantom behind him soared into the clouds.
"Success?" Ma Xiaotao's eyes were excited.
Lu Cheng slowly stood up, his spine perfectly straight.
His skin, scorched black and red by the fire, suddenly cracked and fell away like shards, revealing smooth, fair skin underneath—rebirth through fire!
His entire physical body had received the ultimate tempering.
The spirit bone Xiao Huo sacrificed to him was a torso bone. Under Lu Cheng's guidance, she had compressed and sealed all her cultivation into the spirit bone before slowly completing the sacrifice to become a spirit soul state.
At the same time, Lu Cheng's soul power suddenly surged.
It only stopped once it reached the peak of rank 44.
This was only a small portion of Xiao Huo's cultivation, but it was the limit of what Lu Cheng's body could accommodate at the moment. Any more would burst his body; a hundred thousand years of cultivation was no joke...
Lu Cheng landed lightly on the shore.
"Sister Xiao Tao."
"You really are... a freak." Ma Xiaotao's eye twitched. An eleven-year-old Spirit Ancestor—not to mention this continent, even in Lu Cheng's memories of the Douluo Continent, those disciples who were seen as the highest mountains and longest rivers were only Rank 37 Spirit Elders at this age.
"Let's go. This trip has been very fruitful; it's time to head back." Lu Cheng smiled faintly, appearing a bit more reserved.
"And that bit—cough, that woman?" Ma Xiaotao raised her eyebrows.
"Sister Xiao Tao." Lu Cheng's eye twitched, sensing trouble.
But in his spiritual sea, a beautiful figure emerged from the calm waters. A stunning woman with a ponytail and a hint of heroism appeared in human form beside Lu Cheng, her face full of anger. Her porcelain-white arm rested on Lu Cheng's shoulder, and her gem-like red eyes showed provocation.
"Hmph, what does that dead turkey want with me?"
"I am a divine fire phoenix! You're just a broken flower!"
"If it weren't for the Master's martial soul evolution, wouldn't you still be just a turkey?"
"Do you want to fight?"
"Come on, who's afraid of who!"
The two beautiful red-haired women were at each other's throats, their foreheads almost touching, while Lu Cheng trembled in the middle.
"Sisters, please listen to me!" Lu Cheng took a deep breath.
"Speak!" the two said in unison.
Both women paused and looked over.
"Why don't we head back to Shrek Academy first..."
Lu Cheng squeezed out a smile and said sincerely.
"Hmph, for the Master's sake, I'll spare your life." Xiao Huo snorted softly and retracted into Lu Cheng's body.
Ma Xiaotao squeezed her pale hands; her phoenix eyes were also filled with displeasure.
"..."
Lu Cheng exhaled a helpless breath.
Still too weak.
If this were in the simulator, he would have already pinned these two down on a rock and spanked them...
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