Chapter 151: Three Eyes Merged into One! Crushing the Martial Soul True Body
The air above the training grounds vanished. In its place, a viscous, suffocating dark purple energy flooded the space, heavy as liquid mercury. Following Liu Yuan's cold command, the flat stone tiles of the arena dissolved into nothingness. A deep, boundless dark purple Void Realm swallowed the reality around them.
"Forbidden Domain, open!"
The blood-red light of his hundred-thousand-year fifth soul ring flared to its absolute limit, painting his features in a crimson glow. A massive hemispherical barrier crashed down from the heavens, completely shrouding Elder Li's towering golden giant hand phantom.
Along the inner walls of this absolute barrier, countless giant, icy pupil phantoms materialized out of thin air. They crowded the Void Realm, densely packed and unblinking. Slowly, rhythmically, the eyes opened and closed. They exuded a cold, supreme majesty—the absolute authority to judge all living things. Every single gaze locked onto Elder Li trapped in the center.
Liu Yuan hovered at the absolute center of the Void Realm. The moment the Forbidden Domain stabilized, his signature Triple Pupils underwent a terrifying, qualitative mutation. Bathed in the intense, flickering radiance of purple-gold divine light, the three pupils—originally arranged in a perfect triangular pattern—began to shift. They converged, sliding toward the center of his iris in a seamless fusion.
In less than half a breath, the three distinct pupils vanished entirely. In their place sat a single, massive, abyssal dark purple eye. The center of this singular pupil held a miniature cosmos. A slowly rotating nebula swirled within its depths, leaking an aura of pure, unadulterated destruction capable of erasing all vitality from existence.
Liu Yuan's soul power aura erupted, shattering his previous limits and ascending to an unmatched peak. The sheer physical weight of his pressure slammed against the external defensive barriers of the training grounds. The protective formations groaned, emitting sharp, cracking sounds as they struggled to bear the devastating strain.
High above, Du Busi hovered in mid-air. The moment that singular, cosmic eye opened, the Master of the Body Sect flinched as if struck by a physical bolt of lightning. His pupils contracted to the size of pinpoints.
"This... what is this?" Du Busi muttered, his voice barely a whisper. The usual manic fanaticism that burned in his eyes was entirely eclipsed by raw, unadulterated shock.
As a Level 98 Super Douluo and the supreme leader of the Body Sect, Du Busi prided himself on possessing absolute knowledge regarding the Secondary Awakening of Body Martial Souls. Yet, the state Liu Yuan currently displayed had completely shattered the boundaries of his understanding.
'Gold-tier Secondary Awakening... that is the absolute pinnacle recorded in the Sect's ancient archives,'Du Busi thought, his mind racing.'Yet, the aura radiating from this merged form of his Triple Pupils is on an entirely different dimensional level. Could it be... does his Double Pupils Martial Soul possess the potential to evolve beyond the Gold tier?'
A monstrous tidal wave of emotion crashed through Du Busi's chest. Beyond the Gold tier—what could possibly exist there? Was it a forbidden domain untouched by humanity for ten thousand years, or was it a realm strictly reserved for the gods? He stared fixedly at his disciple, his chest heaving as his breathing grew ragged and rapid.
Inside the Forbidden Domain, Elder Li was living a nightmare.
He had already unleashed his Martial Soul True Body, his soul power originally surging through his meridians like a raging ocean. But the exact fraction of a second he was dragged into this Void Realm, his internal energy stagnated. It felt as though his veins had been pumped full of liquid lead and mercury. The flow of his soul power ground to an agonizingly sluggish crawl.
"Damn it, what is this suppression..." Elder Li forced out a low, strained roar through gritted teeth.
Without a single warning, the Void Realm answered. Countless dark purple soul power chains plummeted from the abyssal sky. They writhed like metallic tentacles tearing their way out of spatial fissures, whipping through the air with shrill, ear-piercing shrieks. In a flash, the chains lashed around Elder Li's massive golden Martial Soul True Body, binding the phantom tight.
As a Level 75 Soul Saint, Elder Li possessed decades of brutal combat experience. Panic did not consume him. He frantically ignited his stagnant soul power, forcing the giant golden palm of his True Body to clench into a massive fist. Muscles of pure golden light bulged as he attempted to rip the bindings apart by brute force.
"Break for me!" he bellowed, his voice echoing like thunder.
Driven by the explosive outburst of a Soul Saint, dozens of the purple chains groaned and violently snapped. They shattered into specks of flowing light, dissipating into the void.
But before Elder Li could even draw a breath of relief, the thousands of icy pupil phantoms lining the Void Realm flashed in terrifying unison.
Hundreds of new chains—thicker, heavier, and darker than before—erupted from thin air. They surged toward his towering golden form in an endless, suffocating tide.
Elder Li smashed, tore, and crushed the incoming onslaught tirelessly. Golden light clashed against dark purple metal, sending shockwaves rippling through the domain. Yet, the regeneration speed of the chains vastly outpaced his destruction. Within a mere handful of breaths, his towering golden giant hand phantom was entirely swallowed by layers upon layers of chains. He was bound into a massive, suffocating purple cocoon, pinned dead center in the Void Realm, completely immobilized.
Within Liu Yuan's singular, cosmic eye, a cold purple light pulsed.
"Dominator."
The single word fell from his lips, cold and absolute.
Liu Yuan's figure swayed slightly. He did not blur. He did not even leave an afterimage. Bending the absolute laws of his Forbidden Domain, he used spatial teleportation to instantly cross the dozens of meters separating them. He materialized abruptly, floating mere inches from Elder Li's true physical body housed within the golden phantom.
Elder Li only registered a flash of purple light before his eyes. A sensation of extreme, fatal crisis exploded in his mind, causing every hair on his body to stand on end. He opened his mouth, desperate to shout his surrender...
A fair, slender, yet terrifyingly powerful hand had already clamped precisely around his throat.
Liu Yuan did not squeeze. He applied no lethal force. He merely hovered there in absolute silence, his deep, singular cosmic eye staring down at the Soul Saint from point-blank range.
"Elder, you have lost."
The moment those words left his lips, the violent, raging soul power fluctuations tearing through the arena vanished into thin air.
The entire training ground plunged into a deathly, suffocating silence.
Thousands of Body Sect disciples surrounding the training grounds stood frozen. None of them dared to breathe. They stared at the scene above the ruined arena, their faces pale with shock. A Level 75 Soul Saint—a powerhouse who had fully activated his Martial Soul True Body—had failed to last even a single minute against Liu Yuan's fifth soul skill. He had been utterly suppressed, locked down in the most humiliating, effortless manner imaginable.
"This... this wasn't a sparring match. Was that just a one-sided slaughter?" a disciple whispered, his teeth chattering uncontrollably from the sheer oppressive terror lingering in the air.
"Has Senior Brother Liu Yuan's strength actually reached such a monstrous level?" another muttered, swallowing hard. "That was a Martial Soul True Body! In the soul master world, a cultivator with their True Body active is a completely different species compared to one without it. Yet... he was still crushed like an insect..."
High above, Du Busi remained dazed for a long, silent moment. Then, he threw his head back and let out a burst of wild, hearty laughter. The booming sound echoed across the mountains, filled with endless, unbridled gratification.
"Good! What a Forbidden Domain! What a Dominator!" Du Busi descended, landing heavily on the shattered arena floor. His eyes burned with intense pride, offering the absolute highest recognition to the terrifying power his disciple had just displayed.
"Liu Yuan, you have not merely completed the Gold-tier Secondary Awakening. You have pioneered a combat form that this old man has never witnessed in his entire life. Your future... your future is absolutely limitless!"
Liu Yuan exhaled a slow, measured breath. With a mere shift of his thoughts, the blinding blood-red light of his fifth soul ring slowly dimmed and retracted into his body. The dark purple Void world of the Forbidden Domain shattered, receding like a fading tide. The cosmic single eye in his gaze split apart, the iris restructuring itself smoothly until it returned to his original, deep Triple Pupils form.
He released his iron grip on Elder Li's throat. Stepping forward, he politely supported the older man's shoulder to steady him, his tone returning to a calm, respectful sincerity.
"Elder, I apologize. Just now, in order to properly test the absolute limits of my soul skill, my methods were a bit aggressive. Please do not take offense."
Elder Li's complexion was deathly pale. A deep sense of weakness washed over him, the natural backlash of having his soul power so violently suppressed and drained. He shook his head with a bitter, self-deprecating smile, though his eyes shone with genuine admiration.
"Junior Brother Liu Yuan, there is no need for apologies. I have truly broadened my horizons today. In this entire realm, you are the first and only Soul King who has ever forced me to accept defeat so willingly. With you here, our Body Sect is destined for unmatched prosperity."
As the spar that shook the very foundations of the Body Sect concluded, Liu Yuan's reputation among the disciples and elders skyrocketed to an untouchable, unmatched peak.
Later that evening, bathed in the cool light of the setting sun, Liu Yuan made his way back to his private courtyard. Along the stone-paved path, he happened to cross paths with Vina and Mu Xue, who were out for a leisurely stroll. Because Liu Yuan had locked himself away in deep seclusion for so long, the three of them had barely spoken a word to each other over the past half-year.
They stopped to chat, the atmosphere light and comfortable. However, halfway through their conversation, Vina's expression grew complicated. She lowered her voice, revealing a piece of news that was currently sending shockwaves across the entire continent.
"Liu Yuan, you might not know this since you've been isolated in seclusion these past few days," Vina began, her eyes serious. "The absolute pillar of Shrek Academy... the Dragon God Douluo, Elder Mu, passed away not long ago. Shrek is likely descending into complete chaos as we speak."
Hearing the news of Elder Mu's death, Liu Yuan's expression remained entirely placid. Not a single muscle in his face twitched. He merely offered a calm, noncommittal nod.
Internally, he felt zero shock. As a transmigrator intimately familiar with the original trajectory of this world, he was acutely aware of Elder Mu's failing physical condition and inevitable fate. That stubborn old man had been clinging to life by a thread; it was only natural that he had finally reached the absolute end of his lifespan at this exact point in time.
However, after bidding farewell to Vina and Mu Xue and returning to the quiet solitude of his room, Liu Yuan sat by the window. He gazed out at the sprawling, ink-black night sky, faint ripples of anticipation finally stirring within his calm heart.
The death of Elder Mu was not just the passing of an old man. It marked the complete and utter collapse of the continent's old power structure. It was the starting gun, signaling that the gears of the timeline would now accelerate at a terrifying, unmatched speed.
"With Elder Mu dead, the ambitions of the Sun Moon Empire will no longer face any true suppression," Liu Yuan muttered into the quiet room, his Triple Pupils narrowing into dark, calculating slits.
"The flames of continental war will ignite very soon. And in the original historical trajectory..." He paused, his jaw tightening. "The final outcome of the Body Sect was a tragic one. Under the joint, treacherous schemes of the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire, Master was eventually forced into a corner, detonating his own soul core just to take his enemies down with him..."
Liu Yuan slowly clenched his hands into fists. A dangerous, freezing flash of purple-gold light flickered within the depths of his Triple Pupils.
'But I am here now. I have mastered the absolute power of the Triple Pupils and achieved the Gold-tier Secondary Awakening. This time, I will absolutely not allow that pathetic tragedy to repeat itself.'He stood up, his tall figure casting a long, imposing shadow across the floorboards.'Whether it is the hypocrites of Shrek Academy or the rats of the Holy Spirit Cult, if anyone dares to touch a single hair on the Body Sect, I will slaughter them all. The ending of this Douluo Continent... will be rewritten by my hands alone.'
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