"What?!"
Dai Mubai's forward momentum abruptly halted, his confident expression instantly replaced by horror.
"A 100,000-year soul ring!"
Ning Rongrong screamed, her pretty face as white as paper.
"How is this possible... How could a support-type martial soul withstand the sacrifice of a 100,000-year-old soul beast?!"
Oscar dropped the sausage from his hand and his mouth gaped open wide enough to fit an egg.
Ma Hongjun, transformed into a fire phoenix, came to an abrupt halt in mid-air, nearly falling to the ground, his eyes filled with endless terror.
The battlefield was deathly silent.
Everyone was so stunned by the deep red spirit ring that they lost their ability to think.
"This oppressive aura...this color..."
Zhu Zhuqing's voice trembled.
"It's definitely more than 100,000 years!"
"At least... more than 500,000 years!"
Upon hearing this, everyone felt their scalp tingle and a chill run from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.
On the city wall, Ye Lingling's expression was indifferent. The moment her deep red ninth soul ring lit up, she parted her lips and uttered four words.
"Nine-Star Begonia - The Cycle of Life and Death".
The moment she finished speaking, one of the nine petals of the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul phantom behind her instantly changed from pure white to a deep, dark green.
A completely opposite aura emanated from her.
If it was once the embodiment of life, now it is the source of decay and deadly poison.
There was no ball of light, no flames, only a dark green ripple, almost invisible to the naked eye, that spread from her fingertips.
Wherever the ripples passed, the White Tiger Meteor Shower released by Dai Mubai melted and disintegrated silently, like ice and snow under the sun, without even causing a ripple.
"not good!"
Alarm bells rang in Dai Mubai's mind; he could feel a deadly crisis locking onto him.
He held the War God Axe across his chest and frantically poured all his soul power into it.
"Guardian of the God of War!"
Buzz!
A golden light shield instantly took shape.
However, the dark green ripple completely ignored the light shield's defense.
It gently imprinted itself on Dai Mubai's chest.
"puff--!"
Dai Mubai was struck as if by lightning, his body flying backward like a kite with a broken string, and he almost dropped the War God Axe from his hand.
While in mid-air, he spat out a mouthful of blood, which fell to the ground and turned a strange dark green.
boom!
He crashed heavily to the ground, creating a large crater. He struggled for a few moments but couldn't get up.
He felt his life force being madly drained away by an irresistible force.
Dai Mubai's eyes were filled with shock and confusion.
"So strong..."
He managed to squeeze out two words, then his head lolled to the side and he completely lost consciousness.
One move.
Just one move.
Wielding a divine weapon, the level 93 powerful attack-type titled Douluo was defeated!
The entire room fell silent.
Just then, the golden scroll in the sky shone brightly once more.
Lines of new golden characters slowly emerged.
[Nineteenth on the Douluo Continent Power Ranking: Ye Lingling!]
[Martial Soul: Nine-Star Begonia (originally Nine-Heart Begonia, now evolved)]
[Biography: The Nine-Star Begonia Martial Soul is the most powerful healing-type martial soul in the Douluo Continent, passed down through a single lineage.]
This martial spirit carries the essence of life, but also bears a curse. Each inheritor dies after giving birth to a child, their life force exhausted. Ye Lingling's mother perished for this reason.
She was destined to follow in her mother's footsteps, alone, into this preordained fate.
Until she was seven years old, outside Tiandou City, she met a white-robed sword immortal who was cultivating in the mortal world.
The mortal swordsman, pitying his talent and lamenting his fate, took him in as his personal disciple and nurtured him with utmost care.
From that moment on, Ye Lingling's life underwent a dramatic transformation!
On the golden scroll, light flowed and new characters coalesced once more.
[At twenty-five years old, his soul power reached level ninety, and he was promoted to Title Douluo.]
[In the same year, in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, he encountered the 580,000-year-old soul beast "Ten Thousand Demon King".]
The Demon King is cruel and tyrannical, and desires to seize the owner of the Nine-Star Begonia Martial Soul as his possession to help them break through their bottleneck.
[When Ye Lingling was outmatched and her life hung by a thread, she took out the sword pellet given to her by her master.]
[The sword pellet was activated, unleashing a wisp of mortal sword energy that swept across three thousand miles.]
The Demon King's physical body shattered, his soul and spirit perished, leaving only a faint breath.
Ye Lingling personally ended his life and absorbed his soul ring, which became the ninth ring.
[At twenty-eight years old, soul power has reached level ninety-six!]
The golden light slowly faded, and the information on the Heavenly Ranking came to an end.
The entire Jialing Pass battlefield fell into an even more complete and utter silence than before.
If killing Dai Mubai in one move was shocking...
Then this life story is a myth.
A level 96 Title Douluo at the age of 28?
This is completely beyond the comprehension of everyone in the Douluo Continent.
Even Tang San and Qian Renxue, who claimed to be inheritors of the gods, had never experienced such a terrifying cultivation speed.
Not to mention the ninth spirit ring.
580,000 years!
This is simply beyond the limit that human soul masters can absorb; it is an existence that is enough to overturn the ironclad rules of the entire soul master world!
On the city tower of Jialing Pass.
A hint of surprise and uncertainty flashed in Qian Renxue's golden eyes.
As she gazed at the still-standing silver figure beneath the city wall, a tidal wave of emotions surged within her.
Twenty-eight years old, class of '96.
This speed has even surpassed his own, who inherited the position of angel.
And that spirit ring...
580,000 years.
That can no longer be called a spirit ring; it's a moving natural disaster.
No wonder, no wonder a support-type Soul Master could make it onto this power ranking.
but...
Qian Renxue's thoughts quickly shifted from Ye Lingling herself to another name on her resume.
Red Dust Sword Immortal.
A single sword pellet, meant to save a disciple's life, could instantly kill a terrifying soul beast that was 580,000 years old.
How unfathomable must the sword immortal's own strength be?
This person has probably completely transcended the constraints of the Douluo Continent.
They reached a level that they could not understand or imagine.
"When did such a figure appear on the Douluo Continent?"
Qian Renxue murmured to herself, a sense of...surprise and awe rising in her heart.
...
at the same time.
In the distant Starry Sky Forest, at its core lies the Lake of Life.
The lake was as calm as a mirror, reflecting the sky and the several imposing figures on its shore.
Leading the group was a black-haired man, none other than the Beast God Di Tian.
His gaze seemed to pierce through endless space, also fixed on the gradually dissipating golden light of the Heavenly Ranking above Jialing Pass.
"My lord."
Di Tian spoke slowly, his voice low and heavy with a hint of solemnity.
"Who exactly is this Mortal Sword Immortal?"
"During the years we have been asleep, such a powerful being has actually been born in the human world?"
(End of chapter)