Douluo: This Legend of the Dragon King is not quite right

Chapter 199 Xie Xie, Abused, Desperate for Life

That level of awareness is sufficient.

Lu Jun nodded, then said no more and walked straight to a virtual pod that was flashing with a dark blue light. The pod door slid open silently.

"Come in. Remember your current resolve."

"I will tell you that the potential of your twin martial souls is far more than this. They need real pressure, they need to walk on the edge of life and death, in order to be fully activated, or even undergo a qualitative change."

He thought of the opportunity Xie Xie seized when he was at the seventh ring in the original novel, which led to the evolution of the Time-Space Dragon.

Now, he wants to accelerate this process significantly.

He had previously experimented inside the Spirit Ascension Platform and found that the Ice Abyss Sword could temporarily amplify teammates' abilities. For example, Xu Xiaoyan's martial soul could be upgraded to the level of the Ultimate Ice martial soul in a short period of time.

Therefore, for Xie Xie, the Ice Abyss Sword was the best catalyst.

He wanted to amplify this pressure countless times in the virtual world and impose it on Xie Xie, making him touch, feel, and forcibly pull out that deeply hidden power of mutation on the verge of death countless times.

Once the pressure in the virtual world lessens, he will proceed in the real world to fully unleash Xie Xie's potential.

For Lu Jun, having an extra helper is undoubtedly the greatest boost.

Just as Leng Yaozhu said, developing one's own Soul Master team is one of the most important things.

“The virtual world won’t truly die, but…” Lu Jun looked at Xie Xie’s slightly pale face, his tone suddenly turning chilling, the tip of the Ice Abyss Sword pointing at him, “Pain, despair, the fear of dying… will be real.”

"Furthermore, I will use the power of the Ice Abyss Sword to amplify your senses, so that you will experience pain that is ten times clearer than actual death."

He paused, his voice seeming to emanate from the deepest hell:

"Do you dare? To surpass her, for your goal."

Xie Xie looked at Lu Jun's calm, unwavering eyes, which seemed to contain an endless abyss of coldness, and recalled Yuan En Ye Hui's indifferent glance and departing figure in the cafeteria.

A surge of hot blood, mixed with a strong sense of humiliation and an unyielding stubbornness, rushed to the top of his head.

"Dare! What wouldn't I dare!" Xie Xie flung open the virtual pod door, his movements filled with a ruthless, desperate determination. "As long as I can become stronger, what's ten times the pain!"

"Brother Lu, come on, let me see what hell is like!"

He lay down in the virtual reality pod, and the pod door slowly closed, shutting out his last trace of hesitation.

Lu Jun also lay down in another virtual pod.

The virtual pod activated, instantly pulling their consciousness into a battlefield constructed from cold data, yet incredibly realistic.

……

The virtual space distorted and shifted, eventually settling on a vast, boundless, frigid wasteland covered with jagged ice rocks.

The biting wind, like an invisible blade, scraped across Xie Xie's exposed skin, making him shiver.

He looked at Lu Jun, who held the Ice Abyss Sword and whose expression was terrifyingly calm, and his lips twitched uncontrollably. His voice was dry and pleading:

"Brother Lu, I suddenly regret it. Can I take it back?"

A gentle smile appeared on Lu Jun's face, but to Xie Xie, that smile was colder than the surrounding wind.
"Do you think it's possible? Perfect, I need a human punching bag to help me test my abilities."

"And you, you're just the right person to be a human punching bag, Xie Xie."

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Jun simply raised his wrist slightly.

The icy blue light flowing on the Ice Abyss Sword suddenly intensified.

In an instant, it seemed as if the chill of the entire world had been stirred up.

The entire sky and earth transformed into a raging torrent of frost.

Everything within sight—air, light, and even space itself—was frozen and crushed in an instant.

That wasn't a torrent of frost, but an absolute zero field that froze everything, carrying a destructive will that crushed everything, instantly engulfing everything in Xie Xie's field of vision.

The color drained from Xie Xie's face instantly, leaving only extreme terror and despair. He didn't even have time to release his martial spirit; all he saw was an endless expanse of icy blue, representing absolute death, which instantly overwhelmed all his senses.

"Do not--!"

The desperate screams existed only in the depths of his consciousness. The next second, his consciousness was completely overwhelmed by endless cold and tearing pain.

The neural impact of virtual death is a hundred times clearer than that of real death.

It was as if his soul had been washed and frozen by the icy tide, which then crushed and pulverized everything he possessed.

A flash of white light, and Xie Xie's consciousness re-formed at the resurrection point in the virtual space.

He collapsed to his knees with a thud, his hands gripping the cold ground tightly. He gasped for breath, his body trembling uncontrollably, cold sweat instantly soaking through his virtual clothes.

The deep-seated fear gnawed at his nerves like a maggot clinging to his bones, making his heart pound so hard it felt like it was going to explode.

“Brother Lu…” He looked up at Lu Jun, who had appeared by the respawn point at some point, his voice trembling uncontrollably, his eyes filled with fear and pleading, “Too…too cruel…maybe…take a break?”

Lu Jun's eyes remained completely still, like unyielding ice.

He was no longer the gentle classmate, but had transformed into the most ruthless and cold-blooded instructor, his voice resolute and brooking no argument:
"Slow down? Time won't wait for you, and the enemy won't give you a chance."

"Remember, here, your only goal is to survive."

"Use every ounce of your strength—your martial spirit, your soul skills, your intuition, even your survival instinct—to survive until I swing my sword again."

"Survival is the most primal and powerful instinct of all living things. Force it out of your body."

It was definitely not to get revenge for the rumors Xie Xie spread about him before.

Yep.

Absolutely not.

Does he seem like the kind of person who holds grudges?
Even though the Tang Clan provoked him so much, he only went to their door and smashed up one of their branches.

How kind she is.

Xie Xie's pupils constricted as he saw the Ice Abyss Sword in Lu Jun's hand glow with an icy blue light once again.

The shadow of death loomed over my heart once again.

The immense fear nearly crushed him.

But on the edge of this abyss of despair, a violent and stubborn force, originating from the deepest level of life and unwilling to perish, erupted like volcanic lava.

"Damn it, I'll risk it!" Xie Xie roared like a wild beast, his eyes instantly becoming bloodshot.

The Shadow Dragon Dagger and Light Dragon Dagger martial spirits instantly possessed him, and the spirit rings flashed wildly.

He recklessly channeled his soul power, his figure transforming into a blurry blur of light, and with a do-or-die attitude, he charged towards the icy hell that was about to descend once again.

It wasn't for attacking, but simply to struggle for one more second under the Grim Reaper's scythe.

……

One week later, in the cafeteria.

The group sat around a table, but the atmosphere was somewhat strange.

The main focus is on Xie Xie.

He mechanically shoveled food into his mouth, his eyes vacant, his expression numb, radiating an aura of utter despair and emptiness.

It felt as if my soul had been ripped away after just one week apart.

Long Chen's eyelids twitched as he looked on, and he couldn't help but ask in a low voice:
"Hey, Xie Xie... are you alright? Is training with Brother Lu really that special?"

He couldn't find any other words to describe Xie Xie's appearance, as if he had been repeatedly ravaged by dozens of ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts.

(End of this chapter)