Douluo: Dream Overlord

"It's so hot! I feel like I'm being filled up!"

He placed the black spirit ring on his head, sat down with his legs crossed, and absorbed the spirit power within it. A massive surge of spirit power flowed into his body through the spirit ring.

The absorption of soul power was different from usual; it was as if boiling water was being poured into Time's body.

"Is this the soul power of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast? The quality of its soul power is indeed extraordinary."

Shi Guang gritted his teeth and used meditation to cool down and absorb the excess boiling soul power in his body.

Perhaps because he was gradually getting used to it, he felt that absorbing soul power was much easier.

"Compared to a thousand-year-old soul power, this soul power is worlds apart."

Shi Guang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The soul power in the ten-thousand-year soul ring was several times greater than that in the thousand-year soul ring, and it surged through the meridians in his body along the soul ring.

Even with his physical strength and soul power control, he felt that he couldn't fit it all in.

Having finally calmed the soul power in his meridians, Shi Guang rallied his spirits and prepared for the upcoming battle.

Suddenly, he felt a darkness before his eyes, and the next moment he appeared in his own mental world.

It was still a vast expanse of white. Time stood on the ground, looking up at the Nightmare Beast floating in the sky.

The Nightmare Beast possessed a powerful aura, filled with resentment. It stared at Time and spoke through its mental power:

"Human, how dare you absorb my spirit ring! You're courting death!"

As their own mental world, those with the home-field advantage can clearly sense the opponent's state and strength.

Although the Nightmare Beast is now a vengeful spirit formed from condensed energy, as a ten-thousand-year-old spiritual beast, it gained intelligence much earlier than other spiritual beasts, and its spiritual power is also more active.

Therefore, its intelligence is comparable to that of humans, and it also has its own thinking ability.

Even though it is only a resentful spirit, its intelligence is still stronger than that of an ordinary ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.

Nightmare Beasts rely on their spiritual bodies to fight. Although the remaining spiritual power is mixed with soul power, the soul power is now less than one-tenth of what it used to be, and it no longer possesses the splendor of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.

However, it also possesses the strength of a top-tier thousand-year-old soul beast.

Time dared not underestimate its opponent; the Remnant Dream Martial Soul appeared beside it, and one yellow and two purple soul rings emerged on its body.

"Oh? Is it the Soul Master?"

The Nightmare Beast had clearly been in contact with Soul Masters and used its spiritual power to understand their cultivation levels.

It glanced at Time's spirit ring and laughed disdainfully: "Hahaha! Interesting! A mere Soul Master thinks he can absorb my spirit ring?"

Kid! My spirit ring is much harder to absorb than any spirit beast of the same age! It contains all my spirit power and mental energy! How could a mere Soul Master like you possibly absorb it!

"Be careful not to burst, or I won't be able to possess your body and be resurrected!"

"Possession? You think you can?"

Sensing the greed emanating from the Nightmare Beast's spirit, Time said dismissively, "If it were you in your original, fully-formed state, I might have been a little afraid of you."

But right now you're just a mere thousand-year-old soul beast, and your spiritual power is less than one-tenth of what it used to be. And you're still on my home turf.

If you normally called me "kid," I'd run away in the cold, but what should you call me now?

Upon hearing this, the Nightmare Beast laughed, and its body, formed from spiritual energy, began to swell.

As a rare spiritual-type ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, when has it ever suffered such injustice?

In the Star Dou Great Forest, which soul beast would either flee in terror or bow down in submission upon seeing it?

To be insulted by a mere Soul Venerable youth is intolerable!

"You're courting death! The name of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast cannot be dishonored!"

The Nightmare Beast was enraged, and its spiritual power condensed into a long rainbow that shot towards Time.

"Heh, with your current strength, you're just a thousand-year-old soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest."

The remnant martial spirit beside Time condensed into a transparent spiritual shield.

Now, in the spiritual realm of time, the spiritual power of the remnant dream, replenished by the spiritual world, not only has its endurance, but also its speed in condensing and releasing spiritual power has become much faster.

The rainbow struck the shield, scattering silently and merging into the spiritual world.

"Do you have any other tricks up your sleeve?"

Shi Guang could feel that his mental strength seemed to have increased a bit, and he looked at the Nightmare Beast with some excitement.

This is truly a treasure!

He could sense that once he absorbed the Nightmare Beast's spirit, his spiritual power would surge dramatically; the spiritual power of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast was no joke.

"Damn it! How can this brat's mental world be so powerful!?"

The Nightmare Beast was surprised and doubtful; its mental attack had been blocked so easily.

It examined the spiritual world of Time carefully and exclaimed in horror, "No, impossible! How could your spiritual world be so powerful!"

"You can actually rival the Soul King realm of your Soul Masters?! What exactly are you?!"

It gazed at the passing time, its body radiating a spiritual energy fluctuation of fear and surprise.

"Heh, you're the one who's no good."

Faced with the textual trap, Shi Guang did not fall for it. He sensed that the Nightmare Beast's mental power did not recover with the release of mental attacks, but instead became somewhat weak.

"It seems your spiritual power cannot absorb the spiritual power existing in my spiritual world."

Shi Guang said with a hint of mockery, "And I have an inexhaustible supply of spiritual energy to rely on in my own territory. Absorbing you is only a matter of time."

"Damn it! Don't get too cocky, kid!"

The Nightmare Beast's face was grim. Just as Time had said, it was indeed unable to absorb the spiritual attributes here. It didn't know why this kid's spiritual quality was so high.

It can't suck it up even if it wants to!

"Could this kid be the reincarnation of a 100,000-year-old soul beast?!"

The Nightmare Beast scrutinized Time, its eyes dark: "Even human Soul King level Soul Masters I've encountered, their spiritual power is not as strong as this kid's."

Moreover, the quality of his mental energy was exceptionally high, as if he had been cultivating it since childhood…

It is now helpless, as it is only a top-tier thousand-year-old soul beast with the strength of a resentful spirit, and it cannot release its innate soul skills due to insufficient spiritual power.

If this continues, I will undoubtedly lose; this kid can wear me down to death.

Pulled by time, the human and the beast were forced into a one-sided tug-of-war.

In the real world, Shi Nian's soul power had almost recovered. He set up a thin layer of mental energy film on Shi Guang to isolate him from absorbing the aura of the soul ring.

This was a trick he developed overnight after learning from his previous experience.

It can shield the aura of a Soul Master to the greatest extent without affecting the absorption of Soul Power.

Shi Nian looked at Shi Guang with his brows furrowed and teeth clenched, feeling extremely worried.

Judging from the mental strength test, this kid's soul power is running smoothly and the absorption efficiency is extremely high, so the problem should lie in the mental world.

He was still just a Soul Emperor and couldn't use his mental power to explore the spiritual world of time. Now he could only rely on his own destiny.

Shi Nian sat cross-legged on the ground, guarding time. With nothing to do, he took out the headless remains of a nightmare beast from his storage soul tool.

Shi Nian placed his hand on the Nightmare Beast and used his mental power to probe inside to see if there was a soul bone.

His hand groped up and down the soul beast's body, then suddenly stopped at the soul beast's neck.

His eyes widened in surprise.

"This is!?"