Douluo Continent: The True Self of Martial Soul, Infinite Awakening

This edge of the Starry Sky Forest was enveloped in a rare atmosphere of tranquility.

The ancient tree's massive root system was exposed on the ground, and Huo Yuhao sat on a thick root with his knees drawn up to his chest, holding a meat pie that Ye Yuan had just thrown to him, and was taking small bites of it.

His meridians are now wide and unobstructed, and he has just experienced an expansion of his spiritual sea; his stomach has been growling with hunger for a long time.

Ye Yuan leaned against the trunk of an ancient tree, closed his eyes to rest, and adjusted the circulation of qi and blood in his body.

Deep within his spiritual sea, a necromancer saint is sealed; and beside him sits a chosen one who has just fused with a million-year-old wisdom soul ring.

The two of them acted as if they were out for a picnic.

Poison Undying squatted in a pile of bluestone powder not far away, holding his bald head in his hands, his ten rough fingers digging deep into his hair.

This powerful Douluo, whose power shook the world, was now scanning back and forth between Ye Yuan and Huo Yuhao with a look of utter disbelief.

He looked down at his hands, which were covered in calluses and had torn apart countless soul beasts that had existed for thousands of years.

His cultivation level of 98 was earned by risking his life over nearly a hundred years, braving dangers and peril.

But what about these two little devils who have just turned six?

One not only absorbed a million-year soul ring, but also obtained a second martial soul that could achieve the ultimate ice attribute; the other even had a divine consciousness from another world that made him tremble with fear, and this time he was preparing to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring.

The most deadly thing is that after experiencing such an extraordinary adventure that could overturn the entire Soul Master world of Douluo Continent, these two little monsters are still able to sit here leisurely and eat dry food!

That's a million-year soul ring! That's divine consciousness from another world! Can't you two show even a little bit of the awe or elation you should have?!

Du Bu Si rubbed his face vigorously, deforming the muscles in his face.

He exhaled a long breath, stood up, and brushed the stone dust off his clothes.

I'm really getting old.

Du Bu Si sighed inwardly.

Damn it, I'm getting old. My nearly 100 years of experience and mindset are not as good as the composure of these two six-year-olds.

If this gets back to the sect, Elder Qian will probably laugh at him for the rest of his life.

"Alright, stop resting!"

Poison Immortal strode up to the two of them, clapped his hands forcefully, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart and replacing it with an excited expression.

Now that the sect's glorious future is within reach, his task is to fully unleash the potential of these two prodigies.

"Yuhao's first spirit ring has not only been resolved beyond expectations, but it has also paved the way for his future. Next, only Xiaoyuan's first spirit ring remains."

Du Bu Si looked at Ye Yuan, his eyes flashing with fanatical fighting spirit.

He was seething with anger, and the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had sacrificed itself so quickly that he hadn't even had time to loosen his muscles.

"Xiao Yuan, tell me! What's on your mind? As long as we don't provoke those sleeping old monsters in the core area, I'll take them all for you today!" Du Busi cracked his knuckles as he pried open the door.

"My suggestion is to go deep into the mixed zone and find a ten-thousand-year-old Titan Ape or a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. Your true spirit is based on your physical body, and the spirit rings of these two spirit beasts can elevate your strength and bone density to an extremely terrifying level. With the spirit ring of a ten-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear as a foundation, your physical enhancement will definitely sweep aside those of the same level!"

In the traditional understanding of the invincible poison, the cultivation logic of the Body Sect is extremely simple and brutal: strength, defense, and blood and qi. As long as the physical body is strong enough, one can overcome all other techniques with sheer force.

Ye Yuan opened his eyes, patted the crumbs of dry rations off his hands, and stood up straight.

"Sect Master, I will not choose the Titan Giant Ape, nor will I choose the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear." Ye Yuan's tone was flat, simply stating a fact.

Poison-Undying stopped cracking his knuckles, his brows furrowing.

"What? You don't like them? These two are at the top of the soul beast food chain. So which one do you want? Do you want a purely agility-based one?"

"I need a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast with extremely strong light attributes, the purer the better, and the more intense the light the better."

Upon hearing this, not only Du Busi, but even Huo Yuhao, who was eating dry rations nearby, stopped what he was doing and looked up at Ye Yuan with a puzzled expression.

"Light attribute?" Poison Undying's loud voice rose an octave.

"What do you need the light attribute for! Your true martial soul has always been about cultivating the physical body! You're picking up a sesame seed and losing a watermelon!"

"Sect Master, have you forgotten what I told you before?" Ye Yuan reached out and made a grasping motion in mid-air, and a dazzling white light instantly shone from his fingertips.

The light was so pure, without the slightest impurity.

"During my second awakening, the fortune of heaven and earth bestowed upon me the primal power of light and darkness. The essence of these two energies is extremely high, even attracting the favor of that otherworldly divine consciousness." Ye Yuan closed his five fingers, crushing the white light.

"But their strength is too weak. In the past six months on the Touching Sky Stone, I could only absorb the rising sun and the faint moonlight every day to temper my body and increase my strength."

"This is too slow."

Ye Yuan stared directly into Du Busi's eyes, his pupils revealing a suppressed yearning for the ultimate.

"What I need isn't ordinary attributes, but the ultimate light and the ultimate darkness. If I push these two attributes to their limits, creating a perpetual tempering cycle within my body, the constant physical refinement I experience will be far more powerful than absorbing ten Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear spirit rings!"

Ye Yuan stepped forward, his voice resounding:

"My current source strength is like a water tank of extremely high quality but not full. I need an extremely violent ten-thousand-year-old light-attribute soul ring as a catalyst to directly detonate my light source and forcibly increase its strength!"

The woods fell silent once more.

Du Bu Si stared blankly at Ye Yuan, his mouth slightly open.

His proud theories on Soul Masters and the Body Sect's cultivation secrets that he had studied his whole life were utterly crushed in the face of the crazy ideas of this six-year-old child.

He used a ten-thousand-year-old light attribute soul ring to forcibly detonate the source within his body, just to achieve the self-tempering cycle of ultimate light.

Such imaginative ideas and such ruthlessness in treating the body as a furnace are simply beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

Du Busi stiffly turned his head, glanced at Huo Yuhao who possessed twin martial souls beside him, and then turned his head to look at Ye Yuan, who was about to use the Light Soul Ring to blast his meridians.

An unprecedented sense of frustration welled up inside me.

Poison Undying suddenly realized that, in front of these two six-year-old children, his greatest role as a bodyguard was really just to fight.

"To hell with the Soul Master theory."

Poison Undying kicked a rock at his feet, and the rock turned into a meteor that smashed a large tree a hundred meters away.

He waved his hand dismissively, his face clearly showing his exhaustion.

"I'm not going to bother with you anymore! Do whatever you want! Today I'm just going to throw punches. Point where you want, and I'll hit you! Let's go! In the mixed zone!"

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Starry Sky Forest, Mixed Zone.

The environment here is completely different from the surrounding area.

The sunlight was completely blocked by the huge tree canopy, which was tens of meters high, and a layer of miasma lingered in the air.

This is the territory of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.

Poison Undying walked at the front, precisely suppressing his powerful aura within a ten-meter radius.

It would neither attract the attention of the ferocious beasts in the core area nor deter the wandering ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts from approaching, as they would feel a deadly threat.

The three-person team spent two whole days traversing the mixed zone.

On the afternoon of the first day, they encountered a 13,000-year-old Radiant Rhinoceros.

It was a giant beast covered in white scales and with a single horn that emitted a strong light.

However, Ye Yuan only glanced at it before shaking his head.

"The bloodline is too mixed, with too much earth element mixed into the light attribute, making it not pure enough."

The next morning, they discovered a rare, ten-thousand-year-old sunflower on a sunny hillside.

The enormous flower head resembled a miniature sun, radiating an extremely gentle and luminous power.

"The energy of plant-type soul beasts is too gentle. What I need is explosive power, a ferocity powerful enough to tear through my barrier of light origin. This demon sunflower cannot do that," Ye Yuan refused again.

After rejecting seven or eight ten-thousand-year-old light-attribute soul beasts in succession, even the usually patient Poison Undying became a little irritated.

"Kid, there aren't many light-attribute soul beasts in this Star Dou Great Forest to begin with. If you're looking for one that's extremely violent and between 10,000 and 20,000 years old, it's like finding a needle in a haystack!" Poisonous Undying slapped a thick vine blocking his way, breaking it in half.

Ye Yuan stopped and looked around at the dark forest, knowing that Poison Undying was right.

Wandering around blindly based on luck is too inefficient.

"Brother Yuan, how about we look in a different direction?" Huo Yuhao suggested softly from the side.

Although his mental detection was useful, it could only cover a hundred meters ahead at most, which was like a drop in the ocean in such a vast forest.

Ye Yuan did not answer; he simply sat cross-legged on the spot.

"Since we can't find it, let it pop up on its own."

Ye Yuan closed his eyes and formed a strange hand seal in front of his chest.

The primal martial spirit within his body slowly began to circulate.

Guidance of fortune.

In Ye Yuan's perceived world, the surrounding scenery instantly lost its color, leaving only countless intricate lines.

He parted the dark lines that represented weak lives and chaotic elements, focusing intently on capturing the dazzling golden light that represented ultimate brightness.

Time passed slowly, and Du Busi and Huo Yuhao stood on either side of him, fully alert.

Suddenly, Ye Yuan opened his eyes.

His pupils reflected the extremely subtle yet violent golden line in the due east, a line that seemed to set the entire world ablaze.

"Found it."

Ye Yuan stood up and, without pausing, sped off directly eastward.

Poison Undying perked up, grabbed Huo Yuhao by the collar, and followed closely behind.

Following the guidance of the Qi, the surrounding temperature began to rise abnormally.

The decaying leaves on the ground became shriveled and brittle, and the surrounding miasma was evaporated completely by the high temperature.

As they climbed over a steep ridge, the view suddenly opened up before them.

It was a huge valley shaped like an inverted funnel.

In the heart of the valley, all the trees had turned to charcoal, and the rocks on the ground had an eerie, glassy appearance, stinging the eyes under the sunlight.

In the very center of that vitrified rock lay an extremely strange and enormous beast.

The behemoth's body resembled a lion magnified dozens of times, but its limbs were covered with layers of fine dragon scales that looked as if they were cast in gold.

Its mane is not hair, but is composed of extremely pure, leaping, burning white sacred fire.

What is most unsettling is its pair of eyes, which have no pupils and are filled only with endless blazing light.

With each breath, scorching flames erupt from its nostrils, violently distorting the surrounding space.

An extremely violent pressure of light attribute surged through the valley as if it were a tangible force.

Poison Undying stood on the ridge and gasped.

"A Blazing Golden Crystal Hou! It possesses a faint trace of the ancient divine beast Tianhou's bloodline, making it an extremely rare variant! Judging from its size and the degree of crystallization of its scales, it's at least 18,000 years old, perhaps even approaching 20,000!"

Du Busi turned to look at Ye Yuan. This thing's violent light attribute made even some Title Douluo with weak defenses unwilling to provoke it.

Ye Yuan stood on the edge of the cliff, the wind whipping up his gray robe.

He stared intently at the colossal beast below, which resembled the embodiment of the sun, his clear black and white eyes blazing with an unprecedented intensity.

"Perfect." Ye Yuan's lips curled up; there was no better catalyst!