Chapter 240: The Newborn - 2

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He had been intrigued earlier when he saw Du Busi's golden life soul ring release alongside the nine standard rings.

That bloodline-condensed soul ring appeared to be something different—purely golden. Though its hue was slightly dim, it was exceptionally pure.

At the time, Su Yu had assumed Du Busi was simply lucky enough to discover a pure, divine-grade bloodline.

But now, it seemed that wasn't the case.

At least, Su Yu knew that he himself was incapable of shattering his own life soul ring and merging it into the rings of his martial soul.

To think he had fused his blood essence and martial soul in such a way...

No—at that moment, Du Busi's spiritual will also erupted to its absolute peak. Amid the combustion of his blood essence and soul power, his spiritual energy soared to new heights. Faintly, a silvery halo flashed—then disappeared—before merging into Du Busi's nine soul rings.

In other words, Du Busi had achieved the condensation of three categories of soul rings: martial soul, physical body, and spiritual power—and then succeeded in fusing them.

Even Su Yu hadn't managed to form a spiritual soul ring yet.

Between life and death, there exists great terror—but also great opportunity.

That old saying couldn't be more true.

Du Busi was burning everything at this moment. It was a desperate, all-or-nothing gambit.

Even though he knew Su Yu possessed the attribute of ultimate life, whether such full-body combustion could be healed was still unknown. Du Busi was truly fighting with the determination to die.

As all of his soul rings fused into one, Du Busi's two yellow, one purple, three black, and three red soul rings took on a brilliant gold-and-silver luster, radiating with dazzling brilliance.

Boom!

His blood essence and spiritual power fused with his soul power, drawing in the surrounding natural energy—and faintly, even the laws of the world began to respond and integrate into the attack.

With a single punch, the golden shield trembled violently. In an instant, intense waves of energy rippled outward from the point where Du Busi's fist collided with it.

Inside the Invincible Shield, Xu Tiannan's face had gone deathly pale. His figure thinned rapidly, and his life force flickered like a candle in the wind.

One punch—though blocked by the shield—was enough. The soul power drained just to maintain the shield had already brought Xu Tiannan to such a state.

Boom! 

Another punch.

Though the Invincible Shield managed to block it again, a trace of energy managed to reverberate through it.

It was like striking a human body, yet somehow channeling force deep within to harm the internal organs.

Of course, Du Busi's technique was far more refined than that.

Xu Tiannan tried to reach for the button again—but it was already too late.

Only one percent of that second punch's energy had seeped through the shield, yet it was enough. After having his life force drained twice in large amounts, that tiny trace of power was all it took to end him.

Crack! 

It was with the force of a mere ordinary Titled Douluo's punch that Xu Tiannan was sent to his death.

As that final blow landed, the golden shield dissolved. Xu Tiannan's corpse fell heavily to the ground, and the entire chaotic square fell momentarily silent.

In that instant, all sides engaged in battle paused instinctively, waiting for someone to take command.

Xu Tiannan was dead. Now, who held the highest authority?

On-site, the one with the most authority was Jing Hongchen—his position was high, and he led Sun-Moon Hall. In fact, most of the soul engineers present came from that very hall.

As for the entire Sun Moon Empire, the one with the greatest influence now was naturally Kong Deming. Though he wasn't physically present, his personal disciple was.

"Arrest them!"

Su Yu and Jing Hongchen gave the command at the same time.

With their joint order, numerous Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo from the Star Luo Empire were swiftly subdued.

The assassination group, already a spent force having only aimed to create an opening for Du Busi, no longer had any strength to resist. Under overwhelming numbers and home-turf pressure, they were either killed or captured.

Du Busi, his soul power in severe decline, seemed close to death. He was personally escorted to Sun-Moon Hall by Jing Hongchen and Su Yu.

"Master Du, I didn't expect you to place such trust in me."

To burn everything—his soul, his blood, his life—that sort of combat method... even the attribute of ultimate life might not be able to restore it.

But Su Yu's ultimate life wasn't the same as others.

His power touched upon the rules of existence itself.

Still, Du Busi had achieved a breakthrough during battle. Though his vitality was in decline and his life hung by a thread, he now radiated a subtle, indescribable aura.

"Looks like this ordeal gave you the inspiration you needed. You might really break through to Limit Douluo," Jing Hongchen said, a trace of envy in his tone.

After this affair, he planned to enter seclusion to push his own soul power to the next level. But even if he succeeded, he would only reach Rank 98—a fresh breakthrough that would take unknown time to stabilize. Advancing further to Rank 99 was an even more uncertain and distant prospect.

However, Du Busi had directly realized something in this battle, finding the opportunity to break through.

A dense, boundless vitality appeared in Su Yu's hand and was injected into Du Busi's body.

The withered life force began to revive, as though experiencing a rebirth after decay.

The exhausted vitality was reignited, blooming with vigorous life once more.

Du Busi's aura grew increasingly intense as nine soul rings appeared around his body, floating in sequence.

Two yellow, one purple, three black, and three red.

The nine soul rings, now etched with faint golden and silver patterns, surrounded Du Busi.

At this moment, Du Busi closed his eyes, absorbing the life force Su Yu had drawn from the world's energies and converted into vitality, while simultaneously cultivating.

Su Yu's soul abilities had already transcended simple life force transfer for healing or converting star power.

Now, he could use the power of the rules to transform the world's energy into life force.

While not technically life force itself, this was the source of life energy, the raw material. After Du Busi refined and absorbed it, it quickly turned into life energy to restore the vitality he had lost.

Compared to mere life force, this life energy was far more effective for healing.

While treating Du Busi, Su Yu also observed his unique soul rings.

In the soul spirit cultivation system, soul rings are the fusion of spiritual power, blood essence, and martial soul—these rings fully represent a soul master's essence, though they appear in their natural colors, just like the standard rings from the martial soul.

Du Busi's tri-fusion soul rings were essentially the same, but they shimmered with a golden-silver hue.

"Could it be that this is similar to the secondary awakening of martial souls, where colors like bronze, silver, and gold appear? Could this be a manifestation of blood essence or spiritual power reaching a certain level, showing up on the soul rings?"

Su Yu felt that this guess was very plausible.

For example, a soul master who has cultivated the soul spirit system might, at a certain moment, materialize their spiritual power. At that point, their soul rings might all take on a silver glow.

Similarly, blood essence that has reached a high level might take on a golden hue.

"This might have led to Du Busi's transformation. His spiritual power has materialized, becoming tangible and substantive," Su Yu thought.

At the time, Su Yu hadn't noticed, but now he realized.

Du Busi's spiritual power wasn't vast, but its quality was exceptionally high. Through the process of transcending life and death, burning his blood essence and soul power, he had focused his will like never before, completing the materialization ahead of time.

As time passed, his spiritual power would likely continue to grow.

"This gives him another extreme combat ability. With battle armor, he might even possess near-divine power, making him more capable of facing the Abyss with confidence."

However, equipping battle armor now was a bit late, considering it required cultivating spiritual metals. Su Yu could only hope for the forging techniques to improve.

He had no idea how progress was going with Kuang Tie.

It had already been several months.

(End of Chapter)