"Oh my, it seems some little fellow escaped." Yue Zi looked down at the city below and shook her head.
"Never mind. He won't interfere with my grand plan."
"Boss!"
Several badly mangled Evil Soul Masters flew before Yue Zi, their eyes filled with terror.
"Oh? I didn't expect any of you to still be alive. Then I won't need to act. Gather the remaining people and buy me some time. Stop those Federation crusaders. Once I become the Evil God, I will surely grant you Eternal!!"
"Yes!" Calling them lunatics would have been an understatement. Their eyes looked utterly deranged.
"What is that?" Jiang Xing stared in disbelief at the distant scene. Countless massive vines shot into the sky, surrounding the city as the earth split apart. Strange energies surged upward into the enormous eye in the sky.
The ground trembled.
"Alert! Alert!"
The shouts of people and the alarms coming from the Mechas all foretold the arrival of danger.
Suddenly!
The earth split open, and enormous vines stabbed toward everyone like tentacles.
Thud!
Everyone dodged in time, and the vines struck empty air. But immediately afterward... one, two... a full seven!
"Armor-piercing rounds, ready!" Jiang Xing commanded.
Like the chirping of nimble birds, tiny bullets shot fiercely from the weapons held by several Mechas.
The rounds pierced through the vines, while other Mechas wielded blades and sliced the vines cleanly in half.
"Lock onto the vines around the target city. Blast open a gap and charge inside." Jiang Xing's eyes had already turned red. If the three supersonic pilots died, how was he supposed to face the military district? How could he face the Federation? A pilot was worth far more than an aircraft. Even if they were dead, they had to recover their bodies.
"Commander Xing, the satellites are suffering severe interference. We can't see what's happening inside. Are we really going in?" a Mecha pilot asked through the communicator.
Jiang Xing pondered for a moment, then gritted his teeth. "We're going! We have to go in!! Our comrades are still inside. Do you agree to retreat?!" His final sentence was especially loud.
"No!!" The soldiers answered as one.
Nearly three hundred Level 5 Soul Cannon Shells targeted the vines surrounding the city and blasted toward them.
After the smoke cleared, a massive breach appeared.
But charging out to meet them were dozens of Soul King-level Evil Soul Masters.
Battle!
A thousand-meter charge took only a dozen seconds for Mechas. Flesh clashed with steel, Soul Skills battled missiles.
"This battle! I don't know how many people will die, but we have no way back. Our compatriots are trapped inside, and the lives of our comrades remain unknown. So don't mourn the dead. Don't mourn those who fall, because there can be no emotion on the battlefield. If there is, it must wait until after victory!!"
"What conditions are needed to open the nine seals?" Gu You looked toward the Dragon God.
"The first three are very easy. You can lift one of them right now and absorb its origin. The conditions are reaching Soul Elder, Soul Emperor, and Titled Douluo."
"What about the remaining seals?" Gu You felt that the conditions for lifting them were a little too simple.
"You must wait until you reach God Level." The Dragon God seemed to see through Gu You's thoughts and cut him off with a single sentence.
"God Level?" Gu You froze. Wasn't this just messing with him?
"It may seem difficult, but once you lift the third seal and reach the level of a Limit Douluo, you will already possess the level of a god. You simply won't have a Divine Position," the Dragon God explained.
Outside, the entire underground chamber trembled. Gu You sat cross-legged there, his Soul Ring already fused into his body. It was scarlet red. If he went outside like this, who wouldn't be shocked? A Soul Elder possessing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, with an ultimate attribute to boot.
His Soul Bone had also stabilized, and his right leg gave off a faint blue glow.
"Human, wake up already! This place is about to collapse! Don't tell me that right after becoming your Soul Spirit, I'm going to be crushed to death with you?" The Ice Emperor Scorpion bounced about anxiously in the Sea of Consciousness. Gu You's current state frightened it. It could sense something missing from Gu You's soul. Was he about to become a vegetable? "My life is so miserable..."
"That really is much simpler. How do I lift the first seal?"
"The conditions have already been met, so naturally it is very simple. Use your heart, use your hands, and feel this vast power." Of the nine beams of light surrounding the Dragon God, one slowly flew toward Gu You and stopped before him.
Gu You placed his hand upon it. That supreme aura of Destruction and Annihilation made him feel comforted. Dragon Scales began covering his entire body. Outside, a gentle white light enveloped Gu You, forming a sphere around him like an egg.
It was like sleeping in a hot spring, with gentle streams of water soaking Gu You all around.
Amazing! This felt incredible!!
It was Gu You's only thought. Everything became blank, as though the most beautiful side of the world was unfolding before him.
Genesis meant Destruction, and Destruction transformed into Genesis...
"My power... after that battle, it also underwent immense changes. Sometimes, even I do not know whether I am truly still myself."
Crack!
The fragile sphere of light began to shatter. A pair of jade-like hands emerged first, followed by the rest of his body.
Gu You's entire body seemed to have undergone a qualitative transformation. It was no longer an ordinary human body. It was snow-white to the point of seeming unreal, leaving only his black eyelashes and violet-blue pupils in stark contrast.
"How does it feel?" the Dragon God asked.
"I've never felt this good before. I feel like my strength has increased tremendously. It even completely eliminated the hidden trouble left behind by my forced breakthrough just now. I'm now truly at the peak of level 30 Soul Elder," Gu You said in amazement.
"Those are not the most important things. The first seal granted you a domain Divine Skill, divided into amplification and suppression. It is called Life and Death Domain. In truth, it can also be considered two domains: one focused on amplification and the other on suppression. They are called Annihilation and Genesis, respectively."
"A domain?" Gu You was slightly stunned. Generally speaking, only exceptionally talented people could comprehend their own domain after reaching Soul Sage under special circumstances. Another special circumstance was inheriting someone else's domain. Gu You was clearly the latter.
"Since it is a Divine Skill, its effects are naturally extremely powerful. Once you develop and use it, you will understand. My benevolent will is very weak and must enter slumber. Otherwise, if I disappear, even if you reach Soul Emperor by next time, lifting the second seal will be extremely difficult." The Dragon God's voice began to fade.
"Thank you, Senior Dragon God. Since you have entrusted the inheritance to me, I cannot ignore the affairs of the Soul Beast clan." Gu You's gaze was solemn.
"Even if you do not wish to care, you must. It is best that you understand this now. Even if you are unwilling, or even break your word, I will destroy both you and myself at the cost of mutual annihilation." The voice vanished, and an evil aura began to swell, pressing down on Gu You until he could barely endure it.
"Is this the price of becoming the Dragon God?" Gu You murmured to himself, turning into specks of light and disappearing from this space.
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