Purple That Broke the Iron Law

[White World]

Within the canyon.

Bai Tang San's condition had indeed reached its most critical point.

The Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Power was far too domineering.

Like a crazed bull rampaging through his body, it was gradually tearing apart Bai Tang San's defenses.

Within his consciousness.

A massive phantom of the Man Faced Demon Spider roared. That was Soul Shock!

"Trying to possess me?"

"Trying to burst me apart?"

Though Bai Tang San's consciousness trembled, the ferocity etched into his bones had been fully awakened.

"I ate Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber."

"I endured a Titled Douluo's beating for an entire night."

"I even forged myself into Iron Bones."

"If I can't suppress a mere two-thousand-year-old beast like you..."

"Wouldn't all the suffering I endured these past two weeks have been for nothing?!"

Bai Tang San abruptly opened his eyes within his consciousness.

Two flames of madness burned in those dark golden pupils.

"Suppress it for me!!!"

At the instant his will erupted.

In the Real World.

A sudden change occurred!

Buzzz—!!!

A dazzling golden-red radiance lit up from Bai Tang San's spine without warning!

Then.

It rapidly spread through his entire body!

That was the residual medicinal power of the Ten Thousand Year Black Gold Whale Rubber!

It was the Supreme Yang Divine Power hidden deep within his marrow, usually lying dormant but ready to strike back madly whenever an external force invaded...

Boom!

The golden-red radiance was overwhelmingly domineering.

Like an emperor whose authority had been challenged.

It instantly wrapped around the purple-black spider Soul Power.

The purple energy that had been running rampant let out a sizzling wail the instant it met that golden-red light.

Like snow and ice meeting a branding iron.

Melting.

Assimilation.

Suppression!

The resentment of the Man Faced Demon Spider screamed.

In terror, it discovered that a fiery beast ten thousand times more terrifying than itself was hidden inside this human's body!

"Get down on your knees!"

Bai Tang San growled.

The bones throughout his body erupted with another explosive crack.

But this time, it was no longer the sound of shattering.

It was the resounding clang of metal striking metal!

That was the resonance of Iron Bones!

As this power erupted, the blood seeping from Bai Tang San's body instantly stopped.

His originally savage, twisted expression gradually calmed.

That violent purple Soul Power was forcibly pressed into his dantian.

No matter how it struggled.

It could not escape the restraints of that golden-red prison.

Refinement.

Had begun.

[Real World]

Shrek Academy.

The wild laughter on Yu Xiaogang's face instantly froze.

Like a duck with its throat clutched shut, he could not make a sound.

He stared blankly at the Sky Curtain.

At the youth who should have exploded to death, now suddenly glowing with sacred golden-red light.

At the berserk Soul Ring, now docile as a lamb.

"Th-this... what is this..."

"This is impossible..."

"How did it stop?"

"Why isn't he dead yet?!"

Yu Xiaogang staggered back two steps and collapsed onto the ground.

His face was ashen.

"Whale Rubber..."

Flender swallowed, his voice dry.

"It's that piece of Ten Thousand Year Black Gold Whale Rubber..."

"Xiaogang, did you forget what the Sky Curtain said before?"

"It reshaped the muscles and bones, dispelling yin and nourishing yang."

"The Man Faced Demon Spider is cold, yin, and venomous, while that Whale Rubber is supremely yang and unyielding."

"This is simply... a natural nemesis!"

Zhao Wuji's scalp went numb as he watched.

"What a scheme..."

"Did this kid start planning for this from the moment he ate the Whale Rubber?"

"He chose the Man Faced Demon Spider on purpose!"

"Because he knew the medicinal power inside him could suppress this kind of evil attribute!"

"One link after another..."

"He practically plotted against the heavens themselves!"

[White World]

Time passed second by second.

Half an hour later.

The energy fluctuations within the canyon completely subsided.

The scabs of blood on Bai Tang San's body fell away, revealing new skin beneath that was more crystalline and more resilient.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Whoosh!

Two tangible violet-gold rays of divine light shot from his eyes, reaching more than two feet away!

That was the sign of the Purple Demon Eye advancing—Subtlety!

"Phew..."

He exhaled a breath of foul air, piercing through the air like a sharp arrow.

Bai Tang San slowly rose to his feet.

At this moment, his entire presence had changed.

He was no longer the youth with his sharpness fully exposed.

He was more like a heavy sword returned to its sheath—weighty and profound, yet containing the power to destroy heaven and earth.

"Come out."

Bai Tang San called softly.

Light pulsed beneath his feet.

Buzzz!

His first Soul Ring rose.

It was no longer bright yellow.

Instead, it had become deep yellow, faintly tinged with violet!

Through the nourishment of Whale Rubber Blood Replacement and countless medicinal baths, his first ring's age had been forcibly raised.

Nearly five hundred years!

Immediately after.

Buzzz—!!!

The second Soul Ring slowly rose, carrying suffocating pressure.

Purple.

A deep, bewitching, noble purple!

Two thousand years!

One yellow, one purple.

The two Soul Rings quietly pulsed beneath Bai Tang San's feet.

On a youth who was merely a Soul Grandmaster, they formed the most unbelievable sight on the entire continent.

Dead silence.

The entire continent was silent as death.

Everyone stood with their mouths agape, staring at that purple Soul Ring.

It was a trampling of "common sense."

A mockery of "authority."

And an outright...

Dimensional Strike against every Soul Master who cultivated step by step.

Then.

White World erupted in deafening cheers.

Those mercenaries, those onlooking crowds.

All went mad over this miracle.

Bai Tang San felt the Soul Power surging through his body like mighty rivers.

Level twenty-two!

He had directly skipped levels twenty and twenty-one!

He raised his head, his gaze seeming to pierce through the Sky Curtain and stare straight at Yu Xiaogang of Black World, sprawled limply on the ground.

A cold curve lifted at the corner of his mouth.

His voice was not loud.

Yet it passed through the Sky Curtain and resounded in the depths of everyone's soul.

"Do you see it?"

"This is your limit?"

Bai Tang San pointed at the purple Soul Ring beneath his feet.

"Yu Xiaogang."

"Your Ten Core Competencies?"

"They are cages drawn for the weak."

"Used to pen up sheep like Hei Tang San."

"For the strong."

"Rules."

"Are meant to be trampled beneath one's feet."

That noble, bewitching purple Soul Ring had only just stabilized into a steady pulse beneath Bai Tang San's feet.

The cheers had yet to fully erupt from the crowd.

Then, a sudden change arrived.

There was no warning whatsoever.

Bai Tang San's originally straight back suddenly bent sharply.

Like a great bow drawn to its absolute limit.

Crack!

A bone-chilling crack rang out from within his body.

Immediately after.

A heart-rending pain exploded along his spine in an instant!

It did not feel like an injury.

It was more like... something was about to burrow out of his body alive!

"Young master?!"

The surrounding mercenaries jumped in fright and instinctively tried to step forward.

"Stay back!"

Bai Tang San let out a low roar.

Veins bulged across his forehead like earthworms, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down at once.

Yet he did not scream.

Those dark golden pupils remained chillingly calm.

There was even a trace of... frenzied deduction in them.

My spine is heating up... energy is accumulating...

This is not a qi deviation.

This power... comes from the resentment of that Man Faced Demon Spider, but it does not want to destroy my internal organs.

It wants to... parasitize me? Or fuse with me?