Above the Sky Screen, the cold golden characters slowly appeared once more, bringing with them the second round of judgment.
[The second punishment is about to be announced!]
Under the gaze of countless people, a line of text brimming with black humor and utter malice slowly burned itself into the Sky Screen.
[Let him suffer by the same means he used against others.]
[All his life, Dai Hao has wielded schemes both open and underhanded, trampled on emotions, and turned his back on his own flesh and blood.]
[His heart has long since been turned upside down, unable to tell right from wrong.]
[Therefore, you shall receive the punishment of Yin-Yang Reversal!]
Yin-Yang Reversal?
What did that mean?
Across the continent, everyone who saw those four words—from powerful Titled Douluo to ordinary civilians—fell into deep confusion and bewilderment.
"Yin-Yang Reversal—does that mean the attributes of the Soul Power in his body will change?"
"No way! He's already the Evil-Eyed White Tiger, with an evil, yin-leaning attribute. What could it possibly change into?"
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this? The Sky Screen's punishments are always so creative..."
In the Sun Moon Empire, Xiao Hongchen stroked his chin, his eyes glittering with gossip. "Yin-Yang... Could it mean..."
He thought of a possibility, and his expression instantly became spectacular.
As everyone chattered and made wild guesses,
[The punishment begins!]
This time, what descended from the sky wasn't golden light, nor was it gray.
It was a pillar of pink light, brimming with an eerie aura!
The pink pillar ignored every obstacle and precisely enveloped Dai Hao, who was at the entrance to the secret passage in the command tent.
A bizarre scene unfolded.
Under the pink light, Dai Hao's once burly, muscular body began to change dramatically at a visible pace!
The bronze color drained from his skin, leaving it pale and delicate, with an almost sickly softness.
The muscles all over his body softened and dissolved as if they were wax melting. His firm chest, arms, and abs—
They all vanished, replaced by a flat, gaunt outline.
His bones crackled as his height rapidly shrank.
His whole frame went from that of a towering brute to something slender and frail.
His once sharply defined face, full of authority and ferocity, underwent an even more astonishing transformation.
His jaw contracted, his cheeks grew rounder, his brow softened, his nose lost its proud height, and his lips became thinner—
His entire face twisted and reshaped into something gentler!
"Th-this is..."
"My god! He's changing—he's turning into a woman?!"
Yin-Yang Reversal!
So that was what Yin-Yang Reversal meant!
The transformation continued.
Dai Hao's short golden hair grew rapidly like wild grass, getting longer and longer—until it fell to his waist.
But that wasn't the end!
From his golden hair, right on top of his head, suddenly emerged a pair of—
Soft, fluffy, faintly trembling white cat ears!
Then, at the base of his spine—
A slender tail, tipped with a little tuft of white fur, burst through his body and drooped limply to the ground!
At last, the pink light faded.
The White Tiger Duke who had once commanded awe across the land was gone.
In his place stood—
A "girl," frail and gaunt, dressed in a tattered male military uniform, with long golden hair, a pair of cat ears on her head, and a cat's tail dragging behind her!
Some of Dai Hao's features still lingered in her face.
But more than anything, it now looked soft, pale, and distinctly feminine.
In that moment, the entire world sank into a strange, breathless silence.
Everyone, from the Douluo I Period to the Douluo II Period, seemed to have short-circuited under the shock of this utterly unbelievable sight.
Ten seconds later.
"Pfft—hahahahahaha!!"
In the Sun Moon Empire, Xiao Hongchen was the first to laugh so hard he fell off his chair. Clutching his stomach, he rolled across the floor, tears streaming from his eyes!
"N-no—I can't take it! I—I'm dying! The Sky Screen is a fucking genius! The White Tiger Duke—turned into a catgirl?! Hahahaha!"
Beside him, Meng Hongchen's pretty face flushed red. She wanted to laugh but felt it wasn't appropriate.
In the end, she couldn't hold back and burst out laughing, her shoulders shaking.
[Douluo I Period]
"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!!"
Ma Hongjun stared wide-eyed at the Sky Screen, pointing at it as he stammered, "Th-this—this—this punishment is way too wild! I've been around the flower beds for years, and I've seen all kinds of things, but this—I've never seen anything like it!"
Oscar was just as stunned. He murmured, "That's brutal... absolutely brutal. It's a full-on assault, from body to soul!"
As for Dai Mubai, his expression was beyond words.
His face showed a blend of extreme anger, bottomless humiliation, and a revulsion so deep it seemed to seep into his bones, mixed with sheer absurdity.
His vision kept going dark, and his throat filled with a sickly sweetness.
If the ancestors of the Dai Family learned that one of their descendants—the dignified White Tiger Duke—had ended up as some neither-man-nor-woman, neither-human-nor-beast thing—
They would probably leap out of their coffins in fury!
This was a disgrace beyond measure!
A punishment that made him feel ten thousand times more humiliated than Dai Hao's treason against his country!
"What a calamity... what a calamity!!!"
Dai Mubai threw back his head and howled, his voice filled with grief and despair.
[Douluo II Period]
Amid the uproar that shook the world, Dai Hao, who had been lying on the ground, slowly woke up.
"Mm..."
A feeble groan escaped his lips.
But the moment he heard his own voice, he froze.
Why was it so high and weak?
He instinctively raised a hand.
But when she saw the pale, slender hand, utterly devoid of strength, she felt as if she'd been struck by lightning!
"Th-this isn't my hand!"
He stared at his body in horror. His once perfectly fitting uniform now hung on him like a sack, loose and empty.
He touched his face. His fingers met smooth skin, without a trace of stubble.
Then he touched his head—
And felt a pair of soft, fluffy ears, trembling faintly—cat ears!
"Ah!!!!!"
A shrill scream, sharp enough to pierce eardrums and filled with terror and despair, burst from his lips!
"N-no—no—no!!!!"
Dai Hao frantically pulled at his hair, trying to tear the cat ears off.
But they were as firmly attached as if they'd grown there naturally. They wouldn't budge, and the effort only sent stabbing pain through him.
Just then, he also became aware of the tail behind him—and of how completely his body had changed!
He broke down!
The iron-blooded marshal, once hard as steel and heedless of human life, had his mental defenses completely shattered in that moment!
As he sank into endless despair and madness,
"Boom!!"
With a thunderous crash, the enraged soldiers used their Soul Skills to blast open the entrance to the secret passage in the command tent!
Dai Hao's personal guards were no match for the furious tide of hundreds of thousands. They had already been overwhelmed and torn apart!
"Dai Hao! You traitor! Get out here and face your death!"
"Kill him! Avenge our brothers!"
Tens of thousands of soldiers with bloodshot eyes surged in, like vengeful demons rising from hell, weapons raised as they broke through the personal guards' last line of defense.
Dai Hao turned around in terror and met the bewildered soldiers' stares.
Time seemed to stop.
(Insert Dai Hao here. Don't do anything to him, okay?)
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