"Th-that's a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring?"
In the crowd, a middle-aged man swallowed hard, his voice trembling.
"I must be seeing things! How is this possible!"
"Absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast for his First Soul Ring? Is he trying to get himself killed?"
"Don't Soul Rings have strict age limits? Even the geniuses from those great clans can only get a Soul Ring that's a little over four hundred years old for their first one!"
"What kind of monster is this kid? How could his body possibly withstand the energy of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring!"
A tumult of horrified voices exploded through the crowd.
Dai Mubai stood there dumbstruck, his legs even taking an involuntary half-step backward.
His pair of Evil Eyes trembled violently.
"This is absolutely impossible!"
Dai Mubai clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his palms.
Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang's infallible theories had always been treated as gospel at Shrek Academy.
The limit for the First Soul Ring was four hundred and twenty-three years!
That was an ironclad rule Grandmaster had arrived at after a lifetime of research!
Yet the white-clad youth before them had actually revealed a black Soul Ring that was a full ten thousand years old!
Dai Mubai felt as though his entire worldview had crumbled to pieces.
Could it be that his teacher's theories had been wrong all along?
Oscar was so shocked that the sausage in his hand dropped to the ground, his mouth hanging wide open.
At the eye of the storm, Tang San stood as if struck by lightning.
He stared fixedly at that deep black ring, his heart gripped by an invisible hand.
A Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring!
It was something he had never even dared dream of!
He, Tang San, had cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill since childhood. His body was far stronger than his peers', and he even possessed Twin Martial Souls.
Even so, he'd had to obediently absorb a hundred-year-old Mandala Snake for his First Soul Ring.
Why!
Why could a youth who looked several years younger than him break the rules like this!
The three girls from Shrek were just as stunned.
Ning Rongrong cupped her flushed cheeks in both hands, her beautiful eyes sparkling.
"So domineering..."
As the Little Demoness of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, she had seen all kinds of geniuses.
Yet even the sect's most celebrated prodigies weren't fit to tie this youth's shoes!
Zhu Zhuqing's breathing grew extremely quick.
Her proud chest rose and fell violently.
The pursuit of ultimate strength had always been her sole reason to keep living.
And at that moment, the terrifying, rule-breaking power Xue Tianyu displayed struck her right in the heart.
Xiao Wu was utterly entranced.
White as snow, encircled by black rings.
The stark contrast lifted Xue Tianyu's already otherworldly bearing to new heights.
Xiao Wu felt her heartbeat fall completely out of rhythm.
Watching Shrek's group act as though they'd never seen the world, Dugu Yan burst into a smug laugh.
"A bunch of ignorant bumpkins."
Dugu Yan folded her arms across her chest, lifting her chin slightly.
"One Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring is all it takes to scare you this badly?"
Though she mocked them mercilessly, inside she was just as curious, as if a cat were clawing at her.
How had Tian Yu managed to ignore the age restrictions?
It was simply a miracle on the Douluo Continent.
Qian Renxue remained as composed as ever.
She gently waved her folding fan, deep light flashing in her beautiful eyes.
"With talent like this, even the Golden Generation of Spirit Hall is far behind."
Qian Renxue quietly considered the matter.
Just what sort of formidable background did this youth have?
But before the crowd could recover from their overwhelming shock,
Xue Tianyu's cold face remained utterly impassive.
He simply took one step forward.
The Soul Power vortex beneath his feet erupted once more with an earth-shaking roar.
The next instant!
A second black Soul Ring, even deeper and heavier than the first, slowly rose from beneath his feet!
Two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings!
The street outside the Great Soul Arena erupted in an uproar.
"T-two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings!"
"Good heavens! Has the world gone mad!"
Countless passersby stumbled backward in fear, afraid of being caught in the terrifying surge of Soul Power.
Dai Mubai's legs went weak, and he nearly fell to his knees.
He was completely dumbfounded.
One Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring might still be explained away as a miracle.
But two back-to-back Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings crushed his pride to powder.
Tang San's face twisted horribly.
He stared fixedly at the two black Soul Rings pulsing up and down, his breathing as ragged as a broken bellows.
"This is absolutely beyond what normal cultivation can achieve!"
Tang San screamed inwardly.
He refused to accept that a genius like him—a transmigrator with Twin Martial Souls—could be outdone by someone else.
"He must have stumbled upon some tremendous secret!"
"Maybe an ancient secret art, or some kind of Immortal Herb that can forcibly transform the body!"
The shock in Tang San's eyes gradually turned into undisguised greed.
If he took this kid down in secret and forced him to reveal his secrets,
then, combined with his Tang Sect Secret Arts and this method of absorbing Soul Rings beyond their limits,
who in the world could stand in his way?
He'd be able to soar to the top for sure!
Just as Tang San secretly plotted his plans,
the pressure radiating from Xue Tianyu suddenly receded like a swiftly ebbing tide.
His Soul Power, which had surged like the sea, was forcibly suppressed.
It was now maintained at only the level of a twentieth-rank Soul Grandmaster.
Xue Tianyu held one hand behind his back and glanced at Tang San with complete indifference.
"Twenty ranks is enough to beat trash like you."
"Looking for death!"
Tang San flung both hands forward.
Dozens of thick, dark-blue vines as wide as a child's arm surged out from every direction with a piercing whoosh.
Sharp barbs covered the Blue Silver Grass, each one gleaming with a ghostly purple poison.
Like a pack of venomous snakes that had caught the scent of blood, they surged toward Xue Tianyu from all sides, blotting out the sky.
Xiao Wu's pretty face turned deathly pale with worry.
"Look out!"
Ning Rongrong also clutched the hem of her skirt.
"Dodge! It'll be over if they catch you!"
They had seen countless opponents suffer under this Blue Silver Entanglement with their own eyes.
The move looked ordinary, but it was extremely troublesome to deal with.
The vines carried a potent paralytic toxin and were incredibly tough. Soul Masters of the same rank couldn't break free.
A vicious glint flashed through Tang San's eyes.
The instant his words left his mouth, he sprang into action.
"Blue Silver Entanglement!"
Dozens of strands of Blue Silver Grass wove together in the air, forming an airtight net that instantly sealed off every one of Xue Tianyu's escape routes.
As the poisonous vines closed to within a foot of Xue Tianyu's face,
Dai Mubai and Oscar exchanged a look, both wearing smug smiles.
"I thought he was some kind of peerless genius."
Dai Mubai sneered in utter disdain.
"He can't even dodge when faced with Xiao San's control. He's nothing special!"
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