Yu Tianheng Was Crying in Panic? Yu Nan: How Dare a Little Snake Act Up?! Absorption Successful, Level 53!

"Members of the Education Committee! We can't leave! Yan Yan, she..."

The moment he landed, Yu Tianheng struggled to rush back. His eyes were bloodshot, and he looked frantic.

"Tianheng!

Calm down!"

Qin Ming clamped both arms around Yu Tianheng. His eyes, too, were filled with pain and helplessness.

"That's a Titled Douluo!

If we rush over, we'll only be throwing our lives away. We can't change the outcome!

All we can do now is pray...

Pray that His Excellency Dugu really has an assurance we don't know about."

Though he said that, Qin Ming's heart had gone cold.

Seventy thousand years...

That was an age even Soul Douluos wouldn't dare attempt lightly. What made Dugu Yan think she could do it as a Soul Ancestor?

The group stood on a distant hillside, gazing toward the stone forest shrouded in poisonous mist. The oppressive atmosphere made it hard to breathe.

At the center of the stone forest.

After chasing off those bothersome flies, Dugu Bo reined in his terrifying killing intent. When he turned to look at Dugu Yan, his eyes softened at once, filled with concern.

"Yan Yan, don't let them affect you."

Dugu Bo's voice was deep as he said,

"The mediocre in this world will never understand the world of geniuses.

Show them. You, Dugu Yan, are destined to rise above all living beings!"

"Mm!"

Dugu Yan nodded firmly and sat cross-legged beside the massive corpse of Medusa.

She took a deep breath and steadied her breathing. Then she raised her right hand, where a violet-gold light flickered in her palm.

"Come!"

At Dugu Yan's pull of Soul Power, the black Soul Ring hovering in midair, radiating overwhelming resentment and pressure, seemed to answer a summons and suddenly began to spin.

VROOOM—!!!

The moment the Soul Ring descended and encircled Dugu Yan, a visible wave of black energy burst outward!

Crack, crack!

The rocks beneath Dugu Yan shattered into powder.

"Urgh—!!!"

Though she had been prepared, the instant that overwhelmingly violent energy surged into her body, Dugu Yan couldn't help letting out a piercing scream.

It hurt too much!

It felt as if a living giant python had burrowed into her veins and was biting and swelling wildly, trying to split her body apart!

On the distant hillside.

Hearing her scream, Yu Tianheng shuddered. Tears spilled from his eyes, and his nails dug deep into his palms.

"It's over... That energy is too violent..."

Meng Shenji's face turned deathly pale. He shook his head.

"It's only just begun, and she's already in such pain. Her body can't possibly withstand the continuous impact to come.

Dugu Bo... He's destroying his own granddaughter with his own hands!"

But just as everyone thought Dugu Yan was about to explode and die,

a sudden change occurred!

"Hmph. You think a mere seventy thousand years of energy can break through my defenses?"

Inside the Sea of Consciousness, Yu Nan snorted.

The next moment, a strange red-and-white light suddenly lit up across Dugu Yan's skin!

It was the Ice and Fire Golden Body!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

The meridians and blood vessels that had been on the verge of rupturing under the violent energy suddenly grew incomparably resilient at the touch of that red-and-white light.

No matter how the seventy thousand years of Soul Power surged back and forth, Dugu Yan's body was like an indestructible furnace, locking it firmly inside!

Dugu Yan's pain-twisted expression miraculously eased.

"What... What is this?!"

Bai Baoshan's eyes widened. He pointed at the red-and-white light interwoven around Dugu Yan and cried out,

"Her body... actually withstood it?!"

"How is that possible?

That's the energy of a seventy-thousand-year Soul Beast!

Even my defensive Martial Soul might not be able to..."

Before they could recover from their shock, an even more perilous trial arrived.

Soul Shock!

"SSSSSS—!!!"

A venomous roar, audible only on the spiritual level, suddenly exploded in Dugu Yan's mind.

A miniature phantom of Medusa appeared above the black Soul Ring, its jaws gaping wide.

Filled with boundless hatred and murderous intent, it hurtled straight for Dugu Yan's brow!

This was the soul counterattack of a Ferocious Beast after death!

If it invaded the Sea of Consciousness, she would become an idiot at best, or suffer the destruction of her soul at worst!

"Bad news!

It's Soul Shock!"

Committee Member Zhilin cried out in alarm. As a control-type Soul Douluo, he was extremely sensitive to disturbances on the spiritual level.

"It's over...

That resentment is too strong!

Yan Yan's mental strength can't possibly hold it back!"

Yu Tianheng shut his eyes in despair, unable to bear watching the brainsplattering scene that was about to follow.

But then...

Just as Medusa's remnant soul rushed into Dugu Yan's Sea of Consciousness with a sinister grin, ready to wreak havoc,

it suddenly froze.

It had discovered that this Sea of Consciousness wasn't a little, murky puddle like that of an ordinary Soul Ancestor.

It was a vast, boundless ocean, glittering with violet-gold light!

And upon that ocean coiled a tremendous, terrifying presence that made its soul tremble.

It was a giant dragon, violet-gold from head to tail, whose majesty was like a prison!

Yu Nan lazily opened one dragon eye and looked at the trembling "little snake" before him. A teasing curve tugged at his lips.

"Well, well. You little loach, feeling pretty cocky?"

"Hiss..."

Medusa's remnant soul went rigid. Its once-overwhelming resentment melted away without a trace before this two-hundred-thousand-year-old True Dragon,

like the last of the snow beneath the blazing sun.

It tried to flee.

But Yu Nan had already sealed off this Sea of Consciousness completely.

"Since you're here, you might as well stay. You can help replenish this girl's mental strength."

Yu Nan spoke casually, then raised a dragon claw that blotted out the sky.

There was no flourish to the movement.

He simply brought his claw down in a slap!

Smack!

Like swatting a fly.

The seventy-thousand-year-old Medusa remnant soul, whose very name had made three Soul Douluos blanch,

didn't even have time to scream before it was slapped into countless points of light!

"Refine!"

Yu Nan opened his mouth and sucked in those pure streams of mental energy.

After transforming them, he turned them into the gentlest nourishment and sent them back to Dugu Yan's soul.

Outside.

The scene everyone had expected—Dugu Yan bleeding from all seven orifices and suffering a mental collapse—never came to pass.

Instead,

Dugu Yan's tightly furrowed brows relaxed completely, and even the corners of her mouth lifted in a look of enjoyment.

The aura around her began to surge at rocket speed!

Level 51... Level 52... Level 53...

Boom!

With a crisp explosive sound,

the ink-black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring finally stabilized. It hovered quietly around Dugu Yan, shining alongside her other four rings.

Yellow, yellow, purple, black (disguised), black!

Fifth Soul Ring: seventy thousand years!

Absorption successful!

"Phew—"

Dugu Yan slowly opened her eyes.

In an instant, two gray-white beams shot from them, striking a massive boulder in front of her.