Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring! That Streak of Red! Shadow Abyss Shark True Form! Dugu Bo Was Stunned!

Above the lake, poisonous mist curled through the air.

Dugu Bo hovered in midair, his expression more solemn than ever before.

His cloudy old eyes swept over the waters below. His spiritual power spread out like an invisible net, yet came up empty.

Where was he?

How could he have vanished into thin air?

"He's gone..."

On the shore, Ye Lingling's limpid eyes were full of shock and doubt. Without thinking, she grabbed Dugu Yan's arm.

"Yan Yan, he... he's gone!"

Dugu Yan had been left staring in a daze. She murmured to herself,

"Yeah... he's gone. What kind of Soul Skill is that?"

Ye Lingling's voice trembled slightly.

"I heard that the Soul Master World has an extremely rare Martial Soul with the power of space, one that can Teleport... Could he..."

Just then, Dugu Bo's pupils suddenly contracted.

"A spatial Soul Skill!"

He spoke in a low voice, with a trace of shock he himself hadn't even noticed.

"This kid... actually has the power of space, too!"

As a Titled Douluo, he knew all too well how troublesome and terrifying such an ability could be.

Yet just as he focused all his attention on the surroundings, alert to even the slightest spatial fluctuation,

a barely perceptible ripple quietly unfurled behind him.

A calm voice, utterly devoid of emotion, sounded as if right against the back of his neck.

"Wave Breaker."

Bad!

Dugu Bo felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. A deadly chill shot from his tailbone straight to the crown of his head!

He didn't even have time to turn around!

"Fifth Soul Skill, Serpent Python Celestial Shield!"

At the critical moment, Dugu Bo roared. The fifth black Soul Ring on his body blazed with light!

Hum!

Several enormous serpent-scale shields, condensed from dark green Soul Power, instantly appeared around him!

Clang—!

A deafening clash of metal rang out!

A short blade, its entire length a deep, shadowy blue, had somehow already struck the serpent-scale shield behind Dugu Bo.

The seemingly indestructible defense of his Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill buckled violently under the blow. Web-like cracks spread across it in an instant!

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

The force sent Dugu Bo staggering backward dozens of steps through the air before he finally managed to steady himself.

He whirled around and looked at the youth who had appeared behind him without warning, his eyes full of shock.

"Monster..."

Dugu Bo panted, his chest heaving.

"You really are a monster!"

At this point, there was no longer any contempt in his heart—only the pure fighting spirit of a worthy opponent!

"Good lad! To push me this far is something you can be proud of!"

Dugu Bo's eyes flashed brightly.

"But the game ends here!"

"Now, I'll show you the true power of a Titled Douluo!"

As his words fell, his aura surged once more!

"Seventh Soul Skill, Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar!"

In an instant, dazzling green light swallowed him whole. A dark green serpent more than a hundred meters long appeared out of thin air, coiling across the sky. Its enormous, lantern-like eyes fixed on Lan!

Then the eighth black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring lit up with an ominous glow.

"Eighth Soul Skill, Time Stasis!"

The giant serpent opened its enormous jaws, but what it spewed wasn't poison. It was a strange, murky-gray current of air!

Wherever that current passed, everything fell into absolute stillness in an instant—the drifting poisonous mist, the boiling lake water, even the flowing air.

Lan's figure was frozen in midair, unable to move.

"Hahahaha!"

Seeing this, Dugu Bo, transformed into the Serpent Emperor, let out a triumphant laugh.

"Kid, once you're caught in my Time Stasis, your body and Soul Power are temporarily frozen. You can't move at all!"

His enormous serpent head drew close to Lan, his voice rumbling like thunder.

"Well, kid? Give up!"

On the shore.

Seeing this, the shock and fear on Dugu Yan's face vanished, replaced by a surge of satisfaction.

She laughed so hard she could barely stand straight, then turned and winked at Ye Lingling.

"Lingling, look! Grandpa froze him!"

"Should we... go up there and 'thank him properly' right now?"

She smiled maliciously.

"For example, strip off his clothes and see what kind of figure he has?"

However, Ye Lingling didn't respond to her joke.

The color had drained from her beautiful face, leaving nothing but boundless shock.

Ye Lingling pointed behind Dugu Yan, toward the battlefield frozen in time.

"Yan... Yan Yan..."

The smile on Dugu Yan's face stiffened. Somewhat annoyed, she turned around.

"What is it? Why are you acting so jumpy..."

The next second,

she saw a sight she would never forget for the rest of her life.

In midair, the youth who should have been "frozen" was now surrounded by a deep blue glow.

The murky-gray domain of "time" shattered around him inch by inch, peeling away like fragments of a mirror.

A calm voice, filled with supreme authority, rang across heaven and earth.

"Shadow Abyss Shark True Form!"

Boom—!

An aura far more terrifying and ancient than that of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor suddenly burst forth!

Under Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo's incredulous gazes,

a Soul Ring slowly rose from beneath Lan's feet.

It wasn't yellow, purple, or black.

It was a strange, dazzling red, the color of extremity and terror—

Red!

A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, bright as fresh blood, blazed in midair!

That streak of red branded itself into Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan's pupils.

"A... a Hundred Thousand Year..."

The smug satisfaction on Dugu Yan's face instantly froze, as if someone had slapped her hard across the face. It burned with pain.

"His Seventh Soul Ring... is a Hundred Thousand Year one?"

Yet this was only the beginning.

Hum—!

As they stared in a daze, one Soul Ring after another rose from beneath Lan's feet.

Two purple!

Four black!

And finally, that dazzling blood-red ring!

Two purple, four black, one red!

Seven Soul Rings revolved around Lan, forming a sight that would drive any Soul Master wild with envy!

And amid the light of the seven rings, Lan's figure began to change in a strange way.

His body didn't grow enormous like Dugu Bo's. Instead, he was shrouded by a deep blue shadow so vast it seemed boundless.

It was the phantom of a shark.

An Azure Deep Sea Giant Shark, as if it had swum out of the primordial ocean of antiquity!

Its outline was indistinct yet profound, seemingly made of the purest shadows of the deep sea. Where its eyes should have been burned two blazing lights, even more crimson than the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

An ancient pressure that transcended time and space swept outward like a tsunami.

This wasn't the ferocity of a Soul Beast. It was the absolute dominance of the very pinnacle of the food chain, born from the earliest origins of life!