Twin Martial Souls Exposed

Xing Tian's consciousness gradually blurred, and hallucinations began to appear before his eyes. It was as if he saw countless remnant souls of Soul Beasts gathering into a massive black shadow, its eyes gleaming with blood-red ferocity, intent on devouring his soul and usurping his body.

Xing Tian's entire body was bathed in blood, and the soul power within him surged like boiling magma, nearly bursting through his skin.

As each drop of blood overflowed, it quickly turned a dark purple and solidified, encasing Xing Tian in a dull, lifeless giant cocoon that emitted a heavy aura of death, devoid of any vitality.

From this, it could be judged that Xing Tian's physical body had already died, though his spirit had not; the entire person had entered a state of suspended animation.

Yet, all of this remained within Xing Tian's control. If he lacked a trump card, how could he possibly have challenged the Second Death Tribulation ahead of schedule without letting Dugu Bo intervene?

In an instant, the depths of Xing Tian's spiritual sea began to gush with a faint golden light.

Gradually, that pale gold transformed into purple, stirring up layer after layer of purple ripples, and his eyes erupted with two beams of purple light.

Those purple beams struck the black shadow, instantly shaking it and triggering a continuous series of explosions.

His previously blurred consciousness, like mist dispersed by a powerful light, instantly became clear.

Everything that had just occurred was the medicinal power of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew taking effect. Much like the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot, Xing Tian had been unable to fully absorb it immediately after consumption and required external force to facilitate the process; this moment had been the perfect opportunity.

Not only that, the medicinal power of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew combined with the Nine Deaths Reincarnation Evil Art, causing his spiritual power to undergo a comprehensive sublimation.

At the final moment before falling into a demonic obsession, Xing Tian corrected his course, and thus, the barrier of the Second Death Tribulation was shattered.

With a loud "boom," the dark purple cocoon exploded. Xing Tian sat cross-legged, his body completely unscathed and brimming with vitality, while three Soul Rings—purple, purple, and black—pulsed around him.

"Yanyan, he succeeded!" Dugu Bo exclaimed in pleasant surprise.

Dugu Yan hurriedly turned around, weeping with joy, and complained, "This guy, he made me worry for so long and shed so many tears. When he wakes up, I must punish him severely!"

"Oh? How will you punish him?" Dugu Bo was determined to make Xing Tian taste the suffering he had just endured.

"Punish him..." But as the words reached her lips, Dugu Yan could not bring herself to say anything harsh.

Suddenly, Dugu Yan noticed something and pointed at Xing Tian, shouting, "Grandpa, look at Xiao Tian's body!"

Dugu Bo followed Dugu Yan's finger, and a miraculous scene unfolded.

The three Soul Rings went dormant, and a white light radiated from within Xing Tian's body. Dark, silver-white magic patterns emerged from his eyes, spreading along his meridians like living creatures until they covered his entire body.

Light rippled between the magic patterns, filling the gaps and bathing Xing Tian's body in a holy yet eerie silver glow.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan watched, dumbfounded, forgetting even to breathe.

They saw the light behind Xing Tian growing brighter, gradually condensing into shape until it became a silver-white figure identical to him. Although somewhat blurred, it exuded a heart-palpitating, domineering aura.

When every inch of Xing Tian's body was filled with white, the figure behind him suddenly moved, slowly merging into his body.

The moment they merged, an earth-shattering power erupted, like a thunderclap from the heavens.

Xing Tian's body became as white and translucent as jade, and a silver-white halo rose behind him, featuring a simple humanoid pattern.

A protective white light burst forth around his body, with blurred runes floating within it, and three orbs that seemed to be condensed from liquid silver circled him, emitting a captivating glow.

From a distance, he looked like a silver-white deity descended into the mortal world.

Dugu Yan asked in disbelief, "Could Xiao Tian's Martial Soul have mutated?"

Dugu Bo finally reacted: "No, it's not a Martial Soul mutation. No matter how a Mantis mutates post-natally, it wouldn't change like this. His Soul Rings are dormant, and combined with this aura... it is his other Martial Soul!"

"Another Martial Soul?"

Dugu Yan's mouth hung open: "Xiao Tian has Twin Martial Souls?"

Dugu Bo said with some annoyance, "Yes, this brat, he even kept this from us. He deserves a beating!"

At this moment, Xing Tian's consciousness had not yet fully cleared, but because he had successfully advanced and broken through the death tribulation, he subconsciously activated the Nine Deaths Reincarnation Evil Art.

The moment the art was activated, his body changed once more. A purple halo, like ink spreading on paper, slowly diffused from his chest.

Within a few breaths, his previously pure white skin was covered by this purple hue, turning a warm, purple-white.

It retained the translucent texture of jade while gaining a seductive, metallic luster.

"This... why did the color change?" Dugu Yan's eyes widened; the shock that had not yet subsided was stirred up again by this new anomaly.

Dugu Bo also stared intently at Xing Tian's body, his brows knitted together, harboring a guess: "His first Martial Soul has darkness, evil, and death attributes; it has never shown purple soul power fluctuations. However, when he sealed his own cultivation back then, it did seem to be purple."

"But his second Martial Soul clearly hasn't been cultivated; this purple soul power definitely isn't caused by the second Martial Soul."

"Could it be... another technique?"

"He brought out the Rejuvenation Art and the Ten Thousand Poisons Heart Sutra; it's possible he possesses other techniques as well. This purple soul power is likely produced by such a technique."

"As for the scene before... no wonder he didn't mention this technique. Cultivating it is probably a hundred or a thousand times more dangerous than the Ten Thousand Poisons Heart Sutra. He didn't want to harm anyone."

Dugu Bo was worthy of being a Title Douluo; by synthesizing past and recent clues, he had deduced most of the truth.

He just didn't know what exactly Xing Tian's second Martial Soul was, or why his entire body had turned silver-white.

While Dugu Bo was deep in thought, the dark silver-white magic patterns that had traversed Xing Tian's meridians and skin began to be stained with purple.

The edges were the first to glow with a purple halo, which then seeped inward, gradually turning the monotonous silver into a magnificent purple-silver.

The magic patterns wound across the purple-white skin, the purple-silver intertwined luster flowing between the lines like gorgeous chains wrapped around his body. It exuded both a domineering majesty and an eerie charm.

Every time the light flickered, it seemed to draw in the surrounding energy, causing the very air to tremble slightly.

The edge of the halo behind him glowed with a pale purple ring, and the runes were outlined in purple, adding a touch of evil majesty.

The purple ripples erupting from Xing Tian's body flowed like streams into the three silver orbs circling him, turning the pure silver-white into a purple-silver gradient.

Domineering and seductive, they merged perfectly within him, forming a dangerous beauty that made one afraid to look directly, yet unable to look away.

When all changes ceased, the light in the depths of Xing Tian's eyes also turned purple-gold, and his consciousness finally cleared completely.