As he shattered and reformed hundreds of times, every atom of his soul seemed to memorize the frequency of "god" under those high-intensity impacts. Looking at the figure that had finally appeared, he smiled faintly, entirely at ease.
As though he wasn't facing the projection of a god.
"Divine rank? Laws? So... that's all there is to it. I finally understand what my teacher meant when he said, 'With the sun and moon in hand, I pluck the stars; there is no one like me in this world.' I finally understand, too, why my teacher never cared to become the God of Death!"
Huo Yuhao's voice echoed through the girl's Sea of Consciousness. It wasn't the voice of a mortal, but one imbued with a rhythm that seemed to make words into law.
"Teacher Du Busi was right, too. The ultimate form of a Body Martial Soul is to make your own body a world. Since you want to suppress me, then I'll use that suppression to reshape the rules!"
Outside the Sky Screen, the Body Sect's headquarters, which had been silent moments before, suddenly erupted in earth-shaking cries of astonishment!
Du Busi shot to his feet, disbelief filling his eyes. "What is he doing? His Soul Power is vanishing... No, it isn't vanishing. It's drawing inward! He's collapsing all his essence, energy, and spirit into the core of his Martial Soul!"
"That's... the legendary... No, the one we theorized..."
Du Busi's voice trembled, filled with utter shock and fervor. His eyes seemed to be gazing upon a miracle!
Inside the Sky Screen.
Huo Yuhao abruptly opened his eyes. The madness and ferocity were gone, replaced by an absolute, ethereal calm.
His third eye—the Eye of Destiny—turned from gold to a deep silver. It was no longer an eye, but a cold moon reflected in the depths of the Abyss.
"Body Martial Soul... three awakenings! It's happened today..."
Huo Yuhao gave a soft sigh, his words carrying an otherworldly, divine serenity.
At that moment, everyone in the Body Sect beyond the Sky Screen felt an urge to prostrate themselves before the figure within it, before the faint silver Moonlight Shield appearing behind him!
Boom!
The sky above the laboratory, clear just moments earlier, turned pitch-black in an instant. A massive silver crescent moon appeared without warning, its frigid, divine radiance instantly blanketing a thousand-li radius.
In distant Heaven Dou City, countless people looked up in astonishment at the miraculous sight!
Huo Yuhao's Spirit Power, which had already been exhausted, underwent a transformation in an instant. Every drop of it seemed refined to the utmost, becoming liquid Divine Sense.
"With the sun and moon in hand, I pluck the stars; there is no one like me in this world. At a single thought, even ghosts and gods are struck with awe; across the heavens, immortals and demons all perish!"
Facing the still-radiant Trident Divine Sense, Huo Yuhao spoke with an indescribably grand presence.
The Body Sect.
In that instant, the silver moonlight seemed to pierce through the Sky Screen and shine into reality, falling upon every member of the Body Sect. They all felt their Martial Souls tremble—not in fear alone, but in submission, a terror rising from the depths of their bloodline.
"Three awakenings... A realm no one has ever reached, past or present!"
An elder of the Body Sect fell to his knees, tears streaming down his face. "The Martial Soul becomes divine, the body becomes holy! This is the true ultimate form of our Body Sect!"
Du Busi looked at the youth in the Sky Screen, who seemed like a god descending into the world, then at his own stooped frame. He let out a long sigh, his eyes filled with hope and fervor.
"This child... We must find him. He alone can open up a path forward for the Body Martial Soul and become the one true emperor of our Body Sect for all eternity!"
Within the Sky Screen, the silver crescent moon and the golden Trident faced off in the pink-haired girl's Sea of Consciousness. Her Sea of Consciousness had been split into two different hues.
One half was the moon's pale silver; the other, the Sea God's blue and gold.
"Huo Yuhao, I'm truly disappointed in you..."
The Sea God's Divine Sense finally took solid form, becoming a man in blue-and-gold battle robes. His face was indistinct, but a hint of purple gleamed in his eyes.
A flash of murderous intent finally passed through that purple gaze. This mortal had used his daughter as a whetstone to achieve a "third Martial Soul awakening," something never before seen in the history of Soul Masters.
For the first time, he even felt that this Child of Destiny was slipping beyond the control of a God King like himself!
"Huo Yuhao, you're still nothing but a mortal. You think that touching the edge of the laws lets you challenge a God King's authority?"
Tang San's voice carried the air of a lofty judgment. "You desecrated my daughter and tormented her soul. Today, I will punish you in Heaven's name!"
Outside the Sky Screen, countless people watched the scene and couldn't help spitting in disgust.
"Great God King Tang sure knows how to make himself sound righteous. He planted his Divine Sense in his daughter's brain to spy on her, then turned around and accused someone else of tormenting her?"
"That machine really was brutal, but without Tang San's seal, Huo Yuhao wouldn't have needed such extreme measures to break the formation, would he?"
Inside the Sky Screen, Huo Yuhao gave a cold laugh, as if the answer wasn't even worth his breath.
Cool Moonlight Shield swirled around him. The layer of moonlight seemed to exist beyond three-dimensional space. No matter how fiercely the Sea of Consciousness churned, the divine pressure emanating from Tang San couldn't touch him.
"Punish me in Heaven's name? Tang San, you don't speak for Heaven. You speak only for your own hypocritical desires!"
Huo Yuhao raised his right hand. In his palm, silver Divine Sense gathered into a blade as thin as a cicada's wing.
"Today, I'll not only strip away your seal. I'll cut down this strand of your Divine Sense and make your 'grand plan of ten thousand years' collapse completely!"
The battle erupted!
Tang San moved. As a God King, even a mere strand of Divine Sense carried combat instincts beyond the limits of the plane.
"First move: Bodhi Blood!"
Tang San's projection pointed a finger. In that instant, the energy throughout the Sea of Consciousness was drained and condensed into a crystalline red droplet, steeped in the power of causality. It pierced through the barriers of space and shot straight for Huo Yuhao's brow!
It was the pinnacle of the Tang Sect Hidden Weapons—a lethal attack made real through Divine Sense!
Yet Huo Yuhao didn't even dodge.
Behind him, the faint projection of a magnificent golden-furred Auspicious Beast with three eyes appeared.
"Spiritual Immunity!"
The red droplet struck the Moonlight Shield before Huo Yuhao and seemed to hit nothing at all. It passed straight through and vanished into the void.
"What?!" Yan Shaozhe cried out from beyond the Sky Screen, his eyes nearly popping out of his head. "That was the legendary Bodhi Blood, the Tang Sect's supposedly unavoidable killing blow! It had no effect?"
At that moment, even Mu En nearly toppled from the Golden Wood Wheelchair! To them, this was no less than a shattering blow to their faith!