Even the Evil Emperor's proudest "Light of Time and Space" was instantly suppressed by Huo Yuhao's silver radiance. Time, frozen in place, began to flow again within the silver eye that blazed across the sky.
Huo Yuhao hadn't even used his Second Martial Soul. He had relied solely on his Body Martial Soul's "Third Awakening: Moon Eye," combined with the Eye of Destiny, fusing a thousand techniques into one and smashing the Evil Emperor's enormous, prideful eye with a single palm strike.
"Your ring is mine. Your torso bone is mine too."
Bathed in the Evil Emperor's blood, Huo Yuhao watched as his ninth Soul Ring slowly rose, scarlet with seven golden markings. At the sight of that blood-red ring emblazoned with seven golden markings, the entire world beyond the Sky Screen fell silent and trembled.
At that moment, the bottleneck in his Soul Power shattered with a thunderous crash.
Level ninety-nine!
A Limit Douluo!
Beyond the Sky Screen, Du Busi burst into laughter. "Do you see that? This is the true emperor of our Body Sect! What Shrek? What Sea God? They're all trash! Hahaha, hahahahaha..."
Boom!
The instant his Soul Power broke through that threshold,
on the Sky Screen, the phantom of the third Soul Core inside the Eye of Destiny between Huo Yuhao's brows began spinning rapidly. It gradually solidified, forming a strange resonance with his other two Soul Cores, the space-time of the Douluo Continent beyond the screen, and even his Third-Awakening Body Martial Soul.
"Today, I stand at the pinnacle. I shall rule this world..."
On the Sky Screen, Huo Yuhao gazed up at the heavens and murmured his thoughts. He stood there in midair, as though he weren't using any power at all—as if standing anywhere came naturally to him.
Then people saw what he did first after breaking through to Limit Douluo: Huo Yuhao headed straight for the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters in the Evil Demon Forest.
"So the headquarters of this Evil Soul Master sect is actually in the Evil Demon Forest."
"No wonder no one could find them. They even dared to work with the Sun Moon Empire without worrying that its Soul Master Regiment might launch a surprise attack and wipe them out."
"If the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign allows them to exist, their strength must be truly terrifying..."
While people were still murmuring among themselves, the Holy Spirit Cult's altar in the scene was sealed in boundless Ultimate Ice.
"Zhongli Wu, Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao. Today, the Holy Spirit Cult is wiped from existence!"
It was an epic battle, but it was also a one-sided slaughter.
The Death God Demon Puppet and Elemental Bone Dragon that Zhongli Wu had been so proud of shattered instantly under Huo Yuhao's "Divine Sense Suppression."
When Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, the two veteran Limit Douluo, attacked together, Huo Yuhao merely extended his hands.
"Body Martial Soul, Third Awakening Ultimate Art—Shinra Eternal Treasure!"
His body seemed to swell without limit, becoming a giant who reached from heaven to earth.
His left hand pressed down the Dark Giant Dragon Long Xiaoyao had summoned, while his right tore apart Ye Xishui's Blood God Demon Puppet.
"Senior Long, Senior Ye, you've lived long enough. The Holy Spirit Cult's debt and my Body Sect's grudge will both be settled today."
"But don't worry. That hypocrite Mu En has already gone ahead. He's waiting for you in hell."
There was no more talk.
Ultimate Ice pierced through them, ending the lives of the last two of the Dark Twin Saints.
The Holy Spirit Cult, that scourge which had ravaged the continent for hundreds of years, had failed to last three hours against Huo Yuhao.
The Holy Spirit Cult members beyond the Sky Screen were already scared out of their wits. It was a nightmare. They had hidden in the Evil Demon Forest, yet they still couldn't escape their fate: Huo Yuhao had killed them all, leaving no survivors.
Grand Elders Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao looked at each other, bitterness filling their eyes.
"So this is what he'll become... Are we two old relics really about to be left behind by the times?"
Long Xiaoyao sighed, his voice laden with endless complexity and emotion. Perhaps the Holy Spirit Cult's eventual destruction would, for him, be the easiest outcome after all.
"No! I won't accept this! No matter what, I won't allow our Holy Son to join that damned Body Sect and destroy the Holy Cult in the end!"
Meanwhile, Zhongli Wu's body trembled. His eyes held both fear and fervor.
If—if only such power belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult, how wonderful would that be?
After wiping out the Holy Spirit Cult, Huo Yuhao didn't pause.
He went to the Star Dou Great Forest.
This time, the one waiting for him was the furious Beast God Di Tian.
"Human, you've crossed the line! You've already gained the Auspicious Beast's power, and I've allowed you to develop Soul Spirit technology. Are you still not satisfied? Have you changed your mind and decided to start a war between Soul Beasts and humanity?"
Huo Yuhao hovered above the Lake of Life, looking down at the Black Dragon King below.
"Di Tian, I'm not here to kill anyone, nor to start a war. My visit has nothing to do with Soul Spirits. I'm here to take something."
"Hand over the Eye of Life. Hand over all the Gold of Life."
"Otherwise, after today, there won't be another Ferocious Beast left in the Star Dou Great Forest."
"Impudent!" Di Tian roared. In the next instant, the Black Sun and Purple Moon appeared, and the Black Dragon Sword cleaved the heavens.
But his answer was a rain of silver moonlight, the enormous silver-blue eye that appeared in the sky, and Huo Yuhao's fist, wreathed in divine radiance.
With his Third Awakening complete and the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring in his possession, Huo Yuhao's combat power had already touched the "ceiling" of this world.
In barely a hundred moves, the Beast God Di Tian, who had been invincible on the Douluo Continent for countless tens of thousands of years, had his Black Dragon Sword broken and even his ultimate technique, the Dragon God Claw, shattered. He was then slammed deep into the Lake of Life.
The Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest trembled.
Under the pressure of Huo Yuhao's godlike, demonic aura, Bi Ji, the Ten Thousand Demon King, and Xiong Jun could barely move a finger.
In the end, to preserve the Soul Beasts' Core Flame, Di Tian had no choice but to open the treasury beneath the Lake of Life, swallowing his pride.
Gold of Life, piled like mountains and surging like seas, fell into Huo Yuhao's hands.
Huo Yuhao returned to the Body Sect and entered its deepest secret chamber.
He took out all the Gold of Life, the fragment of Tang San's Divine Sense, and the Golden Tree's foundation he had seized from Shrek.
"Yuhao, are you sure you want to do this?" In his mind, Electrolux's voice held a hint of relief and emotion.
"Teacher, Shrek called your Necromancy and Soul Spirit Technology heretical, and the God King saw you as a variable. Then I'll show them what a true miracle is!"
Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged. The Gold of Life turned to liquid and rebuilt his meridians; the Golden Tree's vitality served as fuel to ignite his soul; and he forcibly erased the consciousness in Tang San's Divine Sense fragment, refining it into the purest divine adhesive.
The scene above the Sky Screen became incomparably grand.
The Gate of the Undead opened, and countless voices began to chant.
Amid the mingling of moonlight and the aura of the dead, a white-haired old man with an immortal air slowly opened his eyes within a body formed from Gold of Life.