Advancement Permission

The moment Su Yu took hold of the gray-gold fragment, a sudden change occurred.

The fragment, hard as crystal, melted rapidly like snow meeting a raging fire the instant it touched his palm.

Without the slightest transition, it turned directly into an immense, pure force of origin. In an instant, it surged through the Laogong Acupoint in his palm and flooded into his meridians with the force of a landslide.

The power was so immense that it exceeded the limits of what the human body could comprehend.

Su Yu's entire right arm flushed red in an instant, and raised blue veins, like coiling dragons, surfaced beneath his skin.

This was nothing like the gentle Soul Power of Douluo Continent, which needed to be refined little by little. It was pure, high-dimensional law energy, domineering and invasive.

With the force of a storm sweeping away dead leaves, it burst through every acupoint in Su Yu's arm, becoming a scorching lava dragon that charged straight into his limbs and bones.

This power completely disregarded Douluo Continent's traditional cultivation system.

In the traditional Soul Master World, whether in the records of the Spirit Hall or in the theories of a half-baked Grandmaster like Yu Xiaogang, everyone firmly believed that a Soul Master's meridian width and capacity were fixed at birth.

Soul Power had to be accumulated bit by bit through meditation, while meridians needed years of nourishment to gradually widen.

If energy far beyond a Soul Master's current level were forcibly injected, their meridians would burst in an instant, leaving them with shattered channels and a body that exploded in a miserable death.

But this force, condensed from the system's collapse, trampled all those so-called ironclad laws beneath its feet with utterly savage force.

It immediately began widening Su Yu's meridians and dantian.

It was like an indestructible heavy hammer pounding wildly through the narrow channels of Su Yu's meridians.

Wherever it passed, the walls of his meridians were forcibly torn apart, making a grating sound.

But the moment pure origin energy nourished them, the ruptured meridians healed in a thousandth of a second.

Each cycle of tearing and healing multiplied their width and resilience.

Su Yu's bones crackled like beans frying in a pan, while his muscle fibers were reforged through destruction and rebirth until they were like tempered steel.

Su Yu clenched his teeth, beads of sweat forming on his forehead before sliding down his cheeks.

The pain of having his body and meridians forcibly remade was no less than being thrown into a millstone, crushed to pieces, and then reshaped.

Yet he did not even let out a muffled groan. He clung fiercely to a thread of clarity in his mind and frantically circulated his Innate Full Soul Power, working with and guiding the savage force.

A deep rumble sounded within him, like muffled thunder from the highest heavens. It pierced straight through his body and exploded across the wilderness.

Su Yu's Soul Power had been stuck at the peak of level ten, where Douluo's laws required him to absorb a Soul Ring before he could advance. Under the crushing force of this higher-dimensional power, that bottleneck was like a thin sheet of paper—and it shattered in an instant.

Without the aid of a Soul Ring or the slaughter of a single Soul Beast, his Soul Power crossed the level-ten threshold and continued rising at a terrifying speed.

Level eleven!

Level twelve!

Level thirteen!

Violent waves of Soul Power erupted from Su Yu, sweeping outward in a tangible golden tide.

The charred earth beneath him was scraped away by the force, while the surrounding shrubs and weeds were uprooted and shredded into a cloud of dust in midair.

A raging Soul Power vortex several meters in diameter formed around him.

Ten meters away, Tang Wu and Xiao Wu, who had been keeping watch, felt the frightening disturbance and turned to look.

"How is this possible!" Xiao Wu stood in the treetops, her ruby-red eyes wide as she stared at the figure wrapped in golden currents, her face full of disbelief. "He hasn't even obtained his First Soul Ring. How can his Soul Power Level break through the bottleneck just like that? This completely defies the laws of heaven and earth on Douluo Continent!"

As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast reincarnated into human form, Xiao Wu understood the severity of those laws better than anyone.

But everything happening before her eyes had completely overturned her understanding.

That boy was actually using his own body to trample the rules of this world by force.

Tang Wu gripped the Poison Vine in front of her tightly, feeling the unfathomable pressure radiating from Su Yu. Her big eyes brimmed with shock and fervent admiration.

The sense of accomplishment she had felt after absorbing a Soul Ring nearly four hundred years old now seemed utterly insignificant compared with the aura Su Yu had unleashed.

Her Brother Yu was no ordinary person.

More importantly, as the origin power continued to be absorbed, Su Yu's Second Martial Soul, the Conceptual Eraser, appeared on its own.

The eraser, originally only half the size of a palm and a drab gray, had looked utterly unremarkable. Now it peeled out of the void and floated above Su Yu's head.

It was undergoing an earth-shaking transformation.

It greedily devoured the excess gray-gold origin energy. Its drab color grew richer and deeper, like a black hole capable of swallowing even light.

A streak of dark-gold radiance, representing absolute rules, shimmered along the eraser's edge.

The instant that dark-gold light appeared, it was as if the surrounding space had been paused.

An aura of rules that stood above all things radiated from the eraser without restraint.

Under the pressure of that aura, the poisonous, incredibly resilient Mutated Blue Silver Grass summoned by Tang Wu trembled uncontrollably, as if it had encountered its natural enemy.

The once-straight vines instantly lost all their strength and slumped helplessly onto the earth. Even the poisonous patterns on them faded.

Even Xiao Wu, standing in the treetops, felt as if her soul had been struck.

Her noble bloodline as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was crushed to pieces before that dark-gold aura of rules, like a commoner before an emperor.

Her legs gave way, and she nearly fell from the tree. All that remained in her gaze as she looked at Su Yu was fear and deep reverence.

Su Yu sat cross-legged at the center of the storm, a sudden understanding filling his mind.

A flood of information about using rules surged into the depths of his memory.

He realized that after absorbing this Intermediate Origin Fragment, his control over the Conceptual Eraser had reached an entirely new level.

His current permission allowed him not only to expend Soul Power to alter the text on a quest panel, as he had done to Yu Xiaogang before, but also to unlock an ability so powerful it defied the heavens.

He could wield the power of rules to forcibly sever the soul connection between a low-level system and its host for up to one second.

Su Yu carefully worked through the mechanism of this new permission in his mind.

Every system, no matter how flashy its functions, needed to bind itself to its host's soul in order to work.

The host's body was the system's vessel in the real world, and the two were connected by an invisible line of energy transmission.

The Conceptual Eraser's Advancement Permission was an invisible pair of scissors, capable of precisely cutting that line for one second.

A surge of delight welled up inside Su Yu. He knew exactly what that one second of "disconnection" meant.

In a battle to the death, one second was enough to decide everything.

Douluo Continent was now full of transmigrators carrying all kinds of bizarre systems.

They were used to standing above everyone else, relying on their systems' "Invincible Shield" to automatically defend against fatal attacks and on "instant-kill items" issued by their systems to turn the tide of battle.

Their combat sense and physical reactions were nothing but a false prosperity, forcibly propped up by their systems.

Once the Conceptual Eraser forcibly severed the system connection, even for a mere second, hosts who relied on their cheats would instantly lose all their boosted attributes and skill protections.

Their Invincible Shields would go dark, and their instant-kill skills would jam.

Their bodies and minds would be completely unable to adapt to the sudden, precipitous drop. They would freeze for a brief moment.

In that one second, they would fall from omnipotent gods back into ordinary mortals of flesh and blood.

In the blink of an eye, that one second of "disconnection" in a battle to the death would turn cheat-dependent hosts into lambs awaiting slaughter.

"In the right circumstances, one second is enough for me to kill them ten times." Su Yu made his cold judgment inwardly.

This Advancement Permission was practically the ultimate crushing weapon, custom-made for hunting down system-backed cheaters.

The violent energy inside him gradually subsided, and his meridians and dantian, widened to their limits, settled back into calm.

Su Yu slowly opened his eyes.

The moment he did, brilliant golden light flashed in his eyes and vanished like a tangible thing.

Those two golden beams were peerless swords cutting through the night. They pierced the dim air and left two golden trails hanging in the void for a long time.

The space around him rippled faintly beneath the sweep of his gaze.

The Conceptual Eraser, its edges lined with dark gold, turned into a streak of light above his head and disappeared back into his body.

Su Yu rose from the bottom of the charred crater.

He did not deliberately release any Soul Power, yet his entire presence had undergone an earth-shaking transformation.

He stood there, his long robe stirring though there was no wind.

The wind around him seemed to have stopped, and even the dust in the air hung suspended, not daring to fall.

His eyes were as deep as the vast starry sky, carrying an absolute indifference that seemed to see through every illusion in the world.

Tang Wu looked at Su Yu, her legs going weak as an urge to bow down and worship rose within her.

Xiao Wu lowered her proud head completely, not even daring to meet his gaze.

At that moment, Su Yu was like a god who commanded the rules.