Advancement Permission

Su Yu had just gripped the grey-gold fragment when a sudden mutation occurred.

The fragment, originally as hard as crystal, melted instantly upon contact with his palm like snow meeting a raging fire.

Without the slightest transition, it transformed into an incomparably pure and vast source of power, surging through his Laogong Acupoint and flooding his meridians with the force of a landslide.

This power was too immense, far exceeding the limits of what a human body could comprehend.

Su Yu's entire right arm turned a deep, inflamed red in an instant, with cyan veins bulging beneath his skin like coiling dragons.

This was not the gentle soul power of the Douluo Continent that required slow refinement, but pure, high-dimensional law energy, aggressive and overbearing.

With a destructive momentum, it tore through every acupoint in his arm, turning into a molten dragon of magma that surged straight into his limbs and bones.

This power completely ignored the traditional cultivation system of the Douluo Continent.

In the traditional world of soul masters, whether in the texts of the Martial Soul Hall or the theories of a half-baked Grandmaster like Yu Xiaogang, it was firmly believed that a soul master's meridian width and tolerance limits were fixed at birth.

Soul power had to be accumulated bit by bit through meditation, and meridians required years of nourishment to gradually widen.

If one were to forcibly inject energy far exceeding their current level, the soul master's meridians would burst instantly, leading to a miserable end of shattered vessels and a ruptured body.

Yet, this source power, condensed from a system crash, trampled these so-called iron laws into dust with a barbaric posture.

It began to widen Su Yu's meridians and dantian directly.

It was as if an indestructible heavy hammer were smashing wildly through the narrow channels of his meridians.

Wherever it passed, the meridian walls were forcibly torn, emitting a teeth-grinding sound of rupture.

But immediately after, nourished by the pure source energy, those broken meridians healed within a thousandth of a second.

Each cycle of tearing and healing caused the width and resilience of his meridians to increase exponentially.

Su Yu's bones emitted a dense series of pops like roasting beans, and his muscle fibers were forged into refined steel through the cycle of destruction and rebirth.

Su Yu bit his lip hard, beads of sweat the size of peas oozing from his forehead and sliding down his cheeks.

The pain of this forced reconstruction of flesh and meridians was no less than being thrown into a millstone to be crushed and reshaped.

Yet, he did not let out a single groan, holding onto a sliver of clarity in his mind while frantically circulating his Innate Full Soul Power to cooperate with and guide this barbaric force.

Accompanied by a dull roar from within his body, the sound was like thunder from the nine heavens, piercing through his flesh and exploding in the wilderness air.

Su Yu's soul power bottleneck, which had been stuck at the tenth-level peak and required a soul ring to advance according to the laws of Douluo, was shattered like a thin sheet of paper under the dimensional strike of this high-level energy.

Without the aid of any soul ring, without hunting any Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, his soul power crossed the ten-level threshold and continued to climb at a terrifying speed.

Level eleven!

Level twelve!

Level thirteen!

Violent soul power fluctuations erupted from Su Yu's body, turning into tangible golden shockwaves that swept wildly in all directions.

The scorched earth beneath him was scraped away by the shockwave, and the surrounding shrubs and weeds were uprooted, shredded into powder in mid-air.

A violent vortex of soul power, several meters in diameter, formed with him at the center.

Ten meters away, Tang Wu and Xiao Wu, who were on guard, felt this terrifying disturbance and turned to look.

"How is this possible!" Xiao Wu stood on the tree canopy, her ruby-like eyes wide as she stared at the figure wrapped in the golden cyclone, her face full of disbelief. "He hasn't even obtained his first soul ring yet; why would his Soul Power Level break through the bottleneck directly? This completely defies the laws of heaven and earth in the Douluo Continent!"

As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had chosen to re-cultivate, Xiao Wu understood the strictness of the laws of heaven and earth better than anyone.

But what was happening before her eyes completely overturned her understanding.

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

Tang Wu gripped the Poison Vine in front of her, feeling the unfathomable pressure like a deep abyss radiating from Su Yu, her large eyes filled with shock and fanatical worship.

She realized that the sense of accomplishment she had just gained from absorbing a nearly four-hundred-year soul ring was insignificant compared to the aura Su Yu was currently emitting.

Her Brother Yu was simply not a mortal.

More importantly, as the source power was continuously absorbed, Su Yu's second martial soul, the Conceptual Eraser, appeared automatically.

The eraser, which was originally only half a palm in size, grey, and unremarkable, had peeled away from the void and was now hovering above Su Yu's head.

It was undergoing a world-shaking transformation.

It was devouring the overflowing grey-gold source energy, its original grey color turning deep and rich, like a black hole capable of swallowing even light.

And at the edges of the eraser, a glimmer of dark gold representing absolute rules began to glow.

The moment this dark gold light shone, the surrounding space seemed to have been pressed with a pause button.

An aura of rules, transcending all things, radiated from the eraser without reservation.

Under the suppression of this aura, the highly toxic and incredibly tough mutated Blue Silver Grass that Tang Wu had summoned trembled uncontrollably, as if encountering a natural predator.

The once-stiff vines lost all their strength, collapsing limply onto the soil, even the poison patterns on them fading away.

Even Xiao Wu, standing on the tree canopy, felt her soul suffer an attack.

The noble bloodline belonging to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast within her was crushed before this dark-gold rule aura, as if a commoner had encountered an emperor.

Her legs went weak, and she nearly fell from the tree, her eyes filled with nothing but deep awe and fear as she looked at Su Yu.

Su Yu sat cross-legged at the center of the storm, a sudden epiphany blooming within his mind.

A vast influx of information regarding the application of rules surged into the depths of his memory like a tidal wave.

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

His current permissions not only allowed him to tamper with the text on task panels by consuming soul power—as he had done previously against Yu Xiaogang—but had even unlocked an advanced ability that could be described as heaven-defying.

He was now capable of wielding the power of rules to forcibly sever the soul connection between a low-tier system and its host for a duration of one full second.

Su Yu carefully deduced the execution mechanism of this new permission in his mind.

All systems, no matter how flashy their functions, must rely on a bond with the host's soul to exert their influence.

The host's physical body serves as the system's vessel in the real world, with an invisible energy transmission line existing between the two.

The advanced permission of the Conceptual Eraser acted as an invisible pair of scissors, capable of precisely snipping this transmission line for one second.

A surge of wild joy welled up in Su Yu's heart; he knew all too well what this one second of "disconnection" meant.

In a life-or-death struggle, this single second was enough to decide everything.

Douluo Continent was currently crawling with transmigrators wielding all sorts of bizarre systems.

These people were accustomed to looking down on others, relying on their systems' "invincible shields" for automatic defense whenever they faced a fatal attack, and depending on "one-hit kill items" granted by their systems to turn the tide of battle.

Their combat awareness and physical reflexes were nothing but a false prosperity, forcibly inflated by their systems.

Once the Conceptual Eraser forcibly severed their system connection, even for a mere second, those hosts who were extremely dependent on their cheats would instantly lose all attribute buffs and skill protections.

Their invincible shields would vanish in an instant, and their one-hit kill skills would immediately jam.

Their bodies and brains, completely unable to adapt to such a sudden, cliff-like drop in power, would fall into a state of brief system failure.

In that one second, they would be knocked down from omnipotent gods back to mere mortals of flesh and blood.

This one second of "disconnection" was enough to turn those cheat-dependent hosts into lambs waiting for the slaughter in the blink-of-an-eye intensity of a life-or-death battle.

In certain critical situations, one second is enough for me to kill them ten times over, Su Yu coldly judged in his heart.

This advanced permission was practically an ultimate dimensional strike tailored specifically for hunting down those system-cheating bastards.

The violent energy within his body gradually subsided, and his meridians and dantian, which had been expanded to their limits, returned to a state of calm.

Su Yu slowly opened his eyes.

The moment he did, a brilliant golden light flashed deep within his pupils, as tangible as physical matter.

Those two beams of golden light were like peerless swords cutting through the dark night, piercing the dim air and leaving two lingering golden trails in the void.

Under the sweep of his gaze, the surrounding space actually rippled with faint vibrations.

The Conceptual Eraser, edged in dark gold, transformed into a stream of light above his head and retreated back into his body.

Su Yu stood up from the charred bottom of the crater.

He did not deliberately release any soul power, yet his entire temperament had undergone a heaven-shaking transformation.

As he stood there, his long robes fluttered without a breeze.

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

His eyes were as deep as the vast starry sky, revealing an extreme indifference that saw through all the delusions of the world.

Tang Wu looked at the Su Yu before her, her legs turning to jelly, a primal urge to prostrate herself and worship rising in her heart.

Xiao Wu lowered her proud head completely, lacking even the courage to look him in the eye.

At this moment, Su Yu was like a god who held the rules of the world in his hands.