Glaciate Subdues the Nightmare Demon

"Fifth Soul Skill, Nightfall!"

Centered on the Nightmare Douluo's true body, dark elements frantically gathered as spiritual power was devoured.

This was clearly a domain-type soul skill. The strength suppressed by the Good and Evil Domain was returning, though it still could not compare to a true domain and remained ever-present.

Honestly, he regretted coming here. Who the hell could have expected a mere Soul Saint to raise his strength to that of a Title Douluo with the help of that armor?

He figured he might meet his end here, but giving up was not his style either. Members of the Holy Spirit Cult were all somewhat obsessive... Living in darkness, they fought with everything they had just to survive, unlike those righteous types basking in the sunlight, who gave up at the drop of a hat.

The more unbelievable Mu Baobao became, the more worth recruiting he was—but he still did not want to die here.

"Fourth Soul Skill, Soul-Capturing Chains!"

Endless darkness condensed into countless illusory purple chains that lashed toward Mu Baobao. He remained calm, merely tapping his forehead lightly.

Vast spiritual power gathered into a gigantic hammer, shattering every chain inch by inch with unstoppable force.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Psychic Force!"

When it came to spiritual power, he would not lose even to present-day spiritual-type Title Douluo.

After all, the Soul Spirit System had not yet taken shape and could not enhance spiritual power. It was not that terrifying yet.

In the era of Legend of the Dragon King, spiritual power had even been divided into ranks. At a certain level, one could even possess a spiritual domain. He felt that aside from Huo Yuhao, he would likely be the first to obtain one.

Kyurem, Zekrom, Reshiram... Their strength needed no explanation. He would not have found it strange even if each of them possessed a domain.

After all, Bibi Dong's Death Spider Emperor and Tang Buddha Ancestor's Blue Silver Emperor... both had domains of their own. Some powerful soul beasts were the same.

Battle Armor domains, spiritual domains, blood-energy domains... That was at least six domains as a baseline. Three martial souls combined with six domains... It would be outrageous if he could not become a god, even without a god-position inheritance.

"Eighth Soul Skill, Dream Flame!"

The Nightmare Douluo's enormous Martial Soul Avatar gathered blackish-purple, bewitching Dream Flame between its hands.

Mu Baobao sensed something strange in his heart, because the Dream Flame carried extremely high heat and spiritual fluctuations. If it struck, it would probably suppress the target's spiritual power and damage their brain.

Why did this resemble a Ghost-type Pokemon's Mystical Fire so much?

"Fourth Soul Skill, Ice Beam."

The snow fell even harder. Every snowflake was like a mirror, reflecting each ball of Dream Flame.

Countless nightmares shot out from around the Nightmare Douluo, yet Mu Baobao still showed no panic. The snowflakes formed smooth mirrors.

White vortexes fired beam after beam. Under Mu Baobao's control, they struck every nightmare without missing, after which they underwent—

The sequence of freezing into ice sculptures, shattering into chunks of ice, and scattering into icy fragments...

"Ah!" the Nightmare Douluo cried madly.

Being utterly unable to defeat this fellow left him deeply frustrated. "Today, I have truly fallen flat on my face, but don't think you'll get off easy either!"

He had no choice. Resolutely, he activated his ninth soul skill. This was his only chance.

"Ghostly Life-Floating Art, Ten Thousand Nights Born!"

Under the enhancement of Nightfall, immense dark elements and spiritual power condensed into countless Nightmare Demons that spread in all directions and charged toward Mu Baobao.

Some Nightmare Demons even launched dark-element energy spheres and Mind-Destroying Arrows formed from pure spiritual power. This scene was practically no different from Ghost Douluo's Night Parade of One Hundred Ghosts—except it was rather pathetic.

After all, the era was behind the times. Those who could cultivate to Title Douluo back then were all ruthless figures, and their understanding of soul power was far beyond that of later generations. A soul master's eighth and ninth soul skills were both trump cards.

With the all-around enhancement of the seventh soul skill, the Martial Soul Avatar, their power was immensely terrifying. Yet Mu Baobao smiled.

"Even if it's a ninth soul skill, it's still only ten-thousand-year level. I don't even need to use my other martial soul against you!" Before the Nightmare Douluo's horrified eyes, the seventh orange soul ring flashed.

He naturally knew that it was a beast king soul ring. Soul beasts over two hundred thousand years old were exceedingly rare.

They could truly be called emperors, not pathetic like the Blue Silver Emperor. A hundred-thousand-year soul beast was at most a king. The ninth and tenth of the Ten Great Beast Kings—

Were only three hundred thousand years old. Humans were not incapable of hunting them, but doing so would definitely trigger a frenzied beast tide.

It was not worth it. If one could kill a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, that was skill enough. In fact, righteous soul masters had killed the most, because Evil Soul Masters could devour soul masters and soul beasts to evolve their soul rings, while righteous soul masters lacked that ability.

Shrek Academy occupied the former site of Spirit City and stood not far from the Star Dou Forest... Many elders of the Sea God Pavilion possessed hundred-thousand-year soul rings. Correspondingly, Shrek City had no idea how many beast tides it had endured. The most terrifying one had to be—

When the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sacrificed herself to Huo Yuhao, every soul beast in the Star Dou Forest came forth. Shrek City suffered grievous losses, because her status rivaled that of the Golden Ancient Tree in the Inner Court; both suppressed the tides of fate.

She could accelerate cultivation. Soul beasts were already behind humans, so it would have been outrageous if they had not gone mad over it.

In the era of Legend of the Dragon King, the Golden Ancient Tree merged with Ah Yin, who dwelled within it, and evolved into the life core of Douluo Continent and the World Tree. Yet soul beasts were confined in tiny places like livestock, bred and researched.

In the era of Ultimate Douluo, humans produced true gods and super gods, while soul beasts still could not break through to Title Douluo. They had that idiot Dragon God to thank for it.

He allowed human gods consumed by selfishness into the Dragon God Realm, only to be stabbed in the back. Not a single soul beast god remained, and even history was altered to claim that he had ascended to the God Realm himself and refused to submit to its rule.

Mu Baobao could only say... You're fucking impressive.

"Glaciate!"

The snowflakes filling heaven and earth had already undergone who knew how many layers of enhancement—Freezing Wind, the Martial Soul Avatar, the Good and Evil Domain... Now they descended once more.

Its power infinitely approached Absolute Zero, fully comparable to the kind of domain formed when Huo Yuhao fused several domain-type soul skills. Moreover, it was a soul skill from a beast king soul ring. The Nightmare Demons created by the Nightmare Douluo's ninth soul skill—

Presented an astonishing scene atop the snow mountain. Their incorporeal forms were frozen into shape. Sound, movement... everything fell deathly still.

The entire area became an icy plain. Those perfectly formed charging soldiers were not created because the Nightmare Douluo had reached the tangible and material stage through his ninth soul skill.

The pinnacle of the three great levels of spiritual power was intangible and immaterial... Many people belonged to this category. The tangible but immaterial stage could use spiritual soul skills to launch soul attacks, defend, interfere, scout, and even simulate environments. Tangible and material was the most heaven-defying stage.

In the era of Legend of the Dragon King, spiritual power was divided from low to high into six major levels: Spirit Origin Realm, Spirit Connection Realm, Spirit Sea Realm, Spirit Abyss Realm, Spirit Domain Realm... and the legendary God Origin Realm of deities.

The Spirit Origin Realm meant that one origin gave birth to all things. It was the most basic spiritual level. Everyone was born in the Spirit Origin Realm, even without cultivation.

The Spirit Connection Realm meant that one's mind connected with the spirit, that intent and thought arrived as one. Control over spiritual power had begun to enter the introductory stage, allowing one to truly wield one's own spiritual power.

The Spirit Sea Realm meant that the mind was like a sea, vast and boundless. Spiritual power had truly reached a high level, granting the foundation to become powerful. Whether one was a peak Soul Engineer or a peak soul master, reaching this level of spiritual power was essential.

The Spirit Abyss Realm was as deep as an abyss and as dreadful as a prison, reaching from the blue heavens to the Yellow Springs. Wherever one's will went, all things returned to the heart. This was already praised as the limit normal humans and soul beasts could reach with spiritual power!

The Spirit Domain Realm meant spiritual consciousness transformed into a domain and formed a world of its own. With the soul as its source and spiritual consciousness as its territory, it formed its own heaven and earth—a realm of the mind.

The God Origin Realm meant spiritual consciousness transformed into divinity, with primordial essence taking form. Spiritual consciousness became a primordial spirit, and spiritual power became primordial spirit power. This was already the world of gods; wherever one's thoughts reached, they pierced heaven and earth. Upon attaining this realm, one could glimpse the world of gods. Spiritual power at the God Origin Realm could already be called half-divine.

For soul masters, under normal circumstances, only the first four realms of spiritual power held any significance.

As for the Spirit Domain Realm and God Origin Realm, those were realms only pure spiritual-attribute soul masters could possibly pursue. Across several eras, only protagonists reached that level; others had no chance.

Intangible and immaterial, tangible but immaterial, tangible and material... Every two stages corresponded to one realm.

The God Origin Realm could further be divided into levels one, two, and three, representing the third-, second-, and first-class gods of the God Realm. Above that were the God King Realm, the Dragon God's Creation Realm, and Destruction Realm.

These two made-up realms happened to complete the cycle of nine. The Spirit Origin Realm was innate, but the gap from the Spirit Connection Realm to the Spirit Sea Realm was like an insurmountable chasm. The overwhelming majority of soul masters would never reach the later levels in their lifetime.

By rights, Mu Baobao should have been at the tangible but immaterial Spirit Abyss Realm... After all, he had not formed a domain of his own yet, though he possessed three martial souls and six ultimate attributes.

The Nightmare Douluo should have reached the Spirit Sea Realm. As a spiritual-type martial soul master, he had a chance to enter the Spirit Abyss Realm. Those who reached that level were likely all Limit Douluo, while Title Douluo could at most reach the Spirit Sea Realm.

Therefore, when he erupted with all his strength, Mu Baobao had forcibly frozen those incorporeal Nightmare Soldiers into physical form. What stunned him was that—

The Nightmare Douluo... ran. His figure fled into the distance... What happened to the dignity of a powerful expert?

He had not even used his Martial Soul Fusion Skill. To prevent this fellow from coming back to trip him up while he hunted soul beasts, he naturally had to do everything possible to inflict damage.

Kyurem raised its enormous dragon claw, and two items rose from its body: the DNA Splicer and the Judgment Sword. However, they were not being used to perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. There was no time.

The DNA Splicer was a special item forged by the People of the Land in the Unova Region. It could control Kyurem and allow it to fuse with Zekrom and Reshiram into the White Flame and Black Kyurem forms.

The Judgment Sword itself contained two formidable energies, darkness and light, so the two objects resonated intensely. Mu Baobao had no doubt—

That under their influence, they might even merge into one and become his super divine artifact.

The DNA Splicer emitted a powerful radiance. The Judgment Sword, an eighth-level Soul Tool, was fully comparable to a Level 9 Soul Tool. Wearing his Three-Word Battle Armor, he assumed a throwing stance, and Kyurem did the same.

Flashing with black-and-white light, the Judgment Sword suddenly transformed into a streak of light and shot forward, unleashing a violent boom as though the entire space were trembling.

Yet he had still underestimated the Nightmare Douluo. The fellow abruptly turned around, and the Nightmare Demon True Body flashed into existence behind him.

The vertical eye on his forehead enlarged several times over, releasing divine light that drew nearby targets into an illusion. By looking directly into the target's eyes, it threw them into spiritual chaos and created an illusion that filled them with fear.

"Second Soul Skill, Dream Eye!"

Black light collided with the Judgment Sword. Although the latter crushed Dream Eye's spiritual attack with devastating force, it still bought time.

The Nightmare Douluo spat out a mouthful of blood. His body turned entirely blood-red, and he fled at a speed incomparable to before, all while shouting.

"You little bastard! You actually forced this old man to use Blood Escape Technique, gravely damaging my vitality... Next time, I'll bring several elders to deal with you!"

The Judgment Sword pierced directly through the afterimage left in place. Mu Baobao felt helpless, but there was nothing he could do.

Mu Baobao recognized Blood Escape Technique at once. Mu En had created the latter three of the Three Great Nine Styles of the Great Dragon after Reign Over the World, along with Dragon God Break Evil Annihilation and Dragon God Shake Domain Realm. As for Long Xiaoyao, he did not know.

One of Ye Xishui's martial souls was the Blood Soul Demon Puppet, so she had naturally developed the Blood Soul Great Method, Boundless Blood Sea, Blood Transformation Great Method... Blood Escape Technique was a life-saving method, but it gravely damaged one's vitality.

The offerings and elders of the Holy Spirit Cult were naturally extremely important. They might not be able to learn Boundless Blood Sea and Blood Transformation Great Method, but Blood Escape Technique was like Reign Over the World.

Anyone could learn it. Its backlash was no weaker than the Ring Detonation of the Great Sumeru Hammer, and Mu Baobao panted frantically as well.

It was not as though the Nightmare Douluo had no chance of defeating him. Although Mu Baobao's martial soul suppressed his opponent, and he had powerful equipment such as the Judgment Sword and Three-Word Battle Armor—

Their spiritual power was evenly matched, but his soul power was ultimately twenty levels lower. None of those abilities came without consuming soul power, and he was nearly drained now... The Nightmare Douluo definitely still had strength left, yet he had been so timid that he ran. Mu Baobao simply had too many trump cards.

Even while fleeing, Mu Baobao could throw the Judgment Sword at him. The Nightmare Douluo feared he might truly die here—and in truth, that was indeed the case.

Zekrom and Black Kyurem... he had not used either of them. If he had not been confident he could take down the Nightmare Douluo, he would not have called him out to die.

It also served as a test of whether he truly had the strength to battle a Title Douluo. The facts proved that he was not afraid in the slightest. Next, when hunting the Evil Orca King and the Demon Soul Great White Shark, he had gained some confidence.

He sat cross-legged and recovered his soul power and spiritual power. Devil Snow Mountain was rich in ice-element energy, so it did not take long before he rose and departed.

The Seven Ocean Islands were rather remarkable, as their climates were all different—deserts, volcanoes...

They reminded him of the Pokemon World. A single region could also possess different climates. One island in the Alola Region even contained snow mountains, volcanoes, deserts, grasslands, rainforests... all kinds of environments.

He finally stopped at Sea Maiden Island. Half of this island was submerged beneath seawater, since the Mermaid Clan had once served as the Seven Holy Pillar Douluo.

But now, the entire Mermaid Clan had gone to the Ice Sea of the northern Far North Ice Plains. Without the Sea God's protection—

Mermaids were exceedingly rare to humans. There was no shortage of filthy illegal trades involving them. Their bodies and tears... were all priceless treasures, and there were even all kinds of legends surrounding them.

Even the sea around the former Sea God Island was likely less than ten percent explored. After all, they merely possessed sea soul beast martial souls; they were not a true undersea race like the Mermaid Clan.

Therefore, besides the Mermaid Clan... there absolutely had to be other undersea races. After all, more than ninety percent still awaited exploration.

This also made Mu Baobao doubt the truth of the Sea God's claim that he had conquered the ocean through faith and become a god. After all, his martial soul was a trident, not even a sea soul beast.

Human lifespans were short. Even a Limit Douluo could only live three hundred years, while the ocean was four times the size of Douluo Continent. Was there really enough time? Not to mention making the ocean races submit to him. Bo Saixi had said that even they could not govern the deep-sea races.

The Evil Spirit Orcas and Deep Sea Demon Whales... absolutely hated the Sea God and could not possibly offer him faith.

After all... even the history of the God Realm could be altered.