Douluo: One Man Returns, Heaven-Defying Seal Smashes Tang San to Death, Part 3

And the Thunder Arts...

As the eldest young master of the Lü family, he had lost his virginity early in his previous life. He could only cultivate the Yin Five Thunders and could not cultivate the Yang Five Thunders.

As for the Heavenly Talisman?

Under Lu Jin's careful tutelage, Lu Yu had mastered this entire Eight Wonder. But because the Eight Wonders were of great importance, Lu Jin repeatedly warned him that unless it was absolutely necessary, he must never use it in front of outsiders.

Even so, he had still crushed the prodigies of his generation until they could not lift their heads!

As for Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao, those two freaks blessed with protagonist halos?

Lu Yu was probably twenty years older than Zhang Chulan.

That meant...

When Lu Yu emerged at the age of eighteen and made a name for himself in the world of Espers, Zhang Chulan had not even been born yet!

But somehow, word had leaked that Lu Yu cultivated the Heavenly Talisman. The Wang family joined forces with the Lü family and dispatched more than a dozen experts to capture him and force the cultivation method of the Heavenly Talisman out of him!

After three days and three nights of pursuit, the Wang family and the Lü family not only failed to catch him, but Lu Yu—the prey in their eyes—had forcibly killed thirteen experts in return!

But human strength had its limits, and two fists could not fend off four hands. After killing the thirteenth expert, Lu Yu had not fled far before he collapsed from severe injuries.

When he woke again, he had already arrived on the Douluo Continent, standing at the entrance to Holy Soul Village!

When he saw the three words "Holy Soul Village" on the stone stele at the village entrance, then later met Old Jack and heard his introduction, Lu Yu immediately understood...

He had transmigrated once again!

Taking a deep breath, Lu Yu slowly calmed himself and pulled his thoughts free from his memories. He stared at the Heaven-Defying Seal in his palm.

Lu Yu recognized this thing. It was a small jade seal he had bought from a roadside vendor in his previous life, engraved with the two words "Heaven-Defying."

He had liked it at the time. Besides, in the life before his previous one, he had read plenty of primordial fantasy novels and knew of this famous "head-smashing artifact."

This thing specialized in smashing skulls, and it never missed. Most people who died beneath the Heaven-Defying Seal met gruesome ends.

So Lu Yu had bought the jade seal and kept it on him at all times.

But he had never imagined...

That after transmigrating to the Douluo Continent, the martial soul he awakened would actually be this Heaven-Defying Seal!

Compared to the small jade seal he had seen in his previous life, the stone lump in his hand was truly hard to look at.

Still, it was much bigger...

With a thought from Lu Yu, the Heaven-Defying Seal in his palm suddenly enlarged, eventually growing to half a meter square before stopping.

During this process, he finally felt some of the Qi in his body being consumed.

His eyes lit up, and Lu Yu abruptly rose to his feet.

He grabbed the Heaven-Defying Seal and swung it down hard, smashing it directly into the ground!

"Bang!"

With a deafening explosion, a deep pit was blasted into the hard rocky ground.

If that strike had landed on an ordinary person, it would definitely have smashed them into a pile of meat paste!

"This..."

Lu Yu blinked, a flash of delight appearing in his eyes.

He had used less than half a percent of his strength just now!

After arriving in this world, Lu Yu had immediately begun cultivating Reverse Birth Triple.

Though all the foundations of his previous life were gone, Lu Yu had instead been delighted.

Because his body had become that of a five-year-old child, which meant his Innate Qi had not yet been lost!

In his previous life, although he had also started cultivating Reverse Birth Triple from a young age, he had already been eleven when he first entered the path. By then, nearly all of his Innate Qi had already leaked away.

Thus, Lu Yu could only follow Lu Jin's old path and use Reverse Birth Triple to condense Innate Qi anew.

But how could that be easy?

Lu Jin had cultivated for decades, yet was he not still stuck at the second stage of Reverse Birth Triple?

As its name implied, Reverse Birth Triple consisted of three stages.

The first stage tempered and strengthened the physical body.

The second stage allowed one's internal organs, bones, and even blood to undergo a certain degree of Qi Transformation for a short time. Injured flesh could also be restored with Qi, and even severed limbs could regenerate!

The third stage was the complete Qi Transformation of the body!

One returned all the Qi in one's body to the state of Innate Qi. Legend said that upon reaching this realm, one could achieve Ascension to Immortality!

When Lu Yu transmigrated to the Douluo Continent and discovered that his body was brimming with Innate Qi, he was overjoyed. At once, he activated the method of Reverse Birth Triple and sealed away every trace of Innate Qi within him!

This was not difficult for him. Though the cultivation of his previous life was gone, he still possessed more than a decade of cultivation insight!

Having received Lu Jin's complete teachings, Lu Yu's understanding of the various cultivation methods mastered by Espers was something few could match, even in the world of Espers!

Possessing this Innate Qi was equivalent to prying open the gate to the third stage of Reverse Birth Triple!

Lu Yu only needed to gradually make it his own, and he would have a chance to reach that legendary third stage!

Most importantly...

With Innate Qi, coupled with Lu Yu's cultivation insights from his previous life, his cultivation speed could be described as advancing a thousand miles in a single day!

After coming to this world, Lu Yu had spent only three months entering the first stage of Reverse Birth Triple and touching upon its bottleneck.

The so-called bottleneck was that his Soul Power had reached level ten. Until he obtained his first soul ring, he would be unable to advance any further!

But Lu Yu was extremely familiar with the Douluo World. He knew that even if his cultivation could not grow, continued practice would still yield results.

During the year since he had transmigrated to the Douluo World, Lu Yu had never stopped cultivating Reverse Birth Triple. That was precisely why, during his martial soul awakening earlier, he had forcibly burst the Soul Power testing crystal ball!

And the half-percent of strength Lu Yu had used just now was equivalent to the strength of an ordinary adult in the Douluo World.

In other words...

Lu Yu's newly awakened martial soul, the Heaven-Defying Seal—a martial soul without even a soul ring attached—already possessed the power to split metal and shatter stone using the strength of an ordinary person!

A trash martial soul?

Perhaps only the "Blind God King" would dare call it a trash martial soul!

Returning the Heaven-Defying Seal to the size of his palm, Lu Yu once again sat cross-legged atop the mountain peak, deep in thought.

This Heaven-Defying Seal had followed him through transmigration and could even become his martial soul...

No matter how foolish Lu Yu was, he knew that the small jade seal he had bought in his previous life was definitely not ordinary!

Could it be...

That this was the genuine Heaven-Defying Seal from the primordial legends of the life before his previous one?

At that thought, Lu Yu's eyelids twitched slightly.

A bold guess arose in his heart...

Could his transmigration to the Douluo Continent also be related to this Heaven-Defying Seal?

During his martial soul awakening earlier, he had not felt the warm current enveloping his entire body that others experienced. Instead, his body had been shrouded by an immense, majestic force that pressed down on him until he could barely breathe.

This immense force...

Could it also be related to the Heaven-Defying Seal?

After examining it for a long time, Lu Yu still found no clues on the Heaven-Defying Seal. He could only withdraw his martial soul, then sit with his palms facing heaven and begin cultivating.

At the mountaintop, Lu Yu sat cross-legged as faint golden light enveloped his entire body.

The Golden Light Spell!

The Golden Light Spell required one to temper one's foundation with Innate Qi before entering its path. The more Innate Qi contained within that foundation, the greater the power one could unleash in the future.

Lu Yu had used the method of Reverse Birth Triple to lock away all the Innate Qi in his body, without allowing even the slightest trace to leak away.

Therefore, what he lacked least was Innate Qi!

After a long while, Lu Yu slowly opened his eyes and muttered:

"Reverse Birth Triple can no longer progress any further, and the foundation of the Golden Light Spell has been completely stabilized. If I want these two cultivation methods to advance further, I must obtain my first soul ring!"

"But why have I been unable to cultivate the Thunder Arts?"

"Could it be because of the restrictions imposed by the rules of the Douluo Continent?"

He had lived three lives, and in his previous life, he had cultivated for more than a decade. Though his spiritual power could not be called overwhelmingly powerful...

By his own judgment, in terms of spiritual power alone, he should not be inferior to a Soul Sage!

Of course, that was a Soul Sage without a head soul bone and who did not specialize in spiritual power...

Even so, possessing such powerful spiritual power immediately after awakening his martial soul was unprecedented in the Douluo Continent.

Moreover, Lu Yu possessed the cultivation experience of his previous life. Logically, he should have been able to perform Inner Sight with ease.