Second Soul Ring, Ten Thousand Demon Edict! The Six-Year-Old Soul Grandmaster Stunned Hu Liena!

Di Yao wanted to continue hunting for his Second Soul Ring.

Hu Liena's first reaction was that it was absurd.

Yue Guan's smile vanished for once.

"Kid, greed isn't a bad thing. But if you're too greedy, you'll die."

Di Yao sat on a boulder, tending to the wound on his right arm.

Great Sun Golden Flame slowly circulated along the wound, refining the lingering Sun Crow flames bit by bit.

His face was still somewhat pale, but his voice remained steady.

"The First Soul Ring has already proven that I can withstand the limit of nearly a thousand years. The Second Soul Ring should be higher."

Hu Liena was so angry she wanted to laugh.

"Is that supposed to be proof?"

"You nearly exploded just now!"

Di Yao looked at her.

"Nearly means I didn't."

Hu Liena choked on her words.

Yue Guan sighed.

"What are you looking for?"

Di Yao spread open the illustrated guide.

His fingertip landed on a category of soul beast records.

"Snakes."

"Dual poison and fire attributes."

"Preferably with Sun-Swallowing, red gold, or earth-fire bloodlines."

Yue Guan looked at that page, and his expression shifted slightly.

"Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python?"

Di Yao nodded.

"Is there one?"

Gui Mei spoke from the shadows.

"Yes."

"One was once discovered near Earth Fire Rift Valley."

"It was around eighteen hundred years old."

Hu Liena could no longer sit still.

"Eighteen hundred years? You've only just absorbed your First Soul Ring, and now you want to challenge an eighteen-hundred-year one?"

"Di Yao, do you really think you can't die?"

Di Yao's tone was calm.

"Not dying is luck. Dying means I wasn't strong enough."

"I only make judgments."

Hu Liena wanted to say more, but Yue Guan raised a hand to stop her.

"This needs His Holiness's approval."

Gui Mei had already taken out a communication Soul Tool.

The message was quickly sent back to Spirit City.

The atmosphere grew somewhat heavy as they waited.

Hu Liena walked over to Di Yao and lowered her voice.

"Do you think that as long as you're ruthless enough, you can keep winning?"

Di Yao looked at the guide.

"No."

"Ruthlessness is only the bottom line."

"Judgment is what matters."

Hu Liena frowned.

"Then what's your judgment?"

Di Yao flipped to the page on the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python.

"My first soul skill, Great Sun Golden Flame, counters poison and sinister forces. It can also suppress flames."

"The Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python has dual poison and fire attributes, so I naturally counter half of it."

"It possesses the Sun-Swallowing bloodline, so it will resist the Demon Emperor's suppression."

"But the more it resists, the greater the benefits from its soul ring."

"What I need isn't a safe soul skill."

"I need a soul skill that can complete my system."

Hu Liena fell silent as she listened.

She had to admit that Di Yao was not blindly reckless.

Every risk he took had its own reason.

It was just that his limit for accepting risk far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Soon, the communication Soul Tool lit up.

Gui Mei took a look.

There were only two words.

"Permission granted."

Bibi Dong had approved it.

Hu Liena's expression was complicated.

Her teacher had actually allowed him to try.

Yue Guan said softly, "Since His Holiness has approved it, let's go."

Earth Fire Rift Valley was not close by.

By the time they arrived, it was already dark.

Not a single blade of grass grew on either side of the rift, while scarlet earth-fire continuously erupted from the cracks.

The air was thick with the smell of sulfur.

Ordinary soul masters would feel their chests tighten after staying here too long.

But Di Yao found it comfortable.

The fire attribute here was extremely dense.

Though impure, it could stimulate the Demon Emperor Di Jun Martial Soul.

Gui Mei stood at the edge of the rift and said in a low voice, "It's down there."

The moment he spoke, the ground suddenly trembled.

A giant python covered in red-gold scales slowly raised its head from the depths of the rift.

Its snake eyes were icy cold.

The forked tongue it flicked out carried dark-red Poison Mist.

Fine flame patterns covered every scale.

The Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python.

Eighteen hundred years old.

The moment it appeared, it stared fixedly at Di Yao.

That look was unlike the gaze of an ordinary soul beast upon seeing a human soul master.

It was more like it had seen prey—and an opportunity.

Di Yao looked back at it.

"It wants to swallow me."

Yue Guan said, "The Sun-Swallowing bloodline craves the Sun Origin."

"To it, you're also very tempting."

The corner of Di Yao's mouth lifted slightly.

"Perfect."

"I want to swallow it too."

The Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python seemed to understand his words.

It suddenly opened its mouth, spewing poison and fire mixed into a mist toward Di Yao.

The First Soul Ring beneath Di Yao's feet lit up.

"Great Sun Golden Flame."

Dark Gold Flame surged forth and collided with the poisonous fire.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

The Poison Mist roiled wildly as it burned.

Great Sun Golden Flame could not completely overpower the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python's poisonous fire.

After all, the gap in their cultivation years was there.

But it could restrain the poison, rendering most of that vicious corrosive power ineffective.

Hu Liena's eyes lit up.

"It really can counter it!"

Di Yao did not retreat.

Using the golden flames to clear a path, he charged straight ahead.

Yue Guan was responsible for sealing off both sides of the rift.

Gui Mei cut off the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python's escape route.

They would not help Di Yao land the final blow.

But they would make sure the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python could not escape.

The Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python was enraged, and its massive body suddenly swept sideways.

Rubble exploded across the ground.

Di Yao lowered himself and narrowly avoided it.

The snake's tail swept past the top of his head, and even the wind it kicked up stung his cheeks.

Hu Liena watched in alarm.

If that had hit him, even his bones would have broken.

But Di Yao seemed to have calculated it all beforehand.

Flames flashed beneath his feet as his first soul skill condensed into a line and shot toward the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python's left eye.

The Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python's pupil contracted as it violently turned its head.

At that instant, the Demon Emperor Manifestation behind Di Yao opened its eyes.

A second suppression!

The Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python's movements slowed.

Not for long.

Only half a breath.

But it was enough.

Di Yao drove his short blade into the gap beneath its eye.

The Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python writhed violently, and its poisonous fire erupted once more.

Di Yao was blasted backward, his chest tightening painfully.

But Gui Mei's chains had already wrapped around the snake's body.

Yue Guan's chrysanthemum petals transformed into sharp blades, sealing every path of retreat.

Di Yao did not stop after landing.

He charged forward again.

Great Sun Golden Flame ignited along his short blade.

This time, he stabbed directly into the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python's vital point.

"Hiss—!"

The giant python screamed miserably and struggled madly.

The earth-fire within the rift was stirred into violent eruptions.

Hu Liena had unconsciously held her breath.

She saw several more wounds appear on Di Yao's body.

Yet his gaze never wavered from beginning to end.

He was like a young ferocious beast.

Even knowing his opponent was far stronger than him, he still bit down on its vital point and refused to let go.

In the end, the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python crashed heavily to the ground.

A purple soul ring slowly rose.

A true Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

And it was eighteen hundred years old.

Di Yao did not waste any time.

He sat down cross-legged immediately.

The soul ring descended.

An impact even more violent than the First Soul Ring erupted in an instant.

The remnant soul of the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python did not merely want to break free like the Sun Crow King had.

It wanted to devour him in return.

Riding the power of the soul ring, it burrowed into Di Yao's body and actually attempted to devour that trace of Sun Origin within him.

Crack-like patterns resembling snake scales surfaced across Di Yao's body.

Dark red poisonous flames raced wildly through his meridians.

Hu Liena's expression changed drastically.

"Not good!"

"It's backlashing!"

Yue Guan's face darkened.

"Hold on, kid."

Within Di Yao's consciousness.

The Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python opened its enormous jaws and viciously bit down on the Dark Gold Sun.

Di Yao looked at it coldly.

"A snake swallowing the sun?"

"Can you really swallow it?"

The Dharma Image of Demon Emperor Di Jun rose.

The Golden Crow spread its wings.

The Great Sun Golden Flame transformed into a furnace and forcibly dragged the remnant soul of the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python inside.

This time was even more painful than the first.

His meridians felt as though poisonous fire were tearing them apart over and over.

His bones felt as if the python's body were crushing them to pieces.

Di Yao's body trembled continuously, streaks of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

Yet his consciousness did not retreat even half a step.

"Refine it for me!"

The Dark Gold Flame surged explosively.

At last, the remnant soul of the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python let out a terrified shriek.

It was not being soothed.

Nor was it being fused.

It was being suppressed.

Being devoured.

The will of the Demon Emperor forcibly refined it into a part of the Second Soul Ring.

Outside.

The purple soul ring finally stabilized.

Di Yao opened his eyes.

Two soul rings rose from beneath his feet.

The first ring was dark yellow tinged with purple.

The second ring was pure purple.

Six years old.

Two rings.

And both had exceeded their limits.

Hu Liena stood frozen in place, speechless for a long time.

Di Yao raised his right hand.

The Second Soul Ring lit up.

An invisible pressure spread outward.

Several low-level soul beasts sealed up nearby stiffened, then lowered their heads at the same time.

It was not simple fear.

It was more like they had been commanded.

Di Yao said softly, "Second soul skill."

"Ten Thousand Demon Edict."

Yue Guan's eyes widened.

"A command-type suppression?"

Gui Mei said, "Effective against soul beasts and Beast Spirits."

Di Yao nodded.

"Those of lower rank will obey temporarily."

"Those of higher rank will at least be delayed for an instant."

Hu Liena murmured, "This soul skill..."

She did not finish.

But everyone knew just how terrifying this soul skill was.

In battle, a delay of even an instant was enough to determine victory or defeat.

Especially against Beast Spirit masters, Di Yao's system of suppression had already completely taken shape.

First soul skill: Great Sun Golden Flame.

Second soul skill: Ten Thousand Demon Edict.

One for attack, one for control.

One burned, one suppressed.

Hu Liena looked at Di Yao and finally could not help asking, "Are you really only six years old?"

Di Yao withdrew his soul rings.

His face was pale, but his eyes gleamed with cold light.

"Age is something only mediocre people use to comfort themselves."

Hu Liena's mouth twitched.

That was really irritating.

Yet she realized she could no longer simply refuse to accept him as she had before setting out.

Because the person before her had truly turned his arrogance into reality with his life.

Yue Guan smiled. "Let's go."

"It's time to return to Spirit City."

Gui Mei said in a low voice, "Once we return, some people won't be able to sleep."

Di Yao looked in the direction of Spirit City.

The two soul rings slowly faded beneath his feet.

He knew.

The real trouble had not even begun.

But it did not matter.

The first step had already been taken.

From here on, anyone who wanted to suppress him would first have to ask whether Demon Emperor Di Jun agreed.