Thirteen Levels in a Frenzied Ascent, Reward of a Hundred Thousand Year God-Bestowed Spirit Ring!

"Ah, this!"

The cavern fell deathly silent.

Even the sound of a single drop of water falling onto stone could be heard clearly.

This underground space, which had originally been like an Asura hell, filled with a nauseating stench of blood—

Now actually had a sacred, pure aura drifting through it.

A light breeze swept past. It was the aftershock produced by high-density fist wind rubbing against the air.

It completely scattered the last few wisps of gray ash the Death Messenger had left in this world.

There had been no earth-shaking bloody battle, no desperate killing blow fraught with danger.

Only one punch.

A punch pure to the extreme, overbearing to the limit!

Yao Haoxuan, who had just been ready to die, was now sitting collapsed on the ground more than ten meters away.

This tall, burly senior from the inner courtyard was drenched head to toe in cold sweat.

He stared blankly at his perfectly intact hands, then looked at the slender figure ahead with six wings on his back.

His brain had even lost the ability to think.

"How... how is this possible?"

Zhou Yi, the teacher leading the team, had always been known for being cold and strict, but at this moment, her stunningly beautiful face was filled with a ghost-seeing kind of horror.

Her beautiful eyes were fixed firmly on Luo Feng.

As an experienced teacher, she understood better than anyone just what that Death Messenger had been worth.

That had been a genuine evil Soul Emperor!

Together with that ultimate killing move, Corpse Explosion, which detonated hundreds upon thousands of flesh puppets, even if Zhou Yi herself had acted, she would absolutely have had a nine-in-ten chance of dying!

But Luo Feng, whose on-paper strength was only that of a rank-thirty Soul Elder.

Not only had he instantly vaporized all the soul tool bombs and corpse poison with some unknown divine technique.

He had also relied solely on one punch from his physical body to blast that evil Soul Emperor until not even dregs remained!

He had not even used a conventional soul skill after martial soul possession. It had been the most primitive swing of a fist!

"Gulp."

Among the crowd, no one knew who swallowed hard.

"Brother Luo... is he human, or a god?"

Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes, giving off a faint golden light, trembled violently.

Through the shared view of Spiritual Detection just now, he had seen it more clearly than anyone.

The instant Luo Feng threw that punch, Huo Yuhao had not sensed any large-scale mobilization of soul power at all.

That was pure physical strength!

A kind of absolute kinetic force that seemed capable of crushing this whole world, ignoring every law of physics!

And Wang Dong, off to the side, had been staring in a daze for a long time already.

The Radiant Goddess Butterfly martial soul behind him, beneath the sacred radiance emitted by Luo Feng's Six-Winged Angel—

Had instinctively folded its wings, showing absolute submission and reverence.

"So cool..."

Ma Xiaotao murmured to herself.

This fiery-tempered, red-haired beauty now had dazed eyes, and an abnormal flush rose across her cheeks.

She looked at Luo Feng's towering back as he bathed in golden light.

She only felt that her heart was pounding as if it were about to leap out of her chest.

There was not a single woman.

Who could refuse an invincible powerhouse who saved everyone in a desperate situation with an absolutely crushing posture.

Not to mention, the aura on this man was also the salvation she had longed for and craved most in her life.

However, just as everyone from Shrek was still immersed in incomparable shock, trying to calm their wildly beating hearts—

Deep in Luo Feng's mind, that majestic electronic voice exploded like a raging storm!

[Ding! Congratulations, host, for successfully killing the A-rank evil soul master "Death Messenger"!]

[Judgment: One-hit kill, perfect purification! Reversed Shrek's bloody calamity with zero casualties!]

[Basic reward settlement: Killed an evil Soul Emperor across a thirty-rank gap, triggering the cross-rank kill achievement. Reward: soul power directly increases by ten ranks!]

[Additional reward settlement: Perfect rating triggers a critical bonus. Extra reward: soul power directly increases by three ranks!]

[Congratulations, host! Current soul power rank has risen to: Rank 43 (Soul Ancestor)!]

[Special reward issued: one hundred-thousand-year-level "God-Bestowed Soul Ring"! Host has been detected to have reached an absorption bottleneck. Fuse immediately?]

Listening to the string of system notifications going wild in his mind, Luo Feng couldn't stop the corners of his mouth from rising.

Thirteen levels in a row!

On Douluo Continent, where even raising one level slightly required months or even years of bitter cultivation, what did thirteen levels mean?

It was the same as crossing an entire major realm in an instant, with three minor levels thrown in for free!

"Fuse."

Luo Feng silently recited the two words in his heart.

Almost the very same instant his words fell.

A sudden change erupted!

"Rumble!"

The underground cavern, which had already returned to calm, suddenly stirred up a terrifying energy storm.

With Luo Feng's body at the center, a vast, ocean-like fluctuation of soul power shot skyward without warning like an erupting volcano!

Zhou Yi had just taken a step forward to ask him something, only to be forced back by the violent wave of soul power.

"What is this fluctuation... what's going on?!"

Zhou Yi's face paled. She discovered in shock that the aura of soul power around Luo Feng was surging wildly at a speed that defied all common sense!

Level thirty-one!

Level thirty-two!

Level thirty-five!

This rising speed required no meditation, no breathing exercises at all. It was as simple and crude as drinking water!

"He... he's breaking through?!"

Inner Academy senior Chen Zifeng's eyes went wide as he shouted in utter horror.

"That's impossible!

Who could have just gone through a life-and-death battle, not even stop to catch their breath, and suddenly gain enlightenment and break through on the spot?

And that speed... it's still rising?!"

Under everyone's ghost-struck gazes, Luo Feng's soul power shot up like a rocket, directly breaking through the bottleneck of level forty!

There was no need to hunt down any soul beast and obtain a soul ring to break through the shackles.

That barrier, which countless soul masters viewed as indestructible, was as flimsy as paper before the system's reward, shattering at the slightest touch.

Level forty-one!

Level forty-two!

Level forty-three!

Finally, when that terrifying soul power storm climbed to the realm of a level forty-three Soul Ancestor, it barely came to a stop.

But the shock had only just begun.

"Look above his head! What is that light?!"

Huo Yuhao pointed at the space above Luo Feng in terror, his voice cracking from extreme shock.

Beneath the cavern ceiling that had originally been dark and gloomy, everything was suddenly dyed a dazzling blood-red!

What kind of red was that?

It was as if it contained the purest violence and nobility between heaven and earth.

It carried a terrifying pressure that made the souls of every soul master present tremble.

"Buzz!"

Accompanied by a strange hum that seemed to pierce heaven and earth, a blood-red halo that looked almost solid slowly descended from the void.

Bearing endless majesty, it hovered above Luo Feng's head.

That blinding red light illuminated the entire cavern like a blood-colored palace.

Under the pressure of that ring of red light, whether it was Zhou Yi's six rings or Ma Xiaotao's six rings, even Wang Dong's proud Radiant Goddess Butterfly, all martial souls let out a wail at that moment, as if bowing their heads in submission to this supreme emperor!

"A... a hundred-thousand-year soul ring!"