Demonic Fifth Trial Complete! Advancement to Ultimate Douluo, All Soul Rings Increased by 30,000 Years!

"Attack!"

Niu Tian shouted in a low voice, and the two foremost powerhouses of the present age attacked at the same time!

There was no flashy clash of soul skills, nor any collision of laws and spirit words.

At their level, the purest suppression of Soul Power was often the deadliest.

Niu Tian threw out his right fist. No Soul Rings flashed, yet the moment that punch was unleashed, it seemed as though a portion of the sky had collapsed.

Azure-gold Soul Power transformed into a colossal pillar of light that pierced heaven and earth. Carrying a terrifying force capable of crushing everything and suppressing all things, it shot straight at Qian Jue's face.

Chen Hai coordinated from the flank. The Sea God Helmet erupted with dazzling blue light, compressing his remaining Soul Power to the utmost limit before transforming it into blue blades that filled the sky, sealing off every route of retreat like a raging storm.

Facing their pincer attack, Qian Jue snorted coldly. The demonic Soul Power within him poured out without reservation, forming a massive black wall of energy that forcibly blocked the two of them.

"Boom—!!!"

Azure, blue, and black Soul Power collided violently in midair!

At that instant, heaven and earth fell silent.

Immediately afterward, an indescribably terrifying shockwave erupted from the three of them and swept madly in every direction!

The sky seemed to be torn into three pieces at that moment. Pure Soul Power churned into terrifying ripples visible to the naked eye, peeling up layer after layer of the earth below.

The Shrek students and soul masters from the various factions who were still struggling to hold on had their blood and energy churned even from so far away by the aftershock of Soul Power. They vomited blood and staggered back.

If Tai Tan had not desperately maintained the defensive barrier below, the aftershock of that collision alone would have been enough to reduce most of those present to ashes.

Yet the battle fell into a strange stalemate.

Niu Tian and Chen Hai, working together, had actually fought Qian Jue to a draw!

In midair, the three massive forces crushed and devoured one another, producing teeth-grinding hissing sounds.

Qian Jue frowned slightly.

He discovered that although Chen Hai's attacks remained sharp, Qian Jue had already figured out his moves, so they posed no substantial threat at all.

The one who truly gave him trouble was this Niu Tian who had suddenly appeared.

As expected of a divine beast. His physical body was on an entirely different level from everyone else's.

With every collision, that azure-gold Soul Power came like an endless tsunami, wave after wave, shaking Qian Jue until the blood and energy within him roiled.

Even Qian Jue's body, transformed by Demonic Power, could not gain the slightest advantage in a contest of pure strength.

But strangely, Qian Jue keenly sensed that Niu Tian seemed to be deliberately suppressing something.

He clearly possessed a higher level of power, yet he kept it tightly sealed inside himself, using only pure Soul Power to fight Qian Jue.

"Don't dare use your full strength? Afraid of drawing the God Realm's attention?"

A trace of viciousness flashed through Qian Jue's eyes as he instantly saw through Niu Tian's concern.

He sneered. "Since you don't dare use it, then I'll wear you both to death!"

Demonic Soul Power flowed endlessly from Qian Jue's body. The Fallen Angel wings behind him erupted with an even deeper black radiance as they firmly resisted the pair's assault.

On the other side, Niu Tian's expression was equally grave.

"This guy's recovery ability and Soul Power reserves are simply monstrous."

Niu Tian was secretly alarmed.

Though he had not used divine power, his current Soul Power strength was unquestionably at the peak of a genuine Level 99 Ultimate Douluo.

Even with Chen Hai assisting him from the side, they could only fight Qian Jue to a draw.

"Chen Hai, don't use wide-area attacks. Focus on one point!" Niu Tian transmitted.

"Understood!"

Chen Hai bit through his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood essence onto the Sea God Helmet. The azure radiance instantly contracted,

forming a massive blue sword a hundred meters long that savagely cleaved down toward Qian Jue's head.

Niu Tian threw both fists forward. Azure-gold Soul Power became two roaring giant dragons that attacked Qian Jue from the left and right.

The battle among the three had completely turned into the most primitive and brutal war of Soul Power attrition.

Every second, vast amounts of Soul Power were annihilated in midair.

Just as the prolonged battle refused to yield a victor, the three of them frantically draining one another's Soul Power as the fight reached its fiercest point,

a crisp, icy notification with a strange mechanical quality suddenly rang out in Qian Jue's mind.

[ Ding! It has been detected that the hidden pieces previously planted by the host have fully erupted. ]

[ Demonic Fifth Trial: "Place curses upon tens of thousands of living beings and guide them to commit suicide"—completed! ]

Hearing that voice, Qian Jue's movements paused slightly. Then an incomparably bright, almost crazed light burst from his previously cold eyes!

It was finally complete!

To complete this deranged Demonic Fifth Trial, he had laid down an enormous scheme in the shadows of Douluo Continent.

[ Distributing rewards... ]

[ Congratulations, host. You have obtained part of the origin abilities of the demon "Mechikura"—Rune Magic/Blood Magic! ]

[ Congratulations, host. The age of all Soul Rings has increased by—30,000 years! ]

[ Congratulations, host. Your Soul Power Level has broken through its shackles and officially advanced to—Level 99 Ultimate Douluo! ]

"Boom—!!!"

The instant the system notification ended, an indescribably terrifying aura erupted from Qian Jue's body like an abyssal beast that had slumbered for hundreds of millions of years suddenly awakening!

That aura carried a nauseatingly thick stench of blood, along with an utterly evil and twisted power of curses.

The black Soul Power that had been locked in a stalemate with Niu Tian and Chen Hai was instantly stained with a strange dark-red layer.

His power surged severalfold in an instant! No, tenfold!

"Bang!"

Caught off guard, Niu Tian and Chen Hai felt an overwhelming, mountain-toppling force crash head-on into them.

The curse power mixed within that force even followed their Soul Power, attempting to corrode their meridians.

The two grunted and were sent flying by that sudden eruption of terrifying Soul Power.

They retreated hundreds of meters through the air, shattering vast stretches of empty space beneath their feet before barely stabilizing themselves.

"Pfft!" Chen Hai could no longer suppress the injuries within him. He sprayed out a mouthful of blood, and his face instantly turned as pale as paper.

Although Niu Tian did not vomit blood, his hands trembled slightly, and the azure-gold glow of his Soul Power flickered unsteadily.

He stared fixedly at Qian Jue in the distance, shock appearing in his eyes for the first time.

Feeling Qian Jue's aura rise steadily before firmly settling at the level of a Level 99 Ultimate Douluo,

an aura countless times more terrifying than that of an ordinary Ultimate Douluo, Niu Tian and Chen Hai's expressions instantly became grave to the extreme.

"His aura... How could it suddenly surge to such a degree in the middle of battle?!"

Chen Hai stared wide-eyed in disbelief, his voice trembling. "He... he broke through to Ultimate Douluo?!"

A breakthrough in the midst of battle? And into a Level 99 Ultimate Douluo at that?! How was that possible?!

However, an even more horrifying sight—one that would make the entire Douluo Continent tremble—was still to come.

Qian Jue slowly floated in midair. The Fallen Angel wings behind him had completely turned dark red, with strange rune patterns flowing across them.

He tilted his head slightly upward and closed his eyes, as if savoring the terrifying power within him that was so abundant it nearly overflowed.

Then, he slowly opened his eyes.

They had become completely scarlet. There was not the slightest trace of human emotion within them, only endless indifference, cruelty, and destruction.

As the Soul Power of an Ultimate Douluo within him was fully released, Soul Rings began to rise one after another beneath his feet.

The first ring was crimson as blood.

The second ring was crimson as blood.

The third ring...

Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red!

A full ten 100,000-Year Soul Rings, crimson as blood, slowly pulsed beneath Qian Jue's feet!

Under the system's terrifying reward of "all Soul Ring ages increased by 30,000 years," his already exceptional Soul Ring configuration underwent a complete transformation.

Those Soul Rings that had once been ten-thousand-year and several-ten-thousand-year rings all crossed the threshold of 100,000 years, becoming red 100,000-Year Soul Rings that represented the highest rank in Douluo Continent!

Ten! A full ten 100,000-Year Soul Rings!

The blinding red light was like ten blood-colored suns hanging in the air at once, staining the sky, the earth, and every face below a miserable crimson.

The terrifying pressure of the 100,000-Year Soul Rings mixed with Mechikura's curse power and the aura of Blood Magic, becoming a blood-colored storm that swept across heaven and earth.

The surrounding space began to collapse and shatter over a vast area beneath that pressure, exposing black spatial turbulence.

This sight left the soul masters below, who were still struggling to hold on, completely dumbfounded.

The entire battlefield fell into deathly silence.

Only the howl of the storm echoed between heaven and earth.

"Ten... ten 100,000-Year Soul Rings?!"