Dugu Bo's Shock: Was This Third Spirit Skill Really So Overpowered?

"Kid... you!"

Dugu Bo was instantly shocked!

Three Soul Rings had appeared beneath Lin Ye's feet!

The first was purple, a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring!

The second was purple, a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring!

The third was black, a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring!

Two Purple and One Black!

Dugu Bo's expression changed drastically.

"Kid, you actually suc... succeeded?!"

Dugu Bo's voice cracked.

In his seventy-eight years of life, Dugu Bo had seen countless geniuses,

but he had never seen a Level 30 Soul Master capable of absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.

Never!

Yet this six-year-old brat before him had done it.

Lin Ye slowly rose to his feet, feeling the earth-shaking changes within his body.

What shocked him was that

his Soul Power had surged directly from Level 30 to Level 37!

"Level 37..."

Lin Ye murmured, clenching his fists.

Was this the effect of Immortal Herbs?

Their reputation truly was well deserved!

Dugu Bo slowly walked over to Lin Ye, studying him from head to toe with a complicated expression.

"Kid."

"Yeah?"

"What is your third spirit skill?"

Hearing Dugu Bo's question, Lin Ye chuckled.

"You want to see it, Senior?"

"Cut the crap."

"Fine."

Lin Ye took a deep breath and slowly spread his hands.

"Third Spirit Skill!"

"Dark Demon Evil God Transformation!"

Buzz!!

A dense black, evil aura erupted violently from Lin Ye's body.

Purple lightning crackled madly around him, while fierce winds spread outward from him, sweeping shattered stones and dead leaves several meters into the air.

His muscles also swelled at a visible rate, and his already sturdy frame instantly grew a full size larger.

The muscles in his arms bulged into sharp lines,

while black markings began spreading from his neck.

They crawled up his throat, over his jaw, and across both sides of his face.

They also extended down his arms, covering the backs of his hands and reaching all the way to his fingertips.

Those black markings were scattered in irregular patterns.

At that moment, Lin Ye looked completely different.

His features became even more sharply defined.

The boyishness of youth was utterly crushed away, replaced by a fierce aura of overwhelming oppression.

Seeing Lin Ye's transformation, Dugu Bo instinctively took half a step back.

"This is your third spirit skill?"

Dugu Bo's voice was somewhat dry.

"That's right. This is my third spirit skill, Dark Demon Evil God Transformation."

Lin Ye flexed his fingers, and his joints cracked like colliding steel.

"After activation, my attack, defense, and strength all increase threefold."

"Threefold?"

Dugu Bo's brow twitched.

"That's right."

Lin Ye clenched his fist, then threw a punch at a massive boulder beside him that was half a man's height.

Boom!

The boulder was punched straight through. Fragments flew everywhere, and the shockwave left spiderweb-like cracks across the ground.

Seeing that power, Dugu Bo gradually looked satisfied.

"Kid, how long does your third spirit skill last?"

"Ten minutes."

Dugu Bo nodded slightly.

"There's one more thing."

Lin Ye turned to Dugu Bo, his tone casual.

"While Dark Demon Evil God Transformation is active, I'm immune to all control effects."

However, Dugu Bo was instantly shocked upon hearing that!

"Kid, what did you say?"

"For those ten minutes, I'm immune to all control effects."

Lin Ye repeated himself.

"Whether it's restraints, immobilization, slowing, or mental suppression... none of it works."

"For those ten minutes, I'm in a Super Armor state. External interference can't affect me!"

As soon as he finished speaking,

Dugu Bo froze where he stood.

Immune to all control?

Super Armor?

He knew better than anyone what those words, Super Armor, meant.

As everyone knew,

the greatest advantage of control-type Soul Masters was restricting their opponents' movements,

but Super Armor directly destroyed the very foundation of control-types.

If this spirit skill fell into the hands of a Level 50 or Level 60 Soul Master...

Their attack, defense, and strength would increase threefold, on top of Super Armor's control immunity.

"That would simply be the nemesis of control-types."

Dugu Bo blurted out.

He then gave Lin Ye a deep look, his emotions hard to settle.

At that moment, even shock no longer seemed sufficient.

"Kid,"

Dugu Bo slowly spoke, his voice carrying a rare trace of emotion.

"This old man is becoming more and more glad that I didn't kill you with one palm strike back then."

Lin Ye then withdrew Dark Demon Evil God Transformation. The black markings on his body slowly faded, and his physique returned to normal.

"Senior truly has a discerning eye."

Dugu Bo snorted coldly, too lazy to trade barbs with him.

"Alright, this old man should be leaving too."

He turned around, and his figure flashed.

"Remember, one month. Yanyan's poison can't be delayed."

"Don't worry, Senior."

Dugu Bo's figure swept into the depths of the forest like a gust of wind and vanished completely.

Lin Ye stood there blankly, then looked up at the sun overhead.

"Damn it, this is bad. It's almost noon already."

"Big Cat is probably about to blow her top. I need to get back!"

Lin Ye wasted no more time. He quickly suppressed his aura and hurried toward Heaven Dou City.

After an unknown amount of time,

the second-floor corridor of Tianshui Hotel.

Zhu Zhuqing stood outside Lin Ye's room, still holding two skewers of Candied Hawthorn.

Her expression was not very pleasant.

She had knocked on the door seventeen times already.

No one had answered.

"Damn it, where did that big jerk go?!"

Zhu Zhuqing gritted her teeth and muttered under her breath, then knocked twice more. The door buzzed from the impact.

Still no response.

She simply pressed her ear to the crack in the door and listened.

The room was completely silent, without even the sound of breathing.

He was not inside at all.

Zhu Zhuqing then took a deep breath.

He had been gone the entire morning.

He hadn't said anything when he left last night, and when she woke up, he was gone.

It wasn't as though she hadn't considered the worst possibility.

They had only just arrived in the Heaven Dou Empire. What if Lin Ye had encountered someone with ill intentions...

No, no, she couldn't think like that.

Zhu Zhuqing shook her head,

then lowered her gaze to the Candied Hawthorn in her hands.

She had gone out of her way to buy it that morning.

Two skewers.

One for herself, and one...

"Hmph, I shouldn't have bought one for that big jerk."

Though she said that, she never threw away the extra skewer.

After waiting a while, her stomach began to growl.

Zhu Zhuqing looked at the glossy red Hawthorn fruits in her hand and pursed her lips.

"Whether he comes back is his business, but food in my hand absolutely cannot be wasted."

She nodded solemnly, finding herself an excuse.

"The ancients said... those who recognize food are the wise ones."

After saying that, she tore open the wrapper around her own skewer and gently bit into one.

Sweet and sour.

It was quite tasty.

As she ate, she began muttering to herself.

"Big jerk... irresponsible bastard... leaving without even saying goodbye..."

She cursed while eating.

After finishing her own skewer, Lin Ye still had not returned.

At that moment, Zhu Zhuqing's gaze uncontrollably drifted toward the other skewer.

She hesitated for three seconds.

In the end, she still reached out and picked it up.

"It'll go to waste anyway..."

However, just as she bit into the first Candied Hawthorn,

a voice suddenly sounded behind her.

"Hey, Big Cat."