Fantasy Takes Shape! Martial Soul Awakening! Summon!

[Detected: Seed of Fantasy has been planted]

[Detected: Massive life force supply]

[Lostbelt established. Planet initialization commencing]

[Planar rules altered. Higher planes prohibited from observing. Native Hall of Heroes generated]

[Host's body incompatible with planar rules. Forced alteration initiated. Martial Soul awakening permitted]

[More energy required!]

Ye Chenxing sensed everything happening within his sea of consciousness.

"I never expected the Fantasy Tree to become something like a system here."

In Ye Chenxing's previous life, for various reasons, he had never recognized the Fantasy Tree's abilities.

Only after the "people of Chaldea" had pointed out its existence, and he had crossed the planes to arrive on Douluo Continent, did information about the Fantasy Tree appear in his mind as though it had been innate knowledge.

The Fantasy Tree required immense energy to operate. Speaking of trees, Ye Chenxing immediately thought of the Golden Tree planted by Tang Buddha, with his own mother personally residing within it as it continuously absorbed the plane's life core.

But plotting against the Golden Tree required sufficient strength.

As someone who had physically crossed over to Douluo Continent, he himself could not awaken a Martial Soul. The Summoning Magecraft he had learned in his previous life had also left him in the predicament of a clever housewife unable to cook without rice, since the Douluo plane had no Hall of Heroes.

Fortunately, Ye Chenxing had received help from someone who regarded Shrek Academy as a thorn in their side, allowing him to scheme against Xuan Lao and enter the Sea God Pavilion.

At this moment, he had completed all his plans, including the most crucial step—

Blocking Tang God King's request for access.

For Ye Chenxing, arriving in the timeline of The Unrivaled Tang Sect meant that his greatest threat was Tang God King's interference.

Therefore, he had no choice but to draw upon a massive amount of the Golden Tree's energy, allowing the Fantasy Tree to completely sever its connection with the God Realm.

But that did not mean he could rest easy. If Tang San gathered the five great God Kings of the God Realm and acted together, his firewall probably would not hold for long.

Within the sea of consciousness, the Fantasy Tree, having received all the energy accumulated by the Golden Tree over ten thousand years, possessed a trunk of flawless, deathly pale white, as though it had been carved from some unknown chalk stone.

Most astonishing of all was its canopy—there were no lush branches or leaves like those of an ordinary tree. Instead, there was a slowly rotating cosmic vortex wrapped around a vast galaxy, turning the entire sea of consciousness into a universe of stars.

Compared to this giant tree within the sea of consciousness, which could support the stars themselves, the Golden Tree that had previously served as its nourishment was no more than a sapling that had yet to fully grow!

Ye Chenxing looked at the Fantasy Tree with satisfaction. This was his greatest source of confidence when facing the God Realm.

Everyone knew that Tang San did not merely want to turn Douluo Continent into the Tang family's continent. Even the God Realm, and even the Great God Circle, were things he wanted to remake into the Tang family's God Realm.

This was no delusion. Within the Douluo Universe, and even in the universes born after the Great God Circle, Tang San was someone favored by the "will of the world."

Those who understood, understood.

The Fantasy Tree's ability to alter rules was Ye Chenxing's trump card for reversing this situation.

As long as Ye Chenxing grew stronger, the Fantasy Tree would grow with him. Once it matured into a divine tree capable of blotting out the sky in the God Realm, Tang San's fate would truly be at its end.

Suddenly, Ye Chenxing noticed a blue-green "celestial body" appearing amid this Mind Star Sea.

He raised his right hand, slightly parted his thumb and index finger, aligned them with it, and casually gave a light pinch before him.

The sphere that had just been far beyond the horizon materialized at his fingertips out of thin air.

Deep within the flowing halo inside the sphere, he could faintly see a woman curled up in peaceful slumber.

"Why is there a woman here? Could this be... Tang San's mother, A Yin?"

It turned out that when the Fantasy Tree absorbed the Golden Tree, it had only extracted its energy, while drawing out A Yin's consciousness and imprisoning it within the Mind Star Sea.

Under the Fantasy Tree's violent intrusion, A Yin had lost far too much power in an instant and directly fallen unconscious.

At the moment, she was slowly being transformed by the Fantasy Tree's power.

Ye Chenxing's expression turned somewhat playful. Tang San's mother, A Yin, had truly fallen into his hands. He had thought she would become nourishment alongside the Golden Tree, but he had unexpectedly received such a pleasant surprise.

Don't misunderstand! Ye Chenxing was not trying to pay tribute to Chancellor Cao.

As someone from another world who had turned Douluo Star, which Tang San regarded as his own backyard, upside down, Tang San would certainly not let the matter rest. Sooner or later, he would clash with that supposedly pure and noble God King.

When that time came, A Yin would undoubtedly be one of his best bargaining chips.

A terrifying energy storm ravaged the Sea God Pavilion for an instant before receding like the tide.

Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe struggled up from the ground in disarray.

"You... what did you just do?" Xuan Zi stared fixedly at Ye Chenxing, who stood where he was with a faint smile at the corner of his lips. His voice trembled slightly.

Before Ye Chenxing could answer, Yan Shaozhe's expression abruptly changed. He violently turned to look around, and uncontrollable panic entered his voice. "Elder Xuan! Did you feel that?!"

Xuan Zi was initially stunned, then released his spiritual power to investigate.

The next second, this Rank 98 Super Douluo stood frozen in place as though struck by lightning.

In his senses, the Golden Tree's power of life and light—which had remained gentle, vast, and selflessly nourished countless inner academy students and every elder of the Sea God Pavilion for tens of thousands of years—had utterly vanished!

The entire Sea God Pavilion seemed to have become a dead, withered tree.

"You... you stole the Golden Tree's origin?! How did you do it?!" Elder Xuan's rage soared to the heavens, and his eyes instantly bloodshot crimson.

"The Golden Tree that generations of Shrek's predecessors nurtured for ten thousand years... How dare you?!"

Consumed by fury, Xuan Zi completely lost his reason. He could not care less that the person before him was merely a teenager. With an earth-shaking bull's roar, the phantom of the Gluttonous Divine Bull rose behind him.

Two yellow, two purple, four black, one red.

Nine dazzling soul rings erupted at once, carrying a terrifying pressure capable of overwhelming mountains and seas. Xuan Zi swung his right fist, wrapped in dense yellow light, and smashed it viciously toward Ye Chenxing.

"Elder Xuan, don't!" Yan Shaozhe suddenly came to his senses. Realizing something was wrong, he tried to stop him, but it was already too late.

Facing the furious strike of a Super Douluo, Ye Chenxing remained standing in place, calm and composed, without even blinking.

Bang—!

With a dull explosive boom, the expected scene did not occur. Elder Xuan's fist slammed hard into a transparent wall of light that had appeared from nowhere.

Immediately afterward, an irresistible force of recoil erupted. Elder Xuan, a dignified Super Douluo, was sent flying back like a kite with its string cut, crashing heavily into the Sea God Pavilion's wooden wall.

"Elder Xuan, haven't you suffered enough from your impatience?"

Ye Chenxing brushed nonexistent dust from the corner of his clothes, his tone utterly calm. "Don't waste your effort. The rules of this world have already been modified by me. The summoning ritual activated through my Martial Soul possesses absolute priority over the laws. Within this plane, it cannot be interrupted."

It turned out that when he had entered the Sea God Pavilion earlier, the preparation time he had requested from Xuan Zi had not merely been to wait for the Fantasy Tree's absorption. It had also been to lay down the formation for Heroic Spirit summoning.

Under the uncertain gazes of the two men, Ye Chenxing slowly opened his right hand.

"In my previous life, I studied this Magecraft for ten years, yet I never had the chance to use it. I never expected that after the rules changed, this Summoning Magecraft would become my Martial Soul."

Named [Hall of Heroes].

"Now, let its first test run begin on the plane of Douluo Continent."

The youth slightly raised his head. Light shone in his clear crimson eyes as an ancient, obscure chant that absolutely did not belong to this world echoed through the Sea God Pavilion:

"I proclaim—"

"Thy body shall heed my command, and my fate shall be with thy sword."

"Answer my summons. If thou wouldst submit to this will and this truth, then answer."

"Let this be sworn. I shall accomplish all the good in the world. I shall destroy all the evil in the world."

"Thou, clad in the Seven Heavens of the Three Great Words of Power, come forth from the Wheel of Restraint, guardian of the scales—!"

As the final line fell, a dazzling golden pillar of light erupted from the ground beneath Ye Chenxing's feet.

Within the pillar of light, specks of golden feathers drifted down like snowflakes.

As the golden light faded, a woman who appeared to be sixteen or seventeen slowly descended from the air, appearing before Ye Chenxing.

She possessed long hair like flowing gold, and her breathtakingly beautiful face carried an inviolable divine majesty.

Her magnificent golden battle armor perfectly outlined her tall figure. Behind her, six broad wings, white as snow, slowly unfolded, illuminating the entire hall as brightly as day.

The woman slowly opened her golden eyes. Holding a longsword burning with scarlet-gold holy flames, she swept her gaze across her surroundings before finally fixing it upon Ye Chenxing.

"Servant Saber, answering your summons."

"I ask of you, are you my Master?"