A Single Sword Shattered the Armor!

"Dream on!"

Niu Gao bellowed, his bell-like eyes fixed firmly on the luxurious Golden Sedan Chair in the sky.

"Though my Defense Clan cannot compare to the Upper Three Sects, if Spirit Hall wants to chew through this bone, it will have to lose a few teeth!"

"All disciples, heed my command! Martial Soul Possession, defend with all your strength!"

Following Niu Gao's order, the direct disciples of the Defense Clan released their Plate Armor Rhinoceros Martial Souls one after another. Powerful earthy-yellow Soul Power instantly gathered along the manor's outer walls, forming a thick, rock-like barrier of Soul Power that tightly protected the entire estate.

Niu Gao himself poured all his Soul Power into it without reserve, making the sturdy defense resemble an iron fortress rooted firmly in the earth.

"Sect Master Huyan, stand down."

Just as Huyan Zhen was about to forcefully attack the barrier, a gentle yet penetrating young voice suddenly rang out from the sky.

Huyan Zhen froze, then hurriedly withdrew his Martial Soul and respectfully stepped aside.

In midair, Ye Yuan, dressed in a white-and-gold robe with a white jade longsword hanging at his waist, stepped down from the Golden Sedan Chair through the empty air, accompanied by Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.

Ye Yuan lowered his gaze to the incomparably thick defensive barrier below and tightened his grip around the hilt of the Primal Genesis Sword in his left hand.

"Old Sect Master Niu, I am Ye Yuan, the Holy Son of Spirit Hall."

Ye Yuan looked at the grim-faced Niu Gao and smiled faintly, carrying himself with such refined grace that not a trace of killing intent could be sensed.

"I heard that the Defense Clan's defenses are unmatched beneath the heavens. Today... I have come to test my sword."

Standing at the very front, Niu Gao stared fixedly at the white-and-gold-robed youth slowly descending from the sky, his eyes filled with uncertainty and shock.

"Eighteen years old... a level thirty-nine Soul Elder?"

Niu Gao saw through Ye Yuan's cultivation at a glance. Yet when his eyes fell upon the three ink-black Soul Rings slowly rising beneath Ye Yuan's feet, the pupils of this battle-hardened Defense Clan sect master abruptly shrank to pinpoints!

"Black, black, black! Three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings!"

"That's impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Not only Niu Gao, but the dozens of direct disciples behind him were so frightened that they nearly failed to maintain their Martial Souls.

According to the iron laws of the Soul Master world, the limit for a first Soul Ring was only a few hundred years. Even peerless geniuses could never possess three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings while still at the Soul Elder stage!

This had completely violated the laws of heaven!

"Hmph. Frogs at the bottom of a well, amazed by so little."

In midair, Qian Renxue crossed her arms and proudly lifted her delicate chin.

Her beautiful legs, wrapped in sheer white stockings, swayed slightly in the air. She cast Bibi Dong a smug glance, as if showing off Ye Yuan's monstrous talent.

Bibi Dong merely watched Ye Yuan gently. Her red lips parted, and her voice was cool yet domineering.

"Xiao Yuan, make your move. Let these stubborn fools see what a true miracle looks like."

"Alright."

Ye Yuan took a deep breath and slowly tightened his left hand around the hilt of the Primal Genesis Sword.

In that instant, the jade-white longsword lit up with a wisp of nearly transparent pure white radiance. Even the space around its blade warped slightly beneath its sharpness.

Though Niu Gao was shocked, his pride as a defensive Soul Douluo made him roar.

"This manor's defenses have been reinforced by my own Soul Power. Even ordinary assault-type Soul Douluo would struggle to break them! Let's see how a mere level thirty-nine brat intends to break through!"

"First Soul Skill: Primal Genesis Crimson Sun Slash!"

Ye Yuan wasted no words. The first black Soul Ring on the Primal Genesis Sword suddenly lit up, and the once-gentle jade-white longsword was instantly enveloped in violent yet sacred crimson-gold flames. He slashed through the air, fiercely striking the Black Iron city walls reinforced by a Soul Douluo's Soul Power!

There was no earth-shaking explosion as expected.

The moment the crimson-gold sword aura touched the thick defensive barrier, something strange happened.

The dark-yellow defensive Soul Power that Niu Gao and the dozens of disciples had painstakingly maintained over the walls began to melt and collapse at an astonishing speed the instant it came into contact with the crimson-gold sword aura, like snow beneath the blazing sun!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

It was not shattered through brute force. Rather, beneath the illumination of Primordial Light, that thick defensive Soul Power was forcibly reversed and restored into its most primitive, chaotic Soul Power particles, turning into golden motes that scattered through the air!

Genesis returned to nothingness; defenses regressed!

"Not good! My Soul Power is being forcibly broken down!"

Niu Gao cried out in terror.

He watched helplessly as the Soul Power he had infused into the defenses was instantly drained away and dissolved. Then, the crimson-gold sword aura struck the manor's Black Iron gates without the slightest obstruction.

"Crack!"

The Black Iron gates, each weighing tens of thousands of jin and supposedly indestructible, along with the connected outer walls of the manor, were sliced in two like fragile tofu before the Primal Genesis Sword. Their cuts were smooth as mirrors as they collapsed with a thunderous crash!

"Pfft!"

The defenses were violently breached, and under the backlash of Soul Power, the dozens of direct disciples behind Niu Gao all spat blood and collapsed to the ground.

Niu Gao's eyes nearly split with fury. Watching Ye Yuan stride out of the smoke and dust, he let out a roar. His eighth Soul Ring suddenly lit up, and he instantly completed Martial Soul Possession. An incomparably thick layer of plate armor condensed over his skin as he tried to block Ye Yuan with his strongest physical defensive Soul Skill.

"Eighth Soul Skill, Plate Armor Sky-Guarding Shield!"

Facing Niu Gao's strongest defensive Soul Skill, Ye Yuan advanced instead of retreating. The Primal Genesis Sword in his hand once again carried a beam of pure Primordial Light as it swept lightly forward.

"Riiip!"

There was no suspense whatsoever.

Before the properties of Genesis Nullification, the plate armor formed by Niu Gao's prized eighth Soul Skill directly crumbled and disintegrated the instant it touched the sword's edge.

The cold blade of the Primal Genesis Sword came to a smooth stop before Niu Gao's throat. It was less than half an inch away from piercing straight through it.

"I... lost?"

Niu Gao's entire body stiffened. Feeling the icy sword aura at his throat, his mind went blank.

He was a level eighty-five defensive Soul Douluo!

Yet before a mere level thirty-nine Soul Elder, not only had the defensive line of the walls he personally reinforced been dissolved with a single sword strike, even his strongest defensive Soul Skill had been instantly dismantled as though it were made of paper!

Breaking defenses across ranks! This sword was simply the nightmare of every defensive Soul Master in the world!

Meanwhile, in an underground secret chamber deep within the manor.

Tang San, who had been sensing the battle outside through the Mysterious Heaven Skill and his faint spiritual power, shuddered violently the instant Niu Gao's strongest defense was shattered by a single sword strike. His dark eyes were filled with terror and confusion.

"It broke... the manor's outer walls that Grandpa Niu Gao personally reinforced with Soul Power, and even his eighth Soul Skill... were actually broken by one sword strike!"