Beiming Lieyang raised his right hand high and drew the Corona Sword from his back.
His Solar Star God Apollo Martial Soul had two forms during Martial Soul Possession.
The first was its armor form.
The Martial Soul became a set of airtight crimson armor that enveloped his entire body. This was its normal possession state.
The second was its manifested form.
It summoned the actual body of Solar Star God Apollo, over ten meters tall, standing on the battlefield like a colossal mech.
Beiming Lieyang himself would be transferred inside, as if entering a cockpit—literally piloting a mech.
However, that form could only be unlocked upon reaching the Title Douluo level.
This was also one of the reasons Beiming Lieyang had been so eager to level up.
What boy did not want to pilot a mech?
Armor or mechs, both were a man's romance.
The Attribute Enhancement to all attributes granted by an ordinary beast Martial Soul Possession usually ranged from 10% to 50%.
A top-tier beast Martial Soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon could reach 80%, or even 100%.
As for the Solar Star God Martial Soul, whether in armor form or its future mech form, its possession enhancement reached a staggering 600%.
Beiming Lieyang was currently a level-sixty quasi-Spirit Emperor.
The External Soul Bone's 130% Attribute Enhancement to all attributes, combined with being under the sun,
and the Solar Star God Martial Soul's innate 100% Attribute Enhancement to all attributes, stacked up to 830%.
After all, according to the original stats of the Cosmic Star Gods, the ability panels of other Star Gods often had only a few scattered stars, varying wildly.
Only Solar Star God Apollo had every stat bar maxed out, with a full fifteen stars.
He was an absolute stat monster!
"He's going to spar with a Title Douluo?"
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with disbelief.
He looked no older than thirteen or fourteen. Though that crimson armor indeed exuded an extraordinary aura, his opponent was Dugu Bo, a Title Douluo.
Even if it was only sparring, he was still a Title Douluo.
A teenage boy dared to challenge a Title Douluo just because he was wearing a suit of metal armor?
"Lord, this..."
Even Dugu Bo hesitated.
He could sense the power surging beneath the armor covering Beiming Lieyang, but the gap in their levels was right there.
"Worried the venue isn't big enough for us to cut loose?"
Beiming Lieyang looked around. This training ground was not small, but it truly would not be enough if they fought at full strength.
Dugu Bo was about to explain when Beiming Lieyang raised his left hand, a chunk of icy-blue ice resting in his palm.
Then,
five Spirit Rings emerged beneath his feet one after another, slowly pulsing upward.
Four black and one red—a configuration that should not have existed in the eyes of people in this world.
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling froze at the same time.
How was that possible?
Four black and one red?
What kind of configuration was that?
Shouldn't Spirit Ring configurations be yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black?
And red was supposed to be a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring, wasn't it?
A five-ring Spirit King with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring—what kind of concept was that?
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling stared fixedly at that red Spirit Ring, as though they wanted to see through that scarlet glow.
Beiming Lieyang tossed it upward, and the Void Mysterious Ice rapidly expanded and split apart in midair,
piece after piece spreading in every direction, enveloping the entire training ground.
Along with a burst of spatial distortion, the entire training ground seemed to be stripped from its original space
and transferred into a domain filled with ice and dark-blue radiance.
Void Mysterious Ice—Mysterious Ice Illusion.
Dugu Bo felt the surrounding space abruptly change, and his gaze narrowed slightly.
He had never seen such a method, one that directly pulled an area into another space.
Could this be a spatial domain Spirit Ability?
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were even more completely speechless.
The sensation of being swept into another space sent chills down their spines.
This boy had changed the battlefield with a casual gesture.
Dugu Bo looked at the ice crystals scattered around him, his throat bobbing.
He had seen the power of Void Mysterious Ice before. It could be carried around and used at any time, granting a threefold increase to all attributes.
The very existence of this thing was the most direct denial of the "world's number one support Martial Soul."
"All right, the venue has been transferred. It won't affect the training ground in your estate."
Beiming Lieyang's voice came from beneath the armor.
"And while within this space, the power of mysterious ice will continuously repair injuries."
Repair injuries?
A trace of shock flashed through Dugu Bo's eyes.
It could trap enemies, enhance allies, and heal wounds.
Wasn't Void Mysterious Ice far too powerful?
"Lord, this subordinate has overstepped. How about this subordinate suppressing his strength to Lord's level..."
"You're so long-winded!"
With sharp metallic clanging, the Solar Star God Armor instantly contracted into a crimson sphere of light.
The coronal halo drew inward, while the Corona Sword stood upright above the sphere.
Vast light energy converged madly. The entire Mysterious Ice Illusion trembled as a blinding flare erupted, like a sun collapsing and being reborn in that instant.
Cosmic Star God Light Energy Convergence form, rapidly absorbing and restoring energy while strengthening attacks!
As the radiance faded, a humanoid form reassembled.
Beiming Lieyang drew his sword and pointed it at the sky, its tip level with his chest. His left hand formed sword fingers, swiftly sweeping upward along the blade.
A golden pillar of light shot into the heavens along the sword's spine.
The dark-blue dome of the Mysterious Ice Illusion was torn open in an instant, and the entire sky surged crimson, like a burning corona, like a roaring sun.
The next second, the pillar of light poured back down and struck the Corona Sword.
Light exploded, and a giant energy sword dozens of meters long abruptly took shape.
Sun True Fire surged and danced across the blade, its searing radiance illuminating the entire Mysterious Ice Illusion as brightly as day.
Dugu Bo's pupils contracted sharply.
He felt it within that giant sword.
It was a power his poison attribute had never faced before—searing, sacred, and irresistible Judgment.
That power was judging him, driving him away, burning away everything on him that did not belong to the light.
In that instant, his poison cultivation was like a shadow caught beneath sunlight, with nowhere to hide and nowhere to flee.
He had no time to think. The Green Scale Poisonous Dragon Martial Soul abruptly possessed him, and he unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, transforming into a massive Jade Phosphorus Poison Python.
All his attributes surged severalfold.
But that giant sword had already descended.
Beiming Lieyang gripped the sword with both hands and slashed fiercely forward.
The instant the Corona Sword of Judgment fell, the entire Mysterious Ice Illusion trembled. Sun True Fire cascaded down like a waterfall, stripping away, burning, and purifying the dragon's poisonous mist layer by layer with its searing light.
Dugu Bo's hastily raised defense was torn apart like paper the instant it met the blade.
With a thunderous boom.
The dark-green dragon was blasted straight away, shattering several blocks of mysterious ice before crashing heavily into the edge of the illusion.
The ground of the entire Mysterious Ice Illusion was ripped open by that sword mark, leaving a deep fissure. Molten gold-red light poured from the crack, and the scorching aura lingered for a long while.
With one strike of the sun, Judgment descended. Poison and cold darkness had nowhere to hide.
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling stood at the edge of the arena, their hearts seeming to stop.
They watched that dark-green dragon get blasted away by a single strike, watched the molten sword mark split across the ground, and only one thought remained in their minds.
How was that possible?
A Title Douluo had been knocked down by one sword strike.
A five-ring Spirit King had brought down a Title Douluo with one sword strike.
The two stood frozen in place. Their necks turned stiffly with cracking sounds as they looked at each other and saw the same fear and shock in the other's eyes.
"Th-this... what in the world..."
Dugu Yan's voice was dry, and she could not finish the rest of her sentence.
Ye Lingling said nothing. Her gaze rested on Beiming Lieyang.
The crimson armor's glow was slowly fading, as though that destructive power had never existed at all.
She had seen many geniuses, but never anyone like this.
A boy who looked no older than thirteen or fourteen had split apart all of a Title Douluo's defenses with a single sword strike.
She suddenly understood something.
Why Dugu Bo had bowed his head to him.
This was simply too terrifying.
"Can you finally fight me seriously now?"
Beiming Lieyang raised the Corona Sword and pointed it at Dugu Bo.
"Otherwise, you will die!"
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