Above the Evil Demon Forest, Ye Su looked at the Evil Emperor opposite him, his gaze holding not a shred of fear, only burning zeal.
"An eighty-thousand-year soul ring, I'm having it!"
The Evil Emperor opposite grew increasingly furious. With his strength, he had actually failed to take down this brash brat, and now the entire continent was even watching the live broadcast-it was simply laughable!
In that case, he was going to use his full strength!
Hum-!
All the black mist between heaven and earth suddenly congealed, and hundreds of millions of tiny evil eyes simultaneously lit up with scarlet, ferocious light.
There was no earth-shattering roar, only a silent, transparent wave of light that pierced through everything and swept across ten thousand miles.
"Ten Thousand Eyes Annihilation!"
This was a pure Mental Attribute attack, a terrifying, definitive kill from a cultivation of nearly eight hundred thousand years. It would cause no physical damage, but equally, no non-mental defense could block even the slightest bit of it. This strike could pierce through all soul power defenses, rush straight into the opponent's sea of consciousness, and shatter the enemy's soul.
Although it was not a guaranteed-hit attack, his mental suppression was not for nothing. Moreover, the speed of this move had already surpassed the speed of sound, making it far too fast for ordinary people to evade in time!
The sea of consciousness of Ye Su opposite him suddenly suffered a splitting pain, as if countless sharp blades were frantically hacking and slashing at his divine soul. His mind roared incessantly, the world before his eyes instantly inverted and scrambled, and his movement technique involuntarily faltered.
This was merely the reaction produced by being locked onto by this attack; if he were truly hit, even though he still had fallback measures, it would waste a precious resurrection opportunity. That was his ultimate trump card, and he did not wish to use it.
His heart tightened abruptly. Daring not harbor the slightest hesitation, the space between his brows flared with brilliant light, and the sheepskin book in his hand unfolded mid-air!
The yellowed, archaic sheepskin pages flipped without wind, runes flowing. Ye Su's mind and focus reached the absolute pinnacle, his uttered words acting like the Law. A single word fell, and heaven and earth followed the Law.
"Speed!"
As the single word fell, the golden light of the Heavenly Book instantly covered his entire body.
In an instant, the Evil Emperor's mental field-of-force suppression surrounding Ye Su burst apart. His speed surged several-fold in a split second, aftershocks stacking upon aftershocks like fleeing light streaking through the void, and he managed to dodge outside the attack range of this move a split second before the mental light wave struck him.
Meanwhile, the void beneath his feet was directly shattered by that strike, emitting a crisp, muffled pop.
Ye Su, who had already teleported to the distant sky, let out a long breath.
What he had just unleashed was precisely his martial soul, the Ancient Parchment Book!
Countless characters could be inscribed within the book: one word, one Law; one word, one power; one word, one myriad of things.
With a thought in his mind, the power or physical manifestation of those words would appear.
A heaven-defying martial soul of true Words Become Law and thoughts turning into reality!
Offensively, it could manifest myriad divine weapons, primordial ferocious beasts, and the momentum of heaven and earth to crush formidable foes;
Auxiliary-wise, chanting "Strength" amplified his own immense physical power, chanting "Speed" violently boosted his movement technique speed, and chanting "Defense" condensed an uncrackable defense.
His martial soul-offensive, defensive, supplementary, crowd-controlling, and illusionary-was completely without shortcomings. It was a true Law-attribute martial soul!
The spectators beneath the firmament had long since watched with hearts in their throats, their breathing seeming to stop at that very moment.
Ye Qingqiu looked up at the firmament, speaking involuntarily:
"Single-word amplification! Words Become Law! Big brother's martial soul is simply too cheating; there's fundamentally no way to fight this!"
Huo Yunhao stood beside this family, his gaze carrying a trace of adoration. Ye Su was a towering mountain blocking all those in front of them, but his personal charisma made everyone revere and admire him.
"The First Prince is truly worthy of being the number one person of the younger generation!"
On the battlefield, the Evil Emperor had long since grown accustomed to the eeriness of Ye Su's methods, so he did not lose heart and continued his attack.
His vertical pupil's ferocious light flared, and eighty-one pitch-black tentacles danced wildly across the sky, carrying the terrifying, heaven-splitting might to seal off all evasion space from every direction.
At the same time, the poison miasma capable of eroding mental power that the Evil Demon Forest had accumulated for ten thousand years was all gathered by him, closing in from all directions. In a short period of time, the toxic fog across the entire forest was condensed, its toxicity increasing almost exponentially!
As long as he surrounded Ye Su, the man was bound to suffer terribly.
Ye Su had nowhere to dodge, but instead of retreating, he advanced. His gaze was stern, and the sheepskin book in his hand flashed once more!
"Lightning!"
A single word startled the thunder as the heavens and earth fell!
The pitch-black, dead silence of the sky above the Evil Demon Forest instantly churned with storm clouds. Purple-gold thunderbolts crisscrossed and tore through the firmament, and countless thick thunderbolts crashed down violently, striking the dancing tentacles and the Evil Emperor's giant pupil!
The thunder light exploded, shaking the black mist until it slightly dissipated. The heavenly lightning slammed into the pitch-black tentacles, instantly blasting a sky full of black smoke. The attack power wasn't huge, but its advantage lay in a number so vast it was countless, causing the Evil Emperor to appear somewhat disheveled.
Taking advantage of the gap where the Evil Emperor's offensive was obstructed, Ye Su spat out two more words!
"Fire!"
"Wind!"
Boom!
Sky-incinerating flames were born out of thin air-not the soul power fire of a soul master, but the primordial fire of heaven and earth, a wildfire blazing across a thousand miles to burn away the entire sheet of black mist and miasma;
Meanwhile, a hurricane formed simultaneously. Fire borrowed the wind's momentum, and wind aided the fire's might. The two combined into a heaven-and-earth fire tornado, directly blowing the gathered mental poison miasma away in all directions.
One bolt of lightning, one fire, one wind-offense and defense interchanged, suppressed with a backhand, and the scene for a time was extremely explosive.
Yet everyone could clearly see that every time he cast a spell with a single word, the exhaustion between Ye Su's brows grew heavier by a fraction, and the golden light of the Heavenly Book's pages also dimmed by a sliver.
Words Become Law was peerlessly heaven-defying, but the cost was likewise extremely great.
Casting spells with a single word still consumed massive divine soul and primordial power, while the Evil Emperor's offensive was endless and grew ever more intense.
Following the brief counterattack, an even greater crisis suddenly descended.
The Evil Emperor was completely enraged. Amidst the opening and closing of his giant pupil, he no longer released purely mental attacks, but instead erupted with mental, soul power, and spatial methods all at once!
The pitch-black space suffered large-scale caving, collapse, and confinement. The void around Ye Su was instantly locked tight, his movement technique stagnated, and his displacement obstructed.
An endless torrent of soul power wrapped in annihilating might crushed down, overlapping layer upon layer without a single pore left unpenetrated. Coupled with the omnipresent mental erosion, it completely sealed off all his routes of retreat.
Ye Su's entire body shook violently, his vital energy churning, and a sweet, fishy taste surged up into his throat. Completely trapped by this triple attack, his physical body began to crack at this moment, and even his soul power started to disorder.
He finally truly experienced just how terrifying the foundation of an eighty-thousand-year ferocious beast was.
The power of a single word is already insufficient to resist...
Ye Su's mind raced. Up until now, he had only ever used single-word spellcasting-his consumption was controllable and his offense and defense flexible-but facing the encirclement of an eighty-thousand-year ferocious-beast-level Evil Emperor, it was already no longer enough.
The next moment, his gaze condensed. No longer begrudging the expenditure of primordial and divine soul power, his lips parted slightly as he performed spellcasting by combining words for the very first time!
The Heavenly Book martial soul trembled unceasingly, the golden light of its pages surging violently, and ripples of soul power rose layer upon layer, far more dazzling and vast than single-word spellcasting.
The two-word incantation landed with a clang!
"Immunity!"
The moment the two words came forth, the laws of heaven and earth were instantly rewritten!
At that moment, his body transformed into a crystalline gold-that was the existence of absolute invincibility!
If this were a game screen, one would see the Evil Emperor's attacks landing on Ye Su right now, popping up "Immunity" characters one after another.
Compared to the single-word's single amplification or single attack, two-word, three-word, four-word combinations, or even higher-tier sentence phrasing, were a qualitative metamorphosis.
The more characters there were, the more terrifying the consumption of divine soul, primordial essence, and vital foundation became. Yet correspondingly, the power of the Laws approached closer and closer to true Heavenly Dao authority.
Moreover, the consumption of certain two-word combinations even rivaled four words or an even greater number of terms!
Because the meanings they represented were far too heaven-defying!
The instant Ye Su's two words fell, a crystalline, transparent, brilliant golden barrier closely enveloped his entire body.
Formless and substance-less, yet absolutely immune to all attacks!
The howling mental storms across the sky, the gazing erosion of hundreds of millions of evil eyes, and the silently annihilating mental-attribute lethal strike all lost efficacy the instant they touched the barrier, completely returning to zero and scattering like smoke!
The terrifying pressure that had originally torn at his sea of consciousness and disordered his mind vanished into thin air in an instant.
Ye Su's mind suddenly relaxed, the heavy shackles completely unburdened, his mind as clear as before, and his disordered soul power instantly stabilizing.
And at this moment, the hundreds of millions of spectators before the firmament instantly exploded!
"Hacking! This guy definitely has hacks!"
"Is this fucking martial soul something that can exist in this world?!"
"How is anyone else supposed to play? He moves his mouth a bit and he's invincible?!"
"If you ask me, he still doesn't know how to play. If it were me, I'd just declare myself a god straight out and then slap this evil eye to death with one palm!"
"This isn't a soul skill anymore! This is true rule power! It's a divine skill!"
"I finally understand why they say he's the number one person of the younger generation! The upper limit of this martial soul is beyond my comprehension!"
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