Within the images on the sky screen.
As the intricate, ancient hand seals in Lin Dong's hands were fully completed, the sky over Lin City instantly darkened.
The clouds churned violently, and a vast, ancient aura of desolation swept straight out of Lin Dong's body, blanketing the entire gigantic Arena.
The air erupted in a series of explosive cracks under the immense pressure.
At the highest point of the stands, several supreme elders of the Lin Clan all rose to their feet.
"This is a complete Creation Martial Art!"
"Its aura is even higher in grade than the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal!"
The supreme elders' cries of astonishment rang throughout the venue.
The sense of superiority on every Inner Clan disciple's face instantly vanished, replaced by utter shock.
Creation Martial Arts were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns throughout the entire Great Yan Dynasty.
A branch family disciple not only possessed a high-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure, but had even mastered a complete Creation Martial Art that surpassed the Main Family's in grade.
On the Arena Stage.
Lin Dong paid no attention whatsoever to the cries around him.
He stamped his right foot down, shattering the ground, and extended his right index finger, pointing straight at the dark-red light wheel hurtling through the air to shred him.
"Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger!"
"One Finger Imprisons Heaven and Earth!"
Lin Dong let out a low shout.
A vast rift split directly through the clouds overhead.
A thousand-foot Heaven-Supporting Giant Finger, dark yellow throughout and covered in ancient runes, descended from the rift with the crushing might to destroy everything.
The giant finger and the dark-red light wheel collided thunderously in midair.
The deafening explosion of energy resounded through the clouds.
Violent energy shock waves spread in every direction, stripping away layer after layer of the black obsidian Arena Stage's surface. Fragments of stone shot everywhere, striking the Arena's defensive formation and stirring up violent ripples of energy.
The dark-red light wheel spun and slashed furiously, trying to tear through the giant finger's energy layer.
The two engaged in a terrifying contest of energy depletion in midair.
Lin Dong's gaze was icy. The Origin Pill within his body operated at full speed, and Yuan Power gushed out without reservation.
He brought his right index and middle fingers together and thrust them out through the air once more.
"Two Fingers Shatter Mountains and Rivers!"
The clouds split apart again.
A second ancient giant finger, even larger than the first and covered in denser runes, descended with a thunderous roar.
The two giant fingers pressed down side by side in midair.
The pressure instantly doubled.
Under the combined suppression of the two ancient giant fingers, the dark-red light wheel Lin Langtian had condensed with all his strength began slowing drastically.
The energy structure on the light wheel's surface began to collapse.
"Break!" Lin Dong shouted fiercely.
Bang!
The dark-red light wheel exploded completely, dissolving into specks of light that filled the sky.
Their remaining might undiminished, the two ancient giant fingers locked directly onto Lin Langtian on the elevated platform and pressed down hard.
Lin Langtian's eyes flew wide, and he hastily raised the Spirit Wheel Mirror in front of himself.
The giant fingers slammed into the Spirit Wheel Mirror's defensive barrier.
The defensive barrier shattered instantly.
The powerful backlash struck Lin Langtian's body directly.
Lin Langtian flew backward, smashing through three enormous stone pillars in the stands before crashing heavily into the stone wall behind them.
A great mouthful of blood sprayed from his mouth, staining his luxurious brocade robe red.
On the Douluo Continent.
On Shrek Academy's training grounds.
Tang San stood where he was, his gaze fixed on those two giant fingers that suppressed everything within the light screen.
His mind raced, calculating the energy density and area covered by that last strike.
The conclusion left him feeling suffocated.
The giant fingers' attack range covered half the Arena.
The movement speed of Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track could not possibly take him beyond that area before the attack landed.
The internal energy of Mysterious Heaven Skill could not penetrate a Yuan Power shell of that level at all.
As for the Tang Sect's finest mechanism-based hidden weapons, that terrifying wind pressure would grind them into iron powder in midair.
There was no room whatsoever to maneuver.
The Tang Sect Secret Arts had no possibility of working against the martial arts system of this higher-dimensional world.
"Completely ineffective..." Tang San murmured, the superiority he had always felt utterly shattered.
Dai Mubai sat on the ground, watching the collapsing stands within the light screen.
He abandoned all discussion of fighting spirit. That sheer destructive power had already exceeded the limits of his understanding.
At Spirit Hall, in the Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong gripped the armrests of her throne tightly with both hands.
Through the oppressive force conveyed by the light screen, she assessed the destructive power of Lin Dong's strike.
That direct display of matter being destroyed had already surpassed an all-out strike from a Level 99 Limit Douluo on the Douluo Continent.
And this was merely a battle between two young juniors of the Great Yan Dynasty.
The upper limit of this world's martial power was despairingly high.
In a corner of Lin City's Arena.
Hu Liena hid behind a stone pillar, clutching the hem of her clothes with both hands.
The residual energy blew her hair into disarray, but her eyes remained fixed unblinkingly on Lin Dong at the center of the Arena Stage.
Admiration for the strong occupied all her thoughts.
The Main Family's greatest genius had been defeated in public, and this branch family youth from Qingyang Town had demonstrated absolute dominance.
Hu Liena made her decision inwardly. Whatever the price, she had to attach herself to this man.
Dignity and boundaries had no value before an absolute powerhouse.
In Lin City's rear courtyard.
The energy shock wave erupting from the Arena directly toppled the wooden fences of the Beast Pen in the rear courtyard.
The blast swept the demonic beast excrement covering the ground into the air.
Yu Xiaogang was flipped over by the blast and fell into the deepest cesspit.
He covered his head with both hands, his entire body soaking in filth as he trembled uncontrollably.
He recalled how, not long ago, he had tried to take Lin Dong as his disciple on the street and teach him tactical theory.
Extreme terror completely replaced the arrogance in his heart.
Even the slightest brush with a martial art of that level could smash his body and bones to pieces.
Inside the Arena.
Lin Langtian struggled to his feet amid the rubble.
His hair hung loose in disarray, his chest heaved violently, and blood dripped continuously from the corners of his mouth.
The pride and absolute superiority he had maintained for ten years had been trampled to pieces by Lin Dong before hundreds of thousands of spectators.
An overwhelming sense of humiliation destroyed his reason.
"Lin Dong, I want you dead..."
Lin Langtian's face was horribly contorted.
Just then, a fluctuation of spiritual power that did not belong to him at all began seeping out of his body.
Within Lin Langtian's Niwan Palace, an ancient voice rang out.
"Boy, your own strength can no longer handle him."
"Hand control of your body over to me. I'll kill him."
Lin Langtian did not refuse.
He slowly closed his eyes.
When he opened them again, his previously normal eyes had turned completely black, without a trace of white.
A cold, sinister aura surpassing the advanced Qi Creation Realm, and even drawing infinitely close to the Creation Realm, erupted directly from his body.
Under the corrosive effect of that cold, sinister aura, the rubble on the surrounding ground turned directly to powder.
On the Arena Stage.
A purple-black shadow flashed on Lin Dong's shoulder.
Little Marten's voice rang directly inside Lin Dong's mind.
"Lin Dong, be careful."
"This brat has a powerful Divine Soul Body hidden inside him. He's handed over control of his body."
"He's about to cheat."
Lin Dong's gaze instantly turned icy.
He reached back and drew the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd from the ground, his arm muscles tensing.
His gaze locked onto the black-clad figure in the stands whose aura had changed completely.
Lin Langtian slowly straightened, his pitch-black eyes devoid of any other color.
Immediately afterward, an energy fluctuation utterly different from before suddenly emanated from his body!
The instant the black obsidian fragments within five meters touched that energy, they actually turned directly into gray-white powder and scattered on the wind!
He raised his right hand, aiming his palm at Lin Dong below.
Boom!
A gray-black pillar of energy over two meters in diameter blasted straight out of his palm.
The pillar traveled extremely fast!
Facing this sudden, bizarre attack, Lin Dong gripped the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd tightly with both hands and held its shaft horizontally before his chest.
He circulated all the Great Sun Thunder Body's energy within him, and dark-gold light instantly covered his entire body!
Bang!
The gray-black pillar struck the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd head-on with savage force, its immense impact bearing directly upon Lin Dong's arms.
Lin Dong's feet remained planted on the ground, yet the force pushed his body straight backward.
His feet actually plowed two furrows half a meter deep through the hard black obsidian surface of the Arena Stage!
They stretched more than ten meters before finally coming to a stop.
After steadying himself, Lin Dong looked at the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd's shaft, and his gaze immediately sharpened.
The gray-black energy had not dispersed. Instead, it clung to the shaft and was rapidly eating away at the energy patterns inside the ancient halberd!
He even felt a stinging pain in the skin of his arms.
This energy actually possessed powerful spiritually destructive force!
Within his Niwan Palace, Little Marten's grave voice immediately rang out.
"Boy, this is pure divine soul power!"
"The old thing occupying his body has extremely high spiritual power cultivation."
"You can't resist it head-on with ordinary Yuan Power. Use devouring power to break it down!"
Hearing Little Marten's warning, Lin Dong did not hesitate at all.
He immediately activated the Natal Symbol Seal within his Niwan Palace.
Hum!
Black devouring power swiftly spread along his meridians to his hands and poured directly into the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd.
A layer of black light instantly appeared over the ancient halberd's surface.
Small black vortices formed at the center of the light membrane.
The moment the gray-black energy clinging to the shaft touched those black vortices, it was stripped away and broken down as though it had met its nemesis!
In the end, it was absorbed completely into the vortices.
The Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd regained its original dark-red luster.
On the Douluo Continent.
On Shrek Academy's training grounds.
Tang San stared intently at the light screen.
He had seen the change in the color of Lin Langtian's eyes and heard the sounds of colliding energy during the battle just now.
"His fighting style has changed completely," Tang San said, a trace of rigor in his tone.
"Previously, Lin Langtian used forceful Yuan Power, relying primarily on head-on suppression."
"Now, the energy he releases has a corrosive quality, and its composition contains immense spiritual power."
Dai Mubai turned his head and asked, "Little San, do you mean he's switched to a different cultivation method?"
Tang San shook his head. "It isn't just a change in cultivation method."
"His gaze, his bearing, and the fundamental properties of his energy have all changed."
"On the Douluo Continent, there's only one situation that produces this phenomenon."
"That is soul possession."
"Soul Possession?!" Zhao Wuji's eyes widened.
"Yes." Tang San nodded.
"A powerful spiritual entity has taken over that Lin Langtian's body."
"The opponent Lin Dong is facing now is no longer the original one, but an old monster who has lived for who knows how many years!"
Tang San drew a deep breath and continued.
"And that gray-black energy he condensed isn't Soul Power, nor is it what they call Yuan Power."
"It's Spiritual Power of extremely high purity."
"On the Douluo Continent, only a tiny number of Head Soul Bones can unleash spiritual attacks."
"But that person's attack range and energy density have already completely surpassed the limits of a Head Soul Bone!"
Upon hearing Tang San's analysis.
The faces of everyone from Shrek turned exceedingly grim.
Fighting across cultivation realms had already gone beyond their understanding.
Now there was an old monster's Soul Possession thrown into the mix!
These endlessly emerging trump cards and unexpected developments left the Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent feeling deeply powerless.
Lin City, the massive Arena.
After Lin Dong neutralized the energy corroding the ancient halberd.
He bent his legs, then pushed off explosively!
Boom!
A tremendous crash erupted where he had stood, and the reactive force propelled Lin Dong straight toward "Lin Langtian" in midair.
His high-speed movement forcibly parted the air, forming a ring of white airwaves.
Lin Dong raised the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd and swung from above.
With the momentum to destroy everything, he brought it crashing down toward "Lin Langtian's" head!
Intense light erupted from the ancient halberd as he drove the power of the Great Sun Thunder Body to its utmost limit.
In midair, "Lin Langtian's" pitch-black eyes showed no flicker of emotion.
He swiftly crossed his hands before him, gathering vast amounts of gray-black energy in front of his body.
In the blink of an eye, it formed a solid energy shield over a meter thick!
Clang!
The halberd blade smashed viciously against the shield's surface.
The tremendous recoil instantly made the muscles in Lin Dong's arms bulge.
The instant the halberd blade stalled, a cold glint flashed through Lin Dong's eyes, and he activated the Devouring Power directly!
A black vortex instantly formed at the point where the halberd blade met the shield.
The Devouring Power spun at high speed, directly severing the energy connections within the shield!
Crack!
In just two seconds, a huge opening was broken down in the meter-thick energy shield.
Lin Dong exerted force with both hands.
The ancient halberd pierced through the opening, thrusting straight toward "Lin Langtian's" chest!
"Lin Langtian" swiftly twisted aside.
The ancient halberd's keen edge grazed his shoulder, slicing through his luxurious brocade robe and leaving a bloody line on his skin.
He shot backward, putting distance between them.
"You actually command runic power of this level?"
An aged voice that did not belong to Lin Langtian at all suddenly issued from his mouth.
Wrapped in Yuan Power, the voice rolled through the entire Arena like muffled thunder.
The hundreds of thousands of spectators all fell into a daze the instant they heard that voice.
At the very top of the stands.
The expressions of the Lin Clan's several supreme elders changed drastically.
They exchanged glances, their eyes filled with incredulous shock.
"That's not Langtian's voice!" one supreme elder cried out involuntarily.
In the seating area for the Lin Family's Inner Clan.
All the core members rose to their feet, their gazes fixed firmly on the black figure in midair.
In the Qingyang Town Branch Family's section.
Lin Zhentian released the stone railing with both hands.
He looked at that unfamiliar presence above the Arena Stage, his tone turning exceedingly grave.
"There's... someone else hiding inside Lin Langtian?"
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