Under the pressure of impending death, the Third Offering seemed to see his life flash before his eyes.
Scenes sealed in the deepest recesses of his memory unfolded before him, page by page, like old book pages stirred by the wind.
He saw his younger self, that spirited youth who had believed himself invincible, that genius who had rampaged across the continent with his bizarre martial soul and held no one in his regard.
Those scenes were so vivid that he almost forgot he stood on the edge of death.
When he underwent his martial soul awakening, the Third Offering's martial soul had been an unprecedented mutated martial soul.
Almost everyone who saw his martial soul said they did not recognize it.
That ability to conjure thin paper figures out of nothing resembled neither the possession and enhancement of beast martial souls nor the physical summoning of tool martial souls. It fell completely outside the traditional classifications of martial souls on the Douluo Continent.
Later, the Third Offering named it Curse Fiend Paper Figures.
It was a martial soul exceptionally skilled in curses and darkness.
Those paper figures possessed different abilities.
Some could strip enemies of soul power and vitality, some could corrode souls and create hallucinations, and some could attach themselves to enemies and inflict lingering curses. Its methods were sinister and difficult to guard against, making it an extremely rare mutated control-type martial soul.
At the same time, however, this martial soul also granted the Third Offering tremendous combat strength.
As a Soul King, he could already defeat Soul Emperors above his level through his paper figures' curses.
Once he reached the Soul Saint stage, he had almost no opponents among his peers. Even Soul Douluo experts had to give him a wide berth when they saw him.