Thunderclouds churned as heavenly tribulation descended.
After Lin Yi and the Evil Emperor's fierce battle, heavenly tribulation began gathering above the Evil Demon Forest.
This heavenly tribulation had come for the Evil Emperor.
"This Lin Yi has figured out how to work the mechanism for switching between Soul Master and Soul Beast."
A flicker of confusion crossed Gu Yue's eyes.
The question of species that had only recently arisen surfaced in her mind again.
Were human Soul Masters and Soul Beasts really two separate species?
Why could human Soul Masters and Soul Beasts transform between the two so harmoniously in Lin Yi's hands?
The instant he obtained his Seventh Soul Ring, he completed the spirit ascension ritual and experienced cultivating as a Soul Beast with the Chess Martial Soul as his true form.
And now, at the very moment of death, he had even used his Martial Soul Avatar to perform a sacrifice.
Yes, Gu Yue was certain that Lin Yi had activated the ability to sacrifice himself at the instant of his final death just now.
The target of the sacrifice was the Evil Emperor.
In theory, a Soul Beast could not sacrifice itself to another Soul Beast.
And the Evil Emperor had indeed gained none of the cultivation Lin Yi had sacrificed.
But in the region where the whole expanse of heaven and earth had been stripped away by the Evil Emperor's power and then destroyed, the Evil Emperor was already detested by heaven and earth.
That detestation made heaven and earth's assessment of the Evil Emperor's cultivation much less precise.
Put another way: You'd better hope I don't find even the slightest fault with you, kid. If I catch you out, you're finished.
And Lin Yi just had to sacrifice himself, "topping up" the Evil Emperor's cultivation for a brief instant.
Lin Yi's power was taken for the Evil Emperor's cultivation.
The Evil Emperor, whose cultivation was already close to 800,000 years, immediately crossed that threshold.
As for the fact that the cultivation used to top him up no longer existed at all after Lin Yi's death, that was no longer heaven and earth's concern.
The heavenly tribulation has already formed. You expect me to take it back?
Boom!
Thick serpents of lightning roamed between heaven and earth, piercing from sky to ground.
The apocalyptic sight shook the heart.
Lin Yi gazed at his handiwork, a faint smile on his face.
Worried that his sacrifice might not be enough to top the cultivation up to 800,000 years, he had died three times in succession.
In the end, he had succeeded.
As for the Evil Emperor's trump card, Lin Yi had never planned to deal with it in the first place.
Heavenly tribulation raged, lightning serpents danced, and severed tentacles turned to ash in the lightning.
The Evil Emperor's furious roar echoed through heaven and earth.
Yet the heavenly tribulation had been triggered ahead of time, and the Evil Emperor had made no preparations. Forced to face it in haste, he simply could not withstand it.
The entire Evil Demon Forest was ravaged by the heavenly tribulation.
By the time the heavenly tribulation dispersed, no trace of the Evil Emperor's presence remained.
A terrifying fluctuation of Soul Power emerged between heaven and earth, and blood-red light spread across the whole world.
Countless specks of blood-red light gathered in midair, forming a ring of light.
It was the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring.
Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yi released his Soul Power and established a connection with the Soul Ring.
"Despicable!"
Douluo I.
Sun Moon Continent, Evil Demon Forest.
In this past era, the Evil Emperor was naturally also watching the images on the Heavenly Screen.
Seeing himself toyed with so thoroughly by a human Soul Master, only to perish beneath heavenly tribulation in the end, the Evil Emperor erupted in intense fury.
He could not accept it.
In the images, he had not even gotten to use the Light of Time and Space.
He had used the Light of Destruction, but only because he had been provoked.
Its terrifying power had not been displayed at all.
His death was far too humiliating.
Yet however much the Evil Emperor refused to accept it, his Soul Ring was already being absorbed.
But just then, something unexpected suddenly happened.
A pillar of blue-gold light pierced through heaven and earth, as if it would annihilate Lin Yi.
In the middle of fusing with the Soul Ring, Lin Yi had nowhere to dodge.
And right then, Lin Yi's eyes flew open.
Soul Rings appeared around him, one after another.
Every Soul Ring was giving off blood-red light.
At that moment, the whole world was stained blood-red.
Even the Soul Rings that had dimmed earlier and the Seventh Soul Ring that was nearly broken into three pieces now bloomed with an eerie blood-red light, as though undergoing the ultimate transformation.
Bang!
The Soul Ring that released the resurrection Soul Skill shattered.
At the same time, Lin Yi's figure was annihilated within the pillar of blue-gold light.
The image vanished.
The Soul Hunt for the Eighth Soul Ring had finished playing.
Whether in Douluo I or Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, every Soul Master watching the images projected on the Heavenly Screen fell silent.
A level-eighty Quasi-Soul Douluo had challenged the Evil Emperor single-handedly.
Despite that hopeless disparity in strength, he had found a clever way to defeat a stronger foe!
Yet at the crucial moment when he was absorbing the Soul Ring, the pillar of blue-gold light had suddenly attacked and annihilated him.
The Soul Masters watching felt as though a great stone were lodged in their chests.
They all felt aggrieved.
And a little unwilling to accept it.
He had clearly already come this far.
That deity was utterly shameless.
For the strong to bully the weak once was bad enough, but there had actually been a second time.
Most importantly, the Sea God had ambushed him at the crucial moment when he was absorbing the Soul Ring.
He had shown no dignity as a god whatsoever.
Without even realizing it, many people's opinion of the Sea God plummeted.
The Soul Hunt for the Eighth Soul Ring had ended, but the Heavenly Screen's projection had not.
All of this was only just beginning.
Lin Yi's resurrection had finally been activated after all.
It even seemed that he had anticipated it and made preparations in advance, using the immense power in the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring to fuel his resurrection.
He resurrected directly in peak condition.
It was just that the Heavenly Screen had not shown any of this.
Compared with his victory over the stronger Evil Emperor and his subsequent Soul Hunt for the Ninth Soul Ring, all of it seemed hardly worth mentioning.
The story had now reached its final climax, and all the intervening breathing room had been cut.
No one knew how Lin Yi had survived after being struck by that pillar of blue-gold light, or how he had recovered.
They only knew that several years later, Lin Yi went on another Soul Hunt.
He had cultivated from level eighty to level ninety.
Two Soul Cores revolved inside him, and powerful Soul Power crashed against the whole of heaven and earth like waves.
"Dual Soul Cores?"
Qian Daoliu's gaze burned.
"So that's it. One Soul Core isn't the limit. A Soul Master has a chance to condense a Soul Core in each of the three dantians, and they can coexist."
"What a pity that the Heavenly Screen didn't show Lin Yi condensing his Second Soul Core."
It had clearly shown the condensation of the First Soul Core.
Qian Daoliu had no time to dwell on it, because Lin Yi was beginning his Soul Hunt.
This time, the backdrop of Lin Yi's Soul Hunt was a scenic lake.
The place was brimming with life, like a paradise untouched by the world.
Here lay a lake that gave off a rich breath of life.
Lin Yi appeared above the lake.
Without pausing, he dove straight down.
His target was none other than the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
"If you don't want to die, cooperate with me!"
His voice reverberated through heaven and earth.
In the crudest, simplest manner, Lin Yi told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to cooperate with him in breaking through the seal Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts had placed on him.
His sudden arrival came without any warning.
A pillar of white-gold light shot up from beneath the Lake of Life and enveloped Lin Yi.
Man and silkworm worked together flawlessly.
Within the pillar of white-gold light, the illusory figure of a fat Ice Silkworm appeared.