As Ye Yu undergoes complete voidification, the white bone mask covers his face, and his body undergoes transformation. His skin turns pale, black hair cascades down to his waist, a pair of white horns emerge from his head, and his eyes turn golden yellow. The aura surrounding him becomes evil, bloodthirsty, and violent.
At the same time, soul rings emerge around him. Shi Nian is extremely shocked, unable to believe his eyes.
Five soul rings pulse around Ye Yu, black, black, black, black, red!
Shi Nian's trembling gaze falls upon Ye Yu's fifth soul ring. He stares wide-eyed and exclaims in horror, "Ten... Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring?! How is this possible?!!"
Shi Nian is stunned, seeing a boy who looks twelve or thirteen in front of him but is actually a Five-Ring Soul King. What shocks him the most is that the first four soul rings are all Ten-Thousand-Year rings. The fourth ring vaguely has a few red patterns on its surface, indicating an eighty-thousand-year soul ring, and the fifth ring is entirely red! Illuminating the dim surroundings with a bright red light!
It's actually... a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring!
"How is this possible? How can this be..."
Shi Nian mutters to himself, how can there be such a soul ring configuration? Even if the first four soul rings are Ten-Thousand-Year rings, the fifth one is a Hundred-Thousand-Year. Even most Titled Douluos' ninth soul rings are Ten-Thousand-Year. He only knows one person with a Hundred-Thousand-Year ninth soul ring, and that's the current Pope.
In his understanding, the Pope is the strongest person and only has one Hundred-Thousand-Year soul ring, and it's the ninth soul ring, while Ye Yu's fifth soul ring is a Hundred-Thousand-Year!
Shi Nian is stunned, not to mention himself; any Titled Douluo with a calm mind would be shocked to a stupor.
At the same time, Ye Yu's left arm, right arm, and torso are covered by External Soul Bones.
After the initial shock, Shi Nian's gaze upon Ye Yu's four soul bones replaces the trembling in his eyes with excitement and greed.
"They are soul bones, and four of them! And they are the rare External Soul Bones! Unbelievable! Unbelievable!! Hahaha... I'm going to be rich!"
Shi Nian bursts out in laughter, extremely excited and thrilled.
Shi Nian cannot contain his inner excitement, proclaiming: "You truly are astonishing; even if a Titled Douluo were to see, they'd react like me. You surprise me to a stupor in every aspect. Soul Power Level, soul ring configuration, and External Soul Bones, none of them are anything but shocking. But luckily, you're just a Soul King; if you were a Soul Emperor, with such soul ring configuration and four External Soul Bones, you could really kill a Soul Saint with Soul Emperor power. But as a Soul King, I'm not afraid. Moreover, my ability is not to battle, but your power against me will be useless! My ability completely counteracts yours!"
Shi Nian's body is surrounded by seven soul rings pulsing as he releases his Martial Soul, it's a palpable but void Martial Soul, resembling a dark, transparent cloud.
Shi Nian's Martial Soul is very special and rare, called Residual Dream Martial Soul, with a Dark Evil Attribute that can create all sorts of illusions, causing ones to get lost in those illusions, engulfed in fear.
Shi Nian is a Level 72 Soul Saint, and even those of the same level are easily ensnared in his illusions.
All seven soul rings on Shi Nian's body shine brightly as he coldly says: "Originally I planned to use a bit of power to kill you slowly, but I didn't expect you to be such a demon in nature, so now I'll use full force to kill you! I'm truly lucky; your strength is impressive, but I can counteract it perfectly, trapping you in these illusions; even if you have great strength, defense, and speed, none of them matter!"
The dark aura around Shi Nian engulfs Ye Yu, like a vast ocean, inescapable, forcing one to fall within it.
Suddenly, Ye Yu's spiritual power is struck, and the surrounding scenery shifts again; eerie green gas fills the air, boundless, as if placed in hell.
Ye Yu stands on a bridge, below is a river of blood bubbling like lava, filled with thousands of Fierce Ghosts screaming, wailing bitterly, even the bare bones grasping out towards Ye Yu.
Then, various horrific Fierce Ghosts came closer, some crawling on the ground, others twitching uncontrollably all over, extremely hideous and terrifyingly approaching.
Scenes of horror continuously appear, experienced time and again.
The surroundings turn into the Holy Soul Village; Ye Yu sees Old Jack being captured by people from the Martial Soul Hall, questioning his identity, subsequently subjected to various cruel tortures. Old Jack's bitter screams echo in Ye Yu's ear.
Old Jack seems to be the only one who can see Ye Yu, calling out: "Xiao Yu, save me! Save me!"
Ye Yu, trapped in darkness, Shi Nian cannot perceive Ye Yu's current expression; all around him, the seventh soul ring flashes with black light.
Shi Nian's face is filled with cruelty and a sinister smile: "My earlier soul techniques can make one endure various extreme horror, cruel, bloody illusions continually, even if they can withstand it, my Seventh Soul Skill Nightmare will continually forge fears within their heart; no one is devoid of fear, even Titled Douluos, they certainly feared something in the past, maybe still now. So, what is he afraid of right now? Hehehe..."
Shi Nian thoroughly enjoys this feeling, laughing coldly: "This method of torturing and annihilating is my pleasure; not few geniuses have died beneath my Residual Dream's fears, and you, are the most demon-like, surpassing those geniuses hundreds to thousands of times. Can kill such a super demon like you, I feel exhilarated, if you were to rise up, you would surpass even the Pope. Hahah... Imagine I killed a demon that could have surpassed the Pope, such a sense of accomplishment, hahahaha..."
Thump thump thump...
At this moment, the sound of footsteps makes Shi Nian's expression slightly change.
"Huh? What's happening?"
Shi Nian furrows his brows, looking towards the dim Residual Dream, suddenly his eyes widen in disbelief!
Only to see Ye Yu step forward slowly; walking out from the dark Residual Dream.
"Wh-what is this?!"
Shi Nian is utterly terrified, gazing at Ye Yu's left arm entwined by black energy; this black energy causes his heart to tremble, deeply unsettling his soul and mind, both shivering!
Ye Yu lifts his face, and Shi Nian's eyes meet Ye Yu's pitch-black ones; instantly, Shi Nian instinctively retreats in terror, feeling an endless fear!
"Wh-what is this? Why am I so afraid?"
Shi Nian's entire body trembles, looking at the unscathed Ye Yu with a face filled with terror.
"Why, why is my illusion ineffective against you? Why won't you fear?"
Ye Yu's eyes reflect an extreme black aura, disdainfully: "You think your ability rightly counters mine? Actually, I counter yours. Your Dark Evil Attribute Residual Dream Martial Soul wants me to fear? Do you think the Origin of Evil would fear?"
"Origin of Evil?"
Shi Nian's eyes widen; the Origin of Evil is the very source of evil, the most extreme evil! Any evil stems from the Origin of Evil, which is the most evil existence in the world and the universe. In front of the Origin of Evil, his Dark Evil Attribute Residual Dream is like the body compared to a cell, the ocean compared to a drop, the universe compared to a planet — the gap is unimaginable!
"Ho-how can this be... How could you possess such ultimate evil? Wh-who on earth are you?"
Shi Nian trembles as he retreats in terror.
Ye Yu raises his left arm, shakes it, dispersing the ultimate evil black energy, flooding it into his entire body.
Ye Yu's robust left hand covered by two pieces of black dragon scale appears in Shi Nian's terrified vision.
Ye Yu doesn't answer, the cold killing intent spreads, coldly saying: "I told you, your life is actually in my hands!"