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A mass of golden-hued blood in Su Yu's hand was absorbed directly into his body.
A surge of violent bloodline power surged through him.
However, despite its wild nature, the force was effortlessly suppressed within Su Yu's body.
"Of all the bloodlines I possess now, which one isn't stronger than the Golden Behemoth's?"
Not speaking of potential or other factors—just in terms of raw strength—any one of the bloodlines in Su Yu's body could easily suppress the Golden Behemoth's power.
In fact, his own bloodline had evolved alongside the cultivation of his vital energy, enough to effortlessly suppress the Behemoth's bloodline.
Five soul rings—Crimson Gold, Azure Gold, Crimson Gold, Rose Gold, and Five-Colored Gold—rose slowly and floated silently around Su Yu.
Beyond these five qi and blood soul rings, a sixth dark-golden ring gradually formed, releasing an overwhelming aura.
As he refined the Golden Behemoth's bloodline, Su Yu could also sense rejection from the two Dragon King bloodlines within him.
"Since I've refined it, it should completely serve me!"
Instead of suppressing the rejection, Su Yu followed its thread back to its origin, searching for the true source of the bloodline's power.
"All things external are borrowed in the end. Only what is truly mine belongs to me."
True strength comes from within!
Su Yu's vital energy surged, rising like smoke and flame. Around him formed phantom beasts of various forms—two Dragon Kings, a Phoenix, a Qilin, a Divine Beast, and the Golden Behemoth.
Aside from the six massive phantoms, an even greater force of vital energy surrounded Su Yu, its turbulent aura putting pressure on the six illusions.
True strength lies in oneself.
Su Yu had always known this.
His own qi and blood had grown strong enough to be considered a true bloodline power—substantial enough to manifest physically and exert real suppression.
He had never ceased his body tempering and physical training.
Even after mastering the method of qi and blood soul rings, he merely used the technique to better form those rings and support his cultivation. He never abandoned his foundational training or stopped using qi and blood power to temper his body.
He continued to cultivate runes, steadily condensing them in his sea of spirit.
Likewise, he never stopped forming bone runes.
Beyond bone runes come blood runes, and deeper still lies the complete fusion of everything into one's own qi and blood.
Su Yu now stood at the edge of that breakthrough.
Among the six bloodline phantoms, the tension between the Dragon King and Golden Behemoth phantoms was especially fierce.
Su Yu followed this tension and drew out the origins of both bloodlines.
The two origins clashed, but Su Yu's own qi and blood power suppressed them completely, absorbing the impact of their collision.
At the same time, he sought out the origins of all his other bloodlines and forcefully fused them using his own power.
"All bloodlines—fuse into one!"
Su Yu's qi and blood exploded with full force, merging the origins of every bloodline completely.
"What a powerful blood energy surge!"
During Su Yu's cultivation, many soul masters stationed at the military camp could feel the overwhelming aura.
Even deep within the Far North, the eight great Abyssal Emperors could sense the ripple of energy.
"What a fierce qi and blood power—it's even stronger than what he displayed in battle before."
Pure qi and blood power.
During the Abyss's first arrival, Su Yu had not relied heavily on this power in combat. At the time, the strength it added to his abilities had already been activated, so further bursts wouldn't have significantly improved his performance.
Moreover, Su Yu had truly improved since then.
In just three months, his progress in cultivating qi and blood had surpassed everything he had achieved before combined.
During the battle, the activation of the Behemoth bloodline by the Undying Poison gave Su Yu the opportunity and insight to fuse all his bloodlines.
And now, after that battle, Su Yu was moving fully in that direction.
During his daily cultivation, Su Yu continued advancing the refinement of his bone and blood runes.
In addition, the Phoenix bloodline within the Phoenix Small World had grown stronger, enhancing his overall power. The refinement of the Golden Behemoth's bloodline also deepened the foundation of Su Yu's qi and blood power.
With each devoured bloodline phantom, Su Yu's own bloodline became increasingly formidable.
"This is bad! Su Yu's qi and blood power is getting stronger—he might be on the verge of a breakthrough!"
If he achieved another breakthrough in the realm of qi and blood, Su Yu's threat level would escalate dramatically!
After all, the techniques he had revealed in battle so far had been limited.
A wide range, certainly—diverse and numerous.
But he had mastered them all, and each could affect beings at the divine level. He could even construct a sealing formation across the dimensional passage between two planes in a very short amount of time.
Still, there was a limit.
In terms of raw combat strength, Su Yu had displayed a ceiling roughly on par with the divine-tier opponents he had faced.
And he still fell short of the Spirit Emperor and Flame Emperor.
The only reason Su Yu could contend with the Spirit Emperor was because of his lack of weaknesses—not because his full power could match the Spirit Emperor's.
Of course, that was based on the strength Su Yu had shown at the time. Even the Eight Abyssal Emperors couldn't say with certainty whether that was truly his full power.
However, under those circumstances, it was unlikely that Su Yu had held anything back.
Now, his qi and blood were on the verge of a breakthrough. Once achieved, his strength could approach that of a quasi-divine being. Combined with his soul power, his combat capabilities might rival those of the Spirit Emperor and Flame Emperor.
If his burst power caught up as well, then with his terrifyingly versatile skill set, even the Spirit and Flame Emperors could be completely suppressed by him.
"Stop him!"
The Spirit Emperor suddenly spoke up.
He had received orders from the Abyssal Holy Lord.
As Su Yu's qi and blood strength increased, the atmosphere in the depths of the Far North grew increasingly tense.
"All soul masters and mecha warriors—remain on alert! Be ready for a sudden assault by the Abyssal army at any moment!"
Suddenly, Su Yu's qi and blood power grew unstable. The surge of energy ignited raging flames across the Far North.
The terrifying fluctuations of qi and blood stunned soul masters of the Federation, their faces filled with disbelief.
It was hard to imagine that this overwhelming pressure was being released by a single human soul master.
In this era of the Federation—especially within the military—soul masters had virtually unrestricted access to cultivation information.
To help others find more suitable paths, Su Yu had publicly shared nearly all foundational techniques and approaches related to cultivation.
Within the Federation, this knowledge had even been incorporated into the curricula of beginner and intermediate soul master academies.
A true academy doesn't merely produce strong soul masters—it must also teach them how and why to cultivate, the principles behind it, the path itself, and the meaning of cultivation.
Though the early education may seem superficial, over time, that knowledge accumulates within a soul master's foundation. When the time comes for true insight, it will guide them forward.
That is the true purpose of education.
Boom!
A wave of spiritual shock rippled outward from the darkness.
"It's the Spirit Emperor!"
From an immense distance, the Spirit Emperor unleashed a spiritual shockwave toward the Federation army.
"Hmph!"
Mysterious energy fluctuations erupted from all directions.
High-grade soul tools were activated, draining the soul power from their internal sealed containers in an instant. Yet that power vibrated in a strange rhythm, resonating with the forces of heaven and earth and emitting bizarre waves of energy.
Since there existed a quasi-god like the Spirit Emperor, whose spiritual power had evolved to the Divine Origin Realm, Su Yu naturally would not underestimate him.
Around the core zone of the Far North, these Grade-9 soul tools had already been installed a month before Su Yu left.
That month, Su Yu remained behind specifically to oversee the construction of various defensive installations.
The spiritual shock disruptors were one such measure.
Whenever the Spirit Emperor unleashed a large-scale spiritual shockwave, these disruptors would automatically activate. By consuming soul power, they would resonate with the forces of heaven and earth, thereby disrupting the Spirit Emperor's mental assault.
Naturally, a single Grade-9 soul tool couldn't withstand a mental shock from a Divine Origin Realm expert.
However, these devices were not designed to counter direct, targeted attacks. They were built to defend against the Spirit Emperor's indiscriminate, area-wide spiritual shockwaves—dramatically reducing the required threshold for resistance.
Moreover, it wasn't just one Grade-9 soul tool deployed here—far from it.
What is truly terrifying has never been the strength of an individual, but the power of the collective.
When Grade-9 soul tools resonate with heaven and earth, their effects aren't just additive—they multiply.
Far beyond the sum of their parts.
At advanced levels of cultivation, in order to avoid being crushed by such overwhelming force, one must begin learning to control the forces of nature—to gain authority over the world itself.
But soul masters from Rank 1 to Rank 99 clearly cannot achieve much progress in this domain.
Titled Douluos may manage some level of adaptation. Beyond that, Super Douluos and Limit Douluos gradually begin to interact with spatial energy.
Those who reach that level are often already cultivating domain-based powers, which are essentially a path toward mastering the greater forces—what we call the "momentum of the world."
Su Yu, relying on his exceptional perception, had also gained a degree of control over the power of heaven and earth.
But for most soul masters, this was simply impossible.
The divine level—that is the true threshold.
Once that level is reached, one begins to control the forces of heaven and earth, not merely grow stronger in divine power.
This is exactly why the Spirit Emperor and Flame Emperor are considered quasi-gods.
Because in the end—they are not true gods.
There is a fundamental difference between having god-like power and being a true god.
Following the Spirit Emperor, the aura of the Flame Emperor also stretched out from afar.
Kong Deming and Hongchen's expressions grew tense.
"As expected, the Abyss won't sit idly by and watch Su Yu break through."
Su Yu's breakthrough would mean a major leap forward in the Federation's overall strength.
He was already able to produce such extraordinary results—what more once he advanced?
And this wasn't even Su Yu at his peak!
As he grew stronger, as he broke through, the pressure on the Abyss would only continue to rise.
If the Abyss weren't already trying to use its former connection with the Deep Sea Demon Whale King to deduce the coordinates of other locations on the Douluo Continent, its offensive would not have been progressing so slowly.
Without establishing a second Abyssal passage elsewhere, the longer time dragged on, the greater the pressure would become on the Abyss's forces stationed in the Far North.
"Gu Yuena isn't here, but thankfully Di Tian stayed behind, along with the Snow Empress. Add the two of us and Du Bushi—we five will hold them off!"
No one knew exactly how many Abyssal Emperors would be dispatched this time.
But regardless, they had to hold the line.
Since Su Yu was undergoing a breakthrough, it was impossible that he hadn't made thorough preparations.
Given his mastery over his own power, he would have calculated the potential disturbances caused by his breakthrough in advance. There was no way he hadn't anticipated this.
As for whether his preparations would be effective?
Neither Jing Hongchen nor Kong Deming had any doubts.
After all, Su Yu had chosen to come to the Far North specifically to undergo this breakthrough.
Looking back now, they no longer believed Su Yu came here just to check the progress on spacecraft technology, gained sudden inspiration, and then coincidentally broke through.
He had planned it all along.
He intended to break through in the Far North.
He wanted to force the Abyss to respond!
A black mass of Abyssal troops surged forward like a tide.
Abyssal energy began to expand outward from the outer perimeter. With the movement of their army, it seemed the Abyss also wanted to seize this opportunity to extend its influence further into the world.
"So this is the power of the Abyss?" A soul master among the Federation forces muttered in astonishment.
How did the Federation ever manage to block an assault of this scale during the first wave three months ago?
These soul masters had not participated in the initial battle. Most of them didn't even have battle armor. Though they had fought Abyssal creatures many times since arriving, they had never faced an army of this scale.
No matter how mentally prepared they were, seeing the Abyss's forces in full formation and truly feeling the pressure left their hearts shaken.
But they did not retreat.
This was the result of powerful ideological work.
"The Abyss is food!"
This was the core belief Su Yu had promoted within the Federation from the very beginning.
Especially after the creation of the Origin Art, this concept had become even more firmly established.
Most soul masters deeply resonated with Su Yu's philosophy.
The Abyss's invasion was a threat—but also an opportunity.
For the Douluo Continent, and especially for the world of soul masters, a golden age of rapid development was about to begin.
In just three months, how many soul masters had already advanced in cultivation?
Not just a handful—nearly all of them had made breakthroughs. One level every three months had become the baseline!
And the majority among them were Soul Kings.
The soul masters were divided into squads, each led by one or two battle armor masters who had participated in the first war.
War erupted.
Eight terrifying auras shot into the sky, carrying an overwhelming pressure.
Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming activated their battle armor and soared upward to meet them.
Elsewhere in the military encampment, Du Bushi's blood and qi surged to the heavens, no weaker than Su Yu's own. He also charged toward the direction of the Eight Abyssal Emperors. Though clad in battle armor, his was only a proto–super battle armor set.
His core components—such as the heart-guard mirror and waist belt—had already been upgraded to the level of super battle armor, but the rest had not broken through yet due to time constraints.
Even so, his strength had clearly improved greatly compared to three months ago.
Di Tian and the Snow Empress also revealed themselves, standing firm before the Eight Emperors.
"Hmph! You should've stayed hidden. Now you dare to show yourselves again!" Kong Deming's chest radiated with the brilliance of sun and moon.
The sun and moon revolved—
"Radiance of Sun and Moon!"
A self-fused martial soul ability.
Combined with the Sun and Moon Divine Light Barrier, his power surged to its peak.
"They're missing some of their strongest here! Break through their defenses as quickly as possible! We must stop Su Yu's breakthrough!" the Spirit Emperor shouted.
He was the first to charge forward.
The Blazing Emperor followed close behind, both heading straight for Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming.
Meanwhile, Su Yu had already devoured six bloodline phantoms. His blood and qi pulsed and surged—unimaginably powerful.
His blood energy seemed unstable, expanding one moment, contracting the next.
But this wasn't due to an inability to fully absorb and fuse the bloodlines. Rather, it was because he was actively stimulating his bloodline to sense its origin.
"Condense the Seventh Blood Qi Soul Ring!"
Faintly, a golden ring began to form around the six existing blood qi soul rings surrounding Su Yu.
The surrounding heaven and earth energy poured into his body like a flood. His blood and qi surged again, and the illusory golden ring grew clearer and more solid with each passing moment.
(End of Chapter)