Chapter 37: Solo Killing a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast! Du Busi is Stunned!
The freezing wind of the Far North howled. Hearing Liu Yuan's calm, pragmatic response, Du Busi paused. A beat of silence passed before a wide, deeply satisfied grin split across his weathered, rugged face.
"Good lad, you have guts! This is exactly what my disciple should be like! This is the absolute dominance our Body Sect must possess!" Du Busi threw his head back and laughed, his booming voice echoing across the glaciers. He brought a heavy, calloused hand down on the back of Liu Yuan's head in a forceful, affectionate slap.
"Charge forward boldly! Do not hesitate!" the old man commanded, his eyes gleaming with fierce pride. "Never mind a single Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Gorilla. Even if the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North were here in person, as long as I stand behind you, absolutely nothing will threaten your life!"
Whoosh!
Before Du Busi's booming laughter could even fade into the freezing wind, Liu Yuan moved. His figure blurred, transforming into a streak of icy blue light that tore down the steep, snow-covered slope.
Three miles of treacherous, icy terrain stretched between him and his prey. Yet, for Liu Yuan, propelled by the Qilin Step, this vast distance was swallowed up in mere breaths. His boots barely grazed the powder before he vanished and reappeared further down the mountain.
At the base of the slope stood the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Gorilla. It towered at a massive five meters, its thick white fur bristling like needles of cold steel. It was currently hunched over, tearing chunks of frozen meat from a freshly killed snow deer. Before the beast could even register the approaching threat, a sharp, violent screech tore through the air, sounding like heavy canvas being ripped apart.
Hiss!
Two concentrated beams of blood-red light, each as thick as a heavy iron bowl, erupted without warning. They fired directly from the overlapping irises of Liu Yuan's Double Pupils, cutting through the blizzard with blinding intensity.
The sudden, searing heat vaporized the falling snow in its path. The twin lasers slammed into the Ice Gorilla's broad back, instantly melting through its naturally reinforced defensive fur and scorching the thick hide beneath.
Roar!
The sickening stench of burnt hair and roasting flesh filled the frigid air. The massive beast threw its head back, unleashing a shrill, agonizing howl that shook the surrounding ice formations.
It spun around. A pair of scarlet, bloodshot eyes locked onto the tiny human figure suspended in the air. Pure, unadulterated rage completely consumed its primal instincts. The gorilla hammered its massive fists against its chest. The resulting thunderous booms echoed like war drums, sending shockwaves through the valley that triggered a localized avalanche of collapsing snow.
Dropping heavily onto all fours, the beast became a speeding mountain of muscle and ice. It charged crazily toward Liu Yuan, crushing boulders and uprooting frozen trees in its wake, carrying a suffocating aura of destructive pressure.
"Bring it on."
Liu Yuan's expression remained entirely flat, his eyes cold and calculating. Beneath his feet, three rings of light expanded outward. The third Soul Ring, pitch-black as deep ink, flared to life, radiating the oppressive aura of a ten-thousand-year ring.
'Qilin Precious Technique.'
In an instant, an ice-blue sacred light washed over Liu Yuan's body, encasing him in a radiant, crystalline glow. This was the physical manifestation of extreme, concentrated power coursing through his flesh and bones.
He was facing a behemoth whose casual swipe could shatter the bones of an ordinary Soul King. Yet, Liu Yuan did not activate his Qilin Step to evade. He did not retreat a single inch. Instead, he leaned forward, kicked off the air, and met the charging mountain head-on.
Hovering in the distant sky, Du Busi's eyelids twitched violently. His jaw dropped slightly as he muttered to the wind, "This kid... is he crazy?"
Boom!
A deafening, sickening crunch of physical impact exploded across the desolate ice field.
Liu Yuan's comparatively tiny fist collided directly with the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Gorilla's millstone-sized palm. The sheer kinetic force generated a shockwave that blasted the surrounding snow into a fine mist.
At the epicenter of the clash, the thick permafrost beneath Liu Yuan's boots shattered, spider-webbing outward and crumbling layer by layer into a deep crater. Yet, against all logic, the charging momentum of the massive Ice Gorilla was forcibly halted. Its colossal frame shuddered, pausing for a fraction of a second against the boy's brute strength.
Liu Yuan did not give the beast time to recover. His Double Pupils flared again. Blood-red lasers fired in rapid succession, strafing the Ice Gorilla's face at point-blank range. As the beast flinched from the searing heat burning its eyes and snout, Liu Yuan clenched his left hand into a tight fist, twisted his core, and delivered a brutal uppercut.
Crack!
A heavy, teeth-gritting sound of fracturing bone echoed out. The sheer upward force of Liu Yuan's punch slammed into the beast's collarbone, forcing its broad, muscular shoulder to cave downward by several inches.
But a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was still an apex predator, especially here on its freezing home turf. The pain did not induce fear; it completely ignited its primal ferocity.
Furious that this tiny insect had actually wounded it, the Ice Gorilla let out a deafening, violent roar. It ignored its shattered collarbone, raising both of its massive, tree-trunk-like arms. Like two descending iron gates, it brought its fists crashing down toward Liu Yuan in a suicidal posture of mutual destruction.
The attack covered too wide an area. Liu Yuan could not dodge in time.
Or rather, he had never intended to dodge at all.
Bang!
A geyser of crimson sprayed across the pristine white snow.
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Gorilla's terrifying, crushing power landed squarely. The sheer kinetic force instantly obliterated the entire left half of Liu Yuan's torso. His shoulder, arm, and ribcage were blasted into a gruesome mist of blood and pulverized bone. Through the gaping, jagged ruin of his chest, the rhythmic pulsing of his surviving internal organs was clearly visible against the freezing air.
"Liu Yuan!" High above, Du Busi's face drained of color. His expression twisted in horror as a dense, toxic green light erupted around his body. He prepared to tear through space and intervene.
But a split second later, the old man's forward momentum halted abruptly. He froze mid-step, his eyes widening in absolute disbelief.
Down below, hovering over Liu Yuan's mangled, half-destroyed torso, his second Soul Ring flared to life. It erupted with an unmatched, blinding emerald brilliance.
Driven by the frantic circulation of his Level 35 Soul Power, the Undying Body activated. What happened next defied all natural laws. The splattered droplets of blood suspended in the air reversed their trajectory. Shredded muscle fibers, shattered bone fragments, and torn meridians flowed backward in an eerie, grotesque dance of regeneration. Within the span of three short breaths, his skin knit itself together, leaving his left side completely flawless and whole once more.
"Come again."
Liu Yuan's face was deathly pale from the massive energy expenditure, but the corners of his mouth curled into a ferocious, bloodthirsty smile. Within his eyes, the two overlapping irises of his Double Pupils rotated to their absolute limit. This was the perfect, seamless fusion of his visual 'Insight'and his destructive'Laser Eye'.
The brutal spectacle that unfolded next left Du Busi—a Level 98 Super Douluo who prided himself on having seen everything the world had to offer—completely and utterly stunned.
In the old master's mind, a rational fighter in Liu Yuan's position would have used his long-range lasers to kite the beast. He should have combined that with the erratic teleportation of the Qilin Step to slowly bleed the monster dry in a war of attrition. That was the most logical, energy-efficient strategy for a Soul Elder fighting above his weight class.
Reality proved otherwise. Relying entirely on the absolute cheat that he simply 'could not die', Liu Yuan abandoned all defense. He threw himself into the most primitive, barbaric, life-for-life melee imaginable.
If the gorilla's massive claws tore off his arm, Liu Yuan would point-blank fire lasers directly into its eyes. If a sweeping backhand shattered his ribcage, Liu Yuan would bury his fist deep into the beast's exposed sternum, detonating his power from the inside out.
"This kid..." Du Busi rubbed his stubbled chin, his voice laced with a mixture of shock and awe. "He's even more of a lunatic than I was at his age."
To his utter astonishment, this suicidal fighting style was actually working. The sheer relentless aggression was actively suppressing the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
The Ice Gorilla undoubtedly possessed a vastly superior physical body and a much deeper reservoir of Soul Power. Yet, ultimately, it was still a creature of flesh and blood. A severed tendon was a severed tendon. A scorched eye was a scorched eye. Pain accumulated, and exhaustion set in.
Liu Yuan, however, fought like a mechanical nightmare. As long as his mental endurance held out and his Soul Power fueled the Undying Body, every regenerated limb returned in a state of absolute peak condition. He did not slow down. He did not hesitate.
As one side waned, the other waxed. The originally majestic and terrifying Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Gorilla was now a staggering mess. Its pristine white fur was matted with gore, its massive body riddled with charred, smoking blood holes. Its once lightning-fast strikes had degraded into sluggish, desperate swatting.
"Could it be... he can actually solo kill a target this far above his level?" Du Busi muttered to himself, a stormy sea of turbulent emotions rising in his chest.
This was not some weak, domesticated creature. This was a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast born in the unforgiving cruelty of the Far North!
Even if it lacked the refined martial techniques and tactical flexibility of a human Soul Emperor, its raw, primitive brute force and monstrous physical defense placed its threat level far above that of an ordinary Level 50 Soul King.
If Liu Yuan successfully executed this solo kill, it meant one terrifying truth. This twelve-year-old, Level 35 Soul Elder already possessed the concrete, obvious strength to hunt down and slaughter a human Soul King.
Just as Du Busi was processing the sheer magnitude of this revelation, the brutal war of attrition on the ice field reached its final breaking point.
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Gorilla finally realized that it was going to die here. Driven into a corner, it let out a final, despairing roar. Every remaining strand of its blood-soaked white fur stood on end. It violently drew upon the very last dregs of its core Soul Power, funneling a blinding, freezing energy into its right fist. With a desperate lunge, it slammed that massive fist directly toward Liu Yuan's lower abdomen.
Liu Yuan did not attempt to dodge. A chilling, ruthless light flashed within his Double Pupils. He raised his right hand, his fingers curling inward to form a razor-sharp claw. The absolute peak power of the Qilin Precious Technique surged, condensing into a terrifying, vibrating energy at his fingertips.
Pfft!
Crack!
Two sickening sounds rang out across the glacier at the exact same time.
The Ice Gorilla's basin-sized fist, carrying the devastating payload of its Ice Explosion Soul Skill, punched clean through Liu Yuan's lower abdomen. The sheer force of the blow ruptured his stomach and spine, the beast's bloody knuckles bursting out through the boy's lower back in a shower of gore and ice crystals.
Simultaneously, Liu Yuan's clawed right hand shot forward, locking in a death grip around the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Gorilla's thick neck. Ignoring the massive hole in his own torso, he channeled every ounce of his remaining physical strength and Soul Power directly into his arm.
His jaw locked tight. Liu Yuan exerted a terrifying amount of force, twisting his waist violently. Fueled by the instant, explosive acceleration of the Qilin Step, his entire body rotated in mid-air like a lethal blue whirlwind, using the beast's own arm impaled through his stomach as a pivot point.
A crisp, echoing snap rang out across the silent ice field.
The immense, heavily muscled head of the gorilla was forcibly twisted a full 360 degrees by Liu Yuan's monstrous brute force. Jagged shards of broken cervical vertebrae tore through the beast's thick hide. A geyser of boiling hot beast blood erupted from the ruptured arteries, spraying a thick, crimson coat across Liu Yuan's pale face.
Boom...
The light faded from the beast's scarlet eyes. The Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Gorilla's massive, lifeless body swayed heavily before crashing face-first into the snow. It fell like a collapsing mountain of stone, its immense life force rapidly dissipating into the freezing wind.
As for Liu Yuan, he stood amidst the carnage. His face was painted in gore, his expression entirely placid. He calmly reached down with both hands, gripping the severed, massive beast fist that was still lodged deep inside his ruptured abdomen. With a wet, sickening squelch, he pulled the foreign mass of flesh and bone out of his body and tossed it aside.
Following the familiar, soothing flow of his second Soul Skill, the terrifying, gaping hole in his stomach began to knit together. Under Du Busi's terrified yet utterly fanatical gaze, the destroyed tissue rapidly contracted, healed, and reorganized itself. Within seconds, the fatal wound vanished entirely, leaving behind nothing but a pile of shredded, blood-soaked clothing and a pool of sticky crimson on the snow.
High above, the wind howled through the silence. Du Busi, having witnessed this entire brutal, impossible spectacle from beginning to end, remained suspended in the air—completely and utterly stunned.
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