Douluo: Brains Over Bloodline

Mu Ye, from a distance, sensed the fluctuations of the Dark Blood Demon's power and found it to be different from what he imagined a quasi-god would feel like.

Was this truly the Holy Spirit Sect's quasi-god?

Xu Yuan had no idea that Mu Ye would directly assume the target was a quasi-god.

When he had warned them earlier, he only mentioned that a quasi-god might appear—not that it was guaranteed.

It could only be said that Mu Ye had recently been experimenting with many secret techniques and was overly confident in his own strength, believing he could match a quasi-god. He had been preparing for days.

On the other side, the Dark Blood Demon's shock was even stronger.

As Mu Ye approached, the Dark Blood Demon finally felt the 'weak' fluctuations of Mu Ye's soul power.

Only Level 98.

Level 98 wasn't weak—certainly not frail or insignificant in the eyes of Limit Douluos—but compared to Mu Ye's overwhelming blood essence fluctuations, these soul power fluctuations were indeed much weaker.

The soul power was only at Level 98.

But how could his blood essence be so strong?

The Dark Blood Demon was alarmed.

He had committed countless atrocities. Due to his martial soul's ability to devour souls, every place he passed through turned barren. Anything with a soul—be it plants, animals, or humans—couldn't escape his grasp.

This made him, aside from the Ghost Emperor, the most sinful figure in the Holy Spirit Sect.

Perhaps even Ha Luosa, the Underworld Emperor, couldn't compare to him.

After all, Ha Luosa had numerous records of massacring entire cities.

This alone showed how terrifying the number of lives Ha Luosa had harvested was.

Among the countless souls he devoured, the Dark Blood Demon naturally made distinctions.

First, human souls were far stronger than those of ordinary plants and animals. The souls of spirit beasts and soul masters were even stronger than those of ordinary humans. The more powerful the soul master, the stronger their soul.

Among soul masters, besides soul power level, physical strength and spiritual talent also influenced the quality of their souls.

Soul masters with spiritual attributes didn't need further explanation.

Those with vigorous blood essence nourished their souls into being rich and plump, making them quite tasty to devour.

Naturally, the Dark Blood Demon enjoyed devouring soul masters with abundant blood essence.

However, strong blood essence had a significant counteracting effect on external soul mediums.

Thus, if the blood essence was too powerful, it could instead suppress the Dark Blood Demon.

Fortunately, though the Dark Blood Demon knew about the theory of soul masters who could counter him, he had never truly encountered anyone whose blood essence was strong enough to suppress his soul-devouring abilities.

This led him to overlook the possibility.

Little did he expect that today, he would meet his downfall.

"Hmph!"

Xu Shengqun didn't give the Dark Blood Demon time to recover. Wielding the Heavenly Saint Void-Piercing Spear, he unleashed a series of afterimages.

Each afterimage was substantial, continuously forcing back the twelve soul-devouring entities.

The space around the twelve soul-devouring entities became turbulent, hindering the Dark Blood Demon's attempts to retrieve them.

The Dark Blood Demon naturally understood Xu Shengqun's goal—to delay him.

At this moment, he also considered retreating.

After all, Mu Ye's blood essence gave him a burning sensation from afar, which clearly indicated a suppression effect on his martial soul rather than actual burning caused by blood essence.

"Fourth soul skill, Demon Sorrow Seven Curses!"

Seven layers of eerie dark crimson light rapidly spread out, enveloping both Xu Yuan and Xu Shengqun.

Upon contact with their bodies, a dark crimson force seeped into their spiritual seas.

The Demon Sorrow Seven Curses—madness, puppetry, fear, slowness, pain, voodoo, and soul-devouring—stacked seven layers of curses, creating an extremely terrifying effect.

Unlike the Wilted Blood Curse, the target of the Demon Sorrow Seven Curses was the soul itself.

Therefore, even if the target was switched, its effects couldn't be eliminated.

The Dark Blood Demon's spiritual power was at the Spirit Domain Realm, which meant Xu Yuan couldn't forcibly pull him into the starry chessboard. Star Shift also couldn't transfer the curses back onto the Dark Blood Demon himself.

The Dark Blood Demon's gaze turned ruthless.

He glared fiercely at Xu Yuan, his eyes flickering with a faint dark red glow.

Xu Yuan grimaced in pain.

In his spiritual sea, the dark crimson force was just a wisp, but upon entering his spiritual sea, it quickly spread, polluting the entire expanse.

This dark crimson force condensed into spear-like shapes, piercing into Xu Yuan's spiritual sea.

Madness, puppetry, fear, slowness, pain, voodoo, and soul-devouring—the seven layers of curse effects rapidly manifested on Xu Yuan's body.

Xu Shengqun was greatly alarmed. He stopped attacking and turned to look at Xu Yuan.

He quickly retreated, positioning himself in front of Xu Yuan, shielding him and contacting him through the spiritual link.

"Xiao Yuan, can you hold on?"

"Uncle, I'm fine," Xu Yuan's tone remained calm.

At this moment, he was also experiencing the seven layers of curses firsthand.

Experiencing these seven curses, Xu Yuan felt immense pain. He immediately took action, activating the visualization method above his spiritual sea. Star energy flowed, swiftly compressing the dark crimson force.

His spiritual sea seemed to be surrounded by a layer of illusory space.

The dream realm.

This was the breakthrough that allowed Yao Yao to surpass the ten-thousand-year bottleneck.

By sensing Xu Shengqun's breakthrough process, Xu Yuan carefully studied the changes in ambient energy, refining the dream realm. Though it hadn't fully materialized yet, it had achieved perfect fusion with his spiritual sea.

He had managed to solidify the dream realm to the extent that it could merge seamlessly with a space like the spiritual sea!

And more importantly, they could fuse with each other.

That was the key.

Now, as the dream realm fused with his spiritual sea, the dark crimson force rapidly permeated into the dream realm, leaving less and less of the dark crimson force in Xu Yuan's spiritual sea, quickly reducing it to a level he could endure.

"Hmm?"

The Dark Blood Demon was startled. He felt his power draining.

He looked at Xu Yuan, utterly baffled.

How could a curse targeting the soul vanish without a trace?

No, it hadn't vanished.

Through blurred perception, the Dark Blood Demon sensed his power—it felt insubstantial, almost illusory, completely different from before.

What was going on?

"Boy, you're full of secrets," the Dark Blood Demon said menacingly.

He stared at Xu Yuan, his eyes filled with murderous intent. He had already placed Xu Yuan on his must-kill list.

This was no longer about the Holy Spirit Sect's plans—it was for his own sake.

Someone who could counteract his curses shouldn't exist in this world.

Facing the Dark Blood Demon's naked killing intent, Xu Yuan wasn't worried because his teacher had arrived.

"Evil soul master, take this strike of mine!"

Mu Ye was now only one kilometer away from the Dark Blood Demon.

His dark golden battle armor gleamed alongside his crimson long blade.

He raised his long blade, and his blood essence surged skyward.

A blade over two meters long, condensed from dense blood essence, extended outward, forming a forty-meter-long blade aura.

The blood essence materialized into a blade aura, slashing down instantly.

This single strike seemed to pierce through space itself.

Previously, Mu Ye had been a full kilometer away from the Dark Blood Demon, but with just the motion of the slash, he appeared as if teleporting, crossing spatial boundaries and arriving within a hundred meters of the Dark Blood Demon.

Boom!

With this strike, it felt as if the heavens and earth were split in half by the boiling blood essence.

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