Chapter 264: Vitality Deprivation Judgment! Sacred Heart Execution · Nine Hearts Return as One!
[Sacred Heart Ancient Tree Fourth Effect: Vitality Deprivation Judgment]
Targets completely imprisoned by Blue Silver Grass vines would have the vitality flowing within their bodies and circulating soul power forcibly extracted and stripped away without end.
This process could not be interrupted, avoided, or stopped.
Unless the target could completely break free from Blue Silver Grass's restraints.
Otherwise, they would only continue being drained until the very last trace of vitality and soul power was exhausted, becoming nothing more than withered, empty shells.
Half of the enormous energy extracted would flow directly into the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree, transforming into exclusive offensive and defensive energy.
With every additional portion of energy absorbed, Blue Silver Grass's restraining power would increase further.
The domain's defensive barriers and the vines' damage would rise simultaneously.
The more the enemy struggled, the greater their soul power consumption became, and the more energy would be extracted from them, trapping them in an unsolvable cycle of death.
Meanwhile, the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree would create a snowball effect during this process, becoming stronger and stronger in battle while completely locking down control of the battlefield.
The other half of the energy, at the very moment it was extracted, would simultaneously be fed back to all allied targets or Blue Silver Grass within the domain.
Use the enemy's blood to nourish our army.
This was a perfect battlefield perpetual-motion engine.
Always fighting in peak condition, becoming stronger and steadier as the battle continued.
Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo had already become completely numb.
The shock from before had yet to settle.
Yet now, the fourth effect struck them so hard their minds went blank, even their breathing slowed by half a beat.
Healing, purification, defense, imprisonment, absorption, and recovery...
This Martial Soul Fusion Skill had actually gathered every top-tier effect imaginable in the soul master world!
And every single effect, if taken out individually, was absurd enough to shatter common understanding.
They finally understood where that terrifying wave of energy that had swept through the entire training ground came from.
In Dugu Bo's eyes, this Martial Soul Fusion Skill was no longer an ordinary soul skill that should exist in the mortal world.
This was clearly a divine skill that existed only in legends!
However, what shocked them most was that this still wasn't over.
Lin Qingmo said, "Teacher Erlong, Old Poison, there's one final test."
"There's more?"
The two were stunned.
This Martial Soul Fusion Skill already possessed four different effects, yet there was still more?
"That's right. The final one is the true killing move of this Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Reinforce the training ground's soul power barriers."
Lin Qingmo took a deep breath and turned toward Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo.
"Its name is 'Nine Hearts Return as One.' This is the ultimate killing move of our Martial Soul Fusion Skill."
"Lingling, get ready."
"Mhm."
This attack required both of them to work together.
Hearing this, Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo simultaneously nodded heavily.
All unnecessary emotions instantly vanished from their faces, leaving behind only extreme seriousness and irrepressible curiosity.
They also wanted to see with their own eyes just how terrifying the ultimate killing move of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill that had already broken all common sense could truly be.
Lin Qingmo and Ye Lingling moved their thoughts, and the auras around them instantly converged.
Suddenly, within the center of the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree's massive trunk, the nine Sacred Heart Cores floating like stars lit up simultaneously with dazzling green light.
This attack could mobilize the power of all nine Sacred Hearts.
However, Lin Qingmo and Ye Lingling did not use the full power of the killing move.
They only drew upon the energy of four of the nine Sacred Heart Cores.
A brilliant green radiance, dazzling to the extreme, slowly gathered at the center of the nine Sacred Hearts.
An aura so terrifying it made even souls tremble erupted alongside the converging light.
The next moment—
"SHHHHH!!!"
A green life beam that seemed capable of piercing heaven and earth violently shot forth from the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree's core.
Carrying an unstoppable force of judgment, it ruthlessly blasted toward a massive stone.
That stone had been specially made for testing soul skills.
Even a Soul Emperor's full-force attack would be unable to penetrate it.
Yet the moment the green beam landed upon the stone, there was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any scene of shattered rocks flying everywhere.
"Shh!"
Like a blazing-hot knife slicing through melted butter, it effortlessly pierced straight through the entire granite mass.
That test stone, several meters tall and thick enough for multiple people to wrap their arms around, after being pierced by the beam, didn't even last half a breath.
"Boom!"
It instantly transformed into fine ash filling the sky.
Blown away by the wind, it scattered without a trace, not even a fragment remaining.
Only a pitch-black hole with smooth edges and unfathomable depth remained on the hard ground.
"..."
The entire area fell into dead silence.
Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo stared fixedly at that bottomless black hole.
Their entire bodies seemed frozen in place.
"This power..."
Liu Erlong muttered, her throat involuntarily moving as disbelief filled her face.
"Even using my Martial Soul True Body, I don't possess such terrifying penetration power!"
However, Dugu Bo's eyes were sharper.
"Something's wrong. That stone doesn't look like it was destroyed by impact force."
"Correct. This move ignores defense and directly attacks the life essence of matter itself."
Lin Qingmo nodded and calmly explained the complete effect of this ultimate killing move.
[Nine Hearts Return as One]
The ultimate killing move of Judgment Mode and the strongest trump card of the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree domain.
It gathered the power of all nine Sacred Heart Cores and condensed them into a green life judgment beam capable of piercing heaven and earth.
This beam ignored all physical defenses and pierced through every soul power shield.
Once it locked onto a target, it would directly pierce the core of the target's life essence.
Even a Titled Douluo possessing top-tier defensive beast martial souls and an overwhelmingly powerful body would be unable to block an attack that struck directly at the core of life itself. They could only endure it through sheer vitality.
Once hit, vitality would instantly be severed, resulting in immediate death.
And at the very moment the beam erupted,
All Blue Silver Grass vines and the countless floating Begonia petals within the domain would simultaneously unleash annihilation shockwaves.
Causing indiscriminate secondary area-clearing damage against all enemy targets within the domain.
An unavoidable single-target attack, complete group battlefield cleansing, offense and defense as one, without any weakness whatsoever.
After hearing the full explanation, Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo were left completely speechless.
"It doesn't target physical defense, doesn't touch soul power shields, and attacks life essence directly?"
Dugu Bo's expression changed instantly as his pupils contracted sharply, and he immediately understood.
That beam just now wasn't a conventional physical or soul power attack at all.
If it were a killing technique that directly targeted life essence, then the stone turning into ash could be explained.
Liu Erlong had fallen completely into a dazed state.
Directly attacking life essence?
What kind of concept was that?
After all, throughout the ten-thousand-year inheritance of the Douluo Continent, the overwhelming majority of defensive soul skills had been created specifically against physical and soul power attacks.
At most, spiritual-type soul masters were targeting mental attacks or souls.
Across the entire continent, there were almost no effective methods for defending against attacks on life essence.
Even related soul skills were extremely rare.
In other words, once that green judgment beam locked onto a target, the result was practically guaranteed injury or death.
There was simply no defense against it and nowhere to escape!
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