Chapter 49: Spear Intent Breaks the Poison Miasma—Dawn Breaks!
Facing Sword Douluo's proposal, Lin Yuan calmly nodded, battle intent surging in his eyes.
"Very well."
"I've long heard that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is the number one support-type martial soul on the continent, possessing extremely powerful auxiliary abilities. Today, I'd like to personally experience it."
Hearing Lin Yuan's praise, Ning Rongrong's little face instantly blossomed with a brilliant smile.
Yet inside, Lin Yuan's mind was perfectly clear.
Innate full soul power?
Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda?
It looks like Ning Rongrong had some pretty good luck and managed to snag something nice from the system.
Otherwise, with the genetic defect engraved into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, how could she possibly have innate full soul power?
But this was actually a good thing.
Now that she'd tasted the sweetness—if she wanted to evolve into a true Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in the future, she'd only grow more dependent on him.
Lin Yuan looked at the girl opposite him, whose body radiated a dangerous aura, yet he felt no fear.
A poison-control soul master?
As long as you don't let the poison get close—or you directly take down the one releasing it—then poison becomes meaningless.
Soon after, Dugu Bo and the others cleared the field for Lin Yuan, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Yan.
Xiao Wu stood at the edge of the arena, her soft pink rabbit ears standing straight up.
She looked at the black-clad boy in the field. Though she was still a little jealous over how gentle he'd been with Ning Rongrong earlier—
At this moment, she clenched her small fists, her big eyes full of encouragement, and made a cheering gesture.
"Lin Yuan, go!"
"Let that fierce woman see how strong you are!"
Dugu Yan: ???
Lin Yuan turned back and smiled slightly at Xiao Wu. Then he turned around again, the gentleness in his eyes vanishing instantly, replaced by sharp battle intent as keen as a spear tip.
"Ning Rongrong, begin."
Lin Yuan spoke calmly.
"Got it!"
Ning Rongrong let out a crisp shout.
She spread her jade-white palm, and the surging soul power within her body erupted instantly.
"Eight Treasures gain their name!"
"First: Strength!"
At Ning Rongrong's feet, a yellow hundred-year soul ring slowly rose.
The eight-tiered pagoda floating above her palm burst forth with dazzling, brilliant light!
A concentrated stream of multicolored radiance shot straight into Lin Yuan's body.
On the day she awakened her martial soul, she had gone to obtain a suitable first soul ring. Its age was just over three hundred years.
As a support-type soul master, whether her soul ring was three hundred or four hundred years old didn't make much difference.
Moreover, the sect wouldn't let her take the risk of absorbing a soul ring close to the theoretical limit. After all, she was a support-type soul master—under normal circumstances, her physique made absorbing a four-hundred-year soul ring rather strenuous.
Even though she later obtained a movement technique from the system, that technique focused on agility and provided little enhancement to her physique.
Feeling the twenty-percent strength amplification coursing through his body, Lin Yuan's current physical power—under the enhancement of the martial soul—was now enough to rival that of a peak Soul Grandmaster.
He couldn't help but praise, "So this is the continent's number one support-type martial soul? Truly worthy of its reputation!"
Feeling the surging power within him, Lin Yuan looked at Dugu Yan opposite and curved his lips slightly.
"Miss Dugu, please enlighten me."
"Hmph! Just because you've got support, you think you're something special?"
"I'm a Rank Twenty-Seven Soul Grandmaster!"
Dugu Yan shouted, emerald-green light flashing in her eyes.
"First Soul Skill: Red Jaded Scale Poison!"
As the first yellow soul ring beneath her feet lit up—
A red poisonous mist erupted instantly from her body!
The red fog didn't spread immediately. Instead, like nimble venomous snakes carrying a sweet, fishy stench, it hugged the ground and swept toward Lin Yuan at high speed from all directions!
Red Jaded Scale Poison!
This was an extremely insidious excitatory toxin that stimulates nerves and exhausts the victim.
Once inhaled or touched, it causes a pathological state of excitement: heart rate accelerates, blood flow speeds up, stamina is overdrawn—until the target is exhausted to death.
Though not an instant-kill poison, in combat, this weakening effect can be even deadlier than direct lethality.
"Poison mist?"
Looking at the red fog surging toward him from all sides, Lin Yuan's gaze remained perfectly calm.
He didn't hold his breath like ordinary soul masters, nor did he panic and retreat. Instead, he slowly raised the God-Killing Spear in his hand.
Against large-area poison mist, evasion was the worst option.
Because no matter how fast you are, you still have to breathe—and your skin still has contact with the air.
Once enveloped by the poison mist, you become a trapped beast.
The only solution was—
Break it!
"Before absolute sharpness, poison mist like this is nothing more than a joke."
Soul power flooded wildly into the spear as the tyrannical spear intent erupted instantly!
"Break!"
Lin Yuan let out a low shout and swung the spear horizontally!
Boom!
A terrifying gale, carrying razor-sharp spear intent, exploded outward from the spear tip!
The once-menacing red poison mist was torn apart and scattered the instant it collided with that gale!
The dense toxin barrier became extremely thin—some of it even dissipated directly into the air!
And that wasn't all!
The spear intent continued unabated, piercing through the scattered mist and transforming into an invisible blade that shot straight toward Dugu Yan behind it!
"What?!"
Dugu Yan's pupils shrank violently, her face filled with disbelief.
Her emerald-green eyes widened in shock, as if she had witnessed something utterly impossible.
"Blown... blown apart?"
"My Red Jaded Scale Poison was... broken in such a simple way?!"
How was this possible?!
What kind of monster was this?
Even with Ning Rongrong's support, this shouldn't be this terrifying!
She wasn't inexperienced fighting weapon-type soul masters—many had tried to use strong winds to disperse her poison mist.
But poison mist condensed by soul power—how could it be dispersed by ordinary wind?
So this was spear intent?!
"No! I don't believe it!"
Dugu Yan's competitive spirit was completely ignited.
"Then try this! I refuse to believe you can still blow this away!"
Her second soul ring lit up.
"Second Soul Skill: Blue Jaded Scale Poison!"
This time, what poured from the Jade Phosphor Serpent's mouth was no longer red mist, but a far denser, colder blue poison cloud!
This blue poison carried intense paralysis and corrosive effects. It was even more condensed than the red poison—almost liquid-like—as it rolled forward in a crushing tide!
"It's useless."
Facing this fiercer onslaught, Lin Yuan merely shook his head lightly.
"I already said it."
"Before my spear, mist is just mist."
"No matter what color it is, it can't block my path!"
Lin Yuan's eyes sharpened as his aura surged once more.
This time, he held nothing back.
He activated the technique attached to the first layer of the Chaos God-Killing Codex—Dawn Break!
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End of Chapter