Douluo: From Rusted Spear to Emperor-Slaying Spear

Chapter 185 The Second Martial Soul: Eye of Life and Death
Ji Wuming sat cross-legged and swallowed the Yin-Yang Twin Grass in one gulp. At first, there was nothing unusual, but after only ten seconds, a burning sensation came from his abdomen, which then grew hotter and hotter, as if he had fallen into rolling lava.

His flesh was being burned, exposing deep white bone.
"what--"

Ji Wuming's face was contorted as he rolled around on the ground, as if he had fallen into hell and been devoured by evil spirits, only to fall into a gentle, life-giving breeze and be slowly healed by its soft, healing power.
The constant alternation between death and life allowed Ji Wuming to experience the extreme pain of life and death.

The more he rolled around, the faster his flesh burned. In no time, not a single piece of his skin remained intact, leaving only a charred skeleton. The red and white energy within his abdomen, however, did not dissipate.
Just as Ji Wuming was on the verge of death, the energy was rapidly gathering in his eye sockets. As the energy condensed, a pair of heterochromatic eyes, one red and one white, appeared.

The charred skeleton was visibly fading from its blackened state, growing new flesh and blood, until Ji Wuming's entire body was fully restored, at which point the extreme pain slowly subsided.

Several hours later, Ji Wuming, who had fainted from excessive pain, opened his eyes. Looking at his naked body, he quickly picked up the storage soul tool that had fallen to the ground, took out a piece of clothing from it, and put it on.

"What's wrong with me? Why are my eyes acting so strangely? And what are those red and white mists floating around me?"

Three different changes in a row made Ji Wuming feel very uneasy. He was certain that his body had undergone some kind of change.

He sat cross-legged, carefully sensing the changes within his body. To his astonishment, what he saw was that his spiritual sea had expanded three times its original size, and his spiritual power had correspondingly tripled.
Previously, thanks to consuming the Sacred Soul Grass, his spiritual power had surged. Without the assistance of the Thunder Dragon Fish Crown external soul bone, his spiritual power could cover a range of three miles.

Now that he has consumed the Yin-Yang Twin Grass, his spiritual sea of ​​consciousness has doubled in size, and his spiritual power has reached an astonishing range of ten miles.

In addition, his overall physical strength has been completely renewed, and even his soul power level has broken through the bottleneck of level 70 from the original level 65.
Most importantly, and most crucially, was his heterochromatic red and white eyes. Ji Wuming touched his eyes, feeling the changes within them.
"As expected, that book of immortal herbs didn't lie to me. This is the aura of a martial soul. My second martial soul is my eyes."

Immediately, Ji Wuming opened his eyes and poured a wisp of soul power into them. The red and white aura he saw around him was rapidly surging into his eyes.

The Blood Thunder Spear uncontrollably appeared in his palm, and some crimson energy flowed into his body through his red eyes, nourishing the Blood Thunder Spear.

You should know that ever since he used the blood sacrifice method to start the blood-forging path of the spear, the Blood Thunder Spear has lost interest in anything, and only blood can excite it.

"Could it be that this crimson aura is the aura of death? Then the silvery-white aura that Bai Tong is absorbing is the aura of life."

Ji Wuming was even more surprised by this. He carefully sensed the hard-won heterochromatic martial soul once more.
"Hahaha--"

He burst into wild laughter. This heterochromatic eye martial soul also had an extremely domineering name: the Eye of Life and Death, also known as the Samsara Eye. Even without any spirit rings, the Samsara Eye possessed an incredibly powerful ability: to decompose and collect the red and white life and death energy scattered in the air.

The power of this life and death energy is immense. It can enhance one's own soul power, soul rings, and soul bone age, and it can also help others improve. Most importantly, as long as there is enough life and death energy, it can conjure any item that a soul master desires out of thin air.

With this thought in mind, Ji Wuming had a new idea.
"Since the Qi of Life and Death is so domineering, does that mean creating one's own godhood is not a difficult task?" In Douluo Continent, there are two types of godhood: either collect faith to create one's own godhood, or choose to inherit the godhood of an existing deity. Collecting the Qi of Life and Death is actually a very special kind of faith. As long as there is enough Qi of Life and Death, how far is it to create one's own godhood?

What this world lacks least is birth and death. Humans and spirit beasts alike, as long as they are living beings, cannot escape birth, aging, sickness, and death. The life and death energy they generate during this process is virtually endless.

Even though Ji Wuming's self-created divine position is only a second-level god, he can rely on the continuous life and death energy to break through the limits of gods, becoming a first-level god, a god-king, a supreme god-king, or even an immortal being.

Thinking about this, Ji Wuming became even more excited, unable to imagine what it would be like to ascend to godhood in the future.

He stood up confidently, looking around at the small, dark underground cave and the vertical crack above him.
"It's obviously unrealistic to think I can fly out of the crack and have Garuda waiting for me to walk right into its trap."

"Then we'll have to follow this dark cave to find a way out."

Ji Wuming took out a soul-guided lamp, held it in his hand, and walked forward step by step, making a mark every so often to prevent himself from getting lost.
After all, if he really couldn't find a way to survive above, then he would have no choice but to defeat the 10-year-old soul beast Garuda above the rift.

As Ji Wuming ventured deeper, he discovered that the underground cave resembled a gently sloping, circular staircase, extending downwards into an unfathomable depth.

Ji Wuming, too lazy to descend step by step, leaped down and flew rapidly along the cave passage within the confined space.
"I want to see where this bottomless cave leads."

After flying for an unknown number of hours, the terrain of the cave suddenly widened and leveled out until Ji Wuming stopped in front of an extremely straight stone wall that resembled a stone door.

A mental scan pierced through the five-meter-thick stone wall, revealing a bright light streaming in, accompanied by a gentle breeze. Clearly, across the stone wall lay a cave.
"Could this be the underground world? But wait, how can there be a light like the sun in the underground world?"

Confused, Ji Wuming summoned the Blood Thunder Spear and swiftly unleashed his first and sixth soul skills, the Evil Tiger Demon Slayer.

The sixth soul skill, Evil Tiger Demon Slayer, is a 10-year soul skill acquired after absorbing the 10-year soul ring of the Evil Tiger Whale King.

The effect of this sixth soul skill is similar to that of "Stormy Night: Thousand Miles of Penetration," both focusing on extreme penetrating power. However, this skill directly increases the penetrating effect by 300%, nearly tripling the penetrating power.

With the added amplification effect of the first soul skill, Spear Dragon Transformation, its penetrating power can be increased by at least 100%.

(End of this chapter)