Douluo Sharingan, I really didn't coerce Xiao Wu!

Chapter 276 Absorbing the Eighth Soul Ring

(There was a typo in the previous chapter; it should have been dark. It has now been corrected!)

"Damn it, I was careless! I didn't dodge!" Chen Xuan was filled with regret. He should have used the Flying Thunder God Technique to escape. How could he fall for such a low-level move? What a disgrace!

All he saw was darkness, filled with a purple aura that distorted the surrounding space.

After what seemed like several minutes, the fog gradually dissipated, revealing the true nature of the scene.

When the purple mist completely dissipated, Chen Xuan finally saw the scenery. Just as he had expected, he had indeed been teleported to the Reverse Space.

Now, he stood on a hundred-meter-long arena, which was quite spacious, about the same size as the Soul Master Competition arena. However, the rules here were somewhat similar to those of the Death and Suicide Arena.

Chen Xuan looked around. Outside the arena, it was pitch black and empty. Drifting in the sea of ​​time and space, there was nowhere to stand.

"roar!"

On the other side of the arena, the Dark Demon God Tiger lay prone on the ground, its mouth full of fangs, its sinister eyes fixed on Chen Xuan, glaring menacingly!

Suddenly, it slammed its palm onto the black disc, injecting a surge of energy. In an instant, the oily sheen around the arena lit up.

Immediately afterwards, the black disc spun, containing the power of laws, causing this area to twist and distort, evolving into a reversal of spacetime!

Card wipe!

Chen Xuan was still wondering when, in the next second, a sharp pain spread throughout his body, and his bones cracked as if they were breaking.

In a daze, he found that his body had shrunk, his face had returned to its childlike state, and even his clothes had changed, now a school uniform with the Shrek Academy emblem printed on it.

"What's going on?" Chen Xuan was taken aback, because he immediately noticed something was wrong as soon as he opened his mouth; even his voice sounded childish.

He quickly summoned his spatial martial soul, a pitch-black sphere connected by a chain. There was no longer any seven thousand years; there were only three ordinary soul rings.

"I've turned back into when I was sixteen?" Chen Xuan was stunned. He touched his cheek and felt the youthful texture. Wasn't this the body he had when he first transmigrated?

He looked up at the Dark Demon God Tiger; the angle was much lower, which was quite unusual.

The tiger was surrounded by black mist, which condensed into a protective shield, isolating it from the erosion of time reversal. Its form remained unchanged, just as it had been 60,000 years ago.

"Welcome to the arena. Once one side dies, they will exit the Reversal Space and the countdown will begin..."

"Damn it, this is unfair! What's the point of fighting like this?!" Chen Xuan couldn't help but curse. A three-ring Soul Master fighting a sixty-thousand-year-old Soul Beast, what's the difference between that and suicide?

He examined himself to see what abilities he still had left. The Rinnegan, Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Kirin, Rasenshuriken, Lightning Blink Dagger, and so on were all gone. He only had a Rasengan, a half-finished Chidori, and a pair of unfamiliar Mangekyou Sharingan.

During this period, he was unfamiliar with the Kaleidoscope, had no knowledge of eye techniques, and found Susanoo even more difficult to use.

"Damn it..." Chen Xuan was on the verge of tears; he was really in trouble this time.

"Hmm?" He looked inward at the world behind his heart, and his eyes lit up. The fruit tree was still there, unaffected, and could help him restore his soul power and chakra. Most importantly, it was a natural energy that he could use!

"It's safe!" Chen Xuan's eyes shone brightly, and he was filled with confidence. He had called out to the system with his mind and received a response, which meant that the system was unaffected and the items in the system space were still there.

As the arena countdown ended and the life-or-death duel began, the ferocious tiger took the initiative, running on all fours and lunging forward with its blood-red mouth wide open.

Chen Xuan remained unmoved, watching the opponent charge towards him. He simply activated the three-tomoe Sharingan in his left eye, slowly rotating it until it merged into the Mangekyou Sharingan.

The Dark Demon Tiger was approaching, its foul-smelling mouth wide open, its fangs incredibly sharp, and it lunged forward to bite down.

Its terrifying bite force can crush even a top-tier weapon spirit in one bite.

At that very moment, Chen Xuan also moved, activating his left eye ability, the Space Restriction Domain.

Boom!

A ripple spread outwards, and suddenly, as if time had stood still, everything—the air, the air currents, the purple mist, and even the dark tiger so close at hand—came to a halt.

On a deeper level, the Dark Demon God Tiger's blood flow and heartbeat also stopped; if it hadn't been on the verge of death, it would have died on the spot.

Within these three meters, nothing can escape. Soul beasts and soul masters are no match for the complete suppression of the forbidden domain. The pupil technique is somewhat heaven-defying, surpassing any law on the continent. It can be said that even gods can be imprisoned.

That is to say, the Mangekyou Sharingan in his left eye has not yet been cultivated to the god level, otherwise Chen Xuan would have used it to deal with the gods long ago, instead of going through all that trouble.

"I'm sorry, but I already had these eyes when I was sixteen." Chen Xuan squinted, a tear of blood streaming down his face, and he was breathing slightly heavily.

Because his left eye was already blind, it was too much for him to restrain a soul beast comparable to 100,000 years old with the cultivation of a Soul Master.

He wasted no time. As he spoke, he absorbed natural energy. He opened his hand, and a bright blue light shone from his palm as a vortex of energy gathered.

"Wind Release: Rasengan!" Chen Xuan gasped for breath, using all his strength to push out the ball of light carrying wind blades.

Boo!

The Dark Demon God Tiger had a black protective shield around its body that could withstand the erosion of the reversed time flow. However, it could not withstand the bombardment of the Rasengan and shattered with a bang, exploding into pieces of crystal porcelain that scattered like broken glass.

Without the protection of the black shield, it could no longer resist the erosion of the reversed spacetime flow, and its seven or eight-meter-long tiger body shrank instantly, becoming more than half its original size.

Now, it is only two meters long, about the size of a Siberian tiger. Moreover, the purple aura around its body is rapidly diminishing, which means that its cultivation level is regressing and will eventually stop at ten or twenty thousand years of cultivation.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had shrunk by more than half, but even so, the strength of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast was not something that an ordinary Soul Emperor could defeat.

Chen Xuan knew this well, and dared to deliver a fatal blow before the opponent could recover.

"Kill!" He unleashed his ultimate move, channeling natural energy into his fists to break through the limits of his physical body, allowing his fist technique to reach the speed of sound.

boom!

Chen Xuan broke the sound barrier, causing the air to explode, and threw a punch.

With a soft thud, blood splattered, and the Dark Demon God Tiger let out a mournful howl, its cries filled with anguish, before collapsing headfirst onto the arena. Its body twitched a few times, and it was unable to stand up again.

Even though Chen Xuan currently only possesses the strength of a Soul Venerable, unfortunately, his level of natural energy is no match for divine power. With a single punch, he still managed to bleed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, leaving a large, gaping wound on its chest, both front and back, dripping with blood.

"Die!"

He raised his fist, and natural energy flowed to his limbs and bones. He punched the tiger in the head, and with a bang, the brains and broken bones shattered. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was killed, dead beyond any doubt.

"When one side dies, the arena of life and death ends!"

At the same time, black mist billowed, space distorted, and swept up Chen Xuan and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bodies, sending them into the Sea of ​​Time and Space, back to their original coordinates in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Chen Xuan felt a sudden sway, and the dim surroundings brightened, revealing the sound of flowing water. He was back on the riverbank below the cliff.

"Chen Xuan!" Xiao Wu shouted, her voice trembling, and instantly appeared in front of him, throwing herself into his arms.

She looked terrified, her face filled with worry, and she hugged Chen Xuan tightly. She was really scared when she saw him being sucked into the black mist and not coming out for a long time.

Xiao Wu thought that something had happened to Chen Xuan. If something really bad had happened, she would never be able to forgive herself for the rest of her life.

"It's alright, I'm back now. This tiger's abilities are indeed a bit abnormal, but its combat strength is average, it's no match for me," Chen Xuan said with a smile, stroking her soft hair.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Wu snapped out of her daze and noticed a tiger's body lying on the lawn. It was headless, and a black spirit ring was floating on the corpse.

"Alright, let me absorb the spirit ring first, just in case something unexpected happens," Chen Xuan said.

Xiao Wu nodded, stepped away from him, and quietly retreated to the side, saying softly, "Chen Xuan, you can absorb the essence in peace. I'll protect you."

Chen Xuan sat cross-legged, summoned his spatial martial soul, and drew the black soul ring over, slowly merging it into his body.

(End of this chapter)