Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

It does not unleash powerful combat capabilities during combustion; instead, it causes the host to gradually decay and die, hence its name.

After Du Bu Si killed Zhong Li Wu with a single palm strike, he never released his second awakening at the Gold level. However, his martial soul's innate ability was a deadly poison, which was excellent for offense but far from sufficient for suppression and healing. He was unable to completely seal the death energy and decaying flames contained in the Death Needle.

These terrifying and malevolent forces are eroding Poison Undying's body at an alarming rate.

That kind of infiltrating ability, like a leech that seeps into every crevice, would make anyone's scalp tingle. Only by reaching the realm of Yin-Yang complementarity dual soul cores or soul power large-scale soul core transformation can it be neutralized.

Knowing his lifespan was short, Du Busi smiled calmly.

His gaze towards Kong Tianxu was initially one of relief, but then, as if he had discovered something, his eyes widened. A sharp light suddenly flashed in his cloudy old eyes, sweeping over Kong Tianxu several times. His expression, which had been somewhat withered under the flames of decay, became noticeably excited, finally transforming into a sigh full of profound meaning:

Ninety-nine?

"Ninety-nine."

Kong Tianxu nodded.

He waved his hand. The hundreds of high-level soul-guided cannon beams surrounding Poison Undying, the three-layered linked soul-guided shield, and the dense killing intent blockade of the Sun and Moon Garrison all quietly dispersed with his wave.

Countless officers and soldiers looked at Kong Tianxu with admiration. Everyone knew that now that this Heavenly Douluo had returned to take charge of Mingdu, no amount of troops could match his power.

Amidst Poison Undying's astonished gaze, Kong Tianxu casually pointed out a finger.

Without any trace of smoke or fire, a faint golden halo appeared at the fingertips as it was gently touched to Poison Undying's chest. The moment the Flame of Decay came into contact with the golden halo, it was like a campfire doused with ice water; it hissed a few times and then went out completely, the deathly aura attached to it being purified into nothingness by the golden light.

Kong Tianxu withdrew his finger, looked at Du Busi, and his tone unusually carried a hint of a sigh:

"Why bother, Body Douluo? The world is inherently subject to division and reunification. Besides, you've seen it with your own eyes: the people of Douling under the rule of the Sun and Moon are living in greater peace than before, no worse than in the past. Why not..."

Poison Undying interrupted him with a loud laugh. The laugh was powerful and vigorous, like an old pine tree swaying in the wind.

"I'm always impulsive and do whatever I want."

Poison Undying waved his hand, as if dismissing some trivial matter. "What world situation, what division and reunion? I've lived for two hundred years. If I have to weigh things up even when I want to have a good fight, what's the point of living!"

"Besides—"

He suppressed his smile, but his eyes shone with an astonishing light as he stared intently at Kong Tianxu:

"Now, you are the true form of Douluo! Get ready."

Before he could finish speaking, Du Bu Si raised his hand and flicked it.

A golden streak of light shot out from his hand, streaking across the void and hurtling towards Kong Tianxu.

Kong Tianxu reached out and caught it.

It was warm to the touch, and the golden light quieted down the moment it landed in my palm, concealing all its outward brilliance and revealing its true nature.

It was a seed-shaped object, elongated vertically, about an inch long, with a dark gold hue that had been polished by time. A thin crack had split open in the center of the seed, through which one could vaguely see the complex, layered structure inside, nested together according to some mysterious pattern. From this rough surface, one could actually feel a sense of profound mystery that made one dizzy.

Kong Tianxu felt an immense attraction to it. In particular, his own martial soul would occasionally pulsate with distinct sensations.

Kong Tianxu had experienced this feeling more than once.

The first time was when he awakened his martial soul at the age of six, and the second time was when he comprehended the Heavenly Heart Sword Intent at the age of eighteen, breaking through the third awakening of his physical martial soul.

However, his original martial soul has already reached the pinnacle of three awakenings, and there is no way to advance further!

Is it possible to awaken four times?

"This is..." Kong Tianxu's gaze was somewhat surprised and uncertain. He looked up at Du Busi, his eyes full of questions.

"My supreme essence, the seed of inheritance." Poison Immortal's gaze softened for the first time.

"Your talent is too high, child. You started with a Gold-level Second Awakening, which is unprecedented in the sect's records. Before you, the strongest Second Awakening was only Silver-level—whether it was me, my elder brother, or those accomplished ancestors of the Body Sect, they all reached the Gold-level Second Awakening only when their cultivation broke through to the Title Douluo realm. Do you know why?"

Before Kong Tianxu could reply, Du Busi revealed the answer himself:

"Because the seed of our lineage, passed down from the first ancestor, can ensure that future generations can awaken a second time and evolve once more."

He spoke these words calmly, as if stating a perfectly ordinary fact. But every veteran powerhouse present, familiar with the Body Sect's strength, could sense the weight behind his words!

"Give it a try." Poison Immortal looked at Kong Tianxu, his eyes full of anticipation. "Let me see if the four awakenings that only existed in the imagination of our predecessors are feasible!"

Kong Tianxu was deeply shaken. He took a deep breath, suppressed the surging emotions in his chest, calmed his gaze, and nodded solemnly.

In a moment of inspiration, he took out the Evil Eye External Soul Bone that the Evil Emperor had dropped and pressed it, along with the golden seed, to his brow.

The purple-gold Destruction God Seal suddenly extended, and the golden seed seemed to melt away, completely enveloping the Evil Eye Soul Bone and sinking into the space between the eyebrows.

The surrounding skin slowly opened under the influence of a ring of purple-gold light, giving it an eerie solemnity, like a baby's mouth, or perhaps, an eye.

His skin writhed, and his muscles and bones repeatedly went through the process of eversion and retraction. The purplish-gold light gradually stabilized, and at the crack on his forehead, a small dark blue bead materialized and protruded, beginning to subtly merge with the surrounding cracked muscles and bones.

The reason for choosing the space between the eyebrows is that this is where the seed of the Destruction God resides, and it is also guarded by a super artifact like the Destruction Scepter. No matter what happens, it will not have any negative impact on Kong Tianxu himself.

The light and shadow of the three soul cores intensified, yet they interacted and pulsed with each other in an extremely harmonious manner. Kong Tianxu's powerful black hole soul force kept all changes firmly under his control.

A strange feeling gradually spread through Kong Tianxu's heart.

His thoughts extended, and he first saw himself. That version of himself stood quietly beneath the clear night sky, surrounded by countless stars, radiating an aura of serene tranquility. On his forehead, a peculiar eye had appeared.

The eye socket was slightly smaller than his original eyes, and there were faint purple lines around the eye socket. Upon closer inspection, these lines seemed to slowly flow, as if they were alive. The pupil was dark blue, but in the deepest part of that dark blue, a faint golden luster shimmered.

The strange third eye twitched slightly.

Kong Tianxu suddenly realized that it was actually staring right at him.

He saw vicissitudes, he saw profundity, he saw an indescribable destruction and profundity.

His ego stared at that third eye, the distance between them growing ever shorter. At the same time, the third eye in the center of his brow was rapidly taking shape, his bones, meridians, blood vessels, and soul power channels completing their final connection at an incredible speed.

At this moment, Kong Tianxu demonstrated the advantage of not separating soul power attributes. Water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, space, thunder, ice, holiness, evil, destruction, and other attributes were nourished one by one. With the full support of the three soul cores, the vertical eye began to move slightly, and a circle of pale golden light was slowly taking shape in the center of the dark blue pupil.

Everything was progressing smoothly. The power of destruction reached its peak, and the power of life flowed to its extremities, forming a perfect closed loop. The feeling of things falling into place made Kong Tianxu almost certain that the fourth awakening would be completed in the next moment.

However, at this very last moment, a sudden change occurred.

A beam of blue light rose from his heart without warning.

The blue light shot straight up along the meridians, passing through the chest cavity, neck, and skull, and in less than a snap of the fingers, it struck the vertical eye that was forming between the eyebrows.

Seed of Life!

"Boom—" It was as if the world had just been created!

The dark blue and gold that had already taken shape in the third eye disintegrated, recombined, and merged at an astonishing speed under the impact of the cyan light, with purple clouds soaring into the sky and cyan flowers spreading across the ground.

At this moment, the entire sky transformed into a massive chaotic vortex, with blue and purple light, like two ancient, intertwined dragons, swirling and roaring above the heavens, where the power of life and the power of destruction endlessly cycled.

Whether they were Soul Masters or commoners, regardless of their cultivation level, they all felt a tremor from the depths of their souls at the same instant.

That is the power of creation, and also the power of ending.

Everyone stared in shock at the enormous chaotic vortex in the sky. Its size was expanding at an alarming rate, as if it would engulf the entire Mingdu, and even the entire Sun and Moon Empire, in the next second.

However, at this critical moment, a golden light suddenly erupted from between the brows of Kong Tianxu's golden Martial Soul True Body. The golden light was not dazzling, but it carried an irresistible majesty. The Martial Soul True Body raised its head and roared at the chaotic vortex in the sky that was expanding out of control.

That was man's roar to the heavens.

Or perhaps, it is Heaven's submission to humanity.

The cyan-purple vortex of reincarnation shrank visibly with that roar, shrinking from a colossal, sky-covering behemoth into a thin, thread-like stream of light that suddenly disappeared into the giant's brow.

With a "whoosh," the Martial Soul True Body retracted into the body like a tide.

Kong Tianxu opened his eyes.

He looked up at the sky.

Last time, Kong Tianxu saw the vastness of the sky and understood his true nature.

This time, what he saw began to change. It was no longer just the sky, but he also saw his own bones, muscles, meridians, and himself.

Outside the Heavenly Soul Core, the illusory image of Kong Tianxu, which had remained within his body since the creation of the world with the axe, but was always a size smaller, finally became indistinguishable from his true self.

Today, I see the heavens, and the heavens see me.

The entire process seemed to Kong Tianxu to be both a fleeting moment and an eternity. Just as he fully awoke from his moment of enlightenment, the morning sun was slowly rising in the distant east.

Thousands of rays of light pierced through the clouds, dyeing the boundary between heaven and earth into a beautiful line of pale white. The purple that swept across that white seemed to have become much brighter than usual.

He subconsciously closed his eyes slightly, concentrating his mind. In just a breath, he felt a momentary dizziness, followed by a slight elevation of his field of vision. When he opened his eyes again, everything had changed completely.

Countless golden specks of light drifted gently in the air, making the whole world seem to become colorful. The rising sun in the distance was not dazzling at all; instead, it was a rich blend of red and gold, with a pale purple corona around its edge, as if someone had edged the sun with an extremely thin purple-gold border.

A strange golden light shone on Kong Tianxu's forehead.

In that instant, it was as if the dawn had broken once again. The golden light, though not dazzling, caused the entire city of Mingdu to unconsciously squint. A strange feeling welled up in everyone's heart, as if they were being watched by something, and even their thoughts seemed to stop for a moment.

It was a golden eye, yet within it flowed pure blue and deep purple. The changing colors were filled with the mysteries of reincarnation. Within this strange eye lay the ultimate truth of life and death. Under its radiant gaze, even the air seemed to hum softly, as if all things in heaven and earth were paying silent tribute to this eye.

Chapter 407 The Eye of Birth and Death, Reincarnation

Kong Tianxu's feeling at this moment was mysterious and profound. If the greatest improvement he experienced when he obtained the Starry Wings during his three previous awakenings was in his profound exploration and understanding of himself, then this time it was like an infinite extension of his senses.

The vision that was originally as perfect as a mustard seed is no longer limited to "seeing", but also has a kind of "synesthesia" as if it were personally felt. It can be used to the maximum extent. When the same move is used again, its power is more than several times greater.

Moreover, in this third eye, which is based on the Evil Eye Tyrant's Dominant Eye, the spacetime power that was originally supposed to dominate Kong Tianxu's plan has been completely squeezed into the background due to the self-pulling of the Destruction Scepter and the Seed of Life.

Instead, there is an extremely mysterious dual divine power of destruction and life.

It goes far beyond the simple entanglement between the two that Kong Tianxu had repeatedly stirred up; it is a relationship of mutual generation and destruction, a cycle of mutual transformation.

If Kong Tianxu were to name this third eye, then there would only be two words: Reincarnation, the Eye of Birth and Death.

The evil emperor's soul, hidden within Kong Tianxu's soul ring, had long been tormented by this power of reincarnation to the point of near death, and had ended its own demise.

As for the amplification effect of the fully awakened Rinnegan on one's own martial soul, it is not worth mentioning, but on the basis of the original gold-level second awakening, it is at least a two-fold increase.

This feeling is definitely beyond the level of the third awakening.

The life-and-death cycle of the agile eye lowered slightly, and the sense of life and death within it made those around feel a sense of disorientation. Kong Tianxu exhaled lightly, and the vertical eye that looked down at the world projected a beam of light that tore through space. The terrifying energy contained within it was something that even Kong Tianxu, its master, had to carefully maintain.

With the opening of the Eye of Reincarnation, his thoughts became much clearer. Perhaps, taking on the divine positions of destruction and life was far from his limit.

Kong Tianxu bowed slightly to Du Busi.

Poison Undying trembled all over: "Let me see...let me see your martial spirit."

Kong Tianxu has no problem with it.

Behind him, the Starry Sacred Wings were fully unfurled, their wide black and white wings casting a huge shadow in the dawn, dividing day and night. His thousand-foot-tall purple-gold dharma body held one hand in a flower-picking gesture and the other hand together, pointing towards the sky, facing the vertical eye between his eyebrows. The Eye of Life and Death and Reincarnation emanated its own aura, profound and infinite.

With three eyes and two wings, it stands in mid-air, surrounded by a halo formed from three soul cores, perfectly harmonious and awe-inspiring, embodying the yin and yang of heaven and earth, and reigning supreme alone.