Apart from the Demon Emperor and Lan Fozi, no one truly knew what the eight-colored pearl that Lan Fozi had taken out actually was.
Even Chen Xinjie, the Vast Sea Douluo, was just as puzzled as the vast majority of people.
However, due to his martial soul and his naturally strong spiritual power, he had the deepest perception of it.
When Lan Fozi revealed that pearl, even he felt as if an endless, boundless ocean had suddenly appeared before his eyes.
The eight-colored radiance was filled with pure law energy. The value of this object was beyond comparison with any material wealth.
It even surpassed the Demon Chapter King's soul spirit and soul bone.
It wasn't just Chen Xinjie—on the main stage, the Kirin Douluo was also visibly moved. As an Ultimate Douluo, how could he not sense the intense law energy contained within that pearl? For someone like him, who had already reached the threshold of a demigod, the importance of this object was self-evident.
Having eight different colors meant that the laws had undergone eight transformations. The Douluo plane had long held a saying: Nine transformations make a god! In other words, this pearl was just one step away from divinity. If the Kirin Douluo could obtain it, he might even be able to break through to the rank of Quasi-God and join the ranks of the strongest beings in the world. How could he not be tempted?
However, despite this temptation, what the Kirin Douluo thought of more was giving this eight-colored pearl to his teacher, the Divine Realm Douluo, En Ci.
Though the Divine Realm Douluo, En Ci, was only a demigod, in terms of age, he was from the same generation as Chen Xinjie, Long Yeyue, and Qiangu Dieting.
If he did not break through to Quasi-God, he did not have many years left to live.
Yet, in the face of this unparalleled treasure that could make even demigods and Quasi-Gods envious, Gu Yue only felt her eyelids twitching wildly.
Pressing her fair forehead, she was speechless. If she had known something like this would happen, she would never have stepped onto this stage.
"I can't accept this. It's too precious. Besides, I sincerely love Xia Yi. You should give up." Gu Yue ran off the stage as she spoke. Since Lan Fozi had taken out such an incredibly valuable item, he clearly wasn't joking.
She absolutely didn't want to be pestered endlessly by Lan Fozi.
Such a love, she really couldn't bear it.
"I… I won't give up! Xia Yi doesn't deserve you. You belong to me!" Lan Fozi shouted at Gu Yue's retreating figure before rushing after her.
Hearing Lan Fozi's voice, Gu Yue was startled and ran even faster.
Seeing Xia Yi still sitting there, casually eating Sunflower seeds and watching the drama unfold, she instantly felt a surge of anger.
"A perverted woman is flirting with your girlfriend, and you're just sitting here watching like it's a show?" The more Gu Yue thought about it, the angrier she became. She quickly hid behind Xia Yi and pulled him in front of her.
Standing before Xia Yi, Lan Fozi finally stopped, about a meter away from him. Clenching his teeth, he said, "Xia Yi, right? I challenge you to a duel! Whoever wins gets Gu Yue."
"Go cool off somewhere else." Xia Yi rolled his eyes. "Have you ever seen someone gambling with their own wife as the stakes?"
"What? Are you scared?" Lan Fozi didn't explain further. Instead, he stared aggressively at Xia Yi and said, "You don't even dare accept a challenge from your love rival? Are you even a man?"
"What does my manhood have to do with you? Even if I'm not a man, Gu Yue is still willing to stay with me. What can you do about it?" Xia Yi shook his head. He never cared what others thought of him.
Besides, there was no need to argue with a brainless woman.
"You…" Lan Fozi's face turned red with frustration, but she couldn't come up with a single retort.
She would normally blush just from confessing her feelings to Gu Yue, so facing Xia Yi's shameless words, she truly had no way to respond.
"Go away and stop disturbing me and Yue'er." Xia Yi glanced at Lan Fozi. To make her give up, he turned around, pulled Gu Yue into his arms, and kissed her passionately on her luscious red lips.
Seeing this, Lan Fozi was instantly furious. She charged forward, palm striking at Xia Yi as she shouted, "Scoundrel! Shameless man! You're not allowed to defile Gu Yue!"
The surrounding air suddenly became thick and viscous. Xia Yi felt as if he had been thrown into the depths of the ocean. His entire body stiffened momentarily.
Even more terrifying, as Lan Fozi's palm strike came at him, it felt as if it had completely isolated the outside world. Everything around them turned into a vacuum—he couldn't breathe, nor could he sense anything other than water elements. The only thing he could truly feel was the terrifying force rushing toward him.
This strike wasn't just a whirlpool—it carried a sense of infinite variation. The vortex outside his body spun in one direction, but Lan Fozi's palm strike rotated in the opposite direction. The opposing forces compressed against each other, making it feel like his body was about to be crushed into dust.
"Spirit Abyss Realm?" Xia Yi looked at Lan Fozi in surprise.
Such control—her cultivation had definitely broken through to the Spirit Abyss Realm.
He hadn't expected Lan Fozi's spiritual power to have also reached the Spirit Abyss Realm.
As expected of a hundred-thousand-year-old Deep Sea Demon Whale in human form.
After all, even an ordinary Title Douluo had only reached the Spirit Abyss Realm.
Xia Yi didn't hesitate. In the instant he turned back, he also struck out with his palm. There was nothing fancy about it, but an overwhelming force erupted from his hand.
Wherever his five slender fingers passed, Lan Fuzi's vortex was forcefully torn apart.
The two of them were only about a meter apart, so by the time Lan Fuzi realized what had happened, Xia Yi's palm force was already in front of her face.
"You… you shameless!" Lan Fuzi looked at Xia Yi, unwilling to admit defeat. In that instant, she had clearly seen a black cauldron flash across his palm.
She immediately understood—this was the artifact that had triggered the nine-colored tribulation lightning and caused the battle in Star Luo City two days ago.
This realization made Lan Fuzi even more frustrated. In her opinion, if Xia Yi hadn't used his artifact, he wouldn't have been her match.
"All for the sake of keeping Yue'er from being harassed by a pervert. If that makes me shameless, then so be it." Xia Yi shrugged, not caring at all.
"You just wait!" Seeing Xia Yi's indifferent attitude, Lan Fuzi was gritting her teeth in frustration. She stomped her foot fiercely, causing the ground to shake with a loud boom, then turned and stormed off in anger.
She didn't attack again. The moment Xia Yi activated his artifact, she had felt a deep fear, a subconscious urge to submit.
She planned to return and ask the Demon Emperor about this before coming back to challenge Xia Yi again.
She had a vague suspicion that this was the reason why the Demon Emperor had spoken so highly of Xia Yi.
Xia Yi's Earth Cauldron, though only capable of suppressing the fate of land-based soul beasts, was still a cauldron of soul beast destiny, containing immense fate energy.
Under his control, even sea soul beasts and flying soul beasts would be somewhat affected.
They wouldn't be able to muster the will to resist.
Ten thousand years ago, the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, was only the Emperor Beast of the Star Dou Forest, yet soul beasts from other regions still wouldn't harm her.
(End of Chapter)
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