Douluo Dalu 2: Heavenly Eyed Douluo

Huo Yuhao let out a breath as he fearlessly charged towards the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, black flames layering his palm as he struck its furry chest.

Boom!*

There was a loud boom as the concentrated black flames pierced through and out of the soul beast's back in a violent eruption, searing through fur, flesh, and even bone.

"ROOOO!!"

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear howled in agony, its massive frame shaking violently as it staggered backward, its soul power fluctuating violently.

'Fire Control—' Huo Yuhao then tried to sweep Amaterasu the entire bear's body, but he felt a sense of danger coming behind him.

His body blurred just as the golden claws struck down, uprooting trees and tearing through grass, dirt and rocks to create a small canyon.

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear let out a threatening growl, despite the hole and burnt wound on its chest, its immense vitality kept it standing.

If there was one universal truth about bears, is that they're fucking tanks. Unless they're dead or scared shitless, they will not stop pursuing their prey.

'Its body is really tough.' Huo Yuhao thought as he observed from atop a branch tree, his eyes narrowed. 'I have to be careful. If it lands just a single hit on me with its claws, without using my Susanoo, I'll be dead.'

Huo Yuhao could end its life with a straight concentrated spiritual power attack on the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's mind, but that would've defeated the whole purpose of having it as his benchmark. And he also wanted to experience how it felt fighting against a "fake" 100,000 year old soul beast.

He had promised Skydream that he would help him gain revenge against those who wronged him after all, and they're all at least 100,000 years old.

'My Ultimate Ice-Fire is quite effective against this bear. Hmm. Is its defense also at the same level as the average 100,000 year old soul beast or not?' Huo Yuhao pondered and prepared to attack, his figure blurring.

"Roo!" The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear reacted instinctively and swiped their large golden claws to his right, hitting a glowing blue ribcage with Huo Yuhao inside of it looking shocked as the Susanoo began to crack.

'It noticed me!? Its reaction speed and its claw—!'

The golden claw shone a bright golden light, immense soul power surging out as cracks spread rapidly across the Susanoo's ribcage.

'Susanoo!' Huo Yuhao's eyes constricted, pulling more soul power and his Susanoo expanded—becoming a glowing blue skeleton with its arm pulled back, its unblinking golden orbs for eyes stared straight at the stunned Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear for a moment.

Booom!

Before the Susanoo delivered a powerful punch to its face, sending it flying to the side and crashing through several trees.

"I let my guard down..." Huo Yuhao let out a short breath, the Susanoo around him dissipated. He didn't expect the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear to suddenly have a sudden burst of speed and almost struck him with its deadly claw.

Truly, he couldn't underestimate ten thousand year old soul beast—especially one as strong as this.

"Since their spiritual power is weaker than mine, then using any of my Sharingan soul skills would overwhelm them to death. My second martial soul....forget it. I don't want to dance around with death. What else should I test to understand my strength?" Huo Yuhao said, a contemplating look on his face and he widened his eyes.

"Oh right! I haven't used them yet."

"Rooo!"

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear got up on its four legs?, shaking off the impact like a rampaging beast that refused to fall. Blood dripped from its snout, but its crimson eyes burned with greater intensity than before.

"Rooo." It growled heavily and stomped the ground, its golden claws extending once more as an overwhelming aura of battle intent radiated from its massive body.

It towards Huo Yuhao and was about to start charging straight towards him, when the human's figure blurred and he reappeared right in front of it.

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear was stunned for a moment before reacting quickly with its right claw swinging high, and to its astonishment, Huo Yuhao responded with his fist.

Its eyes glinted with a look of mockery. A mere human dared to challenge its magnificent claw with his bare fist? How utterly foolish.

But the next instant, its beady red eyes widened in shock.

Boom!*

The moment their attacks clashed, an explosive shockwave tore through the surroundings, uprooting trees and shattering the earth beneath them.

Blood dripped across Huo Yuhao's arm, revealing bone and raw muscle unable to fully withstand the immense force of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's strike. However, despite such a gory mess, Huo Yuhao smirked.

The Eternal Eye on his forehead shone a bright grey light.

Asura Path: An Immortal Body as long as you make an opponent bleed; for this path leads you to become an asura that lives eternally through the blood of his enemies.

The wound on the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear began to behave weirdly, causing the soul beast to look down in confusion as the crimson liquid trembled unnaturally.

At first, it seemed to resist, bubbling and steaming as if trying to escape some unseen force.

Then, to the utter shock of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, its blood began to rise.

The blood flowed forward, leaving the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's body as if being forcefully drawn away—toward Huo Yuhao's wound.

The moment the first droplet touched his exposed bone, his raw flesh began to mend at an inhuman rate.

Muscle knitted together. Skin regenerated. Strength surged through his body, even stronger than before.

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear staggered, a look of confusion and fear creeping into its red eyes.

"R-Rooo?!"

"So it doesn't just provide high speed regeneration." Huo Yuhao muttered, looking at his healed arm in fascination. He could feel not just his physical strength had increased, but his soul power had also slightly recovered.

Wouldn't this mean that if he were to face an army, as long as he kept wounding them, he would become undying?

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear began to tremble when Huo Yuhao smirked at him with his clenched fist.

"C'mon, Big Fella. Give me your best shot."

"Roooo!"

Despite its doubts and fears, the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear refused to back down.

It raised its magnificent golden claws and started clawing down at Huo Yuhao, massive surges of soul power exploded from it; going all out to tear apart the human in front of it.

With sharp and powerful claws that could tear through space and rend the earth asunder, it completely devastated everything before it into a wasteland—and Huo Yuhao was at point blank range of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's attack.

'As long as my head and heart is protected, I will not die.' Huo Yuhao thought as he kept calm as his skins peeled apart, blood dripping and muscles tearing apart.

But at the same time, he healed.

The moment his blood splattered onto the ground, and the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's wounds dripped blood, the Asura Path's effect activated once more.

His ripped flesh regenerated instantly, muscle fibers knitting back together at an unnatural speed.

Yet the pain—the pain was still there. Excruciating pain that would've made a grown man that had gone through extreme torture would've fainted.

But pain was a familiar mistress to Huo Yuhao, to the point that only emotional damage and attacks to the soul could ever affect him.

He kept smiling, blood covering his body.

"Hahahaha! Is that all you've got?!" Huo Yuhao clenched his fist and he let out a deep breath.

"Gate of Opening — Open!"

"Gate of Healing — Open!"

"Gate of Life — Open!"

"Wooo! C'mon!" Huo Yuhao excitedly exclaimed, his eyes gaining a deeper shade of red and he launched a punch straight the bear's face.

"Rooo!!"

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's relentless onslaught continued, its claws carving deep trenches across Huo Yuhao's body, but its attacks were met with an equally terrifying phenomenon—

No matter how many times the beast tore him apart, Huo Yuhao's body restored itself almost instantly, as though time itself refused to let him fall.

His bones cracked, reformed, and strengthened with every hit.

His soul power, instead of depleting, was rising.

And he would returned all the attacks the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear landed on him by two-fold with straight up punches and kicks.

"ROOOOO!" Just as the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear was about to deliver another blow, but a human palm was gently placed on front of its body once more.

Huo Yuhao's appearance had a drastic change; with red tribal tattoos over his face.

(AN: Think of the face tattoos that Yuji from jjk gets when Sukuna possess him)

With a deep, calm voice, he proclaims,

"Fall."

Huo Yuhao flexed his arm, sending a shockwave rippling through the air; sounds of bones cracking, muscles tearing, and organs exploding sounded.

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's body convulsed violently, spitting out a mouthful of blood that completely covered Huo Yuhao's body and went completely still—a black soul ring gradually took form above it.

Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao calmly pulled back his hand and stared at his palm. "Hm. That was the maximum amount of physical strength I gained by using the Asura's Path and opening three gates; I estimate it to be around the same level, physically, as an above average Titled Douluo with how it completely destroyed the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear."

He clenched his hand. "If my body hadn't been refined by Ultimate Ice-Fire, I probably wouldn't have been able to utilize the Asura Path and the three inner gates to such proficiency at first use."

He glanced to the side, the red tribal tattoos on his face disappearing as his Eternal Eye shone once more.

"This is a great opportunity to use another path or two."

From the large trees, several beastly figures emerged. Their auras showed that they were much inferior to the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, but much stronger than the average ten thousand year old soul beasts.

'So about 40-50,000 years old? Just who the hell is that Skysplitting Demon Dragon's backer to send all of these soul beasts? Or is it just a coincidence?' He narrowed his eyes and saw similar golden marks on their foreheads.

As the soul beasts slowly crept up on him, thinking that they've cornered him, Huo Yuhao smirked.

"14 versus 1? Well that certainly isn't fair..." Huo Yuhao raised his hand horizontally and all four soul rings disappeared.

"For you all, that is."

All of a sudden, the temperature took a nosedive and ice began to gradually cover the area. The soul beasts all began to freeze, struck frozen in complete fear.

A terrifying and domineering exuded from the blood-red soul ring, with four golden strands, from beneath Huo Yuhao's feet.

"Universal Pull!"

Suddenly, seven out of the fourteen soul beasts lost all control of their bodies and were swiftly pulled towards Huo Yuhao's location.

Ice crystals layered Huo Yuhao's skin, gleaming like diamond dust under the moonlight. His Ultimate Ice surged through his body; second soul skill of the Ice Jade Scorpion Empress's soul ring—Ice Empress's Armor.

As the soul beasts drew near, Huo Yuhao snorted and dozens of ice spears instantly formed out of his ice armor, effortlessly piercing through the bodies of the soul beasts.

'Hmm. Can I...?' As he looked down at the forming soul rings, a twisted idea came to Huo Yuhao's mind.

'Preta Path: Limitless energy absorption(Soul power, spiritual power, Immortal Qi, chakra, etc.). Could it even absorb the soul rings?'

'W-What is he?'

Hiding like a mist behind a tree was the middle-aged man that Huo Yuhao saved earlier. His eyes wide in shock and disbelief from what he had.

That clearly wasn't no ordinary youth, but a monster! A man that transcends all sense and logic.

'I...I have to go! I have to warn the princess and the others.'

Unbeknownst to him, a pair of reddish-golden eyes stared at his retreating figure with narrowed eyes.

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3/3 chapters of the week