Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

With the important matters settled, Fan Yu picked up the gravity soul tool that was on the table again.

"Xiao You, may I ask why you're in such a hurry to create this gravity soul tool?"

"Uh, I'm sorry, teacher, I can't go into the specifics because it involves the Tang Sect's secret techniques. I can only say that the purpose of creating this gravity soul tool is to complete the second awakening of the martial soul under the pressure of super gravity."

"The second awakening of the Body Sect's martial soul?"

"It's a bit different. If the teacher is free, I can observe once I'm ready. Although, it's unlikely that I'll succeed on the first try."

"Is it dangerous?"

"Theoretically, yes, but in practice, there shouldn't be any real danger to life. To summarize the whole process, it's roughly about experiencing a desperate situation, overcoming it, and gaining a new life."

"Let me know when you're ready, and I'll take you to a quiet place. Your freshman dorms can be quite noisy sometimes."

"Thank you, teacher."

Despite having just become an apprentice, Long You had already felt the care from Fan Yu.

As seen in the original novel, although Fan Yu appears to be a cold and tough guy, he actually cares deeply about his disciples. Now, Long You has taken Huo Yuhao's place and become Fan Yu's second personal disciple.

It took four days for Long You to create a Level 3 Gravity Soul Guidance Device, completing most of the preparatory work for awakening the Martial Soul's consciousness and carrying out the second awakening of the Martial Soul.

However, four days is clearly not enough time for Bei Bei and Tang Ya to complete the gestation of their martial soul consciousness embryos. These two will need at least two months before they can attempt to awaken their martial soul consciousness.

In Heaven Dou City, Long's parents, who had been practicing meditation for six years, had completed the process of nurturing their Martial Soul consciousness embryos. However, these two were, after all, mid-level Soul Masters, and with their strength, the super-heavy magnetic field created by the gravity soul tool alone was insufficient to sense a sufficiently great danger.

So after discussing it, Long's parents decided to go directly into the sea. In the deep sea, they would have to withstand the pressure of the seawater and constantly guard against the threat from sea monsters.

Considering that the deep sea environment is a real life-threatening crisis, Long's parents did not rush into action but instead called for their own parents.

Since Grandpa Longyou had already entered the territory of the Sun Moon Empire, it was impossible to contact him in the short term and he couldn't easily return. Therefore, this time, Mom Long called upon the support of her maternal family.

It was only this time that Long You learned that he had a Soul Douluo grandmother, and that his mother was actually a noblewoman of the Douling Empire, with some connection to the Douling Empire's royal family.

However, as the saying goes, "Mountains may crumble, and people may run away." Whether a person can grow and succeed ultimately depends on their own efforts. Family background can be an added bonus, but it should never be the decisive factor; otherwise, so-called success is nothing but a castle in the air.

After finishing the creation of the gravity soul tool, Long You temporarily stopped going to the soul tool department's teaching building and returned to the daily routine of attending classes as a Shrek Academy freshman. However, amidst this seemingly normal routine, Long You was meditating to restore his soul power much more frequently.

Although Long You felt that the connection between himself and his Martial Soul was closer than he had imagined, he shouldn't face the awkward situation where only a true life-or-death crisis could awaken his Martial Soul's consciousness.

However, Long You felt that it was impossible for him to successfully awaken his martial spirit consciousness in a completely unharmed state.

In order to avoid the possibility of serious injuries, Longyou decided to continuously create and accumulate life-giving water droplets over the next seven days.

As the only soul skill analyzed by the Insight Glasses and recorded in the Book of Witness, the Life Drop, like a food-type soul skill, can be preserved for a long time after being created.

With the help of the specially crafted sealed jar by Long You, the life-giving water droplets, once created by the soul skill, can remain for a full seven days without weakening their healing effect.

The reason Long You told Fan Yu that he wasn't ready was to accumulate as many life-giving water droplets as possible over the next seven days.

Seven days later, Long You followed Fan Yu to the shore of Sea God Lake. Looking at the bamboo rafts floating on the lake shore, Long You instantly understood where Fan Yu's quiet place in the sky really was.

Indeed, there is nowhere more peaceful than floating directly in the vast Poseidon Lake.

"This bamboo raft cannot withstand the gravity force generated by the gravity soul tool, so when the gravity field is activated, the bamboo raft will be pushed into the water."

You shouldn't take control of this gravity-based soul tool; instead, I will. You don't know when I'll shut down the gravity field, so you won't know if you'll actually lose consciousness and die from the combined pressure of suffocation and G-force.

This way, you should be able to experience a life-threatening crisis to the fullest extent. This arrangement should meet your requirements, right?

"It's much better than I expected, thank you teacher."

"Go ahead. I won't stop the gravity soul tool until I sense a change in your martial soul."

By tying his feet to the ropes on the bamboo raft, Long You placed a soul-guided thruster into the water, propelling the raft slowly to a deeper area.

Just as Long You had retracted the soul-guided thruster and hadn't even straightened his posture, a powerful pressure enveloped the area where the bamboo raft was located and enveloped Long You himself.

At this moment, Long You had no time to care about the rapidly sinking bamboo raft, nor to feel the fear of being quickly submerged by the lake water and being unable to escape.

Because the gravity enveloping Long You was so terrifying, at the very moment it struck him, Long You clearly heard the bones in his body groaning under the unbearable weight.

Long You desperately tried to breathe, but the icy lake water flowed directly into his lungs through his nasal cavity. Long You wanted to cough, but opening his mouth was now a luxury. Long You tried to circulate his soul power and activate his internal breathing ability, but under the pressure of the extremely high gravity, the circulation of his soul power was as slow as a snail's crawl.

Choking on water, suffocating, and helpless against gravity, Long You admitted that at this moment he truly felt the threat of death. He seemed to hear the scraping sound of Death's scythe cutting through the ground; he seemed to feel the chilling aura rushing towards him.

At this moment, Long You was like a drowning person, desperately trying to grab onto a straw. However, Long You could not move or make a sound, and darkness and cold were gradually engulfing his body.

Gradually, Long You's consciousness began to blur uncontrollably. But just then, Long You felt a warm current, a throbbing sensation, and a call that, though indistinct, was undeniably real.