APTnovel Chapter 221 Revisiting the Demon Forest
Chapter 221 Revisiting the Demon Forest
Chapter 221 Revisiting the Demon Forest
Having mastered the Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian Sect and the Great Sumeru Hammer, Tang San naturally knew the power of these two supreme techniques of Haotian Sect.
With these two unique skills, Haotian Sect became the number one sect in the world.
"Tang San, could it be?"
"He is my great-grandfather." Tang San nodded. If his great-grandfather really came to Seagod Island, it would indeed be a pleasant surprise.
As the creator of the Haotian Technique, Tang Chen is now the most suitable person to guide his cultivation. Tang San already knows that after a Soul Master reaches level 95, breaking through requires more than just accumulating Soul Power; it also requires a deep understanding of the Martial Soul.
When Ding Quan told Tang San in Sunset Forest about the surprise he was about returning to Seagod Island, it was indeed Tang Chen.
In Ding Quan's view, Tang San was a rigid and conservative person who regarded what he knew as truth and had no intention of changing it.
Legend has it that he used the Xuan Tian Gong manual for tens of thousands of years without any idea of improvement. After becoming a god, he continued to use the Trident of the Sea God and the Thirteen Forms left by the Sea God to fight against enemies. He did not create anything new that suited him and basically just relied on the legacy left by his godhood.
At this point, he was only one spirit ring short, but this one wouldn't be enough to significantly improve his abilities.
You can't quickly increase your strength by absorbing spirit rings. The last few levels of Tang San's title douluo journey will definitely take a lot of time.
"A peerless Douluo known as one of the two peaks of the Soul Master world!" Shrek Academy's knowledge at this time was not what it was during their time at the academy. They had only heard Yu Xiaogang mention the famous Title Douluo in the Soul Master world.
"A peerless Douluo just like Poseidon."
"So what if he's a peerless Douluo? He's no match for the Grand Elder." Upon hearing this, Xiao Bai swam even faster. Decades ago, Tang Chen and another Soul Master fought against Poseidon, and they admitted defeat back then.
"Who is the High Priest's rival on Poseidon Island?"
Shrek and the others did not refute it. Poseidon's martial soul was the Sea God, and the sea was her home ground. The sea could be said to be her natural territory.
The reason why domain skills are called the most powerful skills is that after releasing a domain, the surrounding environment can be transformed into an environment that is advantageous to oneself, greatly enhancing one's own strength and suppressing opponents.
"By the way, Xiaobai, do you know if I'll ever get another divinely bestowed spirit ring?" Tang San thought of something. Xiaobai, as the guardian spirit beast of Seagod Island, had lived on Seagod Island for ten thousand years and knew a great deal about the island.
"A divinely bestowed soul ring?"
"My Clear Sky Hammer is still missing a soul ring; I haven't found a suitable one yet."
"In this way, those who pass the Black-level or higher test can only obtain one God-given Soul Ring. However, those who pass the Red-level test can also obtain a God-given Soul Ring if they still have a Soul Ring slot after completing the seventh test."
Without much thought, Xiao Bai revealed what he knew: Red-level examinees do indeed receive more divine soul rings than Black-level examinees.
In the original story, Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu both passed the Red Level assessment and ultimately received three God-given Soul Rings, thus possessing more 100,000-year Soul Rings than the others.
"The seventh test? I understand."
Tang San nodded upon hearing this. Since there was still a chance to obtain a divinely bestowed soul ring, there was no need to go to ordinary soul beasts anymore.
"Xiao San, if you had told me earlier that the ninth spirit ring wouldn't involve hunting spirit beasts, I wouldn't have traded that divinely bestowed spirit ring. It will take me a long time to reach the Title Douluo level," Oscar said in a deep voice. Previously, Tang Hao had said he would take Tang San to obtain a 100,000-year-old spirit beast, but after Tang San lost to Ling, he gave up after seeing the golden patterns on the other party's spirit ring.
Now the issue of the golden patterns on Ding Quan and the others' red spirit rings is clear, but the answer is even more terrifying than they had guessed.
"Xiao Ao, it's alright. Even if you had one, I wouldn't absorb it now." Tang San's expression was grave. With his current physical strength, even if he absorbed a divinely bestowed soul ring, its lifespan would only be 100,000 years.
"Little San, do you want to?" Oscar immediately understood that Tang San was planning to upgrade his last spirit ring to the level of a ferocious beast spirit ring.
"Little Ao, we'll need your help making more sausages from now on."
"Alright!" Oscar nodded. He also needed to speed up his cultivation and strive to become the first food-type Title Douluo as soon as possible.
At that time, I will be able to obtain a 100,000-year soul ring and a 100,000-year soul bone, as well as another 10,000-year soul bone.
Furthermore, given my current age, even if I can't surpass those few people's record of becoming a Title Douluo, surpassing Haotian Douluo might not be a problem.
On Poseidon Island, Poseidon solemnly channeled her soul power into the tall man before her, but after a moment, she revealed her disappointment.
"Don't try. I know my physical condition very well. If it weren't for this seal, I would have been dead long ago." Tang Chen said calmly, looking straight at Poseidon. He originally thought that meeting Poseidon would only prolong his life by a few more days. Now, with this seal, he would be fine as long as he didn't use his original power. He was already very satisfied with the current situation.
"This seal is not strong." As a level ninety-nine person who can mobilize divine power, Poseidon knew clearly that this seal would break sooner or later.
The power within Tang Chen's body was no less than his own full strength. Although the seal was very strong, it was not strong enough compared to Tang Chen's power.
"The person who sealed my power has already done an extraordinary job."
"Indeed remarkable." Poseidon's expression was inscrutable. Tang Chen had inherited the divine position and could be said to have completed the eighth trial. His body was already that of a demigod.
The ability to seal the power of a demigod is something that ordinary people cannot do, even with Tang Chen suppressing his own power. Moreover, Tang Chen said that the person was only at the eighth ring and had not yet absorbed the ninth soul ring.
"I fell at the last step to becoming a god. If it weren't for them, I might have been trapped there forever. After I left, they might have started the divine test and gone further than me." Tang Chen thought of the strength of those people. They were only at the eighth ring, yet they were able to suppress him who was possessed by the Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King. Although he could not exert his full strength, he was still a peerless Douluo.
"Yeah?"
Poseidon looked at Tang Chen, who had begun the Nine Trials of Asura, but had stopped at the eighth trial. How could this not be a pity?
"My descendants should know them."
You mean Tang San?
"I never expected that my descendant would be able to inherit the position of the Sea God." Tang Chen's tone became low. Someone inheriting the position of the Sea God means that once the other party completes the eight trials, the high priest will need to offer a sacrifice to open the gate of inheritance during the ninth trial.
"Perhaps this is the best outcome at this moment." Poseidon withdrew her hand that had released soul power. This seal could last for a while, and it was time for Tang San to complete his sixth trial.
Poseidon looked into the distance, where Xiao Bai had already returned with Tang San and his group.
"Has he returned?" Tang Chen couldn't use too much power at the moment, so his current strength was far beyond that of Poseidon.
"Let's go, so you can see your descendant," Poseidon said, flying away into the distance. She wanted to know how strong Tang San was after becoming a Title Douluo, and whether he had the ability to pass the sixth trial.
Normally, Tang San's sixth trial should have been to withstand the attack of the seven sacred pillars of Seagod Island for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. However, the Seagod's oracle had previously stated that Tang San would face a terrifying opponent, so the test of the sixth trial became to withstand the attack of Poseidon for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
In the original story, Tang San's sixth trial was to fight against Poseidon with the Shrek Academy group. With the assistance of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Oscar, Tang San, at level 80-something, managed to last for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn against Poseidon, who could only use her first six spirit rings and could not use her domain or the power of the sea.
Now that the Shrek Seven Devils are no longer there to help, the only way to face Poseidon is to raise one's own strength to the level of a Title Douluo.
At this age, he's already at level 93!
Even with divine intervention, achieving this level would require exceptional talent.
Tang Chen stood next to Poseidon and looked at the group of people coming from a distance. He recognized Tang San at a glance. Tang San's martial soul was the Clear Sky Hammer, and its heavy weight was a characteristic of the Clear Sky Hammer.
There were a few others who were about the same age as Tang San, but their levels had already reached the Soul Saint realm.
Reaching the Soul Saint level at such an age is something even I couldn't achieve back then.
Tang Chen, a powerful figure who dominated the Soul Master world decades ago, broke through to the Title Douluo level before the age of fifty. He then spent nearly fifty years cultivating to the level of ninety-nine with his own talent. When he reached the level of ninety-nine, he was a few years older than the Sea God from ten thousand years ago.
Qian Daoliu also reached level 99 before he was a hundred years old, and he and Tang Chen were known as the two great masters of the Soul Master world.
Decades ago, after the Spirit Hall attacked Seagod Island, Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu came to Seagod Island and met Poseidon. After they fought each other, Tang Chen went to the City of Slaughter to keep a promise, and Qian Daoliu returned to the Spirit Hall.
Tang Hao became a Title Douluo at the age of forty-four, breaking the record set by others who had previously become Title Douluos. This record must have been true at the time, otherwise no one would have refuted it.
Although Bibi Dong quickly broke this record afterward, the time when Bibi Dong became a Title Douluo was not known to the public.
Therefore, it was quite surprising to Tang Chen that Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar were able to become Soul Saints at such a young age. These people were all in their twenties, and according to this age, they should be able to reach the eighth ring level by the time they are around thirty.
"Great Elder!" Tang San and his group had just entered Seagod Island when they saw Poseidon standing to the side, and there was another person who caught their attention.
"It seems you know my identity." Tang Chen noticed Tang San's gaze fixed on him and sensed a familiar aura emanating from him—the Killing God Domain!
"Great-grandfather!" Tang San looked at Tang Chen in front of him. His appearance was somewhat familiar, and he looked very similar to his father, but not sloppily.
"As expected of Hao'er's child!"
A look of relief flashed across Tang Chen's face. Tang San's soul power was no less than his own back then. No wonder he could inherit the Sea God's position.
"Tang San, it seems you haven't completed your spirit rings?"
Poseidon naturally saw Tang San's current level as well. Level 93 soul power was very high, but if Tang San were to complete the soul rings he had previously possessed, his level would definitely be much higher.
"You're right, senior. I'm only missing one more spirit ring."
"Oh?" Poseidon was a little surprised. With Tang San's current strength, obtaining a spirit ring would not be a problem, and hunting a 100,000-year-old spirit beast would not be dangerous.
"Great Elder, it's like this, we encountered a few people on the continent whose red spirit rings had golden patterns on them. We heard that such spirit rings are over 200,000 years old, so..." Seeing Tang San deep in thought, Ma Hongjun didn't hide anything and said directly.
"A red spirit ring with golden patterns?" Poseidon's eyes lit up. As a worshipper of the Sea God, there were spirit beasts in the sea that could produce spirit rings with golden patterns. And on Sea God Island, only she could deal with such beings.
"Are they over 200,000 years old?" Tang Chen's expression darkened upon hearing this. If soul beasts could live for over 200,000 years, could that nine-headed blood-red bat also be one?
That makes sense; how could an ordinary 100,000-year-old soul beast possibly have such abilities?
"Those people all have red spirit rings with golden patterns on them, and they are extremely strong. One of them has now become a level 95 Title Douluo. I was no match for her when I fought her." Tang San saw that Poseidon and Tang Chen were looking at him with serious eyes.
"That person is a monster. Xiao San blew off several of his spirit rings, but the opponent blocked Xiao San's Clear Sky Hammer without even releasing his Martial Soul True Body."
"Boss Dai, she didn't release her Martial Soul True Form, but she used a blood-red giant sword against her. The terrifying killing intent was even more frightening than when Tang San released the Killing God Domain!" As an auxiliary Soul Master, Oscar was still shaken by the terrifying killing intent that appeared after the blood-red sword appeared.
"The Asura Demon Sword! It's them!" Upon hearing this, Tang Chen had his answer. The blood-red giant sword, along with its killing intent, was just like the characteristics of the Asura Demon Sword.
"Tang Chen, are you referring to the people you met?" Poseidon knew that Tang Chen had been rescued by three young men when he first arrived at Poseidon Island. However, she had given those people a divine artifact that she had condensed after completing her seventh trial.
Tang Chen had said that those people were obviously after the Asura Demon Sword in his possession and would not let him take it away.
If a fight were to break out, those three young men would indeed be no match for him, but they were extremely strong and prepared. If they were to use their full strength, his body would collapse, and he would basically be unable to leave the City of Slaughter.
"Are their martial spirits a sword, a lotus flower, or a winged tiger?"
"Yes! Great-grandfather, you've seen them?"
"It really is them. Which of them broke through to the Title Douluo level? The golden pattern on their last spirit ring? As Title Douluos, you will indeed have a hard time being their match." Tang Chen stared at Tang San. Even though Tang San had cultivated the Exploding Ring technique, his current strength was not to be underestimated, but the strength of those other people was equally terrifying.
They did indeed have red spirit rings with golden patterns on their bodies, and there was more than one red spirit ring.
With only an eighth-ring cultivation level, they forced me, who was parasitized by the blood-red bat, to flee. Each of them was strong enough to rival a Super Douluo, and they weren't even level 95.
Once they advance to the title of Douluo, their strength will be absolutely terrifying. And the direction they went at that time seemed to be the place of that blood-red bat.
"It's that Snow Lotus Soul Master; her last soul ring has five golden lines."
"Five golden markings? An existence over 500,000 years old!" Before Tang Chen could speak, Poseidon's shocked tone immediately drew the attention of Tang San and the others. "A soul beast that's 500,000 years old is equivalent to a level 99 Soul Master!"
"So, I didn't lose unjustly." Tang Chen breathed a sigh of relief. At the crucial moment of his assessment, someone who was almost as good as him interfered, so the defeat was not so hard to accept.
A lifespan of 500,000 years is equivalent to a Soul Master level 99?
Tang San and the two from Shrek Academy looked at each other in disbelief. Level 99? Wasn't that the same strength as the two people in front of them?
"Senior, they have something that can trigger a reaction from the Trident of the Sea God mark. Do you know what it is?" Tang San suppressed his shock by circulating his Mysterious Heaven Skill and asked Poseidon with a puzzled look.
"The reaction of the Poseidon Trident mark? That should only be the core of the Poseidon artifact that was left outside a long time ago." Poseidon nodded. Tang San actually knew what the mark on his head was now, so there was no need to hide it anymore.
"The core of a divine artifact?"
"Tang San, the core of the Sea God Trident is in their hands, so they should be the opponents you will face in the upcoming Divine Trial."
It really is so! And that's actually the core of the divine artifact.
Tang San's expression darkened, and he looked at Tang Chen beside him. If anyone could help him improve his strength quickly, it would only be this great-grandfather.
Just as Tang San was frantically training on Seagod Island.
Upon arriving at the Evil Soul Forest, Ding Quan and his companions adopted somewhat strange expressions.
The target we had previously identified has now been targeted by someone else.
However, it seemed to be someone they knew; the soul power fluctuations coming from afar made everyone feel somewhat familiar with them.
Just as they had guessed, they crossed the far north and arrived at the Sun and Moon Continent.