Douluo: Rock King, the King of the World

Chapter 6 Shadow General

The second soul skill, "Hanging Rocks and Breaking the Rocks", is a pure protective soul skill. It condenses rock elements to form a jade shield. When the jade shield is impacted, it will produce a "solid wall" effect, making the shield more resilient. This effect can be stacked up to five times.

As for the second martial soul, Zhongli has no plans to add spirit rings yet, and neither does the Tiandou royal family. The reason is very simple. Adding spirit rings to the second martial soul now is a waste of talent! Theoretically, if you wait until the seventh or eighth ring to add spirit rings to the second martial soul, then the first ring can start from the ten thousand year level.

Such strength is definitely not comparable to that of a soul master with a single martial soul, and it is entirely possible to reach a higher level.

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In the blink of an eye, six years have passed.

Many things had happened in the past six years. The first was the secret change in the political situation of the Tiandou Empire. Almost everyone believed that the eldest prince Xue Qinghe would inherit the throne, which was a foregone conclusion.

Originally, before Zhongli came to this world, the Tiandou Empire had a total of four princes; the second prince was the most wise, precocious, and his various talents progressed rapidly. Not only was he the most loved by Emperor Xue Ye, he was also the recognized candidate for the crown prince in the hearts of many old ministers, and his talent was ten times that of the eldest prince Xue Qinghe.

There is also the third prince, who has the most outstanding talent in martial spirit. He mutated his family martial spirit into a more powerful "Flashing Swan". His innate spirit power is as high as level eight. His talent is not inferior to the two princes of the Star Luo Empire, and he is believed to have a chance to become a Titled Douluo in the future.

There is only the Fourth Prince, who is young and dandy, and no one pays attention to him or thinks highly of him. He is the most useless person.

As a result, eleven years ago, the second prince died suddenly of a disease, when Zhongli was just born; a year later, the third prince, who had the best soul master talent, also died suddenly. The royal family's hope also fell on the eldest prince who suddenly "awakened".

But now, the situation has changed again. Although on the surface, the youngest son of Emperor Xue Ye is very low-key; but those who know the inside story can see that Emperor Xue Ye is secretly training this youngest son as his successor.

Although Emperor Xue Ye is old, he is not stupid; although there is no evidence, it would be a lie to say that he has no doubt about Xue Qinghe.

In fact, even though Emperor Xue Ye secretly provided the highest level of security for Zhongli and Ying, and the standard of protection was even higher than that for himself, Zhongli was still assassinated three times in the past six years, and the last one even involved the Titled Douluo Ying.

Fortunately, good things come to those who are lucky; despite encountering such a disaster, Zhongli was unharmed and did not die young like his two adopted brothers whom he had never met.

On the third day after the last assassination attempt, the eldest prince suddenly fell ill and stayed indoors for a whole month. There were rumors that the eldest prince was stabbed by a mysterious person in the East Palace; the electric current paralyzed him and made him unable to get out of bed for a whole month.

Since then, there has been no more assassination attempts on the princes of the Tiandou Empire.

Nowadays, the court of the Tiandou Empire has gradually split into two factions: the First Prince's faction and the Fifth Prince's faction. Although the Fifth Prince never intended to create a faction, a large group of people naturally entrenched themselves behind him, and became more and more powerful. Even the dandy Fourth Prince Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing, who had always been close to the Fourth Prince, could barely be considered a member of the Fifth Prince's faction.

Another major event was that half a year ago, the Tiandou Empire suddenly launched an annexation war against the vassal kingdom of Barak. At first, the Tiandou Empire suddenly began to issue restrictive policies against various vassal kingdoms a few years ago. First, it targeted the "coinage rights" of various kingdoms, and launched an attack on the gold soul coins and silver soul coins minted by various countries, claiming that a large amount of other metals were deliberately mixed into them. The countries were required to either pay a huge fine, or to use real gold soul coins that had been tested to meet the gold content standards, or to use physical objects such as grain and cloth; or, from then on, they would hand over their coinage rights and were not allowed to mint currency privately.

Then, the Empire also restricted the size of the military of each country, requiring each country to reduce its military to varying degrees. The largest reduction was made in the Kingdom of Barak, which was originally the most powerful military, and even reduced its military by 70%. Moreover, all military training had to be conducted by instructors sent by the Empire headquarters.

As a result, half a year ago, the Barak Kingdom killed the envoy of the Empire Headquarters and openly announced its separation from the Heaven Dou Empire. The local bishop of the Spirit Hall held a coronation ceremony for King Barak, the cousin of the Snowy Night Emperor, Okula, in the Barak Capital, and officially ascended the throne to become the emperor!

This was the first time that Princess Ying of the Empire led troops to war. It was also the beginning of the legend of "General Ying" on this continent.

The commander-in-chief of the expedition against the Kingdom of Barak was the old general Goron of the Empire, who commanded a total of 200,000 infantry and cavalry troops and marched out in a mighty force. It was only under Ying's firm request that he was able to lead a cavalry unit to cooperate with the old general's military operations.

As a result, Ying led 10,000 cavalrymen and marched straight into the mountains. During a heavy rain, the cavalrymen led by Ying suddenly passed through the mountains and launched a surprise attack on the main force of the Barak Kingdom who was taking shelter from the rain. The heavy rain covered the whereabouts of the imperial army. Under the assault of the imperial cavalry, the huge infantry corps of the Barak Kingdom collapsed almost instantly. They fled in the mountains, but because of the mud, they could not move and were easily harvested and killed by the imperial army.
The sign of the final collapse was that the reinforcements that had finally arrived in the rain and mud, but the commander who was at the level of a six-ringed Soul Emperor, was actually killed in front of the formation with a single sword strike by the purple-haired girl in the thunder and rain.

When the sword light was retracted and the Soul Emperor's head fell to the ground, the "clang" sound of the weapon falling to the ground sounded like raindrops.

The Kingdom of Barak was destroyed. When the king's head was chopped off, Goron's main force had not even reached the Lima Plain, the core of the Kingdom of Barak.

From then on, everyone knew that the Tiandou Empire had produced an invincible "Iron-blooded Princess". Before she was twelve years old, her naginata had already killed enemy generals and beheaded kings!
Ying had not returned yet. She and her troops were going to stay in the Kingdom of Barak for a while, firstly to deter, and secondly to be ready to suppress any unrest that might arise.

However, Zhongli had already received a long list, and he was rubbing his forehead at this moment. This list was what he wanted; the name of the list was called "Non-standard Spirit Master Organization".

Sure enough, on this long list, Zhongli saw the name he expected.

"Shrek Academy"

In terms of annotations, the "description of bad deeds" of the Shrek Academy is much longer than that of other forces.

"Published false propaganda information, such as the fact that there was a Spirit Hall elder among the academy students, which was identified as seriously untrue."

Zhongli couldn't help but laugh. In the original work of "Douluo Dalu", Shrek Academy did mention this matter to the students. The problem is, it's fine if you make up other rumors; the elders of the Spirit Hall are at least Titled Douluo! Apart from other things, your Shrek Academy has only been open for a few years? How can you teach a Titled Douluo?

It's somewhat humorous.

(End of this chapter)