Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 120: Bargaining

"Why are you so tense and resolute? You're making me look like a villain."

The blue-gold spear condensed in Lin Rong's hand. More than half of his mental power was instantly infused into the spear, emitting a flowing light golden light.

Then, Lin Rong swept the spear across, waving a huge crescent-shaped spear light that pierced through the bodies of Jue and Gui.

The crescent-shaped spear light is condensed by the emperor's holy power and can forcibly interrupt the soul skills that the soul master is currently performing, which naturally includes the soul master's seventh soul skill, the true body of the martial soul.

The two people, Jue and Gui, who were hit by the spear, were affected by this. The Qirong Tongtianju real body and the ghost real body that they had already displayed were forcibly interrupted, and they exited the form of martial soul real body.

The seventh black soul ring on their bodies, which was originally shining with light, became dim at this moment.

The gigantic Qirong Tongtianju quickly shrank back into Yueguan's hand, and the ghost also changed from an illusory to almost transparent ghost back to human form.

"How can this be!"

Three exclamations sounded almost at the same time.

Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and even Dugu Bo who was standing next to Lin Rong, all three of them looked at the blue-gold spear with astonishment.

At this moment, they were all thinking the same thing:
What kind of magical object is this spear? It can actually forcibly interrupt the martial soul true body displayed by the Titled Douluo!
This unprecedented thing happened before their eyes and almost overturned their cognition.

The situation before him made Yue Guan Guimei feel desperate.

The true body of a martial soul, except for a very small number of special martial souls, or the true body of a martial soul that only exists in legends, or the cultivation has reached the legendary peak of level ninety-nine.

Otherwise, once the martial soul's true body state ends, the seventh soul skill will fall into a seven-day cooling period, during which time the soul skill cannot be used again.

Having lost their martial spirit bodies, they are afraid that they don’t even have the qualifications to fight to the death.

On the branch of the banyan tree, Dugu Bo looked at the blue-gold spear in Lin Rong's hand. His emerald green eyes rolled in his eye sockets, and the awe in his heart increased a few points.

Unlike the three of them who were surprised, Lin Rong was not at all surprised when he saw the effect of the Emperor's Holy Spear.

Actively using the Emperor's Holy Power, the upper limit of the forced interruption of soul skills depends on Lin Rong's own mental strength.

The Xisui Sutra that he practiced, although not a method specifically for cultivating mental power, is a top-level scripture for the simultaneous cultivation of essence, energy and spirit.

It has been more than ten years since Lin Rong started practicing the Xisui Sutra in the womb. During this period, he also absorbed the immortal herb Wangchuan Qiu Shui Lu.

Therefore, his current level of mental strength is much stronger than the old butler, whose soul power cultivation is as high as level ninety-seven.

In addition, in order to ensure the success of the previous attack, he injected 50% of his mental power into the Emperor's Holy Spear.

The Emperor's holy power of this intensity.

Unless it is Tang San who cultivated the Purple Demon Pupil to the fourth level "Vast" in the original work, it is impossible for an ordinary Titled Douluo to have a mental strength exceeding 50% of his mental strength.

Seeing that the atmosphere was somewhat dull and tense, the Emperor's Holy Spear in Lin Rong's hand turned into starlight and dissipated. Then, he turned his head and instructed Dugu Bo:

"You go back first."

Dugu Bo saw the atmosphere on the scene and knew that he and Juhuaguan did not get along well, and staying here would only be a hindrance.

Therefore, after hearing Lin Rong's instructions, he resisted the urge to mock Juhuaguan, suppressed the corners of his mouth that were about to rise, and turned around and left.

With Lin Rong's permission, Dugu Bo walked out of the Tenglong Prison Formation smoothly.

"Okay, don't be nervous, there are no outsiders here now, we can have a good chat."

The vines weaved into a set of tables and chairs in the open space. A set of tea sets flew out and started to brew tea automatically out of thin air.

"You're welcome, come and sit down." Lin Rong walked to the rattan chair as if no one was around and sat down, greeting Jue and Gui.

The change in style was so sudden that Yue Guan and Gui Mei were a little at a loss.

But people have to bow their heads under the eaves, so they could only resign themselves to walking to the rattan chair and sit down, looking from time to time at the six rhythmic soul rings on Lin Rong's body.

Among them, the sixth soul ring was still shining and maintaining the Vine Dragon Prison Sky Formation, making them both realize that this tea was not so delicious.

After a while, the brewed tea was automatically poured into the teacup and floated in front of everyone.

Picking up the teacup in front of him, Lin Rong blew gently, took a sip, and did not rush to state his purpose, but spoke to himself:

"I heard that you and the former Pope Qian Xunji once hunted down Tang Hao together."

"After that battle, the strongest one, Qianxunji, died of illness, but you, who were weaker, survived, and therefore were disliked by the Qian family."

"In order to consolidate your position in the Spirit Hall, you immediately joined Saint Bibi Dong after she succeeded to the position of Pope."

"As the first elders to pledge allegiance, you naturally became the confidants of the new Pope Bibi Dong. Your status in the Spirit Hall has greatly increased, and you are now in great glory."

"At the same time, as Bibi Dong's confidant, you have done many shady things for her." "However, your hard work over the years seems to have brought you no substantial rewards except for superficial style."

Having said this, Lin Rong paused for a while, took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and observed the reactions of Juegui and the others.

Although some of what he just said was his speculation based on the original work, most of it was accurate information collected by the secret guards over the years.

And his speculation was also based on facts.

In the original novel, when Qian Renxue tried to recruit Tang San, she promised Tang San to kill in front of him all the people who had participated in the siege of him and Xiao Wu at that time, except Hu Liena, including Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo.

Although Qian Renxue valued Tang San's potential, she agreed to Tang San's condition after only a brief consideration. In her heart, she also blamed Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo for failing to fulfill their duty to protect her father.

As expected, Kikuki and the other two responded with a silent silence.

If false lies are sugar-coated bullets, then the truth is a sharp sword.

The cruel truth left Yue Guan and Gui Mei speechless with no words to refute.

Of the two, Gui Mei, who was the most calm and composed, was the first to figure out from these words that the purpose of the person in front of him saying these words was to shake their loyalty to the Spirit Hall.

The purpose of the other party doing this is nothing more than to recruit him and Yue Guan for their martial soul fusion technique, just like the Spirit Hall recruited him and Yue Guan at a high price for their bipolar forbidden field.

Feeling confident, the ghost suddenly became calm and picked up the teacup and drank it in one gulp.

Yue Guan, who was sitting nearby, saw the old ghost like this and quickly figured out the cause and effect of the matter. Only then did he have the mind to pick up the teacup and sip it carefully.

After a while, Yue Guan finished drinking the tea in the cup and asked:

"Although the Spirit Hall has not given us anything substantial, the position of Spirit Hall elder alone is lofty and has endless wealth and splendor."

"Old Ghost and I serve as elders in the Spirit Hall, gaining both fame and fortune. Although we have less freedom, everything has a price, right?"

There is no mention of the Qian family lineage of the Spirit Hall in these two sentences. I think Yue Guan himself knows that this is an irrefutable fact.

He also knew that he and Lao Gui had no choice, so the purpose of saying this was just to increase their value.

"So, what price can you offer? Let Lao Gui and I, two Title Douluo who possess the spirit fusion technique, abandon the Spirit Hall and join your army."

Things went even more smoothly than Lin Rong had imagined. Without him saying anything, Yue Guan took the initiative to offer to recruit the person.

What he didn't know was that this was all thanks to Bibi Dong.

Not long ago, Yue Guan and Gui Mei secretly conquered many subordinate kingdoms and principalities of the two empires in the name of the Spirit Hall, and brilliantly completed the tasks assigned to them by Bibi Dong.

But after learning that the mission was completed, Bibi Dong did not express anything, which made Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo feel frustrated.

Up to this moment, the anger in the hearts of both of them had not completely subsided, and even the dissatisfaction towards the Spirit Hall that had accumulated in their hearts for many years showed signs of erupting in the current situation.

All these reasons combined made Yue Guan, who had no choice, take the initiative to ask to be recruited by the other party.

Since Yue Guan had made it clear, Lin Rong was happy to speak frankly:

"Soul masters cultivate their soul power and obtain soul rings. In addition to gaining a more noble status and extraordinary wealth, in essence, they are nothing more than improving their own strength."

"When a soul master has great power, isn't it easy to obtain any status or wealth that he wants?"

"You two are Titled Douluo. Wherever you go, you will be respected and well-fed by those forces."

"Therefore, I will not say more about wealth and glory. These are just the most basic things and are not worth mentioning."

This immediately aroused the curiosity of Yueguan and Guimei. They couldn't help but sit up straight and look at each other. Yueguan asked:

"So, the price you offered is a ten thousand year soul bone?"

There was a faint, yet strong hint of desire and excitement in his tone.

In response, Lin Rong shook his head slightly.

"No, guess again, it's one of the things you desire most in your life."

The thing I desire most! Yue Guanxin's heart skipped a beat, and he released his martial spirit almost subconsciously.

It was a strange chrysanthemum, with a gorgeous purple color all over. The stamen in the center was more than half a foot higher than the petals, and the top of the stamen was shining with a faint golden light.

Although there was no fragrance emanating from the flower, Yue Guan lowered his head and sniffed the chrysanthemum stamens, with an indescribable satisfaction and obsession written on his face.

After a long while, a trembling voice came out from Yue Guan's mouth:
"Qirong Tongtianju, you have Qirong Tongtianju in your hand, right?"

(End of this chapter)