Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 260 Bloody Thorns
Poseidon City.

The sea of ​​blood receded, revealing the devastated city beneath the sea.

Perhaps it was because when the sea of ​​blood receded, it also took away all the filth, so although the whole city looked dilapidated, it was extremely clean.

In the east of the city, on top of a relatively intact building.

At the edge of the roof, the old butler Yu Yuan stood facing east, gazing into the distance motionlessly.

Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows and covered his heart with his hands.

A cyan-gold point of light flew out from the old butler's heart and transformed into the shadow of a lush banyan tree in mid-air.

"Bang! Bang!"

A faint heartbeat sounded from the shadow of the banyan tree, and soon the heartbeat became steady and powerful.

Then, the shadow of the banyan tree turned from virtual to real, and in a dazzling blue-gold light, it transformed into the appearance of Lin Rong.

"I almost died!"

Lin Rong opened his eyes, and a cyan-gold light bloomed from his eyes. After a few breaths, his eyes returned to normal black.

The forbidden-level death magic unleashed by Alex's burning spiritual consciousness was indeed powerful, leaving Lin Rong with no escape.

But fortunately, he had a trump card, the external soul bone Banyan Heart. The death-substitution effect of the flower-transplanting technique was instantly triggered when he received a desperate attack from Alex, and brought himself back to the position set in advance.

After the effect of Grafting is activated, the skill also enters a cooldown period. With the current age of Banyan Heart, its skill cooldown has been reduced to a little more than one and a half years compared to the initial ten years.

In addition, there was one thing that was different from what Lin Rong had previously imagined.

After the triggering of the Transplantation, the other abilities of the Banyan Heart were not affected. The only thing that was affected was that the speed at which the soul bone age increased was reduced by about half.

This influence, at most, just slowed down the speed of the Banyan Wood Heart's upgrade to a hundred thousand year soul bone. Compared with the impact on other abilities of the soul bone, it was really nothing.

On the side, the old butler used his strong hands to touch Lin Rong from head to toe, and only stopped after he was sure that his young master was intact.

"Young Master, before your soul bone skills are restored, you can no longer rush into risky things so casually."

The old butler's tone was full of concern.

"Grandpa Yu, I understand." Lin Rong bent down to pick up the Heart of Poseidon from the ground, looked at the old housekeeper, and said with a smile:

"Although I used up my life-saving trump card, the reward I got was still worth it."

At this point, Lin Rong looked around and found that he and the old housekeeper were the only two people on the roof of the tall building, so he asked:

"Grandpa Yu, where are Oscar and Ning Rongrong?"

After hearing this, the old butler replied, "I sent them both to Bone Douluo. They should be on their way back to Tiandou City now."

"That's great, Grandpa Yu, please come with me." Lin Rong took the old housekeeper's hand and flew quickly towards the deep mountains and old forests hundreds of miles away.

Alex wanted to die with him so that his sixth soul skill, the Vine Dragon Prison Sky Formation, would collapse, and Jixiang could escape.

But Lin Rong survived thanks to the death-substitution effect of the art of substitution, and Alex's idea fell through. The Tenglong Prisoner Sky Formation still trapped Jixiang in the formation.

Rushing at full speed.

It took Lin Rong and the old butler less than half an hour to reach their destination after a journey of hundreds of miles.

After entering the formation, the first thing they saw was Jixiang sitting on the ground in a daze, and he didn't react to their presence at all.

On the way, the old housekeeper learned the general course of events from Lin Rong. He was also very sad about Jixiang's current state.

"She looks a year or two younger than you, young master. I wonder if she's ten years younger."

Perhaps it was because the old butler's voice was similar to Alex's, both were so gentle and old, Jixiang's pupils shrank, he raised his head and said:
"I am exactly ten years old. Today is my birthday."

"Is this the most important person you mentioned?"

Lin Rong knew that Jixiang's last words were directed to him, so he replied:
"good."

"I understand." Jixiang stood up shakily from the ground. His childish face no longer had the ethereal temperament that he once had, but was filled with numbness and death.

"Teacher said that I have a bright heart, and with the help of teacher, I successfully inherited the throne of the God of Light."

"Now it seems that the inheritance of the throne of the God of Light has been a complete disaster for me from the very beginning."

"If I didn't have this inheritance, I would still be that carefree little fisherman, and I wouldn't end up like this."

"I don't deserve this opportunity!"

Holy light condensed from Jixiang's hands and turned into a pure white crown of thorns.

"Thorns have thorns, which are prickly things."

He grasped the crown tightly with both hands, aimed the thorns of the crown at his heart and stabbed it hard.

The mass of the artifact unsurprisingly pierced Jixiang's fragile heart.

With a "puff" sound.

Jixiang pulled out the bloody crown, threw it away with his last bit of strength, and said weakly:

"I don't want this thing anymore, but if you want it, take it!"

The blood-stained crown of thorns changed its flight trajectory in the air and hovered in front of Lin Rong.

“It is true that thorns have thorns, but if used well, they will only hurt the enemy and not yourself.”

"Thank you for the crown you gave me. I will accept the inheritance of the throne of the God of Light!"

A breeze accompanied by a stream of clear water appeared out of nowhere, washing away the glaring scarlet bloodstains on the crown.

Lin Rong held the crown of thorns in his hand, looked at Jixiang who had died on the ground, and said:
"Grandpa Yu, prepare a coffin for him and bury him."

"Old slave understands."

The old butler walked forward, cleaned the blood off Jixiang's body, and took out needle and thread to mend the holes in his clothes.

Afterwards, he used local materials and built a coffin with the trunk of a thick tree. He carefully put Jixiang in to lie down, closed the coffin lid, chose a place to dig a hole and bury him.

A moment later, a tombstone engraved with "Auspicious Tomb" was erected in front of the tomb.

Lin Rong picked a white flower and placed it in front of the tombstone, silently saying in his heart:
"If there is reincarnation in this world, I hope that in your next life you will be born into a family of soul masters and become a talented soul master who has awakened his innate soul power, thus fulfilling your dream of becoming a soul master."

He only felt a little guilty towards Jixiang, but not towards Alex.

After all, Alex is just a fragment of spiritual consciousness. The spiritual consciousness on the Holy Demon Continent is much more complete than the fragment of spiritual consciousness on the Douluo Continent.

What disappeared on the Douluo Continent were only the memories attached to this divine consciousness. Only when the divine consciousness on the Holy Demon Continent completely dissipated could Alex be considered truly dead.

(End of this chapter)