Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 380 Capture
Below the platform, in the square, among the crowd.

The three elders of the Spirit Hall were mixed in among them.

At this moment, he changed out of the robes that symbolized honor and status and disguised himself as a down-on-his-luck old nobleman.

Although the clothes were luxurious, they were old and looked like they had been around for a long time. Even with careful maintenance, the marks of time could not be ignored on the clothes, which were faded, peeling, and fluffy.

This impoverished noble attire effectively concealed an air of superiority that even the three high priests could not completely suppress.

one day ago.

On their way to the Heavenly Dou Empire, the three elders and the other three elders sensed two extraordinary phenomena of becoming gods.

One aura was filled with the killing intent of war, the other with the holy intent of light.

They knew that the two elders, including Golden Crocodile Douluo, had received the favor of the God of War's inheritance, and naturally learned from the godhood phenomenon filled with the aura of war and slaughter that Golden Crocodile Douluo was still alive.

Qian Daoliu and Jin E Douluo disappeared together. Since one of them is still alive, the other is also very likely still alive.

With the First and Second Offerings absent, the Third Offering, one of the Four Great Offerings, immediately made the decision to split the forces into two groups.

The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Elders returned to join the Second Elder, while the Third Elder continued his investigation into the Heavenly Dou Empire.

The three elders knew that the first thing Qian Renxue did after returning to the Heaven Dou Empire after the competition was to launch the Heaven Dou Palace Coup.

However, the remaining divine manifestation gave the Third Elder a bad feeling. If the person who became a god was an enemy of the young master, then the young master would probably be in grave danger.

Indeed, when the Third Elder arrived in Tian Dou City, he learned from the people of the city that the young master had died tragically at the hands of Tang San, the Tang Sect Master.

Upon receiving news of Qian Renxue's death, the Third Elder should have left, but he did not.

The reason is simple: the place where the new emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire held his coronation ceremony was actually the main hall of the Spirit Hall, which was converted from the Spirit Hall's headquarters in the Heaven Dou Empire.

The new emperor of Heaven Dou's actions clearly demonstrate his attitude towards the Spirit Hall.

Therefore, the three offerings were chosen to remain.

He concealed himself among the crowd, coldly observing the new Emperor of Heavenly Dou standing atop the high platform, his mind recalling the relevant information he had gathered:

"The new emperor of Tiandou, Lin Rong, is the head of the Lin clan and is fourteen years old this year."

"His martial soul and soul power are unknown, simply because he has never revealed his martial soul ring in public."

"However, this person was able to stand out from the nobles of Tiandou and seize the throne of Tiandou. His temperament and methods are secondary. His talent in the way of soul master must also be quite high. In this era, he may also be a successor of a god."

"The little girl from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is the same age as this person. Based on this, he is very likely to be a Soul Emperor, or at the very least a Soul King."

"And the god in the Heavenly Battle is Yu Yuan, the steward of the Lin family. His martial soul, the Heavenly Star Disc, is a control-type."

"Control Engineering, Control Engineering, why Control Engineering!"

“If Yu Yuan weren’t a control-type, I would have been quite confident in assassinating this new emperor of the Heavenly Dou Sect in front of the gods, instead of hiding in the crowd and being unable to do anything like this.”

Most of the soul skills of control-type soul masters have control effects. The higher the soul power and the more soul rings, the stronger the control effect. A control-type soul master at the Title Douluo level must have at least one strong control-type soul skill.

If the three elders dared to attempt an assassination, Yu Yuan, using his divine power to unleash such a soul technique, would have zero chance of success, unless the deity was merely a facade and not as powerful as imagined. Only then would there be a sliver of possibility for a successful assassination.

Several hours passed.

Lin Rong's coronation ceremony finally concluded amidst a multitude of complicated and tedious procedures. "Greetings to the new emperor!"

"Greetings to the new emperor!"

"Greetings to the new emperor!"

Officials, nobles, and soldiers shouted in unison and knelt down to perform the grand kowtow.

"No gift!"

At the top of the platform, Lin Rong waved his sleeve, and streams of soul power emanated from him, helping the kneeling crowd to their feet.

Among the crowd, from soldiers who were not Soul Masters to nobles or ministers with the cultivation of Soul Douluo, none could resist the Soul Power that lifted them up.

"His Majesty's strength... how..."

They were startled, as were the three elders of the Spirit Hall who were hidden in the crowd.

"A Title Douluo? Or..."

As the Third Elder was pondering this, he suddenly sensed a gaze falling upon him. Following the gaze, he discovered that the source of the gaze was none other than the new Heavenly Emperor atop the high platform.

"No, I was discovered!"

He turned to flee, but as soon as he lifted his foot, the space around him changed.

"How could I not know that the Heaven Dou Empire has a titled Douluo with a soul power level of 97?"

"Old man, aren't you going to explain?"

Lin Rong spoke with a smile, his spatial divine power gathering in his palm, instantly teleporting the three worshippers in the crowd to the top of the platform.

The Nine-Bend Vine Dragon flew out from his sleeve, transforming into a length of several meters and swirling around Lin Rong, with one soul ring after another appearing on his body.

Black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red.

Eight spirit rings, five black and three red!
The sixth spirit ring was produced by the Blue Silver King, who had cultivated for 85,000 years. Now, through the power of the Ancient Tree of Life, he has broken through to the level of a 100,000-year spirit ring.

Despite having a soul power level of only 86, Lin Rong's soul power pressure far exceeded that of a Soul Douluo, even making the 97th-level Title Douluo, the Third Elder, feel the pressure.

Ignoring the agitation caused by his own spirit ring, Lin Rong stared intently at the impoverished old man dressed as a nobleman in front of him.

In the Douluo Continent today, there are only a handful of Title Douluos with a Soul Power of 97, and among the few, the only one he has never met is the Third Elder of the Spirit Hall.

Because of Lin Rong's spirit ring, the Third Elder released his martial spirit ring, and his hand, which was about to make a move, suddenly stopped in mid-air, not moving at all.

Nine rings versus eight rings—the nine-ringed player should have been the obvious winner. But how can a soul ring configuration of two yellow, two purple, and five black rings be compared to a configuration of five black and three red rings?

Of course, this is only one aspect. The real reason why the three masters were unable to move was that they were frozen in place by a force of time.

This power of time comes from the Nine-Bend Vine Dragon.

The Nine-Bend Vine Dragon originally had no time attribute; it was a faint trace of time power that it had drawn from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. After several years of nurturing, it has grown to its current state.

Lin Rong held the three elders in his hands, looked at the crowd below the platform, and without speaking, his loud voice echoed throughout the entire Heaven Dou City through the propagation of his soul power:
"I have heard since childhood that the Qian family of the Spirit Hall has a set of Angelic Armor that has been passed down to this day. After the young master of the Spirit Hall was killed, I obtained two pieces of it. Of the six pieces of Angelic Armor, four are still in the hands of the Spirit Hall."

(End of this chapter)