Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 401 The Rakshasa Descends
Lin Rong stayed in Hanhai City for less than half a day before setting off to leave. Before leaving, he left a ten-thousand-year-old soul bone for the city lord of Hanhai City.

What others consider extremely precious, a ten-thousand-year-old soul bone, is nothing special to Lin Rong.

Over the past year, in his search for the ninth spirit ring, he has killed quite a few sea spirit beasts along the way. Moreover, all of these sea spirit beasts are at least ten thousand years old, and there are quite a few that are one hundred thousand years old.

The drop rate of ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts is high. In addition to the soul bones produced by killing sea soul beasts, the number of ten-thousand-year-old soul bones alone, including those collected by the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, is close to three digits, and the number of one-hundred-thousand-year-old soul bones is also more than double ten.

If it weren't for the fact that the ocean is a natural treasure trove, one could have as much wealth as they wanted, provided they had enough power.

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After breaking through to the Title Douluo level, Lin Rong's speed was greatly enhanced once again.

He hasn't tried to know his current speed limit, so he doesn't know yet. He only knows that his normal speed has already reached the threshold of superhuman speed.

The old steward traveled through the air at the normal speed of the God of Light, and Lin Rong was able to keep up with him easily, keeping pace with him.

Traveling at such a rapid pace, they had covered more than 10,000 miles in less than an hour after leaving Hanhai City, arriving at Tiandou City at the northern tip of the continent.

Tian Dou City is the capital of the Tian Dou Empire since its founding.

After the new head of the Lin family ascended the throne, the entire Tiandou City was completely transformed.

At each of the four city gates—east, west, south, and north—standing a hundred-zhang-tall imperial statue, a hundred-zhang-long imperial flag hangs beside it, standing side by side with the imperial statue in the center of the square.

No matter which gate people entered or exited through, they could see the emperor's statue and the imperial flag, which subconsciously reinforced that impression.

As the political center of the Heavenly Dou Empire, Heavenly Dou City is where any policy is implemented most quickly and effectively.

The prosperity and large population of the capital city, coupled with the implementation of effective policies, have resulted in Tian Dou City not only firmly holding the top position in the production of faith power among all cities in the Tian Dou Empire, but also far surpassing the second-place city by more than double.

A streak of blue and white light streaked across the sky above Tiandou City, lingered briefly above the inner palace, and then turned and flew south towards the Star Luo Empire.

The palace hall.

After a moment of stunned silence, a look of joy appeared on Nie Zhengwang Du Qianyuan's aged face.

His good grandson, having just ascended the throne, personally led an expedition, and after the war, he disappeared for a whole year.

Now that he's finally back, he's given an order and then run away again.

Soon, an imperial decree was issued from the palace, mobilizing a large army to declare war on the Star Luo Empire!

The news caused an uproar throughout the city.

However, not a single person in the imperial high command of Tiandou City voiced any opposition.

The two rainbow lights above Tiandou City just now did not deliberately conceal their aura, so they all knew that the new emperor and the Ming emperor, who had disappeared for a year, had returned. And this newly issued decree, needless to say, was whose intention.

Daring to oppose it, do you think your entire family is tired of living?
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"The Spirit Hall, the position of the Angel God!"

As Lin Rong traveled, she kept repeating this to herself.

Based on the positioning given by the Angelic Divine Gear, there is no indication that the Angelic God's Divine Position Inheritance and the Angelic Holy Sword have been moved.

"There was no movement, so the Golden Crocodile put the Angelic Holy Sword back into the inheritance space in the Hall of Worship."

"That's good, it saves us the trouble of forcibly taking the Angelic Holy Sword from the Golden Crocodile." Although Lin Rong now possesses god-level combat power, if the Golden Crocodile insists on running away, even if he joins forces with the old butler, it will be difficult to stop him.

Therefore, if the Angelic Holy Sword were kept close by the Golden Crocodile, it would actually be an extremely troublesome matter.

Some things can only be done once, not twice.

The attempt to threaten the golden crocodile with other offerings had been made once, but the success rate the second time was only 50%, or even less than 50%.

This doesn't mean that the offerings are no longer important to the golden crocodile, but rather that having already chosen those offerings once before, the guilt he feels when making them again will cause him to lean towards the other side.

With Lin Rong and the old steward traveling at full speed, they quickly covered half the distance, getting closer and closer to Xingluo City with every passing second.

At a certain moment, just as Lin Rong and the old steward flew into the border of the Star Luo Empire, behind him, within the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire, in the place where the former Soto City of the Barak Kingdom was located, a towering purple-black pillar of light erupted.

Within the purplish-black pillar of light, there was a monster clad in purplish-black armor, carrying two giant scythes on its back, with a ferocious and terrifying face.

With her blue face and fangs, no one could recognize her as the stunning beauty Bibi Dong, the former Pope of the Spirit Hall.

"A divine manifestation... Rakshasa God!"

"Soto City, they really know how to pick a place to hide."

"However, it hasn't been that long. If Tang San were still alive, he would only be sixteen years old. He would be twenty-five in nine years. That means Bibi Dong became a god almost ten years earlier than in the original story!"

"Could it be that because too many divine lineages have been passed down and emerged, the remaining divine consciousness of the fallen first Rakshasa God has voluntarily lowered the difficulty of the assessment?"

"Bibi Dong and Jin E are at odds, but they are both from the Spirit Hall. Facing a common enemy, the probability of them joining forces is extremely high. It seems we must act quickly and seize the Angelic Godhood before Bibi Dong arrives in Star Luo City!"

With this in mind, Lin Rong and the old steward quickened their pace, racing against time to reach Xingluo City.

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Outside Soto.

The manor is located deep in the mountains.

Hu Liena and the other three stood together, looking up at the extraordinary phenomenon of becoming a god before them, each with a different expression.

"No wonder the teacher has always refused to show me what he looks like after being possessed by a martial spirit and inheriting divine power. So that's why. If it were me, I probably would have made the same choice as the teacher."

As a woman herself, Hu Liena was the one among the four who could empathize most with Bibi Dong.

After a few shifts in his expression, Yu Xiaogang regained his composure.

Bibi Dong looks terrible now, but he's not much better off.

After killing Tang San and seizing the inheritance of the God of Greed, the power of the God of Greed transformed his martial soul, Luo Sanpao, from a living, detached martial soul back into a beast martial soul capable of possessing another body.

Although Luo Sanpao has the bloodline of the Golden Sacred Dragon, it doesn't change the fact that he is a pig. Therefore, one can imagine what he would look like after Yu Xiaogang's martial soul possesses him.

If Bibi Dong's ugliness leans towards ferocity and terror, yet still exudes a domineering and imposing aura, then Yu Xiaogang's ugliness is ugliness in the conventional sense, and in an extremely ugly way.

Neither he nor Bibi Dong was any better than the other, so what right did he have to look down on her?

Yu Xiaogang now only hopes that Luo Sanpao can evolve into a true Golden Sacred Dragon with the help of the Greedy Inheritance, so as to fundamentally solve the ugly appearance after the Martial Soul is possessed.

(End of this chapter)