Douluo Continent: A Review of the Top Ten Martial Souls, Qian Renxue Breaks Through Defenses

Chapter 106 Meng Hongchen

The pink and gold ripples caused by Hu Liena's inclusion on the list have not yet completely subsided, and the lingering charm and vigilance against the Spirit Hall's ambitions are still brewing.

However, the sky did not remain silent for long.

On the seventh day after Hu Liena's name was engraved on the list, at noon, under the bright sunshine, a completely different, yet equally vast and profound wave suddenly descended!

"Buzz—crackling..."

It was not a gentle, melodious tremor, but a strange, subtle sound, a mixture of extreme cold freezing everything and some kind of deadly poison corroding space, as if it came from the deepest part of an ancient glacier, or the silent churning of a poisonous swamp in the deepest abyss.

The sky suddenly dimmed by a third, not because of dark clouds, but because of a pure, chillingly cold blue light mixed with wisps of eerie, poisonous emerald green, which poured down from the endless sky.

Wherever the light passed, the clouds froze instantly, turning into a sky full of crystalline ice dust. Sunlight refracted through this dust, creating a mesmerizing yet chilling halo of colors.

The emerald green poisonous light seemed to possess a life of its own, wandering among the ice crystals. Wherever it passed, even the light seemed to be "corroded" by the poison, leaving behind faint, unsettling, distorted trails.

Ice blue and emerald green intertwine, outlining huge, indescribable ancient runes in the air. These runes seem to be the natural fusion of the veins of ice and the patterns of poison, ultimately converging into a lifelike phantom of a toad gazing at the moon and croaking!

The toad was covered in scales like ice crystals, and its eyes were as red as the purest rubies, yet they contained a chilling cold that could freeze the soul and a viciousness that could corrode everything.

It was merely a phantom, yet a pressure mixed with extreme cold and poison quietly spread out. Though not as domineering as Zi Ji's dragon might, nor as alluring and invisible as Hu Liena's charm, it was far more unpredictable and difficult to guard against, as if it could silently penetrate into one's bones and soul.

Amidst the icy blue and emerald green radiance, a list with a border made of intertwined ice crystals and poisonous vines, exuding a chilling aura, took shape.

The text on the list is written in a peculiar script, seemingly carved from millennia-old ice and soaked in phosphorescent venom, cold and dangerous:
[Goddess Ranking Number 13: Dream of the Mortal World]

[Cultivation Level: Level 93 Title Douluo]

Title: Ice Toad Douluo

[Affiliation: Skywalker Academy]

[Evaluation: A member of the reclusive Hongchen family, possessing the Crimson-Eyed Ice Toad Emperor Martial Soul. His Martial Soul awakened a second time in his childhood, fusing ancient ice essence with a rare and potent poison, achieving the dual attributes of ultimate ice and bone-corroding poison. Seemingly indifferent and gentle, he is actually outwardly soft but inwardly strong, with a clear and pure Dao heart. He does not crave fame or power, and his cultivation has naturally progressed through quiet practice, allowing him to step into the threshold of becoming a Title Douluo. His dual power of ice and poison is controllable and offensive, possessing unpredictable power in large-scale battlefields and peak duels.]

[Reward 1: The Crimson-Eyed Ice Toad Emperor bloodline fully awakens, returning to its ancestral origin and evolving into the 'Primordial Ice Soul Poison Emperor Toad'. Its martial soul quality surpasses the top level, reaching the 'quasi-god level'. Its ultimate ice attribute sublimates, touching the edge of absolute zero; its bone-corroding poison evolves, giving rise to the 'Law Erosion' characteristic, which can slowly disintegrate the opponent's soul power, blood, and even mental power structure. Ice and poison complement each other, forming a seamless whole.]

[Reward Two: The reward is the 'Twin Domains of Ice and Poison,' which normally covers a radius of five miles and can be activated to ten miles at full power. Within the domain, extreme low temperatures and bone-corroding poison form a dual barrier, greatly slowing, weakening, and continuously damaging all enemies, and randomly generating natural disaster-level environmental effects such as 'Ice Explosion Poison Cloud,' 'Annihilation Frost Tide,' and 'Ten Thousand Poison Ice Thorns.' Within the domain, the effects of one's own ice and poison attribute soul skills are amplified by 80%, and the soul power recovery speed is increased by 100%. One can condense the 'Ice Soul Poison Emperor Dharma Image,' gaining near-Limit Douluo-level control over ice and poison laws for a short period of time.]

[Reward 3: Obtain three pieces of 'Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow' (already fused), greatly stabilizing and expanding the meridians, dantian, and sea of ​​spirit, significantly increasing one's foundation and laying an unparalleled foundation for reaching higher realms; obtain the 'Immaculate Ice Heart' talent, forever maintaining a clear mind, immune to all poisons, and preventing the arising of inner demons, possessing extremely high resistance to all mental control, negative emotions, and soul attacks, and improving comprehension during cultivation.]

Silence. This silence was deeper, more...unbelievable, than when Hu Liena was listed.

If Hu Liena's inclusion on the list brought vigilance against the Spirit Hall's ambitions and fear of the power of manipulation, then Meng Hongchen's inclusion on the list brought pure shock and bewilderment at the very nature of "power."

"Nine...ninety-three levels? Titled Douluo? Super Douluo?!"

Someone gasped in shock, their voice trembling.

Countless people felt their understanding had been utterly overturned once again. Titled Douluo were already legends on the continent, strategic figures, and the ultimate foundation of all major powers.

Super Douluo are extremely rare, usually existing only in the Elder Hall of the Spirit Hall, the deepest secret realms of the three upper sects, or certain secluded cultivation places completely detached from worldly affairs.

"A mortal family? The Crimson-Eyed Ice Toad King? Extreme ice combined with bone-corroding poison? Dual attributes, and extreme attributes at that?! This... how is this possible?!"

Those with discerning eyes were even more terrified. A single, exceptional attribute was already a once-in-a-century occurrence, but to possess dual attributes, both at their peak, was simply defying all reason!

Not to mention, the review also mentioned "second awakening of the martial soul" and "fusion of ancient ice essence and exotic poison"!
"A quasi-god-level martial soul! Surpassing even the top-tier! And it even has law erosion?!"

"A domain...another domain! Ten miles in radius?! And that 'Ice Soul Poison Emperor Dharma Image,' with control power approaching that of a Limit Douluo?!"

"Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow? Immaculate Ice Heart? This... this is simply a transformative reward, a direct path to divinity!"

After a brief silence, intense discussions and shock erupted among countless scholars, families of Soul Masters, and ancient sects.

This time, the person on the list is neither a ferocious beast nor the heir to the most dazzling power in the world, but a reclusive academy teacher who seems to be indifferent to the world!

However, the level of her cultivation and the rewards she received were no less terrifying than the previous two, and in terms of "foundation" and "potential," they seemed even more astonishing!

Tianxing Academy is located in a beautiful mountain range in the buffer zone between the eastern province of the Tiandou Empire and the outer edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.

At this moment, on a smooth, jade-like piece of black ice by the cold pool, a woman is sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed.

She wore a simple, moon-white teacher's robe, the hem embroidered with delicate ice toad patterns. Her face was exceptionally beautiful, she looked no more than thirty years old, and her skin was so fair it was almost translucent, with a faint icy blue sheen.

Her long, black hair was casually draped over her shoulders, the ends of which had a faint emerald green hue. Most peculiar were her eyes; though they were closed, a faint crimson light seemed to flicker beneath her eyelids.

She is Meng Hongchen, a legendary teacher at Tianxing Academy, known to her students as the gentle yet strict "Teacher Meng".

(End of this chapter)