Douluo Continent: I ushered in this era

"Chu Ci, let me tell you, all the dishes on this table are made by precious water-attribute soul beasts from the deep sea. They are not only incredibly delicious, but they also increase the affinity with water elements."

Upon hearing this, Chu Ci's eyes flashed with surprise. "You've really gone to great lengths to treat me to such a nice meal."

"It's no trouble at all. Before I came, my father told me that when making friends with talented people, I shouldn't be stingy with money," Chen Xuanyu said with considerable pride.

Hearing this, Chu Ci couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "What a wealthy family!" Although Chu Ci's family was also quite rich, their foundation was too shallow, far inferior to the Sea God family, whose lineage had been passed down for countless years.

"However, there's something I'd like to ask you for help with," Chen Xuanyu said while eating.

"What is it? Tell me," Chu Ci asked, putting down his chopsticks.

“Hehe, just like you said yesterday, I’ve been training on Seagod Island since I was a child. My father really hopes that I can fight against more outstanding Soul Masters outside of Seagod Island this time,” Chen Xuanyu said, looking up at Chu Ci. “This is the first time I want to fight against you.”

"You want to fight me in the first battle?" A glint of rainbow flashed in Chu Ci's eyes. He noticed that Chen Xuanyu's soul power was level 25, and his expression became a little strange. It seems that this kid didn't investigate me at all.

"Hmm, are you coming or not?" Chen Xuanyu remained confident.

"Come on!" Chu Ci had been tormented by Long Tianwu for so long, and he just wanted to beat someone up to vent his anger.

……

Inside the Temple of War, on a battlefield, Chu Ci and Chen Xuanyu stood facing each other.

A protective shield slowly rose around the battlefield. Cao Haiqing, the tenth War God of the War God Temple, also known as the Heavenly Whale, was in charge of Chen Xuanyu's trip to the War God Temple and presided over the battle.

"Chu Ci, be careful," Chen Xuanyu stood proudly on the field, the most talented person of this generation on Seagod Island, and he was not afraid of anyone.

Chu Ci didn't reply, but instead stretched his arms and legs, preparing to show him the dangers outside Seagod Island.

The scene of Chu Ci and Chen Xuanyu preparing to fight was clearly presented in Chen Xinjie's room.

There are two people in front of the screen, Chen Xinjie and Guan Yue.

Looking at the screen, Guan Yue asked Chen Xinjie beside her, "Old Chen, what do you think of the outcome of this battle?"

Without the slightest hesitation or thought, Chen Xinjie said, "Chu Ci wins."

“Xuan Yu is the most talented junior of the Sea God family after you. Old Chen, do you really have no confidence in Xuan Yu?” Guan Yue was somewhat surprised to hear Chen Xinjie’s quick response.

"I have never seen Chu Ci's talent before. His special martial soul makes him almost without any weaknesses. I can't think of any chance that Xuan Yu could win." Chen Xinjie's slow words were full of certainty.

"Sigh, losing the first battle is definitely not a good thing for Xuan Yu's mentality." Guan Yue said with some concern for Chen Xuan Yu.

"Hmph, I think it's better if he loses. Losing will make Xuan Yu realize that there are always people more capable than those on Poseidon Island, and it will teach him to curb his arrogance," Chen Xinjie said.

The perspective shifts back to the battlefield, where Cao Haiqing gives the order, "Prepare."

Chen Xuanyu circulated his soul power, and two yellow hundred-year soul rings rose from his feet. After his martial soul was attached to his body, a deep blue fish appeared behind Chen Xuanyu. It was his martial soul, the Xuanhai Giant Kun, a top-level water-attribute beast martial soul.

However, Chen Xuanyu's confidence gradually solidified after seeing the two purple millennium soul rings rising from Chu Ci's feet. He even rubbed his eyes hard to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

"Come on, let me teach you a lesson." Chu Ci's smile was sinister.

"Begin," Cao Haiqing's resolute voice rang out, and both sides made their movements simultaneously.

Chu Ci took out a card with a picture of a demonic tree with a human face and eerie eyes. The demonic tree was so lifelike that it seemed to have a life of its own.

Chu Ci placed the card on one side of the scales of God. When the two sides of the scales were balanced, a ball of light emerged from the other side of the scales.

The ball of light flew quickly to Chu Ci's front and then transformed into the demonic tree engraved on the card.

"A seven-hundred-year-old demonic tree with demonic eyes," Chen Xuanyu was dumbfounded. How could Chu Ci have summoned such a high-level plant-type soul beast?

Chu Ci waved his hand gently, and a glimmer of light appeared in the eyes of the demonic tree. The branches on the tree swayed, and hundreds of branches wrapped around Chen Xuanyu.

After a moment of surprise, Chen Xuanyu reacted instantly, his first hundred-year soul ring flashing, revealing his first soul skill, Xuan Shui Yu.

Chapter 44 Chu Ci vs. Chen Xuanyu

Xuan Shui Yu condenses and controls water around the Soul Master.

Streams of water appeared and continuously swirled around Chen Xuanyu. Chen Xuanyu waved his hands, and the water flowed forward, eventually converging into a wave.

Chen Xuanyu pushed forward with both hands, and a large wave surged up, blocking all the branches.

The Demon Eye Tree lashed its branches against the waves, splashing water everywhere. However, since the Demon Eye Tree summoned by Chu Ci was only a hundred-year-old soul beast, its power was too weak, and it only weakened the power of the waves.

Chu Ci frowned, and a card engraved with a white fox appeared in his hand.

Chu Ci placed the card on one side of the scales of God again. As the soul power in Chu Ci's body decreased, a snow-white fox with three ice crystal tails appeared in front of him.

The three-tailed ice fox made Chen Xuanyu's face grow increasingly grim. He had already guessed what Chu Ci was up to.

Before Chen Xuanyu could make a move, a purple light flashed in the demonic eyes of the Demon Tree, and a mental shock struck Chen Xuanyu fiercely.

Chen Xuanyu groaned, his mental strength feeling as if it had been struck a heavy blow, and he staggered back several steps. However, Chen Xuanyu's mental strength was quite good, and he quickly recovered.

When Chen Xuanyu came to his senses, he felt the biting cold. The cold air exhaled by the three-tailed ice fox froze the waves and the water around him into ice. The branches of the demonic tree were already close in front of him.

Although Chen Xuanyu was trapped, Chu Ci did not let his guard down at all. The number one genius of Seagod Island would not be defeated so easily.

Sure enough, Chen Xuanyu's first spirit ring lit up again, and the water that had been frozen started flowing again, causing the ice to shatter instantly.

Water shot upwards, and Chen Xuanyu rose into the air with the flow of water.

"Second Soul Skill, Giant Kun Transformation."

The Giant Kun Transformation enlarges the size and mass of the Xuanhai Giant Kun; the higher the soul power, the stronger the effect.

Chen Xuanyu's second spirit ring flashed, and his size suddenly became larger than a spirit guide bus.

Chu Ci found that his surroundings had suddenly darkened. When he looked up, he found that the giant Kun of the Xuanhai Sea had completely enveloped him, the three-tailed ice fox, and the demonic tree with demonic eyes.

Behind Chen Xuanyu, streams of water appeared, propelling him downwards at breakneck speed.

At the same time, Chu Ci looked up and met Chen Xuanyu's eyes, which were glowing with blue light. He immediately felt a wave of spiritual energy crashing towards his own spiritual energy.

Chen Xuanyu intended to use psychological attacks to prevent Chu Ci from escaping his attack range.

However, in Chen Xuanyu's perception, the spiritual power of Chu Ci also transformed into waves, colliding and canceling out his waves.

"How could you know the spirit-based soul skill created by my Sea God family!" Chen Xuanyu exclaimed in disbelief.

"Of course, it was your dear clan leader who taught me," Chu Ci said cheekily as he used Instant Step to dodge out of attack range.

Chu Ci waved his hand again, and the Three-Tailed Ice Fox and the Demon Eye Tree transformed into balls of light and returned to the Scales of God. They then flew out from the other end, transformed into soul beast forms, and appeared beside Chu Ci.

Chen Xuanyu looked at the empty space beneath him and a question mark slowly appeared above his head: How do we play this?

Chen Xuanyu reacted quickly to the situation, controlling the water flow to gather beneath him while tilting his body, and then slammed heavily onto the large body of water below, creating a splash.

The impact of its massive body crashing into the water gave the splashes tremendous kinetic energy, allowing Chen Xuanyu to accelerate the flow and control its direction toward the Chu Ci.

In an instant, countless waves shot towards the Chu Ci like arrows released from a bow.

The Demon Tree with its demonic eyes stretched out its branches to block the waves, but the powerful impact of the waves snapped several branches in two. The Three-Tailed Ice Fox swung its three tails, causing the waves in front of it to freeze and fall to the ground, shattering into pieces.

Chen Xuanyu used the splashing waves to restrain Chu Ci, and took the opportunity to create a stream of water beneath him, his massive body rushing towards Chu Ci along the current.

Chen Xuanyu, like a giant armored vehicle, charged towards Chu Ci, riding the waves.

Chu Ci watched this scene with a leisurely expression. The Scales of God shrank and hid behind his back. A card appeared in his right hand behind his back. With a slight movement of his right hand, he threw the card onto the Scales of God. A black shadow silently darted out from the other end.

Chen Xuanyu looked at Chu Ci, who remained unmoved, his eyes full of doubt. Why didn't he dodge?

But Chen Xuanyu didn't care, because a second-ring Grand Soul Master couldn't withstand an impact of his size.

As Chen Xuanyu approached, Chu Ci's lips curled into a smile. When Chen Xuanyu saw this smile, alarm bells rang in his mind.

Suddenly, Chen Xuanyu felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and his strength rapidly drained away.

Chen Xuanyu looked down and found that his abdomen was covered in purple, and the water beneath him had somehow turned an eerie purple.

Seeing these obvious signs of poisoning, Chen Xuanyu carefully sensed the source and discovered that the venom originated from underground in the battlefield. It must have been secretly injected by the Demon Eye Tree. But why hadn't he noticed that he was poisoned?

The two most notorious characteristics of the Demon-Eyed Tree are its powerful mental energy and its imperceptible poison. When fighting the Demon-Eyed Tree, if you can clearly feel yourself being poisoned, it means you have been deeply poisoned.

During the Dragon King Legend era, spirit beasts were nearly extinct, and spirit spirits became the mainstream way to obtain spirit rings, resulting in this generation of spirit masters having too little experience in fighting spirit beasts.

This is why Chen Xuanyu was so easily poisoned by the Demon Eye Tree, Chu Ci thought, looking at Chen Xuanyu's astonished expression.

“It’s over.” Chu Ci’s soul power dropped a bit, and the aura of the Three-Tailed Ice Fox and the Demon Eye Tree instantly surged, rapidly approaching a thousand years.

The three-tailed ice fox cried out, its three icy tails waving, and all the spray from the waves condensed into ice spikes. With another wave of its tails, the ice spikes, imbued with soul power, shot towards Chen Xuanyu in a massive, overwhelming barrage.

Chen Xuanyu was poisoned and had no strength left in his body. Even though he tried his best to change the direction of the water flow, most of the ice spikes still fell on his body.

The ice spikes wielded by the three-tailed ice fox, whose cultivation was nearly a thousand years old, were extremely powerful. Even though Chen Xuanyu was thick-skinned, he was still beaten and bruised all over.

The Demon Eye Tree followed the Ice Cone's movements immediately, activating the seeds spread across the field. With the infusion of soul power, the seeds grew rapidly, and branches covered in deadly poison burst forth, entwining Chen Xuanyu.

The deadly poison on the branch was injected into Chen Xuanyu's wound, causing him immense pain.

Chen Xuanyu desperately channeled his soul power, shrinking his body to escape the entanglement of the branches, manipulating the water flow to hinder the branches' pursuit, and then urging the highly poisonous water flow to rush towards the three-tailed ice fox.

Chen Xuanyu, dragging his injured body, distanced himself from Chu Ci. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, a small black panther suddenly darted out from the shadows beside him.

The black panther was enveloped in dark-attribute soul power, making it extremely fast.

Chen Xuanyu was powerless to stop it and could only watch helplessly as it crashed headfirst into his stomach.

Chapter 45 Next Stage of Training

Struck by the full force of the Shadow Leopard summoned by Chu Ci, Chen Xuanyu crashed into the Soul Guidance Shield, slid to the ground, and was unable to get up.

“You’ve lost,” Chu Ci said, standing before Chen Xuanyu with his three generals, looking down at him.

"When did that shadow leopard appear?" Chen Xuanyu asked, puzzled. He had been watching Chu Ci's movements but hadn't seen any ball of light fly out.

"Who told you that I need a glowing orb to summon a soul beast?" Chu Ci said with a smile. The glowing orb was just a ritual for Chu Ci, not something that was absolutely necessary.

"Ah..." Chen Xuanyu looked up at the roof, recalling how the elders of the clan had repeatedly praised him as the number one genius of Seagod Island, and then thinking about his crushing defeat in his first battle, he began to have deep doubts about himself.

Looking at Chu Ci, who was directing the Demon Eye Tree to draw the poison out of his body, Chen Xuanyu couldn't help but ask, "Chu Ci, are all the geniuses outside Seagod Island like you?"

"Don't worry, I'm one of a kind." Chu Ci waved his hand, and the three soul beasts instantly transformed back into three cards that flew back into Chu Ci's hand.

"Phew, that's good," Chen Xuanyu said, feeling much better. He took out a porcelain bottle from his robes, swallowed a pill, and sat down to begin his recovery.

Chu Ci immediately recognized that the pill in his hand was the Rejuvenation Pill produced by their own family, used to heal injuries.

On the other side, Cao Haiqing, who was in charge of this battle, walked over.

"Your Majesty, Heavenly Whale," Chu Ci bowed.