Douluo Amon: I am the Heavenly Venerable of the Dragon King

Chapter 119 Three Years

"Are they allowed to leave already? And what about the entrance exam?" Qian Gu Bu Bai looked at Nan Fusheng with a puzzled expression.

“Of course.” Nan Fusheng nodded. “The entrance exam is to help them better integrate into the Federation’s upper echelons in the future, since many of the Federation’s upper echelons are graduates of those advanced soul master academies.”

"Anyway, there's still quite a bit of time before the Abyss invasion. While I'm busy playing my part, I don't mind having some fun." Nan Fusheng could only say that he had become arrogant.

……

Three years later.

Inside Donghai Academy in Donghai City.

After that battle three years ago, Wu Changkong became famous, and the five students in Class Zero were not so conspicuous in his glory.

Battle Armor Masters! The news that the intermediate academy had Battle Armor Masters as teachers spread like wildfire throughout the entire Tianhai Alliance. Therefore, despite not achieving good results in the competition, Donghai Academy's enrollment situation still greatly improved.

Meanwhile, the members of Class Zero continued their cultivation as usual, and their lives remained largely the same as before.

"Final exams, riot period, Spirit Ascension Platform. Twenty-four hours. Anyone who leaves early won't need to go to Shrek City," Wu Changkong said coldly.

Xie Xie said with a grin, "Teacher Wu, if we exceed this time, is there any extra reward?"

Wu Changkong nodded. "Yes. The reward is a one-on-one fight between me and me. Or the four of them can gang up on you. You choose."

"Uh……"

"Teacher Wu, please don't be so heartless!" Xie Xie cried out in anguish.

Nan Fusheng and the other three also laughed.

Gu Yue sat next to Tang Wulin, still sporting her short hair. She looked neat and tidy, and compared to three years ago, she had grown up, becoming taller than 1.7 meters. Although she still appeared slightly immature, girls naturally develop earlier than boys, and her slender figure was almost perfect, radiating youthful vitality.

But her eyes were very calm, rarely showing any emotional fluctuation. Sitting there, she appeared very composed. As she grew older, Gu Yue rarely argued with Xie Xie anymore.

Xu Xiaoyan was much more lively. She was half a head shorter than Gu Yue and had grown into a much prettier girl. When she smiled, she always looked like a child.

In Class Zero, she often pestered Nan Fusheng, enjoying watching him find her both frustrating and helpless.

"Let's go." Wu Changkong's answer was as concise as ever.

The riot period of the Spirit Ascension Platform, specifically the riot period of the primary Spirit Ascension Platform, was no longer a challenge for Nan Fusheng and his group.

Everything went smoothly. They went straight to the Spirit Pagoda in the East Sea.

They come here at least once a month, and they can almost recite the murals inside the East Sea Spirit Pagoda by heart.

"Gu Yue, this is your territory now!" Xie Xie said to Gu Yue with a grin.

Since joining the Spirit Pagoda, Gu Yue would go there every day off, but she never said what she was going there to do.

Naturally, no one dared to ask. Meanwhile, Gu Yue and Nan Fusheng were tied for the strongest among the five. Unfortunately, the two had never fought head-on, so no one knew who was stronger.

After all, although Gu Yue's elemental control ability is strong, Nan Fusheng's elusive second soul skill, coupled with the ability to transfer energy attacks, makes it really difficult for Gu Yue to aim.

However, Nan Fusheng also had no way to deal with Gu Yue, since Gu Yue also had spatial abilities. If he dared to get close to Gu Yue, the other party would definitely freeze him with an ice element at close range.

At the same time, for some reason, the other three felt that they were somewhat estranged from Gu Yue and Nan Fusheng.

Three years ago, Tang Wulin was severely injured. Gu Yue burned her life force to activate her light element and saved him. After Tang Wulin regained consciousness, Gu Yue's attitude towards him suddenly changed. She was no longer as close as before, and instead became somewhat distant.

For the past three years, apart from attending classes and cultivating together, Gu Yue rarely went out to play or do anything else with them.

Nan Fusheng's situation was similar to Gu Yue's. Although they were good friends before, for some reason, the others always felt that a barrier had appeared between them and Nan Fusheng.

Gu Yue glanced at Xie Xie and said, "Yes! We're on my turf now. What are your thoughts?"

Xie Xie chuckled and said, "We should at least get some preferential treatment, right? By the way, Xiao Yan is about to break through to the third ring. When that happens, could you use some connections to find her a better second soul spirit? Her spiritual power is sufficient to handle it."

Gu Yue looked at Xu Xiaoyan with an inquiring gaze.

Xu Xiaoyan's pretty face flushed slightly, "Sister Gu Yue, if it's not too much trouble..."

Gu Yue laughed, "What's the trouble? I'll take you to choose one later. We'll pick the most suitable one."

"Thank you, Sister Gu Yue," Xu Xiaoyan said excitedly.

After entering the Spirit Pagoda, all the staff members there showed more kindness in their eyes when they saw Gu Yue, and Gu Yue responded to each of them, showing that she was very popular in the Spirit Pagoda.

The cards were inserted into the device one by one, and the five people lay down in their respective metal cabinets, ready to enter.

This feeling was so familiar to them that they didn't need to prepare anything.

Space distorted slightly, light reappeared in the darkness, and fresh air rushed in; they had arrived at a familiar place again. The Elementary Spirit Ascension Platform! Of course, it was the Elementary Spirit Ascension Platform during the riot period.

"Cheer up, everyone," Tang Wulin said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Captain," the other four replied in unison.

Over the past three years, their seamless teamwork has transformed them into a mature team.

At the same time, Tang Wulin's command has also been recognized by everyone. Whether it is tactical arrangement or on-the-spot changes, he has become very experienced after several years of honing his skills.

In Xie Xie's words, let the captain handle the troublesome matters.

Tang Wulin walked at the front, with strands of Blue Silver Grass spreading outwards close to the ground, maintaining a distance of about fifteen meters from him. His Blue Silver Grass would sense any movement in the surrounding area immediately.

Gu Yue stayed slightly behind Tang Wulin, allowing her to observe her surroundings while also receiving timely protection from Tang Wulin.

Nan Fusheng and Xu Xiaoyan walked side by side behind him, while Xie Xie brought up the rear. Moreover, he was walking backwards, his eyes always fixed on what was behind him, yet he was able to keep up with the pace of his companions in front of him with ease.

However, the five of them gradually realized that something was wrong.

"It's a bit quiet!" Tang Wulin frowned slightly. The Spirit Ascension Platform is always very lively during the riot period. The fact that the place where they appeared is so quiet can only mean one thing.

That is because there are exceptionally powerful soul beasts guarding this area, and ordinary soul beasts dare not enter this area, which is why this is the case.

Chapter 120 Delving into the Ascension Platform

Gu Yue clasped her hands together, and a ball of azure light flew out. The azure light transformed into a small azure bird in the air, spreading its wings and soaring. It did not fly out of the tree canopy, but instead flew towards the distance.

Then came the second, third, and fourth clusters of blue light, which all transformed into wind birds and flew off in different directions.

Over the past three years, everyone's mental strength has increased significantly, with Gu Yue being the strongest.

Nan Fusheng's clone's spiritual power has increased to 612 due to his cultivation of the Purple Demon Eye. Furthermore, because he is one of the few who passed the advanced trials, he is able to learn three Tang Sect secret techniques.

He chose three ultimate martial arts techniques: Xuan Tian Gong, Zi Ji Mo Tong, and Gui Ying Mi Zong. These three techniques were indeed extraordinary. Although they were often criticized as low-level martial arts, Nan Fusheng felt that he used them quite well.

The Purple Demon Eye can be used to train mental strength and improve eyesight; it can also be used to develop mental impact attacks.

The Ghostly Shadow Steps technique is much less effective; it's more of a peculiar footwork technique, but it's good for bullying Soul Masters who don't have much practical combat experience.

As for the Xuan Tian Gong, Nan Fusheng had been looking forward to this technique for a long time. After all, it was the secret technique of the Buddha Tang, which was initially said to be an orthodox Taoist technique with the ability to embrace all things and generate endless life.

As a result, it evolved into the Profound Devouring Heaven Demon Technique, which directly absorbs your bloodline power and uses it for its own purposes. This is even more powerful than the Star Absorbing Technique. At least others can only absorb internal energy, but you can actually absorb bloodline power.

It can also use the innate abilities of its corresponding race, which is just too overpowered.

Nan Fusheng didn't aspire to have such heaven-defying abilities, but at least having an automatic energy-circulating function like Huo Yuhao in the second part would be acceptable! (Huo Yuhao's Xuan Tian Gong is indeed different, as mentioned in the original text.)

As a result, after experimenting for a long time, he discovered that this was just an ordinary cultivation technique, and its operating speed was not much faster than the invincible cultivation technique (the secret technique passed down through the ages).

Tang Wulin's mental strength was stuck at 499 points, just one step away from breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm. This was a threshold in the mental realm that was extremely difficult to overcome.

Xu Xiaoyan's mental strength has also broken through four hundred, and she is working towards that goal.

Xie Xie's mental strength is weaker, currently only a little over two hundred points. Of course, this number is already terrifying among his peers.

It's important to understand that a Spirit Sea Realm cultivation level is sufficient to support a Soul Master possessing three thousand-year-old Soul Spirits. As long as one doesn't pursue powerful Soul Rings, it can support nine Soul Rings. Although this is only theoretically possible, it illustrates just how crucial Spirit Sea Realm spiritual power is to a Soul Master.

Gu Yue's current spiritual power is as high as 700. After breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm, she seems to be soaring to new heights. She is extremely powerful.

The group stopped, waiting for Gu Yue's windbird reconnaissance results before deciding on their next direction. Although there were very few beings in the primary Spirit Ascension Platform that could truly threaten them anymore.

However, "rare" does not mean "none." Just like when they first entered the Ascension Platform during the riot period, they encountered a century-old dark gold dinosaur bear, which they still cannot defeat now.

That thing is just too powerful; one swipe of its claw is enough to kill any god in its path!

“It’s a pride of lions.” In less than half a minute, Gu Yue whispered to Tang Wulin, “There are signs of a pride of lions on the left side, in that area.”

The Flame Lion Pack is an extremely powerful force in the Elementary Spirit Ascension Platform; they once chased them relentlessly until they had nowhere to run.

Tang Wulin turned to look at Gu Yue, "Can you determine the exact quantity?"

Gu Yue said in a deep voice, "Judging from the traces they left behind, there are approximately fifteen of them. Shall we go?"

Tang Wulin looked at everyone, "What do you all think?"

Nan Fusheng said, "I agree with the fight. After all, this is the Spirit Ascension Platform, not a real battlefield. We've finally encountered someone who can put pressure on us, so we should give it a shot."

I think that with our current capabilities, even if there were two or three thousand-year-old lions in the pride, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Gu Yue said, "I agree with Fusheng's statement."

Pressure is the driving force for improvement. We can give it a try. Even if we can't win, we're still fairly confident we can escape.

Xu Xiaoyan chuckled, "I agree too."

Xie Xie: "+1".

Tang Wulin looked up at the sky and said, "Gu Yue, you're in charge of reconnaissance. We'll approach them, but keep a safe distance. We'll move out at night."

At the same time, their team's overall combat power will be enhanced by Xu Xiaoyan's Star Wheel Ice Staff. After Xu Xiaoyan reaches two rings, the increase is quite significant.

(No more filler numbers, battle details omitted.)