Douluo: From Internal Martial Arts to the Law of Heaven and Earth

This was his backup plan, in case Tangshan was in danger, so he could come to its rescue at any time.

With his spiritual power imbued with the intent of a spear, if Tang Shan were to fall into danger, he could easily intimidate any soul beast in the arena into a coma with just his spiritual power.

Protecting Tangshan was both an order given to him by Xue Qinghe and a responsibility he was obligated to undertake.

Regardless of how many Soul Masters his theories have benefited, Tang Shan deserves to be well protected simply because he is a disciple of the master.

Not to mention, from his heart, She Long absolutely did not want his tragedy from back then to repeat itself, and he would never allow this promising Soul Master genius to suffer any accident.

Moreover, he believed that with his title of Douluo, he was capable of protecting Tangshan.

A level 98 Douluo with a chicken leg gave it a thumbs up.

……

Tang Shan had no idea how many thoughts the Serpent Spear Douluo in the treetops not far away had gone through in such a short time. He simply kept his sharp gaze sweeping over the mixed ape troop that was closing in on him.

Soon, an inconspicuous yet highly distinctive monkey instantly caught Tangshan's attention.

It is inconspicuous because compared to the group of muscular giants in front of it, its body is not weak at all, but rather excessively slender. Hidden among the robust monkeys, it can be completely overlooked if one is not careful.

What makes it so iconic is its ridiculously large head, in contrast to its slender body. Just how big is that head? Well, if you were to take a portion of the volume of its head and add it to its body, its size would be comparable to that of any other monkey.

Looking at this soul beast with extremely distinctive features, Tang Shan recognized its identity almost instantly.

The top-tier spirit-type beast, the Multi-Brain Monkey.

These soul beasts possess unparalleled spiritual power, yet their physical bodies are extremely weak.

The reason it is called the multibrain monkey is not because it actually has several brains, but specifically refers to the source of its powerful mental strength.

Multibrained monkeys are an extremely rare mutant bloodline, with incredibly demanding birth conditions. Both male and female bloodlines must contain at least ten different types of ape-like spirit beast bloodlines for a possible offspring to be born, and the tracing of these bloodlines cannot exceed four generations.

In other words, the great-grandparents of the polycerebral monkey must have been two different species of ape spirit beasts for polycerebral monkeys to be born in their generation.

The so-called multibrained monkey refers to its brain, which seems to combine the advantages of all the ape-like soul beast bloodlines in its body, making it far more intelligent than ordinary monkeys and extraordinary.

It can not only recruit ape-like soul beasts corresponding to its bloodline as subordinates, but also systematically train them and even teach them how to use weapons.

If its mutation hadn't been incompletely successful, with excessive mental pressure causing its physical body to become extremely weak, it would probably have already joined the ranks of super soul beasts.

When Tang Shan first saw the information about this kind of spirit beast, he couldn't help but think that it gave him a strong sense of déjà vu, like something out of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Now that he has seen a real monkey with his own eyes, that feeling has only grown stronger.

Looking at that group of muscular burly men wielding wooden sticks, Tang Shan's lips twitched involuntarily. You're telling me these are soul beasts? They can train, they can use weapons—you could tell they're primitive humans, and I'd believe you!

These absurd thoughts flashed through his mind, gradually calming his previously turbulent heart.

Tang Shan's muscles tensed inch by inch, every inch of his body brimming with power, ready to unleash his full strength at any moment and deliver a crushing blow to this group of arrogant monkeys.

Hiding among the muscular hunks, the multi-brained monkey looked at Tang Shan's unchanging expression, and a human-like solemnity flashed in its large eyes.

This guy wasn't intimidated by us? Looks like we have to get serious. We can't just hand over the territory we just snatched from those elephants!

Waaaaaah!

The multibrained monkey tilted its head back and let out a sharp cry. The sound was so penetrating that it caused Tang Shan to momentarily lose his senses the instant it entered his mind.

At the same time, the ape-like soul beasts that heard the command immediately grabbed tree branches with one hand and waved thick wooden sticks with the other, howling as they rushed towards Tangshan like cannonballs.

Tang Shan snapped out of his daze and looked at the overwhelming horde of monkeys closing in. The madness he felt during his fierce battle with Serpent Spear Douluo surged up from the bottom of his heart once again.

"Let's fight!"

With a roar, amplified by the combined power of his internal organs and soul force, it was in no way inferior to the howls of the monkey troop; rather, it was like a thunderclap that suddenly exploded in the forest.

Click-clack!

Tangshan slammed his feet into the tree branches, and his bones cracked loudly in an instant.

The moment the branch snapped, his body leaped high into the air like an arrow, meeting the wooden sticks that came from the front, side, and back at the same time.

Crazy Baboon! Skill: Blood Burn! By overdrawing blood and life force, it temporarily amplifies its own attack power!

As Tang Shan watched the ape leaping towards him, wielding a wooden stick, a flash of information crossed his mind.

Snapped!

He reached out with lightning speed, grabbed the other person's wooden stick, pulled and yanked his wrist, and then thrust it forward with a sharp slap!

With a muffled thud, a deep, bone-exposing dent appeared instantly on the baboon's skull. The weapon that killed it was the heavy wooden stick in its own hand.

boom!boom!

Two muffled thuds rang out in quick succession. The first was the hard clash of wooden sticks against each other; the second was the dull thud of a stick slamming into flesh.

Wind Baboon! Talent skill: Gale! Greatly increases its own speed!

The information about the soul beast that had been swatted away flashed through Tang Shan's mind again. Using the cushioning force of the impact, Tang Shan's falling speed slowed slightly, and he narrowly dodged the last slash of the staff.

Whoosh!

Tang Shan's muscles bulged violently, and his blood and qi surged wildly like a raging river. With a sudden flick of his wrist, the wooden stick in his hand instantly transformed into a blur, carrying a powerful gust of wind, and slammed down on the remaining target.

Immediately afterwards, he scooped up the drooping branches with his large hand, and with a sudden burst of momentum, he flipped over and leaped onto the top canopy of another large tree like a nimble ape.

Before he could even get his footing, a swarm of apes had already surrounded him from all sides, their scarlet eyes fixed on him. Faced with Tang Shan's astonishing feat of easily dispatching three of his companions, these spirit beasts, their eyes gleaming with ferocity, showed no fear, only bloodthirsty savagery and brutality.

Wahahaha!

In the treetops not far away, a multibrained monkey leaped and bounded about, emitting a cacophony of shrill laughter from different ape species. Its enormous eyes were filled with the arrogance of a petty person who had achieved their goal.

A cold smile suddenly appeared on Tang Shan's lips. He slowly extended his five fingers, clenched them into a fist, raised his thumb, and then rotated it extremely slowly, 180 degrees.

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Chapter 96 Berserker Battle, Final Breakthrough

Tangshan's highly sarcastic gesture enraged the multibrained monkey hidden among the mixed ape troop, who raised his head and let out a sharp monkey cry.

In the next instant, as if receiving some command, a group of monkeys of different shapes and sizes almost simultaneously pounded their chests and roared, rushing through the forest with a ferocious momentum, running wildly along the branches, the ear-piercing sound of sharp claws scraping against the bark rising and falling, quickly closing the distance to Tangshan.

Ooh ooh ooh!

The iron-armed monkey's knee-length arms were bulging with muscles. With a powerful swing, a wooden stick as thick as a bowl whistled through the air and smashed towards Tang Shan's face. At the same time, he raised his fist, and the force of the punch, carrying a powerful wind, blasted towards the human in front of him like a heavy cannon.

call!

Tang Shan caught the stick with ease, his arm muscles tensing instantly. He subconsciously used skill to deflect the immense force carried by the stick, and then pushed it forward. The slender stick snapped in two, splintering wood everywhere, but it also barely stopped the Iron-Armed Monkey's heavy punch that was close behind.

Bang bang bang!

Their punches were like phantoms, each landing with a muffled thud that made the air tremble. They exchanged three hard blows with their opponent, then instantly flipped backward. The next moment, the tree branches they had been stepping on creaked under the weight and snapped, the broken ends still trembling slightly.

The iron-armed monkey could only grab onto a nearby branch again, flip over, and regain its balance.

Boom!

Tang Shan, leaping into the air, crossed his arms like a heavy hammer, bent his waist at an exaggerated angle, his body seemingly folding into a U-shape, the power flowing smoothly and converging into his fists, before slamming them forward!

In front of him, the burly Vajra Demon Ape took Tang Shan's powerful punch squarely to the chest.

Crack! The crisp sound of bones breaking echoed, and the opponent's chest caved in instantly. His massive body slammed into the baboons chasing after him like a cannonball. After a series of screams and tumbles, the number of enemies ahead was reduced.

As his body fell due to gravity, Tangshan casually grabbed a thick vine with his large hand, using the force to fling himself towards the persistent troop of monkeys behind him.

With Serpent Spear Douluo present, what is there to retreat from? What is there to back down from? Let's fight to our hearts' content today!

call!

A fierce wind whistled past his ears as he moved through the trees like a ghost. With the support of his first soul skill, his muscles and bones bulged, and each punch was accompanied by a tearing sound, creating a violent wave of attacks in the forest.

The muscles on his back bulged, veins popping out, like an incredibly thick suit of muscle armor. He withstood the blows of three sticks, the muffled thuds making his arms numb. Yet, his hands naturally pulled the monkey that pounced in front of him into his arms. His bulging arm muscles suddenly exerted force, accompanied by a series of cracking sounds, and the monkey in his arms instantly went limp as mud.

With a casual flick of his arm, Tang Shan sent five or six monkeys flying. Some of the weaker ones had countless bones broken in succession under the explosive force of Tang Shan's exquisite strength, and they fell to the ground screaming.

He tossed the corpse in his arms like a tattered sack, and Tang Shan moved through the woods again, the branches beneath his feet trembling, yet not a single sound was uttered.

His spirit and energy were like a blazing sun, his blood surging like boiling water, seemingly merging with the surrounding battle, indistinguishable from one another. As monkey-like soul beasts died or were injured by Tang Shan, his invisible aura grew increasingly intense and fiery, even causing the surrounding apes to subconsciously slow their attacks.

Wherever he went, a bloodbath ensued. Figures were thrown from the trees and crashed to the ground, raising clouds of dust and fallen leaves, their screams echoing throughout the forest.

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

Seeing his men being thrown about with almost no resistance, Duo Nao Hou became anxious. He no longer allowed his guards to simply watch. He waved his arms and screamed, directing them to attack Tang Shan from all sides.

During his battles with these spirit beasts, Tang Shan quickly discovered some problems. Although there were many types of spirit beasts, the vast majority of their attacks relied either on the wooden sticks they held or on punches, with little use of their innate abilities. Clearly, under the training of the Multi-Brain Monkeys, they had developed strong physiques and proficiency with sticks, but they had also gradually forgotten their innate abilities. It was hard to say whether this was a blessing or a curse.

At first, the besieging forces in Tangshan were just some soul beasts that were ten to several decades old, posing no real threat. They moved through them as if they were in an empty place.

However, following the orders from the multi-brained monkey, some centuries-old soul beasts also quickly surrounded Tangshan, their claws tearing through the air and their clubs carrying strong winds. Suddenly, the pressure surged.

Boom boom boom!

The airflow was stirred by the collision of fists. After exchanging blows with the giant ape before him, Tang Shan's aura grew stronger and stronger. His blood and qi boiled to the extreme, and his breath turned bright red. The sweat that just seeped out evaporated into white mist. Clearly, at this moment, Tang Shan could no longer perfectly control his blood and qi and the opening and closing of his pores.

Whew! Haha!

A fireball shot out from the left, carrying a scorching shockwave. A giant ape swept in from the right, instantly freezing the right half of Tangshan's body with a layer of white frost. In front of him was the impact of the century-old giant ape carrying the force of a thousand kilograms. Behind him, without a sound, a monkey with a bright green body and a foul stench appeared, venomous saliva dripping from its sharp teeth. Above its head, the century-old iron-armed monkey turned upside down, its long, slender claws gleaming coldly, gouging directly at Tangshan's eyes.

Almost instantly, the murderous intent from all directions enveloped Tang Shan's entire body, making the air itself seem to freeze.

With a powerful ramming motion, Tang Shan advanced instead of retreating, crashing into the giant ape's embrace. The ape's thick fur shielded Tang Shan from most of the elemental attacks originating from the Flame Monkey and the Ice Baboon. At the same time, a surge of hidden force suddenly erupted from Tang Shan's palm, violently surging into the ape's heart, causing the ape's three-meter-tall body to stiffen abruptly.

Snapped!

With a light, effortless palm strike, the giant ape's body stiffened instantly, its life force rapidly draining away. Its eyes widened in shock as it collapsed to the ground.

With his hands swelling and stretching, he grabbed the soul beasts on both sides that were trying to escape, and then swung them upwards to meet the monkey claws that came down from above. With a tearing sound, the sound of flesh being ripped apart rang out, but Tang Shan remained unfazed, after all, it wasn't his body that was being torn apart.

He retrieved the monkey he had been holding high, then placed it behind his back, directly facing the dark green poisonous gas spewed from the green monkey's mouth. The poisonous gas landed on the soul beast, instantly corroding it and creating sizzling blood holes.

With explosive arm strength, even though the distance of the force exertion was very short, Tangshan's hands were like cannons, throwing the two monkeys' bodies out. They rolled together with the monkeys behind them, their screams and the sound of poisonous gas corroding mingling together.

Turning around to look at the distance, I just managed to avoid the iron-armed monkey that had previously attacked me from above and was now freefalling due to losing its balance.

Tang Shan's eyes were sharp, like a demon ready to devour its prey. Combined with the blood covering his body from the recent series of fights, this only added to his ferocity and savagery.

An invisible aura of terror pressed down on the distant multibrained monkey, who was so frightened that he couldn't help but scream. Feeling humiliated, he was about to retaliate again when his roar abruptly stopped.

Compression, explosion!

Tang Shan stomped hard on the tree trunk, leaving two deep, menacing footprints embedded in the bark. He then leaped into the air again, lunging towards the multi-brained monkey.

Perhaps the accumulated momentum was enough, or perhaps a flash of inspiration struck, but in the instant of leaping and soaring through Tangshan, like a carp leaping over the Dragon Gate, the spirit that had climbed to its peak underwent a dramatic transformation, and an unprecedented clarity swept over the entire body.

The past battles, forging, and willpower coalesced at this moment. The originally surging and scattered momentum seemed to have a backbone, instantly converging and becoming sharp and terrifying.

P.S.: Two updates today, 4000 words in total. The protagonist comprehends his will, and the author is preparing to give him another crotch-opening scene. Please look forward to it!

Chapter 97 Tangshan's Will, The Final Pursuit

Understanding one's will can be difficult or simple; it simply involves seeing one's own heart clearly, identifying a certain desire or conviction within, truly clarifying it, and putting it into practice.

Back in Ironwall City, after receiving guidance from Serpent Spear Douluo, Tang Shan gained an unparalleled understanding of comprehending willpower. All he lacked was the ability to analyze his own heart and then unearth it.

He was curious about what he truly craved and what he truly wanted.

Therefore, while cultivating in Tiandou City, Tang Shan often pondered and carefully considered the matter. Based on his countless experiences reading novels in his previous life, he also had some guesses in his mind.

He was a time traveler, and among countless similar templates, very few could actually transform their heartfelt thoughts into will.

Perhaps it is the freedom to be unrestrained and do whatever one pleases;

Perhaps it is the imperial way of wielding power over the world and indulging in the company of beautiful women;

Perhaps it was curiosity about the extraordinary, or even godhood, that nurtured a thirst for knowledge;

Perhaps it signifies invincibility and repeated victories;

Perhaps it is a path of survival that seeks only peace of mind and low self-esteem, a path of stability and security;

Or perhaps I'm just doing what I want and thinking for myself;

Or perhaps, upon arriving in this world and witnessing such a desolate state of affairs, a greater love arose in their hearts, giving rise to a heroic spirit that dared to change the world...

However, when Tang Shan reached the pinnacle of his spirit and energy, and during the fierce battle he gained enlightenment and comprehended his will, he discovered that his inner thoughts were so unique.

Although they learned their lesson in the heat of battle, the will that Tangshan forged was not a surging fighting spirit that grew more frenzied with each battle.

He discovered that what he truly desired deep down was not immortality or fleeting beauty, but rather the enhancement of his power.

Yes, it's simply about wanting bigger and stronger power.

Each increase in strength brings a feeling of gradually becoming stronger that is truly captivating.

Each surge of Qi and blood in his body could make him feel emotionally agitated.

Qi and blood endow the physical body with strength, and soul power amplifies the body's strength. Tang Shan doesn't care what he can do with his strength; he only cares about the process of his strength growing bit by bit and the exhilaration of unleashing his strength.