Douluo Continent: Dragon's Journey Across the World

When Tang San and his group arrived at Seagod Island, Tang San, who had the highest soul power level, was only 67, which was two levels lower than Feng Xiaotian, who had not yet reached level 70.

However, judging from his combat strength, Tang San has basically obtained all the inheritance of the Clear Sky Sect, and with the addition of two soul bones, he is probably far superior to Feng Xiaotian.

Among the five members of Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai, who has the highest soul power, is only at level 56. In the past five years, he has only increased by about 13 levels, which is a very limited improvement. It should be noted that Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu have increased by a full 15 levels, and Feng Xiaotian has increased by 17 levels.

Zhu Zhuqing has made good progress in the past five years, and has now reached level 53. Her improvement speed is almost the same as Dai Mubai's. It should be noted that in terms of innate soul power level, Zhu Zhuqing is far behind Dai Mubai. She deserves to be the most hardworking of the Shrek Seven.

Oscar has also reached level 53. As expected, among the Shrek Academy students, he is still the most talented. He deserves to have full innate soul power. After all, he is a food-type soul master. There are indeed many soul kings in history before the age of 25, but they are basically all battle soul masters. Oscar is the first support-type soul master.

Ma Hongjun has the lowest soul power level, currently only level 49, not even reaching the Soul King level. He is probably the least hardworking among all the people over the years.

In terms of overall strength, among the Shrek Seven Devils, Tang San's strength is roughly the same as in the original story, basically around level 68, while the others are at least five to ten levels lower.

However, relatively speaking, the Shrek Academy students are indeed highly talented, and can be called peerless geniuses. After five years of training, only Dai Mubai and Oscar are over twenty years old, but not yet twenty-five. Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San are all nineteen years old. In terms of talent, they are much higher than the Golden Generation of the Spirit Hall and Huo Wushuang. Only Feng Xiaotian can be compared with them, but Feng Xiaotian is already twenty-nine years old.

Now, whether it's Yang Ping'an and his group of five or Tang San and his group of five, they all basically understand the cruelty of the Sea God's Trial. They are all desperately cultivating under the Sea God's Light, because no one wants to be killed because of failing the trial.

Among Tang San's group of five, Ma Hongjun was the first to break through the bottleneck, since he was already level 49 when he arrived.

Although Ma Hongjun absorbed a divinely bestowed soul ring, which was very suitable for his Fire Phoenix Martial Soul and could even suppress the evil fire to some extent, the soul ring was only about 15,000 years old, which was still too short for his physical condition.

Half a year later, four months after Tang San and his companions arrived, Tang San finally broke through the bottleneck and reached level 70.

Tang San was originally full of confidence, and even if he had to do his best, he wanted to absorb a 100,000-year spirit ring, since Yang Ping'an had already absorbed a 100,000-year seventh spirit ring.

Even though Tang San tried his best, the age of his seventh spirit ring was only about 70,000 years, which was basically the same as Feng Xiaotian's. It was much higher than the 50,000 years of a normal spirit master, but it was still far from the 100,000-year spirit ring.

At this moment, Tang San looked at Yang Ping'an and the other four with even more seriousness. Judging purely from their strength, he was even confident that he could defeat Feng Xiaotian.

But when he looked at Yang Ping'an, who was three hundred steps away, he seemed to be filled with resentment.

The other four members of Shrek Academy were in the same boat. They were originally very close in age to Yang Ping'an, but Yang Ping'an was now like a star in the sky, with strength far exceeding their imagination.

As time went by, everyone on both sides worked hard to cultivate within the light of the sea god, and one by one they began to reach their bottlenecks.

First is Dai Mubai. He was already at level 56, and the Soul King realm's Soul Power level increases much faster than the Soul Emperor realm. Ironically, he was the fourth among everyone to encounter a bottleneck.

Next came Huo Wushuang, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er. All three of them had a soul power level of 65. After nearly nine months, they all reached their bottlenecks and their soul power level reached 70.

After the three of them absorbed the divinely bestowed soul rings with all their might, their soul power reached level 71, but the lifespan of the soul rings was between 60,000 and 70,000 years, not much longer.

After a full ten months, Yang Ping'an finally raised his soul power to level eighty, which was the time for him to absorb the divinely bestowed soul ring.

According to Yang Ping'an's estimate, given the talents of the Shrek Academy members and Shui Bing'er, their cultivation speed within the Sea God's Light should allow them to increase their soul power by about level seven in a year if they cultivate at the Soul Emperor stage. The cultivation speed would be even faster at the Soul King stage, with a potential increase of ten levels in a year.

The Soul Saint stage is even slower, estimated to be only three or four levels per year. This is why Shui Bing'er and the others encountered the bottleneck first.

Poseidon appeared precisely when Yang Ping'an's soul power reached level 80 and gave him a divinely bestowed soul ring.

Yang Ping'an excitedly accepted the golden divine soul ring, which was one of the biggest reasons for coming to Seagod Island.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Ping'an sat cross-legged on the ground and began to absorb the divinely bestowed soul ring.

As the power of the divinely bestowed spirit rings enveloped Yang Ping'an's entire body, the Golden Demon Dragon manifested seven spirit rings: two yellow, two purple, two black, and one red. Endless energy began to surge into Yang Ping'an's eighth spirit ring position.

As time went by, Yang Ping'an's entire body seemed to be encased in a thick cocoon, as if he were being crushed by a powerful force, as if he were about to collapse at any moment.

Yang Ping'an gritted his teeth, and all six soul bones on his body seemed to gradually appear. Especially under the power of the divinely bestowed soul ring, all the soul bones seemed to be under great pressure, and even the connection became closer.

This time, Yang Ping'an spent a full month absorbing his eighth spirit ring. In everyone's eyes, it was like a giant cocoon, as if it were nurturing some kind of behemoth.

Feng Xiaotian has been cultivating next to Yang Ping'an recently. He is the strongest among them, and passing through the 108 steps is no longer a big problem. After all, there are many people around, and it would be troublesome if something unexpected happened, especially since Tang San and Yang Ping'an obviously have a grudge.

When Yang Ping'an opened his eyes again, the cocoon covering his body seemed to be cracking, and a huge red soul ring appeared on the golden dragon.

The greatest advantage of a divinely bestowed spirit ring is that it has no inherent attribute, meaning it possesses all attributes and can be matched with the most suitable spirit skill for the spirit master. In particular, Yang Ping'an has always absorbed metal-attribute spirit rings, and this divinely bestowed spirit ring from the Sea God has further enhanced the metal attribute of the Golden Demon Dragon to its extreme.

At this moment, the scales all over the golden dragon's body seemed to have almost formed a whole, just like a real golden dragon. Its body length had exceeded 100 meters, and both its defense and strength had been greatly enhanced.

After absorbing the divinely bestowed soul ring, Yang Ping'an's soul power level has reached level 83. In particular, the eighth soul ring seems to be much larger than the seventh soul ring, obviously with an extremely high age. If you look closely, there are three golden lines in the red soul ring, indicating that its age has exceeded 300,000 years.

The eighth spirit ring also gave Yang Ping'an two very good skills. The first spirit skill is Golden Dragon Annihilation. When using the spirit skill, he can summon a huge golden dragon that can destroy the world. It is somewhat similar to Bone Douluo's Bone Transformation Dragon, but its power is at least several times stronger.

According to Yang Ping'an's estimation, this Golden Dragon Annihilation is at least stronger than Tang Hao's Great Sumeru Hammer, and can definitely be called one of the strongest soul skills in Douluo Continent.

The second soul skill is also quite good. It is called the Golden Demon Dragon Sword. When using the eighth soul skill, the second skill, a huge golden sword with a length of more than two meters can be condensed.

This golden dragon sword weighs 36,000 jin (approximately 18,000 kg), is entirely golden, and is incredibly sharp, ignoring all defenses and capable of breaking through anything; it is comparable to a divine weapon.

At this moment, Yang Ping'an couldn't help but roar to the sky. With his current strength, especially after acquiring these two 100,000-year soul skills, killing Tang Hao was definitely not a problem.

After absorbing the spirit ring, Yang Ping'an expressed his gratitude to Feng Xiaotian: "Brother Feng, I'm sorry to have troubled you these past few days and taken up a lot of your time."

Feng Xiaotian replied casually, "Brother Yang, you're being too polite. Cultivating next to you is quite nice; it feels no worse than under the Sea God's Light. It seems your eighth spirit ring is quite impressive."

Yang Ping'an looked at Feng Xiaotian and Shui Bing'er and the other three: "There is still one month left. Everyone should work hard to cultivate and strive to pass the first test with your own strength. In the future, you may have a chance to obtain a divinely bestowed soul ring, and at that time, you may also obtain a 100,000-year soul ring."

"If all else fails, I'll go with you to search for 100,000-year-old soul beasts in the future. There are plenty of them in both the Star Dou Great Forest and the ocean."

The group seemed greatly encouraged and continued their cultivation.

Poseidon, observing Yang Ping'an and the others from her palace, grew somewhat grave.

Since Tang San arrived at Seagod Island, Poseidon learned that Tang San was a descendant of Tang Chen, and she began to pay more attention to him.

However, judging from the situation of Yang Ping'an and Tang San's teams, the two sides had basically no contact and even seemed to harbor some animosity, clearly indicating that they had a grudge against each other.

Although Yang Ping'an is only level 83, he already has two 100,000-year spirit rings. His strength is probably beyond everyone's imagination. If Tang San becomes enemies with Yang Ping'an in the future, the consequences are hard to predict.

Especially considering Yang Ping'an's way of handling things, he would definitely eliminate all enemies in advance. If Tang San cannot become a Title Douluo to add a spirit ring to the Clear Sky Hammer, he will probably be in great danger in the future.

In the temple of the sea god in the divine realm, a huge blue figure was watching the situation on the island of the sea god; it was none other than Poseidon, the sea god.

The Sea God looked at Yang Ping'an with a strange expression: "Yang Ping'an's martial soul is quite interesting. Why does it feel somewhat similar, as if I've seen it somewhere before? And why can't I pass on the Sea God's inheritance to Yang Ping'an? Could it be that he has already been chosen by another god?"

As the Sea God, he naturally knew that Yang Ping'an had two martial souls. However, when his own inheritance light was about to change to the inheritance assessment, it suddenly seemed to be rejected by the power in Yang Ping'an's body. It seemed that the attributes were completely incompatible. In the end, the Sea God had no choice but to change the assessment to the first level of the red level, which could be regarded as a way of thanking him for sending back the Heart of the Sea God.

Thinking of this, the Sea God looked at the other participants in the assessment, focusing particularly on Shui Bing'er and Tang San.

Shui Bing'er's martial soul is the rare Ice Phoenix, which can be said to be a perfect match for her Sea God inheritance. Tang San, on the other hand, has twin martial souls, and his aptitude and potential seem to be higher than Shui Bing'er's.

In the end, the Sea God thought to himself, "Both of them are qualified to inherit my Sea God legacy. Let's wait and see who will develop better in the future."

On Poseidon Island, while Yang Ping'an and his group of five were in high spirits and full of confidence, Tang San and his group of five were becoming increasingly demoralized.

As time goes by, although their soul power and physical fitness have improved significantly, the actual level of the test seems unattainable compared to the content of the test. Even with Oscar, a support-type soul master, they seem to have no hope of passing the test.

After some research, Tang San finally came up with a way to use his domain to help others pass the test. Given Tang San's current situation, passing the test of 136 steps should not be a problem, but it would be difficult for the other four, especially Ma Hongjun, who is only at the Soul King stage, whose probability of passing is infinitely close to zero.

After three more months of continuous training, with only three days left until the final deadline for the assessment, Yang Ping'an's soul power reached level 84, Feng Xiaotian's reached level 74, and Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Shui Bing'er's reached level 72.

Yang Ping'an didn't like to wait until the last minute to do everything, so he simply gave everyone a final assessment three days in advance. If they still couldn't pass, he would think of other ways.

Feng Xiaotian was the first to go up, and now it was no problem for him to get through the 108 steps.

Next up are Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu. Although Huo Wu had a harder time, she was still able to climb the steps.

The fourth to take the stage was Shui Bing'er. Given her physical condition, it would indeed be quite difficult for her to pass the test. Although Shui Bing'er was gentle and refined, she was also extremely tenacious. She exerted all her strength and finally stepped over the 136 steps. Even Yang Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, there was Yang Ping'an. He stared intently at the temple at the highest point of Seagod Island, for that was the true symbol of God and the ultimate goal pursued by Soul Masters.

Yang Ping'an ran quickly up the first hundred steps. After a year of pressure and strengthening from the Sea God's Light, his physical condition was now at least several times stronger than it was before he arrived on Sea God Island.

In the end, Yang Ping'an used all his strength, even his newly mastered eighth soul skill, and only reached the 603rd step, which was his current limit.