Douluo: Legend of the Dragon King - The Voice of the Purple Emperor

"Confidence comes from strength. If you insist that we participate, it's not impossible. Unless the champion's prize is a soul bone."

Sima Lanxiao's expression changed. He knew exactly what a soul bone was. Even 20,000 years ago, when the Douluo Continent was still in the era of cold weapons, soul bones were absolute treasures. And today, one can imagine how rare soul bones are.

Soul bones come from soul beasts, but unlike soul beasts that produce soul rings, the probability of a soul bone appearing is only one in a thousand, and that's based on a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast. Only one-hundred-thousand-year-old soul beasts are guaranteed to produce soul bones.

Although there is still an ancient forest on the Star Luo Continent, it has been strictly protected by the Star Luo Federation, making it impossible to hunt the soul beasts within. Even if you were to attempt to hunt one and succeed, you would face the death penalty if caught.

"Elder Cai, our competition is called the Continental Elite Youth Soul Master Competition, which includes various events such as individual, team, and mecha competitions. Regarding the soul bone you mentioned, we only award one soul bone to the final champion of the individual competition. In the team competition, the final reward for a seven-person team is one piece of soul-forging metal per person. The final reward for a two-on-two match is a ten-thousand-year-old spiritual artifact. The final reward for the mecha competition is a black-grade mecha, while the runner-up and third-place winners receive purple-grade mechas. So, regarding the situation where there's only one soul bone, what do you think…?"

Cai Yue'er raised her eyebrows slightly. She hadn't expected that the prizes for the Star Luo Empire's Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition would be so generous. Not only were there real soul bones, but the prizes for the other competitions were also quite good.

"That sounds good, but the prizes for your different competitions seem to vary quite a bit!"

While Soul-forged metals, mechs, and rare and precious herbs are all good, they are still quite different in terms of rarity compared to Soul Bones.

Sima Lanxiao said, "The reason why the prizes for one-on-one matches are so generous is because our one-on-one competitions are called the Infinite Challenge. That is to say, you can use any means to compete in the competition—mechs, battle armor, martial souls, soul tools, anything is allowed. Moreover, you have to sign a life-or-death contract. Only extremely valuable prizes can attract the most participants. This one-on-one competition is also the most important of all our competitions."

This is different from the situation on Douluo Continent, where seven-on-seven team battles are the way to go. Here, however, individual heroism is clearly more valued.

"What are the restrictions for participating?" Cai Yue'er asked calmly.

Sima Lanxiao was secretly pleased, knowing that she was somewhat interested. "Under twenty years old. There are no other restrictions. Especially for the students of Shrek Academy."

"Okay." Cai Yue'er's reply was just one simple word.

Riding aboard the luxurious Soul Guide Train, the group admired the unique cityscape of the Star Luo Empire.

Compared to the prosperity and mechanization of Douluo Continent, Star Luo Continent appears significantly more primitive. After all, it was developed much earlier than Douluo Continent.

The Soul Guidance Train moved much slower, and outside the window, forests and lakes came into view. The air was so clear that one could see far into the distance. Occasionally, they passed through cities, and upon closer inspection, it was clear that their level of modernization was considerably lower than that of the Douluo Continent.

The food in the Star Luo Continent is not much different from that in the Douluo Continent. To entertain these members of the delegation, a very sumptuous feast was prepared on the train.

Enjoying the scenery and delicious food, this relaxing trip was something they had never experienced before. At least not since joining Shrek Academy.

Also traveling with them were members of the Star Luo Royal Academy delegation; everyone sat in the same carriage.

There were some frictions when they first boarded the ship, but they gradually became familiar with each other. They never actually came to blows.

On the train, four people sat facing each other in pairs, with a table in the middle.

At this moment, Gu You is indulging in a feast!

On the Star Luo Royal Academy side, four people were seated at a table, and their eyes kept glancing towards Gu You and his group.

"That guy can really eat," a girl whispered. "He's pretty too."

The other girl sitting opposite her laughed, "Zhenzhen, are you trying to seduce a younger man? He's four or five years younger than us. He's the captain of the Shrek Academy team. Did you see that when the sea spirit beasts surrounded us that day? That dragon form he transformed into, like a dragon king, was really powerful."

"That looks like the true form of a martial spirit, doesn't it?"

"Don't kid me. How young is he? How could he have a seventh soul skill? Don't boost his morale and dampen ours. Our captain is already level 55. He's definitely not weaker than him. Plus, he has a full set of one-word battle armor."

"Look, what's that!" a student from Star Luo Royal Academy exclaimed in horror.

Everyone looked over.

"Isn't this a mecha?"

But then, points of light began to appear on the bodies of those mechs.

Just then, Cai Yue'er, who had been sitting with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes and turned to look out the window.

"They've come with ill intentions!"

A cool, refreshing aura suddenly emanated from the seat in front, followed by a flash of cold light sweeping across the ceiling of the carriage.

Suddenly, a bright light appeared above everyone's heads as the roof of the carriage was blown off, followed by a howling gust of wind.

The next instant, Wu Changkong soared into the air, unleashing his two-word battle armor, his icy blue soul power enveloping everyone to prevent them from being harmed. This included the students of Star Luo Academy.

A series of loud roars rang out continuously.

Gu You, using his Purple Demon Eyes for clairvoyance, witnessed the barrage of soul-guided cannonballs raining down on the soul-guided train. Over a hundred mechs were approaching from afar, the lead one being red!

However, unlike Makino's red mecha, this red mecha resembled a soaring eagle, with its wings spread wide and incredibly fast. Almost simultaneously with the explosion, it had already appeared above the soul-guided train.

The violent explosion caused all the carriages of the Soul Guidance Train to flip over simultaneously, flames rose, a huge roar erupted, and debris from the explosion scattered everywhere.

It's important to know that this special train was carrying quite a few members of the delegation from the Douluo Continent!

After the delegation entered the Star Luo Continent, although they dispersed in the coastal city, at least half of them were heading to Star Luo City, and they were all on this Soul Guidance Train.

But at that moment, a strange scene unfolded.

Layers of silver light spread through the churning soul-guided train, the flames of the explosion quickly extinguished, and the soul-guided train...

(End of this chapter)