The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 131 Sixth Soul Skill, Reversing Life and Death Arena

Qian Daoliu stared in surprise at the black-purple giant in front of him. At this moment, he truly felt the aura from the god-level martial soul. Was this because the quality of the martial soul had evolved?

"Grandpa, look at his forehead!" Qian Renxue pointed to the sky.

Qian Daoliu followed his gaze and discovered that on the forehead of the fifty-meter-tall, dark purple giant, there was a semi-transparent, diamond-shaped space large enough to accommodate several people. Xia Liang was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed.

Surprisingly, there was also a diamond-shaped mark on Xia Liang's forehead. However, this mark was not translucent, but rather blackish-gray.

"Is this the mark of the divine test?" Qian Daoliu suddenly remembered that when he participated in the Eight Trials of the Angel God, he had a golden mark on his forehead.

At this moment, a dark gray brand suddenly appeared on Xia Liang's forehead, containing a trace of divine power fluctuation, clearly a symbol of a certain god's assessment.

It was at this moment that Qian Daoliu became certain that the child named Xia Liang was not lying. He was indeed the inheritor of the Divine Examination. Could it be that the evil god bloodline of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had repaired his malignantly mutated divine martial soul origin?

However, what Qian Daoliu didn't know was that the blackish-gray mark on Xia Liang's forehead was indeed the Divine Trial Mark, but it was something he had just obtained and had never possessed before.

In the Douluo God Realm, from minor officials to god kings, any deity associated with negativity can be called an evil god, rather than referring to a specific one.

The evil god bloodline contained in the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Natal Bead was originally the inheritance of a certain first-level evil god.

However, the God Realm has a rule that soul beasts cannot become gods. Therefore, only after breaking through 100,000 years of cultivation and transforming into a human can the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger be qualified to start the Level 1 Evil God assessment.

This is a bloodline memory etched deep within the soul of the Dark Demon God Tiger.

Unfortunately, it was killed before it could cultivate for 100,000 years, and together with its natal bead, it became Xia Liang's soul ring.

Therefore, Xia Liang took its place in initiating the assessment for a Level One Evil God.

However, the one who should have been given the mark of divine testing was a first-level evil god, but because of his extraordinary talent, Xia Liang was chosen by the first evil god king and was granted the privilege of undergoing nine trials as an evil god.

This is the exact opposite of Ma Hongjun's treatment in the original work.

According to the original description, Ma Hongjun was born with a top-tier martial soul and had an amazing talent. He should have been the God of Fire among the first-level gods, but due to his neglect of cultivation in his youth, his inheritance failed and he could only settle for inheriting the second-level god, the God of Phoenix.

Xia Liang, on the other hand, was born with a flawed martial soul and mediocre talent. He had no hope of breaking through to the Title Douluo realm in this lifetime, let alone gaining the favor of a certain god.

However, through his own efforts and various opportunities, he made up for his lack of talent, gradually making his incomplete martial soul complete. In the end, he even cultivated a martial soul that was not considered top-tier into an ultimate martial soul, and thus began the Divine Trial.

His hard work and dedication earned him the most amazing talent, which led to the transformation of the original Level 1 Evil God assessment into the highest-level Evil God King assessment when the divine test arrived.

Xia Liang never expected such a good thing to happen to him.

After merging with the information carried by the divine test mark, he discovered that his once wide-open spiritual world had been locked by a divine thought.

From then on, without permission, even someone as powerful as Qian Daoliu could not forcibly enter his mental world.

Within the spiritual world, on the spiritual sea covering an area of ​​several hundred meters in radius, float nine dark gray rhombus-shaped markings. These correspond to the nine trials of the evil god descended by the evil god-king.

Xia Liang stood on the shore of the spiritual sea. He used his X-ray vision to examine the nine dark gray rhombus-shaped marks, but found that except for the first mark, the other eight marks were like ordinary stones, and he could not see the content of the test they contained.

The first dark gray rhombus mark, also known as the first test of the evil god, appeared in my mind without any need for clairvoyance, because the first test had already begun once the divine test was initiated.

The first test of the Evil God is: to break through level 70 within one year, obtain the true form of a martial soul, and possess a 100,000-year soul ring.

Rewards for completing the first assessment: Soul Power increases by two levels, one opportunity to devour a Soul Ring, and Evil God Affinity increases by five percent.

Having grasped the content of the first test from the Evil God, Xia Liang stood on the shore of the Spiritual Realm and began to ponder.

The reward that interested him most was the opportunity to devour a soul ring.

This is different from absorbing the Dark Demon God Tiger Soul Ring by devouring it earlier.

The Devouring Soul Ring rewarded by the Divine Trial allows you to devour one of your existing soul rings and transform the soul skills associated with that soul ring into your own unique talent abilities.

Because of divine protection, the process of absorbing spirit rings produces no side effects. Moreover, after absorbing a spirit ring, a vacancy arises in that spirit ring position, which can then be used to attach a new spirit ring.

This means that in the future, not only can one painlessly replace spirit rings with those of higher age, but one can also turn old spirit rings into one's own physical strength, which is much better than the reward of increasing the age of spirit rings in the original work.

What troubled Xia Liang was that after absorbing the soul ring and natal bead of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, the dark attribute of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul evolved into the ultimate dark attribute, and the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul itself was thus promoted to the ultimate Martial Soul.

Before level 70, the cultivation speed of an ultimate martial soul is very slow.

My current soul power is level 65. Unless I quickly increase my cultivation by devouring the dead, it will be an impossible task to break through level 70 and obtain a 100,000-year soul ring within a year.

Devouring the dead?

Thinking of this, Xia Liang's eyes lit up. The original work mentioned the Slaughter City, where many fallen soul masters were killed every day. He could enter the Slaughter City to devour the dead and increase his cultivation.

Furthermore, completing 100 kills in the Killing Arena of Killing City will grant you the qualification to unlock the Hell Road.

When one breaks through the Hell Road and obtains the God of Slaughter Domain, it is equivalent to gaining the favor of another god-king among the evil gods, the Asura God.

According to the original description, the Asura God, as the god of law enforcement, does not have the highest power among the five great god-kings, but his combat strength is the strongest.

The Asura God will leave the ultimate artifact to its inheritor, but the Evil God King will not.

Xia Liang felt that he couldn't put all his eggs in one basket. With the Evil God King as a safety net, he should also look for an opportunity to obtain the inheritance of the Asura God.

As for how to find the location of the Killing City, and whether you can successfully open the Hell Road after entering the Killing City.

Xia Liang is not worried about these problems now, because when he devoured Tang Hao's soul, he also read Tang Hao's memories and already knew where to find the City of Slaughter.

After absorbing the Dark Demon God Tiger Soul Ring and obtaining his sixth soul skill, he essentially had Tang Hao, the God of Slaughter, backing him up.

If Tang Hao were to enter the City of Slaughter along with him, the King of Slaughter would have no choice but to open the Hell Road according to the rules.

Putting aside the matter of the Nine Trials of the Evil God, Xia Liang's consciousness remained in the spiritual world. He walked on water and reached the center of the spiritual sea.

Yellow, yellow, purple, black, black, black.

A total of six spirit rings slowly floated down from Xia Liang's head. Because of the energy integrated into his natal bead, the age of the sixth spirit ring of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger increased by 20,000 years.

In other words, the sixth spirit ring's actual age is 80,000 years. And the sixth spirit skill is naturally also an 80,000-year spirit skill, its effect inherited from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's unique skill, the Arena of Life and Death.

According to the original description, the Arena of Life and Death is a black hole ability that combines the attributes of time and space, which can suck opponents into the alternate dimension of the black hole for duels.

During the duel, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, protected by the Evil God, is immune to the effects of the time attribute and can maintain its original cultivation level.

The opponent will be weakened by the time attribute and turned into a child state.

Only when one of them dies can this life-or-death duel end and the two sides escape from the other dimension.

After the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Arena of Life and Death was combined with the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul as a Soul Ring skill, the sixth Soul Skill, Reverse Arena of Life and Death, was born.

As the name suggests, the arena of life and death is a process from life to death for both sides. The reverse arena of life and death, on the other hand, is a process from death to life.

After the sixth soul skill, Reverse Arena of Life and Death, is activated, it will use the alternate dimension within the realm of the dead as the venue, thereby temporarily restoring the soul of the deceased to its most powerful state in life.

By summoning Gastly, one can temporarily restore a deceased person to their most powerful state in life. However, even in their most powerful state, the deceased person cannot unleash their full potential.

Since the summoning is done in the same way as summoning Gastly, it means that the summoned dead person, like Gastly, is a combination of spiritual power, soul power, and undead attributes.

Furthermore, because it incorporates the ultimate dark attribute, the summoned dead are unaffected by extremely yang or hot objects and can continue to live as long as they are not destroyed.

Because the soul and body are dominated by the ultimate dark attribute, even if the dead retain memories of their previous life, they can only obey the spellcaster's commands.

If we had to nitpick and find a flaw in the sixth soul skill, Reverse Arena of Life and Death, it would be that the stronger the summoned dead, the more soul power and mental energy are required.

It is clearly impossible to summon Tang Hao, a level 95 Title Douluo, at his strongest during his lifetime, with only level 65 soul power.

However, with the added benefit of the time attribute, it can be summoned at any timeline.

If it's just during the period when Tang Hao's soul power was at level 89, then there's absolutely no problem.

The prerequisite for summoning the dead is that the dead's spirit must be sealed within the realm of the dead.

Fortunately, before Tang Hao's spirit was devoured by the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul, Xia Liang had first sealed Tang Hao's entire right hand within the Undead Domain.

With this entire right-hand soul, it is also possible to complete the Reverse Life and Death Arena Summoning.

Because of the time attribute, you only need to restore the entire right-hand soul to the timeline of the complete soul before summoning it, but this will consume more soul power and mental power.

As his sixth spirit ring lit up, Xia Liang activated his sixth spirit skill, Reverse Life and Death Arena, where a ball of dark purple ghost fire drifted in front of him.

This ball of will-o'-the-wisp was summoned with the soul of Tang Hao's entire right hand as its core.

With the aid of his sixth soul skill's time attribute, Xia Liang is attempting to temporarily restore Tang Hao's entire right hand's soul to a complete state.

About three minutes later, the dark purple ghost fire floating in front of him began to wriggle and gradually transformed into a semi-transparent human form that was two meters tall.

Immediately afterwards, ribs grew from the translucent humanoid body, followed by arm bones, skull bones, and bones from the lower body.

When Xia Liang looked up, what came into his view was no longer a semi-transparent person, but a complete blackish-purple skeleton.

Countless strands of flesh and blood, along with meridians, entangled the skeleton, transforming it into a flesh-and-blood, dark purple human, which eventually gradually took on the appearance of Tang Hao.

Compared to the Tang Hao he had killed before, the Tang Hao who appeared before Xia Liang had a burly physique, an upright appearance, and a resolute gaze, exuding a sense of power from head to toe.

If Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin were here, she would definitely recognize that this Tang Hao, who looks only about forty years old, is the same person who had helped her escape the Spirit Hall's pursuit back then, with the same appearance and cultivation level.

Looking at the clear palm lines and veins on his hands, Tang Hao's eyes revealed a look of surprise. He remembered that he had been reduced to ashes by a black-haired youth, and his soul had disappeared in the endless darkness after death. How could he still retain his physical body and even recover his soul consciousness?

What puzzled Tang Hao even more was that although the hidden injuries in his body had disappeared, his soul power level had dropped from level 95 to level 89.

Looking down at his reflection on the sea, Tang Hao realized that his appearance had actually returned to what it was like before Ah Yin sacrificed herself.

What exactly happened?

"Senior Tang Hao, I said I would haunt you even as a ghost. Now I'm keeping my promise." Xia Liang's voice interrupted Tang Hao's thoughts.

"You, it's you!" Tang Hao realized that the hatred he felt for this person was gradually disappearing, replaced by an irresistible submission.

He gradually realized that he seemed to have become a living dead who could be ordered around at will.

The person who transformed himself into this is the black-haired youth before us who once reduced him to ashes.

"Playing with the dead, you'll go to hell one day!" Tang Hao said to Xia Liang.

Xia Liang smiled. "Sorry, I am Yama, the King of Hell. That's why I can toy with the dead. Senior, congratulations on becoming my first toy. From now on, I will squeeze every last drop of value out of you. Even if you die, I will not let you go."

Upon hearing this, Tang Hao closed his eyes in anguish, wishing that his severed right arm and soul had been devoured along with it.

That way, none of this would have happened.

"Senior, spar with me." With that, Xia Liang's body slowly floated into the sky, releasing his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul. A black-purple giant, fifty meters tall, rose from the sea of ​​spirit.

Xia Liang was already encased in a semi-transparent rhomboid space on the forehead of the black-purple giant.

This dark purple giant is the fourth form of Ossified Susanoo. It has added a lower body and two legs to the original half-human form, and its size has also increased significantly.

Because the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul has become the ultimate Martial Soul, with the blessing of the ultimate dark attribute, the Bone-Transformed Susanoo, in its giant form alone, can easily crush a peak Soul Saint.

If weapons were used, he should be able to put up a fight against a peak-level Soul Douluo.

The Tang Hao summoned so far is a level 89 peak Soul Douluo, which is why Xia Liang asked him to be his sparring partner.

(End of this chapter)