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

Chapter 144 Rakshasa's Divine Thought Erosion

"Angels of good and evil?" Xia Liang glanced at the golden angel statue on the left, then at the black angel statue on the right.

The original work doesn't describe the inheritance of the angels in great detail, so he couldn't deduce from the original work what was so mysterious about the angels of good and evil within this building.

However, to avoid being corrupted by the Rakshasa's divine thoughts mixed in within the City of Slaughter, it is best to purify one's evil thoughts immediately.

Closing his eyes, Xia Liang stopped thinking about so much and quickly entered a state of deep meditation. The purification of harmful evil thoughts had to be completed as soon as possible, because the remaining few months were needed to obtain the seventh soul ring in order to complete the first test of the Evil God.

a few days later.

North of the Douluo Continent, in the center of a certain wasteland, lies a small town.

This town is the gateway to the Killing City.

Six months ago, Xia Liang destroyed the town's tavern, but now the tavern has been rebuilt and business has returned to normal.

The tavern was three-fifths full of customers.

Amid the conversation of the guests, a burly man dressed in black led a young man in a blue outfit into the tavern.

After finding a corner seat, the burly man ordered two Bloody Marys from the waiter.

As instructed by the burly man, the young man in the blue outfit finished a Bloody Mary and gained entry to the Killing City.

The waiter opened the passageway beneath the bar.

After bidding farewell to the burly man, the young man in blue jumped into the passageway and headed towards the location of the Killing City.

"Sir, you've also drunk Bloody Mary, so you're qualified to enter the Killing City. Why don't you come in with us?" the waiter asked the burly man.

The burly man didn't answer, but glared at the waiter before turning and leaving the tavern.

His name is Tang Xiao, the current sect leader of Haotian Sect. He has already been criticized by the elders for leaving the mountain temporarily, so how could he let the entire Haotian Sect disregard the law and enter the City of Slaughter?

The young man in blue who jumped into the passageway just now was Tang Xiao's nephew, Tang San.

The reason for their trip to the town to obtain the qualification to enter the Killing City was at the request of their nephew, Tang San.

Stepping out of the tavern, Tang Xiao gazed at the purple moon in the sky. A look of worry suddenly appeared in his eyes.

He somewhat regretted agreeing to Tang San's request, since he wasn't a god of death like his younger brother Tang Hao, and didn't have the right to freely enter and leave the City of Slaughter.

If Tang San were to meet with misfortune in the City of Slaughter, wouldn't he indirectly sever the only bloodline left in this world for his brother and Ah Yin?

"Brother Hao, Ah Yin. May your spirits protect Xiao San in heaven." Tang Xiao murmured to the sky before leaving the town and heading back towards the Haotian Sect.

He learned from Tang Hao that the master of the Slaughter City, the King of Slaughter, was not a man of his word. Even if Tang San won a hundred battles after entering the Slaughter City and qualified to open the Hell Road, the King of Slaughter might not necessarily follow the rules.

Fortunately, the King of Slaughter was unaware that Tang Hao was dead. Tang Xiao only hoped that Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer martial soul and his identity as the son of the God of Slaughter Tang Hao would make the King of Slaughter wary, so that he could open and break through the Hell Road and return to the Clear Sky Sect.

As for how Tang San would protect himself and defeat powerful enemies beyond his level in the City of Slaughter, Tang Xiao wasn't too worried, because in the past six months, he had crafted far too many top-notch hidden weapons for Tang San.

The fact that Soul Masters cannot use Soul Skills within the City of Slaughter makes it a paradise for users of hidden weapons.

After exiting the passageway, Tang San walked straight for two kilometers across a blood-red wasteland before finally arriving at the city gate of the Slaughter City.

"Is this the City of Slaughter?"

Gazing at the plaque hanging high at the gate of the City of Slaughter, Tang San's eyes revealed a trace of sadness.

"Father, this is where you trained. Once I become a god of death like you and obtain the God of Death Domain, I will definitely avenge you!"

Recalling the scene of his father being reduced to ashes by Xia Liang, Tang San closed his eyes in pain. After composing himself, he began to examine the soul tool belt wrapped around his waist.

This belt-shaped soul tool is called Twenty Bridges Under the Moon. It has twenty-four storage spaces, currently containing countless Tang Clan hidden weapons and raw materials for making them.

Since being brought to the Haotian Sect by his aunt Tang Yuehua, Tang San has stayed there to cultivate under the guidance of his uncle Tang Xiao. Half a year has passed since then.

Because of the Clear Sky Hammer and the talent of having twin martial souls, the elders of the Clear Sky Sect allowed Tang San to be recognized as a member of their ancestral clan.

However, Tang San did not rush to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer. Instead, he followed Tang Xiao's instructions and first cultivated his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to the level of a nine-ring Title Douluo.

Half a year has passed, and fifteen-year-old Tang San has already added a fourth spirit ring to his Blue Silver Grass spirit, and his spirit power has also increased to level forty-two.

From Tang Xiao's account, Tang San learned about everything his father, Tang Hao, had gone through.

It is said that when he was training in the City of Slaughter, his father had not yet broken through the bottleneck of level 70 soul power and could not be considered a true strongman.

However, due to the restriction that Soul Masters in the City of Slaughter cannot use Soul Skills, the father relied on the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes and Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique of the Clear Sky Sect to repeatedly kill powerful enemies beyond his level. In the end, he won a hundred victories in the Slaughter Arena of the City of Slaughter, and successfully broke out of Hell Road and obtained the title of God of Slaughter and the God of Slaughter Domain.

Taking his father as a reference, Tang San believed that he could still achieve a hundred victories in the Slaughter Arena of the Slaughter City with only a level 42 soul power. His confidence came from his possession of many Tang Sect hidden weapons.

After acknowledging his ancestry, Tang San discovered that all the disciples of the Clear Sky Sect were skilled in forging, just like him. Later, he learned from Tang Xiao that his father was one of the three great master craftsmen of the continent.

To Tang San's surprise, the disciples of the Clear Sky Sect were not only skilled in forging, but were also among the best blacksmiths.

Among them, his eldest uncle Tang Xiao is a blacksmith master second only to the Divine Craftsman, and the five elders also possess extraordinary forging abilities. As titled Douluo, their use of the Clear Sky Hammer has long been unparalleled.

With their masterful combination of the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique and superb forging skills, the eldest uncle and the five elders were in no way inferior to the master craftsmen in forging.

Tang San knew that he couldn't avenge his father on his own. After weighing his options, he decided to contribute the methods for making most of the Tang Clan's hidden weapons to his uncle, Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao convened a meeting and, with the permission of the five elders, began to use the Haotian Sect's expertise in the blacksmithing world to produce various Tang Sect hidden weapons for the sect's equipment.

With top-quality forging materials and the best forging techniques, Tang San also obtained many powerful hidden weapons ranked in the top ten, such as the Peacock Feather and the Yama's Decree.

By combining the manufacturing principles of the Zhuge Divine Crossbow and the Yama's Decree, Tang San developed an upgraded version of the Zhuge Divine Crossbow with the ability to inflict deadly poison.

The upgraded Zhuge Crossbow, with its extreme toxicity and penetrating power, is undoubtedly a deadly weapon.

With the help of the insight of the Purple Demon Eye, the upgraded Zhuge Crossbow can be fired at an extremely tricky angle. Even a Soul Douluo powerhouse would only face certain death if he could not use his Soul Skill to defend himself in the City of Slaughter.

The Peacock Feather, a Tang Clan hidden weapon even more powerful than the upgraded Zhuge Crossbow, is capable of wide-range shooting and can fully handle every deadly battle in the Killing Arena of Killing City.

After inspecting all the Tang Clan hidden weapons stored in the Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night and confirming that everything was correct, a resolute look flashed in Tang San's eyes.

Since his father was murdered, he has had only one thought in his mind: to become strong.

Upon learning that Xiao Wu was a 100,000-year-old soul beast, his determination to pursue power grew even stronger.

Only by becoming stronger can Xiao Wu be protected from the siege of countless powerful Soul Masters.

Only by becoming strong can he personally avenge his father, Tang Hao!

Xiao Wu, Xia Liang, and Dugu Bo are the sources of Tang San's desire for power. In order to protect Xiao Wu and kill Xia Liang and Dugu Bo, he must obtain great power.

Recalling the past, the sadness in Tang San's eyes instantly turned into hatred. He firmly believed that one day he would make Dugu Bo and Xia Liang die without a burial place.

Wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes, Tang San resolutely walked towards the city gate of the Slaughter City. He had no more reason to hesitate. Once he entered the Slaughter City, he would either die or gain powerful strength to return to the Clear Sky Sect.

In Wuhun City, a hundred meters underground beneath the Hall of Worship, there is a building that is a hundred meters tall.

The building is furnished as a spacious church, with two angel statues inside.

According to Qian Daoliu, the golden angel statue on the left represents goodwill and is the bright side of angels.

The black angel statue on the right represents the dark side of angels, symbolizing malice.

A thousand years ago, the first angel god used a sacred sword to cut through darkness, evil spirits, and diseases, bringing light to the smog-filled continent.

Having gained the power of faith from the world, the first angel god became a true deity and ascended to the realm of gods.

The Qian family is a legacy left behind by the Angel God after ascending to the divine realm. The good and evil angels placed inside this building are connected to the angel statue outside the hall that initiates the Angel God's test. They contain a trace of angelic power and can identify and purify darkness, evil spirits, and all other negative influences.

On the stone bed between the statues of angels of good and evil, Xia Liang sat cross-legged with his eyes closed. After three days of purification by the divine power of the angels, he could feel that a layer of filth in his spirit had been cleared away, and the color of his spiritual world had become much brighter.

Thanks to this, Xia Liang was able to confirm that Qian Daoliu was telling the truth. His spiritual world had indeed been tainted by evil thoughts comparable to divine consciousness. Ordinary people would not only be unable to detect it, but would even suffer a backlash from the evil thoughts, causing a drastic change in their temperament.

These evil thoughts must have originated from the City of Slaughter.

According to the original description, the City of Slaughter was originally the place where the Asura God inherited his legacy, but it was mixed with the divine thoughts of the Rakshasa God.

Both Asura and Rakshasa are negative deities associated with evil.

However, the Asura God belongs to the category of evil that has turned into good, while the Rakshasa God belongs to extreme evil.

If Xia Liang were to allow the Rakshasa's divine thoughts to erode his spiritual world, he would be certain that Tang Chen from the original story would be his future fate, because both Tang Chen and he possessed the inheritance of evil deities, making them too easily influenced by the evil thoughts of fellow evil deities.

Fortunately, the angelic power within the Thousand Flows sensed this, thus preventing them from going down the wrong path as Tang Chen had.

At this moment, wisps of dark purple energy flowed out from Xia Liang's body and slowly rose into the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the dark purple aura that had gathered in the air formed an evil and ferocious face, and a sharp, piercing laugh rang out from inside the building.

At the same time, Xia Liang was suppressed by the evil face in the sky, and a feeling of suffocation arose spontaneously.

This evil face is not his original evil god, but rather the Rakshasa divine thought that permeates his spiritual world.

After being purified by the power of the angels for three days, the divine thoughts of the Rakshasa God were finally forced out completely.

Unfortunately, the two angel statues, each imbued with a trace of angelic power, were insufficient to completely eradicate the Rakshasa's divine intent.

The golden angel statue on the left, as a symbol of light, will not be harmed by the Rakshasa's divine will even if it cannot purify it.

The black angel statue on the right is different; it represents malice and negativity. After being attacked by the Rakshasa's divine power, it trembled suddenly, as if it had been possessed.

Then came a sharp, piercing laugh that came from the black angel statue. Xia Liang felt his brain throb with pain from the bursts of laughter.

Although he was subjected to the nine trials of the evil god, he failed to complete even the first trial, which means that his affinity with the evil god is zero.

Hoping for the evil god to help eliminate the Rakshasa's divine will is futile; Xia Liang can only fight against the Rakshasa's divine will alone amidst an incredibly intense feeling of suffocation.

The undead that had once devoured in the City of Slaughter were transformed into vengeful ghosts by the Rakshasa's divine will. They ran rampant in Xia Liang's mental world, emitting mournful cries.

Xia Liang discovered that even after activating his fourth soul skill, Demon Eye Soul Absorption, and Asura Eye to enhance his mental power, he was still unable to completely eliminate this group of vengeful ghosts.

In the spiritual world, hordes of vengeful ghosts bar their fangs and claws, their ferocious faces and mad screams ravaging the spiritual world and gradually pushing it to the brink of collapse.

Ah ah ah ah ah.

Xia Liang clutched his head with both hands, his Shura eyes flashing with crimson light. He was being increasingly eroded by the Rakshasa's divine sense, and he couldn't help but scream in agony.

The black angel statue that had previously helped devour evil thoughts began to guide evil thoughts after being controlled by the Rakshasa's divine will.

Xia Liang felt his thoughts becoming increasingly out of control, and the rage, greed, lust, and all negative emotions in his heart gradually intensified.

As Xia Liang unleashed his necromancer skeleton martial spirit, he stood up from the stone bed. He was enveloped by the fifty-meter-tall ossified Susanoo giant, attempting to block the black angel statue's influence on his evil thoughts.

At the same time, Xia Liang used his mind to control the boned Susanoo giant to throw a punch at the masked Rakshasa divine thought in the sky.

Unfortunately, the Rakshasa's divine sense was not shattered; instead, it became even more arrogant, constantly emitting sharp and piercing cries of evil laughter.

It was unclear how long the battle with the Rakshasa's divine sense had lasted, but Xia Liang's mental and soul power had been completely exhausted. As a level 70 quasi-Soul Saint, he was simply unable to defeat the Rakshasa's divine sense.

The ossified Susanoo disappeared, and Xia Liang knelt on the stone bed. He was dominated by all sorts of evil thoughts in his heart, and his whole being became abnormal.

At that moment, the building's main entrance was opened.

After a figure walked in through the door, the building's main entrance was closed.

With the mental power amplification from the fourth soul skill, Demon Eye Soul Absorption, Xia Liang was still able to retain a sliver of consciousness. He looked up at the figure that had just walked in, and a look of doubt flashed in his eyes.

If the figure walking in at this moment were the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King, then he would inevitably become the next Tang Chen.

Fortunately, the figure that walked in was Qian Renxue.

Why did Qian Renxue suddenly appear in this underground building?

Could it be that I'm hallucinating due to the influence of the Rakshasa's divine thoughts?

Just as Xia Liang was wondering about this, his evil thoughts were once again drawn out by the black angel statue, and Qian Renxue, who appeared in his X-ray vision, was already naked.

(End of this chapter)