Douluo Continent: The True Body and Blood Soul, Starting from Blacksmithing

Chapter 120 Team Battle, Five vs. Seven (Part 1)

(When I was rereading the original work today, I realized that Yu Feng is an agility-based attacker. I got confused in Chapter 117, but it doesn't matter much.)

Xue Qinghe wanted to take Xiao Wu away, and Lin Yu didn't say anything, after all, he had already gotten the soul beast bone forging method from Xiao Wu for free.

Normally, the cultivation methods of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts cannot be shared, but Lin Yu has silver robes and golden armor.

The silver robe helps Lin Yu temper the internal structure of his bones; the golden armor helps Lin Yu temper the external structure of his bones.

Previously, Lin Yu couldn't find a way to cultivate his bones, but with Xiao Wu as a reference, he finally found a technique: start by tempering the ninth thoracic vertebra.

After the ninth thoracic vertebra is tempered, it will nourish the kidneys, and the strengthening of the kidneys will increase the overall strength of the bones.

Once the ninth thoracic vertebra has been tempered, the spine can be further tempered as needed.

As for what happens to the bones after tempering, it depends on the soul power, martial soul, and attributes.

After some experimentation, Lin Yu could only say: the silver robe and golden armor that the golden dragon had condensed back then are still exerting their power.

To date, Lin Yu has developed many cultivation methods, some of which he researched himself, some of which he borrowed from others, and some of which he mastered by chance.

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If Lin Yu really had to rank them by importance, it would naturally be: Bone Training > Three Dantian Breathing Method > The Techniques He Stole from Tang San.

After organizing his thoughts, Lin Yu discovered that he currently possessed quite a few cultivation techniques!

This made Lin Yu want to seriously take on a disciple to test whether there were any problems with his techniques.

On the third day after Lin Yu returned from Yuexuan, the mansion that Emperor Xueye had promised to Lin Yu was finally completed.

During this period, Xue Qinghe gathered Yu Feng, Ye Lengleng, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Lin Yu together to finalize the core members of his team.

As for whether Tang San's identity was suitable for participating in the competition in Wuhun City in the future, Tang Hao did not explicitly refuse, which meant that he could participate.

As for the three additional team members that Lin Yu mentioned, that will be fine as long as they can be found in the future.

However, in order to see how well the team was coordinating, Xue Qinghe challenged the avalanche.

He prepared to use his current five-person team to challenge the seven-person team formed by Avalanche.

Even though the Avalanche team had a numerical advantage, he didn't want to fight against seven opponents.

Only after Xue Qinghe promised that Lin Yu would not be an offensive type in this battle did Xue Beng agree to the fight and set a time—

Three days later.

This period also provided an opportunity for Lin Yu and his group to exchange tactics.

Team battles are more serious and have a stronger momentum than individual battles.

On the arena, the soul power fluctuations of the two teams exploded instantly like crashing waves, and at the same time, the members of both teams stood still.

No one gave the order, but the placement of each step was as precise as if it had been practiced a thousand times.

On the Avalanche team's side, Yu Tianheng's figure was nailed to the front like a javelin. The lightning soul power swirling around his body had not yet been fully subdued. With each breath, tiny arcs of electricity jumped and danced on the surface of his armor, emitting a faint crackling sound.

This direct descendant of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family had a furrowed brow and a faint dragon shadow flickering in his eyes as he stared intently at the three-headed lion formed from Lin Yu's golden armor.

Although he had never seen this thing before, it put a lot of pressure on him.

However, his positioning gave him some information: he was neither too far forward and thus disconnected from the rear defense, nor was he too far forward and thus focused the entire team's offensive force on himself.

Just a step behind him, the two brothers, Shi Mo and Shi Mo, simultaneously lowered their waists and mounted their horses, their two black Xuanwu shields slamming into the ground.

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The tortoise shell pattern on the shield faintly shimmered with an earthy yellow light, and a faint barrier of soul power stretched out between the two, like an invisible city wall sealing off the entire middle lane.

Ma Hongjun, sitting in the back row, took a deep breath. A scorching heat wave began to rise from his body. The characteristics of the Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul caused the air around him to distort slightly. His eyes were fixed on Lin Yu and Tang San in the middle row opposite him, and flames were already surging and gathering power in his throat.

Dugu Yan stood three steps to his side, her emerald green snake scales spreading from her neck to the edge of her cheeks. Her vertical pupils coldly and warily scanned the entire scene, and dark purple poisonous mist swirled and dispersed at her fingertips, ready to lay a poisonous miasma zone in the enemy's path of advance at any time.

In the shadows to the side, Osro's figure had become almost invisible. The stealth ability granted to him by the Ghost Leopard Martial Soul made his outline blend into the dark corner of the arena like a touch of ink. Only the occasional flash of two points of eerie green light in his eyes proved that he was still there.

Oscar, standing in the last row, was within the defensive range of the Xuanwu shield on the stone mill. Although the battle had not yet begun, he was already prepared to unleash his soul skill.

Judging by his position alone, one might think he's the least noticeable member of the team.

Xue Qinghe's formation was also very neat. Lin Yu's soul spirit Yanhou had now materialized and stood at the front of the formation. This 1.5-meter-tall fiery lion's three heads simultaneously emitted a deep roar. Its dark red scales reflected a metallic luster in the sunlight. Each breath was accompanied by a shower of scorching sparks. Its four sharp claws were deeply embedded in the stone floor of the arena, ready to strike.

Lin Yu stood in the center of the middle row, his eyes slightly closed and then slowly opened. The surrounding air began to fluctuate violently under the pull of his soul power, and the energy of fire and earth elements swirled and coiled around him like two invisible dragons.

Standing beside him was Tang San. In the palm of his hand, several leaves of Blue Silver Grass were silently spreading along the ground, and the fine poison needles on the edges of the grass leaves gleamed with a cold light in the sunlight.

Xiao Wu and Yu Feng were positioned on the left and right wings respectively, with the distance between them maintained at a delicate balance that allowed them to support each other while also advancing independently.

Xiao Wu's scorpion braid swayed gently behind her, her long legs were slightly bent, and her center of gravity was extremely low, like a fully drawn bow.

Yu Feng was even more flamboyant. His Wind Falcon wings were already half-spread out, with a wingspan of over three meters. Every slight flap of his wings stirred up a fine vortex of air on the arena.

At the very back of everyone else, Ye Leng Leng stood alone. The radiance of the Nine Heart Begonia flowed in her palm like a gentle lamp. She bit her lower lip, her eyes carrying a hint of barely perceptible unease.

After three days of tactical discussions, she realized that she didn't seem to have much of a role to play today.

Yu Tianheng was observing the opposite side with great interest, even though Lin Yu wasn't standing in the offensive position today.

But he dared not underestimate this three-headed Flame Lion clad in Lin Yu's golden armor.

Without hesitation, as his first spirit ring exploded beneath his feet, he shot out like a thunderbolt.

"First Soul Skill: Thunder Dragon Claw!"

The dragon's roar reached its peak the instant the soul power condensed.

Yu Tianheng extended his right arm forward, and lightning soul power surged out from his dantian, condensing in the air into a huge dragon claw phantom nearly two meters long. Arcs of electricity danced wildly on the five claw tips, piercing the surrounding air with a hissing sound.

The dragon claw tore through the air, crackling with blinding lightning, and went straight for the throat of the head in the very center of Yanhou.

No matter what the opponent is, this move is a deadly strike aimed straight at the vital points.

However, the Flame Roar skill does not require accumulating soul power or activating soul rings. It can be done in the blink of an eye.

Yu Tianheng moved, and the two brothers, Shi Mo and Shi Mo, moved almost at the same moment. They each took a step forward, and the Xuanwu Shield moved sideways, trying to share the damage for Yu Tianheng from the flank.

But as soon as they took a step, their feet tightened simultaneously.

Tang San's Blue Silver Grass had somehow spread along the ground to their feet, its supple leaves coiling around them like living things. Although it wouldn't completely trap them, the delay of just a second or two was enough to change everything.

Those one or two seconds were precisely the opportunity that Lin Yu and Tang San had been waiting for.

"Earth element".

Lin Yu made a brief, perfunctory remark.

Every earth element particle on the arena trembled wildly under this command. Countless tiny stone chips and dust rose, condensed, and compressed from the cracks. Guided by his soul power, the originally rough and thin earth element was purified to a near-metallic texture in the blink of an eye.

Lin Yu didn't give Yu Tianheng time to react. He then raised his right hand and suddenly gripped Yu Tianheng's feet.

The stone surface beneath Yu Tianheng's feet suddenly cracked, and a rock spike less than half a foot in diameter shot out diagonally from the ground, its tip also bearing the sharp edges that Lin Yu had deliberately condensed.

Yu Tianheng's pupils contracted sharply. At the critical moment, he twisted his waist forcefully, barely avoiding the direct hit of the rock spike. However, the rock spike still grazed the side of his thigh, tearing a hideous gash in his leg, and blood instantly seeped out.

And that's not all.

Lin Yu's second command came down almost simultaneously with the ground spike, even faster: "Fire element."

Suddenly, crimson flames shot up from the tips of those rock spikes, and the flames climbed up the rock spikes, turning Yu Tianheng's retreat route into a high-temperature hell.

Fire generates earth, so it makes perfect sense that fire is hidden within earthen thorns.

The flames added to the damage, and Yu Tianheng was already struggling to concentrate under the pressure of Yanhou's frontal attack. Now, with high-temperature rock spikes pressing closer at his feet, his situation instantly changed from "aggressive suppression" to "attacked from both sides, attacked from both sides."

Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was used at the perfect moment.

The timing of his first spirit ring's activation was neither to overlap with Lin Yu's elemental attack and cause damage overflow, nor to hesitate for too long to give Yu Tianheng a chance to catch his breath. Instead, it was precisely at the moment when Yu Tianheng was forced back by the rock spikes and his attention was entirely focused on the flames beneath his feet.

Dozens of blue silver grass vines burst forth from all sides of the arena, each as thick as a thumb, with pale blue soul power patterns on their surface, rapidly coiling around Yu Tianheng's limbs and torso like serpents.

"First Soul Skill: Entanglement".

Tang San's voice was calm and restrained.

However, the edges of each leaf of those blue silver grasses are covered with fine, hair-like poisonous needles, the tips of which are coated with a neurotoxin that can paralyze people.

Instead of strangling him directly, the vines tightened rapidly the moment they touched Yu Tianheng's skin, causing the grass leaves to curl up and the poisonous needles to pierce his skin instantly.

Although the blue silver grass was burned to ashes in the next instant, the toxin had already been successfully injected.

Yu Tianheng groaned, his knees involuntarily bending slightly.

Although the toxin was not fatal, even a fraction of a second of muscle paralysis could be fatal to a powerful offensive Soul Master who was under intense pressure.

At that very moment, Yu Feng's clear and melodious voice rang out from above the arena.

"Wind Soars!"

The two deep blue falcon wings were fully spread, with a wingspan of an astonishing four meters, and each flap of the wings stirred up a gust of wind.

As Yu Feng ascended into the air, he formed hand seals, and the wind element, under his control, spread outward from him, slowly forming a vortex of air that covered half of the arena.

With him, they can provide support from below, flanking maneuvers, provide timely defensive assistance, and launch high-altitude raids on the Avalanche team's rear.

Meanwhile, Xiao Wu, who was moving around on the right wing, was also busy.

Her scorpion braid swayed in the wind, her long legs taking light and swift steps. She moved like a nimble cat, flitting back and forth on the flanks, constantly closing in and then widening the distance, using her movements to probe every weakness in the Avalanche team's back line of defense.

Her gaze swept past the chaos ahead, precisely locking onto Ma Hongjun and Dugu Yan in the back row, and Oscar further away.

If the graphite and millstone defenses falter even for a second, she can rush in and unleash her attacks on those two vulnerable ranged and support characters.

Cold sweat had already seeped from Ma Hongjun's forehead.

He wanted to unleash the Phoenix Fireline to support Yu Tianheng, but Xiao Wu was watching him closely from the side. If he dared to unleash his power without any precautions, the girl with the long braid would rush into the back row without hesitation.

Dugu Yan also felt this pressure. The poisonous mist at her fingertips had condensed into several small green snakes, but she dared not release them easily. This was because Yu Feng was looking down on everything from high above, and if her poisonous mist were to spread, the first area to be blown away would likely be the area where she was located.

The two brothers, Graphite and Millstone, were extremely anxious.

"Bro, these damn grasses under your feet!"

Stone Mill roared. The Blue Silver Grass wrapped around his legs had been broken three times by his soul power, but each time it broke, new vines sprouted from the ground to fill the gap, seemingly endless.

Tang San clearly had a full understanding of how troublesome the two Xuanwu Shields would be. The Blue Silver Grass he separated was not intended to trap the Graphite Stone Mill, but only to delay them.

Even if it meant continuously consuming his soul power, he was completely willing to pay that price.

After all, as long as this shield wall cannot move forward in time, Yu Tianheng will always be the one bearing the brunt of their frontal firepower.

Graphite clenched his back teeth, his eyes almost bleeding from staring.

His vision swept across the chaotic battlefield, revealing Yu Tianheng being forced to retreat repeatedly by Yan Hou's golden scales and claws, scorched by flames, blocked by earth spikes, and entangled in blue silver.

The flames of the three-headed fire lion cast flickering light on Yu Tianheng's face, while the lightning soul power on his body was visibly diminishing.

Yu Tianheng knew this best. Despite the excruciating pain of being burned by the flames, his mind became unusually clear.

His soul power had dropped below 50% due to the combined effects of the poison and the continuous damage, and the wound on his right leg was still bleeding. Meanwhile, Yanhou's offensive showed no signs of slowing down.

What's even more terrifying is that Lin Yu and Tang San's elemental attacks and Blue Silver Grass's crowd control are becoming more and more coordinated. Every time his counterattack is about to take shape, it is interrupted by Tang San's control with millisecond precision. And Lin Yu's fire and earth elemental damage always pours in precisely at the moment when his defense is torn open by the control.

Thunder Dragon Claw was already at its last gasp.

We must hold on.

With the situation at a stalemate, Oslo moved silently in the shadows.

The Ghost Leopard Martial Soul not only granted him the convenience of invisibility, but also an almost instinctive keen sense of when to enter a battle.

He didn't rush to cross the front to rescue Yu Tianheng. After all, Xiao Wu was roaming the flanks and Yu Feng was looking down from high above. The two of them were guarding against him entering the battlefield as a third party.

Making a hasty move at this moment would not only fail to deliver supplies, but would also expose one's position in the shadows, dragging oneself into the mire as well.

He needs to wait. Wait for an opening, an opening created by his teammates.

The opportunity arose three seconds later.

Ma Hongjun suddenly roared, and his first spirit ring exploded brightly beneath his feet. A thick line of phoenix fire did not aim at any front-line target, but instead blasted diagonally towards Yu Feng in the high sky.

This seemingly irrational attack was actually quite shrewd. He was using this attack, which did not actually kill, to force Yu Feng to make an evasive maneuver, even if it was just to make Yu Feng's eyes and attention leave the ground for a fraction of a second.

At the same time, Dugu Yan activated her first soul skill, and a red, euphoric poisonous mist rushed towards Xiao Wu's flank, forcing Xiao Wu to leap backward to create distance.

It's now!

Oslo crouched low in the shadows, moving silently along the ground like a real cheetah.

His toes barely touched the stone surface three times before he passed through the gap in the front combat area and arrived behind Yu Tianheng.

The moment he revealed himself, he flipped his left wrist and handed two sausages to Yu Tianheng's mouth, while simultaneously pressing his right hand against Yu Tianheng's back to inject a wisp of soul power to help the medicine spread faster.

"team leader!"

Yu Tianheng didn't even look at it before opening his mouth and biting the two sausages into pieces and swallowing them.

Oscar's restorative sausage melted in his mouth, and a warm current poured down his throat, spreading to his limbs and bones. His soul power was being replenished at an astonishing speed.

The bitter, fishy taste of the detoxifying sausage was still spreading on his tongue when the nerve-numbing Blue Silver Grass toxins began to be neutralized and broken down. The heaviness and stiffness in his limbs felt as if they were being peeled away from his body by an invisible hand.

It took him less than a breath to recover from being seriously injured to regaining most of his fighting strength.

"He's been cured." Tang San said in a deep voice, sensing the changes in Yu Tianheng's expression and limbs under the Purple Demon Eye.

Second Soul Skill: Thunderous Fury!

Huang's spirit rings exploded and lit up, lightning surged in like a waterfall, his black hair stood on end, and even his eyes began to shoot out leaping sparks of electricity.

Years ago, Lin Yu discovered that the lightning power of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Martial Soul could be channeled underground by iron chains.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan's response was to absorb spirit rings that could enhance physical strength.

However, given the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus's inherent characteristics, even without absorbing a spirit ring with lightning power, the resulting spirit skills will still possess lightning power.

However, the lightning power of this soul skill is not used to fight enemies, but to amplify one's own explosive power while clearing some negative status effects.

Using this skill alone can be a bit taxing, but when combined with the healing sausage, the consumption is just right!

Faced with Yanhou's golden scale giant claw striking again, he blocked it head-on with pure physical strength and the pressure of lightning.

The collision of the two forces, unintentionally revealed by the man and the lion, created a visible shockwave in the center of the arena, sending surrounding rocks and dust flying more than ten meters away.

"boom!!!"

As the shockwave dissipated, Yu Tianheng stood firmly in place, his entire body enveloped in lightning, his dragon eyes burning with the fiercest fighting spirit.

The Flame Roar was forced back two body lengths, and each of its three heads let out a low growl of vigilance and fear. A shallow scorch mark was also left on its golden scales.

Yu Tianheng glanced back, his gaze sweeping over Oslo, who was disappearing back into the shadows, and then over Oscar, who was still focused on making the next batch of sausages behind the Xuanwu Shield in the distance. A very faint smile appeared on his lips.

Ye Lengleng's Nine Heart Begonia is quite effective at healing injuries, but it's not as convenient as Oscar's method for restoring soul power.