Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 217 The Final Champion, and the Choice

Hot water vapor can burn the skin. In fact, for the human body, the damage caused by water vapor to the skin is more intense than direct fire or water attacks.

"call--"

A gust of wind blew, dispersing the white smoke and revealing Hu Liena and Yan lying on the ground.

At this moment, their skin was flushed and their eyes were vacant, as if they had been steamed.

If they weren't still breathing, no one would think they were alive.

"With such severe injuries, can they hold on until the end of the match?" Huo Wu thought that even with Jiu Hao joining, it would still take some time, but she didn't expect that the three Soul Emperors would be instantly killed.

This beast-like Haotian Hammer cannot be measured by ordinary standards.

Jiuhao seemed to understand Huowu's words. Tianguang and Tianshui looked at each other, their eyes shining brightly. Two strange patterns condensed in front of their mouths, and light like flowing water slowly sprinkled on Huliena and Yan, causing the burning heat on their bodies to subside and their damaged skin to recover completely.

Seeing this scene, almost all the viewers felt that Tang San's second spirit was definitely not the Clear Sky Hammer... After all, which Clear Sky Hammer can transform into a beast and also help people heal?

Hu Liena and Yan woke up, but their soul power had been completely depleted in the previous fight against the fire tornado, light rain, and water vapor, and had not recovered.

"I lost." Hu Liena's face was full of bitterness. She knew that there was a gap between her and Tang San, but she never thought that she couldn't even beat him with a single martial soul.

Moreover, this martial spirit has been acting autonomously and has not been controlled by Tang San.

Yan looked dejected and said to Huo Wu, "We admit defeat."

Meanwhile, Tang San faced Yu Tianxin and Feng Xiaotian simultaneously. Fighting two against one, he used only the Xuan Yu Hand and the technique of using the opponent's force against them, and he was evenly matched with both of them.

"Damn it, is the gap really that big?" Yu Tianxin gritted her teeth inwardly, her chest heaving violently, and the lightning wrapped around her body was intermittent, indicating that her soul power was clearly insufficient.

"I'm sorry, you two, I need to conserve my soul power for other purposes." Tang San didn't intend to waste any more time. He took a step forward, covering a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

This is the ultimate speed!

Of those present, only Bibi Dong could discern something amiss, her eyes filled with solemnity: "At this speed, if it were an assassination attempt, even an ordinary Title Douluo would find it difficult to evade!"

Tang San raised his hand and lightly tapped the back of Yu Tianxin's head, causing her vision to go black and her to fall to the ground.

Upon seeing this, Feng Xiaotian hurriedly retreated, his eyes fixed intently on Tang San.

But in an instant, Tang San's figure disappeared.

"Where did you go?"

Feng Xiaotian hurriedly stopped and looked around. Suddenly, he realized that he had leaned against someone's back, and beads of sweat immediately appeared on his forehead.

boom!

With a heavy blow to the back of his head, Feng Xiaotian felt his vision blur and lost control of his body from the neck down, falling straight to the ground.

"That leaves Davis, Zhu Zhuyun, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er."

Looking back at the volcanic lava region, Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue had already been defeated by Jiu Hao; as for Yu Tianheng, with the help of the Endless Grassland, it was only a matter of time before he dealt with those Soul Sect members.

Meanwhile, on Xiao Wu's side—

Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er's martial soul fusion skill formed a huge ice phoenix that was almost a physical entity. Even within a radius of sixty meters, ice and snow covered the area. It also clearly came with a domain-type skill that they named "Falling Ice and Snow".

Perhaps because Yu Tianxin and Feng Xiaotian had been defeated, the Ice Phoenix decided to make a desperate gamble. With a flap of its wings, countless ice crystal phoenix feathers shot towards Xiao Wu.

However, Xiao Wu is no longer the same as before.

The waist arch granted her extreme flexibility, which, combined with her long braid, made her invincible; the Whisper of the Wind allowed her to sense air fluctuations, enhance her spirit, and foresee three seconds into the future; the True Spirit Bone made her bones both strong and flexible, strengthening her attributes; the Flash of Lightning strengthened her legs, making her incredibly fast; and finally, the Flame Fist increased her arm strength and gave her a powerful attack-type soul skill that combined melee and ranged combat.

Therefore, facing the thousands of ice crystal phoenix feathers, Xiao Wu flew up, dodging the attacks while using the incoming phoenix feathers to jump upwards continuously.

In a flash of lightning, Xiao Wu arrived in front of the Ice Phoenix's head. She activated her True Spirit Bone skill to strengthen herself, then flicked her scorpion tail braid, wrapping it around the Ice Phoenix's neck. With a twist of her waist, she delivered a powerful kick to the Phoenix's neck, as if splitting a mountain in mid-air.

"Get down here, Sister Xiaowu!"

With another burst of strength, Xiao Wu kicked the ice phoenix, whose wingspan exceeded ten meters, seven or eight meters down.

After Xiao Wu's scorpion tail braid loosened its grip on the Ice Phoenix's neck, she briefly paused in mid-air, using the recoil from her previous kick, her fifth spirit ring flashing.

Fifth Soul Skill: Flame Fist!

Xiao Wu clenched her fists, gathering the power of flames. The raging flames seemed to come alive, transforming into a fire rabbit more than ten meters long.

Xiao Wu has two uses for the Soul Skill Flash Fist.

One method is to imbue one's hands with the power of fire and bombard them rapidly.

Secondly, as shown in the picture, one can gather the power of fire in their hand, forming a fire-shaped energy bar shaped like a rabbit, and then unleash it.

Ice Phoenix had just been attacked by Xiao Wu and hadn't fully recovered. Now, the Flash Flame Fist had reached its back. The huge impact, combined with the scorching flames, made it difficult for Ice Phoenix to defend itself, and it was directly blasted to the ground.

Bang!

The ice phoenix shattered, and Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er fell to the ground, losing all their fighting abilities.

Meanwhile, Xiao Wu somersaulted in mid-air and landed steadily.

At this moment, only the battle between Zhu Zhuqing and the Netherworld White Tiger remained on the field.

In the first match of the preliminary knockout stage, Davis and Zhu Zhuyun showcased the Netherworld White Tiger, but it was vastly different from the one they had seen before.

The creature in front of us is over twenty meters tall, with lively eyes and a body emanating black and white energy. Its wings, when spread out, are nearly fifty meters long.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it blotted out the sky and blocked out the sun.

"Davis is not to be underestimated." Yu Tianheng led Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling to Tang San's side, his eyes burning with fighting spirit as he looked at the Netherworld White Tiger not far away.

If Zhu Zhuqing hadn't told him not to help, and if this hadn't seemed to be a family matter between the Star Luo Empires, he would have wanted to challenge her to a duel and truly witness the power of the Martial Soul Fusion Technique between the Dai and Zhu families.

If the Netherworld White Tiger martial soul existed in the world and formed a family, then the title of top-tier beast martial soul would have to be transferred from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.

"roar!"

At this moment, Jiu Hao ran over with Huo Wu, roared, and all five of his eyes showed disdain for the Netherworld White Tiger.

How could a mere Netherworld White Tiger compare to Him?

Tang San patted Jiu Hao's five heads, signaling him to calm down and not to try to disturb the battle between Zhu Zhuqing and the Netherworld White Tiger.

"Third Brother, can Zhu Qing win?" Xiao Wu asked with some worry.

"Yes," Tang San replied affirmatively. "She was also practicing her self-created soul skills during this battle, probably based on her understanding of the Netherworld White Tiger."

Just as Tang San had guessed, Zhu Zhu cleared the way to avoid the Netherworld White Tiger's attacks in order to observe the flow of energy in the Netherworld White Tiger and compare it with her own Netherworld Spirit Cat.

According to her observation, after absorbing the soul ring of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, her martial soul awakened the power of darkness, the nature of which was somewhat similar to the dark attribute in the Netherworld White Tiger.

If the soul power within the body were to circulate according to the flow trajectory of the dark attribute energy on the Netherworld White Tiger, would that be feasible?

Zhu Zhuqing is a person of action; once she has an idea, she puts it into practice without much hesitation.

As the soul power flowed in a mimicry manner, Zhu Zhuqing sensed the "fulcrum" between the "refining circuit" and the "maintaining circuit" within her martial soul.

In the past, when cultivating soul power, Zhu Zhuqing could only vaguely perceive it, but now she can perceive it more clearly and sense her spiritual power being injected into it.

"It's like a key?" Zhu Zhuqing dodged the claws of the Netherworld White Tiger, her eyes turning pitch black with no whites, and her pupils turning blue-green, making her look quite eerie.

In this state, Zhu Zhuqing felt as if she had seen another world—the sky, clouds, earth, trees, and everything around her seemed to be filled with countless invisible energies flowing through it.

That is the energy of heaven and earth that can be transformed into one's own soul power by a soul master using their martial soul!

Looking at the Netherworld White Tiger in front of her, Zhu Zhuqing realized that it was something formed by the intertwining of two energies. One half was light, vaguely forming a white tiger and constituting the skeleton of the Netherworld White Tiger; the other half was darkness, resembling a spirit cat, but only skin and flesh, stretching out to cover the skeleton.

"So that's the truth behind the White Tiger and the Netherworld Cat's ability to fuse their martial souls?"

"The White Tiger and the Netherworld Cat are not important. The most important thing is that light and darkness reach a certain balance. The higher the degree of balance, the higher the compatibility of the so-called martial soul fusion."

Having seen through all this, Zhu Zhuqing released the Dark Demon Bone Armor, soared into the air, and stood tall in mid-air. Her soul power surged, and the energy of most of the "Douluo Continent" surged.

Ordinary people wouldn't have much of a feeling; they would just think that Zhu Zhuqing was about to unleash some terrifying soul skill.

However, the experts at the level of Soul Douluo and Title Douluo were horrified!

Because Zhu Zhuqing actually used her Soul Master-level Soul Power to draw upon the energy of heaven and earth, and the area covered exceeded half of the competition venue!

Even titled Douluo with strength exceeding level 95 cannot control the energy of heaven and earth. They can only rely on their powerful soul power to disrupt the energy of heaven and earth, or rely on certain special soul ring skills.

But Zhu Zhuqing has broken the mold!

How exactly did they do that?

"It seems Zhu Zhuqing has found some tricks, using the soul power within her own inner world to leverage the energy of the external world, thereby achieving the goal of controlling the energy of heaven and earth." Tang San looked at Zhu Zhuqing, who seemed like a born deity, with a look of satisfaction on his face. "And, that 'fulcrum' is indeed near the end of the 'maintaining circuit'?"

Inside the Netherworld White Tiger, Davis and Zhu Zhuyun felt completely exposed to Zhu Zhuqing, with no secrets left to them.

They tried to resist, but the Netherworld White Tiger was beyond their control!

The white tiger was trembling.

The civet cat is howling.

The feedback from their martial spirits was as if they had encountered the might of heaven. They dared not even think of resisting, let alone hiding, as if it were an immense fear.

A martial spirit possesses its own spirituality, and the memories inherited from ancient bloodlines prevent the Netherworld White Tiger, formed by the fusion of the White Tiger and the Spirit Cat, from moving in the slightest.

"Disperse!"

Zhu Zhuqing roared, and the energy of heaven and earth she drew upon formed two claws, each tens of meters long, under her control.

One was wrapped in spiraling wind blades, while the other was entirely composed of lightning.

Both claws pressed down on the Netherworld White Tiger, grabbed it, and then pulled it!

Hiss!

The entire Netherworld White Tiger was split in two!

As the energy of light and darkness dissipated, Davis and Zhu Zhuyun reappeared, but due to the forced separation of their martial soul fusion technique, both were severely injured and powerless to resist.

Thus, the Heaven Dou Royal Team 1, fighting against four opponents, defeated the Divine Wind Academy Team, the Star Luo Royal Team, and the Spirit Hall Team, winning the overall championship of this Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament!

At this moment, the entire audience cheered, and those viewers watching the live broadcast through the Mother-Child Soul Guiding Photography Sphere were also thrilled.

"Tang San won!"

"The Heavenly Dou Royal Team One has won!"

"Finally, the champion of the Continental Elite Tournament isn't the Spirit Hall!"

"Speaking of which, the composition of the Heaven Dou Royal Family team is quite diverse, including the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan, families within the Heaven Dou territory, nobles from the Star Luo Empire, commoners, and criminals..."

"What sinner?"

"That Tang San..."

"He's a master of martial spirit theory, what does that have to do with the Clear Sky Sect? That hammer probably just looks like the Clear Sky Hammer, after all, which sect's Clear Sky Hammer can transform into a five-headed dragon-like martial spirit?"

"I heard that Tang San's innate soul power is only level six."

The crowd was buzzing with discussion, but no one believed that Tang San's success was due to his second martial soul.

After all, Tang San's main martial soul was Blue Silver Grass/Emperor.

"Lingling, it's your turn to heal everyone." Tang San gestured to Ye Lingling, letting her demonstrate her abilities. It could be said that having Ye Lingling participate was to prevent anyone from suffering serious injuries that could hinder their future cultivation and create conflict with them.

"Watch me, Captain!"

Ye Lingling stepped out of the group, raised her hands, and the four soul rings on her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul lit up simultaneously.

Nine pieces, eighteen pieces, thirty-six pieces, seventy-two pieces.

A total of 135 petals of the nine-heart begonia emerged, forming concentric circles, each one interlocking with the last.

Then, the 135 petals formed a huge nine-heart begonia and slowly fell to the ground.

Looking from the top, it resembles a sacred flower blooming on the "Douluo Continent," extremely beautiful and radiant.

"Flowers bloom in an instant!"

"A moment is also eternity!"

On the field, almost everyone who had been defeated was nourished by the petals, reviving them and restoring their bodies to their optimal state, including their soul power.

Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia, as a single soul skill, can only heal injuries. However, when combined into a formation similar to an array, it can gather the energy of heaven and earth and purify it, making it easier for soul masters to absorb.

In this way, while healing the Soul Master, the energy of heaven and earth is also injected into the Soul Master's body to help their Martial Soul quickly recover its Soul Power.

However, Xu Xing is still seriously injured.

Because he was knocked out of the arena by the aftershock of Tang San's hammer, he was pulled away by the people from Star Crown Academy and missed this perfect treatment.

With the power of that hammer blow, even if it didn't directly hit his body, the aftershocks alone would have been enough to keep Xu Xing in bed for half a year.

After all, not all healing martial souls can compare to the Nine-Hearted Begonia.

"As expected of the Nine-Heart Begonia, its healing is unparalleled. It's just that the Nine-Heart Begonia's effects are different from those of our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, and its martial soul inheritance has flaws. Otherwise, it would really pose a threat to our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."

Although amazed that Ye Lingling, with Tang San's help, had developed such powerful healing effects, Ning Fengzhi did not consider the Nine Heart Begonia lineage a threat.

No matter how much a family develops, if its martial soul cannot be passed down on a large scale, it will never be as large as sects like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School or the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan, whose martial souls can be stably inherited.

Unless they learn from the Spirit Hall's rise to power...

However, the Spirit Hall would not allow any family to replace them, so the Nine Heart Begonia lineage could only ever be a small family.

After the champion is decided, the competition for the runner-up and third place begins.

And because Ye Lingling's healing effect was outstanding, all three teams recovered completely (except for the unlucky Xu Xing), so Bibi Dong didn't waste any time and let the three teams take turns fighting to determine who was the best.

The three teams will compete in pairs using a points system.

Ultimately, the Spirit Hall Academy came in second place.

The Star Luo Royal Team won third place. Although they were missing one player, they had the powerful weapon of the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and their teamwork was quite good. They were not comparable to the hastily assembled team from Shenfeng Academy.

Even though Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er can fuse their martial souls, they still can't compare to Davis and Zhu Zhuyun's Netherworld White Tiger.

Therefore, it can only be ranked fourth.

This final of the Mainland Elite Tournament was the most exciting and fastest-ending match in history, since it hadn't even reached noon yet.

But the competition was over, and that was the end of it. Bibi Dong ordered her men to bring out the three ten-thousand-year-old soul bones and said to the members of the Heaven Dou Royal Team standing on the broken "Douluo Continent" arena, "Please, winners, come up to the stage to receive your awards."

Under the intense gazes of the members of the Heaven Dou Royal Team and the rest of the crowd, Tang San took a deep breath, opened his eyes, adjusted his state, and slowly walked towards Bibi Dong in front of the Papal Palace.

step.

Two steps.

When Tang San walked up to Bibi Dong, she paused with her scepter, and the three soul bones that were placed on the jade plate floated to him under the support of her soul power.

Tang San's gaze, however, was not on those three soul bones.

This prompted Bibi Dong to give him an approving look.

"Congratulations, Tang San, for leading the Heaven Dou Royal Academy to victory in the tournament and standing before me with your own strength."

"The future of the Soul Master world will be your era!"

"Do you have any intention of joining the Spirit Hall?"

Tang San asked, "Aren't I already an honorary elder of the Spirit Hall?"

Bibi Dong shook her head: "That's different. What I mean is, if you truly join the Spirit Hall and become a member of the Spirit Hall, and if you are capable in the future, the position of Pope of the Spirit Hall can also be passed on to you."

At this moment, everyone was looking at Tang San. Some hoped he would join them, while others didn't want him to get close to the Spirit Hall...

(End of this chapter)