Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 316 The Crystal of the Three Poisons, Three Defilements, and Three Evil Roots

After opening his eyes, Tang San exhaled a breath of stale air, and his whole body relaxed.

The three-headed, six-armed crystal doll could also absorb his own greed, anger, and ignorance, thus allowing him to enter a rational state of "no desires and no wants".

This is actually a pretty good result.

However, Tang San felt that even with this function, he couldn't use it too often. Otherwise, he might really become heartless and indifferent in the future, or the three thoughts of greed, anger, and ignorance within the puppet might erupt, and he might become easily angered, have strong obsessions, and want to snatch good things whenever he sees them, and so on.

This is not advisable.

"Tang San, are you alright?"

Just as Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan were about to ask, Gu Yuena instinctively threw herself into Tang San's arms, insisting that he hold her, and spoke first, her eyes full of concern, her anxious appearance showing that she was afraid something had happened to him.

You have to understand, these are practically his own people!

He's much smarter than guys like Di Tian who are all brawn and no brains, so we can't let something like this happen to him!

"It's alright. That guy injected his martial soul into my spiritual sea, but I've already defeated him. Besides, my guess was right; those three Soul Kings were just his clones or something." Tang San patted Gu Yuena's head, feeling that he hadn't raised this little one for nothing, at least she cared about her "human servant." Then he explained the effects of the middle-aged martial soul to the three of them—

Tang San called those three-sided columnar crystals: Crystals of Three Poisons, Three Defilements, and Three Evil Roots.

"What a long name." Gu Yuena stuck out her tongue.

"This name, Captain, you didn't just come up with it randomly, did you?" Yu Tianheng asked with a curious look. "It can't just be about having the ability to create clones, right?"

"The clone is just the surface; the essence of his martial spirit is actually very high, encompassing the three concepts of greed, anger, and ignorance."

Tang San put Gu Yuena down and slowly explained, "Greed is the desire for favorable circumstances, the insistence on obtaining them, otherwise one feels unwilling and resentful; anger is the resentment towards unfavorable circumstances, the temper that rises when things don't go as planned, irrationality, and acting on impulse; ignorance is the lack of understanding of right and wrong, the inability to distinguish between good and evil, the inversion of desires, the arising of obsessions, and behavior that crosses the bottom line of law and morality."

"So, you can imagine just how powerful this ability is, right?"

"As long as greed, anger, or delusion arise in one's heart, some kind of unseen power can draw upon them, and if these three emotions are not handled properly, one may even be controlled by that middle-aged man."

"It can be said that the members of this fallen group were all controlled by that middle-aged man using his own martial spirit."

Dugu Yan felt a chill run down her spine and said, "So strange?"

Greed, anger, and ignorance—these three can affect everyone. Unless someone is mentally ill, has abnormal logical thinking, or has a truly pure heart like a lotus flower emerging from the mud unsullied, no one can escape their control.

Are there saints in the world?

Have.

But Tang San knew that it could never be him.

"Captain, have you obtained his abilities?" Yu Tianheng couldn't help but ask.

"I got it, but I won't use it unless absolutely necessary."

Tang San admitted it, but then shook his head and sighed, "After all, I also have times when I lose control of my emotions. I haven't eradicated the three thoughts of greed, anger, and ignorance. If I act recklessly, I'm afraid I'll end up like the fallen person we're chasing. He became greedy for status, wealth, power, and authority, and he became angry because others were more talented than him. In the end, in order to break through his cultivation level, his mind fell into a quagmire and he couldn't extricate himself."

"I don't want to become a guy like him..."

Greed, anger, and ignorance.

These three things are not something he can approach right now. He should wait until he breaks through level 100. In fact, Tang San has a premonition that in order to fully control these three things, in addition to gradually cultivating "discipline," "concentration," and "wisdom," he also needs to find the immortal true spirit that exists deep in his soul.

After all, the point of "wisdom" requires one to see through all the realities of the universe and understand cause and effect.

He can't even see through his own soul, so how can he apply greed, anger, and ignorance?

"Won't there be any other problems if his martial spirit exists in your sea of ​​consciousness?" Dugu Yan asked worriedly.

"Currently, no, and whether that thing can be considered a martial soul is still unknown," Tang San said rather conservatively. "Moreover, it also has one advantage for me, which is that I can multitask. It's not like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's method of controlling distractions, but rather I can create a thought entity similar to a clone that can think independently."

"However, it will take a long time to figure it out..."

Yu Tianheng laughed and said, "As expected of the captain, you start going on and on when it comes to research... By the way, how should we get back now? If we go back the way we came, we can't go upstream with the current of that underground river."

If the underground river is only a few hundred kilometers long, then the few of them could try swimming back, as if they were fighting against nature.

But this underground river is nearly ten thousand miles long...

They are still young.

I don't want to risk my life.

"Of course we won't swim back." Tang San looked up at the sightseeing elevator, used his spiritual power to probe it, and based on the information transmitted by the Golden Ancient Tree, he decided on a plan: "We'll climb up using this sightseeing elevator and enter the interior of the Golden Ancient Tree. Maybe we can gain something from it."

"Ancient Golden Tree?" Dugu Yan asked in confusion.

Tang San explained the origin of the Golden Ancient Tree to the two of them, then pushed up the detection glasses on his nose and said, "I obtained my third spirit ring in this Infinite Desert. I once entered the core area here and obtained these glasses from the treehouse of the Golden Ancient Tree. They can detect the fluctuations of spirit power in a spirit master's body."

"Right above this ruin is the Golden Tree itself... In ancient times, there was a nation called the Golden Civilization that was built upon the Golden Tree, but it has since perished."

"The reason for its demise is unknown, but within that ancient golden tree, there were countless soul tools, or perhaps other treasures."

"Normally, one needs to pass the test of those mechs outside to enter. Perhaps today we can use this passage to go directly to the interior of the Golden Tree."

Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan looked at each other, then became excited: "So, we've really hit the jackpot!"

"Based on my perception, there are no dangerous mechanisms or the like." The Golden Tree can be considered his clone, under his control, so whether there is danger or not is naturally up to him, the master.

At least inside the Golden Tree, as long as you don't provoke the mecha guards outside, there is absolutely no danger.

However, when it's time to leave, he'll need to walk on top and avoid the detection of those mech guards. Otherwise, if all those steel monsters attack at once, even if he goes all out, he won't be able to handle it.

In terms of danger, those things are far more dangerous than Bibi Dong, the peerless Douluo. Once fully activated, they could completely wipe out the entire Douluo Continent.

Unless Gu Yuena unleashes her power.

However, if god-level power is used, the gods might react and leave some spies—if it's just a temporary burst of power, like a spirit fusion technique, the god realm probably won't care too much; but if it's a god in his normal state, especially the Silver Dragon King…

Oh ho, they've been hiding right under their noses all this time. The Asura God will definitely come down to deal with them personally.

We need to figure out a way to avoid those mechs...

There's a conspiracy theory that the gods of the divine realm actually knew the Silver Dragon King was on Douluo Star, but simply chose not to intervene...

I don't know how to evaluate this. I just want to say that the God Realm had just finished a great war and must have been very hostile to dragons, especially god-level dragons. They had already sealed away the Golden Dragon King, so how could they possibly let the Silver Dragon King go unchecked after discovering him?

Those guys in the God Realm are all incredibly bored. Some are having fun (the Good and the Evil are toying with Ji Dong and Lie Yan's love and making a bet), some are vying for power (after the Good and the Evil stopped interfering in the God Realm, they started fighting Tang San for power), some are just lying low (the Goddess of Life, with a weak will, keeps changing her mind), and some are sneaking away (Shura and the Sea God abandoned their divine positions and ran away, because they knew that with these unscrupulous God Kings in the God Realm, the God Realm was definitely doomed! /Just kidding~).

In particular, Shura, in order to leave the God Realm, left behind a place of inheritance during his enforcement of the law against the Angel God in Douluo Continent, so that he could find someone to succeed him. Although the original work did not mention this, this speculation should be the one that is more in line with the logic of the God Realm worldview in the original work.

(End of this chapter)