Douluo Amon: I am the Heavenly Venerable of the Dragon King.

Chapter 194 The Mysterious Tang Family

Just as Xu Xiaoyan began absorbing the Ice Bear's soul spirit, the electronic voice sounded again, "Ninth level passed. You can choose to absorb the three-thousand-year-old soul spirit, the Ice Bear, or continue upwards."

Everyone turned to look at Gu Yue, asking what they should do next. After all, Gu Yue was the only one familiar with the Soul Tower.

Gu Yue said, "There's also Yuan En Ye Hui; we must continue upwards. There are two slots for absorbing soul spirits. If we stay here, she can only absorb this one soul ring. Xiao Yan can stay here without any problem; she'll be teleported out after she finishes meditating."

Xu Xiaoyan has already obtained a suitable soul spirit; next up is Yuanen Yehui.

"Alright, let's go." Tang Wulin took the lead and stepped into the light gate, followed by Yuanen Yehui and Xie Xie, with Fors, Gu Yue, and Nan Fusheng following behind.

After stepping through the portal, the six were surprised to find that everything before them had changed.

The original octagonal hall has been transformed into a circular hall. The metal doors in the distance are still there, but instead of eight, there is now only one: a massive metal door, thirty meters high and twenty meters wide.

Just as Gu Yue had said, each nine levels represented a new level. After passing the first nine levels, they entered the second level.

Yuan Enhui's eyes began to shine. Xu Xiaoyan had found a suitable soul spirit, and now it was her turn. She had her fourth soul ring, unlike Xu Xiaoyan.

The fourth spirit ring can withstand a basic spirit ring level of around four thousand years. Moreover, given that she possesses twin martial spirits, both of which are top-tier martial spirits, she can withstand six thousand years without any problem.

Titan Ape is more suited to strength-type spirits, and from now on, she needs to select the one that suits her best.

"It seems we've become one opponent. Shall we attack together or fight one-on-one?" Nan Fusheng asked Tang Wulin.

"Well... let's wait and see how things develop," Tang Wulin replied after thinking for a while.

In the distance, as the group was talking, the only metal door slowly opened. The soul beast they were about to face had not yet appeared, but a fierce aura was already spreading out from behind the metal door.

A muffled thud came from the metal door.

"Bang, bang, bang—" Amidst the booming sounds, a massive figure gradually came into their view.

Its entire body is covered with a layer of purplish-black scales. It is over ten meters long and weighs at least ten thousand kilograms. It walks on all fours and has a huge tail. Every step it takes makes the earth tremble.

At first glance, it looks like a giant lizard, but upon closer inspection, you'll find that its head is much larger than that of a typical lizard, and it has two curved horns extending upwards from its head.

"This is... a Demon Lizard Dragon," Xie Xie said in surprise.

He had only seen this kind of spirit beast in some ancient books, but this was the first time he had seen it in person.

In ancient times, the Demon Lizard Dragon was also an extremely powerful soul beast, belonging to the Earth Dragon category. It had a massive body and incredible speed, and was adept at controlling dark elements.

Moreover, it is an extremely ferocious soul beast. Even if not for food, it often indiscriminately kills other soul beasts, making it highly aggressive. Like the Human-Faced Demon Spider, it belongs to the category that is also ostracized in the soul beast world.

A fierce aura filled the air, and the Demon Lizard Dragon suddenly raised its head and let out a sharp cry to the sky.

The piercing sound gave people a feeling of being bombarded with demonic noise.

"Shut up, just say you want to die." The spiritual power of the Spirit Abyss Realm spread out from Fors and struck the Demon Lizard Dragon's brain hard, causing its roar to stop. Then, as if its head had been severely injured, blood began to ooze from its mouth and nose.

"Wait, leave this to me." Tang Wulin suddenly stopped Fors and rushed out. Since breaking through the third seal of the Golden Dragon King, he had not tested his bloodline power to see how much it would enhance him.

The demonic lizard dragon right now is a perfect experimental subject. It has over four thousand years of cultivation and still retains some dragon blood.

Then, facing Tang Wulin, the little dragon man who possessed the Douluo Continent version of "Dragon Beast Slayer," how could a demonic lizard dragon possibly stir up any trouble? It was directly and ruthlessly suppressed.

However, Nan Fusheng noticed that when Tang Wulin killed the Demon Lizard Dragon, his blood and qi seemed to have increased significantly.

"He shouldn't have the Golden Dragon Spear now, so how can he absorb the power of blood and qi?"

Nan Fusheng was greatly puzzled and could only attribute it to the characteristics of the Golden Dragon King's bloodline. Besides, it seemed quite normal for members of the Tang family to have abilities like the Star Absorbing Technique.

He didn't know whether his grandmother, Ah Yin, who had become the core of life, had absorbed the life energy of the Douluo Continent. However, Ah Yin must have received the power that the successive Sea God Pavilion Masters of Shrek Academy had received when they chose to merge themselves into the Golden Ancient Tree upon their death over the past ten thousand years.

His father, Tang San, already possessed the ability to devour when he had an external soul bone, and this ability became unstoppable after he moved to the Fairy Continent.

His future son, Tang Xianyu, also seems to possess remarkable devouring abilities.

Even his sister, Tang Wutong, seemed to have an extraordinary ability to absorb energy when using the Golden Dragon Spear. She drained quite a few people dry.

So it seems quite normal that Tang Wulin now possesses some ability to devour.

Yuanen Yehui clearly had no desire to choose the Demon Lizard Dragon, which was easily defeated by Tang Wulin.

The eleventh floor, like the tenth floor, has a large door.

The gate slowly opened, and this time, they did not sense any fierce aura. However, none of them relaxed.

The soul beasts they encountered on each previous level were far more powerful than those on the next, especially starting from the ninth level, which represented a completely different level. They were now on the eleventh level, which was definitely not going to be any easier than the tenth.

The six of them now stand together in a triangular battle formation, with Fors, the strongest individual among them, occupying the apex at the very front of the triangle.

Yuan Enhui and Tang Wulin positioned themselves at the left and right rear apexes respectively, forming a triangular formation to protect their three companions within the triangular area.

Just then, a scent seemed to waft through the air, a scent that felt like air after it had been exposed to the sun—refreshing yet with a peculiar dryness.

"Huh?" Fors let out a soft exclamation, and even Nan Fusheng behind him couldn't help but let out a strange light in his eyes.

"boom."

In an instant, a bolt of lightning struck the six people fiercely. Tang Wulin's eyes narrowed, and he was about to defend himself when he saw that Fors's hand also unleashed a golden lightning bolt, which collided with the blue-purple lightning bolt, producing a loud boom.

A beam of light shot out from the cave and instantly reached the air. Everyone looked closely; it was completely different from the soul beasts they had encountered before.

Among the soul beasts they had encountered before, their size and strength were generally proportional. However, the soul beast guarding the twelfth level was extremely small.

Its entire body is a strange bright yellow color, and it looks like a small squirrel. Its body length is only about a foot long, but its tail is not fluffy like a squirrel's. Instead, it is pointed and upright with two bends, which looks like lightning.

It had exceptionally large eyes, which almost occupied half of its face. The eyes were blue-purple, and its body was surrounded by electric sparks. It levitated in mid-air entirely by the power of lightning.

"This is practically the Douluo Continent version of Pikachu!" Nan Fusheng looked at the spirit beast before him, a nostalgic expression creeping onto his face. Of course, in the Douluo Continent, this kind of spirit beast has another name.

"Thunder Beast?" Xie Xie blurted out, calling out the name of this soul beast.

That's right, this soul beast is the legendary Thunder Beast, and one of the materials Nan Fusheng added when creating Shenwei Kamui, but...

"This thunder beast's lightning seems to be a nerfed version?"

Pure Thunder Beasts are the darlings of the Thunder element, possessing super soul beasts with ultimate attributes, but this Thunder Beast seems a bit weak? Moreover, the intensity of its lightning hasn't reached the ultimate attribute.

The Thunder Beast in mid-air looked at the six people with some confusion, as if it was thinking about something. Then, it flicked its sharp, lightning-shaped tail, and a blue-purple bolt of lightning descended from the sky, attacking the six people again.

"boom!"

Fors, not to be outdone, unleashed a bolt of lightning that collided with it. Blue-purple and golden lightning intertwined, but upon closer inspection, it was clear.

The golden lightning bolts were much smaller, but they gradually swallowed the blue-purple lightning bolts before dissipating into the air.

"Chirp, chirp."

Upon seeing the golden lightning in Fors's hand, the Thunder Beast's body visibly trembled. Its blue-purple eyes, when looking at Fors, were filled with a peculiar expression, and it seemed to be making some kind of call.

"Whoosh—"

The Thunder Beast transformed into a bolt of lightning and appeared not far from the group in the blink of an eye. Its large eyes looked at Fors with a fawning expression.

!!!

So fast! When they saw the Thunder Beast run in front of the six people in the blink of an eye, Yuanen Yehui and Tang Wulin couldn't help but tense up.

However, when they saw that the Thunder Beast was staying not far from Fors, maintaining a safe distance, and constantly calling out with a fawning expression, the two couldn't help but look confused.

Is this what happened?

"This is what you want, isn't it?" Fors looked at the thunder beast in front of her, and after a moment's thought, she roughly understood why the thunder beast was behaving this way. She raised her right hand, and a golden lightning bolt crackled and popped in her hand.

"Chirp, chirp."

When the Thunder Beast saw the golden lightning in Fors's hand, its cries grew louder, its face filled with longing.

"for you."

Fors condensed golden lightning into a small ball and then threw it at the Thunder Beast.

"Chirp—" When it saw the golden ball being thrown at it, the Thunder Beast pounced on it without even considering whether it was a trap.

When the Thunder Beast caught the golden ball, it immediately stuffed it into its mouth. As a darling of the lightning element, lightning was practically its food.

However, this golden lightning was clearly different from the ordinary lightning of the past. When the thunder beast swallowed the golden ball, its entire body trembled, and then, as if it had been electrocuted, it lay on the ground convulsing.

"This..." Tang Wulin and the others looked at each other, unsure whether to attack. After all, the Thunder Beast looked completely powerless to resist!

However, they ultimately chose not to take action and instead opted to wait and see.

After a short while, the Thunder Beast's body stopped convulsing. After a period of time, the Thunder Beast stood up from the ground, but judging from its somewhat unsteady appearance, it was clear that it had not fully recovered.

"As expected, this is not the real Thunder Beast." Nan Fusheng, who was behind, took in everything and then made a judgment.

A true Thunder Beast possesses the ultimate attribute, feeds on lightning, and emits pure golden lightning. Just like the body part unique to the Thunder Beast that Invincible gave him back then.

Although the thunder beast is dead, if it is stimulated with lightning, and the amount reaches a certain level, that part of its body tissue will burst out with golden lightning.

The thunder beast in front of us was different. It had only absorbed a little bit of Fors's lightning, yet it acted as if it had drunk fake alcohol, and the lightning it emitted was not golden.

If it were a true Thunder Beast, even if it consumed the ultimate lightning, it would not show any abnormality unless the amount was extremely large. However, the lightning that Fors just delivered was not even enough to fill the teeth of a true Thunder Beast.

"This must be an artificial soul. Has the Spirit Pagoda reached this level of capability?"

In fact, Nan Fusheng's guess was correct. This Thunder Beast was indeed an artificial soul, but it was an accidental, unfinished creation.

It is a half-finished Thunder Beast that the Spirit Pagoda attempted to recreate using a portion of the body tissue of a dead Thunder Beast.

Why is it described as a semi-finished product?

First of all, this Thunder Beast was a successful experimental creation by chance, and it is almost impossible to replicate.

Secondly, this thunder beast doesn't possess the ultimate attribute; it can only approach the ultimate thunder power when unleashing its full power. Although it's a thunder beast, it seems somewhat unworthy of the name.

Like the unique Direclaw Bear offshoot, the unique Direclaw Bear, while possessing some of its advantages, is far inferior to the original.

However, even though it is not a fully-formed Thunder Beast, it can still be considered a top-tier Soul Beast, which is why it was placed in the Soul Spirit Tower by the Spirit Transfer Tower.

"Chirp chirp."

The thunder beast shook its head for a while before slowly approaching Fors. Then it jumped onto Fors's palm, rubbed against her palm, and stared at Fors with its big eyes.

"Do you want to become my spirit?" Fors asked the thunder beast in her palm.

"Chirp chirp." Thunder Beast nodded repeatedly, while also rubbing against Fors.

"You're quite clever, but unfortunately, I don't need to absorb a spirit ring right now, and I'm not interested in lightning-attribute spirits either."

Fors knew perfectly well why the thunder beast was following her; it probably wanted to use her ultimate thunder attribute to successfully transform itself into an ultimate attribute as well.

For a soul beast that pursues pure lightning, if it can elevate its lightning power to the next level, it wouldn't matter if it became someone else's soul spirit, let alone the fact that the current lightning beast is already a soul spirit.

Upon hearing Fors's words, the Thunder Beast immediately deflated. Its intelligence was considerable; although its cultivation was only a little over five thousand years old, its intelligence surpassed that of most ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, a characteristic of top-tier soul beasts.

"However," Fors changed the subject, "I have a companion who possesses the same lightning as me, perhaps even stronger. I'll let him know, and if he's interested in you, he might come to the Soul Tower to challenge you."

"Chirp, chirp." Hearing Fors's words, the Thunder Beast started chirping again, but this time it seemed very excited.

"Alright, now we're in a hurry to clear the level. Only after we find the soul we want can I go back and tell him. Now it's time for a fight, right?" Fors said as he put the Thunder Beast down.

"Chirp chirp." At Fors's words, the Thunder Beast raised its short arms and waved them in front of it, as if reminding her not to forget the promise. Then it turned into a bolt of lightning and returned to the portal.

The next moment, the familiar electronic voice sounded again, "Ten-second countdown. Please enter to continue the tower challenge, or you can choose to absorb the Thunder Beast's soul." A halo appeared in the air, and the pattern inside the halo was the Thunder Beast they had faced earlier.

"This works?" Tang Wulin and the others were dumbfounded. They hadn't expected to win the battle so easily. They had witnessed the speed of the thunder beast earlier, and with its terrifying lightning power, a fierce battle would have been inevitable.

"How naive it is!" Fors said with a sigh. She had only said that "its companions might come to the Soul Tower to find it," but this thunder beast actually believed her. Wasn't it afraid that she would change her mind?

Of course, the ultimate lightning she displayed was the key reason why the Thunder Beast believed in her.

"Indeed, compared to the complexities of humans, soul beasts are mostly much simpler." Gu Yue agreed with Fors's words.

Upon hearing this, Tang Wulin and the others also expressed their agreement.

Fors: "..." Help! There's a soul beast spy who's infiltrated here!

She was just saying it casually, and she even dared to criticize Gu Yue. How could most soul beasts not be innocent?

Soul beasts less than 10,000 years old are basically no different from wild animals; they only follow their instincts to hunt and kill.

Even those who have lived for over ten thousand years are not much better off. Even if they develop intelligence, their previous animalistic instincts are not so easy to change.

As for soul beasts and even ferocious beasts that are over 100,000 years old, one can only say that their minds are too complicated.

One of the Ten Thousand Demon Kings, one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, is a deep and scheming type, while Xiong Jun is a simple-minded and honest guy.

Di Tian was even more stubborn, always fantasizing about the revival of soul beasts. As a result, for ten thousand years, he never bothered to learn anything about soul tools. He just spent his days guarding his master.

Even if all else fails, you can learn forging. With the bloodline of the dragon race and the long lifespan of a soul beast, you can eventually become a master craftsman.

In other words, the fact that they were forced into this state by humans is not without its own factors. Humans simply adapted to the times and defeated the spirit beasts.

"Is the companion you mentioned earlier real?" Gu Yue asked Fors casually at this moment.

"Of course, he was my teammate when I was studying at the Intermediate Soul Master Academy."

Fors answered frankly that the information about Lufa and the others was fabricated to be seen by others, so it was not difficult to find their information, so of course she had no intention of hiding it.

What he just said to the Thunder Beast wasn't a lie. If Shenwei is really interested in the Thunder Beast, then Nan Fusheng will have Qian Gu Bubai make arrangements for it.

(End of this chapter)