Douluo Continent: Starting from Tianshui Academy

Chapter 385 Ye Liangchen's True Combat Strength

"Young Master Ye, we just expended a great deal of our soul power, and you also used up some soul power healing the young ladies. How about we fight again tomorrow?"

Hailong, Haima, and the others stood up and offered suggestions to Ye Liangchen.

"That's a must."

"Today I'm treating everyone to a barbecue of 100,000-year-old soul beast meat."

"Follow me, everyone."

Ye Liangchen flew towards an open area outside Xinghu Lake, then took out four 100,000-year-old soul beast corpses from his game inventory, preparing to treat everyone to a meal.

The lake at the foot of Poseidon Mountain was extremely clear, and Ye Liangchen didn't want to have a barbecue there, lest he pollute the lake.

"Whoosh..."

"Wow! Meat from a 100,000-year-old soul beast, just thinking about it makes my mouth water."

Upon seeing this, Yingmei, Xiaobai, Xiaolan, Feng Xiaotian, and the others immediately flew quickly across the circular lake.

"Everyone, let's get to work!"

When Feng Xiaotian and his group saw that Ye Liangchen had already taken out the corpses of the soul beasts, namely two sea eagle kings and two Wenyao fish kings, they immediately began to boil water and pluck their feathers, and began to process these 100,000-year-old soul beasts.

"Great Offering,..."

The Seven Pillar Guardians and the group of Sea Soul Masters glanced at Poseidon; without the High Priest's approval, they felt embarrassed to go and freeload.

"Go ahead! This is Xiao Chen's heartfelt gift."

Poseidon smiled and nodded, telling everyone not to be too reserved.

"Yes, High Priest."

The seven guardian pillars and hundreds of sea spirit masters stepped across the circular lake.

Hailong Douluo and others also sent a group of Sea Soul Masters back home, bringing with them fine wine and thousands of kilograms of fruit for a meal with Ye Liangchen and his group.

After eating and drinking their fill, Hailong, Haima, and the others adjusted their breathing to prepare for Ye Liangchen's challenge.

……

The next morning, Ye Liangchen officially challenged the guardians of the Seven Sacred Pillars.

"Xiao Chen, keep going...!"

"Master, keep it up..."

Shui Bing'er, Feng Xiaotian, Hu Liena, and others waved their fists to cheer Ye Liangchen on.

"Young Master Ye, keep it up..."

Even the group of Sea Soul Masters cheered for Ye Liangchen.

As the competition grew increasingly exciting, many Sea Soul Masters on the island put aside their work to come and watch the battle. At this moment, thousands of Sea Soul Masters had gathered on the sacred mountain, all eager to witness this earth-shattering battle.

When Hailong Douluo and the others heard the group of sea soul masters cheering for Ye Liangchen, their lips twitched, thinking: You guys are siding with outsiders!

"Everyone back off, the farther the better," Ye Liangchen shouted to the spectators, urging them to move away from the battlefield.

"Swish..."

Shui Bing'er and her group, along with a group of Sea Soul Masters, ran directly to the mountainside of Sea God Mountain. Then, with wide eyes, they quietly awaited the battle between Ye Liangchen and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians.

Let's begin!

Seeing that Ye Liangchen and the Seven Pillars Guardians had already set up their formation, Poseidon announced the start of the match.

"Whoosh..."

"Three Thousand Feather Slayers".

Ye Liangchen was the first to summon his sword spirit, and the second red spirit ring lit up as he unleashed the Three Thousand Feather Kill skill.

"Swish..."

In an instant, countless sword blades shot towards the opponent.

"Hiss! Young Master Ye started with a 100,000-year soul skill."

"There's nothing we can do; Young Master Ye has the ability..."

The group of Sea Soul Masters watching the battle gasped in astonishment at the rain of swords filling the sky.

"Ninth Soul Skill: Tides Rise and Fall".

"The eighth soul skill: Phantom Dragon Transforms into the Sea."

Sixth Soul Skill: Heavenly Blue Shield

"..."

Faced with Ye Liangchen's 100,000-year soul skill, the starfish, sea dragon, sea horse, sea spear, and sea ghost immediately unleashed their respective soul skills. In an instant, offensive and defensive skills were unleashed simultaneously, creating a very exciting scene.

"Bang bang..."

After the two skills collided, explosions rang out continuously, and in an instant, both sides' soul skills disappeared.

"Ninth Soul Skill: Soul-Shaking Divine Melody"

"Tick-tock..."

At this moment, the Sea Witch seized the opportunity, her ninth black soul ring lit up, and demonic sounds transformed into sound waves, launching a mental attack on Ye Liangchen.

"Illusion of the Sea"

Haiwang Douluo immediately activated his illusionary soul skill, trying to pull Ye Liangchen into an illusion and make him experience the most painful thing in the world.

"Huh? Why is it like this?"

Haiwang Douluo originally wanted Ye Liangchen to experience the pain of the past, but what he saw was completely different. This monstrous youth was protected by several beautiful women in his childhood, growing up peacefully without any suffering. As an adult, he was surrounded by countless beauties. This was practically the pinnacle of life; how could he possibly have experienced any pain?

"Illusion? It has no effect on me."

"The light that destroys delusion"

Seeing the illusion of Haiwang Douluo, some scenes from his childhood flashed through Ye Liangchen's mind, so his eyes shot out golden light and directly broke the opponent's illusion.

"Thump thump..."

After the illusion was broken, Haiwang Douluo's head was buzzing, and he himself was knocked back more than ten steps.

"Tick-tock..."

The sea witch's soul-stirring melody continued to play, but the demonic sound had no effect on Ye Liangchen; it was merely a bit jarring.

"Tick-tock..."

At this moment, Ye Liangchen flew into the air, took out a flute from his soul guide, activated his sonic power, and played "The Song of the Azure Sea" to counter the sea witch's soul-shaking divine song.

"Swish...bang bang..."

In an instant, sound waves transformed into invisible blades, shooting towards the Seven Sacred Pillars.

"Ahhh...!"

The powerful sound waves instantly shattered the sea witch's Soul-Suppressing Divine Melody, causing her to feel dizzy, and the Soul-Suppressing Divine Melody was directly broken.

"Hai Pai Da Xing: Devour".

At this moment, the Starfish Douluo's martial soul transformed into countless enormous tentacles, which coiled towards Ye Liangchen, preparing to devour his soul power.

"Frost Palm".

"Whoosh..."

Ye Liangchen instantly activated his ice elemental power, freezing Starfish Douluo and his martial soul into ice pops in an instant.

"Click..."

"Ouch! It's so cold!"

The Starfish Douluo unleashed a powerful soul force, shattering the ice. The biting cold made him shiver all over.

"roar…"

"Dragon Horse Breaks the Sky"

With a roar, Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Horse Douluo immediately unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, transforming into a gigantic dragon-bodied, horse-faced monster that charged towards Ye Liangchen.

"Trinity Fusion Technique: Fury of the Sea"

The combined skill of the starfish, the sea ghost, and the sea madman was activated, and waves surged toward Ye Liangchen.

"Sea Spear: Sky-Piercing Strike"

The Sea Spear Douluo's ninth spirit ring lit up, and the Nanuk Spear transformed into a golden spear, shooting towards Ye Liangchen.

"Wind...flowers...snow...moon"

Seeing the fusion skill of the Sea Dragon and Seahorse coming towards him, Ye Liangchen immediately summoned the two martial souls and used his own martial soul fusion skill.

In an instant, Ye Liangchen's 18 soul rings were linked together, and she transformed into a tall female warrior.

"Swish..."

With a flick of her longsword, the Valkyrie unleashed a shower of green and white flowers, imbued with the power of ice and wind, hurtling down like meteors toward the guardians of the Seven Pillars.

"Is this a self-fusion martial soul technique?"

The group of Sea Soul Masters watching the battle were all dumbfounded. They had never even heard of such a self-fusion martial soul technique, let alone seen it.

"That's right, it's a self-fusion martial soul technique." Shui Bing'er and the others nodded, feeling proud of Ye Liangchen.

"Bang bang..."

"Ahhh...! Young Master Ye, we can't hold on any longer!"

Faced with Ye Liangchen's self-fused martial soul attack, Hailong Douluo and the others could not withstand it and immediately requested to stop the fight.

"That's incredible! One against seven, and Young Master Ye actually won with ease! You have to understand that the seven guardians of the Sacred Pillars are all Super Douluo!..."

The Sea Soul Masters watching the battle were all stunned; Ye Liangchen's strength exceeded everyone's imagination.

"Gentlemen! You are too kind."

Ye Liangchen withdrew his martial spirit and slowly descended. This battle was truly exhilarating.

"We thought Young Master Ye would use a million-year soul skill, but we didn't expect him to also have a self-fusion martial soul skill."

"What? Do you want to experience Young Master Ye's million-year soul skill?"

Hailong, Haima, and the others remembered what Poseidon had said before: that even the seven of them combined couldn't defeat Ye Liangchen, and now it had finally come true.

"Teacher, you are amazing!"

The sea witch patted her breasts, feeling a wave of fear wash over her; her devilish teacher was truly too powerful.

"So-so."

Ye Liangchen smiled calmly, then sat cross-legged on the grass to recover his soul power.

"Whoosh..."

Ye Lingling flew down and summoned her Sacred Heart Begonia Martial Soul, focusing all her efforts on restoring Ye Liangchen's stamina. Since Ye Lingling was only an 89th-level Soul Douluo, even with her maximum healing, Ye Liangchen felt that he had only recovered half of his soul power.

It seems that Ye Lingling also has certain limitations when assisting Soul Masters who are far stronger than herself. However, this is understandable. Assisting others is based on having sufficient Soul Power. If one's own Soul Power is insufficient, there is nothing that can be done.

……

The next day arrived, and Ye Liangchen began his challenge against Poseidon.

Swish…

The Seven Pillars Guardians and Yali stood in the Sea God Temple, activating the mountain-protecting array. In an instant, the Sea God Temple burst forth with golden light, enveloping the entire Sea God Mountain in golden light to prevent the onlookers from being injured by the aftershocks of the battle.

To prevent the soul beasts and fish and shrimp in the water from dying, Xiaobai directly carried those aquatic creatures away from this place.

"Do you think Young Master Ye can defeat the High Priest?"

Seahorse, Sea Spear, and the others stared wide-eyed at Ye Liangchen and Poseidon at the foot of the mountain.

"I don't know. I simply didn't have the courage to make a move when facing the High Priest."

Sea Dragon Douluo is now a level 97 Title Douluo, but he still doesn't dare to challenge Poseidon.

"Please don't get hurt..."

Shui Bing'er and her group stood on the steps halfway up Poseidon Mountain, looking down at Ye Liangchen and Poseidon with a worried expression on their faces.

"Xiao Chen, how much power do you want me to use?"

Poseidon smiled as she looked at Ye Liangchen, a little worried that she might hurt him.

"Of course I'm using my full strength, otherwise you wouldn't be able to beat me." Ye Liangchen smiled calmly.

"Alright! As you wish."

"Whoosh..."

Poseidon summoned his martial soul, and nine soul rings—eight black and one red—rose, pressing down on Ye Liangchen with powerful soul energy.

"Whoosh..."

Ye Liangchen also summoned his martial soul to withstand Poseidon's soul power aura.

"Stormy waves".

"Splash..."

Poseidon's first black spirit ring lit up, creating waves that surged toward Ye Liangchen.

"Dance of the Wind Swords"

Ye Liangchen directly activated the power of the wind element, and in an instant, a violent tornado swept Poseidon over and dispersed the waves.

Second Soul Skill: Ocean Ripple

"..."

"The ocean is boundless"

"Bang bang..."

Poseidon unleashed eight soul skills in a row, all of which were neutralized by Ye Liangchen.

"Splash, splash..."

However, the clash of their skills stirred up the entire circular lake, causing surging waves to continuously rush towards the shore.

Fortunately, Ye Liangchen had Xiaobai take away all the fish, shrimp, and sea spirit beasts from the lake beforehand; otherwise, the lake would surely be littered with corpses by now.

"Xiao Chen, I'm now using my ninth soul skill. This skill can unleash god-level power, so be careful."

"The sea god has descended."

"Boom..."

Poseidon's ninth red soul ring lit up, and in an instant, a thunderclap resounded, and the enormous figure of the Sea God appeared in the sky, wielding a harpoon, and stabbed towards Ye Liangchen.

"Mountain Opening Seal, Sea Overturning Seal, Earth Covering Seal, Heaven Annihilation Seal, Ancient Emperor Seal."

Ye Liangchen knew about Poseidon's Sea God Descent skill. Although it was only a 100,000-year-old soul skill, it could unleash god-level power. So he directly used the Emperor Seal Technique: Five Seals Combined into One.

"Whoosh..."

A massive golden seal, hundreds of meters in size, slammed down towards the enormous figure of the Sea God.

"Bang bang... Ah...!"

"Splash..."

Ye Liangchen overestimated the power of the Sea God's descent. With the five seals of the Emperor Seal Technique combined, the Sea God's enormous figure was instantly shattered. Poseidon also fell into the circular lake under the powerful aftershocks, becoming a drowned rat.

"Heavens! The Grand Elder was slammed into the lake by Young Master Ye's golden seal..."

The onlookers were stunned. Even Poseidon's ninth soul skill couldn't stop Ye Liangchen's ultimate move.

"The High Priest was defeated?"

Looking at the scene below the mountain, Hailong, Haima, and the others felt as if they were dreaming. The god-like high priest had actually been defeated by Ye Liangchen, this monstrous young man.

"Whoosh..."

"Great Master, I'm sorry."

Ye Liangchen swooped down toward the lake, grabbed Poseidon, and flew to the shore.

"If I had known, I would have used those divine techniques from the Mountain-Splitting Seal to fight you head-on."

"You passed."

Poseidon thought Ye Liangchen would use a million-year soul skill to deal with her Sea God's Descent, but she didn't expect this little guy to use such a monstrous divine skill as the Emperor Seal Technique.

At this moment, Poseidon felt that the power of the sea god's descent was nothing special, and it couldn't stop Ye Liangchen's divine skill at all.

"Assist your partner in completing the assessment, defeat the Seven Pillar Guardians, defeat the High Priest of Seagod Island, and achieve a perfect clear. Rewards include: Level 1 Soul Power, 50% Divine Power Affinity, and an increase of 5000 years in the age of all Soul Rings."

"Rewards stacked, Life Divine Power affinity 60%, all Soul Ring age increased by 6000 years."

At this moment, two beams of light shone from Ye Liangchen's body. He had received the rewards from the Sea God and the Goddess of Life. Since Ye Liangchen no longer needed to absorb soul rings, the Sea God no longer needed to bestow soul rings upon him.

"Is your soul power level 99 now?"

When Poseidon saw the two beams of light that shone from Ye Liangchen's body, and the soul power he emitted was comparable to her own, she knew that this little guy's soul power had reached the pinnacle of human strength.

"The Sea God gave me a level 1 Soul Power reward, and I've now reached level 99."

Ye Liangchen nodded and said, "Sure enough, after reaching the Title Douluo level, if you want to quickly increase your soul power, you still have to use cheat codes."

"Now you have reached the pinnacle of the Soul Master world. The next step is to become a god."

Poseidon reached out and ruffled Ye Liangchen's hair. This little guy is not even 20 years old, yet he has reached the pinnacle of this world. He is truly blessed!

"Becoming a god is just another starting point for me."

"Life is restored"

Ye Liangchen smiled calmly, then used his Life Restoration skill to heal Poseidon.

"Whoosh..."

"Great Venerable One, we, the sixth examiner, will challenge you!"

"I had suspected it before, but I never expected it to come true now."

Just then, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the others ran down from the mountain, looked at Poseidon with pitiful eyes.

"Don't worry, you can all defeat the Seven Pillar Guardians. If you fight me, you certainly won't be at a disadvantage."

Poseidon comforted Shui Bing'er and the others, telling them not to worry. He explained that he would need to use at least 80-90% of his strength to fight these girls.

(End of this chapter)