Douluo Dalu II: The Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 308 Titled Douluo and the Nine Trials of the God of Death!

Inside the Heavenly Stems Locking God Formation, Zhu Ziyang opened his eyes, stood up, and the soul rings behind him shone brightly, enough to shock and terrify everyone.

Black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red, red!

Nine soul rings, five black and four red, floated behind him, and a faint smile appeared on Zhu Ziyang's face.

At level 91, after subduing the Demon Emperor, a soul spirit with 800,000 years of cultivation, Zhu Ziyang's soul power directly broke through from level 86 to level 91. He not only successfully broke through to the Title Douluo realm, making himself a Title Douluo at the young age of nineteen, but also acquired two quasi-god-level soul rings with eight golden patterns.

Of course, this was not the biggest gain for Zhu Ziyang. His biggest gain was obtaining the Demon Emperor's soul.

Thinking this, Zhu Ziyang had a thought, and the Demon Emperor, now a spirit, appeared before him. She wore a long black dress, had long purple hair, a delicate face, curious eyes, and a slightly flustered expression.

In her soul form, the Demon Emperor didn't change much except for transforming from a living being into a spirit. Her strength remained intact, and could even be said to have been enhanced, since she was practically immortal in her soul form.

"Master, Master!" the Demon Emperor called out with some difficulty.

"Hehe, if you really can't bring yourself to say it, you can call me by my name, Ziyang. I won't mind." Zhu Ziyang looked at the Demon Emperor's conflicted expression and said with a smile, "By the way, do you have a name? My spirits all have names, it's not appropriate to keep calling you Demon Emperor!"

"Name?" A look of confusion crossed the Demon Emperor's face, then he said sheepishly, "N-no!"

"I see. Then let me think of one for you!" Zhu Ziyang wasn't surprised by the Demon Emperor's answer. He smiled and said, "How about calling you Quan'er?"

"Quan'er?" The Demon Emperor looked puzzled, not understanding why Zhu Ziyang had given her such a name.

"Hmm! Aren't you the Witch of the Underworld? Isn't Quan'er a perfect name for you?" Zhu Ziyang explained with a smile. He would never admit that he couldn't think of a better name, so he named the Demon Emperor Quan'er.

"Oh, oh!" The Demon Emperor looked enlightened and stopped worrying about it. After all, for her, just like for the Demon Emperor, a name was merely a label. She said, "Alright then, I'll be called Quan'er from now on!"

"Alright, let me introduce my other four soul spirits to you first." Zhu Ziyang smiled and summoned the four soul spirits, Xue, Bing, Shuang, and Lu, and then introduced them to the Demon Emperor one by one. "Xue'er, you know her. She was once the ruler of the far north of Douluo Continent, the Ice Heaven Snow Maiden Snow Emperor, with a cultivation of 700,000 years; this is Bing'er, she is the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, with a cultivation of 400,000 years; this is Shuang'er, the Heavenly Frost Silver Dragon King, with a cultivation of 700,000 years; this is Lu'er, she is the Extreme Cold Immortal Herb Eight-Cornered Profound Ice Grass, with a cultivation of 100,000 years."

As Zhu Ziyang's cultivation reached the Title Douluo realm, the strength of the four spirits—Xue, Bing, Shuang, and Lu—was also enhanced. Xue Di and Er Shuang, without exploiting Zhu Ziyang, could now unleash combat power equivalent to 700,000 cultivation points. Bing Di and Lu'er also reached the Title Douluo realm. Add to that the Demon Emperor Quan'er, who possessed 800,000 cultivation points, and Zhu Ziyang alone was enough to wipe out all human forces on the Douluo Continent except for Shrek Academy, the Body Sect, and the Sun Moon Empire.

The four spirits of Snow, Ice, Frost, and Dew began to communicate and become familiar with the Demon Emperor Quan'er. Zhu Ziyang also took the opportunity to enter the land of divine inheritance to undergo his final test.

Upon arriving at the place of divine inheritance, Zhu Ziyang stood on the eightieth step. After receiving the rewards from the Eight Trials of Death, his gaze fell upon the steps above the eightieth. He saw that the mist shrouding the remaining twenty steps had all disappeared, revealing all the steps and the palace on them.

Looking at the palace, Zhu Ziyang felt a surge of excitement. Without hesitation, he climbed the steps to the ninetieth one. When he tried to continue, he was blocked by an invisible wall. Helpless, he had to give up, knowing that he could not continue upwards unless his affinity with the divine position reached one hundred percent.

My gaze fell on the last pair of God-Locking Pillars on either side of the ninetieth step, where the contents of the Nine Trials of Death were revealed.

"Divine affinity: 90%"

The Nine Trials of Death: Congratulations, successor of Death! You are only one step away from receiving the true legacy of Death. This final step is also the most important. Countless geniuses have fallen at this last step. Whether you can successfully reach this step depends entirely on your own talent and will!

Assessment content: Raise soul power to level 99.

Assessment requirements: None.

Performance-related rewards: Unknown.

As the final test, the Nine Trials of Death were indeed very simple and straightforward: raise one's soul power to level 99, the Limit Douluo. This might be an extremely difficult task for ordinary people, but it was not a problem for Zhu Ziyang. After all, his age and talent were what they were; even if it took ten years to advance one level, he would only need eighty years.

Besides, how could it take ten years to advance one level?

With a relaxed and cheerful smile, Zhu Ziyang left the place of divine inheritance and returned to the Heavenly Stems Locking God Array. After collecting the souls back into his spiritual sea, he walked out of the Heavenly Stems Locking God Array.

"Brother, how are you?" Jiang Nannan and the other two girls immediately surrounded them and asked.

"I have successfully completed the eight trials of the Grim Reaper. Now I only need to raise my soul power to level 99 to officially accept the position of the Grim Reaper," Zhu Ziyang said with a smile.

"Really? That's great!" Jiang Nannan said excitedly.

"Yes, that's wonderful!" Zhang Lexuan and Qian Lingyi said in unison, their pretty faces beaming with excitement.

"Mission accomplished! Let's prepare to return to Douluo Continent!" Zhu Ziyang said. "Sister Weiwei, go and call Komarco and the others back; we're about to leave!"

"Understood!" Zhang Weiwei received the order and disappeared from the four people's sight in the blink of an eye.

After Zhang Weiwei left, Zhu Ziyang began to dismantle the Heavenly Stems Locking God Array, retrieving the Locking God Pillars one by one. Compared to the time-consuming and laborious setup, dismantling it was very simple and easy. He only needed to input a strand of soul power into each Locking God Pillar, and these pillars would automatically shrink to the size of silver needles and fly back into Zhu Ziyang's hand.

Before long, all ten God-Locking Pillars returned to his hands. He placed these ten God-Locking Pillars together with the other six and carefully kept them safe.

Zhang Weiwei and the other five powerful warriors returned quickly. Except for Roger and Bemstar, who were somewhat disheveled, the others were all unharmed. After some inquiry, Zhu Ziyang learned that Roger and Bemstar had been locked in a fierce battle with the Earth Tyrannosaurus King, and it was only after Zhang Weiwei's arrival that they were able to completely suppress it.

The Earth Tyrannosaurus King, being quite pragmatic, decisively chose to flee upon seeing Zhang Weiwei's arrival. Because Zhang Weiwei and her companions had received Zhu Ziyang's orders, they did not pursue it, thus saving the Earth Tyrannosaurus King's life.

After listening to Roger's report, Zhu Ziyang couldn't help but smile, and then put the matter out of his mind. After sending the five powerful beings of light back to the Holy Law Demiplane, he led Jiang Nannan and the other two women towards the outside of the Mountain of the Dead.

A week later, the group of four boarded the Moon God Shuttle on a coastline of the Martial Soul Continent. Unbeknownst to any of the forces on the Martial Soul Continent, they left the continent with the ruler of the Dead Mountain Range, the Demon Emperor.

It wasn't until several hundred years later that the Soul Masters on the Spirit Continent realized the Demon Emperor was missing. As for why it was several hundred years later, it can only be said that the Soul Masters on the Spirit Continent were too incompetent.

On the contrary, the soul beasts on the Martial Soul Continent noticed the Demon Emperor's disappearance in the second year. The first to discover this fact was naturally the Earth Tyrannosaurus King. As the only soul beast that had contact with Zhu Ziyang and his group and survived, it immediately wanted to meet the Demon Emperor after escaping the siege of Zhang Weiwei and the other two.

It knelt outside the Demon Emperor's Palace for nearly a year, but not only did it not receive any response from the Demon Emperor, it also sensed that the death aura that had accumulated in the Demon Emperor's Palace for countless years was slowly dissipating. This discovery made it very puzzled and shocked. So, it mustered up its courage, pushed open the gate of the Demon Emperor's Palace, and found that the Demon Emperor was not in the Demon Emperor's Palace!

As for how the soul beasts on the Martial Soul Continent would face the fact that the Demon Emperor had disappeared, that was none of Zhu Ziyang's business. At this time, they had already sailed an unknown distance at sea.

(End of this chapter)