Douluo: The Glory of the Peerless Angel

"The first match of the exchange student assessment competition: Meng Hongchen versus Dugu Lin. Please enter the arena!"

Dean Yan Shaozhe of the Martial Soul Department personally acted as the referee, with a stick of ancient incense floating in his palm. Huo Yuhao, Cai Tou, and others were still at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and these exchange students could not afford to make any mistakes. It was safest for him to be the referee.

The two gates opened wide, and two young and beautiful women slowly stepped into the arena. Dugu Lin was charming with every smile and frown, captivating the eyes of the spectators like a beautiful snake. Meng Hongchen stood opposite her, her pretty face covered with an frost that seemed to last forever.

Nine-section jadeite is one of the most poisonous creatures in the world. Dugu Lin's ability to subdue it as a pet demonstrates her extraordinary strength. However, Meng Hongchen is the vice-captain of the exchange students. If she loses to Dugu Lin, her companions will face immense psychological pressure. They must display their brilliance in the first battle of the assessment.

In addition, Dugu Lin and Ling Bai acted intimately, and Meng Hongchen also planned to steal the tower on this trip. A charming woman like Dugu Lin was extremely threatening. She believed that her appearance and figure were no less than Dugu Lin's. The two of them each had their own strengths, and being superior to the other in terms of strength might be the factor that tipped the scales.

The inner court disciples from Seagod Island came to the audience seats. Most of them had never seen a Soul Master from the Sun Moon Empire before and wanted to see him, and also cheer for the Shrek Academy's representatives.

"Dugu Lin, she's here to kick off the exchange student assessment..."

A hint of apprehension flickered in Wu Ming's eyes. Dugu Lin's soul power was only level sixty-one, but she didn't want to encounter this Azure Phosphorous Serpent at all, because the outcome would inevitably be a lose-lose situation, and even if she won, it would be a Pyrrhic victory.

Leaning against Han Ruoruo beside her, Wu Ming said, "This deadly snake woman is so dangerous that even Pan Tao, who was on good terms with her in the outer courtyard, has gradually distanced herself from her. Only your Ling Bai would dare to touch her."

"You're asking for a beating. What makes Ling Bai my family's property?"

Han Ruoruo pinched Wu Ming's cheek, gently pulling up her best friend's tender flesh, and emphasized:

"They were students who entered the inner academy in the same year. The junior brother is just kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see Dugu Lin being ostracized by the inner academy. Ming'er, don't make up stories about him."

Wu Ming smirked: "You're just fooling yourself. You'll regret it sooner or later."

"Um?"

Han Ruoruo's beautiful eyes widened, and she instantly increased the pressure on her hand.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch! Sister Ruoruo, I was wrong!"

Wu Ming broke free from the clutches of the demons and dared not try to enlighten those involved. Instead, she obediently watched the battle between the two highly poisonous soul masters.

Both women released their martial spirits. Dugu Lin had a new emerald green diamond-shaped scale between her eyebrows. Her plump and alluring body was soft and boneless, and her legs merged together, transforming into a long emerald green snake tail.

Meng Hongchen's long, wine-red hair turned snow-white, but her eyes were a chilling blood red, and a pure white toad-like shadow appeared behind her.

Two yellow, two purple, and two black—six identical spirit rings rose from beneath their feet, reflecting off their two pretty faces and making them shine.

Meng Hongchen was the first to make her move. Blue light shone from all over her body, and a set of exquisite and elegant light blue armor covered her curvaceous figure. A heroic beauty swept across the entire scene, causing many inner court disciples to turn their heads in surprise.

A level 6 peak soul-guided armor, equipped with a pair of level 6 soul-guided swords and a soul-guided thruster.

The longsword vibrated, and blue sword energy emanated from its tip. Meng Hongchen raised her beautiful eyes slightly, and a roar sounded as the soul-guided thruster spewed out two beams of light, carrying her like a shooting star towards the other side.

The two were only a hundred meters apart, and with the speed of a level six soul-guided propulsion device, it was only a blink of an eye. Their figures flashed and appeared, and they entered the attack range. With a swing of the sword, like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, it viciously stabbed towards Dugu Lin's chest.

At the same time, Meng Hongchen's two yellow century-old soul rings lit up, and he released his first soul skill, Ice Toad Poison, and his second soul skill, Ice Poison Ring. Ice mist filled the air, and deadly poison swirled around him. Close combat combined with Zhu Qing's Ice Toad Poison was Meng Hongchen's specialty!

Two years ago in the finals of the Soul Master Competition, the ultimate holiness of the six-winged angel naturally restrained the evil abilities. Ling Bai also had the Angelic Holy Sword and the Seven Kill Sword Technique by his side, which caused Meng Hongchen to be able to exert less than one-tenth of his abilities. But now, facing the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Dugu Lin, Meng Hongchen has no more worries!

A pair of emerald green vertical pupils stared indifferently at the sword tip that was growing larger in her vision. Dugu Lin's snake tail slapped the ground, and a giant snake burst out of the ground. Its snake eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty cold light, and its huge mouth, which opened to 180 degrees, could swallow Meng Hongchen whole!

The Azure Phosphorous Serpent's first soul skill: Azure Serpent Strangulation!

Meng Hongchen remained calm. With a soft shout, the sword blade spun rapidly, and five spiraling sword energies condensed, intertwining with each other to form a thin thread.

After a sharp whooshing sound, the giant snake's body trembled violently, its head broke off, and its massive body crashed to the ground.

Centered on the giant snake's corpse, a nauseating stench permeated the air, and the earth was corroded into a pit more than half a meter deep, its edges resembling a giant mouth that kept opening and extending in all directions.

"You're nothing special after all..."

Suspended in mid-air, Meng Hongchen smiled smugly. Dugu Lin's soul skill seemed less powerful than expected, and she was quickly defeated by a single strike from the level six soul guide sword.

"look up."

Dugu Lin's two light words seemed to break the seal on the sky, and emerald green raindrops poured down, covering the sky like a green curtain.

Fourth Soul Skill: Heavenly Poisonous Nether Pool!

The Soul Masters responsible for the protective shield of the Soul Arena had been waiting for a long time. Every time Dugu Lin fought, they would raise the protective shield, a layer of golden light covering the audience seats to protect the inner court disciples from being harmed by the Heavenly Poisonous Pool.

The Heavenly Poisonous Abyss is a rare domain-type soul skill, and it is also the core soul skill of Dugu Lin in battle. Meng Hongchen was immediately horrified because her level six soul guide armor clearly showed patches of extremely faint black dots, as if there were fine needles frantically destroying the rare metal inside the armor, trying to penetrate into the tender flesh!

Meng Hongchen bit her red lips with her pearly teeth, her soul guide armor supporting a light blue soul guide shield. The hissing sound of poisonous rain hitting and corroding the soul guide shield kept coming to her ears. Beneath her feet was a deep pool of emerald green poisonous liquid that had submerged the earth. Her expression finally became solemn.

The terror of the Jade Phosphorus Snake venom was hard for her to believe. Theoretically, the venom of the Jade Phosphorus Snake was far less potent than that of the Zhu Qing Ice Toad. Dugu Lin was definitely not an ordinary Jade Phosphorus Snake!

The venom coalesced into a giant emerald green serpent. Dugu Lin stood atop the serpent's head, gazing at Meng Hongchen in the sky, her smile unchanged, still as alluring as ever.

A strong sense of unease gripped her heart. Meng Hongchen used her soul-guided thruster to create distance. She glanced at the incense stick in Yan Shaozhe's hand, which was not yet half-burnt, and took a deep breath. She knew that the stalling tactic would not succeed, and Dugu Lin would not give her a chance. Moreover, the longer it went on, the more venom Dugu Lin would control. What she needed to do was to finish the battle quickly!

Meng Hongchen made his decision. His fifth soul ring shone brightly, and he began to spin violently in the air, like a vortex of ice and fire. A red light appeared in the center of the icy blue vortex, like a blazing flame burning in a vortex of ice.

Zhu Qingbingchan's fifth soul skill, Ice and Fire Poison Dragon Drill, combines the dual attributes of ice and fire with the poison of the ice toad, making it a powerful single-target offensive soul skill.

The Ice-Fire Poison Dragon Drill spun rapidly, its high-speed whirlwind tearing through the poisonous rain as it hurtled towards Dugu Lin. Dugu Lin's response was simple: her second and third soul rings lit up simultaneously, causing hundreds of bubbles to rise from the poisonous pool. Beneath these bubbles lay fanged venomous snakes, unleashing thick torrents of deadly poison. Dugu Lin herself plunged into the pool, disappearing from Meng Hongchen's sight.

The Ice and Fire Poison Dragon Drill effect ended, and she transformed back into Meng Hongchen's figure. After expending a lot of effort, she still couldn't touch Dugu Lin at all. Furious, she unleashed two sword energies to kill several poisonous snakes. However, the poisonous snakes in the Heavenly Poison Pool could regenerate at any time and in any place, and their numbers were endless. What she did was just a drop in the ocean.

The poisonous rain continued unabated, and crisscrossing black marks appeared on the soul guide shield of the level six soul guide armor. The repeated failures caused Meng Hongchen's mind to be in turmoil. The dress that she had specially chosen to leave a deep impression on Ling Bai became disheveled, her white hair clung to her smooth forehead glistening with sweat, and her breathing became slightly rapid.

The scene below the stage was completely opposite. Dugu Lin, representing Shrek Academy, was in the lead, displaying the prestige of Shrek Academy's inner courtyard, and everyone applauded in celebration.

The area around the Sun and Moon exchange students was deathly silent. Dugu Lin looked to be around twenty years old, and at that age, she had never even appeared in the Soul Master Competition. Yet, she steadily suppressed her own second strongest student, handling the situation with exceptional ease.

They began to feel nervous, panicked, and even doubt themselves.

"You're nothing special."

With a splash, Dugu Lin emerged from the poisonous pool. Her outer garment was completely corroded by the venom, revealing a layer of shimmering gold bodysuit underneath. A drop of venom clung to her fingertip before falling into the pool, creating a ripple.

"Why do your clothes... smell like Ling Bai?"

Meng Hongchen ignored Dugu Lin's sarcastic retort; she noticed the ultimate holiness of the six-winged angel on the bodysuit.

"this……"

Dugu Lin's bright green vertical pupils glowed slightly, and she smiled slyly, her face seemingly flushed with embarrassment as she said:

"He measured my body with his own hands and sewed clothes especially for me, so of course they would retain his scent."

"boom--"

Meng Hongchen's inner universe erupted instantly, and his soul power surged like a raging tide, actually clearing away a small patch of poison from the Heavenly Poison Pool.

She wasn't the only one who erupted; the audience erupted in loud cries, flashes of golden light, and a chilling aura. In the contestants' entrance area, Chu Qingtian asked Ling Bai with a gossipy expression:

"Brother Ling, you and Dugu Lin really..."

Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan... people are all gossipy, and several pairs of ears quietly perked up.

"She was joking."

Ling Bai shook his head. The effect of Dugu Lin's second soul skill, Soft Bone Serpent Body, was to dissolve into the Heavenly Poisonous Pool, causing her clothes to be completely corroded.

She needed underwear that wouldn't be corroded by venom, so one day she took a piece of clothing to him and begged him to coat it with a layer of angelic soul power imbued with ultimate holiness.

Human relationships are reciprocal. Because Ling Bai had helped Dugu Lin in the past, she only gave Ling Bai face and obeyed everything he said.

Dugu Lin said it casually, but Meng Hongchen took it seriously. Being suppressed by Dugu Lin, who was also a poison-attribute soul master, was already frustrating. When the spouse she wanted was beaten to it by Dugu Lin, Meng Hongchen wished she could tear Dugu Lin apart.

Meng Hongchen ascended into the air with a cold face. Her soul power surged like boiling water. Then, her body swelled up a size, and she raised her hands to support the sky. Her sixth soul ring, the last one in the sequence, lit up, and her hidden sixth soul skill was unleashed.

Bumps rose up behind her, and layers of icy blue light continued to rise, creating a terrifying aura.

Zhu Qingbing Toad's sixth soul skill, Corrosive Ice, condenses the original poison into liquid and combines it with her own soul power. It not only has an extremely strong impact, but its toxicity is also close to the extreme of poison.

This is Meng Hongchen's strongest killing move. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy has conducted a simple test and found that just a small drop of corrosive ice is enough to easily poison and kill a massive, ten-thousand-year-old diamond mammoth.

If it were a human being, even an eight-ring Soul Douluo would not be able to withstand being hit head-on by all the corrosive ice without any defense, let alone a five-ring or six-ring Soul King or Soul Emperor, who would be instantly corroded clean.

Even more terrifying is that the corrosive ice itself has a locking ability. Once it locks onto a target, it will relentlessly pursue the opponent like a leech. Dozens of waves of icy blue liquid, containing the deadly poison of the Zhu Qing Ice Toad, will rush straight towards Dugu Lin.

Meng Hongchen was furious, and this attack was naturally a full-force outburst. Her face was pale, and the corrosive ice was destined to consume a lot of her soul power. She was certain that with the power of the corrosive ice, even if Dugu Lin hid in the Heavenly Poison Pool, she would not be able to escape being melted by Zhu Qing's Ice Toad Poison.

"roar!!!"

A deep roar suddenly resounded, echoing throughout the inner courtyard's fighting arena. Dugu Lin's first four spirit rings each produced a phantom emerald green figure.

Phosphorus scorpion, phosphorus centipede, phosphorus toad, phosphorus gecko!

Five poisons combined into one, the most potent poison is the Phosphorus!

"Can't afford to play games? Why the rush?"

Dugu Lin sneered. At this moment, she no longer concealed her strength. The Jade Phosphorus Serpent fused with the other four highly venomous soul beasts, and the Jade Phosphorus Serpent venom advanced to the Jade Phosphorus Absolute Poison, a half-step ultimate poison. Then, her sixth soul ring also erupted.

The illusory image of the Azure Phosphorous Serpent flashed, its blood-red maw wide open as if to devour the heavens. The Azure Phosphorous Serpent's sixth soul skill, Abyss Devouring Stream, caused all the Heavenly Poisonous Pool in the Soul Arena to rush into the illusory image of the Azure Phosphorous Serpent. The Azure Phosphorous Serpent was still not satisfied, and swallowed the icy blue liquid of the Corrosive Ice in one gulp. Its pair of snake eyes stared at Meng Hongchen, grinning ferociously.

The combined poison of the five poisons, Bilin Jue Du, surpassed the single poison of the Ice Toad, yet Meng Hongchen was still desperately trying to extract the soul power from her body, resulting in another round of corrosive ice.

Dugu Lin tilted her head in distress. Just as the streams of venom were about to land on the illusory image of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent, the venom suddenly stopped, as if it had frozen in mid-air, eerily still.

Fifth Soul Skill: Time Freeze!

Dugu Lin's fifth soul ring was taken from Medusa, the queen of the ten-thousand-year-old snake, the very snake that Ling Bai captured during his freshman assessment mission. She obtained a soul skill that can be described as a divine skill: Time Freeze.

The Azure Phosphorus Serpent swept its tail across, and Meng Hongchen, who was in a state of frozen time, was sent flying backward without any resistance, spitting out a mouthful of blood and falling unconscious.

"In the first round of the exchange student assessment competition, Dugu Lin won!"

"Well played!"

Yan Shaozhe announced the outcome at the opportune moment, and Shrek Academy's inner courtyard erupted in cheers, while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy fell silent.

However, their defeat was just the beginning.

"Bebe wins!"

"Xu Sanshi wins!"

"Jiang Nannan wins!"

"Chu Qingtian wins!"

……

Nine consecutive losses!

"The tenth round of the exchange student assessment competition: Xiao Hongchen versus Ling Bai. Please welcome both contestants to the stage!"

Xiao Hongchen slowly stood up, looking at his listless and pale companions, and said in a heavy tone:

"It seems that Shrek Academy is giving us a hard time today."

We admit we're not as skilled as others.

However, the dignity of the Sun Moon Empire cannot be trampled upon!

Please believe me, I will reclaim the dignity we have lost!

(End of this chapter)