"Damn it!" Tang Hao bellowed as he was sent flying by his own power. The immense kinetic energy he had accumulated was on the verge of tearing his body apart. His torso, which had already been pierced by the black tiger's claw strike, ruptured further, ripping open several more gashes.
Tang Hao immediately expanded his form, transforming himself into a ten-thousand-meter giant. He used his colossal size to force open the tornado.
Following that, he unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar. Bending his waist, he swung the thousand-meter Clear Sky Hammer, smashing it toward Huang.
"Now that's more like it." Huang did not back down either, transforming into a ten-thousand-meter Law Idol of identical size to Tang Hao! The two engaged in a chaotic, close-quarters brawl.
The more Tang Hao fought, the more alarmed he became! The more he fought, the more strenuous it grew. This opponent was actually adapting to and breaking his techniques!
"This won't do. This guy isn't even human. I have to throw him out of the Douluo Plane, otherwise my son's ten-thousand-year grand plan will never be realized."
With that thought, Tang Hao intentionally lured Huang toward the Endless Mountain Range--the place where the power of the plane was most abundant and closest to the planar gap.
The astonishing clash between Tang Hao and Huang was so massive that even from far away in Eastsea City, I could see the two giants passionately pummeling each other across the sea horizon.
After Huang was pushed back by Tang Hao's strike using one of the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, Tang Hao immediately turned around and fled.
He began to devour the pure, rich heaven and earth primal energy within the Void space to heal the wounds he had sustained from the beating earlier.
Huang, on the other hand, didn't make any immediate moves. The wheel of Law behind his back shone once more, and endless threads of karma began spreading across the continent. Then, Huang simply plucked a white thread of karma, and an exceptionally handsome greatbow dropped into his hand.
The Soul-Breaking Bow! This was a martial soul with profound history, a restrictive martial soul that could only shoot one arrow per soul ring.
"Fire!" Huang extended his right palm toward the location of those Limit Douluos and made a grasping motion from afar! Two crimson threads of karma were seized by Huang.
Within the crowd, the Martial Soul Avatars of Leng Yaozhu and En Ci were triggered by Huang. A Radiant Holy Dragon and a Heavenly Phoenix, each hundreds of meters tall, naturally manifested from their soul rings.
Seeing her martial soul summoned away, Leng Yaozhu didn't take offense. When your martial soul is snatched, there's nothing you can do about it anyway!
Furthermore, she wanted to see how that peerless powerhouse would utilize her martial soul.
After Qiangu Dieting was finished being used, he dropped straight to his knees. It was as if he had taken a massive hit of weed; his entire body felt blissful, and his face was flushed red...
The Martial Soul Avatar was the seventh soul skill that a soul master was guaranteed to obtain upon reaching the rank of Soul Saint, and it was typically a must-use move in battles between high-tier soul masters.
Twenty thousand years ago, the Martial Soul Avatar of a beast martial soul meant directly transforming into the beast itself! By the era of Peerless Tang Sect, high-end applications involving partial-possession Martial Soul Avatars began to appear.
In this current era, the existence of Battle Armor could be integrated into the martial soul, so people preferred to fight using their human bodies. The Martial Soul Avatar had instead turned into a different kind of amplification-type soul skill.
Take Spirit Engineers, for example, who focused on crafting a Natal Spirit Device suitable for their own martial soul and integrating it into it! This could amplify the strength of the martial soul.
Herta had exploited this loophole. She manufactured an extremely high-grade Key of Erudition and integrated it into her martial soul as her Natal Spirit Device! Her powerful martial soul strength and exquisite energy manipulation allowed her to withstand more soul rings, directly bypassing the rules of the soul master system that had remained unchanged for ten thousand years.
The righteous path for tool martial souls to attain godhood was like Yun Ming's, tempering one's martial soul into a physical entity, or even a divine weapon, continuously manifesting and strengthening the martial soul itself.
But what about beast martial souls? Were they inherently meant to be suppressed by the prestige of dragon blood? Were they meant to be crushed whenever they encountered a powerful bloodline?
Where exactly lay the future path for beast martial souls? This would be a topic of discussion among people for a very long time to come.
However, today, a peerless powerhouse had provided the answer: infuse the martial soul itself with dense vitality and bloodline power, granting the martial soul sufficient spirituality, just like taming a beast!
Leng Yaozhu had never felt her martial soul possess such spirituality before. She usually used martial soul possession, rather than summoning the martial soul outward like a tool martial soul.
"Infusing an individual's vitality and bloodline power into a martial soul can increase its spirituality? How did he do that?"
Instead, it was the researcher beside her, addressed as Sister Mei, who gave Leng Yaozhu the answer.
"Dr. Mobius once studied the blood of the same martial soul across different tiers within a family, and she even managed to extract something unimaginable called 'Martial Soul Blood.'"
"And that person over there is simply applying it... There's no need to be too surprised, Deputy Tower Master~ The Spirit Pagoda has many scientific research papers. Learning a bit more is always useful."
The atmosphere suddenly became a bit awkward. At this level, who still studies...
This world is ultimately too friendly to bad students, Mei thought as she subtly nudged her glasses.
The scene shifted back to Huang! The powerful vitality and bloodline power stacked from his own body filled the two Martial Soul Avatars, which previously possessed only form but no spirit.
Subsequently, a sky-rending dragon roar and a crisp phoenix cry echoed through the heavens.
The dragon and the phoenix cleared their throats and slowly opened their mouths, inhaling all the surrounding heaven and earth energy as their throats began to churn.
Intense firelight erupted in an instant! A powerful dragon breath and the everlasting True Phoenix Fire were both spat toward Huang.
Huang waved both hands. The incoming flames seemed to be pulled and squeezed by an invisible force; the flames sweeping across the sky were completely suppressed into the palm of his hand.
They were compressed into a fiercely burning fireball, its scorching heat intense enough to boil the ocean.
As Huang clenched his fist and squeezed the fireball in his palm, he quickly opened his hand from top to bottom, and the flames were tempered into the shape of an arrow.
Loading it onto the Soul-Breaking Bow, the bowstring was drawn to its absolute limit, resembling a full moon. Only a sharp, ringing twang was heard.
The air was ignited, and ripples tore through space as this rocket shot toward the direction where Tang Hao was fleeing, like a meteor.
It spanned nearly half of the Douluo Planet! Transforming into a meteor, it pierced through the clouds along the way and struck toward the Endless Mountain Range.
This arrow plunged heavily into Tang Hao's back! The powerful force directly slammed the fleeing Tang Hao into the mountain range!
Then, it detonated with a crash! The deafening roar and the erupting flames displayed the domineering deterrence of the Dragon Clan, as well as the continuous, unquenchable nature of the phoenix flames!
The two forces of fire clashed and countered each other, triggering another explosion. A mushroom cloud as high as a thousand meters resounded through the sky.
After doing all this, Huang merely turned his head to glance over. His Law Idol flashed once more, and a white tiger leaped out, appearing by Huang's side.
[Divine Ability--Heavenly Tiger Transit]
The essence of the martial soul was manifested by Huang in the form of a divine ability. Huang then mounted the white tiger, riding the clouds and harnessing the wind, dissipating into a wisp of wind as he departed.
Meanwhile, a golden fruit shimmered on his shoulder. Within the fruit, a blood-gold little figure that had begun to take human form had already appeared.
And that little Myriad Karma Immortal was currently devouring the power of the plane...
"Ah! Pui! When others use a martial soul, it's for fighting. Why is mine used as a mount!" A certain man surnamed Dai vented his dissatisfaction!
However, right after he said that one sentence, he realized the situation was amiss. The surrounding Titled Douluos did not directly follow Huang.
The silent angels quietly swept past, and the originally clamorous crowd silenced their voices.
These Titled Douluos all knew that today's matters had gotten a bit out of hand. This plane actually had a Lord of the Plane! And it was Tang Hao...
Many people here belonged to Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect, yet a god had always been present, and no one knew what he was plotting...
However, this was where the benefit of having elders present showed up--if things really went south, they wouldn't be the ones who had to step up!
The Titled Douluos were all waiting for the elders of the first tier to make a choice.
Yet these elders merely ended their Spiritual Manifestation without a word, quietly hiding away the painted scrolls they had drawn.
(What? Return them? Didn't Sui Yuan invite them here precisely because he planned to use their martial souls? This is the payment!!)
"Let's go! Let's head to Yun Ming's place first before making a decision. He must know more," Qiangu Dieting decided under the silence, passing the buck to Yun Ming.
The Tang Sect was currently leaderless! Zang Xin alone was nothing to fear, but with Yun Ming at Shrek, let Yun Ming shoulder the burden!
Anyway, everyone wanted to go check out the situation; it was just a matter of who took the lead.
Tang Hao had been urging Yun Ming to help earlier, and the fact that Yun Ming hadn't moved at all already spoke volumes about the situation.
Of course, it could also be because the Sea God was right beside him, rendering him unable to move.
Among the five members of the Abyssal Hunters, Gladiia merely watched silently as Laurentia pestered Skadi's side.
Laurentia was pondering the demeanor of the Sea God, lamenting that he truly lived up to being a god--exceedingly beautiful.
As a deep-sea lesbian who appreciated "beauty," having a beautiful, eternal artwork like Skadi made Laurentia feel that she could abandon sculpting entirely.
"The divine war has completely concluded. Next is the struggle for the plane, and subsequent matters are outside our cooperation."
"He provides the information, and we are only responsible for drawing out the Lord of the Plane. As for anything else, it's none of our business."
Ulpianus also merely gave Yun Ming's shoulder a heavy pat, then followed Skadi and the others to plunge into the ocean, vanishing beneath the waves.
Qiangu Dongfeng didn't even bother putting on an act anymore. He walked straight past the ocean where Yun Ming stood and murmured a few words.
"The greatest ambitious careerist and conspirator turns out to be Grand God King Tang San? Wanting everyone on the planet to be his dogs! I wouldn't even dare to imagine that!"
"I admit inferiority! I admit inferiority! Haha!"
Subsequently, the Titled Douluos of the Spirit Pagoda transformed into shooting stars and flew away.
"Sorry, Yun Ming! But you know it! Just how many people have died in the Endless Mountain Range over these past thousands of years!"
"If it's just going to be brushed off with a line like 'this is all for your own good, this is a necessary sacrifice'? Hmph! I'd risk my life just to give him a thrust of my spear."
As the legion commander of the Central Legion, Divine Brush Douluo Yu Guanzhi's achievements were all forged bit by bit in the Blood God Legion. Among those who hated the abyss the most, he was certainly one of them.
"Yun Ming, you know it! History is written by the victors! And right now, that person has a higher chance of winning!"
"Twenty thousand years ago, the Spirit Hall provided free martial soul awakenings. That only became a thing again in modern times! Tang San has been driving the wheels of history backward the entire time!"
"Your texts claim that Spirit Hall had the wolfish ambition to provoke war and unify the continent? It's precisely because he interfered multiple times that the wars between the major empires dragged on for tens of thousands of years, otherwise it would have been unified long ago."
"Haha! The holy angel was criticized as evil? Hmph! At least there were no Evil Soul Master in that era! As for how the Evil Soul Master currently rampant on the continent came to be, you should know best, Yun Ming~"
As a remnant of the Six-Winged Angel Clan from back then, which evolved into the Sacred Angel Clan, Yue Zhengen knew exactly why the Angel Clan could still develop! Thanks to the great philanthropist Tang San!
Defeating the God-level martial soul Six-Winged Angel and shattering the Angel Divine Seat definitely tore apart the other characteristics of the angel martial soul as well.
Otherwise, what was the deal with Yali's Prayer Angel? Being able to use the power of faith to raise her cultivation--did she think she was the Angel God reincarnate? There must absolutely be shards of the Angel Divine Seat on her!
Yue Zhengen was one of the few men among these Titled Douluos who extensively studied history! He knew the truth of history! He was also the person who lived most clear-mindedly.
At this very moment, a turning point in history had appeared once more, and Huang's chances of winning were greater.
Subsequently, various organizations, and even Shrek's loyal ally, the Nine Treasure Divine Sect, stated their reasons, all bypassing Yun Ming's position and flying out.
This place was left with only the silent Yun Ming, a group of Sea God Pavilion Elder, and the people from the Tang Sect.
"A bunch of ungrateful fellows! Our Shrek taught them for several years. Even if they joined other organizations, they are still people of our Shrek Academy!"
"To think not a single person stood up."
Weren't the things Tang San and Tang Hao did still unconfirmed? Couldn't they firmly and unswervingly stand on Shrek's side, wait until later to personally inquire about the situation, and then issue an official announcement to the world to clear up the misunderstanding? A bunch of ungrateful fellows!
As an extreme Shrek-centrist, Long Yeyue was the first to voice her dissatisfaction! She started it, and subsequently, a crowd of Pavilion Elder and Tang Sect disciples all opened their mouths to discuss countermeasures, all of which involved covering up the facts and denying what Tang San had done. Only Zang Xin and a few specific individuals remained silent.
"Brother Yun..." As his bed partner, Yali knew extremely well that Yun Ming at this moment was on the verge of collapse. The rebuttals from Qiangu Dongfeng and the others left him speechless, and Yun Ming himself had a unique understanding of the world. The truth that Sui Yuan had told him... all of this left him extremely conflicted...
But looking at the group of people before him making fallacious arguments, Yun Ming seemed to see the future of Shrek Academy. Was this Tang San's method of controlling the Douluo Planet in the future?
'When humanity is in deep water and torrid heat, on the verge of extinction, the god will manifest to save the world, save his own people, destroy the outsiders, and incidentally resurrect some people. From then on, the Douluo Planet truly becomes the back garden of a certain Grand God King Tang.'
The Abyssal Plane was released by Tang Hao, and endless abyssal creatures swept across the entire Douluo Continent, corresponding to the moment of extinction.
After all of humanity fought a bloody war, the high-level combat forces would all be sacrificed, likely leaving behind a portion of the people with the highest cultivation, and these people should all be from Shrek or the Tang Sect.
Once those few fellows like Qiangu Dongfeng died, the Qiangu Clan would be gone, and the Spirit Pagoda would return to Shrek's hands sooner or later.
The higher-ups of the major clans would be wiped out! The side close to Tang San would be resurrected, while the others who died would just stay dead.
They were all evil, their sins too deep, so they deserved to die.
Then, the status of the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy would never be shaken again.
The Douluo Planet would belong to Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect, and they would be completely matchless within the Federation, given that many politicians were also alumni of Shrek...
Yun Ming merely thought about the future Sui Yuan had spoken of, where humanity's future was controlled by Tang San, and the world completely became his back garden.
He thought of the countless Sea God Pavilion Masters who voluntarily sacrificed themselves to protect Shrek, only to be devoured as food by Ah Yin...
He thought of the countless soul masters who fought hard on the front lines of the abyss, fighting only to protect the Douluo Plane, yet in reality, they were just adding bricks and tiles for Tang Hao, the Lord of the Plane...
They denied everything that countless people had worked for, and they swallowed the fruits of victory. Was it really for the good of the people of the plane? Was it really not for themselves?
Blood tears even flowed from Yun Ming's eyes. His expression was distorted, his entire body trembling, and his hand gripped the Sky-Reaching Divine Spear so tightly that blood even showed on his palm. Then, gnashing his teeth in extreme rage, he said:
"All of you, quiet down! Go! Follow them! Together, let's kill that self-righteous Lord of the Plane, Tang Hao!"
"Afterward, everyone follow me to the Sea God Pavilion! To the Ancient Golden Tree! And kill Ah Yin, who has been rooted in the world, devouring the Core of Life of Shrek's ancestors!"
The other people were all shocked by Yun Ming's earth-shattering words. However, they reacted right after, shouting out in succession!
"Alright! Boss! We've always listened to you!"
"Though we don't know what happened, since it could anger little Yun Ming to this extent, let's go for it! Kill them! But you have to explain properly afterward!"
Ultimately, reality shattered their spiritual illusions. Yun Ming, who had always been the 'Boss,' had spoken, and the younger ones had always followed Yun Ming.
The older ones had watched Yun Ming rise step by step. Rather than longing for the blessings of a future god, it was better to follow the person they recognized.
Even Long Yeyue's deterrence and seniority couldn't compare to Yun Ming, the 'Boss.'
I still use my brain when writing novels. Acknowledging someone as a father just by hearing some legends is really quite something. I believe there will still be more slightly obsessive people who are closer to reality.
Because the strength of Shrek and the Tang Sect is the result of the major clans being intertwined and enmeshed with each other; it is the manifestation of the true power and strength of the continent.
In the original text, Yun Ming was someone who could be called 'Boss' even by the elders of the Sea God Pavilion. That appeal is definitely much stronger than a legendary god who hasn't appeared for a long time.
As for Yun Ming, I don't want him to be blown to death! It's better for him to be knocked off his pedestal by the protagonist Hei Loulan who has developed!