Douluo: Martial Soul Research Diary

Chapter 496 Assessment Rewards
"How have you considered it?"

After a long while, once Tang San had calmed down, Tang Chen slowly asked a question.

"If you spare Tang San, I can promise to return the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to you intact!"

Han Tao was filled with doubt and uncertainty.

He was indeed hesitant; the unique ecology of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye was also worth his hesitation.

"Hey--"

"Your Majesty, it's not that I don't trust you, but that I don't trust him!"

Han Tao pointed.

In the illusion, Tang San's thoughts unfolded like a scroll, falling onto the paper, clear and distinct.

Ye Lingling was also looking at herself. She didn't say a word because she believed that Han Tao would make the right choice.

"We will not let Tang San go!"

Han Tao's eyes were firm, his will and expression unwavering. He gripped Tang San's collar once more, though it was pointless.

Tang Chen sighed leisurely.

"Now that you've made your choice, don't regret it!"

The soul tool slowly opened.

A unique metallic material was presented before them, containing the Yellow Spring Dew enhanced by the "Snowy Swan Kiss," as well as a portion of their own severed soul.

"Orange, the essence of the soul."

Ning Rongrong explained its material.

With a cruel smile, Tang Chen mercilessly dropped the Divine Soul Essence Gold into the lake.
"Han Tao, your Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire is gone!"

"The place where Blue Silver Grass grew is gone!"

The lake water churned under the influence of toxins, the pure ecosystem was polluted by the Yellow Spring Dew, which was beyond the extreme, the magnetic field was overturned, and yin and yang were reversed.

Everything vanished without a trace, everything seemed like smoke and dust.

"Hmm."

Tang San's limbs and muscles, as well as the key acupoints, were severed by soul power, leaving him practically crippled.

At this moment, his face was contorted with madness, and his eyes were brimming with intense satisfaction.

"Han Tao, why don't you dare let me go? Let me guess."

"You must be afraid that I will kill her mother? You will also be blackmailed by others. Was your killing of Zhu Qi just a pretense?"

"Ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Tang San's lips curled into a contemptuous smile.

"Pretending to be indifferent, yet personally killing your own disciple, I suppose you also felt grief in your heart?"

"Truly heartbreaking!"

Concealing his grief, Han Tao smiled and said, "So I used the very sword that killed Zhu Qi to personally behead Xiao Wu."

"Look, there are still bloodstains on the sword's edge!"

The soul tool was activated, and the sword blade was placed before his eyes. Xiao Wu's blood was still preserved on the blade.

As expected, Tang San's eyes turned bloodshot in an instant, filled with anger and hatred.

"Han Tao, you truly deserve to die!"

"I will definitely avenge Xiaowu, I definitely will!"

"No!" Han Tao smiled calmly, "You have no chance!"

Tang San looked at his broken body and the "Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon" that Han Tao had taken away from him, and suddenly a bitter feeling welled up in his heart.

Frustrated by their own limitations and by reality, this disparity in strength remains unmoved by willpower.

"Han Tao, you wouldn't dare kill me!"

His expression suddenly became manic: "Why don't you dare kill me? Is it because I possess a power that frightens you?"

Han Tao neither confirmed nor denied it.

“So what if it is, so what if it’s not?”

Dozens of thousand-year-old "Wind Whisper Grasses," carefully cultivated within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well of Douluo Continent, were planted beside Tang San.

"This is a place where fortune converges!"

"And how I wish that you could have one of the Wind Whispers, and take the key step in mastering the evolution of destiny."

In a moment of silence, Tang San guessed Han Tao's thoughts. He didn't resist, nor could he, but a strange feeling suddenly welled up within him.
"Zhu Zhuqing seems to have obtained the body of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger by using the method of soul possession."

"Flander also used the same method to reshape his martial soul."

Looking around, the blue silver grass emitted a faint, shimmering light.

In the silent corner, Tang San's heart suddenly surged with emotion, his eyes gleaming with devout greed.

“And I happened to have a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul before me.”

"At the same time, I have also practiced the Distraction Control Technique. I think I can use the same method as Flander and Zhu Zhuqing to seize a Blue Silver Grass as my new Martial Soul?"

"Black-level Five Trials, First Trial Completed!"

"Reward: Soul Power Level 1!"

A faint soul force emanated from the Seahorse Sacred Pillar on Poseidon Island, gradually enveloping Han Tao's body.

Han Tao frowned and refused to let the soul power enter his body.

"why?"

Seahorse Douluo asked, puzzled.

"This is the soul power of the sea god. Its soul power quality is higher than my blue silver. Once it gets on me, it will be difficult to remove."

Han Tao's gaze was fixed on the sky.

Frosty Red's fortune did not spread to this place, and besides fortune, it must be because of the Sea God's handiwork.

"The divinity and soul power rewarded by the divine test can firmly bind a soul master to the path of the Sea God."

"No, it's not just the Sea God; it's true for almost all the inherited deities on the Douluo Continent."

The seahorse asked in confusion, "Is there a difference?"

Ning Rongrong's eyes, filled with a smile, admiration, and joy, swept past Han Tao's ear.

"If your goal is just to become a Title Douluo or a Peerless Douluo, then facing the erosion of soul power is of course no problem. But if you want to break through to godhood, you must follow the will of the gods."

"Actually, absorbing a spirit ring that is over 50,000 years old will also cause the effect of soul power erosion, so only a Soul Douluo can absorb a spirit ring that is over 50,000 years old."

Contra is capable of generating microscopic structures of soul power.

It can be exempted from the structural erosion of the spirit ring, but the structural erosion of the spirit ring is completely different from the structural erosion of the "Sea God's Spirit Power".

"If one absorbs the reward from the divine trial..."

Han Tao added, "Your soul power and divinity will be bound to the Sea God. If he doesn't want you to inherit the divine position, there will be no way forward for you."

[Black-level Fifth Trial, Second Test: Defeat the Seven Sacred Pillars of Seagod Island within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn!]

The voice of the second test rang out from the Seahorse Pillar.

Han Tao shook his head slightly, not intending to continue the assessment, as the soul power it rewarded was really useless.

"what about me?"

"The divine test that Ning Rongrong and I underwent rewarded us with a higher affinity with the Sea God!"

"Divinity!" Han Tao clenched his fists.

Compared to the stripping of soul power, they still have a path to follow, but they have no ideas to follow regarding the infiltration and stripping of divinity.

"Um"

"Since we don't have a solution, let's not rush to complete the assessment and try to stay away from the sacred pillars of Poseidon Island."

Ning Rongrong nodded gently, then took a step and stood on the tip of the deep-sea iron, looking out at the boundless waves.

Ye Lingling sighed deeply: "Tidal Body Refinement!"

"It is the tide above the vast ocean. We have not yet mastered the power of the vast ocean, so how can we wield the power of the tide?"

tide tide
Han Tao's thoughts suddenly drifted back to many years ago, to the golden wheat field.

Tang Hao taught Tang San the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, the crisp clanging sound of which lingered in his mind.

"The surging tides are just like the vortex of soul power beneath the acupoints."

"I once had a guess that when soul power flows to the acupoints, it undergoes an acceleration through a vortex within the acupoints, thereby achieving a more significant cultivation effect."

"Back then, I was limited by my understanding of meridians and acupoints, and by the strength of those meridians and acupoints, so I was unable to achieve this skill."

The sun's rays, reflecting on the ocean's waves, infused Han Tao's eyes with confidence.

The transformation of capillary meridians and the reshaping of major meridians propelled Han Tao's talent to the pinnacle of the world.

Han Tao spread his fingers: "Now, it's completely different!"

(End of this chapter)