Douluo: Son of the Stars

Chapter 213 Exploring the Secret Realm, Yin and Yang Flames

Along the way, Tong Rui did not find any living creatures. He couldn't help but wonder if he had accidentally entered a secret place that had been explored and closed.

However, when he thought about the content of fighting spirit in the surrounding space, it didn't seem like a destroyed secret realm, so he was secretly on guard until he saw a tall palace stopped at the door.

After looking at the words on the stone tablet in front of the palace and comparing them, I found that I couldn't recognize them at all, so I walked in directly.

After entering the palace, he did not find any special mechanisms, or texts, books or other recording documents. There were two different exits on the left and right. Tong Rui looked left and right, and finally walked towards the exit on the left.

After walking through a long corridor, Tong Rui carefully studied the pictures made up of the patterns on the stone wall. It was not difficult to see that most of these pictures recorded people who seemed to have made great achievements.

Continuing forward, combined with the previous scenes, it roughly explains that a group of people founded a sect together. Perhaps, they were stationed on a mountain, helping the villagers around the mountain and dispelling the monsters in the forest.

Until one person gained powerful strength and grew a pair of wings, which looked like the wings of Dou Qi at the Dou Wang stage.

He taught the villagers around him and gave them strength. The costumes of the people in the murals are changing, which seems to indicate that from generation to generation, there is a person standing in the sky in each generation, from flying with wings to standing in the air.

But looking at this mural, the people below raised their hands, and the people above were not standing in the air, with a bunch of sun-like lines behind them. Tong Rui couldn't help but complain that the people in this sect were quite narcissistic, and there was light behind each of the people above.

But looking down, Tong Rui's face turned serious. The meaning of that light did not seem to be a portrayal of narcissism.

Tong Rui previously thought that it was normal for faces to be similar in murals, a limited creation. But people changed with each generation, until finally even the Warcraft appeared in the murals, showing a gesture of submission.

The corresponding wall depictions also became different. Every image of the offering before, on the opposite wall, was a scene of the death of the monster, used for sacrifice.

Until the monster surrendered, human heads appeared among the corpses on the corresponding wall.

But the subsequent paintings remained unchanged, different monsters, different people, the same death, the same sacrifice, but the man in the sky gradually became stronger, holes appeared in his hands, and finally he created space, until the last painting, forests and mountains entered the space he created, and the monsters and humans disappeared.

At the end of the mural, after a blank wall, there are two golden doors with two circular grooves.

There were fine lines on the grooves. Tong Rui carefully examined the composition of the door in front of him. After confirming that he could not open it with brute force, he began to detect whether there were any similar mechanisms around.

Tong Rui fumbled with the door to open while tidying up the mural.

Through the murals, combined with Xiao Yan's description of the level of his Dou Qi, it can be proved that this space should be the space created by the Dou Sheng. According to the description in the murals, the monsters and humans here seem to have sacrificed themselves to the Dou Sheng.

That’s right, that same face. Tong Rui guessed that perhaps the so-called sect leader had never changed.

If the light behind it is not just narcissism or showing off, then it should be some special skill or weapon that can control other people. Items related to soul and blood sacrifice!

Or, this person accepted voluntary sacrifices from animals and humans over a long period of time and achieved great power.

Since there is no life in this space, the murals should be scenes painted by the person himself. If he is not a psychopath, then perhaps they are a memorial before his death.

Although these murals are highly subjective, we can still analyze a few things from them. If we continue to gain powerful strength, then the murals should continue to be painted.

According to Tong Rui's detection, the material of this palace may have existed for a time far longer than he could imagine.

If he had not become a Dou Di, a normal nine-star peak Dou Sheng would only have a lifespan of about ten thousand years.

However, Tong Rui also needs to be careful to guard against this special fighting skill that may be able to deceive people. Humans and monsters have been sacrificing until they are extinct. This ability to deceive people seems to be a little scary.

After repeated exploration, Tong Rui found a groove that looked like a handprint.

Tong Rui used his fighting spirit to test it, and after finding nothing unusual, he pressed it with his hand. But in an instant, Tong Rui's face changed.

However, as soon as he placed his palm into the groove, the fighting spirit in his body began to be violently absorbed.

The fighting spirit in his body was constantly draining away and was about to run out, but at this moment, Tong Rui felt that his body seemed to have some strange reaction.

A kind of energy that Tong Rui had never seen before slowly adhered to Tong Rui's body and was input into it together with the fighting spirit.

But Tong Rui's body seemed to have stimulated some potential because of the absorption just now, and the speed of running the exercises in his body was even further improved.

Therefore, in this place filled with rich fighting spirit, Tong Rui relied on his strong body to withstand a large amount of fighting spirit impact. At the same time, his own realm was quickly infused with pure fighting spirit under the forging of the blue-purple flame.

But in Tong Rui's perception, although he absorbed the fighting spirit, a large amount of it was replenished into the blue-purple flame.

Just like that, as time passed, as Tong Rui automatically absorbed the fighting spirit and infused it with unknown energy, the door was opened.

Tong Rui roughly estimated the energy used to open the door just now, although he didn't know how he calculated it.

But the energy consumed in opening the door, converted into fighting spirit, is roughly equivalent to the fighting spirit content of 500 great fighting masters. Therefore, even if the key to this door is found, it will probably require a fighting emperor level or even higher to maintain basic combat power after opening the door.

Tong Rui couldn't help but wonder if it was possible that the old monster on the mural was hiding inside, peeping in some dark corner, and would come to take over the body of the person who opened the door when his strength was almost exhausted.

After opening the door, a long corridor came into view. Walking forward until the first corridor turning right, Tong Rui looked at the road ahead and the right turn, and still chose to continue forward.

The corridor ends at the fourth corner.

Tong Rui walked to a big door and pushed it open gently. Inside was a stone house with only a coffin placed in the middle. Tong Rui used his mental power to sense it.

Looking through the coffin, one could see that there was only a corpse inside, and there was a channel underneath the coffin that continuously transmitted energy to the coffin. After the energy entered the coffin, it was absorbed by a stone-like object on the coffin.

Tong Rui looked at the stone and thought of Xiao Yan's ring. Tong Rui was full of questions. Could it be that the last thing this person left behind was the raw material for making the ring?

The stone was taken down directly, but no traces of fighting spirit or anything else were found. After careful perception, it was discovered that there was actually a spark hidden in it.

"What is this? The Yin and Yang flames?" Tong Rui sensed two colors of flame, one black and one white, entwined together in the stone, just like two Yin and Yang fish swimming.

It is said that this flame was born in the void of the universe. Yin and Yang are the laws of nature and the origin of all things in the world.

The Yin and Yang flames born from the Origin are one of the forms of fire transformed by the Origin, full of the dual power of life and death. The Yang Fire saves people and keeps them alive forever, while the Yin Fire kills people and leaves no body behind.

Tong Rui carefully observed the flow of energy that led directly to the coffin. Following this passage, Tong Rui felt the existence of another room.

Tong Rui looked at the stone in his hand, put it in his arms, and decided to go back to explore other rooms.

Tong Rui walked along the perceived energy channel and slowly moved towards the rooms at the corners ahead.

In every room, Tong Rui can obtain items of different categories, such as skills, medicinal materials, pills, weapons, etc.

However, perhaps it was because the time was too long. Whenever Tong Rui touched a book or other object, those objects instantly turned into ashes, and only some jade slips remained.

Finally, Tong Rui walked to the original hall and headed towards the right aisle of the hall.

But this road has only one entrance. After entering, you can see a huge altar with black and white flames burning. It is the Yin-Yang Double Flame, or another Yin-Yang Double Flame. After perceiving each jade slip with his spiritual power, Tong Rui figured out the whole story.

The original owner of the tomb, also the leader of this small sect, accidentally obtained the Yin and Yang flames, but because this fire had its own consciousness and was extremely ferocious, he used a special method to separate the sub-fire.

And seal this main fire, and establish a channel for energy absorption. Through the main fire, nourish the sub-fire, thereby cultivating a weak and unconscious fire.

Later, by chance, he got a special mind control fighting skill, which was now in Tong Rui's hands, called "Soul Seed Planting Technique". As the name suggests, it is to plant soul seeds in the mind and use them to control the planted person.

At the beginning, the sect leader only used his skills to help the villagers control and hunt monsters and protect the safety of the villagers.

But the good times didn't last long, during a hunt, Zihuo came into contact with a living monster. As a result, Yin Fire devoured its spiritual power, and Yang Fire also devoured its vitality.

The sect leader found a way to speed up the cultivation of the sub-fire, so he hunted monsters and sacrificed the sub-fire. Finally, the sub-fire finally turned into a fire seed.

After fusing the sub-fire, he began to practice alchemy, and grew rapidly with the help of the strange fire. The success rate of alchemy was improved through the strange fire Yang Fire, and the Yin Fire was also constantly devouring the spirit power of the magic beast.

During his continuous collection or exchange, he received a volume of skills that could enhance his strength by devouring essence and blood.

So he changed his way of practicing. He devoured the blood and essence of the monsters, and the Yin Fire devoured the spiritual power of the monsters, while the Yang Fire could only devour the remaining corpses.

However, this kind of cultivation method that did not balance yin and yang eventually broke the balance of yin and yang, and he had no choice but to separate a large amount of yin fire and give it to the mother fire to devour. Then he continued to nourish his son fire through the mother body.

However, although this technique accelerated the improvement of his strength, it also caused changes in his body.

He swallowed a large amount of magic beast's essence and blood, but his cultivation speed was not accelerated by inheriting the magic beast's bloodline. Instead, his bloodline became mixed and not unified. Even after the impurities were removed by strange fire, his cultivation speed was still greatly reduced due to the excessive power of magic beast's bloodline.

So, in order to make his human component greater than the monster component, the sect leader controlled the monsters to attack humans and secretly devoured a large amount of blood and essence from seriously injured and dying humans.

That’s right, this volume of skills only devours essence and blood to increase strength, it’s the same for humans or monsters.

Some people noticed the difference, but they thought it was just because the monster was too ferocious and the sect master was lacking energy. Until one day, the bottleneck of advancing to the Dou Zun level was reached, and the sect master was unable to break through it no matter what methods he used.

Seeing that the deadline was approaching, he made a ruthless decision and controlled a large number of villagers far away. At the same time, he simulated a tide of beasts, devoured a large amount of human blood and essence, and advanced to the Dou Zun realm.

From then on, he became more and more brutal. Knowing that he could not break through to the level of Dou Sheng, he controlled all the monsters and humans he could control, and through the essence and blood of all the monsters and monsters, he broke through to the peak of Semi-Saint.

Still the deadline was approaching, he made up his mind and swallowed both the Yin and Yang flames of the Mother Fire. Although he had broken through to the level of a Douluo Saint, the Yin and Yang flames had been nurtured for thousands of years and were no longer controllable by an ordinary Douluo Saint. Therefore, while his spiritual wisdom was still intact, he chose to perish together with his enemies.

However, the Fighting Saint is still the Fighting Saint after all. He used the newly born strange fire to annihilate a large amount of the mother fire, and separated the strange fire while being seriously injured.

But he was severely injured and even though he was already a seventh-rank alchemist, he still could not save his life. After secluding himself for a thousand years, he passed away in a coffin.

After Tong Rui learned all the stories, he also found the technique that the sect master practiced. It had no grade, but was very strange.

Tong Rui looked at the jade slip in his hand, sighed, and threw it into the Yin-Yang Double Flame Mother Fire in front of him.

"This kind of technique doesn't need to exist."

After sighing, Tong Rui shook his head and began to count his gains.

The harvest this time was quite sufficient. First of all, there was the Yin-Yang Wansheng Cauldron, which was a high-level medicine cauldron made by the sect master himself using materials collected based on the Yin-Yang dual flames. Secondly, there were various medicine cauldrons that were originally owned by the sect.

As for the techniques and fighting skills, Tong Rui did not touch many books, because most of the books were corroded by time. As for the special techniques and fighting skills, because they were all in the jade slips, after excluding some fighting skills that were cultivated with blood essence, the rest were collected by Tong Rui.

It is precisely because this sect leader was once good at using strange fire that a large number of fighting skills tend to be fire control and simulation of magic beast fighting skills. After all, this is also a sect that once had a seventh-grade alchemist and a semi-saint, so all aspects are very complete.

As for this space, there were only some bottles and jars and some useless gold, silver, and jewelry, which Tong Rui was not interested in.

Finally, looking at the two yin and yang flames sealed in the vessel in his hand, Tong Rui decided to absorb one of them to strengthen his own blue-purple flame.

Tong Rui took out the mother fire of the Yin and Yang flames and swallowed the small fire directly into his stomach.

Although this flame can burn life and soul, Tong Rui does not want to refine him, but to let the flame in his body devour him.

As soon as the Yin and Yang flames entered his stomach, Tong Rui controlled the blue-purple flames to corrode them.

With the help of Tong Rui's fighting spirit, the Yin and Yang flames had no chance to fight back and were quickly swallowed up by the blue-purple flames.

Just like that, Tong Rui didn't know how long it had been. As the last trace of white flame was swallowed up, Tong Rui's realm began to soar.

After tens of thousands of years of the strange fire, its intelligence had been completely worn away, but much of the pure fighting spirit still remained in its body.

Although most of it was swallowed up by the blue-purple flames, the remaining part was still enough for Tong Rui to advance.

In the outside world, the blue-purple flames around Tong Rui had turned into blue-black, with even tiny silver-white dots flashing in it, like half of the starlight in the universe.

Inside, within the cyclone, the fist-sized Dou crystal was like a bright sun, emitting warm and dazzling light that continuously shot out, illuminating the entire cyclone.

In the meridians, the last energy, after completing its circulation, also flowed into the cyclone, and finally poured into the Dou crystal that was like the shining sun.

"Buzz!"

With the infusion of this last bit of energy, the diamond-shaped bucket crystal suddenly trembled slightly, and a low buzzing sound was quietly heard, finally echoing in the cyclone.

"bang, bang"

Quietly, a subtle and very rhythmic sound was heard in the cyclone. Listening carefully, it sounded like the beating of a heart, extremely mysterious.

As the rhythm sounded, the light on the diamond-shaped Dou crystal became stronger and weaker, and in Tong Rui's inner vision, the Dou crystal, which was originally a little irregular, gradually became as round as a bead.

As the body of the Dou Jing became round, the corners all around it protruded out strangely, making it look very much like a sea urchin covered with long thorns. If you count carefully, there are exactly nine long sharp thorns on the sea urchin.

The light of this sea urchin-like fighting crystal was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and with the intensity of the light, the extremely rhythmic heartbeat sound also sounded again, and it sounded as if there was a vibrant heart in the sea urchin.

When the diamond-shaped bucket crystal was completely transformed into the sea urchin bucket crystal, the intensity of light on its body became more and more rapid, and the sound of the heart beating also became faster.
"bang, bang"

The low, dull sound slowly echoed in his body, and in the end, it was completely in the same rhythm as Tong Rui's heartbeat.

At the moment when these two kinds of beating were completely condensed, the sea urchin crystal inside the cyclone suddenly trembled, and an extremely powerful energy ripple spread out from it!

The energy ripples passed through the cyclone, meridians, and bones in the body without any hindrance, and finally penetrated the skin, and then suddenly exploded!
Inside the palace, the flames around Tong Rui suddenly spread out, and a powerful aura spread out from his body. With a powerful fighting spirit, the blue-black flame was like a scavenger, directly burning the objects it swept into ashes.

The fighting spirit is complete.

(End of this chapter)