Douluo: Son of the Stars

Chapter 80: Title Battle
"First soul skill, star chain."

Tong Rui did not use his killing move right away. Since he was going against the sect's title, excluding the issue of winning or losing, this itself was the best training.

A large number of Venus fell around Shi Duantian and released endless chains from them.

Shi Duantian knew very well the terrifying power of Tong Rui's soul skills. Even when a Soul King faced a Soul Sage, he was still able to exert temporary control over him. Now that he has reached the level of a Soul Sage and comprehended the true meaning of the martial soul, he must have a stronger control effect.

Shi Duantian did not choose to take it head-on. Even though the Black Tortoise moved slowly, it could still move quickly thanks to its title. While avoiding the entanglement of the chains, it also quickly left the area covered by Venus.

"Star Sword!" A huge lightsaber slashed towards Shi Duantian from the air.

"The second soul skill is the shield! The fourth soul skill is the control of the mysterious world!" Two shields immediately blocked in front of Shi Duantian, and a large amount of water spread outward along with the shields.

Shi Duantian felt the same flavor on this sword as the soul skill that Tong Rui created himself. He privately asked the third brother about the power of this soul skill, but out of confidence in himself, he took the sword head-on while also testing the strength of Tong Rui's attack.

The Black Tortoise, which was good at defense, naturally took the sword, but this sword also eroded the defense of the two soul skills.

Shi Duantian felt that he seemed to have used up twice as much soul power as usual to take the sword, and he immediately understood that the essence of Tong Rui's soul skill was to produce a powerful attack by consuming soul power.

However, the Black Tortoise is only good at defense, not incapable of counterattack. Shi Duantian decisively threw out a shield. When the rotating flying shield was about to hit Tong Rui, chains entangled the rotating shield.

But the shield had already reached Tong Rui, and Shi Duantian's goal had been achieved: "Third soul skill, explosive shield armor!"

The shield in the chain exploded quickly, the chain disappeared, but the irregular diamond-shaped barrier still blocked Tong Rui.

It was the fifth soul skill, the Starlight Barrier. However, Tong Rui was not just watching Shi Duantian's actions. As the shield exploded, the sixth soul skill was finally charged and a long spear pierced through the barrier.

The sixth soul skill, the Star-piercing Spear!
The greatest feature of this soul skill is not the super strong penetration it brings, but that this Star-piercing Spear can integrate the unparalleled star combat skills. While penetrating the opponent, the will of the stars will erase the opponent's mental strength and soul power.

Seeing a spear flying out of the exploding shield, Shi Duantian quickly activated his sixth soul skill, Xuanwu Waters, and combined it with his fourth soul skill, Xuanming Water Shield, to block the attack.

The strong wave still blocked the attack, but the spear did not disappear. Instead, it continued to erode Shi Duantian's soul skills in the confrontation with the water shield.

Tong Rui certainly would not miss this opportunity, he rushed forward with the power of the stars, holding the spear, and engaged in close combat with Shi Duantian.

The two fought briefly and then separated. What surprised Shi Duantian was that Tong Rui's physical fitness was not inferior to that of his Black Tortoise Titled Douluo.

Tong Rui held a long spear, his front hand like a tube, his back hand like a clamp. Tong Rui opened and closed his mouth and attacked forward.

Shi Duantian had been fighting for many years, so he naturally knew the art of shield warfare by heart. After a fight between the two, it was unclear who had the upper hand.

Tong Rui has been working as a blacksmith for many years and is used to using his legs to lead his waist. So even though he is not good at spearmanship, he refers to Zhao Yun's Eighteen Spears in terms of attack. He uses his legs to lead the spear and coordinates with the Nine Palace Steps, achieving the goal of being able to attack when advancing and defend when retreating.

The two men fought evenly, and soon Shi Duantian took the lead in interrupting their close combat.

Although the Black Tortoise likes to use close combat as a defensive soul master to play its melee advantage, Tong Rui's star power is really weird. In addition to taking away soul power, every battle makes people more tired.

The consumption of mental power made Shi Duantian dare not fight in close combat easily. After retreating a certain distance, he said, "Be careful, Sect Master. The seventh soul skill, the true form of the black tortoise!"

When Tong Rui saw that Master Shi Duantian had truly awakened his martial soul, he naturally did not dare to be arrogant.

"Starry sky! Seventh soul skill, the true body of the star god! Killing god domain!"

Excluding the astrological attributes brought by the Star God domain, Tong Rui's combat power also reached its peak at this moment. Just comparing their auras, the two were actually evenly matched.

"Is this, a domain?" Feeling the difficulty in mobilizing soul power and the inertia of the surrounding elements, Shi Duantian couldn't help but be surprised.

You know, domain is a very rare soul skill. Even the ninth soul skill of his Black Tortoise Martial Soul still hasn't obtained the domain soul skill.

"Okay, Sect Master, you have surpassed an old man like me. As long as you can break my ninth soul skill, I will lose!"

Shi Duantian's inky black ninth soul ring lit up: "Ninth soul skill, Xuanwu descends to the world!"

As this soul skill was activated, the Black Tortoise's martial soul also changed drastically, and it turned into a real Black Tortoise!

"My ninth soul skill can be said to be the second soul incarnation. At this moment, my soul has temporarily transformed into a black tortoise. Come on, Sect Master, let me see your strength."

Tong Rui activated his sixth soul skill, a spear fell into his hand, and he looked at Shi Duantian and said, "Elder Duantian, be careful!"

As Xingchen Wushuang was activated, a huge longbow slowly appeared. Tong Rui used the spear in his hand as an arrow and made a gesture of drawing the bow.

As Tong Rui let go of the huge Star-piercing Spear, an arrow that pierced through the stars shot out and landed heavily on the Xuanwu Shield.

As the arrow dissipated from the tail of the arrow, the basalt shield began to be covered with cracks.

Finally, as Shi Duantian consumed too much soul power in the previous battle, the shield was broken. But the arrows also disappeared, and Tong Rui also consumed a lot of soul power.

Shi Duantian laughed loudly and said, "I lost, Sect Master! You have far surpassed me, an old man."

Apart from the last powerful attack, neither of them launched a large-scale attack, so although the battlefield was in a mess, there was no major change in the environment.

On the way back to the sect, the two of them reviewed and discussed the details of the battle just now.

Tong Rui did not challenge Dugu Bo immediately, but devoted himself to the study of formations. The books brought back from the City of Slaughter excluded some records of continental customs or classical history, and the remaining few pill recipes and formations were what Tong Rui needed.

There were many herbs in the recipe that Tong Rui had never heard of. It might be because when the Silver Dragon King landed on Douluo Continent at that time, in addition to evolving the wild beasts on the continent into soul beasts, his blood also contaminated many herbs, causing them to evolve in a way different from that of soul beasts.

As for the formations, most of them are for spirit masters with specific martial spirits. They can only use formations based on their own martial spirits. Excluding all the formations known to Tong Rui, there are only a few dozen that Tong Rui does not know. However, the research on formations can only be regarded as a way for Tong Rui to pass the time while waiting for Shi Duantian to fully recover.

When Tong Rui fights with the Titled Douluo, he must also ensure that there is at least one Titled Douluo who can protect the sect with full combat power.

After all, even a Titled Douluo cannot use his spirit avatar frequently, not to mention Shi Duantian's ninth spirit skill, Black Tortoise Descent, which also requires seven days to recover.

As Shi Duantian recovered, Tong Rui and Dugu Bo also came to the place where they had fought with Shi Duantian before.

Dugu Bo looked at the overgrown grass around him, but he could vaguely see the battle site. He couldn't help but ask with a smile, "Xiao Rui, is this the place where you fought Shi Duantian before?"

Tong Rui smiled and replied: "That's right, so Senior Dugu must fight with all his might."

"Come on, let me see how much you've grown in the past two years, Bilin!"

With a set of dark green armor attached to him, Dugu Bo's aura immediately soared to a terrifying level. Just based on this pressure, Tong Rui felt that Dugu Bo was probably at the level of Super Douluo at this moment.

"Starry sky!" Tong Rui did not dare to be careless and put on his two-word battle armor immediately.

In the blink of an eye, Tong Rui appeared in front of Dugu Bo, holding the Star Sword in his right hand and swinging it towards him.

The first and third soul rings on his body lit up at the same time, and looking at the chains shining with purple light, it seemed that they were planning to wrap up both of them.

"Is this, teleportation?" Dugu Bo could tell at a glance that the essence of this soul skill was spatial transfer, not high-speed movement.

This teleportation is not Tong Rui's soul skill, but a soul skill he developed independently through continuous research on the time and space gems in the City of Slaughter in the past two years.

After all, as long as you are familiar with space and can understand and use the properties of space, teleportation is not a difficult operation.

Dugu Bo, who knew Tong Rui's 13 soul skills, did not dare to be arrogant. Two petrifying rays shot out from his eyes, and everything that passed by was petrified.

It is the soul bone from the head of Medusa, known as the Queen of Snakes. Her soul skill is Medusa's Gaze. This petrifying light can even petrify energy.

All the chains were petrified, and Tong Rui did not dare to resist the soul skills whose effect was unclear. As the fifth soul ring shone, the starlight barrier blocked Tong Rui in front of him and finally turned into a stone shield and fell to the ground.

Tong Rui teleported continuously and continued to attack Dugu Bo from various tricky angles. Even though the poison spread slowly under Dugu Bo's control, Tong Rui was almost immune to all known toxins, so the continuous attacks made Dugu Bo exhausted.

The continuous teleportation and attacks with the Star Sword took a heavy toll on Tong Rui, but it took an even greater toll on Dugu Bo.

Because of the continuous teleportation, Dugu Bo had no idea from which direction Tong Rui would attack. Even though every attack could be detected, the large number of collisions caused Dugu Bo's soul power to be drastically consumed by the Star Sword.

But gradually, Dugu Bo was able to figure out the direction of the attack. Although Tong Rui's attack was extremely irregular, as the poison became more concentrated, Dugu Bo could feel it immediately every time Tong Rui appeared.

"The eighth soul skill, time freezing!"

As the eighth soul ring shone, the surrounding time and space came to a standstill. Tong Rui was naturally also fixed in the air.

Although his mental power could still sense Dugu Bo's soul skills, the soul power in his body had almost stopped functioning. Tong Rui could do nothing but release a large amount of soul power to free himself as soon as possible to create enough space for teleportation.

But then a ray of poisonous light came and Tong Rui was immediately knocked away. After such a long battle, Dugu Bo also realized that Tong Rui was highly immune to toxins.

Therefore, this ray of light only had impact force on Tong Rui, and the condensed toxin essence required Tong Rui to slowly adapt to immunity.

"Senior Dugu's attack is truly powerful." Tong Rui stood up and used his soul power to speed up his body's immunity.

"Kid, it will take time for you to become immune to the poison. Don't force yourself if you can't hold on." Dugu Bo felt that the poison he left in Tong Rui's body was dissipating quickly, so he reminded him.

"Don't worry, Senior Dugu. I didn't expect that after the amplification of the battle armor, the power of the poison would be so strong that even I can't be completely immune to it."

This poison is really uncomfortable in the body. Speaking now feels like a knife piercing my throat. Fortunately, Tong Rui quickly adapted to it, and the feeling of weakness and soreness all over the body receded like a tide.

Tong Rui stood up and his seventh soul ring lit up. Seeing this, Dugu Bo's seventh soul ring also lit up at the same time.
"Martial Soul True Body!" ×2
"Killing God Domain!" Tong Rui still did not release the Star God Domain. The attributes of the astrology were too abnormal, and there would not be much training effect if he used it.

As a burst of icy breath was released, Dugu Bo felt that the surrounding toxins were also becoming inert and unable to gather around Tong Rui.

"Ninth soul skill, body immune to all poisons."

Dugu Bo's body became completely transparent, and a poison with horrible corrosive power was released.

Seeing this, Tong Rui used his sixth soul skill, the Star-piercing Spear. He did not throw it, but infused it with the power of the stars as a weapon to fight Dugu Bo.

With the continuous collisions, Dugu Bo also felt that he was weakened by nearly 20% in this area.

After 8 months of fighting against Rakshasa poison in Hell Road, although the accumulation of murderous aura in the field is insufficient, it can still only bring a % increase to Tong Rui, but it can weaken the opponent's strength by %.

As the sun sets, the two have almost exhausted their soul power. Dugu Bo could no longer withstand the ninth soul skill, but as Tong Rui gradually became immune, the ten thousand years of petrification light replaced the poison of the ninth soul skill, making Tong Rui unable to launch an effective attack.

"Hahahaha, I lost. I didn't expect you to be so strong now."

Tong Rui did not try to be modest. He really needed a victory that he recognized. However, he still said politely, "Senior Dugu is too polite. It's just that your advantages cannot be brought into play in this battle."

Dugu Bo shook his head and said, "It's already night time. Although I don't know what your astrological attributes are, just based on your teleportation and your soul skills covered with purple light, I'm afraid I'll lose right from the start if we fight at night."

Tong Rui didn't know how to respond, but Dugu Bo didn't care and smiled and said, "With your current strength, almost everyone will be taken away by your soul skills at night if they are careless. It is an opportunity for us to follow you to establish a sect."

(End of this chapter)