Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 436 Tang Chen: Something seems off

On the mainland, looking at Poseidon who was silent with her eyes closed, Tang Chen felt a bitter taste in his mouth, but at the same time, he felt a sense of relief for some reason.

He couldn't quite describe his feelings of joy or sorrow; he only felt as if a thick barrier had separated him from Poseidon. Although they were so close, their different identities made them seem as if they were worlds apart.

Perhaps in this lifetime, there will truly be no possibility for the two of them to be together again.

Poseidon was waiting for Tang Chen's words, even if Tang Chen only said one sentence, she might waver. But in the end, she received nothing.

Poseidon opened her eyes, looked at Tang Chen, and suddenly felt that everything was rather dull and tasteless.

Indeed, if Tang Chen had truly understood the hidden meaning in my words back then, none of these things would have happened all these years ago.

Poseidon's eyes gradually cleared, and her feelings for Tang Chen were suppressed, replaced by the emotions befitting the High Priestess of Poseidon Island.

"After all these years, have you come here today just to see me?"

Poseidon gripped the trident of Poseidon and asked Tang Chen.

"I felt a sudden urge while on the mainland, so I came to Seagod Island on my own initiative. I don't even understand what I'm looking for. What else on Seagod Island could be related to me besides you? Perhaps I really did come here to find you?"

Tang Chen looked at Poseidon and answered calmly.

"Something related to you?"

Poseidon then realized what was happening and looked at Tang Chen with a strange expression.

"Did you receive news from Sea Spear Douluo?"

"Sea Spear? Which Douluo is Sea Spear?" Tang Chen asked, puzzled.

When Tang Chen disappeared from the mainland, Sea Spear Douluo was just a Soul Douluo, not a Title Douluo or a Guardian of the Sacred Pillars. Tang Chen had heard of a Soul Douluo on Seagod Island who used a spear, but he had never paid any attention to it. He had no idea where Sea Spear Douluo came from.

“That’s right. Given Hai Mao’s speed, it shouldn’t be that fast. It just looks like he’s made a wasted trip again.”

Poseidon shook his head, sighing at the Sea Spear Douluo's impulsive and naive personality and luck.

"Some time ago, an anomaly occurred on the mainland, and my Seagod Island also dispatched three Title Douluo to the Douluo Continent to investigate. These three are Sea Dragon, Sea Illusion, and Sea Spear. You know Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Illusion Douluo."

"On the mainland, Sea Dragon Douluo encountered your great-grandson Tang San. Because of his highly special identity, Sea Dragon Douluo brought him back to Seagod Island and then prepared to contact you." "Sea Dragon Haiwang only returned with Tang San yesterday, and Sea Spear Douluo also only received my orders yesterday to leave Seagod Island to deliver a message to you at the Clear Sky Sect. Now it seems that you must have sensed Tang San's arrival on Seagod Island shortly afterward, so you came directly to Seagod Island without waiting for Sea Spear Douluo's message."

"My great-grandson Tang San?"

Upon hearing the name, Tang Chen belatedly remembered that he had promised Tang Hao, that unfilial grandson, to see his great-grandson.

The thought that his great-grandson could inspire him to travel all the way from the mainland to Poseidon Island surprised Tang Chen. After exchanging a few words with Poseidon and agreeing not to reveal his strength on Poseidon Island, especially not to use the power of other gods, he then went to Poseidon Island with her.

At this moment, Tang San was sitting on a rock by the sea, quietly cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill and feeling the changes within his body.

Although the Xuan Tian Gong, originally the core technique of the Xuan Tian Bao Lu, is somewhat strange, judging from its attributes and category, it should be an orthodox Taoist technique that somehow ended up in the hands of the Tang Clan. Its main features are gentle attributes and resistance to various abnormal states.

While its benefits in various aspects aren't top-tier, it excels in its balanced and stable nature. It's a martial art that, while far from being a peerless technique, is still considered a first-rate internal skill in the martial arts world.

However, under Tang San's cultivation methods and guidance, the stranger aspects that were originally less prominent in the Xuan Tian Gong were gradually unearthed and began to dominate the main components of the technique. Through these modifications, the properties of the Xuan Tian Gong became even more bizarre.

From afar, Tang Chen and Poseidon observed that Tang San's soul power was dark and had a viscous, muddy quality. As it flowed slowly, his skin subtly took on a purplish hue, making it quite different from the soul power of a normal soul master.

If it weren't for the fact that he had just been purified by the light of the sea god, which washed away the bloody aura caused by devouring and the lingering resentment of the soul beasts, Tang San's performance would have been far from what it was.

The soul power of the Clear Sky Hammer is pure and fierce. Whether it is Tang Chen who follows the skill style, Tang Xiao who is balanced, or Tang Hao who follows the pure power style, their soul power is more and more fierce and explosive, and their metal attribute is pure and powerful.

Tang Chen was immediately displeased by the unique nature of Tang San's soul power, feeling it was unsuitable for the Clear Sky Hammer. However, considering that Tang San possessed twin martial souls and that his primary martial soul wasn't the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang Chen tolerated the strange nature of Tang San's soul power.

Looking at his great-grandson and observing the fluctuations of his soul power, Tang Chen frowned. He extended his spiritual power slightly to sense the fluctuations and changes in Tang San's soul power, and then looked at Tang San with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"This cultivation method doesn't seem like the traditional meditation methods on the continent? Instead, it seems more like another cultivation method that also enhances soul power?"

"Instead of using the martial soul as the core to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it directly absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body and then lets the martial soul absorb it?"

Although he is the number one offensive Soul Master on the continent, Tang Chen is actually a top-tier master in terms of technique. His personal research ability is unparalleled even in the past thousand years. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to create skills like the Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian, Ring Explosion, and the Great Sumeru Hammer, which allowed the Haotian Sect to rely on their past achievements even tens of thousands of years later in the Douluo Continent III and IV eras.

Tang Chen noticed that Tang San's cultivation method was strange, as if it were devised by someone without a martial spirit. Although it also increased soul power, the martial spirit was the most insignificant part of the entire process, even somewhat superfluous.

Most importantly, Tang San's soul power flows through too many meridians, involving almost twice as many as the best meditation method of the Clear Sky Sect. Furthermore, the method is extremely detailed. It specifies which meridian to follow first, which to enter next, the appropriate flow rate of soul power in each meridian, the attribute of each meridian, and which hidden small meridians allow soul power to circulate.
These results are clearly the result of numerous experiments conducted by a large number of Soul Masters.

(End of this chapter)