Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 451 Tang San: The loss of my beloved, and desolation all around!

Tang San ran into the Elephant Armor Academy, which belonged to the Elephant Armor Sect.

Although Elephant Armor Academy's relationship with the other four academies isn't particularly close, always hovering on the edge, it is indeed one of the five elemental academies of the Heaven Dou Empire. The academy's attributes are earth and metal, and it is renowned for producing offensive and defensive Soul Masters. It is also a long-established academy.

In the past, the teams sent by Elephant Armor Academy were basically composed of pure Elephant Armor clan members, relying on the Diamond Mammoth's strength in group combat to dominate the arena. However, due to the large number of experts in this competition, Elephant Armor Academy unusually withdrew two clan members with the Diamond Mammoth martial soul, adding a control type and a support type to the team.

Apart from their leader, Hu Yanli, who was a Soul Master, the rest of the team members were all Soul Venerables, seemingly on par with Blue Tyrant Academy in strength. However, as soon as they stepped onto the arena, Blue Tyrant Academy's momentum was noticeably weaker than that of the Elephant Armor Team.

Apart from the two control-type and support-type Soul Masters, the members of the Elephant Armor Sect are all over two meters tall, one and a half meters wide, and covered in fat, looking like mountains of flesh. They have hairstyles like sumo wrestlers with their hair tied up in a topknot.

Even with his topknot, Tang San's height was about the same as the shortest one without the topknot. The two opponents weighed about the same as the entire Blue Tyrant Academy team.

As the match began, the members of both teams summoned their martial souls, and the soul masters of the Huyan family, whose martial souls were diamond mammoths, underwent tremendous changes one by one.

Under Tang San's gaze, the fat on their bodies instantly tightened and turned into solid muscles, and their height increased by about three fists, transforming them into a group of devilish muscle men in an instant.

The moment the two sides clashed, Huang Yuan, the Jingling Soul Master on Tang San's side, was grabbed and hugged by the Elephant Armor Sect Soul Master. He immediately lost consciousness and was thrown to the ground like a rag doll.

Hu Yanli faced off against Tang San alone, while the remaining two Soul Masters went after Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng, and the control-type Soul Master went against Xiao Wu.

Despite it being two top-tier martial souls, both offensive Soul Masters, fighting against two defensive Soul Venerables, Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng did not achieve any significant results in the initial stages.

The Diamond Mammoth martial soul seems abstract in the original work, but it is undoubtedly the number one defensive martial soul in the world. Its physical abilities are top-notch, and it is said that it is almost impossible for a soul master of the same level to break through its defenses.

Although it couldn't withstand Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Netherworld White Tiger, it wouldn't be much of a threat if it were aimed at Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng.

In agility battles, it's completely outmatched; in elemental battles, it has little chance of winning either; but physical attacks are definitely Diamond Mammoth's strength.

At least for the short term, even with the attack power of the White Tiger and Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Spirits, which are extremely adept at offense, they were unable to inflict damage on a Diamond Mammoth Spirit Master of the same level. They were even briefly held back by trading blows, unable to escape this meaningless melee at their own speed.

Although the control of the evil Blue Silver Grass caused them considerable trouble, Tang San's prized poison was completely ineffective and could not cause any harm when the skin could not be broken.

Xiao Wu faced a Soul Master whose Martial Soul was a mutated Earth Element, possessing the ability to control gravity. This ability was also quite effective against Xiao Wu, who focused on burst damage, thus dragging the battle into a war of attrition.

Faced with a completely unfavorable battle situation, Tang San reluctantly withdrew his Blue Silver Grass, inwardly cursing it as a trash martial soul. His hands, however, relentlessly summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and hurled it at Hu Yanli. The Clear Sky Hammer possessed extremely strong physical destructive power. Tang San had also received the true teachings of Tang Xiao and Tang Chen during this period, and his hammer techniques had improved considerably under the rigorous training, at least reaching the average level of Clear Sky Sect disciples. His body had also become stronger due to the Changshu Nine Dragon Grass and the flesh and blood of the soul beasts he had devoured.
But it still didn't work.

Every member of the Huyan clan of the Elephant Armor Sect is exceptionally gifted in terms of physical strength. Their physical prowess is among the best in the world. Huyan Li, in particular, has undergone professional training and possesses extremely strong physical resistance to impacts.

Let alone a Clear Sky Hammer with only one spirit ring, even if Tang San added four spirit rings to the Clear Sky Hammer and used four spirit skills to beat Hu Yanli, Hu Yanli could still withstand it for a while and try to fight back.

In fact, after Tang San gave up the Blue Silver Grass and switched to the Clear Sky Hammer, the pressure on Hu Yanli actually became less.

In the original novel, Tang San had a wildly imaginative mind, using a "Cosmic Sky Flow" fighting style combined with the Netherworld White Tiger (the key point) to defeat the Elephant Armor Sect. But now, Tang San's mind has become dulled, and he has lost the Netherworld White Tiger, a powerful weapon, resulting in a trend of defeat.

Just as Tang San and Hu Yanli were struggling, Xiao Wu, who had been trying to cut off the support-type soul master, was finally caught by the control-type soul master of the Elephant Armor Team and another Diamond Mammoth soul master.

"Third Soul Skill - Suppression!"

The third spirit ring of an unnamed Elephant Armor Sect spirit master lit up, and Xiao Wu's feet instantly lost control. At the same time, the gravity skill of the control-type spirit master pressed down on Xiao Wu.

Under Xiao Wu and Tang San's horrified gazes, the Elephant Armor Sect Soul Master leaped high into the air with a ferocious expression, then crashed down from mid-air. The powerful gravity added to his massive body, making his already heavy weight even more impactful.

Before Xiao Wu could even scream, the giant slammed her heavily onto the arena, burying her face in the ground without any chance to resist. For a moment, the arena seemed to tremble slightly.

Tang San was stunned, Tang San fell silent, Tang San's red heat erupted!
Without hesitation, he summoned his Poisonous Thorn external soul bone, and then without the slightest hesitation, he grabbed a blood-stained thorn and thrust it at Hu Yanli. At the same time, the Haotian Hammer slammed down from behind, and Hu Yanli, who could not dodge in time, was directly pierced through the chest by the thorn. The deadly poison instantly invaded his body, causing him to spit out a mouthful of purple blood.

But that wasn't the end of it. Tang San simply withdrew his martial soul and frantically pulled out bloody thorns from his back, indiscriminately shooting them at the Elephant Armor Sect's soul masters using the technique of hidden weapons.

Tang San's attacks were extremely ruthless, targeting either the eyes and ears, or the groin and anus. Even the trained Elephant Armor Sect Soul Masters hadn't expected such an unreasonable attack, let alone that Tang San could instantly reach the Red Temperature level.

Two Elephant Armor Sect Soul Masters didn't have time to dodge and were pierced in the brain by thorns, instantly losing their lives. The support-type Soul Master and the control-type Soul Master tried to escape, but Tang San also pierced their abdomens with thorns, causing them to curl up on the ground due to the deadly poison.

The Elephant Armor Sect Soul Master who slammed Xiao Wu to the ground received extra attention. Tang San almost pulled out half of the thorns from his body and used them as hidden weapons to stab the Soul Master, blasting him into a hedgehog shape. The blood flowing from his body turned blackish-purple.

(End of this chapter)