Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 454 Tang San on the Verge of Explosion, Chen Ming's Eighth Soul Ring

While the Changshu Nine Dragons Grass did lower Tang San's sanity, if it weren't for that Changshu Nine Dragons Grass enhancing his physique, Tang San wouldn't have survived until his sanity was lowered.

Most of his current soul power comes from external forces. Some of these are relatively gentle ones like soul rings and soul bones, which can be absorbed with time, while others are abilities that are difficult to eliminate after being devoured.

If this timeframe were extended to three years, Tang San wouldn't have encountered any major problems. However, in less than a year and a half, Tang San used unorthodox methods to advance nearly thirty levels in one go. The fact that he didn't explode was already the limit due to various factors.

His body was swollen like a balloon inflated to its limit; even the slightest external pressure would make him feel as if he were about to burst. If he took another step, his meridians would rupture and he would die. He was walking a tightrope on a cliff, constantly at risk of sudden death due to the use of his soul power.

Although Tang San himself could sense that something was wrong with his condition, he ignored the problem because he had already reached the level of a Soul King at the age of fourteen and possessed five ten-thousand-year soul rings, making him comparable to most Title Douluos.

In Tang San's view, Tang Chen was his great-grandfather. If others could harm him, then his great-grandfather would never harm him, right?

With his father arrested, his godfather Yu Xiaogang a useless piece of trash, the Haotian Sect ostracizing him, and his adoptive father Tang Xiao not understanding him, Tang San felt that if even his only support was hostile towards him, then apart from Xiao Wu, he really had no one he could trust.

With trepidation, Tang San and Tang Chen arrived at Wuhun City, awaiting the start of the finals.

During this time, Chen Ming was naturally not idle. Although his actions seemed small, he accomplished quite a bit.

Some time ago, upon learning that the Min clan was about to re-establish ties with the Haotian Sect, he disguised himself as a merchant and bought the Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng from Bai He. During this time, his progress in divine trials and his overall strength continued unabated.

Even with double the progress and double the difficulty of the divine test, Chen Ming continued methodically. His strength had also increased to level eighty, and he was preparing to obtain his eighth spirit ring.

For various reasons, Chen Ming quietly left Douluo Continent in the later stages of the Heaven Dou preliminary competition and went to Sun Moon Continent. With the help of A Lan's ability, he found a large gathering place of soul beasts known as the Demon Forest.

Yes, Chen Ming is preparing to target the Evil Emperor for his eighth spirit ring.

The Evil Emperor is, after all, the strongest being in terms of spiritual power on the continent right now, and in terms of Soul Master strength, he is undoubtedly a demigod. Although he is weaker in quantity than the lucky one, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, his quality is much higher. He belongs to the kind of Soul Beast that has one foot on the threshold of the God-level realm.

If it weren't for the world's rules forbidding it, the Evil Emperor, like Di Tian and the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, could have become a god on his own. Just as the Deep Sea Demon Whale King said he could become a god by devouring Tang San, who possessed the power of the Sea God, the Evil Emperor also said that he could forcibly cross over to the realm of a god by devouring the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

For Chen Ming, his 780,000 years of cultivation was a considerable tonic, and his powerful mental strength could also enhance Chen Ming's own spirit.

The Demon Forest is now a gathering place for soul beasts, even larger than the Heavenly Dou Forest. This is not only because the Evil Emperor, the king of the Demon Forest, never hides his presence, but also because the humans of the Sun Moon Continent have not yet formed a unified power, failing to reduce the living space of the soul beasts. Currently, every empire on the Sun Moon Continent maintains a respectful distance from the Demon Forest. And the Evil Eye Empire, one of the five great empires on the continent, whose totem is the Evil Eye and whose name is the nation's name, holds a royal family with an inexplicable sense of awe towards the Demon Forest.

Although the people of the mainland call this place the Demon Forest, in the official name of the Evil Eye Empire, it is called the Holy Demon Forest. Nominally, the Demon Forest is also part of the Evil Eye Empire's territory; it's just that the Evil Eye Empire has always prohibited its own Soul Masters from hunting Souls there.

As for the connection between the Evil Eye Empire and the Demon Forest, that was none of Chen Ming's business. He simply arrived at the Demon Forest, confirmed the location of the undisguised powerful aura within, and then stealthily made his way there.

The Demon Forest has a dark and mysterious atmosphere. Most of the soul beasts living in it have attributes that lean towards the spiritual and dark aspects. Because the Evil Eye soul beast feeds on the souls of other soul beasts, Chen Ming occasionally saw scenes that looked like those in a horror movie along the way.

Things like half-rotten corpses are just child's play. Occasionally, you can even see a giant eyeball crawling on other soul beasts, extracting their souls and chewing them up.

According to the current view of the Spirit Hall in Douluo Continent, the Evil Eye Clan, from top to bottom, are undoubtedly genuine evil spirit beasts.

However, since there was no human power like the Spirit Hall on the Sun Moon Continent, and the strongest among the spirit beasts was the Evil Emperor, the ancestor of the Evil Eye clan, the Evil Eyes, spirit beasts that should have been eradicated, thrived in the Demon Forest and became a huge clan.

On a relatively flat mountain peak, a colossal evil-eyed tyrant, over three hundred meters in diameter, lay comfortably atop the summit, basking in the warm sunlight with its eyes closed. Beside it, eighty-one tentacles, each over five hundred meters long, dangled casually from the cliff face, its massive body almost completely covering the mountain peak.

Beneath him, a large group of ape-like spirit beasts, each with only one eye, were carefully massaging the Evil Emperor's tentacles. Their technique was remarkably skilled; though merely a group of spirit beasts, their rhythm was almost identical to that of a human masseur.

Although the shortest of these ape-like soul beasts was nearly four meters tall and had almost ten thousand years of cultivation, and the largest had two heads, was twenty meters tall, and had a hundred thousand years of soul beast cultivation, compared to the Evil Emperor, these strange ape-like soul beasts were simply as weak and insignificant as ants.

If the natives of the Sun and Moon Continent were here, they would definitely be able to recognize the identities of these apes.

Although this group of one-eyed apes appeared timid and vulnerable in front of the Evil Emperor, they were actually a special hybrid offspring born from the union of the Cyclops and the Evil Eye race, known as the Evil Eye Demon Ape.

Because they possess the bloodlines of both Cyclops and Evil Eye, two spirit-attribute spirit beasts, each one has the qualities of a top-tier spirit beast and intelligence comparable to that of humans. They are incredibly brutal, indulging in the consumption of human brains and the souls of various creatures. They frequently raid human villages and towns in packs, making them infamous spirit beasts throughout the Sun Moon Continent.

Although the scene looked rather abstract, Chen Ming could still sense a sense of ease and weakness emanating from the Evil Emperor's massive body.

In Chen Ming's perception, the Evil Emperor seemed to have suffered some serious injuries. Although he had recovered quite a bit, he was still not at his peak condition.

(End of this chapter)