Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 511 The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, Unaware of the Oriole Behind
Because of the turmoil in the divine realm, people who did not originally belong to this plane either left the divine realm on their own initiative or were exiled by the divine realm.

After rules restricting them appeared in the Douluo World, most people with the bloodline of the Douluo World chose to leave the Douluo World and give up cultivating soul power to avoid the restrictions, in accordance with the arrangements of the God Realm.

Only a very small number of people, who have been rooted in the Douluo Continent for generations and are reluctant to leave their homeland, or who have completely abandoned other energy systems to focus on cultivating soul power, chose to stay and became the true inhabitants of the Douluo world.

Because of the damage to the God Realm, after relocating the vast majority of people, the God Realm had to temporarily sever its connection with the Douluo World to maintain its own stability, allowing the Douluo World to enter a period of development.

It was during that period of development that the Soul Master system and the Soul Tool system emerged. Humans and Soul Beasts, who were originally almost one family, began to fight each other due to the limitations imposed by Soul Rings and the heavens and earth. The Douluo humans, who were originally regarded as a special kind of Soul Beast by the Soul Beast race, officially became independent.

As generations of people multiplied, the relationship between Douluo people and soul beasts became less and less, and their martial souls also changed. The original simple beast martial souls awakened weapon martial souls and body martial souls, and Douluo people officially launched a war to compete with soul beasts.

The ancient Douluo people were incredibly powerful, even stronger than the Douluo Continent currently ruled by the Spirit Hall. This was because they possessed superior technology, a powerful bloodline, a complete cultivation system, and the ability to hunt powerful spirit beasts and absorb their spirit rings. In a snowballing game, their power was already immense from the very beginning.

Back then, the Douluo World still had many true dragons and sub-dragons who, although not gods, generally possessed cultivation equivalent to 100,000 or 200,000 years. However, during this period, many of them were killed by human soul masters. After attempts to appease and recruit them failed, the soul beasts began to fight back.

The Silver Dragon King, leading a large number of soul beasts, stormed the human territory, intending to completely wipe out humanity, a race that had betrayed and separated from the soul beasts. The God of Law Enforcement, Shura, initially discovered this and, seeking to undermine the faith of the people in the Douluo World and fulfill his duties as the God of Law Enforcement, decided to help humanity.

However, in the process of helping humanity, the Asura God discovered that the Dragon God still had a special power remaining in the Douluo World. This power could not be obtained by gods or soul beasts due to the Dragon God's restrictions. Only Douluo people, who are descendants of gods and soul beasts, were qualified to obtain it.

This power was stored in the Golden Tree, the source of life on Douluo Star. At that time, the Golden Tree was in the hands of humans. Although they had not yet developed its power, they had already sensed that something might be hidden within it.

Therefore, in order to seize this power, the Asura God, who had originally helped humanity, betrayed them at a crucial moment, erasing the high-ranking humans who inherited technology and knowledge from other worlds, and destroying the soul tool civilization. Then, he allowed the soul beasts to push humanity to the brink of destruction, yet not quite to the point of annihilation.

He wanted to use this to force the appearance of the piece he desired.
The earliest records of the Silver Dragon and the earliest records of gods in the Douluo World were passed down orally by the remnants of that time. Information about the Golden Dragon, Silver Dragon, and the Dragon God was also left behind by the Asura God at the beginning.

However, due to the long time span and the obstruction of some people, this part of the original true history has been completely transformed into various different versions of myths.

When the angel god, now a figure in mythology, was a child, she grew up listening to this myth. However, due to the sheer number and complexity of the versions, she didn't gain any useful information.

As someone directly involved, the God of Asura knows all too well how the Douluo World developed into this mess, and why the originally technologically advanced Soul Tool civilization was destroyed.

If it weren't for his intervention, which helped the soul beasts nearly wipe out humanity's heritage, and his intentional or unintentional use of the rules of the God Realm to suppress the Douluo World under reasonable circumstances, the Douluo World would have already entered the interstellar era if it had developed normally.

The God of Asura had access to the technology of soul tools, or rather, he was already a top-tier soul tool master after acquiring the soul tool data from ancient humans. Although he lacked innovative abilities, his god-level cultivation allowed him to thoroughly master these old techniques.

After examining it carefully for a while, he discovered a serious problem: the soul tool in his hand was not an antique that had existed for many years, but a "new" soul tool that had only been manufactured in the last few decades. Moreover, a significant portion of its core formations originated from the civilization that he had destroyed in the past.

If we exclude the extremely low probability that two different soul-guided civilizations might develop the exact same technology, then this means that the era may have left behind a legacy before it was destroyed by itself.

Two enormous problems lay before him, causing the God of Asura great anxiety.

First, where did the Vast Ocean Universe Cover I placed here go?
Secondly, why are there still remnants of the soul guidance technology that should have been completely eradicated by ourselves back then? How much of the legacy of the previous civilization did these humans inherit? Do they know anything about themselves, about the Dragon God's legacy, and what is their connection to the disappearance of the Vast Ocean Universe Cover?
If we consider the worst-case scenario, if those people hadn't been eliminated by us, but instead survived and multiplied in some corner of the world like rats, then why would they appear at this crucial moment?
And if they hadn't been destroyed, what level would they have reached after developing soul guidance technology for tens of thousands of years?
The Asura God manipulated Tang Chen's body to put the protective soul tool in his hand into his arms, and then glanced at Xue Ye who was lying on the ground.

Suppressing the urge to slap the piece of trash on the ground into a fan shape, the Asura God slightly altered Tang Chen's thinking before bringing him back to his senses.

Tang Chen shook his head, belatedly realizing when he had received the information.

"Hey, what am I thinking? I've forgotten that I got the information from an evil soul master when I was under that beast's control in the City of Slaughter."

Tang Chen helped Xue Ye, who was sprawled on the ground, to her feet, and then gave her a smile.

"Emperor Xueye, now that I have taken the item, I will certainly not go back on my word. I will definitely help your Heaven Dou Empire expose the Spirit Hall's conspiracy and make that person who is impersonating the Crown Prince pay the price."

"Thank you very much, Your Majesty Haotian."

If Xue Ye were a rare roaring groundhog, possessing the innate ability to transform his current anger into a lethal roar, then Xue Ye would definitely want to test whether he could roar the shameless fellow standing in front of him to death. However, he was merely a Soul Master with a swan-like spirit, a weakling who could be killed with a fart in front of a Title Douluo. Therefore, Xue Ye could only display a fawning smile, his demeanor as if he weren't the emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, but rather the grand eunuch beside the emperor.

Under normal circumstances, if the Spirit Hall were to usurp the throne of Heaven Dou, Xue Ye would only curse. However, after Tang Chen's unreasonable death threats and brutal actions, Xue Ye suddenly changed her opinion of the Spirit Hall.

I feel that although the Spirit Hall cheated in the game of nobles, at least they were still playing the same game as me.

While cheating in chess is shameless, it's still better than someone who smashes the opponent's chessboard to win, right?
Xue Ye's greatest hope right now is that the Spirit Hall will realize he came out from the side, and that Qian Daoliu, the invincible one in the sky, will make a dazzling entrance and kill Tang Chen with a single sword strike. Secondly, he hopes that Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, two men who are not exactly good people to the Heaven Dou Empire, will perish together.

Humiliated, Xue Ye respectfully led Tang Chen away from the Heavenly Dou Empire's treasury.

Half a day later, after confirming that there were no problems inside the treasure vault, Qian Renxue, disguised as the Nine-Bag Elder of the Beggar Clan, secretly slipped into the treasure vault with the help of a space-type soul master from the Spirit Hall. Looking at the huge pile of things on the shelves that she usually couldn't easily take out, she revealed a smile that was anything but angelic.

The spatial pouches on Qian Renxue's body were all sent over by Chen Ming's side. They were large storage soul tools specially made for this plan. They were not only more stable but also had a larger capacity, with even the smallest one having several hundred cubic meters of storage space.

However, under Qian Renxue's aggressive behavior of taking away even the shelves containing the treasures, the nine huge storage bags were eventually almost full. Apart from the floor tiles and wall tiles, everything else in the entire vault, from piles of gold soul coins to various pieces of unidentifiable waste, was packed up and taken away.

The reason Qian Renxue didn't remove the floor and wall tiles wasn't because she didn't want to, but because there wasn't enough space. Qian Renxue strongly suspected that there was something behind the floor and wall tiles in the treasure vault, but she just couldn't explore it for the time being.

However, not all of these things belonged to Qian Renxue and the Spirit Hall. Half of them belonged to Chen Ming, not only for the price of the storage soul tools, but also as the price for Chen Ming to appear and intercept the God of Asura.

How does the angel god evaluate such behavior from his offspring?

"The work is done too sloppily! Pay attention, use your mental power to probe, the area under those floor tiles in the upper right corner is all high-purity gold. Behind the wall to your left is the skeleton of a 100,000-year-old soul beast. And that oil lamp that looks like it's broken because the wick burned out, the oil inside is actually the corpse oil of a true dragon, don't actually light it thinking it's an oil lamp."

"How can you be so clumsy, junior? In our time, your skill level would have been completely substandard! People would laugh at the craftsmanship of my Angelic lineage!"

"Plucking feathers from a passing goose, leaving skin from a fleeing beast—that's child's play! A wild goose flies across my sky, that goose is mine. A spirit beast runs past me, that spirit beast is my dinner tonight. You may not use it, you may give it to someone else, but you cannot be without it!"

"When there's an opportunity, do your best; when you have something, stock up on it; and be prepared for anything!"

Instead of rebuking or scolding Qian Renxue, the angel god felt that Qian Renxue's actions were not perfect and had too many flaws. If it weren't for Tang Chen being a scapegoat, the angel god would have preferred to descend into Qian Renxue's body and do the job in her place.

The Angel God's growth is much like that of a protagonist in many old novels, driven by deep-seated hatred. While possessing sound values, he is equally ruthless when it comes to killing and robbing. Although, due to the limitations of the era, the Angel God rarely stole from other people's treasure vaults.

However, the Angel God has extensive experience in stealing from the lairs of soul beasts, especially dragon-type soul beasts that love to collect treasure. Moreover, since high-level soul beasts possess intelligence comparable to that of humans, it's no exaggeration to say that the Angel God is an expert.

To put it bluntly, those who steal in the Douluo Continent today could also consider the Angel God as their ancestor.

After learning about the development of the Heaven Dou Empire and the internal workings of its royal family, the Angel God no longer had any goodwill towards the bureaucrats and nobles of the Heaven Dou Empire. He figured it was fine to take what he had.

She's a good person, a person of the old ways. But she's not a rigid, old-fashioned pushover.

Under the guidance of the angel god, Qian Renxue lifted the floor tiles and wall tiles, took out the things hidden underneath and put them into her storage soul guide. Then, under the guidance of the angel god, she took out some shelves and things she didn't cherish and destroyed them with violence, then threw them into a corner and began to fake the scene.

It doesn't need to be too precise, just make a rough approximation. That way, everyone will think that Tang Chen casually smashed the shelf, discovered something under the floor tiles, and then broke the tiles to retrieve it.

Neither Xue Ye, Tang Chen, nor Shura Shen could have imagined that at this crucial moment, someone would be hiding behind them and framing them.

However, given that the Clear Sky Sect's reputation on the Douluo Continent is currently negative, if this were to be said, apart from Tang Chen himself refuting it, even the Clear Sky Sect's own people would probably believe that Tang Chen emptied the entire treasure vault.

The Heaven Dou Empire's accumulation over thousands of years is certainly not as great as the Spirit Hall's accumulation over tens of thousands of years. However, because the Spirit Hall values ​​making the most of its treasures, it cannot produce so many items at once, except for some high-age soul bones.

(End of this chapter)