Douluo: I'll take the benefits, you bear the side effects

"How are you feeling?" Qian Renxue asked.

"Not bad, it raised my soul power level by three at once and I also gained two decent soul skills."

Ning Chuan's soul power has now reached level 64.

"What kind of soul bone skill did you acquire? My eighth soul ring has mostly fire-attribute soul skills, while yours should be more earth-attribute."

Qian Renxue asked curiously.

"It's a defensive soul skill and a direct attack soul skill. How about it, want to give them a try?" Ning Chuan stood up, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"Uncle She".

Seeing the smile on Ning Chuan's face, Qian Renxue knew that he was up to no good. Naturally, she wouldn't let him succeed, so she called for the Serpent Spear Douluo.

As soon as she finished speaking, Serpent Spear Douluo suddenly appeared behind her, "Young Master."

“Let’s test his soul bone skill.” Qian Renxue said, then leaped back and flashed to the entrance of the underground training room.

“Young Master Ningchuan, please.” Serpent Spear looked at Ningchuan and said.

As he spoke, nine spirit rings—two yellow, three purple, and four black—rose from beneath his feet, and he unleashed his spirit, the Serpent Spear.

He was naturally very curious about the 100,000-year-old soul bone skill, but he didn't feel any pressure. After all, Ning Chuan was at most just a Soul Emperor.

"Then be careful, senior." Ning Chuan exerted force with his right leg, leaping into the air. Black light surged in his left hand, and a miniature mountain with golden patterns appeared in Ning Chuan's hand.

"What is this?" Qian Renxue's pupils suddenly contracted, as if she had seen this soul skill before.

Serpent Spear Douluo was stunned for a moment. Before he could examine the object closely, Ning Chuan had already thrown the small mountain into the air. In an instant, it grew to a size of more than ten feet and was still growing.

Upon seeing this, Serpent Spear Douluo gasped, his sixth spirit ring lit up, and without hesitation, he unleashed a lightning spear beam.

With a deafening roar, debris flew everywhere, and a brilliant light shone through.

Qian Renxue squinted and glanced at the bottom of the black mountain. The Serpent Spear Douluo had pierced a gap about ten feet deep with his spear, but it was clearly far from enough to completely penetrate the mountain.

The gap quickly healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and before the spear could launch a second attack, it had already been mostly restored.

At this moment, the mountain peak had already grown to nearly thirty feet in size within the black light, almost bursting through the underground training ground that was only a little over a hundred meters high.

Even though Serpent Spear Douluo was extremely self-confident, upon seeing this towering mountain, his eyes twitched and his face turned ugly.

Without even thinking, he could guess that if he were to be hit head-on by this mountain peak, even a Title Douluo would perish.

There was no time for Serpent Spear Douluo to think further; the mountain peak crashed down with a whoosh.

Without hesitation, Serpent Spear Douluo activated his Martial Soul True Body, and his seventh Soul Ring lit up. A figure, identical to Serpent Spear Douluo and several meters tall, wielded a giant serpent spear and thrust it towards the mountain peak above.

This was barely enough to withstand the mountain's attack.

However, a stalemate ensued.

If it were another Soul Emperor, even with this Soul Bone, they certainly wouldn't be able to suppress a Title Douluo.

After all, a 100,000-year soul bone is different from a 100,000-year soul ring; the soul skills attached to it often consume a lot of soul power.

But Ningchuan has Tang Ritian as its power bank.

Naturally, he wasn't afraid of expending energy. While controlling the black mountain with his left hand, Ning Chuan multitasked, unleashing his sword domain with a wave of his right hand. Eighteen flying swords transformed into eighteen streams of light, bypassing the black mountain and arriving before Serpent Spear Douluo in the blink of an eye. What? Serpent Spear had never seen such an attack before and was immediately startled. However, he was suppressed by the black mountain and had no way to avoid it.

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As the sound of swords rang out, the eighteen Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords stopped in mid-air. Facing the emerald green longsword covered with pale golden arcs of electricity, Serpent Spear Douluo felt a chill run down his spine.

At this moment, Ning Chuan also took back the black mountain peak, which turned into a ray of black light and disappeared into his left arm.

"This is actually an extremely rare weapon-type soul bone skill. I have lost."

The sudden disappearance of the black mountain peak made Serpent Spear Douluo feel a sudden lightness in his body. He put away his Martial Soul True Body, his face full of lingering fear and helplessness.

If Ning Chuan hadn't stopped in time, he would probably have been cut into countless pieces by those flying swords.

"I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself in front of you, senior. If it weren't for the advantage of the terrain and some other reasons, I would never be a match for you."

The Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword transformed into streams of light and entered his right palm, Ning Chuan said truthfully.

If it weren't for this underground training room, with his current cultivation level and mental strength, he wouldn't have been able to lock onto Serpent Spear Douluo at all, provided that Serpent Spear wasn't the kind of idiot who would just ram his head into a black mountain peak.

If it weren't for Tang Hao acting as a "power bank," the maximum size that could be achieved would probably be ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) for this black mountain.

They couldn't suppress the Serpent Spear Douluo at all.

"Using this move to deplete Tang Ritian's soul power and then taking him down is a good option."

Ning Chuan clicked his tongue inwardly.

Serpent Spear Douluo thought the other party was being modest. Having just lost to a Soul Emperor, he felt ashamed to face anyone. After bowing to Qian Renxue, he vanished from the underground training room.

At this moment, Qian Renxue walked over and said, "I never expected that you would actually obtain the Crimson Rock Turtle's most powerful soul skill, Thousand Peaks. To be honest, if it weren't for the Angel Set Soul Bone, I would have been tempted myself. Your other defensive soul skill should be the Mystic Light Shield, right?"

"Yes, I have to thank you for making this possible." Ning Chuan smiled.

This soul bone skill called Thousand Peaks greatly compensated for his current lack of attack power.

As for the other skill, Mystic Shield, it is purely a defensive skill.

This also compensated for his defensive shortcomings.

If combined with the second soul skill, sword and shield, for defense from the inside and outside, then it would truly be able to withstand the attacks of a titled Douluo without any problem.

It seems it's time to raise the age limit of the spirit rings.

Ning Chuan thought to himself.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. What are your plans next?" Qian Renxue looked at Ning Chuan's handsome face. If she could, she really hoped that he would stay in the Crown Prince's residence and never leave.

Ning Chuan pondered for a moment and said, "After I meet my teacher, I will go to train for a while, and then I will join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."

Upon hearing this, Qian Renxue's face immediately showed disappointment, and she said with a hint of pleading in her eyes, "Isn't joining the Spirit Hall a good thing? What the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School can give you, I can give you too," including myself!

Instead of answering, Ning Chuan asked, "What is your ideal?"

"Lead the Spirit Hall to unify the continent. Reach level 100 and become a god, then stand with you at the pinnacle of the continent."

Qian Renxue was very serious and decisive when she uttered these words, which were almost a confession.

Ning Chuan smiled knowingly, "I'm doing this precisely to realize our shared ideals." (End of Chapter)