Douluo: Peerless Black Tortoise Moon God

Chapter 239 Desiring to fight a 100,000-year-old sea spirit beast, persuading the Snow Empress to activate her Ice God bloodline.

After being tempered for a long time, Ye Yulin's martial spirit underwent a miraculous change, as if it had been tempered and refined to unleash its deep potential, and the amount of star power it absorbed increased significantly.

High in the sky, Xu Xiaoyun and Kong Deming looked surprised, but their surprise was quickly replaced by overwhelming joy.

Before today, Xu Xiaoyun's idea was to try anything as a last resort, while Kong Deming simply wanted to give this little apprentice who had set his sights on him a hard time.

To my utter surprise, this method actually works!
On the deck, Xue Di's blue eyes widened in shock, as if she hadn't expected that humanity's research capabilities had become so advanced.

If everyone's martial soul could evolve, how powerful would humanity become over time?
Meng Hongchen and Xu Sanshi looked surprised, while Xu Tianxi's expression was very strange.

If everyone hadn't joined the Jumping Sea Team, he really wouldn't have known that his senior brother Ye Yulin's martial soul was the Star Saint Sword, which sounded like a powerful offensive martial soul.

More importantly, if he remembered correctly, among the Shrek Seven Devils of ten thousand years later, there seemed to be a woman surnamed Ye whose martial soul was the Star God Sword, which was mutated from the Star Saint Sword.

So, Ye Xinglan's ancestor ten thousand years later is you, Ye Yulin? But how did you manage to turn the Star Saint Sword, a powerful offensive martial soul, into a support and energy-supplying martial soul, and develop starry sky soul tools that are mostly long-range?
As expected, in the world of Soul Masters, the significance of Martial Souls is generally not very high; Liao Mengkai's case is considered a very small minority.

If he knew that ten thousand years later there would be such a descendant who could wield the Star God Sword in such a spectacular way, I wonder what his ancestor would think.

"Hahahaha... Oh, I did it! I did it! Master Kong, please pull me up quickly!"

With her martial spirit successfully evolving in a positive direction, Ye Yulin's exhaustion and pain seemed to disappear, and she called out loudly for Kong Deming to come and save her.

Kong Deming's eyes were full of laughter, and his words were merciless: "A titled Douluo, do you not even have the strength to come up on your own? You are not even as good as your junior brother."

Ye Yulin was taken aback upon hearing this. She glanced at Xu Tianxi, who was slowly recovering on the deck, her eyes narrowed, and she used her sword as a raft to paddle the Tyrant Sea Urchin closer to the Soul Guidance Ship.

"Junior brother, I've made it up. For the sake of our fellow disciples, please lend your senior brother a hand."

"Slap!" The sound of Ye Yulin slapping her forehead rang out, her move was truly beyond words.

"No wonder none of you can break through to Super Douluo; it turns out you haven't taken your martial souls seriously at all..."

Xu Tianxi's lips twitched uncontrollably. Using a top-tier sword martial spirit as a raft would be considered utterly humiliating in the original Three Kingdoms era, no matter how talented one was.

Xu Tianxi glanced helplessly at Meng Hongchen and sighed, "Senior, you decide what to do. I don't have the strength to pull him up."

“Easy.” Meng Hongchen’s eyes flashed slightly as he threw out a level seven soul-guiding light net, covering Ye Yulin.

With a strong pull, Ye Yulin transformed into a soaring swordsman, flying onto the deck with a swaying head.

After a while of close contact with the ground, Ye Yulin simply stopped moving, dragged her tired body, threw off her shirt, took out a blanket, and fell fast asleep on the deck.

Xu Tianxi gave that guy a speechless look, then got up and sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and focused his mind, entering meditation in this optimal state of cultivation, his heavy breathing gradually calming down.

For the past two weeks, he has been going through life-or-death trials underwater. Although he was exhausted, he had no regrets and his strength improved rapidly.

Especially after he started fighting the sea spirit beasts under extreme conditions, he had to keep his mind calm to an extremely high level in times of crisis, calmly dealing with the siege while squeezing out his potential and pursuing the goal of inflicting the greatest damage on the enemy with the least amount of power.

Whenever that happens, he will replay the Snow Emperor's dance in his mind and experience the Snow Emperor's unity with nature in practice.

Now, he feels that he is only one step away from the state of oneness with heaven and man, and he only needs an opportunity to perhaps master it.

The efficiency of the spiritual energy vortex under immense pressure is also rapid, far exceeding normal cultivation. This is a potential that can only be forcibly activated in a life-or-death crisis.

The pain of suffocation, high pressure, and life-or-death struggle is unforgettable, but the increased strength brought by surviving death brings greater peace of mind; the soul power increases as it solidifies, and the mental power is like being tempered into steel, and even the Xuanwu bloodline and the destructive energy deep within the body appear and disappear from time to time.

During this time, Xu Tianxi did not use the Dark Gold Xuanwu Shield, but he clearly felt that his compatibility with this martial spirit was higher. It seemed that it was weightless when he swung it, and he could make it block in front of him with just a thought.

He asked Xu Xiaoyun, Xue Di, Bing Di, and even Ilex about this situation, and the answer he received was that his bloodline was activated, which manifested in his martial soul as persistent evolution and outward expression.

"I haven't used the Dark Gold Xuanwu Shield yet. Perhaps I can try it out sometime in the future..." Xu Tianxi made up his mind to use the Dark Gold Xuanwu Shield to test his skills against a powerful enemy.

……

Time flies on the high seas.

On the eighteenth day of their training, Ba Xin and the Golden Tortoise, tired of being inside the living soul tool, asked to come out and keep watch, and decided not to go back.

On the thirty-third day of his training, Xu Fu, who had been struggling to survive, let out a long roar of life from the seabed, shattered the ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, and soared into the sky.

Xu Sanshi clearly saw that a small black snake appeared on his father's Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield, which was the symbol of the Xuanwu Shield; his martial soul had finally awakened for the second time and he now possessed the Xuanwu Domain.

Upon hearing the good news, Xu Sanshi immediately wanted to share it with someone, but then he remembered that Xu Tianxi was still struggling three thousand meters underwater, and couldn't help but think that his father still needed to be tempered.

On the forty-fifth day of the training, the sea suddenly froze over. Xiao Changfeng emerged from the water and shook his head regretfully.

The Ice Crystal Phoenix has found no opportunity to evolve, or perhaps it has reached its end.

On the forty-eighth day of his training, Xu Tianxi fought a fierce battle with a ten-thousand-year-old deep-sea demon whale underwater. After half an hour of intense fighting, both were nearly injured before returning to the surface.

Meng Hongchen and Xu Sanshi rushed over and brought Xu Tianxi back to the ship, their concern evident. "Tianxi, how are you?" Meng Hongchen patted Xu Tianxi's back, her warm hand transmitting soul power; she had never seen Xu Tianxi so weak.

"It's nothing...it's nothing..." Xu Tianxi coughed twice and breathed softly.

Xue Di rarely walked up to Xu Tianxi, took his wrist to check his pulse, and said with her eyes closed, "Your body's potential is almost at its limit. If you experience extreme pressure again tomorrow, it will be very dangerous."

Xu Tianxi shook his head and smiled, waving the ten-thousand-year-old right leg bone he had dug out from the deep-sea demon whale, and said:
"Fortune favors the bold, but I no longer take these dangers seriously. What I worry about now is that I might not get the results I want tomorrow."

After frowning and thinking for a moment, Xu Tianxi raised his head and said to Xu Xiaoyun in the sky:

"Grandmaster, could you find me a 100,000-year-old soul beast as a sparring partner tomorrow? I feel the time is right, and I can unseal the Xuanwu Shield to fight it."

Xu Xiaoyun frowned and asked loudly, "Are you sure?"

"Confirmed! My Xuanwu Shield has been hidden away for so long, it's time to let it shine!" Xu Tianxi replied loudly.

"Okay! Then you should get some rest today!"

Xu Xiaoyun readily agreed, and then his figure flashed and disappeared into mid-air.

Xue Di raised an eyebrow and reminded her, "The strength of a 100,000-year-old sea spirit beast is beyond imagination. Don't think that you are invincible just because you killed a 50,000-year-old deep-sea demon whale."

Xu Tianxi chuckled and said, "Don't forget, I haven't shown my ultimate water yet. This ocean is a paradise for sea spirit beasts, and it's the same for me. How much strength can sea spirit beasts unleash in the face of ultimate water?"

A rare hint of amusement flickered in his eyes as he teased:
"Or... do you not believe in the abilities that Hyotei gave me? Those two soul skills are most powerful in the far north, but they're still okay here."

Xue Di snorted and stood up, saying, "Of course I believe in Bing'er. You can risk your life if you want, but I must remind you not to take your life lightly and harm Bing'er and Ji Bei. You have a heavy responsibility on your shoulders now."

"Don't worry, don't worry, I've always known my limits. Tomorrow I won't go into the deep water; I'll just fight the soul beasts in the shallows," Xu Tianxi said with a faint smile.

"It's best if you know your limits." Xue Di nodded and turned to leave.

Given her aloof personality, it's quite remarkable that she talked so much with Xu Tianxi.

Just then, Xu Tianxi's voice rang in her ears again.

"Anyone interested in going down there and experiencing a life-or-death crisis like me? This is a rare opportunity."

The Snow Empress paused, turned around gracefully, her face cold, her voice carrying an ancient chill: "Is there any martial spirit in this world more powerful than my Ice and Snow Maiden?"

"It probably exists now, and it must have existed 10,000 years ago."

Xu Tianxi replied without hesitation: "Ten thousand years ago, when Seagod Island and the Spirit Hall still existed, the spirit of the High Priest of Seagod Island was the Seagod, and the six-winged angels of the Spirit Hall's Angel lineage were all god-level spirits, whose quality surpassed all other spirits."

"Even a Holy Angel, which degenerates from a Six-Winged Angel, can rival an Ultimate Martial Soul. Your Ice and Snow Maiden might not be stronger than a Holy Angel, right?"

The Snow Empress herself possesses the strongest foundation among contemporary Soul Masters, but in terms of the quality of her Martial Soul alone, the Ice and Snow Maiden is merely a standard, top-tier configuration, perhaps even inferior to the Golden Dragon, the Ancestor of Power, created by a certain three-eyed golden gradient creature.

"I've heard that the three Heavenly Kings of the Far North all possess the bloodline of the Ice God. What about you? If you could fully unleash the Ice God's bloodline, would you become even stronger?"

Xue Di's expression hardened. After a moment of contemplation, she asked in return, "Why did you say all this?"

Xu Tianxi smiled calmly and said, "It's rare to find someone who can suppress me in terms of strength. I hope you can last longer."

"You're using me as a whetstone?" Xue Di said coldly.

Xu Tianxi smiled and nodded, his smile warm and his voice gentle.
“That’s right, you can use me as a whetstone, I don’t mind, just like Lao Ji and I used to be each other’s whetstones, but unfortunately he can’t keep up with me now.”

“With normal training, you will definitely break through your limits. If you can go even higher, I will be very happy. Perhaps you don’t know, but you are also my half-teacher.”

Xue Di's pupils contracted sharply, and her slender, delicate hands clenched into fists. "What do you mean?"

Xu Tianxi stood up, clutching his chest, and shrugged: "I'll make you owe me a favor so we can cooperate in the future; we're on the same side now after all."

"It's a win-win situation for both of us; I think you're not the kind of person who wants to be dependent on others. Even if Xiaobai and the others trained the Ice and Snow Maiden Soul Master and sent her to you, you might not be willing to submit to them now."

"If you don't want to depend on humans for survival, then you can only become stronger yourself and make your martial spirit stronger. Wouldn't that be better for you?"

After spending some time with her, he was certain that Xue Di's personality was extremely arrogant, making it almost impossible for her to cooperate with Bing Di like that, and he no longer held onto that idea.

In the original story, she was constantly tricked and harmed, and her soul was created by accident, turning into a young snow woman. After returning to her normal form, it was too late to regret it.

Given the current situation, he has no interest in going to Haotian Sect to obtain the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Bed. If the Snow Emperor could become an Ice God on her own, it might not be a bad choice.

Xue Di pondered for a moment, then nodded slowly: "I've remembered your words. Thank you. I won't owe you any favors."

"Haha, we'll see."

(End of this chapter)