Douluo: Peerless Black Tortoise Moon God

Chapter 74: What era is it now? Are you still holding on to antiques from years ago? Times have long changed.

After Tang Ya absorbed the soul ring, Bei Bei took out a crudely made map and walked slowly with everyone.

"Animal-type soul beasts can all move. Most of the soul beasts recorded on my map are plant-type. I hope we're lucky enough to encounter a suitable spiritual-type soul beast."

On the sheepskin map, various plant soul beasts are marked, and occasionally records of animal soul beasts can also be seen.

Xiao Hongchen stared at it for a while and said in amazement: "Your Shrek Academy is indeed worthy of being good neighbors with the Star Dou Great Forest for thousands of years. You even have something like this."

Beibei smiled modestly, "It's just the outermost area. The strongest spirit beasts recorded are only a thousand years old. If most plant-type spirits weren't unable to move after cultivating for ten thousand years, we wouldn't be able to record it, and it wouldn't be very accurate."

Xu Tianxi looked at it for a while, then waved to Huo Yuhao and said, "Brother Huo, this time I'm giving you a soul hunt. Choose whatever you like."

Bei Bei also gave Huo Yuhao an encouraging smile: "Yes, go ahead and watch."

Huo Yuhao was deeply moved by the two men's generosity, but soon he looked embarrassed and said:

"Brother Kong, Brother Bei, I haven't learned much about soul beasts at home, and I don't know which soul beast is suitable for me."

Hearing this, Xu Tianxi and Beibei's mouths twitched at the same time, and their emotions were in vain.

"In that case... then let me take a look."

Xu Tianxi frowned, lowered his eyes to look at the map, scanned a large area before finding a suitable one, pointed to a corner of the map and asked:
"Brother Bei, there are demon-eye trees in this area. Are you sure?"

Beibei looked at it intently and nodded seriously:

"It is confirmed that half a year ago, a senior from the inner courtyard of Shrek went out to hunt souls. When he passed by that place, he found dozens of demon-eye trees in this location, ranging from a hundred to a thousand years old. The poisonous gas emitted by their body fluids formed a large-scale poison barrier.

Their survival rate is relatively high among plant-type soul beasts, and ordinary ten-thousand-year soul beasts cannot deal with such a group of trees."

"That's good."

Xu Tianxi turned to look at Huo Yuhao and introduced him:
"Brother Huo, the Demon Eye Demon Tree is a rare high-level plant-type soul beast with spiritual attributes. Its inherent lethality isn't very strong, but it's adept at using its eyes to emit paralyzing and controlling rays. It's quite compatible with your spiritual eyes. What do you think?"

Beibei said, "Brother Kong is very knowledgeable, and what you said is absolutely correct. The Demon Eye Demon Tree clan is a very extraordinary existence among spiritual soul beasts. As far as I know, there is a terrifying plant-type soul beast king in the Star Dou Great Forest whose true form is this Demon Eye Demon Tree."

"Thank you very much, brothers. I will definitely repay you in the future."

Huo Yuhao didn't have much of an opinion, but since both of them recommended him, he didn't hesitate and hurriedly thanked these two big brothers whom he had met by chance.

The two of them smiled indifferently. Tang Ya became greedy and asked Huo Yuhao to grill more fish with a smile.

The group hurried to the area where the Demon Eye Demon Tree was.

Before they even got close, a pungent and unpleasant smell rushed into everyone's nose, and the poisonous fog obscured their vision, making it impossible to see one's hand in front of one's face. Everyone knew that it was the poisonous stench of the Demon Eye Demon Tree's body fluids, and they all took measures to protect themselves.

In the poisonous barrier, a giant tree with strange eyes growing all over its body twitched its branches, releasing demonic light that shot at everyone. The stench became deeper and deeper, as if it wanted to bury all the invaders and turn them into nutrients.

"These things are absolutely disgusting! Watch me fire my cannon and blow them all up into the sky!"

Xiao Hongchen couldn't stand the stench of poison, so he used one-third of his strength, armed his body with thirty level four soul guide cannons, and launched a ground-washing bombing, rotating back and forth 360 degrees, blasting out a bright space in the poisonous fog.

"Brother Bei, let's go together!"

Xu Tianxi had a paralysis ray in his left hand and an ice ray in his right hand. His steps were as fast as thunder as he shuttled between the bushes. He transformed into a double-gun eagle and shot left and right, staring at the demon eye of the demon tree that had revealed its true form, and attacked. The soul guide ray poured out as if it didn't need soul power.

"Good! Thunderous!"

Beibei was unwilling to fall behind, so he lit up his second soul ring. His two long dragon-scale arms rushed left and right, and the lightning net raged around. His claws left claw marks on the trunk of the Demon Eye Tree and scratched off large pieces of bark.

Xuan Ziwen took out two level six defensive shields to block the corrosive venom and branches from all directions for Xiao Hongchen and Xu Tianxi.

Although the outburst of the three people was not earth-shattering, the momentum was quite large, leaving the spectators, Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao, stunned.

Huo Yuhao turned his head and whispered to Tang Ya, with whom he had just become more familiar:

"Sister Tang Ya, what powerful weapons are Brother Kong and the other brother using? They're so powerful even without releasing their martial spirits. They're no weaker than Brother Bei."

When Tang Ya heard this, her expression suddenly turned ugly, and she gritted her teeth and said:

"Those are soul-guided weapons, things passed down from the Sun-Moon Empire. They have varying powers and can largely replace the soul skills of soul masters."

Huo Yuhao noticed that Tang Ya was not interested in this soul guide weapon. Although he wanted to ask more, he had to shut up.

I don’t know why Sister Tang Ya seems so dissatisfied with such a powerful weapon. Could it be that she can’t afford it?

The poisonous fog from the group of demon-eyed trees was very powerful, and even ordinary ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts could not break it. However, the cooperation between Xiao Hongchen, Beibei, and Xu Tianxi was even more terrifying, especially Xiao Hongchen who launched the fire coverage. His explosive power was more terrifying than that of many soul kings, and he quickly cleared away the poisonous fog.

Without the poisonous fog barrier, the Demon Eye Demon Tree was unable to resist the attacks of Xu Tianxi and Beibei, and soon lost its combat effectiveness in the face of the paralysis rays, ice rays and thunder dragon claws.

"It's done. Xiao Huo, come and take a look. See if there's anything you like."

After a satisfying explosion, Xiao Hongchen retracted the gun barrel, wiped the sweat off his face, and gave Huo Yuhao a smug smile.

One could tell from Pili Beibei's expression of deep fear that Xiao Hongchen was unmatched among his peers. He was only unable to inflict damage against Xu Tianxi, the invisibility-capable Sixth Master. Even if Xu Tianxi and Xiao Hongchen were to face off, as long as he didn't deploy his fixed-level soul guide projectiles, Xiao Hongchen wouldn't be afraid of anything.

Huo Yuhao walked forward bewilderedly, explaining that he was still a newbie in the world of spirit masters. "But, big brother, I don't know how old these demon-eye trees are."

"Snapped!"

Xiao Hongchen held his forehead with his hand and said helplessly, "That's right, I'm not familiar with this thing. You can ask Lao Kong, he knows about it."

Huo Yuhao: "But Brother Kong seems to have discovered something and hasn't come out of the demonic bush yet."

"what?"

Xiao Hongchen turned his head to look, only to see that Xu Tianxi, who had previously jumped into the bushes and fired a gun, had put on gloves at some point and seemed to be picking something.

"Strange, did he find something good there?" Xiao Hongchen speculated.

Beibei came over and said with a strange look on his face:
"Brother Huo, I don't know what's wrong with this Demon Eye Demon Tree. There isn't a 400-year-old soul beast that's most suitable for you. The closest one is a 300-year-old one. Why don't you choose one and absorb it?"

This battle consumed a lot of his physical strength. If he fought again, the situation would be unpredictable. A soul beast that was more than three hundred years old was considered to be close to its limit.

Huo Yuhao was about to agree when he heard a clear voice coming from the side.

"Brother Bei, did you miss something? Isn't there a tree here that's over 400 years old?"

After packing up his things, Xu Tianxi walked out from the depths of the bushes, patted a demon-eyed tree next to him that he had pierced with a paralyzing ray, with a happy smile on his face.

Beibei looked up and a wry smile suddenly appeared on his face:
"Brother Kong, I'm afraid you didn't look carefully enough. Although this Demon Eye Tree is only four hundred years old, its fifth Demon Eye is almost formed. I'm afraid it's already close to five hundred years old. How can Brother Huo absorb it?"

"You know, the limit of the first soul ring is 423 years."

Xu Tianxi shook his head and said, "That's generally true, but not always. Brother Huo's martial spirit is his original martial spirit. Brother Bei, as a top student at Shrek, you should know more about the special features of the original martial spirit than I do."

Beibei hesitated: "This..."

He naturally knew the various peculiarities of the original spirit masters, including the fact that their spirit rings lasted longer than ordinary people, but he didn't know whether Huo Yuhao was in the same situation.

"Wait a minute, you mean this tree is decades older."

Xiao Hongchen, who had been listening for a while, suddenly grasped the key point, his eyes lighting up. "It's such a simple question, why are you so worried? It's easy to solve."

Tang Ya's face was full of disbelief. She curled her lips and said in a somewhat cold tone:

"The optimal spirit ring age is one of the ten core competitive advantages of martial spirits proposed by our Shrek Academy masters. Tens of thousands of years is no problem. How come it's so easy for you?"

Maybe it was because Xiao Hongchen was the one who used the soul guide most happily just now, vaguely overshadowing Beibei, Tang Ya was unhappy with Xiao Hongchen.

"(ˉ▽￣～) Tsk~~, what era is this? You're still clinging to a 10,000-year-old antique. Times have long since changed."

Xiao Hongchen scoffed at Tang Ya's words, flicked his wrist, took out a green pill from the storage ring, and said boastfully:

"Here, this pill can allow a soul master to enhance his physical fitness in a short period of time. Not to mention decades, even one or two hundred years is no problem."

"How is this possible?" Tang Ya widened her eyes, her face full of doubt.

The smile on Xiao Hongchen's face became more and more proud: "How is it impossible? I guarantee there will be no problem, and there won't be many sequelae. Just rest for ten days or half a month and it will be fine."

The pills Jing Hongchen prepared for him even had the ability to temporarily increase the lifespan of his soul ring by tens of thousands of years. This was the least effective pill Xiao Hongchen had, but he took it out to brag about it without any regrets.

Beibei had seen more and knew the existence of this kind of elixir. She cast a look of surprise at Xu Tianxi: "Brother Kong, this..."

He had long seen that among the three, Xuan Ziwen was taciturn, Xiao Hongchen was lively, and the backbone was still Xu Tianxi.

Xu Tianxi smiled and nodded: "My friend has been spoiled by his family since he was a child, but his medicine is fine. Coincidentally, I just found a good herb that can help Brother Huo recover faster."

Even he had not expected that there would be such an unexpected surprise on this trip. He found the fairy grass recorded in ancient books, and there was more than one. It would be fine to give one to Huo Yuhao to improve his talent so that King Tang wouldn't shake his head at the sight of it.

I have to say, Huo Gua has really good luck. He can find good things just by walking around.

"That's great, Yuhao, you can eat without worry." Beibei turned to Huo Yuhao and smiled.

Huo Yuhao grunted "hmm" and took the pill thrown by Xiao Hongchen. His whole body was instantly filled with strength. He thanked Xiao Hongchen, then couldn't wait to go forward and chop down the nearly five hundred year old Demon Eye Tree.

With the bright yellow soul ring attached to his body, Huo Yuhao's body suddenly tensed up, as if he had turned into a human-shaped furnace, emitting scorching energy.

Two hours later, Huo Yuhao, who had successfully absorbed the energy, stood up safely, proving Xiao Hongchen's words that times had really changed.

"Level 14 peak soul power? It seems that Brother Huo practiced for quite a while before absorbing the soul ring." Beibei scanned Huo Yuhao with the soul power tester, with surprise in her eyes.

This soul power is just a little bit away from the admission requirement of Shrek. If they work harder, they can enter Shrek without using their Tang Sect’s quota, even if they are at the bottom after entering.

"After more than a year of training, I'm still a little behind. My physical foundation is really poor."

(End of this chapter)