Douluo Jueshi: Picking up Firefly at the Beginning

Chapter 301 The King of Hell’s Tie

Although Gu Yu narrowly avoided the Shrek Academy's carefully planned and determined attack with the help of his spirit skill "Nothingness", the murderous intent in Tang San's heart was burning like a raging fire, and it was stronger than ever before.

Ma Hongjun's death was like an unhealable wound, constantly stinging his heart and filling him with endless hatred and anger towards these evil soul masters.

The "Nothingness" soul skill that Gu Yu displayed was truly unstoppable. In that short period of time, it made Gu Yu's body almost transcend reality, and no conventional attacks could cause any harm to him.

However, everything in the world has its balance, and such a powerful soul skill must come with a high price.

On the one hand, performing this soul skill requires a huge amount of soul power, which is difficult to bear even with Gu Yu's cultivation level. On the other hand, the time that the "nothingness" state can be maintained is extremely limited. Once the time is up, he will be exposed to the enemy's attack again.

At the moment when Gu Yu came out of the "nothingness" state, Tang San keenly captured this fleeting opportunity.

He suddenly exerted force with his legs and leaped into the air like a black lightning. In the air, his body lightly made a half turn. The whole process was smooth and natural, yet contained a sense of power.

In this half-turn movement, Tang San suddenly swung out his entire right arm. The movement was crisp and neat, without any drag.

At this moment, Tang San's eyes had completely turned into deep purple, like two burning purple fire gems.

There was an astonishing murderous intent surging in those purple eyes. His gaze was fixed on Gu Yu, like a hungry wolf staring at its prey, with a coldness in his eyes.

A black light emerged quietly, and it cut through the void silently. The black light was extremely fast, leaving only a faint black line in the air, and it arrived in front of Gu Yu in the blink of an eye.

Gu Yu had just come out of the "Nothingness" soul skill and had not yet recovered. His face was full of surprise.

Faced with this sudden attack, he had no time to react. Out of the instinct for survival, he could only hurriedly raise his arms to resist.

At this critical moment, Gu Yu tried his best to concentrate his soul power on his arms.

Veins bulged on his forehead, and he didn't dare to hold back at all, even at the cost of hurting himself, forcing his soul power to burst out.

However, it was too late. The black light was unstoppable and broke through the defense line that Gu Yu had built with all his strength in just a moment.

Gu Yu only felt a slight numbness in his left arm, and then the black light went straight into his arm.

"Bang—" Tang San fell heavily to the ground from mid-air, his feet sinking deep into the ground, splashing up a cloud of dust.

After landing, he was breathing rapidly, his chest heaving violently, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept rolling down his forehead.

Obviously, the move he just performed had consumed a great deal of his physical and spiritual strength.

At this moment, Gu Yu had a dazed look on his face, his body standing stiffly in place. He looked at his left arm in disbelief, as if he could not accept what was happening before his eyes.

Tang San stared coldly at Gu Yu who was frozen in place. There was no mercy in his eyes, only endless indifference, as if Gu Yu in front of him was already a lifeless corpse.

A moment later, there was a dull "bang" and Gu Yu's body fell straight to the ground.

Blood gushed out from all his orifices. The blood was a strange black color and emitted a disgusting smell.

The black blood seemed to have life and spread rapidly on the ground. Wherever it went, the ground was dyed with a layer of gloomy black.

As the black blood spread, Gu Yu's body began to undergo strange changes. A black gas gushed out of his body, gradually eroding his body from the inside out.

First, the skin turned black and cracked, then the muscles slowly melted away, and finally even the bones were not spared and turned into powder under the erosion of the black gas.

Not long after, Gu Yu's body completely disappeared in this strange black gas, as if he had never existed in this world.

Tang Sect's hidden weapon, the soul-chasing and life-stealing Yama's Post.

Among the Tang Clan's dazzling array of hidden weapons, the Soul-Chasing and Life-Taking Yama's Notice ranks third.

This Yama Post is considered to be the most dangerous hidden weapon among all hidden weapons. It has a unique effect and possesses two terrifying powers, so it is also called "one post, two kills".

The deadly poison it carries is an untreatable one. Even if the victim cuts off the poisoned limb immediately before the needle enters the body, there is no way to prevent the poison from spreading throughout the body at lightning speed.

Even Tang San himself, when using the Yama Post, had to cultivate his Mysterious Jade Hand to the highest level, and be extremely cautious, not daring to be careless in the slightest, and not daring to come into direct contact with the Yama Post easily.

Compared to its desperate poison, what makes the Yama Post even more terrifying is its ingenious and deadly structure.

Once the Yama Post penetrates the human body, it will immediately shatter on its own, releasing toxins that spread rapidly along the blood vessels. At the same time, the broken pieces of the Yama Post will act like cunning killers, following the blood vessels and attacking the heart directly.

The heart is a vital organ of the human body. How can it withstand such a fatal blow?

This is the true horror of "One Notice, Two Kills." Since the advent of the Yama Notice, no one who has been struck by this hidden weapon has ever survived. This is not to say that there is no antidote to the Yama Notice's toxicity. After all, everything in the world is interdependent and mutually exclusive, and every poison must have an antidote.

However, the speed at which the toxin in the Yama Post spread was so fast that people had no time to react.

It often takes only a split second from the moment the poison needle enters the body to the moment the poison takes effect. Even if one has prepared an antidote in advance, there is no chance of taking it.

People who are hit by the King of Hell's letter will only feel a slight numbness at first. This slight strange feeling can be easily ignored and will not immediately bring heart-wrenching pain.

But before people realize the danger is coming, death has already quietly arrived. By the time they realize that something is wrong, it is already too late to save the situation, and only death awaits them.

Although Gu Yu has the cultivation level of Soul Emperor and is considered a strong man in the world of soul masters, he is still powerless to fight back against the Tang Sect's third-ranked Soul-Hunting and Life-Taking Yama Notice.

After the poison needle entered his body, he didn't even have time to utter a last word before his body quickly dissolved under the double strangulation of the toxin and fragments of the Yama Post. In just a moment, he turned into a pool of foul-smelling black water.

Of course, Gu Yu ended up like this largely due to Tang San's unexpected attack.

After all, Gu Yu had just used the life-saving skill "Nothingness" at that time, and his entire soul power was greatly consumed and his defense was relatively weak.

If Wu Feng had not attacked with all his might, forcing Gu Yu to use this soul skill, it would have been extremely difficult for Tang San to hit him with a hidden weapon, given Gu Yu's vigilance and adaptability as a powerful evil soul master.

On the rostrum, Zhongli Wu's face became increasingly gloomy after witnessing Gu Yu's tragic death. He exuded an icy aura, and the temperature around him seemed to drop a few degrees. Seeing this, others unconsciously distanced themselves from him.

Xu Tianran, however, seemed completely unaware of Zhongli Wu's abnormality. He calmly asked, "National Master, Red Dust Hall Master, can you tell what exactly caused Gu Yu's death?"

Jing Hongchen's expression was solemn, his brows slightly furrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, if this old minister is not mistaken, that should be the legendary hidden weapon."

"Hidden weapons? Are they the Tang Sect hidden weapons that were completely eliminated by our soul guides? How could their hidden weapons be so powerful?"

Xu Tianran's face was filled with surprise and his heart was full of doubts. In his understanding, the Tang Sect's hidden weapons had long since declined and were far surpassed by soul guides.

If the Tang Sect really had such a powerful hidden weapon that could kill a Soul Emperor in an instant, how could it have been gradually eliminated by soul guides in the long course of history?
Zhongli Wu snorted coldly. His eyesight was clearly much sharper than others. He saw through the key to the Yama Post at a glance and said immediately, "The poison contained in that hidden weapon is indeed terrifying, but more importantly, the firing technique used by that person named Tang San is so superb that even without such exquisite technique, even if he held that hidden weapon, he would not be able to hit the target, let alone break through a spirit master's defense."

Indeed, Tang San had just flawlessly integrated his soul power and mental strength into that all-out throw.

At the moment of attack, his control over strength, angle and timing reached the pinnacle, which increased the flying speed and penetration of the Yama Post to the extreme.

It was also because of this that the Yama Post was able to break through the soul power shield that Gu Yu had hastily condensed like a ghost, and accurately shot into Gu Yu's body, allowing the deadly poison that could kill with a single blow to unleash its deadly power.

After all, for a hidden weapon, if it cannot even break the enemy's defense, no matter how powerful the poison it carries is, it will be useless in the end.

"I see. But with such miraculous hidden weapon techniques, how did the Tang Sect fall into decline? Could it be that this technique is extremely difficult to practice?"

Xu Tianran became very curious and asked with great interest. As a Titled Douluo, he could naturally see how profound the skills were in Tang San's attack just now.

Even for a Soul Sage, it would not be easy to escape unscathed from such an attack. Even a Soul Douluo would be very likely to be hit if he was even slightly careless.

The inheritance of such a powerful technique that enables the weak to defeat the strong should have made the Tang Sect prosperous forever, but now the Tang Sect has lost its former glory, which is really puzzling.

Upon hearing this, Jing Hongchen and Zhongli Wu remained silent.

Although they have rich experience in the world of soul masters, they really can't find a reasonable answer to the question of why the Tang Sect declined.

Not only the two of them, but also Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei in the audience fell silent. They were not unfamiliar with the hidden weapon called the Yama Post. Tang Ya had once taught them how to make it in detail.

However, they were completely baffled by the firing technique Tang San had just displayed. Many speculations arose in their minds. Could it be that the Tang Sect's heritage had been gradually lost over the course of ten thousand years? Or perhaps it was the tragic battle between the Tang Sect and the Sun-Moon Empire, which had resulted in the deaths of so many masters and the severing of the core heritage, that had led to the Tang Sect's gradual decline?

Everyone had their own thoughts, but Liuxing looked rather strange. He knew very well that the real core inheritance of the Tang Sect had been placed in the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire by Tang San ten thousand years ago and entrusted to the protection of the immortal grass.

And now, the book that records the core inheritance of the Tang Sect is lying quietly on his body.

If one thinks about it carefully, if the Tang Sect had always preserved this powerful hidden weapon technique intact, there would not be the core inheritance secret manual specially left by Tang San in the Yin-Yang Eyes of Binghuo.

What's more, even in the core inheritance hidden in the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire, there was no mention of the top hidden weapon that was powerful enough to hurt gods - the Tears of Guanyin.

There is not even any record of the terrifying hidden weapon Bodhi Blood that once killed the demigod Deep Sea Demon Whale King.

Obviously, although Tang San established the Tang Sect, he may have kept some tricks up his sleeve for the Tang Sect. After all, the Tang Sect lineage just had the same Blue Silver Grass martial spirit as him, and changed their surname to Tang. Strictly speaking, there was no deep and close connection between them and Tang San, and their relationship could not be called close.

In comparison, the Tang family of Haotian Sect is the real family connected to Tang San by blood. Even in Tang San's heart, the Tang Sect is not as good as Shrek Academy.

(End of this chapter)