Douluo, my clone Groudon

Chapter 145: Golden Ancient Tree, Three Heaven-Defying Soul Skills
Gula walked forward, making a dull sound as he stepped on the base made of special materials.

He released the Celebi spirit, his blue eyes reflecting the golden shadows of the trees, each leaf shimmering with golden ripples like the passage of time, yet it did not appear majestic, but filled with the vast breath of nature.

Gula took advantage of the situation to activate the "natural recovery" feature and silently activated the "forest" authority. The ancient golden tree's branches seemed to sway as if they had never changed.

"It's calling you."

Leng Yaozhu's voice was trembling with a rare tremor, and it turned out that she was not wrong. Gula's second martial soul had the potential to be comparable to a dual extreme martial soul.

Gula turned around upon hearing the voice and saw that Leng Yaozhu's usually calm face was tinged with a blush like the morning glow, and an almost fanatical fire was dancing in her eyes.

By Leng Yaozhu's generation, both she and her sister had no descendants, and there were no outstanding talents in other branches. There was a lack of qualified geniuses to inherit the Leng family's position in the Spirit Pagoda. The appearance of Gula and Gu Yue perfectly met her requirements.

When Leng Yaozhu planned to pave the way for Gula, Gula had already placed his palm on the tree trunk.

The roots of the ancient golden tree suddenly glowed with an amber halo, and the mottled light and shadow cast by the treetops moved across Gula's face. Golden veins suddenly emerged from beneath the bark, like a giant python awakening, climbing wildly up Gula's arm, forming a faint golden tree mark between his eyebrows.

Leng Yaozhu narrowed her eyes, knowing that the two were communicating. She warned the middle-aged man in Tang suit not to disturb them and stared at Gula closely.

In the sea of ​​spirit, the ancient golden tree's ignorant consciousness conveyed a feeling of closeness.

As the son of nature, it is naturally the best destination for all plant life, and the golden ancient tree that has the potential to become the core of the plane is no exception.

The two's consciousnesses communicated silently, and Gula automatically obtained the information from the bloodline of the ancient golden tree.

"It turns out that I am not a true child of nature."

Gula suddenly realized that there are two prerequisites to become a child of nature.

First, one must have a life-friendly constitution to be friendly to natural energy, and second, one must have the bloodline of a top plant king. Yes, humans are not supposed to be children of nature.

Fortunately, like Tang Wulin, he had merged with a divine beast and was qualified to do so. Moreover, Gula had long been aware of his limitations as a human being.

"I really don't understand anything about plane consciousness. I still lack the life seed condensed by the plane core. According to the original work, Ah Yin will be handed over to Tang Wulin."

Gula looked indifferent. So what? Just grab it.

Tang San in the Douluo III period had been a god for many years, but he took human life less seriously than the Tang San he knew. Under the ten thousand year plan, countless soul masters sacrificed their blood, but it was only for him to upgrade the plane and help the Tang family control the layout of Douluo Star.

Tang Wulin was still a human being in the early stage, but he became completely inhuman in the later stage. He was brainwashed by the Tang family and Shrek Academy, and Gula felt no guilt at all for stealing his things.

The communication ended, the fluctuations of soul power in the secret room gradually subsided, and Gula opened his eyes with his long eyelashes trembling slightly.

Leng Yaozhu's face, which had always been as cold as a pond, was now rippled, and a rare smile blossomed at the corner of her lips: "The ancient golden tree has been silent for a hundred years, and finally waited for you."

She walked across the jade floor, and from her sleeves slipped three jade beads shimmering with starlight. "Get ready. I'll perform the contract ceremony for you."

"Excuse me, teacher."

Gula placed his palm on the gnarled trunk of the ancient tree, and ripples suddenly appeared on the golden bark, as if a sleeping dragon was stretching its scales.

Leng Yaozhu's fingertips ignited a dark blue soul fire, and as she chanted the ancient incantation, it condensed into golden chains in the air. When the incantation ended, the entire ancient tree suddenly trembled violently, and the golden vines drooping from the treetops rang like the strings of a harp.

"The contract is done, concentrate!"

As Leng Yaozhu shouted softly, the ancient tree's trunk erupted in dazzling golden light. The millennia-old veins suddenly came alive, snaking their way up the young man's slender fingers.

An emerald halo rippled from the point where the man and the tree touched. Gula's black hair began to transform from the roots, like clouds dyed by the morning glow, and finally settled into a gradient color of gold and green.

The middle-aged man in Tang suit took two steps back and bumped into the star-patterned stone pillar. He saw the soul rings rising behind the young man. When the third soul ring was completely solidified, the middle-aged man's eyes were full of horror.

As an indomitable spirit, the ancient golden tree had long been promoted to a ten-thousand-year-old spirit, and now was twenty thousand years old.

But this was not enough to shock a Titled Douluo. What surprised him was Gula's potential. Three soul rings appeared directly, indicating that Gula was a second martial soul, but had the mental strength of at least the middle stage of the Spirit Sea Realm. His potential was top-notch enough to influence the next generation of the Spirit Pagoda.

"Junior, please take your leave."

The middle-aged man bowed with a dry voice, and caught a glimpse of Leng Yaozhu out of the corner of his eye - the other party didn't care about his departure at all.

Three pieces of soul skill information appeared in his mind. Gula closed his eyes and took it in carefully. When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were full of smiles.

"teacher……"

"Let's talk about it after we go to Donghai City."

There was a surveillance camera in the secret room. Leng Yaozhu first deleted the remaining video and destroyed the hardware together, then brought Gula to the top floor of the Spirit Communication Tower.

He raised his hand to summon a black mecha, and its streamlined hatch opened. As the mecha transformed into a stream of light and broke through the clouds, Gula gazed at the gradually shrinking spire of the Spirit Transmission Tower. The golden-green light dancing in his hair refracted through the clouds, faintly outlining the shadows of trees.

Leng Yaozhu breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want to give Qiangu Dongfeng the chance to bother her, but sometimes she really couldn't avoid him.

"Tell me about it." She turned her head and smiled faintly, then asked curiously, "How effective are your soul skills? Are there any abilities that evolve based on your martial soul?"

"Just as the teacher said, the soul skills are perfectly adapted to the martial soul. Thank you for the gift, teacher. I like it very much."

Gula felt that there was no soul more suitable for his own than the ancient golden tree. The value it represented was more than billions, which was enough to prove how much Leng Yaoju valued him.

"As long as you're satisfied."

Leng Yaozhu smiled and enjoyed Gula's true feelings.

Gula introduced his three soul skills in detail:

"First soul skill, boundless sea of ​​forests."

"Summon and control all plants within a 100-meter radius, keeping them in peak condition. Damage can be quickly restored, and they can also be converted into vitality to heal allies. If there is sufficient soul power, the control range can be expanded outward."

Leng Yaozhu was surprised, but maintained the composure of a teacher on her face. "Domain skills have always been top-tier soul skills. Your soul skills, which combine control, attack, and healing, are the best among them. You must practice your control abilities frequently in the future."

As the deputy master of the Spirit Pagoda, she knew too well the strategic value of this skill. If it was simply to control plants, it would certainly not work now that most of the plants in the forest were destroyed.

But combined with the summoning ability, this soul skill is enough to change the outcome and reverse the situation on the battlefield.

The first soul skill alone is a domain soul skill. Leng Yaozhu was surprised and even more curious about the other two soul skills.

"continue."

"Okay, teacher." Gula agreed and continued:
"Second soul skill, all things in the universe."

"I've created a labyrinth of illusions that are so realistic that they'll be indistinguishable from the real thing. As time goes by, the illusion maze will continue to grow in detail, capable of trapping an enemy with ten times my mental strength."

In Gula's opinion, the first soul skill is the development and extension of Celebi's authority over the forest, and the second soul skill is the biggest surprise, which makes up for Celebi's shortcoming of not being good at constructing illusions.

Leng Yaozhu was no longer calm: "Are you sure it's ten times?"

This is not scientific, nor is it a soul master's skill!
Even a hundred thousand year old soul cannot provide such a heaven-defying soul skill effect!

You know, in a competition of mental strength, the stronger one is, the easier it is to determine the winner. It is almost impossible for the weak to defeat the strong.

But Gula's soul skills violate this...

"Ten times the mental power..." She stroked the mecha seat and suddenly grabbed the boy's wrist. "An enemy with strong mental power will never give you the chance to create an illusion. But if you record the illusion in your mental sea, even an enemy with stronger mental power than you will not be able to break through your mental defenses."

"This is a top-notch mental defense soul skill! It can also be used for attack and control. It's comparable to your first soul skill."

Gula was shocked when he heard this. He was indeed the Ultimate Douluo. The method he had thought of along the way, Leng Yaoju could come up with in just a few breaths.

Of course, this is also related to her high level of cultivation and extensive knowledge, but it also shows her profound insights into soul master cultivation.

"…As expected of you, teacher! I would never have thought of the reverse application of this."

Gula's praise made Leng Yaozhu's mouth curl up. Looking at Gula's natural expression of amazement and admiration, the usually cold and aloof Extreme Douluo couldn't help but feel a little vain.

"It's good to know. Don't think that a strong martial soul represents everything. You are still a long way from becoming a powerful soul master."

"Thank you teacher for your teaching."

Gula accepted it humbly, and continued with a slight smile on his lips:

"Third soul skill, Senhaiyouyou."

"There is a space within the spirit ring where time slows down, which can store plants and seeds. The central area is where time stops, which can store spirit skills and release them directly when needed."

"However, the time available within the space is limited. The more soul skills you store, the shorter the duration."

"Theoretically, it can store ninety-nine instant soul skills, but it can only last for an hour at most, which is not enough time to release soul skills."

"So the best way to use it right now is to store one or two soul skills for a long time, or if needed, store twenty soul skills that can last for a day."

Leng Yaozhu was so surprised that she was speechless. She had seen time and space soul skills respectively, but this was the first time she saw a soul skill that combined the two attributes. Should we say that these were worthy of being the two most mysterious attributes? The soul skill was so excellent and amazing!

(End of this chapter)