Douluo Continent: The Twin Sons of the Styx River, Shaking the World and Destroying the Heavens

Chapter 216 Thunder and Light and Darkness

Each Soul Master will take their Soul Tool and fire it in a designated test area, with data recorded for each launch. The five Soul Tools with the weakest power will be eliminated. Also eliminated will be Soul Masters who fail to create a Level 4 Soul Tool within the allotted time.

The elimination rate in this round of the competition isn't too high, but it's starting to get brutal. No one can be certain that their own soul tool is more powerful than someone else's of the same level. Under these circumstances, they naturally have no choice but to create the most powerful soul tools possible. The pressure of the competition will make the soul masters more likely to reveal their true strength.

There are many other ways to gamble, and the three major underground forces are very good at understanding human nature, so they can almost guarantee that every gambler can find the gambling method they want.

Compared to the previous round, the materials are much more abundant this time. There are as many as ten rare metals and more than twenty common metals. The only problem is that the weight of each metal does not exceed two kilograms. In other words, unless you bring your own materials, it is impossible to make a large soul tool.

However, in addition to Xiao Hongchen and his group, Xia Die also joined the competition, Shrek Academy and the Spirit Hall were also among the participants.

Ye Guyi was in the Spirit Hall. She was in the Ordinary Alliance. Although she was dressed very well, she still couldn't hide it from Xia Die.

These individuals are among the most attractive contestants. In the third round, the contestants will have to use their self-made soul tools to fight.

Moreover, the situation on the Xi Shui Alliance side is different from before. Xi Shui and Long Xiaoyao are also here, which means that two demigod Douluo are in charge.

Thus, the Soul Master Tournament came to a temporary end, and the draw for the round-robin stage of the Soul Battle Tournament has begun.

The teams that emerged from the selection process included St. Freya Academy, Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, Holy Spirit Sect...

The current top three are St. Freya Academy, Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and Holy Spirit Sect.

However, the first team they drew was Tianlongmen versus Shrek Academy.

"In the second round of the tournament, Tianlongmen will face Shenhunzong. Both sides will send one player onto the stage in one minute."

Mu Mingtian took the stage. Tianlongmen originally sent a player to the stage, but their captain stopped him.

"Hand him over to me; you will hardly be a match for him."

The speaker was Yu Tianlong, a much taller young man, nearly two meters tall, whose imposing physique was almost twice his height. He also had short, needle-like hair, but it was a deep blue. His team uniform was sleeveless, revealing two thick, granite-like arms. He exuded a terrifyingly fierce aura.

"Tianlongmen, Jade Tianlong."

"Shrek Academy, Mu Mingtian."

Although he was participating under the name of the Divine Soul Sect, Mu Mingtian remained nonchalant, as if the competition was nothing more than an insignificant formality to him. There was no trace of tension in his eyes, and his fingertips even casually rubbed the dark patterns on his cuffs.

After both sides retreated to their respective sides of the field according to the rules, Zheng Zhan raised his hand to activate the simulated battlefield. As energy patterns spread across the ground, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed—the scene of [Mongolian Grassland No. 52860] was now unfolding before their eyes.

The first thing that catches the eye is the boundless grassland, its dark green waves undulating in the night like spilled ink, shimmering with a hazy silver glow—the traces of moonlight filtering through the clouds. In the distance, flocks of sheep lie still, their white down gleaming softly in the twilight. Occasionally, a few yaks flick their tails, their heavy breaths turning into white vapor in the silence, mingling with the cool scent of grass and earth. The sound of the wind whistling through the grass is exceptionally clear, sometimes a soft murmur, sometimes a sharp whistle, as if some creature is lurking in the shadows. The night sky is an impenetrable deep blue-black, studded with sparse but bright stars. The crescent moon hides behind the clouds, revealing only a sliver of its silver edge, outlining the grassland in shifting light and shadow, casting a mysterious shadow over even the nearby rocks and distant slopes.

The two have the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Light and Darkness Dragon King respectively, but Mu Mingtian's bloodline is stronger than that of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, possessing the attributes of extreme light and extreme darkness.

Yu Tianlong raised his right hand to his side, and blue lightning instantly spread around his body, causing bluish-purple scales to quietly emerge. As he stepped forward, his body expanded continuously, increasing in height with each step. By the time he reached the center, he was two and a half meters tall, with shoulders exceeding one and a half meters wide. The scales on his thick arms were the thickest, with bluish-purple lightning swirling around them, making him look like a humanoid monster, even his eyes had turned bluish-purple.

Mu Mingtian's hand clashed with golden and black dragon scales, a coexistence of light and darkness, and he possessed twin martial souls. There were no fancy moves between the two; every strike was a brutal, head-on collision, each exchange marked by an unwavering resolve.

Lightning and darkness intertwined, giving rise to an indescribable and terrifying power.

Yu Tianlong was enveloped in terrifying power of extreme lightning, and a ball of pure lightning rushed toward Mu Mingtian.

Mu Mingtian did not back down and raised his hand to summon a golden ball of light.

The collision of the light sphere and the purple sphere unleashed a devastating power, illuminating the dark night as if dawn had broken.

But the next second, as Yu Tianlong lifted his left hand upwards, a giant lightning dragon materialized and roared as it charged toward Mu Mingtian.

Mu Mingtian raised his hand and summoned a giant dragon intertwined with light and darkness to meet the opponent's lightning dragon.

Yu Tianlong said, "Interesting. One move to decide the winner. If you beat me, there's no need to continue the competition."

"Just to my liking."

Yu Tianlong's lips curled into a playful smile, but his eyes revealed an unmistakable sharpness. He spoke slowly, his voice carrying the buzzing of thunder: "Interesting, you do have some skill. How about this, let's settle this with one move—if you defeat me, you won't have to bother with those tedious matches later."

Mu Mingtian's eyes narrowed, and the light and dark energy around him surged suddenly. He met Yu Tianlong's gaze, and his tone was calm but resolute: "Just what I wanted."

Yu Tianlong's eyes suddenly flashed with blinding lightning, and crackling arcs of lightning exploded all around him. The moment his Martial Soul True Body was activated, his body swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye—his bones trembled and emitted a roar like a dragon's cry, his skin was covered with dark blue scales, and his claws transformed into sharp dragon claws. In just a few breaths, he transformed into a blue lightning tyrannosaurus dragon a hundred feet long.

The giant dragon has two prominent horns on its head, with a purple lightning serpent as thick as a bowl coiled between them. Each breath it exhales sparks of electricity. The scales covering its body shimmer with a metallic sheen in the lightning, and lightning bolts constantly shoot out from between the scales, exploding into pillars of lightning several meters high when they hit the ground.

It raised its head and let out a dragon's roar that shook the heavens and the earth. The sound waves, carrying violent electric currents, swept in all directions. The sky was instantly shrouded in dark purple thunderclouds. The once relatively calm clouds were forcibly torn and coalesced by the power of lightning, transforming into a rolling sea of ​​thunder in the blink of an eye. Countless bolts of lightning, like silver snakes, shuttled and collided in the clouds. Some struck the ground like sharp swords, leaving scorched cracks in the earth; others exploded in mid-air, turning into a rain of electric lightning that illuminated the surrounding area for ten miles as if it were daytime. Even the air became scorching and viscous due to the dense electric currents, and with every breath, one could smell the mixture of ozone and acrid odor.

At this moment, the entire world seemed to have become the domain of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex. Thunder and dragon roars intertwined, lightning and shadows battled, and even the wind carried the ferocity of lightning, pressing down on Mu Mingtian's location.

Mu Mingtian's eyes flickered with light and darkness, and two completely different powers suddenly erupted from his body—the extreme light was as blazing as the sun, and the extreme darkness was as deep as an abyss. The two intertwined and merged wildly within his body, eventually transforming into a unified Yin-Yang power, and the air around his body rippled with black and white.

The moment his Martial Soul True Form was activated, his body swelled like an inflating balloon, transforming in a moment into a colossal dragon a thousand feet long. Half of the dragon's body was bathed in brilliant holy light, its scales gleaming with pure white light; the other half was hidden in deep shadows, its scales tinged with a rich black color. Light and darkness were perfectly connected along the dragon's midline, their interplay seemingly containing the primordial chaos secrets of the beginning of heaven and earth.

As the power of Yin and Yang fully awakened, his aura surged like a tsunami, and his strength and all attributes increased fivefold. Every swing of his dragon claw brought up a vortex of light and darkness, and even the raging lightning around him seemed to be stunned by this power, and froze for a moment.

Their idea was simple: to decide the outcome with one decisive move, using their most powerful attack.

Eighth Soul Skill: Blue Lightning Dragon Strike!

The Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, transformed from Yu Tianlong, suddenly opened its mouth, its roar carrying the thunderous roar of its voice, each word like a thunderclap. As the name of its soul skill was uttered, the thunderclouds above its head surged violently, countless thick bolts of lightning, as if drawn by an invisible hand, frantically converged, twisted, and shaped—in just a few breaths, nine lightning dragons, each over a hundred meters long, broke free from the sea of ​​lightning. Their bodies were composed of pure lightning, purple-blue electric light flowing between their scales, whiskers, and claws, each lightning scale shimmering with a destructive luster, their eyes two leaping balls of lightning, radiating a ferocious, all-consuming savagery.

The moment the nine thunder dragons appeared, they simultaneously unleashed deafening roars, the sound waves crackling and popping through the air. Head to tail, they coiled and charged towards Mu Mingtian, their claws tearing through the sky, their tails scattering plasma wherever they swept, the lightning emanating from their bodies nearly shattering space itself. This attack gathered the essence of lightning from heaven and earth, its power enough to crush mountains and tear apart the earth. Even before they reached him, the ground was already scorched with spiderweb-like marks by the violent current; the earth-shattering force seemed to freeze the surrounding air.

(End of this chapter)