Douluo Continent: The Eternal Dawn

Chapter 57 Thousand-Year Ghost King Vine

Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya just missed Vina and the other two and entered the outer area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest.

The main road had disappeared, and all around was a dense forest. After noon, the temperature inside the Starry Sky Forest, which rarely received sunlight, dropped significantly, and was filled with a fresh and moist atmosphere.

Unlike animal-type soul beasts, plant-type soul beasts cannot frequently change their activity range for survival. Instead, they are fixed within a certain area, since their root systems cannot move.

Therefore, Ye Xixuan's search for a plant-type soul beast that matched Tang Ya's attributes and age was somewhat purposeful. The surrounding environment was enough to determine whether the location was suitable for the growth of a plant-type soul beast.

Holding Ye Xixuan's hand, Tang Ya felt a strong sense of security, though she was rather oblivious to any potential dangers.

"Xi Xuan, if I didn't know this was the Star Dou Great Forest, I would really like to live here forever." As she spoke, she took a deep breath, as if her whole body had become relaxed.

A gentle smile played on Ye Xixuan's lips. Although both of them carried their own hatred and responsibilities, they shared the same longing for such a life.

"Then we can find a place similar to this place and live in seclusion."

"Okay! Okay!" Tang Ya nodded excitedly.

Just as the two were talking, a faint sound came from the bushes not far away. Then, a pure white rabbit hopped out. Its fur was as pure as snow, contrasting sharply with its strange red eyes. Its ears were longer than its small body, hanging naturally down its back, and its limbs were short yet agile.

Tang Ya's eyes lit up immediately, and she said with drooling desire.

"A century-old soft-boned rabbit?! It would be delicious if we braised it, especially the meat on the legs, which is the most chewy."

"Sister Xiaoya, can you please stop thinking about food all the time?" Ye Xixuan said, speechless.

"Isn't Sister Nan Nan's martial soul the Soft Bone Rabbit? Is this how you usually chat with her? And the wife of your Tang Sect's ancestor was also a 100,000-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit soul beast in human form. As the current Tang Sect Master, it's not appropriate for you to say such things."

"One thing at a time," Tang Ya said proudly, puffing out her chest as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"Since the soft-boned rabbit tastes so good, we should definitely make the most of it."

Seemingly startled by the sound of the two talking, the hundred-year-old soft-boned rabbit pushed off the ground with its hind legs and leaped high into the distance.

"Oh no! It got away!" Tang Ya exclaimed in frustration, but in the next instant, she saw the Soft Bone Rabbit's body suddenly stiffen, its entire body flashing with a bright purple light. A layer of fine purple vines with sharp thorns instantly grew, completely engulfing the Soft Bone Rabbit's body.

Ye Xixuan's expression darkened, and he immediately pulled Tang Ya to his side, wrapping his arms tightly around her slender waist.

Tang Ya's chest rose and fell slightly, and her expression became alert. Two bright yellow spirit rings emerged from beneath her feet, circling her delicate body and pulsating up and down.

"Xi Xuan, this seems to be the parasitic ability of the Ghost Vine. But isn't the Ghost Vine black?" Her second soul ring came from a Ghost Vine with about six hundred years of cultivation, so she naturally knew a lot about it.

Ye Xixuan vaguely sensed something, his tightly furrowed brows relaxed, and he shook his head with a light laugh.

"It's not the Ghost Vine, but the Ghost King Vine. Sister Xiaoya, it seems you've found the perfect soul beast for you."

Before the words were even finished, thick, bright purple vines shot up from the ground, clinging to the dense surrounding trees and covering an area at least fifty meters in diameter. The jagged, sharp thorns on the vines scraped against the tree trunks, producing a chilling, piercing sound.

Like a cocoon formed by countless vines, it blocked Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya's escape route from all directions, and was still wriggling and contracting.

This is a talent ability that the Ghost Vine awakens only after evolving into the Ghost King Vine: Disguise. It's a rather insidious skill; even many Soul Masters with considerable cultivation might not be able to see through it when it's hidden in the surrounding environment.

Tang Ya looked at the thick, bright purple vines in surprise.

"Isn't the Ghost Vine only able to evolve into the Ghost King Vine after breaking through ten thousand years of cultivation?" "There are always exceptions. Judging from its aura, this Ghost King Vine's cultivation should be around fifteen hundred years. The reason it completed its evolution before ten thousand years of cultivation is probably because it possesses the bloodline of the Ghost Vine royal family or royalty." While explaining to Tang Ya, Ye Xixuan was also keenly observing the movements of this Ghost King Vine.

Purple, purple, purple.

Three deep purple soul rings rose one after another from beneath his feet, and his deep black eyes gave off a cold and lifeless feeling.

Just then, the thorns on the vines suddenly lit up, shimmering with a crystal-clear purple light. What followed was a boundless rain of purple light that swept across the sky.

Ye Xixuan's gaze sharpened, and he wrapped his arms around Tang Ya, his first and third spirit rings shining simultaneously.

Eerie black, fallen wings unfurled from behind him, then closed together, protecting him and Tang Ya within. Each feather on the wings seemed to be covered with a metallic sheen like obsidian.

The highly penetrating purple light rain fell on the pair of closed black wings, but instantly collapsed into fragments of light and vanished without a trace, unable to penetrate even a little.

Over the years, Da Xixuan has become increasingly meticulous in his application and control of his own soul skills.

For example, the Fallen Wings, now incorporating the effect of the first soul skill, Condensed Shadow, becomes a powerful defensive soul skill when closed. If fully expanded, the edges of the wings are equally sharp, serving as an excellent means of killing opponents, similar to the first soul skill, Wing Guillotine, of Wang Dong's Goddess of Light Butterfly in the original story.

No matter how powerful this Ghost King Vine is, its cultivation is ultimately less than two thousand years. After the outburst, it inevitably falls into a brief period of vulnerability.

The two pairs of wings of the Fallen Wings slowly opened and closed, revealing Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya's figures once again.

Ye Xixuan crossed his arms in front of him, his hands enveloped in magnificent silver spider claws. With a sudden downward swing of his arms, the silver spider claws instantly transformed into a deep black, becoming a dark attribute form.

"Shadow Revolves!"

Countless jet-black threads intertwined and burst forth like a storm, cutting through the bright purple vines of the Ghost King Vine.

The attacks were so subtle that they were impossible to detect with the naked eye. All that could be seen was the surrounding vines instantly crumbling into tiny, dense fragments that rained down from the sky like a silent drizzle. Meanwhile, the surrounding flowers, plants, and trees remained completely unharmed, which, from Tang Ya's perspective, felt both eerie and chilling.

Such an ability is an absolute dimensional reduction attack for ordinary soul masters and soul beasts.

Bathed in the fine rain formed from fragments of purple vines, Ye Xixuan's right hand, the Heavenly Spider Claw, switched back to its silver spatial attribute form, his five fingers loosely clenched.

"The bondage of heaven".

Not far away, an exceptionally thick, bright purple vine was imprisoned in place along with its roots. Countless transparent spatial attribute spider silks bound it tightly, and the patterns on the surface of the vine constantly flashed with rich soul power light, but it could not struggle at all.

The ability that the Heavenly Spider Claws granted to Ye Xixuan was indeed only the spider silk that could switch back and forth between the two attributes of space and darkness.

However, based on this, he developed two soul skills. In a sense, these can be considered self-created soul skills.

One of them is the attack skill in its dark attribute form, Shadow Cycle. The other is the control skill in its current spatial attribute form, Heaven's Binding.

The external soul bone, the Heavenly Spider Claw, has gradually evolved over the years along with his cultivation level. Even the more resilient spatial attribute spider silk is not so easily cut now.

When he cultivates to the level of a Titled Douluo, or even a Limit Douluo, these spider silk threads might truly transcend this plane. They would become unaffected by anything but divine power, becoming a conceptual existence.

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