Douluo Continent: I ushered in this era

Seeing that the human-faced spider had been dealt with, Xie Xie collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, and said, "It's a good thing you came back in time, class monitor, otherwise we might have experienced what it's like to have the human-faced spider eat us alive."

Gu Yue, who was standing to the side, nodded in agreement.

"Haha, Wu Lin, Xie Xie, it's been a while since we last met, how come you've gotten so sluggish?"

A voice that Tang Wulin and the others recognized rang out, and three boys appeared beside Chu Ci.

"Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Bai Tianzhe," Tang Wulin exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the three people in front of him.

"Ah, what are you three doing at the Ascension Platform?" Xie Xie asked in confusion.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yangzi immediately said with dissatisfaction, "What? You're the only ones allowed to get a spot on the Spirit Ascension Platform, but we're not allowed to?"

"No, it was just a bit of a surprise." Xie Xie scratched his head and chuckled awkwardly.

Chapter 30 Meeting

"By the way, why did the four of you appear together?" Gu Yue asked curiously, and Tang Wulin and Xie Xie also looked curious.

"What a coincidence," Chu Ci turned around, patted himself, transferred the sticky liquid splashed out by the human-faced demon spider to the scales of the gods, and came to Gu Yue's side.

"After I lured those two thousand-year-old soul beasts away for a while, I happened to run into the three of them. After we worked together to deal with the soul beasts, Jin Xi and the other two learned that you were also at the Spirit Ascension Platform, so they said they wanted to see you and came with me to meet you."

When they met again, both had grown considerably and were filled with emotion.

"You really just happened to run into Zhang Yangzi and the other two by chance, you didn't find them through any means," Gu Yue whispered in Chu Ci's ear.

From entering the Spirit Ascension Platform to encountering the two thousand-year-old soul beasts, the entire group from Class Zero took less than half an hour, and each group landed at locations quite far apart. Gu Yue felt it wasn't a coincidence that Bai Tianzhe and his companions encountered Chu Ci in such a short time, especially since Chu Ci had arranged their destination; Chu Ci should have known they would be entering the Spirit Ascension Platform.

The three of them, Bai Tianzhe and his companions, were given their spots on the Ascension Platform by the War God Temple, so Chu Ci was naturally aware that they were coming to the Ascension Platform.

However, "I knew they were coming, but I really didn't expect to run into them so soon." To this, Chu Ci could only sigh that when fate comes, you can't stop it.

Bai Tianzhe, who had been standing silently to the side, suddenly turned his head to look down at the spider web, as if he had noticed something.

"Tianzhe, have you found anything?" Chu Ci asked, and everyone else's attention was drawn to Bai Tianzhe.

“Yes, there are many soul beasts killed by the poison under the spider web, so the spiritual energy here will be very concentrated. We should start absorbing it as soon as possible,” Bai Tianzhe quickly stated his discovery and suggestion.

Everyone looked at each other and understood that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

So everyone quickly sat cross-legged on the grass and began to absorb spiritual energy.

Chu Ci absorbed the rich yellow soul spirits around him, and the Xuanling Sable lay on Chu Ci's shoulder, its body slowly growing larger.

As the proportion of purple in the yellow spirit rings surrounding Chu Ci increased, Chu Ci felt his body and mental energy being simultaneously washed back and forth by a surge of energy.

At this moment, the advantage that Chu Ci had gained from reducing meditation time and consuming soul power to use the Scales of God to improve his physical and mental strength during his usual training became apparent.

Amidst the shocked gazes of the crowd awakened by Chu Ci, Chu Ci's spirit, the Xuanling Sable, emitted a purple light, successfully advancing to a thousand-year spirit. The two spirit rings it provided also advanced to thousand-year spirit rings.

"Damn it," Zhang Yangzi couldn't help but curse when he saw this.

They feel exhausted after absorbing it for two or three hundred years, but this person has already achieved spiritual ascension.

Chu Ci opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of stale air, and stood up to find everyone staring at him.

"Why are you all staring at me like that? Have you all absorbed enough of my soul?"

“No,” Gu Yue shook her head, “but the venomous spider silk of the human-faced demon spider is about to give way. We need to prepare to leave.”

Soul Masters absorb spiritual energy for a long time, and entering meditation for extended periods would be quite dangerous without the protection of these highly poisonous spider silks.

"Alright, let's prepare to evacuate." Chu Ci sensed that most of the spiritual energy in this place had been absorbed, and after a brief thought, he immediately gave the order.

Chu Ci chose a direction and led Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin away from the area. As for Bai Tianzhe and his two companions, they did not choose to travel with Chu Ci and the others in order to complete the training mission assigned by the Temple of War.

"Tianzhe, just absorb spiritual power up to the limit of a hundred-year-old soul ring. Don't break through a thousand-year-old one. Your body can't withstand two thousand-year-old soul rings right now," Chu Ci instructed Bai Tianzhe before parting.

After several trials at the Spirit Ascension Platform arranged by the Temple of War, coupled with the spiritual power he had just absorbed, both of Bai Tianzhe's spirit rings had reached over eight hundred years old.

Chu Ci was afraid that Bai Tianzhe would try to force his way into a thousand-year soul ring in the Spirit Ascension Platform in order to increase his strength, so he gave him special instructions.

After the two groups parted ways, Chu Ci led Gu Yue and the other two to continue deeper into the forest.

After advancing some distance, a hundred-year-old six-armed fire serpent suddenly sprang out of the jungle.

With quick reflexes, Chu Ci dodged the six-armed fire serpent's bite and struck it squarely on its vital spot with a whip kick.

The six-armed fire serpent was struck down, raising a cloud of dust.

Gu Yue reacted just as quickly, using earth element to imprison the six-armed fire serpent on the ground, rendering it unable to move.

Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon Claw and Xie Xie's Light Dragon Blade followed closely behind, striking the Six-Armed Fire Serpent. In an instant, the Six-Armed Fire Serpent met its end in the Northwest.

The six-armed fire serpent was killed, and its spiritual power was absorbed into Gu Yue and the other two. As for Chu Ci, he had already absorbed enough.

"Who stole my prey!" came an angry male voice, and everyone looked in the direction of the voice.

A young man who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old appeared, with three soul rings—two yellow and one purple—circling his body. In his right hand, he held a long-handled staff that was entirely white except for a blue crystal at the end.

Behind the unfamiliar young man was a girl who looked to be about the same age as Chu Ci and the others. She had two braids and light blue hair. She was very beautiful and had a delicate, porcelain-like appearance. She also held an ice staff in her hand, and a yellow spirit ring was flashing under her feet. However, she looked somewhat frightened and seemed to be very uncomfortable with killing.

Ignoring the stranger's question, Chu Ci's gaze swept past him, and she looked at the girl behind her with great interest.

Xu Xiaoyan, one of the Shrek Seven Devils in the original novel, possesses a martial soul with absolute control, making it quite overpowered.

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie assumed a defensive stance, while Gu Yue noticed that Chu Ci was staring intently at the girl, his gaze turning unfriendly.

The young man, Xu Xiaoyan's brother Xu Xiaoyu, looked at Chu Ci and the others with displeasure. Seeing the dense aura of spiritual energy emanating from all four of them, his eyes flickered slightly. Then he strode towards them.

“If you leave the Spirit Ascension Platform and leave behind a halo of spiritual energy, I will not pursue the matter of you stealing my prey. Otherwise, you will suffer the greatest pain,” Xu Xiaoyu said matter-of-factly.

Xie Xie's lips curled into a sneer. "Is this a humanoid soul beast? Humanoid soul beasts can speak human language now. They've really evolved quite well."

A cold glint flashed in Xu Xiaoyu's eyes, and she pointed her ice staff at Xie Xie.

Instantly, a pale blue icy halo appeared and shot straight toward Xie Xie.

Xie Xie was not to be outdone. He swung out the Light Dragon Dagger in his right hand, and a light dragon blade slashed straight at the opponent's ice wheel.

Chapter 31 The End of the Ascension Platform Journey

The ice wheel danced, drawing a strange arc in the air, easily dodging the light dragon blade, and then suddenly accelerated, like a whirlwind, arriving in front of Xie Xie almost instantly.

A red light flashed, and the ice wheel instantly evaporated. Chu Ci stood beside Xie Xie, holding a flaming sword.

Chu Ci looked at Xu Xiaoyu with displeasure. How dare you be so arrogant in front of me, little brother!

Looking at the two purple soul rings surrounding Chu Ci, Xu Xiaoyu couldn't help but think to herself, "What kind of freak have I encountered?"

As someone from a prominent family, Xu Xiaoyu naturally knew what it meant for her first and second soul rings to be thousand-year soul rings. At this moment, Xu Xiaoyu couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

Just as Chu Ci was about to take up his sword and test this person's strength, he heard Gu Yue's voice in his ear.

"let me!"

Gu Yue, who had just been promoted to a second-ring Great Soul Master and was surrounded by two yellow hundred-year soul rings, stepped forward.

Seeing Gu Yue make a move, Xu Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, a hint of contempt flashing in her eyes.

"Hmph!" Gu Yue snorted coldly, her hands moving rhythmically in the air, displaying the six elements of water, fire, earth, wind, light, and darkness to their fullest extent.

As expected, Xu Xiaoyu, who was level 35, was thoroughly humiliated by Gu Yue, who had just broken through to the second ring of a Great Soul Master, and was beaten so badly that she couldn't even lift her head.

In the end, both Xu Xiaoyu and Xu Xiaoyan withdrew from the Ascension Platform.

As soon as the game ended, Xie Xie bowed respectfully to the side of him, saying, "Sister, from now on you are my sister, and I will never dare to argue with you again."

"Impressive." Chu Ci also gave a thumbs up, thinking to himself that he truly deserved to be called the Silver Dragon King.

Gu Yue raised her small face with a hint of smugness, seemingly quite pleased with Chu Ci's praise, "Defeating an arrogant guy is nothing special."

Chu Ci smiled, about to say something, but was interrupted by roars coming from all directions.

Chu Ci looked around and saw clusters of fiery red things moving in the forest. Upon closer inspection, he realized that a group of fire demon lions had surrounded him.

If the Flame Lion Pack, a top-tier group of soul beasts, were to successfully encircle them, even Chu Ci would be severely injured.

Without the slightest hesitation, Chu Ci roared, "Run!"

After saying that, Chu Ci took the lead and rushed towards the gap in the encirclement of the Flame Lions, with the others following closely behind.

A few hundred-year-old Flame Demon Lions rushed forward to block them, but Chu Ci dealt with them in two or three sword strikes, and the four of them successfully broke through the lion pack's encirclement.

Chu Ci and his companions raced ahead at breakneck speed, followed by deafening roars as a group of red figures pursued them relentlessly.

However, the Flame Lion was, after all, a creature that lived in the great forest. Its speed far surpassed that of the others.

Chu Ci turned around and noticed that the Flame Lion Clan was getting closer and closer to the group. She also noticed that the leader of the lion clan was the Lion King, a thousand-year-old Flame Lion with considerable strength.

Having made up his mind, Chu Ci braked suddenly, flipped over, and jumped to the end of the line.

The scales of the gods appeared behind Chu Ci, and two thousand-year soul rings on his body lit up one after another. He closed his eyes, and his soul power dropped a bit, with a large amount of soul power placed on one side of the scales of the gods.

As the scales of the gods returned to balance, Chu Ci's entire body was covered with a layer of snow-white ice crystals, and his aura instantly surged several times over.

A thin layer of frost formed on the grassland centered around Chu Ci. Chu Ci suddenly opened his eyes, and a blue light flashed from his eyes. A "Chu Ci" made of ice crystals floated out from Chu Ci's body.

Ice Crystal Chu Ci's eyes were indifferent, and her whole body exuded a bone-chilling cold. She took a step and was instantly in front of the Thousand-Year Flame Demon Lion.

At the same time, an ice sword gathered in Bingjing Chuci's hand. With a gentle wave, a white line streaked from the sky toward the Thousand-Year Flame Demon Lion.

A flicker of fear crossed the Thousand-Year Flame Lion's eyes, then it majestically shook its fiery red mane, spewing out a pillar of intensely hot, orange-red fire from its mouth. Simultaneously, it moved its paws back, subtly retreating into the pride.

The white line collided with the pillar of fire, and the nearby Flame Lion was directly overturned by the shockwave.

Chu Ci continued to channel her soul power, and the white lines became increasingly solid. With a final, powerful swing of her sword, the white lines actually cleaved the pillar of fire in two.

The white line continued its momentum, cutting straight into the lion pride.

Where the white line passed, frost covered the ground, and the blood that splattered from the fiery lions in front of the pride was frozen in mid-air.

The Flame Lions ahead suffered heavy casualties, and the Flame Lion pack was thrown into chaos. Many Flame Lions huddled together, some dead and some wounded, greatly slowing down their pursuit.

The icy Chu Ci slowly dissipated into the air. Chu Ci's face was much paler. He turned around and urged in a low voice, "Go quickly!"

The Thousand-Year Flame Demon Lion, which was less injured due to its timely retreat, roared several times to calm its chaotic pride and allow it to continue its pursuit.

But the four Chu Ci poets had already taken this opportunity to slip away far away.

As the roar of the lion gradually faded away, Chu Ci and the other three breathed a sigh of relief.

"I thought we were all going to be eliminated one after another!" Xie Xie's face showed relief at surviving a disaster.