Douluo Continent: From Internal Martial Arts to the Law of Heaven and Earth

And those soul beasts and the soul hunters, were they all just extras?!

Can someone tell him what it means to throw a bag containing soul bones around in a fit of anger, and it just so happens to land right next to you?! What it means to make such a commotion that attracts a group of soul beasts, yet instead of harming anyone, you take them in?!

I used to live with the Silver Dragon King, the ruler of all soul beasts. Oh, never mind then.

Although he already found it outrageous, Tang Shan was still somewhat unwilling to give up and asked with a last glimmer of hope, "Brother, how did you break through to the Transformation Realm? Was it a natural progression after traveling across the continent? Or did you only comprehend it after several bloody battles, experiencing life and death, and surviving against all odds?"

Su Yuntao was somewhat puzzled: "No, my cultivation has been going quite smoothly since I broke through to the Dark Force level. It's just that I've been stuck at the last hurdle for the past year."

Tang Shan had a bad feeling, as if his worldview was about to be shattered again.

"Shanzi, didn't you say you were from Tangshan when you came in? I didn't recognize you at the time and thought someone was impersonating you. So, in a fit of anger, my blood surged and I broke through like that."

P.S.: Ahem, Blind King vs. Tang Buddha, thanks to the upright and incorruptible George Washington for the donation.

Chapter 162 Future Plans, Golden Crocodile Wants to Take on a Disciple

Some people, in a fit of anger, only showed anger for a moment;

Some people can break through their cultivation level in a fit of anger; perhaps this is the sad, thick barrier between people.

Tang Shan originally thought that his three years of hard training, breaking through the Dan Jin realm, achieving a second awakening, and opening up the sea of ​​spirit were already great progress, but he never expected that there would be a master by his side.

Forcing himself to calm his turbulent thoughts, he looked at Su Yuntao: "Brother, have you seen Father since you came back? Why did you come straight to the Crown Prince's residence to find me?"

Su Yuntao's calm expression turned serious, and his brows furrowed slightly: "I originally wanted to go find my father first, but as soon as I got to the entrance of the Spirit Hall, I heard the people inside talking about him. I was afraid that something had happened to my father, so I didn't rush in. After inquiring around, I came to the Crown Prince's residence first."

"It's nothing. It's just that many members of the Spirit Hall are dissatisfied because I joined His Highness the Crown Prince's command. My father is also fine; he was just transferred to the Spirit Hall's library as a librarian."

Su Yuntao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "It's good that you're alright. I've encountered so many things on this journey, and I was afraid that something might have happened to you."

Tangshan?!

Brother, it turns out you've also realized you've encountered quite a lot of problems!

Tell me about your journey.

Tang Shan already had a certain guess in his mind, so he had become somewhat immune to Su Yuntao's experience, but after listening to his brief account, he still felt it was quite outrageous.

"The day I left Heaven Dou City, I carried a map with me and deliberately chose to challenge cities with large Soul Arenas. After fighting match after match, I quickly obtained the Golden Soul Badge."

A hint of helplessness flashed across Su Yuntao's face, and his voice deepened: "But who could have imagined that this age, coupled with this badge, would make me the target of everyone's criticism? Every time I step into a new city, there are always people pointing at my badge and suspecting that I'm forging it, coming one after another to provoke me. I have no choice but to raise my fist again and again and crush those doubting voices with absolute strength."

That's it, that's the taste!

The thought flashed through my mind.

"After one fierce battle after another, my potential seemed to be fully unleashed, and my strength increased rapidly."

Later, the opponents in those grand arenas no longer posed any challenge. So I simply turned around and plunged into the Soul Hunting Guild, determined to continue honing my skills in the Soul Hunting Forest.

Su Yuntao's expression suddenly became complicated, his eyes filled with an unyielding helplessness.

"Who would have thought that my first mission after joining the Soul Hunter Group would involve encountering a Soul Bone. Although I survived by the skin of my teeth, I also turned misfortune into blessing—my years of hard-earned internal martial arts training broke through the shackles and I stepped into the realm of Dark Force."

I initially thought the appearance of the Soul Bone was just a lucky coincidence, but the darkness deep within the Soul Hunter Group still exceeded my expectations.

Ugh!

Su Yuntao sighed deeply, his words full of disgust: "The teams I joined were either constantly fighting amongst themselves and killing each other, or the leaders were scheming and lining their own pockets."

Unable to bear it any longer, I simply assembled my own Soul Hunting Squad.

But our very first job backfired—the soul master who commissioned us to hunt for soul rings turned out to be a fallen man in human form! The very night we got the soul rings, he poisoned our food, intending to use the lives of our entire team as nourishment for his cultivation breakthrough!

Fortunately, I noticed it early and fought back desperately, managing to kill that beast…

Listening to Su Yuntao's story, the angel lady couldn't help but open her mouth wide—his experiences over the past three years were even more legendary than those recorded in history. Hunting down evil soul masters and slaughtering wolf bandits were just small fry; what was even more outrageous was that he had also eliminated arrogant nobles and executed some soul master scum who, while not evil in their cultivation, behaved in ways that would make even evil soul masters shake their heads in disbelief.

Tangshan?!

After a long silence, he asked, "Brother, what are your plans for coming back this time?"

Su Yuntao answered without hesitation: "I'll stay in Tiandou City with you and my father for a while, and then I'll continue traveling across the continent."

Su Yuntao's eyes were bright, and wildness and ambition were concentrated in them.

"I have a feeling that I am not suited for secluded cultivation. Perhaps the entire Douluo Continent is the battlefield where I can roam freely."

As soon as he finished speaking, a lone wolf phantom materialized behind Su Yuntao, unleashing an uncontrollable aura of battlefield ferocity.

Tang Shan's eyelids twitched; he felt he was about to suffer another devastating blow.

"I see, I see. The battlefield of slaughter is not a real battlefield, but a battlefield that the soul masters agree upon."

Su Yuntao's mutterings reached my ears.

Good grief, they're not even pretending anymore, they're just openly cheating.

"Big brother, who were you just now...?"

Tang Shan asked tentatively.

"Although I have a very high compatibility with the mental cultivation technique 'Slaughter' that Master Chen Zhan taught me before, I have never been able to grasp its essence. As you know, Shanzi, this technique can only be improved on the battlefield."

However, just now, when I thought of using the entire Douluo Continent as a battlefield to hone myself, the cultivation technique naturally entered my initial stages. Every battle I fought afterward was a practice session for this technique.

Tangshan?

He had never thought that he was such a suitable NPC—look at his older brother, who had broken through one after another since they met. Was he going to tell him that there were even more outrageous things that would happen to his older brother?

As it turned out, his idea was clearly correct.

As Tang Shan watched Su Yuntao leave from the entrance of the Crown Prince's residence, he turned around and found an old man standing behind him.

He was startled, carefully examining the old man's vaguely familiar face and his always upright back, and tentatively asked, "Grandpa Golden Crocodile?"

Golden Crocodile Douluo nodded in satisfaction: "That's right, it's me. I have successfully broken through."

No wonder you look decades younger; it turns out you've broken through to the Limit Douluo level.

Despite the news of Golden Crocodile Douluo, which should have shocked him immensely, Tang Shan remained remarkably calm. After all, the shock he received from Su Yuntao today had been too great, raising his threshold many times over.

He simply smiled and congratulated him, saying, "Congratulations on Grandpa Golden Crocodile's breakthrough."

The tranquility of Tangshan did not attract the attention of Golden Crocodile Douluo. He simply watched Su Yuntao leave and asked him, "Is that your elder brother?"

Tangshan nodded in confirmation.

Golden Crocodile Douluo hesitated for a moment, then looked around as if trying to find something, but he couldn't detect anything in his senses.

"Ahem." Golden Crocodile Douluo cleared his throat, looking somewhat embarrassed. Tang Shan actually sensed an awkwardness on the face of a Limit Douluo. "Um, I have a favor to ask, Tang Shan, could you please pass on a message to your teacher for me?"

"Senior, you go first. As for whether the teacher will agree, it's hard to say."

Although Tang Shan didn't know why Golden Crocodile Douluo suddenly had the urge to seek out Grandmaster, he had already made up his mind to refuse any request that required Grandmaster's personal appearance or intervention.

After all, he is currently only a quasi-Soul Master, lacking both prestige and strength.

"I would like to take Su Yuntao as my disciple. Is that possible?"

Golden Crocodile Douluo felt a little embarrassed. After all, it wouldn't look good for a Limit Douluo to be competing with someone else for a disciple. But Su Yuntao was indeed the most suitable person to inherit his mantle.

With a beast spirit, a second ring of a thousand-year-old weapon, and the ability to comprehend willpower, he is simply the perfect disciple to take on.

If it were someone else, a Limit Douluo taking on a disciple wouldn't cause so much trouble, but Su Yuntao is different—not to mention that his teacher is Grandmaster, who can be considered the number one Douluo theorist, it's still unknown whether he'd be willing to let him become his disciple.

Master Chun himself possesses unfathomable strength; even with his current cultivation level as a Limit Douluo, he still cannot detect any trace of her. Forcibly accepting her as a disciple might cause the Spirit Hall considerable trouble.

Tangshan! What's wrong with this world? Why has it suddenly become a place I don't recognize?

Seeing Tang Shan fall silent, Golden Crocodile Douluo explained, "I really think your elder brother is very suitable to be my disciple. Moreover, I think your elder brother's progress in the past three years seems to be all due to his own hard work, without receiving systematic training. Could it be that your teacher is not particularly good at this aspect?"

Tangshan: Of course, there's no way to provide a systematic training program. My older brother has gone off to make his way in the mainland, and I can't even see him anymore. How can I plan for him?

However, putting aside the matter of snatching a disciple from the "master", Golden Crocodile Douluo is indeed an excellent teacher. After all, the four Limit Douluo currently on the Douluo Continent are no joke.

Tang Shan was thrilled. If Su Yuntao could become the disciple of Golden Crocodile Douluo, their position in the core of the Spirit Hall would be even more secure.

Tang Shan quickly calmed down and asked with some doubt, "Grandpa Golden Crocodile, how did you discover my older brother's talent?"

Golden Crocodile Douluo: "After I broke through, I rushed back. As soon as I entered the Crown Prince's residence, I felt the clash of your wills."

Tangshan!!

"Just right," "perfectly timed"—can there really be such a coincidence in the world?

Recalling his elder brother's recent good fortune, he suddenly calmed down again.

What's so strange about that? Encountering a "hundred-year-old soul beast producing a soul bone" and then a "passing-by powerful expert wanting to take you as a disciple" is all normal—normal my foot!

Tang Shan forced a smile: "Grandpa Jin'e, let me see if I can contact my teacher. After all, my teacher is usually very elusive."

However, my older brother has also taken another Soul Master as his teacher, and this time he may need the other person's consent to become his disciple.

A golden light flashed in Golden Crocodile Douluo's eyes—it's good to have other teachers. At least it shows that the master is very open-minded and does not prevent his disciples from having multiple teachers.

"Who is the other person?"

Golden Crocodile Douluo asked casually.

"It's the Soul Master Chen Zhan from the Crown Prince's Palace."

Tangshan introduced.

Golden Crocodile Douluo frowned: "Is he a Soul Saint or a Soul Douluo? I've never heard of him before?"

"He is a Soul Emperor."

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Chapter 163 Departure and Arrival: The Prehistoric Soul Beasts Towards Their End

Needless to say, after a heart-to-heart talk between Golden Crocodile Douluo and Chen Zhan, the other party readily agreed to let Su Yuntao take another person as his master.

As for the master, Tang Shan's reply to Golden Crocodile Douluo was naturally that the master agreed.

So, before Su Yuntao and Su Haichao, who had just returned from the Spirit Hall, could even react, they learned that a senior wanted to take Su Yuntao as his disciple.

It's unclear what Golden Crocodile Douluo and Su Yuntao discussed in a room, but when the two reappeared, Brother Tao readily offered tea and became his disciple.

Another month passed, and only after seeing that his disciple had mastered most of his signature skills did Golden Crocodile Douluo let go and allow him to continue traveling the continent.

During this period, Su Yuntao's confidence soared after he became the disciple of a powerful figure. He even wanted to challenge Tang Shan and rebel against his younger brother's "tyranny".

However, all the arrogance vanished completely when Tangshan transformed into a five-meter giant and swung his enormous fist down on his head.

Didn't you find a good teacher? Didn't you cultivate your will? Didn't you master the Golden Crocodile Douluo's ultimate techniques?