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

"OK then."

Hearing that her master had spoken, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion no longer concerned itself with the life or death of the Diamond Mammoth. Her Uncle Di Tian had previously instilled in her the idea that Soul Masters hunting Soul Beasts was despicable, and she had only heard that briefly before mentioning it. Since her master had no intention of stopping it, she, as an Imperial Auspicious Beast, naturally had no reason to interfere.

Anyway, if she wanted to eat, she could kill more than just this one soul beast a day, and no one would say she did anything wrong, after all, she was the embodiment of the destiny power of the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Serpent Spear Douluo was completely unaware that he had just narrowly escaped death. He raised his hand and summoned his martial soul, a serpent spear covered in black scales that suddenly appeared. The spearhead emitted a chilling blue light, and the shaft was covered in ferocious scales, as if live snakes were writhing within them. He stared at the Diamond Mammoth leader in the distance, and his powerful aura suddenly erupted, freezing the surrounding air instantly. At the same time, his figure transformed into a blur, almost teleporting close to the elephant herd, the fallen leaves beneath his feet being kicked up by the force of his energy.

The moment the Serpent Spear Douluo unleashed its aura, the first to react was still the leader, whose cultivation was the highest. Although its spirit had been severely damaged, its vigilance towards its surroundings remained at its peak.

Or rather, it was precisely because of this severe injury that it became even more vigilant about its surroundings.

This is the Starry Sky Forest, a natural world of survival of the fittest, a primitive region full of wildness, desolation, and savagery. There is no mercy here; they will not spare your elephant because of your injuries, but will only take advantage of your vulnerability.

For super soul beast races like the Emerald Swan or the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, which are guarded by ferocious beasts, the Star Dou Great Forest may be a society unique to soul beasts. They have no worries about food, and the only things they need to guard against are evil beings like the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger or the Human-Faced Demon Spider, which devour soul beasts to cultivate. For other soul beasts, however, the Star Dou Great Forest is a different story. They need to be wary of lower-level soul beasts taking advantage of them, of the schemes of soul beasts of the same level, and of being hunted by super soul beasts like the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and the Titan Giant Ape. They must be on high alert at all times.

It was precisely this vigilance cultivated by the harsh environment that allowed the Diamond Mammoth leader to immediately sense the aura of the Serpent Spear Douluo the moment it was released, and to react instinctively. Its massive body suddenly stood up, its four thick elephant legs barely supporting its weight, and its long, thick trunk pointed to the sky, emitting a deep and resonant elephant bellow.

woo-

The loud sound quickly spread throughout the forest, and the diamond mammoths, upon hearing the warning, instinctively flew towards it to prevent an attack.

However, that's all there is to it.

The Serpent Spear Douluo's figure flashed past the outer edge of the elephant herd, his serpent spear whistling through the air, piercing the four thousand nine hundred-year-old Diamond Mammoth leader like a viper's forked tongue. With a slight twist of his wrist, the spear tip precisely avoided the gaps in the diamond crystal, piercing into its left eye without hesitation. Then, with a burst of strength, the spear shaft pierced through, exiting from the right eye with scalding fluid.

In excruciating pain, the mammoth leader's trunk swept across with immense power, but the Serpent Spear Douluo anticipated it. He raised his spear and the sharp blade pierced through the thick trunk in an instant, the movement swift and seamless.

His eyes and nose were pierced, bodily fluids and blood splattered everywhere, accompanied by a miserable and extremely painful scream.

Awooo—

"Get up!"

With a roar, the Serpent Spear Douluo unleashed an incredibly terrifying power from his aged body. With the elephant trunk hanging from his spear, he forcefully lifted the diamond mammoth and then quickly retreated away from the herd.

As he rapidly retreated, passing the trees where Tangshan was, he casually wrapped Tangshan up with his hand, and the surging soul power swept him down, landing him in his other hand.

Afterwards, their soul power surged, and their speed increased to another level. The two figures quickly disappeared into the dense forest. During their escape, the Serpent Spear Douluo also took the opportunity to slap the trees along the way a few times.

Only then did the group of diamond mammoths realize that their leader had been killed, and they instinctively tried to chase after the murderer. However, with a series of creaking and cracking sounds, trees fell one after another, hindering their pursuit. Clearly, the few slaps that Serpent Spear Douluo had casually made on the trees during their retreat had worked, causing them to fall and impede the diamond mammoths' advance.

By the time they bypassed the obstacle, the two men from Tangshan were already quite a distance away.

He sped along at breakneck speed, the surrounding scenery rushing by wildly. Gusts of wind blew towards Tang Shan, but were all blocked by an invisible shield of soul power.

He subconsciously turned his head to look behind him, and saw a "small hill" hanging on the long spear, with blood splattering in the wind, staining the rapidly passing scenery red.

Occasionally, its massive body would crash onto the ground, being dragged swiftly and leaving a wide trench in the earth.

The diamond mammoth's defenses were truly extraordinary. It dragged at high speed for a long distance before the diamond keratin layer protecting its body surface was damaged. Then, its tough skin remained in close contact with the ground for quite some time before the defenses were completely breached, leaving a terrifying crimson stain in the ravines formed on its back.

boom!

Having traveled an unknown distance, the Serpent Spear Douluo gradually slowed down and the two arrived at an open space.

The soul power shield that had enveloped Tang Shan was withdrawn, and the Serpent Spear Douluo flicked his spear, sending the giant diamond mammoth flying.

Tang Shan looked at the enormous spirit beast and the incredibly slender spear in comparison, his expression somewhat subtle. Indeed, the best things come in small packages.

call--

He let out a long breath, a slight sweat breaking out on Serpent Spear Douluo's body. In reality, if She Long had truly used his full strength, the Diamond Mammoth would most likely not have lasted a single round. However, to avoid instantly killing his opponent while simultaneously carrying such a heavy Diamond Mammoth at breakneck speed, he was ultimately just a Weapon Soul Master. His soul power, though refined due to the improved quality of his Martial Soul, had decreased significantly in total quantity. Completing the entire process of severely injuring and retreating had left him somewhat exhausted.

"First, adjust your own condition." Serpent Spear Douluo looked at Tang Shan.

Tang Shan didn't say much. He sat down cross-legged on the spot, calmed his mind, and began to circulate his soul power. After several cycles, he felt his heart was calm and still. Then he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the Serpent Spear Douluo: "Senior, I'm ready."

puff!

A spear pierced through the massive, gray-black body, and the Diamond Mammoth's aura plummeted, indicating it was already severely injured.

Tang Shan took out a bright silver spear he had crafted himself from his storage soul tool and thrust it along the wound that the Serpent Spear Douluo had used to pierce the opponent's eye, plunging it straight into the brain. The thick elephant trunk twitched involuntarily, then fell lifeless.

Even after Tangshan delivered the fatal blow, this 4,900-year-old spirit beast did not utter another howl. Clearly, the psychological trauma inflicted by the multi-brained monkey was far more severe than imagined, and that final elephant call, a warning to its kind, was likely the limit of its mental endurance.

The soul power dissipated, and then slowly condensed into a bright purple soul ring on its massive body, with rich soul power fluctuations emanating from it.

Tang Shan took a deep breath, activated his Martial Soul, and his body only swelled slightly. A pale purple spirit ring appeared on his feet. He sat cross-legged beside the giant elephant's body, following some kind of mysterious force, and connected with the thousand-year spirit ring on the giant elephant's corpse. He then communicated with it and guided it onto his body.

P.S.: The next chapter's amplification of the Soul Skill might surprise everyone, and the protagonist's power-up is coming soon, related to willpower. If the average daily subscription reaches 700, I'll add an extra chapter; the release time should be close to the third update.

Chapter 102 Absorbing the Soul Ring, Willpower Enters the Soul Ring and Soul Skill Space (Please subscribe and continue reading)

A purple, thousand-year-old soul ring was placed on Tang Shan's body, from which powerful and domineering soul power surged forth and then rampaged through his meridians without restraint.

A series of sharp pains emanated from his meridians, but Tang Shan remained unfazed. Facing the pain within his body, he focused on refining the soul power in his dantian.

As the spirit ring was absorbed, the bottleneck in the darkness was detected, and the surging spirit power rushed towards the invisible barrier.

Click!

A shattering sound echoed within his body, and his soul power surged even faster. Using this impact, Tang Shan channeled the soul ring energy that was still continuously flowing into his body toward the meridians in his hands.

Click!

Previously, the bottleneck was broken; now, the meridians are connected. Carrying the momentum of breaking through the bottleneck of a Great Soul Master, Tang Shan mobilized his soul power and broke through two more of the twelve meridians in one go.

At this point, ten of the twelve meridians have been opened, and only two more are needed to complete the cycle. I wonder what special changes will occur in the circulation of soul power at that time.

The energy of the spirit ring continued to flow into his body. Tang Shan only devoted a portion of his mind to refining it, while preparing to conduct an experiment that only he could do.

The Serpent Spear Douluo, who was sitting on the treetop protecting the Dharma, suddenly noticed that Tang Shan's first light purple spirit ring suddenly shone brightly, but his body did not change at all, which made him frown slightly.

Why does the soul ring, which was being absorbed properly, suddenly need to be released as a soul skill, and why does the body feel no change after the soul skill is used?

While absorbing the soul ring's power, Tang Shan suddenly activated his first soul skill, increasing his self-control by 20%. He did not apply this control to the other enhancements, but instead used it all to enhance his brain.

With "self-control" fully activated, Tang Shan felt as if a flash of inspiration had exploded in his mind, instantly making his previously chaotic thoughts crystal clear. The flow of time seemed to slow down in his perception, and all sounds, lights, and even the flow of soul energy in the air were magnified infinitely and instantly fed back into the depths of his consciousness.

This feeling wasn't just a simple heightened awareness, but an ultimate sense of "control." He felt as if his brain was a precision instrument that had been overclocked. Those vague fragments of cultivation he couldn't remember in the past surged up from the depths of his memory like a tide; those obscure and incomprehensible pieces of knowledge were instantly dismantled and analyzed under the crushing force of accelerated thinking, turning into the most basic logical fragments that merged into his instincts.

However, this was not Tang Shan's true purpose. In other words, Tang Shan had already learned how to amplify and control his brain. Otherwise, he would have been just an ordinary person in his previous life. Even with the help of his first soul skill, self-control, he could not have made such rapid progress in internal martial arts. This was thanks to his lightning-fast learning ability after he gained control of his brain. Later, he read a large number of books related to cultivation in the Spirit Hall of Heaven Dou City, which led to his current mastery of internal martial arts at the Transformation Realm.

As for why the Spirit Hall was willing to open its secret information to Tang Shan...

According to Xue Qinghe, she went through a difficult struggle with Salas and promised him many benefits before she finally helped Tangshan obtain this qualification.

Tang Shan had "no doubt" about Xue Qinghe's words at the time and expressed his absolute loyalty to "the Crown Prince of Tiandou".

Getting back to the main point, Tangshan's fundamental purpose in starting to control the brain is not to gain more insight or brain function, but to elevate his own perception to the extreme.

The first soul skill, Self-Control, controls Tang Shan himself. So, are the soul rings also considered part of Tang Shan?

After a period of testing, Tang Shan confirmed his guess: the spirit ring was a part of himself.

Is it possible to control it?

Yes, but not now.

He confirmed that the spirit ring absorbed by the spirit master belonged to the spirit master, but he could not control the spirit ring for the time being.

The reason is nothing other than the inability to sense the spirit rings for the time being.

Releasing a soul skill is an instinctive process that doesn't require the soul master to think about how to activate it. This actually left Tang Shan at a loss, since if he couldn't even sense the soul ring, how could he possibly control it?

At that time, Tang Shan thought of two solutions. The first solution was the Haotian Sect's self-created soul skill, Ring Explosion, from the original work. After all, the prerequisite for you to explode a soul ring is to sense it, right? If he could get his hands on the secret method of exploding the ring, Tang Shan was confident that he could control the soul ring through his first soul skill.

As for the Soul Ring Fusion Technique, Tang Shan had also inquired with the Porcupine Douluo and the Serpent Spear Douluo and discovered that this technique directly fuses all the Soul Rings together with the Martial Soul and then unleashes them directly, without giving anyone a chance to perceive them.

The second method is what Tangshan is now preparing to do.

Isn't a spirit ring supposed to fuse with the spirit master? I might not be able to find you after the fusion, but I refuse to believe I can't find you during the fusion process. I'll maximize my perception during the fusion process and then try to find the connection with the spirit ring I'm fusing with.

Tang Shan calmed his mind, spreading his amplified perception like a net, then suddenly contracting it inward, ignoring flesh and bones, and penetrating directly to the most microscopic level of his body.

Under that extreme probing, he "saw" soul power surging through his meridians, and "saw" cells rejoicing under the nourishment of energy. Finally, in that torrent of energy, a faint connection, seemingly about to be severed at any moment, was detected.

As he released his control, an invisible communication channel was quietly established. Tang Shan's heart trembled slightly, but he forcibly suppressed it with his will and calmed it down.

He breathed a slight sigh of relief after the first step of the experiment was successful, but he froze at the next step.

The connection is clear now, so what's next? What do we do next?

Not knowing what to do next, Tangshan could only tentatively send out a portion of his soul power to try and transmit it through the connection.

However, the attempt failed. Ultimately, this connection was an invisible channel, not a real energy channel. Tang Shan was able to control it through his first soul skill because it was a rule-based soul skill.

As he sensed the energy flowing from the spirit ring gradually thinning out, Tang Shan had a feeling that if he couldn't find a way to enter before the spirit ring completely fused with him, then the faint connection between the spirit ring and himself would inevitably disappear after they merged.

Even now, Tang Shan's soul power is being consumed at an accelerated rate.

Ideas flashed through his mind, then were quickly eliminated through Tangshan's calculations.

Suddenly, an idea popped into my head.

Since this connection is intangible, can will, which is also intangible, be accessed through this connection?

Once this thought arose, Tang Shan no longer hesitated. Following the intuition in the darkness, his will crashed into that invisible passage.

In that instant, it felt as if I had passed through a thin film woven from countless rules.

There was nothing particularly special about it, but when Tang Shan regained consciousness, a surge of information uncontrollably flooded into his mind. At the same time, the amount of soul power consumed by him to activate his first soul skill suddenly increased dramatically.

The rapid increase forced Tang Shan to use the energy of his still-unrefined soul rings to activate his soul skills.

……

In the tree canopy opposite Serpent Spear Douluo, a black-haired girl who was curiously observing Tang Shan's entire process of absorbing the spirit ring suddenly changed her expression the moment Tang Shan's consciousness collided with the spirit ring.

In that instant, Tang Shan emitted a subtle fluctuation of rules. Only a Super Douluo-level expert could vaguely sense this fluctuation, and only a Limit Douluo could clearly perceive it.

"How could there be fluctuations in the rules? He's just an ordinary Soul Master, his Soul Power seems to be about the same as a hundred-year-old Soul Beast?"

The ethereal and melodious voice revealed an undisguised surprise and doubt. The subtle fluctuations of rules on Tang Shan's body brought the girl as much surprise as she had sensed the presence of faith power in an ordinary soul master. It was simply unbelievable.

……

Tang Shan was completely unaware that his experiment had caused a certain silver dragonfish, which had originally only wanted to freeload, to take notice of him. At this moment, most of his consciousness was in a mysterious space.

This space is devoid of light, color, form, and appearance. Since it is entered by consciousness, there is no such thing as observation.

However, the information that flooded his mind upon entering the space gave him a rough idea of ​​where he was.

【Crushing Strike: Amplifies leg strength, leaps into the air, and then uses body pressure to attack the enemy】

This looks like an effect description for a soul skill. Could it be that I've entered the interior of a soul ring?

As soon as the thought of Tangshan arose, his heart pounded with excitement.