Douluo: 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 cared about the life or death of the diamond beast. Her Uncle Di Tian had previously instilled in her the idea that hunting soul beasts was abhorrent for soul masters, and she had only mentioned it briefly. Since her master hadn't objected, 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 in a day, and no one would say she did anything wrong, after all, she was a member of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Serpent Spear Doros had no idea 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 exploded, 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 whipped up by the force of his aura.

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 blow 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 might 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 the other soul beasts, however, they face the true reality of the Star Dou Great Forest—they need to be wary of lower-level soul beasts taking advantage of their vulnerability, and they need to be wary of the scorching attacks of soul beasts of the same level. They must be constantly on high alert, facing relentless hunting from all sides.

It was precisely this vigilance cultivated by the harsh environment that allowed the Diamond Fierce Beast leader to immediately sense the aura of the Serpent Spear Douluo the moment it was released, and to react instinctively. Its massive body abruptly stood up, its four thick elephant legs barely supporting it, and its long, sturdy trunk pointed skyward, emitting a deep and resonant elephant's roar.

Waaah—

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

However, that's all there is to it.

The figure of the Serpent Spear Douluo 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 beast leader in an instant, like a venomous snake striking. With a slight twist of his wrist, the spear tip precisely avoided the gaps in the diamond crystals, piercing into the leader's left eye without hesitation. Then, with a burst of strength, the spear shaft pierced through the leader's right eye, exiting with scalding fluid.

In excruciating pain, the ferocious elephant leader's long trunk swept across with immense power, but Serpent Spear Douluo anticipated it. The serpent spear rose upwards, and the sharp blade instantly pierced through the thick elephant trunk. The movement was 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 an elephant trunk hanging from his spear, he forcefully lifted the diamond mad beast and then quickly retreated away from the herd.

As he rapidly retreated, he passed the tree where Tangshan was. With a casual wave of his hand, his surging soul power swept Tangshan down and into 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 slapped 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, accompanied by 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' pursuit.

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

The scenery around him rushed by at lightning speed, and gusts of wind that reached Tang Shan were 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 to the ground and be dragged along, leaving a wide ditch in its wake.

The diamond mammoth's defensive capabilities were truly extraordinary. It was 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 defense was completely breached, leaving a terrifying bloodstain in the ravine formed on its back.

boom!

Having traveled an unknown distance, Serpent Spear Douluo's speed gradually decreased, and the two arrived at an open space.

The shield was retracted, and Serpent Spear Douluo flicked his spear, sending the massive diamond mammoth flying.

Tang Shan looked at the enormous soul beast and the incredibly slender spear in comparison, his expression somewhat subtle. Indeed, the essence is in the condensed form.

call--

He let out a long breath, his body slightly sweaty. In reality, if She Long had truly used his original strength, the Diamond Beast would most likely not have lasted a single round. However, to avoid instantly killing his opponent while carrying such a heavy Diamond Beast all the way, he was, after all, just a Weapon Soul Master. His soul power, although refined due to the improvement in the quality of his Martial Soul, had decreased considerably in total amount. 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. He then slowly opened his eyes and looked at Serpent Spear Douluo: "Senior, I'm ready."

puff!

A spear pierced through the massive, gray-black body, and the Diamond Beast's aura rapidly diminished; it was clearly 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 where the Serpent Spear Douluo had pierced the opponent's eye, all the way into his brain. The thick elephant trunk twitched unconsciously for a moment, then fell lifeless.

Even after Tangshan delivered the fatal blow, this 4,900-year-old soul beast did not utter another howl. Clearly, the mental trauma inflicted by the multibrained monkey was far more severe than imagined, and that final cry to warn its kind was likely the limit of its mental endurance.

Its soul power dissipated, and then slowly condensed into a bright purple soul ring on its massive body, emanating a dense wave of soul power.

Tang Shan took a deep breath and activated his martial soul. His body swelled slightly, and a pale purple soul ring appeared at his feet. He sat cross-legged beside the giant elephant's body, following some kind of mysterious attraction, and connected with the thousand-year-old soul ring on the giant elephant's corpse. He then communicated with it and drew 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 about to arrive, related to willpower. If the average daily subscription reaches 700, I'll add an extra chapter; the release date should be close to the third update.

Chapter 102 Absorbing the Soul Ring, Will Enters the Soul Ring Skill Space (Please follow and subscribe)

The purple thousand-year soul ring was placed on Tang Shan's body, from which powerful and domineering soul power surged out 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 soul ring was absorbed, the bottleneck in the unseen realm was detected, and the surging soul power crashed against the invisible barrier.

Click!

A shattering sound rang out within his body, and his soul power surged even faster. Using this impact, Tang Shan mobilized the soul ring energy that was still flowing into his body and directed it towards the meridians in his hands.

Click!

Previously, the bottleneck was broken; now, the meridians are unblocked. 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 meridians are needed to form a cycle. I wonder what kind of special changes will occur in the soul power at that time.

The energy of the soul ring continued to flow into his body. Tang Shan only devoted a part of his mind to refining it, while the other part prepared 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 soul ring suddenly shone brightly, but his body did not change at all, which made him frown slightly.

Why does the soul ring, which was absorbing everything perfectly, suddenly need to release a soul skill, and why does the body not feel any different after the soul skill is activated?

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 rest of the 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 transforming his previously chaotic thoughts into crystal clarity. The flow of time seemed to slow down in his perception, and all external sounds, lights, and even the flow of soul power in the air were infinitely amplified and instantly fed back into the depths of his consciousness.

This feeling wasn't just simple sensitivity, but an extreme sense of "control." He felt as if his brain was a precision instrument being overclocked, and those vague fragments of training he couldn't remember in the past were now surging up from the depths of his memory like a tide; those once 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. Or rather, amplifying and controlling the brain was not his real goal. In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person. 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 gaining 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 was able to help Tangshan obtain this qualification.

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

Getting back to the point, the fundamental purpose of Tangshan's brain control program is not to gain more insight or brain intelligence, but to elevate one's perception to its 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, Tangshan confirmed his suspicions: the Soul Ring was a part of him.

Is it possible to control it?

Yes, but not now.

He confirmed that the soul ring absorbed by the soul master was part of the soul master, but he was temporarily unable to control the soul ring.

The reason is none other than the inability to sense the soul 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 Detonation, from the original work. After all, the prerequisite for destroying a soul ring is to sense it, right? If he could get his hands on the Ring Detonation technique, 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 through the Martial Soul and then explodes directly, leaving no chance to sense it at all.

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

Isn't a soul ring supposed to fuse with the soul master? I can't find you after the fusion, but I refuse to believe I can't find you during the fusion process. I will raise my perception to the extreme during the fusion process and then seek out the connection with the soul ring that is being fused.

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

Under that extreme probing, he "saw" soul power surging through the meridians, and "saw" cells cheering under the nourishment of energy. Finally, in that torrent of energy, a faint, seemingly fragile connection was detected.

With the release of control, an invisible connection was quietly established. Tang Shan's heart stirred slightly, but he forcibly suppressed it with his will.

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? What do we do next?

Not knowing what to do next, Tangshan could only try to send a portion of his soul power 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 the energy flowing from the soul ring gradually thinned out, Tang Shan had a vague feeling that if he couldn't find a way to enter before the soul ring completely merged with him, then the faint connection between the soul ring and himself would inevitably disappear after the soul ring merged with him.

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

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

Suddenly, an idea popped into my head.

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

Once this thought arose, Tang Shan no longer hesitated. Following his premonition, his will crashed into that invisible passage.

In that instant, it was 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 rushed into his consciousness. At the same time, the amount of soul power consumed by him to activate his first soul skill suddenly increased dramatically.

The increase was so rapid that Tang Shan had to use the energy of his not-yet-fully-refined soul rings to activate his soul skills.

……

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

In that instant, a subtle fluctuation of rules emanated from Tang Shan's body. Only a Super Douluo-level expert could vaguely sense this fluctuation, and only an Ultimate Douluo could clearly perceive it.

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

The ethereal and melodious voice revealed an undisguised surprise and doubt. The subtle fluctuations in the rules emanating from Tang Shan surprised the girl no less than when she sensed the presence of faith power in an ordinary soul master. It was simply unbelievable.

……

Tang Shan had no idea that his experiment had caused a silver dragon fish, which had originally just 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.

【Overpower: Amplifies leg strength, leaps into the air, and then uses the body to overpower and attack the enemy】

This seems to be an effect description of a soul skill. Could it be that I've entered the inside of a soul ring?

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

Previously, when he absorbed his first soul ring, he changed the effect of the soul ring by using an extremely strong and concentrated consciousness. Now, when he absorbs his second soul ring, by sheer coincidence, he can directly enter a space that is suspected to be a soul ring skill.

Recalling Su Haichao's incredible teleportation skill, which allowed him to move further as his soul power increased, Tang Shan couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement.

His previous interference with soul skills was out of necessity. After all, uncontrolled soul skills are not very useful in the later stages. It is better to have controlled but weaker skills than uncontrolled ones with decent power.

Now, however, he seems to be able to choose directly from these soul skills, and he might even be able to choose a growth-type skill similar to his father's. How could he not be tempted?

Subconsciously, the mind moves within this space.

[Elephant Roar: Emits an incredibly loud elephant roar, intimidating the opponent and causing some sonic damage.]

[Earthquake Stomp: Force is channeled into the earth, generating seismic waves within a ten-meter radius, causing dizziness in enemies for at least one second.]

[Super Armor: Strength increased by 100%, granting super armor status, immune to shockwaves and knockbacks, can stop but will not be pushed back]

【Earth Waves: The land is manipulated like flowing water, like limbs, allowing direct control to engulf opponents】

A variety of wondrous soul skills flowed into his consciousness as information, and were subsequently learned by Tang Shan.

Sure enough, I must have entered the soul ring and soul skill space of this diamond ferret. Many of the earth-attribute skills there must have been passed down from its ancestors.

Constantly navigating through various soul skills, Tang Shan's consciousness was like a rat that had fallen into an oil vat, rapidly absorbing the information within. His vision and thinking also broadened under the influence of these soul skills.

As expected, he did have a domain-specific soul skill: Earth Domain, which increases all of his own attributes by 30%, weakens the opponent by 20%, and greatly increases his ability to control the earth element.

Feeling the information received in his consciousness, Tangshan's thoughts raced.

Last time, Dad didn't obtain a domain soul skill. It was either because his consciousness indirectly interfered with the space of the soul skill and the effect was not good, or because there are certain conditions to obtain a domain soul skill. It's also possible that both possibilities exist.

P.S.: Just a quick note: the reason for consuming unrefined soul ring energy is because the protagonist's current power level requires his first soul skill to consume a large amount of soul skill energy to maintain. Also, to acquire a relatively powerful soul skill, it's not about forcibly suppressing his level. After the breakthrough, the protagonist will become a Soul Master within three years. Finally, please support me!

Chapter 103: The Dharma Forms of Heaven and Earth and the Primal Ferocious Beast, the Wisdom of the Silver Dragon (Bonus Chapter for 700 Average Subscriptions)

Never mind, I'll come back and check again next time. Right now, I need to find a soul skill that suits my taste.

Tang Shan's consciousness paused for a moment in front of the soul skills in the Earth Domain, and then began to traverse the entire soul ring and soul skill space again.

Ultimately, it's an earth-attribute domain soul skill, which doesn't quite match my power attribute. I'll take another look. If there's nothing that matches, I can come back and look again later.