Douluo Continent: Dragon's Journey Across the World

Chapter 68 Meng Haoran

With Yang Ping'an and Meng Haoran taking the stage, their battle spirit was about to ignite.

Meng Haoran, as expected of a direct descendant of the Meng family, wielded the dragon-headed cane with great power and skill, having essentially mastered the essence of cane techniques. Each strike seemed to possess boundless power, which was the function of the dragon-headed cane: it combined the sharp attack of a weapon spirit with the powerful amplification of a beast spirit.

However, Yang Ping'an's current strength is completely different from before, especially after the Purple Gold Mastiff possessed him. Each strike seems to have a special attribute. Yang Ping'an is quite clear that this is the so-called Dragon Power, or the attribute that only top-grade beast martial souls possess.

The Purple Gold Mastiff now possesses extremely strong metal and power attributes, somewhat similar to the lightning attribute of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, but even more formidable.

In just a few minutes, Yang Ping'an and Meng Haoran had exchanged blows countless times, neither of them gaining the upper hand, and their fighting spirit had only become more intense.

At that moment, Meng Haoran seized the instant when the two separated during their fight and immediately activated the first soul skill of the Dragon Head Cane: Dragon Head Strike. The Dragon Head Cane, which originally looked like a weapon, suddenly came to life. The dragon head emitted an unusual roar and rushed towards them like a real dragon, possessing extremely strong attack power.

Facing the oncoming dragon head, Yang Ping'an clenched his fists, gathered all his soul power in his hands, and punched the dragon head with all his might. Everyone was shocked, not expecting that someone would dare to use their body to withstand a soul skill.

Unexpectedly, after Yang Ping'an's fists collided with the dragon's head, he was knocked back six or seven meters, and a long scratch appeared on the ground. However, he was completely unharmed and withstood the soul skill.

Seeing that his first move had no effect, Meng Haoran transformed his dragon-headed cane into a dragon, making his attacks even more ferocious.

However, Yang Ping'an was not afraid at all. His hands were like dragon claws. After blocking Meng Haoran's attacks one after another, when the two were very close, he directly used his second soul skill: Purple Gold Ray. A purple gold ray suddenly shot out from his right hand. Before he could react, his left hand grabbed at the same time and directly knocked away the dragon head cane that Meng Haoran used to block.

In that instant, the golden rays of light passed through Meng Haoran's ears, and even scorched some of his hair.

As expected of a direct descendant of the Meng family, Meng Haoran, as the team leader, was relatively upright and honest, simply sighing as he admitted defeat.

Although the battle lasted for a relatively long time, neither of them displayed their full strength, especially since both of them only used one soul skill. In any case, Yang Ping'an won by using cleverness.

The surrounding trainees were shocked to see this, as they couldn't believe that their captain, whom they had always admired, would lose, and lose so suddenly.

Meng Haoran seemed a little unwilling, but still showed considerable magnanimity: "Junior Brother Yang, your strength is beyond my imagination. I didn't expect that you, at only level 35, would have such powerful combat strength. I will definitely challenge you again next time, and I will definitely teach you everything then."

Yang Ping'an showed no joy at his victory: "Thank you for your mercy, Brother Meng. You didn't use your full strength in the fight just now. My victory was just a fluke."

After exchanging greetings, both sides returned to their original positions, reflecting on the battle they had just fought.

Meng Haoran seemed somewhat unwilling. He hadn't shown his true strength in the battle just now, but he lost so suddenly, especially in such a sudden way. It was as if his opponent had completely grasped the weakness of his martial soul.

Yang Ping'an pondered to himself. The Dragon Head Cane was a decent martial soul, even a high-level one, and it was also a very rare martial soul that possessed both weapon and beast attributes.

However, it is clear that this dragon-headed cane does have its drawbacks. It cannot be possessed by a martial soul like a beast soul, and the switching between weapon martial soul and beast martial soul is quite troublesome. This is why I was able to seize the flaw in the switching process.

There is a general consensus in the Soul Master world that Beast Souls are more powerful before reaching the Soul Saint level, while Weapon Souls become stronger after reaching the Soul Saint level, especially during the cultivation process, as the early stages of Weapon Soul cultivation are more difficult.

No matter how talented a weapon spirit master is, in the early stages, due to their young age, their mastery of the weapon spirit is insufficient, so their moves will have many flaws.

This is why, in the original Soul Master Competition, the entire Tiandou region, whether in the preliminary rounds or the qualifying rounds, basically had no offensive weapon-type Soul Masters (weapon-type). Unless those large families possessed some inherited secret manuals, very few were able to hone their weapon spirits.

After the morning training session was completed, the team leader, Meng Kang, kept Yang Ping'an behind.

Yang Ping'an asked, somewhat puzzled, "Teacher Meng, I wonder why you kept me behind alone. It seems there was no training this afternoon."

Meng Kang spoke earnestly, "Yang Ping'an, you're now a member of our team. As long as you perform well and are strong enough, I can make you a regular member of the team at any time."

Yang Ping'an was completely confused when he heard this. Wasn't this kind of thing just a matter of strength? Could there be some other problem?

Meng Kang hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Yang Ping'an, I know you have your own training methods, and you have a lot of experience in cultivation. Could you give the team members some advice on cultivation? I feel like everyone seems to be stuck in a bottleneck right now."

Yang Ping thought for a while before speaking: "Teacher Meng, my training is rather extreme, and I'm afraid it may not be suitable for other trainees. After all, we are just teammates."

Meng Kang seemed somewhat relieved, and even couldn't help but smile: "Yang Ping'an, you're overthinking it. On the battlefield, your teammates are your greatest support, so you need to trust each other. Feel free to offer any suggestions you may have."

After some hesitation, Yang Ping'an finally spoke up: "My training method suggestion is very simple: everyone should do weighted mountain running, also known as mountain extreme cross-country."

What is mountain off-roading?

"It's about pushing everyone to their limit, until everyone can't run anymore."

Meng Kang's lips twitched upon hearing this. A student actually made such a suggestion; it was simply outrageous. If they were to train like this, could these pampered second-generation kids really handle it? Especially since Meng Yiran was a girl.

Yang Ping'an didn't care about all that now. He had already given the best advice, and whether they could implement it was their own business. He just needed to continue to follow his own cultivation plan.

Many people ask why we are so obsessed with the Soul Master Competition. Have you forgotten about the knowledge about immortal herbs? If you don't find a way to unconsciously attract Chrysanthemum Douluo's attention, a bunch of immortal herbs are just useless. And you absolutely cannot scheme against them, otherwise scheming against a Title Douluo is very troublesome.

(End of this chapter)