Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 165 The Secret Beneath the Border?

Secondly, there is the cultivation of soul power, which is closely related to the first aspect of soul power foundation. Qian Renxue's proposed body tempering and mimicry cultivation have solved this problem to a certain extent.

During the body tempering process, Jing Hongchen personally supervised them, and after the training, they would be given a medicinal bath with herbs to strengthen their foundation and nourish their vital energy. In addition, their diet was improved, and their physical fitness and the quality of their soul power continued to rise.

Finally, you need to have combat skills and rich practical experience. Regarding this, the teamwork among the seven was overseen by Coach Ma, and their consistent second-place finishes speak volumes about Coach Ma's abilities.

According to him, the finals consisted of three types of battles: seven-person team battles, 223 battle tactics, and individual battle tactics. The team battle results were the best they had achieved in recent decades, basically on par with Shrek Academy. The team lost because the Shrek Academy's soul masters were indeed skilled, and they were crushed in the other two rounds.

She was thinking of building a secret team, hidden in the shadows, which was similar to the shadow guards around her when she was infiltrating the Heavenly Dou Palace.

However, her opponents back then were those good-for-nothings in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace; this time, her opponents are Shrek Academy.

She didn't expect these people to serve her in the future; she just wanted to test her training ideas and approaches.

The Sun Moon Empire would definitely not let these people go to her. If she really wanted to establish a secret force, she would need the Spirit Hall's own people.

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"They've set off?"

In the branch altar of Mingdu, Ye Xishui listened quietly to the report from her confidant.

This confidant was a Contra Master, and he was the one who brought those Shrek prisoners back to the Holy Spirit Cult. Shen Yuanyi knew him and had even greeted him.

"Your Majesty, the Ice and Snow Priest, the Holy Maiden, and Miss Shen departed a quarter of an hour ago." Contra hesitated for a moment, "However, I think I've been discovered."

"Hmm, it's alright." Ye Xishui casually waved her hand, dismissing him.

"The border between the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Sun Moon Empire?" Ye Xishui muttered to herself, "Ever since I obtained the divine inheritance, I've felt like there's something underground over there."

Then, she disappeared.

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Meng Hongchen hid in the shadows, staring intently at a soul beast twenty meters away.

This soul beast is called Earth Scale Armor, a variant of the pangolin. It possesses powerful defense and its meat is delicious, which is extremely beneficial for a soul master's physical cultivation.

Their target is a 5,000-year-old earth scale armor.

Although Meng Hongchen is not a pure Soul Master, she is like Shen Yuanyi—she may not have eaten pork, but she has seen pigs run—so her experience in using Soul Tools surpasses that of Shen Yuanyi.

If it weren't for Shen Yuanyi's exceptional combat abilities, he might not have been able to defeat her decisively.

She silently unleashed her second soul skill, Ice Poison Ring. It was a soul skill similar to a domain, but not actually a domain. Its effect was that all poisons within its range were doubled in power. If this soul skill were a domain, the amplification effect would be even more terrifying, and it wouldn't just affect herself.

Then, she unleashed her third soul skill, Ice Refraction, which allowed her to change position at will on the mirrored ice plate she created through the refraction of light and shadow. Although it was not a powerful soul skill like instant teleportation, it was extremely useful in actual combat when combined with her soul guide armor.

By constantly refracting ice, she altered her trajectory and drew closer to her prey.

The five-thousand-year-old Earth Scale Armor was leisurely lying on the ground, dozing off, completely unaware that a crisis had already arrived.

Meng Hongchen slammed her hand on the ground, shaking a large boulder near the Earth Scale Armor, which then rolled towards the armor. She wore a pair of soul-guided gloves, a creation of Jing Hongchen. These were melee soul-guided devices that could increase her strength by twenty percent.

This is what she learned from Qian Renxue and Shen Yuanyi during this time: not just soul tools, but all external objects can be used as a means of attack, and can be turned into her own. The boulder rolled towards the earth scale armor, which was obviously frightened. It didn't know why a perfectly normal rock would start moving on its own.

His tail lashed the ground, and his whole body sprang up, ready to escape.

"Whoosh—" Another team member, who had been lying in ambush not far away, hit its head directly with a soul-guided ray.

"Roar—" An indescribable scream came from the mouth of the earth scale armor.

Meng Hongchen came to its side, his eyes widened suddenly, and then he slapped down with his palm.

Her Crimson-Eyed Ice Toad martial soul has a unique characteristic: the martial soul itself is of the ice attribute, but her eyes are of the fire attribute. It is this alternation of ice and fire that produces a special kind of deadly poison.

First Soul Skill: Ice Toad Poison!

The deadly poison instantly invaded the body of the Earth Scale Armor.

"Ye Shaoyang! Finish it off!" she shouted to the side.

A young man darted out from not far away; it was he who had just ambushed the fleeing soul beast. Ye Shaoyang drew a soul-guided short sword and ended the soul beast's life without hesitation.

This was a level four soul tool, higher in level than Qian Renxue's longsword, possessing powerful piercing capabilities. After enduring Meng Hongchen's attack and being shot by a level four soul ray, it was on the verge of death, but was finally successfully hunted down, and a purple soul ring slowly floated out.

The hunt was over, and the others arrived from afar.

"Great! Our team is finally going to have a third teammate who is at least a Soul Master!" Xiao Hongchen said sincerely.

After more than a month of arduous training, the cultivation levels of several members of the reserve team have improved to varying degrees. Among them, Ye Shaoyang, whose martial soul is Iron Ox, broke through to level 40 yesterday. He happened to be on his way and passed through a mountainous area called Langling Mountain, where some soul beasts under ten thousand years old lived. Iron Ox martial soul is a defensive type of martial soul, and this earth scale armor is perfect for it.

"Brother Xiao, I'm ready to absorb this spirit ring," Ye Shaoyang said.

"Okay, don't worry, we'll wait for you." Xiao Hongchen nodded.

Ye Shaoyang was overjoyed. He had originally thought it would take him at least three to four months to break through to level 40, but under the almost suffocating training plan devised by Qian Renxue, his potential was stimulated to a certain extent.

He is fourteen years old this year, and is the second oldest member of the team, the same age as Meng Hongchen. However, he did take some medicine that could enhance his cultivation level, which caused his cultivation speed to be faster in the early stages.

He may only ever reach the seventh ring at most in his lifetime, but he is very satisfied.

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What secrets lie beneath the border? It's actually quite easy to guess: the collision of two continents will obliterate a certain place.

When Tang San set sail, he departed from the west coast of the Heaven Dou Empire, so this location was set on the border between the Heaven Soul Empire and the Sun Moon Empire, rather than the Ming Dou Mountains.

However, the family of the first sea god survived. Although they did not appear in the second part, they most likely went to the mainland to hide.

There are good things on Poseidon Island. Most importantly, if Qian Renxue knows about the ruins of this place, she might be able to glean information about her own divine attributes.

(End of this chapter)