Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass, Simulating Godhood

Chapter 41 The Rage of the Iron-Blooded Vine! A Head-on Clash!

The simulation is still ongoing.

Hundreds of iron-whip-like vines lashed out simultaneously from all directions, tearing the air with a dense, sharp whistling sound. Each vine was as thick as a human arm, its surface covered with sharp barbs and dark red veins, containing a terrifying force capable of smashing city walls to dust. Your figure weaved and dodged through the gaps, like a leaf in a storm, seemingly swaying precariously, yet always managing to avoid those fatal lashes by the slightest margin.

You tentatively swung a Blue Silver Emperor Vine to meet one of the Iron Blood Vines. The two vines collided violently in mid-air, producing a crisp sound like metal clashing. You felt a tremendous force emanate from the point of impact, sending your vine flying back several feet, while the Iron Blood Vines only paused slightly before lunging at you even more fiercely.

"What a tough thing." You exclaimed inwardly. The Ironblood Vine truly lived up to its reputation as a 140,000-year-old defensive plant spirit beast; the hardness of its vines far exceeded your expectations, almost reaching the level of ten-thousand-year-old cold iron. Ordinary spirit power attacks probably couldn't even penetrate its outer layer. You immediately abandoned the idea of ​​a head-on confrontation, activating your Swift Wind Step, your figure blurring as you transformed into a golden-green afterimage, darting to the side. At the same time, the 100,000-year-old spirit bone on your right arm suddenly shone brightly.

[The earth trembles. A punch slams into the ground, unleashing a dark golden shockwave that spreads outwards from your fist, cracking the earth beneath your feet into deep, bottomless ravines. The ground within a radius of dozens of feet shakes violently as if churned by an invisible giant hand. The roots of the Iron Blood Vine are torn and shaken by the earth's tremors, and the overwhelming vines lose their aim.]

[You seize this opportunity to leap into the air, seven spirit rings lighting up simultaneously, enveloping you in a golden-green light. A layer of vine armor materializes on your body, constructed from the life energy of the Blue Silver Emperor, covering your entire body like a second skin. This makes you appear like a war god enveloped in emerald light, your defense and recovery abilities simultaneously boosted to their current limits.]

[The Ironblood Vine quickly recovered from the brief chaos of the earthquake, seemingly enraged by your counterattack. Its vines no longer attacked in scattered fashion, but rapidly intertwined into a massive net, blanketing you and sealing off all your space and direction for evasion. At the same time, its enormous body began to tremble violently, and a series of cracking sounds came from beneath the ground, clearly indicating that its roots were extending deeper into the earth, attempting to recover from the root damage caused by the earthquake.]

As the giant net, woven from hundreds of vines, pressed down upon you, a long-lost, exhilarating fighting spirit surged within you. Since advancing to Soul Douluo, you hadn't had a truly satisfying battle. This Iron Blood Vine before you would serve as an excellent touchstone, testing the limits of your current combat power.

Without dodging or evading, you abruptly raised your hands, simultaneously activating the "Return to Spring" and "Return to Nothingness" energies. Golden-green light intertwined and surged between your hands, and a strange aura—a symphony of life and death, order and chaos—suddenly spread out from you. The moment the giant net of iron-blooded vines touched this aura, the dark red patterns on its surface began to flicker violently, as if two diametrically opposed forces were fiercely clashing within its tendrils, causing its structure to become unstable.

The Ironblood Vine let out a deep, thunderous roar, clearly sensing the terrifying power within. Your "Return to Spring" was forcibly stimulating the unchecked growth of its vine cells, causing its originally tight structure to loosen and spiral out of control. Simultaneously, "Return to the Void" was frantically draining the life force from its giant net. Under this double attack, the once indestructible net began to show visible cracks and gaps.

[Seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you condensed an extremely refined golden-green beam of light into your right fist, unleashing the Emperor's Wrath to strike the weakest point in the giant net. The beam pierced through, tearing a large hole large enough for you to pass through. Your figure burst through the hole, shooting straight towards the core of the Ironblood Vine like an arrow.]

[The Ironblood Vine clearly hadn't expected you to break through its defenses in this way. The torn vines were still twitching and trembling in mid-air, unable to regroup and rebuild their defenses. Your figure had already broken through layers of defenses, approaching its core. It let out an even more frenzied roar, and the thick vines on either side of its body suddenly stood upright, crashing down on you like two giant iron hammers, carrying enough power to shatter mountains.]

[A golden-green light surged in your eyes, and the imaginary space beneath your feet suddenly opened up, swallowing the two vine-like iron hammers into a void before they could strike you. The Iron Blood Vine's attack missed its mark; the two immense forces slammed into the ground, creating two huge craters, scattering rubble and dirt everywhere, while you stood unharmed before its true form.]

You raise your head, your gaze fixed on the massive, mountain-like trunk of the Ironblood Vine. You can clearly sense its anger, agitation, and an undisguised shock. You silently assess your current situation: your soul power is depleted by about 30%, your stamina is still plentiful, your hallucinogenic domain hasn't been activated, your mental annihilation is still intact, and your trump cards are far from exhausted, while your opponent already seems somewhat overwhelmed.

"It's time to end this." You said softly, then suddenly activated all your mental power. The hallucinogenic domain surged towards the core of the Ironblood Vine like a silent tide, and the mental annihilation followed closely behind, transforming into an invisible sword that pierced towards its mental core.

The Ironblood Vine's body trembled violently, and all its tendrils seemed to droop as if simultaneously losing their support, ceasing their attack, like a statue whose pause button had been pressed.

You left no room for its struggle or hesitation. Spiritual Annihilation precisely pierced the Ironblood Vine's spiritual core, not to utterly destroy it, but to plunge its will into a temporary slumber and collapse. Taking advantage of this opening, you raised your hand, gathering the final strike of your right arm's soul bone, concentrating all remaining power into your fist. Earth Shattering, in its most concentrated form, slammed into the Ironblood Vine's most vulnerable core segment.

【boom】

A deep, muffled boom echoed across the open space, the ground trembled violently, and leaves from the surrounding trees fell like rain. A deep crack appeared in the core of the Ironblood Vine, and dark red liquid slowly seeped out, flowing down like blood. Its aura began to fluctuate violently, like a candle flickering in the wind. The vines, having completely lost their support, drooped to the ground, showing no further signs of attack.

You stand before it, slightly out of breath, feeling the last vestiges of life force from this 140,000-year-old Ironblood Vine slowly draining away, condensing into a deep red spirit ring. You sit cross-legged, drawing the spirit ring to your feet, close your eyes, and begin to absorb it.

Although this Ironblood Vine spirit ring is slightly younger than the 180,000-year-old Blue Silver Emperor spirit ring from the Sun Moon Continent, the resilience and power attributes it contains are extremely rare. You feel that heavy energy, like refined steel, slowly flowing into your meridians, strengthening your foundation and adding a powerful defensive and strength base to your Golden Blue Silver Emperor spirit ring on top of its original life attributes.

After a long while, you opened your eyes. The eighth crimson spirit ring slowly rose from beneath your feet, echoing the previous seven. Having absorbed it, you stood up, looking down at the now thicker and more solid Golden-Blue Silver Emperor spirit ring in your palm. Feeling the new power brought by the eighth spirit ring, a satisfied smile appeared on your lips.

[You've obtained your eighth spirit ring; now only the ninth is missing. You raise your head, gazing into the distance at the unexplored area deeper within Sunset Forest, a new direction already forming in your mind.]

The simulation is still ongoing.