Douluo Continent: From Seven Treasure Glazed Tile to Crescent Moon's Solemnity

Chapter 162 Battle of Frost

Amidst cheers and anticipation from the crowd, Ning Feiliu and Shuanglan ascended the Soul Battle Platform together.

The host went through the process again, and then Ning Feiliu and Shuanglan simultaneously released their martial souls.

"The night is dark and silent! The moonlight fills the sky!" Ning Feiliu unleashed his soul power, and two strange martial souls instantly appeared in his hands.

A jade spear of emerald green and a weapon with a dark purple sphere, along with three spirit rings appearing at his feet...

However, at this moment, the light on his spirit rings seemed to distort, and three purple thousand-year spirit rings appeared in front of everyone.

This was naturally Ning Feiliu's special disguise ability, which she obtained from the psychic Nico of the Myriad Flowers.

However, this did not attract anyone's attention, and they were used to Ning Feiliu's usual configuration of three thousand-year soul rings.

If they knew that Ning Feiliu already possessed a ten-thousand-year soul ring, they would be shocked again, and their praise for Ning Feiliu would reach an even higher level.

After all, this was a Soul Master who had absorbed a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring!

Shuanglan also released her soul power, unleashing a burst of icy power, and shouted, "Martial Soul Possession!"

Layers of frost spread from her body, transforming into solid ice armor that covered her. At the same time, layers of fine scales appeared on her fair, snow-white skin. Ice spears, which are common to dragon-type martial spirits, spread out from behind her. Meanwhile, the ice armor on her body continued to spread around her, transforming into sharp ice crystal swords.

Because her father's Ice Dragon Martial Soul and her mother's Water Shadow Sword Martial Soul were highly compatible, Shuanglan's own Martial Soul fused with the advantages of her parents' Martial Souls. It not only retained the extreme ice attribute of the Ice Dragon Martial Soul and the power of the dragon-type Martial Soul, but also gained several ice crystal longswords that could be used for attack.

Four spirit rings spiraled out from beneath her feet, two yellow and two purple, a typical optimal combination. She had broken through to the Soul Master realm at the age of twenty-two, and with her mutated and even more powerful martial soul, she appeared quite formidable.

That's why Shuanglan was able to stand out among the outstanding young Soul Masters of various families and forces in Tiandou City.

In terms of talent, she is undoubtedly a genius soul master who can be compared with some of the less talented members of the Shrek Seven Devils who did not eat the immortal herb in the original story, such as Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing.

To put it bluntly, apart from Tang San, Xiao Wu, Oscar with innate full soul power, and Ning Rongrong with innate level nine soul power, the talents of the other Shrek Seven Devils, without the blessing of immortal herbs, are only similar to the top geniuses on the Douluo Continent.

In fact, if Ning Rongrong hadn't been born into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and possessed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda as her martial soul, her innate level nine soul power might not have amounted to much.

While innate full soul power may be extremely rare, there are definitely not a few soul masters with innate level nine soul power, especially in this Heaven Dou City.

It's like how there might not be many people who get a perfect score on the college entrance exam, but there are many who score above 740, especially young soul masters in Tiandou City who have families and backgrounds.

Innate soul power is basically determined by family background and luck. If you have a good family background, and both your father and mother are highly talented advanced soul masters with a top-tier family martial soul, then you can basically guarantee a minimum level of martial soul awakening unless something unexpected happens.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the children born to advanced Soul Masters will necessarily be Soul Masters with extremely high innate Soul Power; it just means that they will at least be close to being Soul Masters themselves.

Ning Feiliu and his brothers are an example of this.

However, it's impossible for everyone to have innate level eight or nine soul power or above. It just means there's at least a minimum level. Most of them won't be like grassroots soul masters who have innate soul power as low as level one or two.

Of course, there are exceptions.

Yu Xiaogang is a typical example. His father is the sect leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan and a titled Douluo, but his innate soul power is only half a level, which is quite absurd even in the original work.

Therefore, the quantitative value of innate soul power depends not only on family background but also on luck.

Yu Xiaogang was clearly unlucky, but Shuanglan was quite lucky. Although the mutation of her martial soul fusion did not further enhance her talent, it was obviously a positive change.

It didn't offer much help in terms of talent, but it further enhanced their offensive capabilities.

After both of them released their martial spirits, without saying a word, they immediately entered battle mode.

However, the two took different actions. Ning Feiliu retreated directly, while Shuanglan charged towards Ning Feiliu!

This is naturally due to the different fighting styles resulting from the different martial spirits of the two sides.

Shuanglan's martial soul, the Ice Sword Dragon, provides a significant boost to her physical attributes, especially considering she lacks ranged attack options, making her more suited for close-quarters combat.

Ning Feiliu's martial soul, "Crescent Moon Divine Weapon," is, in any case, a ranged martial soul, and its attack method is mainly ranged attacks.

Although there are also powerful melee weapons like the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon Soul Breaker and the Folding Mirror, he is currently using the Azure Jade and the Falling Brightness.

Those who frequently watch Ning Feiliu's Soul Battles know that when Ning Feiliu uses the two Crescent Moon Divine Weapons, Tongbi and Zhuiming, she prefers to use a kiting attack style.

In other words, use the speed and long range of Tongbi to create distance, and then use Zhuiming to continuously wear down the opponent from a distance.

Shuanglan was well aware of Ning Feiliu's fighting style when using the two Crescent Moon Divine Weapons, Tongbi and Zhuiming, so she charged towards him from the start.

However, sometimes, even if you know what kind of attack the other party will use, there may not be any way to deal with it.

Shuanglan is the same; her current advantage lies in her overwhelming physical attributes and cultivation!

She is different from Ling Yue. As an agility-type battle spirit master, Ling Yue's speed advantage was very obvious when his cultivation level overwhelmed Ning Feiliu.

But that's all it has to offer.

Shuanglan is different. She possesses the most top-tier dragon-type martial soul among beast martial souls. Even if it's not a top-tier martial soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul, the physical enhancement after the martial soul is attached to her is still comprehensive.

Strength, speed, attack, and defense have all been greatly enhanced.

Especially in terms of attack, because her martial soul mutated, this aspect was greatly amplified, making her even more terrifying.

Therefore, her fighting style against Ning Feiliu was to withstand Ning Feiliu's attacks and control, get as close as possible, and then deliver a thunderous blow to Ning Feiliu!

As Ning Feiliu retreated, she raised Zhuiming and began to launch continuous attacks on Shuanglan.

Dark purple energy waves crashed down on Shuanglan. Shuanglan then brandished the ice crystal sword that had condensed around her. The ice crystal sword shattered into nothingness as it collided with the energy waves.

After her ice crystal sword shattered, Shuanglan once again channeled her soul power to condense more ice crystal swords, which still managed to shatter Ning Feiliu's attack using Zhuiming.

Shuanglan frowned at this moment. Her current cultivation level was a whole realm higher than Ning Feiliu's, and her various aspects had been greatly enhanced after her martial soul was attached to her.

As a result, she can only fight to a draw against Ning Feiliu's attacks.

This is naturally because... Ning Feiliu reabsorbed a ten-thousand-year-old third spirit ring, which is a ten-thousand-year-old spirit ring!

When a Soul Master absorbs a Soul Ring, it's not as simple as just gaining a Soul Skill. The higher the quality of the Soul Ring, the more powerful the Soul Skill effect will be, and it will also give the Soul Master some Martial Soul enhancement and self-amplification.

For example, in the original storyline, under Gangzi's persuasion, Third Brother's Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul obtained the first spirit ring of the Mandragora Serpent, which resulted in the unawakened Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul gaining greater resilience and some of the paralyzing toxins of the Mandragora Serpent.

Tang San's body also received a significant boost from the Mandragora Serpent Soul Ring.

Why are Soul Masters with Twin Martial Souls so powerful? Besides being able to possess up to eighteen Soul Skills after reaching the Title Douluo level, they also have eighteen Soul Rings. In particular, the physical enhancement they receive from their second Martial Soul's full ten-thousand-year Soul Ring is terrifying.

At that time, relying on the physical attributes enhanced by the eighteen spirit rings and the martial soul evolved from a full ten-thousand-year spirit ring, they will be invincible at the same level.

Therefore, the higher the level of the spirit ring, the stronger the boost it provides to the spirit master.

Ning Feiliu has absorbed six spirit rings in total, and her third spirit ring is now at the ten-thousand-year level.

That would give him a different boost to his body and his martial soul, especially with the spirit ring of the Ten Thousand Year Silver Moon Mane Lion.

In fact, the Silver Moon Lion is a perfect match for Ning Feiliu, and since it is a soul beast with extremely strong attack capabilities, this time the focus is on enhancing the attack power of Ning Feiliu's martial soul.

Then naturally, he could compete with Shuanglan, who was a whole realm ahead and also possessed a dragon-type martial soul.

At the same time, Zhuiming's passive effect of increasing her own gravity by 40% also took effect, forcing Shuanglan to increase her output of strength and soul power.

Ning Feiliu, with the 40% speed boost given to him by Tongbi, instantly widened the distance between them.

"No... I won't be able to touch him no matter what!" Shuanglan realized something was wrong. Without saying a word, the spirit ring under her feet lit up.

"Second Soul Skill! Wrath of the Ice Dragon!"

The Wrath of the Ice Dragon, as its name suggests, is an amplification-type soul skill. The amplification effect is also quite straightforward, increasing strength and speed by 100% for half an hour.

This is mainly because it's only a hundred-year-old soul ring, so the amplification effect isn't that strong.

But in an instant, the frost energy on Shuanglan's body condensed and erupted, her strength and speed instantly doubled, and then she turned into a blur and rushed towards Ning Feiliu.

"Break!" She gripped the two ice crystal swords that had materialized beside her with both hands and swung them fiercely at Ning Feiliu!

It looked like he was about to strike Ning Feiliu.

however……

"Tongbi! Second Soul Skill! Gale Force!" Ning Feiliu's expression remained calm beneath his mask. The second purple soul ring beneath his feet suddenly activated, and then his body vanished from the spot in an instant.

At the same time, Shuanglan's inner alarm bells rang loudly. She naturally knew what the effect of Ning Feiliu's second soul skill, the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon, was.

The power of the gale creates three gale-force projectiles that attack forward, while also allowing "Asia and Africa" ​​to move a certain distance within one second using the force of the gale.

When it only had a thousand-year soul ring, the power of the Gale could only move twenty meters in one second. Although it was not teleportation, the speed was still extremely fast.

Now, the power of the Gale has been reabsorbed into an eight-thousand-year-old soul ring, which has the effect of rapidly moving fifty meters in one direction within one second, and the Gale Projectiles it creates are even more powerful!

Shuanglan immediately conjured an ice shield in front of her, and instinctively blocked the incoming attack with her hands clasped together.

The next moment, three high-speed, whirlwind projectiles, like arrows, landed in front of the frost shield, instantly piercing through the seemingly indestructible shield.

After all, the shield that Shuanglan conjured was not a soul skill. Even with overwhelming soul power, she couldn't possibly block Ning Feiliu's soul skill, which was released by a soul ring with an age of eight thousand years, without using a soul skill!

After piercing through the frost shield, the three whirlwind projectiles directly broke through Shuanglan's body surface soul power defense and the dragon scales condensed by her martial soul, creating three bloody wounds!

However, Shuanglan quickly pressed her hand against her injured abdomen, and the power of frost condensed on the wound, temporarily freezing the injury there.

However... she can't fight for too long while she's injured.

"Well... it's time to decide the winner." Shuanglan's eyes were filled with fighting spirit, even though she had promised that she would concede defeat no matter what in this battle of souls.

But given how the battle has progressed, how could she possibly admit defeat so easily?

At the very least... I'll only fulfill my promise after I've used this soul skill to determine the winner!

"Is that so?" Ning Feiliu chuckled. Without needing to say more, he knew what Shuanglan was planning to do next.

The fourth and final spirit ring beneath Shuanglan's feet slowly lit up...

Seeing this, Ning Feiliu did not hesitate, and the third spirit ring under her feet lit up.

No one knew that this seemingly thousand-year-old spirit ring was actually a ten-thousand-year-old spirit ring.

On the contrary, the surrounding audience couldn't help but worry. You know, "Yafei's" strongest soul skills are his two self-created soul skills. Last time, he defeated Ling Yue in a challenge that was above his level, which was also because he used his self-created soul skills.

Now, facing the even more powerful Frost Wave, if he doesn't use the self-created Soul Skill that explodes the rings, but only uses his own Soul Skill... can he win?

Under the tense gaze of everyone, the two activated the soul skills attached to their most powerful soul rings.

"Fourth Soul Skill..." Frost Lan's body was surrounded by countless ice crystal swords, seemingly hundreds of them. At the same time, she spread her arms and shouted loudly!

"Ice Sword Raging Waves!!!"

She pushed her hands to both sides, and the hundreds of condensed ice crystal swords immediately unleashed a violent burst towards Ning Feiliu's location.

This is almost... unavoidable!

But no one expected that after releasing her soul skill, she would immediately jump off the fighting platform without saying a word and quietly watch Ning Feiliu facing her fourth soul skill.

Clearly, she was simply fulfilling her promise.

At the same time, Ning Feiliu smiled gently, and her third spirit ring emitted a profound light, "Falling Brightness... Third Spirit Skill!"

"The Moon of Blunt Lock!"

In an instant, the deep black moonlight spread out, enveloping the ice crystal longsword!

(End of this chapter)