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

Chapter 303 Thunderous Hell Vine (Don't click yet)

However, Ning Feiliu knew very well that, as far as he knew, the Thunderous Hell Vine, being a top-tier plant-type soul beast reincarnated from the Thunder God, must grow in places where lightning was abundant.

It can only develop when it rains and thunders.

Each time it is struck by lightning, it becomes stronger; a hundred lightning strikes are equivalent to a year of cultivation for an ordinary soul beast.

Thunder is the most violent of all natural forces, and it is under the test of thunder that the Thunderous Hell Vine continues to grow.

In the beginning, its growth is very slow and difficult because it needs to wait for natural lightning to strike it before it can develop.

Therefore, while other soul beasts might cultivate for a year, it might take ten years for it to gather enough lightning bolts for a hundred strikes, making its cultivation more than ten times slower than that of ordinary soul beasts.

However, as time goes by, once the Thunderous Hell Vine is able to cultivate to the hundred-year level, the situation will change dramatically.

Once the Thunderous Hell Vine has reached a cultivation level of a hundred years, it can actively attract lightning during thunderstorms and let the lightning strike it.

Often, it can receive a hundred thunderbolts in a single night. Although by then, it will take more than a hundred thunderbolts a year to improve its cultivation level, its cultivation speed will increase significantly.

Due to its inherent characteristics, once the Thunderous Hell Vine is cultivated to a certain level, its destructive power becomes extremely terrifying, often creating a spectacular scene of thunder pools appearing in an area.

This Thunder Pool will continue to expand as the Thunderous Hell Vine strengthens itself, until it devours everything around it.

A Thunderous Hell Vine with ten thousand years of cultivation is enough to alter the heavens, causing thunder to descend upon the mortal realm and wielding its power to destroy everything in its path. Therefore, the appearance of a Thunderous Hell Vine with such cultivation would inevitably cause disaster in a particular region.

Only the strongest can destroy it, but the Thunderous Hell Vine also has a drawback.

Because it improves itself by constantly absorbing lightning, once it reaches a certain level, the destructive lightning, after being compressed, becomes so powerful that it is always at risk of self-destruction.

Therefore, the vast majority of Thunderous Hell Vine appear in deep mountains and forests, developing in uninhabited places, but ultimately perish during its own growth process.

Depending on their growth history, Thunderous Hell Vines typically self-destruct around 20,000 to 50,000 years old, with very few Thunderous Hell Vines capable of cultivating for more than 50,000 years.

In reality, the Thunderous Hell Vine that Zhang Geyang possessed was only about 40,000 years old in cultivation. However, because it was capable of growth, Zhang Geyang had been suppressing its cultivation level.

So if you think about it carefully, the current Thunderous Hell Vine may not necessarily have 20,000 years of cultivation, but may have more than 10,000 years of cultivation.

However, the Thunderous Hell Vine was born with intelligence, just like the Spirit King at the beginning. If it reaches ten thousand years of cultivation, it should be able to have extremely high intelligence, just like the Spirit King.

This would allow them to talk to Leiming Yanyu Teng... Moreover, Ning Feiliu was somewhat confident that she could defeat Leiming Yanyu Teng.

because……

The line of text related to the task reappeared before his eyes, but only the small print he could see—

Explore the ruins of Thor's fall, find the Thunderous Hell Vine, and receive the blessing of the Thunder Demigod and the Overgrowth of Runes.

This task isn't about absorbing the Thunderous Hell Vine; you can get rewards simply by exploring and finding the Thunderous Hell Vine!

And the blessing of the Thunder Demigod...

This blessing must be quite attractive to Thunderous Hell Vine, which is also of the lightning attribute, just like the blessing of the Ice and Snow Demigod was attractive to the Snow Empress, who was at a high position in the same element.

Although the mission description stated that the gods were demigods, Ning Feiliu knew all too well that the strength of the three original demigods of Freljord was definitely stronger than that of the first-level gods in the Douluo God Realm.

After all, the strength of the Douluo world is indeed somewhat weak; even a god's strength is not enough to directly destroy a city.

Compared to the continent of Valoran, which is full of monsters, it is indeed somewhat lacking.

Ascended, Darkin, Demigods, Celestials, and even super-powerful beings like Ryze, Jax, and Mordekaiser, as well as... Aurelion Sol, whose status rivals that of the creator god, and Bard, the Celestial Wanderer, who is second only to Aurelion Sol.

That's really incredible. Those tech-savvy cities like Piltover and Zaun, capable of destroying city-states, are nothing compared to these guys.

After all, if a down-on-his-luck general who couldn't make it in Noxus could still command respect in the Twin Cities, then it goes without saying that figures like Darius, Swain, Vladimir, and the legendary idea master, Ms. Le, could do the same.

And that's mostly the limit for humans; the Protoss and Darkin above them are even more formidable.

After all, Hextech is still used to analyze runes, but when it comes to analyzing runes and deconstructing the world, let alone Ryze, Volibear, Ornn, and Anivia are the embodiment of the Freljord laws, and they are truly formidable.

Ning Feiliu thought that if he found the Thunderous Hell Vine, completed the mission and received the blessing of the Thunder Demigod, the blessing belonging to Volibear within him would definitely attract the Thunderous Hell Vine.

"Let's get ready to go in," Ning Feiliu said to Dugu Yan and the other girls, with this thought in mind.

"This place... is so badly destroyed, could it be that someone beat us to it and fought a big battle here already?" Shui Bing'er frowned and said with some concern.

"No... this is what this site should look like," Ning Feiliu said with a smile.

"This? Fei Liu, you don't mean you think you can't leave empty-handed since you've come all this way, do you?" Dugu Yan looked at him with an annoyance, thinking he was just being stubborn because he didn't want to have made a wasted trip.

"No." Ning Feiliu smiled slightly, then decided not to hide anything and said directly to the girls, "Actually, I came here to find a special soul beast called the Thunderous Hell Vine..."

"This is a top-tier plant-type and lightning-type dual-attribute soul beast, said to be reincarnated from the fallen Thor. It possesses immense power and considerable intelligence." He explained everything, saying, "And its method of increasing cultivation is different; it requires constantly drawing in lightning to strike itself, thereby rapidly increasing its cultivation level."

"So generally speaking, the place where it is located will become a lightning-struck area..."

"Lightning strike?" Ye Lingling looked thoughtfully at the black crystal at her feet, which seemed to have been forged by lightning and high temperature and was covered with lightning strike patterns. She said, "Hmm... this does look like it was caused by a lightning strike."

"Won't we be in danger like this? Will lightning keep falling down here?" Shui Yue'er asked with concern.

However, Ning Feiliu smiled slightly and called out softly, "Snow Empress..."

"I am here." A flash of white light appeared within him, and the Snow Empress, as cold and aloof as snow, appeared before him.

His confidence naturally came from Xue Di, a super soul spirit with 600,000 years of cultivation. No matter how terrifying the lightning strike was, could it really kill them under Xue Di's protection?

Even a 100,000-year-old Thunderous Hell Vine couldn't harm the Snow Emperor, let alone an ordinary lightning strike drawn by a 10,000-year-old Thunderous Hell Vine.

"With Xue Di here, don't worry, she can definitely protect us." Ning Feiliu then looked at Ye Lingling and said with a smile, "And as long as we don't die immediately, Lingling can definitely save us."

Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul has a powerful restorative effect that can bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded, although she hasn't reached that level yet.

After all, she was only at the Soul King level, yet Ning Feiliu gave her the remaining incomplete revival runes.

The powerful effects of the runes need no further explanation; even with their incompleteness, Ye Lingling's current healing abilities are arguably on par with her father, Ye Tianxin.

Moreover... Ning Feiliu and the others also brought many alchemical potions.

as well as……

"However, everyone should still pay attention to one thing: use your soul tools when necessary." Ning Feiliu showed everyone the Explorer's Armguard on her hand.

The Explorer's Armguard comes with the Invincible Golden Body Soul Skill, and the enhanced version can even block an attack from a Title Douluo.

With so many life-saving abilities, Ning Feiliu and the others really don't need to worry too much about any accidents happening.

"Okay." Immediately, everyone felt relieved.

"Let's go." Ning Feiliu said without hesitation and led the way towards the ruins.

Without hesitation, the girls followed Ning Feiliu toward the dark entrance to the ruins.

Xue Di stayed at the very back to protect everyone.

The entrance passage was severely damaged by lightning, so there are still holes in the passage where sunlight shines in, providing some light.

However, the further they went into the entrance passage, the less damaged the area above became by lightning, so they soon found themselves in complete darkness.

"Sizzle—" Ning Feiliu and the others finally took out their lighting soul tools. These were lighting soul tools native to the Douluo Continent, and their range of light was almost the same as that of a small flashlight.

They continued walking inwards.

But just then, Shui Yue'er seemed to remember what Ning Feiliu had just said.

Plus, it was rather eerie to remain silent in the dark, so she spoke up and asked Ning Feiliu in front of her, "Feiliu... you just mentioned Thor... does this world really have gods?"

In the Douluo Continent, the pinnacle of Soul Masters is the realm of gods, and many gods must gather the power of faith to become gods.

However, the Douluo Continent rarely features the worship and belief in gods, and even the belief in the Sea God and the Sun Angel God in the original work is almost completely avoided.

The island of Poseidon, though damaged by the sea, is relatively safe, as its inhabitants are explicitly believers in the sea god.

However, on the Douluo Continent itself, very few Soul Masters knew about the worship of gods, and even the Sun Angel God, who was the chief priest of the Spirit Hall, was nowhere to be found.

It's even more impossible that Bibi Dong hated Qian Xunji after taking power and then erased the belief in the Sun Angel God, the progenitor of the Qian family.

Because Bibi Dong has only been in power for a few years, if the Sun Angel God had been the mainstream belief in the Douluo Continent for tens of thousands of years, then she wouldn't just be able to suppress the belief, but anyone who opposed the belief in the Sun Angel God would be condemned by the entire continent.

Just like the medieval church, its influence extends to the present day, where even in a technologically advanced world, faith in God still exists.

Moreover, the worship of gods usually leaves behind many wonders, such as churches and sculptures, which cannot be completely overthrown and destroyed all at once.

Therefore, this answer is impossible.

The Spirit Hall truly does not practice any belief in gods, which has led to the fact that most spirit masters on the continent are completely unaware of the existence of deities and are somewhat disbelieving in them.

Ning Feiliu's mention of "Thor" is rather puzzling.

"Hmm... there are gods in this world." Ning Feiliu didn't hide anything, after all, he and the girls had already had genuine, close-up interactions, and in this world, they already had the closest relationship.

At least the girls in the Douluo world are all normal, while the men might be a bit abnormal. After all, there seem to be quite a few girls like Dai Mubai who frequented brothels in their teens.

Ma Hongjun's problem can be attributed to a flaw in his martial soul, but how do you explain Dai Mubai's?

Therefore, the men in the Douluo world were quite abnormal in Ning Feiliu's eyes, while the girls were all deeply affectionate and rarely acted recklessly.

Moreover, she's the kind of person who'll stay with you for life, and she won't do things like "I need hundreds of thousands of gold soul coins as a bride price to marry you" or shamelessly claim she'll divorce you if you don't love her.

This is one of the few, and pitifully few, advantages of the feudal era: at least traditions weren't lost.

Therefore, after Ning Feiliu established relationships with the girls, he basically spoke his mind and tried his best to treat them well.

"Gods are actually just the strongest Soul Masters. In fact... a hundred levels of Soul Power is the realm of a god, and after becoming a god, one can enjoy immortality, and of course, one's strength can also become stronger," Ning Feiliu said with a smile.

"Level 100 Soul Power... is that the realm of a god? A god is just the strongest Soul Master..." the girls pondered.

"But why have we never seen a god appear? They only exist in myths and nursery rhymes... I thought they were fake!" Dugu Yan asked curiously.

"That's because after becoming a god, one goes to the God Realm, which is another world above this one," Ning Feiliu said. "Moreover, one day in heaven is equivalent to one year here, so it's very difficult for us to see them. As for those myths and nursery rhymes, some of them are true and some are false."

Having transmigrated to the Douluo Continent for so many years, he has read many books about the Douluo Continent, and naturally, he has read many myths and heard many nursery rhymes.

However, not all of them are true. At least based on his understanding of the original Douluo Continent, some of the gods, such as the Sun Angel God, Rakshasa God, Thor God, and the various elemental gods, are indeed real.

However, some myths are purely fictional. For example, the God of Light does not exist in Douluo Continent. As far as he knows, the God of Light should be in a few other novel worlds, such as the Goddess of Light in Brother Long's world.

Those are clearly legends made up by humans, not legends left by real gods.

(End of this chapter)