Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 307 308 308.5. Study the Mysterious Heavenly Treasure Record and practice it regularly; all things in the world have their own path to death.

"She went and captured a 100,000-year-old soul beast all by herself!" Ma Xiaotao exclaimed, looking at the increasingly thinning mist in the room. "She didn't even need any help. She's amazing!"

"Oh! Is she as good as your former teacher?!" Qian Lingyun looked at Ma Xiaotao with a half-smile.

Of course she knew that Ma Xiaotao's former teacher and Feng Ling had a brief affair, so, being a gossip lover, she was even more interested in seeing what Feng Ling thought of Yan Shaozhe now.

After all… in the original story, even decades later, Yan Shaozhe could still recognize Feng Ling through their fighting style.

Could you say he's a man of deep affection?!

No, being a loyal lover doesn't necessarily mean being a devoted lover, but it certainly means being a passionate lover!

"have no idea!"

Ma Xiaotao shook her head frankly. In her opinion, although Yan Shaozhe and Dai Lun were both Super Douluo, their fighting styles and methods were completely different.

She naturally couldn't explain the reasons behind the various differences.

"I've sparred with Darren. She's the only one in the Hall of Worship who, apart from her ninth soul skill, uses only self-amplification abilities. Therefore, she rarely uses her offensive ninth soul skill, or rather..."

"No one has ever seen her ninth soul skill!"

Feng Ling used her soul power to draw up the wisp of mist on the ground that was about to dissipate, and chuckled, "What exactly is her ninth soul skill... I'm really curious!"

"I'm pretty curious too. We're just killing time anyway, so... shall we go check it out!?"

Qian Lingyun, always eager to stir up trouble, chuckled and egged on from the sidelines, making Yuma, who was guiding the condensation of her soul core, roll her eyes involuntarily.

Hu Mei and Ma Xiaotao, the two female drivers, exchanged a glance and couldn't wait to join in.

Thus, the spectator duo has successfully evolved into a spectator quartet.

They walked out of the room with smiles on their faces, and the sound of reading aloud from inside the underground palace immediately caught their attention.

Qian Lingyun stroked her chin, then couldn't help but pull Feng Ling aside and ask curiously, "Why does our Holy Spirit Cult have a reading group? Are our benefits that good?"

"Hey! What book club? That's just our Holy Spirit Cult's action manual study!" Feng Ling scoffed, pulling Qian Lingyun towards the place where the reading was coming from—

It was a large room, but hundreds of Holy Spirit Cult disciples were sitting inside, each holding a copy of the Mysterious Heavenly Treasure Record, comprehending its essence under the guidance of a Holy Spirit Cult elder who wished to remain anonymous.

Judging from their voices, they are now studying the third principle of the Xuan Tian Bao Lu (Mysterious Heavenly Treasure Record):

"Once you've identified your opponent as an enemy, and they're determined to die, show no mercy. Otherwise, you'll only create more trouble for yourself!"

The elders on the platform were giving a lecture with great intonation, while the Holy Spirit Cult disciples below were drawing and marking in their books with pens, looking even more serious than Qian Lingyun did when she was studying on Earth!

"Come, Gu Yu! Tell me, what is the way to die! Or rather, what kind of person is on the path to death!" The Fourth Elder gently tapped the table, signaling a member of the Holy Spirit Cult to share his views with his fellow members.

"This path to death expresses... the boundless wisdom of the sage evil spirit masters who wrote this book!"

The young evil spirit master named Gu Yu paused, noticing the serious expressions on everyone's faces. He felt a pang of fear, but forced to continue, he steeled himself and said:

"Look at this book...this book...well, we evil spirit masters could just start killing, but the author of this book is constantly trying to find a plausible excuse for his actions!"

"This...this...doing bad things while pretending to be a good person is a wonderful virtue, it allows us to...damn...Elder, I can't answer that!"

After much deliberation, Gu Yu couldn't withstand the immense pressure and had no choice but to lower her head, covered in sweat.

"Forget it, I didn't expect you youngsters to be able to answer that anyway!" The Fourth Elder waved his hand expressionlessly, indicating, "Please sit down! Now I'll share my thoughts!"

"As the saying goes, we must learn to see through appearances to the essence of things. What we should learn from this Mysterious Heavenly Record is not just how to define others' ways of courting death!"

"Instead, we should define our own bottom line!"

"Bottom line? We have a bottom line?!" The Holy Spirit Cult disciples all showed surprised expressions and couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

"That's right! That's the bottom line!" The Fourth Elder looked around and said seriously, "The reason we evil soul masters are disliked is because our bottom line is defined by others!"

"As long as we don't let others define us by their own bottom lines, and instead allow others to define us by ours, then we are not evil spirit masters!"

"Then how can we define others based on our own bottom line?" a Holy Spirit cult disciple asked awkwardly, raising his hand.

"It's simple. First, we need to join them! Then... learn from the classic cases in this book, and while committing heinous crimes, we must also portray ourselves as pure and virtuous!"

"If we can achieve this, we've already succeeded more than halfway!"

"But if we do that, wouldn't we just be like those hypocrites from Shrek Academy...?"

A young girl from the Holy Spirit Church raised her hand and said nervously.

"Nonsense! This isn't hypocrisy, it's pure and innocent! That's why Shrek has such a prestigious reputation, yet we all condemn it!"

"By studying the Mysterious Heavenly Treasure Record and practicing it regularly, we can see that everything in this world has a path to death! As long as we have eyes that are good at discovering the path to death, then we are all 'pure and virtuous philanthropists'!"

As he spoke, the Fourth Elder gripped the Xuan Tian Treasure Record tightly in his left hand. Tears welled in his eyes as he shook it, raised the record high above his head, and shouted with immense excitement:

"The path to salvation lies within it!"

Upon hearing this, the Holy Spirit followers in the audience immediately burst into enthusiastic applause. Although they might not fully understand the meaning behind it, applause was all they needed to do at this moment.

Qian Lingyun couldn't help but exclaim that she was an expert at this extraordinary and top-level understanding!

Hearing the Holy Spirit Cult disciples in the room repeatedly talking about ways to die, Qian Lingyun guiltily wiped the sweat from her forehead and dragged Feng Ling and the others out of the underground palace!

On the way, Qian Lingyun couldn't help but exclaim, "So this so-called orthodox Tang Sect is actually true in the Holy Spirit Sect!"

The fake Tang Sect—Shrek Tang Sect. Shi Tang: The sect has few members, and the acting sect leader's surname is Bei. He is a descendant of Mu En, the master of the Sea God Pavilion of Shrek Academy.

Besides, the sect has all sorts of weird and wonderful people, such as the young master of the Xuanming Sect, the young master of the Haotian Sect, the illegitimate son of the White Tiger Duke, and all sorts of strange things.

Moreover, there are almost no people with the surname Tang in the sect, nor are there any with the Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

The real Tang Clan—the Holy Spirit Tang Clan: The Tang Clan is legitimate and of impeccable lineage. The orthodox sect leader, Tang Ya, who can be traced back to her roots, serves as the Holy Maiden here!

There are several other people with the surname Tang in the sect, such as... Tang Dai, a disciple of Scorpion Tiger Douluo, and so-and-so, and so-and-so...

Most importantly, everyone in the Holy Spirit Cult diligently studies the Mysterious Heavenly Treasure Record, making them veritable inheritors of the will of the Tang God King!

……

In a clearing in the central area of ​​the Demon Forest.

Within the dark mist, intense fluctuations of soul power raged freely.

The hazy fog shot straight into the sky and condensed into a gray hemisphere hundreds of meters above the ground.

Within the hemisphere, the sharp roars, coupled with the earth-shattering explosions, could cause ringing in one's ears even from thousands of meters away.

Reaching the boundary between the mist and the air, Qian Lingyun walked a few steps around the large circle and said in a deep voice, "This distance is about right! Don't resist my spiritual power!"

After speaking, without waiting for the others to object, Qian Lingyun's mental detection sharing had already projected the battle situation in the fog into their minds.

Even Feng Ling frowned when she saw the bloody scene!

Darren's methods were extremely cruel. Rather than saying she captured a 100,000-year-old soul beast alive, it would be more accurate to say she wantonly ravaged that poor 100,000-year-old soul beast.

With each cut, Darren precisely carved out a palm-sized piece of flesh from the 100,000-year-old soul beast.

From the blood-soaked and miserable appearance of the 100,000-year-old soul beast, its disadvantage is not hard to see.

In just a short while, it had been stabbed countless times, completely dazed and confused.

The 100,000-year-old soul beast desperately tried to escape this dangerous place, but correspondingly, every time it moved in a certain direction, the dense fog would move with it.

Rounding it up, it ran for most of the day, which is practically the same as not running at all.

"Human, come out and fight me to the death if you dare!"

With each step the Scaled Earth Dragon, which had cultivated for 100,000 years, took, large sprays of blood dripped from its body onto the ground.

Its proud, sturdy dragon scales were like rotten leaves on the ground, easily pierced by the silver dagger in the hand of that invisible opponent.

"That's the Mountain-Breaking Cone, a melee soul tool I made myself. For some special reasons, I rated it as level eight and a half, but in terms of sharpness alone, it's definitely level nine!"

Mei Douluo chuckled. The images shared by the mental detection were just as exciting as watching them up close in person.

On the contrary, Ma Xiaotao, feeling this familiar shared mental detection, couldn't help but glance at Qian Lingyun again, and then stared blankly, feeling lost.

The mist surged, a flash of silver light appeared, and then another streak of crimson light splashed on the back of the earth dragon.

This time, Darren chopped off significantly larger chunks of meat than before.

The earth dragon, panting heavily, looked at its riddled body, its angry tone masking boundless fear.

A 100,000-year-old soul beast is no different from a normal human in terms of intelligence, so it naturally understands what kind of terrifying opponent it has encountered!

Whether it was his soul skills or his physical body, he couldn't even attack the almost omnipresent opponent!

If this continues, all that awaits it is to be torn to pieces.

The hazy mist coalesced into a humanoid shape. Darren stood before the earth dragon, scrutinizing the foolish creature, and sneered, "You think you can fight me to the death?"

Before the words were even finished, the dragon's tail, now only half intact and with visible white bones, came rushing towards them, scattering the humanoid mist.

"This is her eighth soul skill, Mist Domain. Within the domain, she can freely condense her body into mist and become immune to physical attacks."

Feng Ling confidently explained Darren's eighth soul skill to the group, adding, "After this domain is released, the mist can no longer move as before! And its range will also shrink by half, which is the biggest weakness of this domain."

"So..." Qian Lingyun raised her head, looking at Feng Ling with a half-smile, and teased, "So when you sparred with her, you must have relied on your wings to fly out of her territory!"

"Cough cough cough, you know what, it's really true! When fighting her, all you have to do is wait for her to activate her domain and then turn around and run!"

Feng Ling coughed lightly a few times, feigning composure as she continued her explanation: "Her first six soul skills are all single-target, single-attribute amplifications. Combined with the all-attribute amplification of her Martial Soul True Body, she can defeat enemies of higher levels within her domain!"

"In that case, I think the outcome is already decided!"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than the earth dragon in the mist was struck again. Its mournful roar made the earth tremble slightly. The group instinctively covered their ears, searching for the cause of the dragon's scream.

Soon, the trigger for the dragon's scream was found—Dairon's blade was aimed at its pair of large amber eyes…

Having lost both its targets, the dragon lost all will to fight. It staggered and swayed in place, crying out in terror, "Human, you already have all nine spirit rings! Even if you kill me, you won't get any. Why did you do this?!"

"I never said I wanted to kill you!"

As the fog dissipated, Darren emerged from it. She watched the enormous creature before her slowly walk towards it, until she reached the earth dragon, at which point she revealed her dangerous smile.

One cut, two cuts, three cuts…

"She walks really fast! Like she's flying," Feng Ling teased, looking at her empty side. "Should I say it's just as she is?"

The domain was dispelled, the fog had dissipated, and even without mental detection, they could still see the chilling blade light and the final counterattack of the 100,000-year-old soul beast.

boom!

Intense fluctuations of soul power erupted from behind them. Feng Ling keenly sensed that one of the soul powers came from Qian Lingyun and couldn't help but glance sideways and say, "It seems like she's fighting with some strange creature."

Hearing the earth-shattering explosions, Ma Xiaotao asked worriedly, "Should we go help?"

"It doesn't matter. Although the sources of these two soul powers are not weak, the Saintess's side is obviously stronger! It won't be long before it ends!" Feng Ling waved her hand and continued to observe the fierce battle between Darren and the earth dragon.

Rewind two and a half minutes, and Qian Lingyun, having lost interest in watching the battle, was about to go to the outer area of ​​the Demon Forest to catch a few long-tailed rabbits that would be easy to barbecue.

Throughout the journey, her mental detection remained activated.

Clearly, Qian Lingyun disregarded the two ironclad rules prohibiting flying and probing in areas where soul beasts gather, because she had the ability to ignore such rules.

As they flew over a low-lying valley, the quicksand terrain, which was almost impossible to find in the forest, caught Qian Lingyun's attention.

After calming her breathing, she landed slowly in the dense forest some distance away and walked confidently straight towards the sand pit in the forest.

"Hey! Don't go any further! There's quicksand ahead!"

The soft female voice was particularly abrupt in the silent Soul Beast Forest. Qian Lingyun looked in the direction of the voice and saw a simply dressed black-haired girl standing a few dozen meters away from her waving to her.

The girl had a comforting, serene smile on her face, and possessed a faint soul power at the Soul Master level.

Honestly, if it had been a lone Soul Master who came today, she might have easily fooled him!

Qian Lingyun's lips twitched, and she muttered to herself, but on the surface she still pretended to be nonchalant and greeted him.

(End of this chapter)