Douluo: Legend of the Holy Land

Chapter 251 The Ninth Soul Ring, the Ferocious Beast Soul Ring

The summoning continues even after the two gold cards have been redeemed.

"Ding, the selection of red-level characters has been completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Kiki, the Gold Saint of Aries in the Omega Era. His martial soul is Aries, his innate soul power is level 9, and his current soul power level is level 94."

"Ding, the selection of red-level characters has been completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Heavenly Warrior Steed, the Martial Soul Ten Thousand Thunder Divine Steed, the innate soul power level of 9.5, and the current soul power level of 97."

"Ding, the selection of a Black-level character has been completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Pharaoh, the Specter of the Celestial Beast Star Sphinx, with the Martial Soul Demon Harp, innate soul power level 8.5, and current soul power level 88."

"Ding, the selection of the Black-level character has been completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Mayura of the Peacock Constellation, the Silver Saint, with the Martial Soul Nine-Feathered Peacock, innate soul power level 8.5, and current soul power level 86."

"Ding, the selection of the black-level character has been completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Charon, the Specter Star Ferryman of the Heavenly Star, with the Martial Soul Styx Paddle, innate soul power level 8, and current soul power level 76."

After finishing the summoning, Xiao Yu seized the opportunity and took out the inner core of the Berserk Bone Dragon King, which he had defeated in the Fourth Hell of the Underworld and which was close to the cultivation level of a ferocious beast, from his Ruyi Treasure Pouch. He sat cross-legged and began to refine the inner core under the supervision of the two powerful warriors, Saga and Shaka.

Although the Bone Dragon King had been defeated by Xiao Yu, a trace of its lingering will remained in its inner core. With the guidance of Xiao Yu's soul power, the Bone Dragon King's lingering will suddenly erupted, and violent energy surged into Xiao Yu's body in an instant, impacting all of Xiao Yu's important meridians and joints, seemingly trying to burst his body apart.

However, given Xiao Yu's current physical strength, this impact was like a tickle. Under the guidance of his own soul power, the Bone Dragon King's violent energy was being assimilated and integrated into Xiao Yu's body at an astonishing speed.

"Goodbye, Bone Dragon King!"

Nearly four hours had passed when Xiao Yu, who was refining the Bone Dragon King's inner core, suddenly opened his eyes. With a roar, a violent mental fluctuation erupted from his sea of ​​consciousness. In just a moment, the Bone Dragon King's lingering will vanished.

At the same time, a blood-red spirit ring, exuding an imposing aura, quietly nested into the ninth spirit ring position of Xiao Yu's Netherworld Lord Martial Soul. On this bright blood-red spirit ring, there were also three faint golden patterns.

These three golden lines symbolize that the age of this soul ring has exceeded 300,000 years, which also indicates that Xiao Yu's ninth soul ring is a genuine ferocious beast soul ring.

This is why Xiao Yu could have used his spiritual power to remove the Bone Dragon King's lingering resentment at the beginning of the refining process, but instead allowed it to run rampant in his body. This was to force the Bone Dragon King to fight back. During the struggle against Xiao Yu's body, the Bone Dragon King's inner core energy was overloaded and activated, causing its transformed soul ring to successfully enter the ranks of ferocious beasts.

With the successful absorption of his ninth spirit ring, Xiao Yu officially entered the ranks of Title Douluo. The energy contained in this 300,000-year spirit ring was extremely vast, allowing Xiao Yu to break through three levels and reach the mid-stage of level 93.

"Saga, Shaka, let's go!"

After absorbing the spirit ring, Xiao Yu had no reason to linger there any longer. He immediately left the City of Slaughter with Saga and Shaka. Saga and Shaka were the two strongest pillars of the Nine Star Palace at present, and Xiao Yu dared not waste their cultivation time.

For Xiao Yu now, the real opponent is no longer the Spirit Hall, the Clear Sky Sect, or the two great empires of Tian Dou Xing Luo, but the Douluo God Realm, which is high above and looks down on all living beings.

The reason why Xiao Yu did not immediately declare war on the major powers after Saga and Shaka broke through level 100, but instead went to great lengths to push the Clear Sky Sect to the front line against the Spirit Hall by using Tang Chen's name, and at the same time used Qian Renxue's relationship to seize power in the Heaven Dou Empire, was because Xiao Yu was full of fear of the God Realm.

Admittedly, with Saga and Shaka's current strength, they could wipe out the high-ranking members of the Spirit Hall and other major forces within a few days.

However, Douluo Continent is different from Slaughter City. With Saga's current strength, he cannot drag the entire continent to another dimension to shield the perception of the God Realm.

Moreover, even if Saga could do it, the sudden loss of connection across the entire continent would be something that any god-king would sense.

This time, Xiao Yu's request for Saga and Shaka to attack the City of Slaughter was entirely due to exploiting the conflict between the God of Destruction and the God of Asura in the divine realm. Even if the God of Asura realized something was amiss, the God of Destruction would believe it was an excuse for the God of Asura to interfere in the lower realms. Even if the God of Asura later used his divine sense to investigate, he would only find that everything on the continent, except for his place of inheritance, was in a normal state.

Without conclusive evidence, it is impossible for the major god-kings to enter the lower realm.

However, if the entire continent were to experience a loss of connection, even the God of Destruction, who values ​​the rules of the divine realm the most, would not hesitate to enter the lower realm at the first moment.

In this way, Saga and Shaka, two heretics who are not gods but possess level 100 cultivation, will be exposed to the gods.

Once the divine realm discovers such heretical existence, it will certainly take measures to forcibly eliminate it.

The reason why the God Realm set up a level 100 barrier on Douluo Star, a level that is absolutely impossible for anyone to overcome on their own, is to distinguish between the lower realm and the God Realm, and to harvest the power of faith from the gods in the lower realm. How could they possibly allow anyone to break the rules?

Xiao Yu vaguely remembered that the original novel's side story mentioned that in addition to the five God Kings, the Douluo God Realm also had eighteen Level One Gods, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven Level Three Gods, and more than ten thousand ordinary God Officials and Heavenly God Hunters. These were all genuine Level 100 powerhouses.

Currently, only Saga and Shaka have broken through level 100 in the Nine Star Palace. The third strongest is Kanon, who is currently at level 99, a quasi-god level, and is just one step away from level 100.

With such strength, to fight the divine realm head-on would be like throwing an egg against a rock; the final outcome is obvious without even needing to predict it.

Therefore, Xiao Yu adopted a step-by-step approach to unify the entire continent, accumulating strength in the process. He then used the Underworld, which was free from the rules of Douluo Star, to raise the strength of all the Soul Masters of the Nine Star Palace to over level 100, so that they could confront the God Realm head-on.

Xiao Yu had other intentions in adopting this method to unify the continent. By forcibly unifying the continent with a few top-level experts, the duchies, kingdoms, and sects below would only outwardly submit but inwardly resist, and would inevitably split again sooner or later.

Just like the Heaven Dou Empire, although Tang San briefly suppressed various forces, it had too many internal problems. It only temporarily went into hiding because of Tang San's level 100 strength. In the second era of the Heaven Dou Empire, it eventually split into two, and its strength was greatly reduced. Not to mention compared with the Sun Moon Empire, even the Star Luo Empire was far stronger than the two empires after the split.

(End of this chapter)