Douluo Continent: Awakening the Original Martial Soul at the Start.

Chapter 164 Demon Hunter Team Selection

Even the most advanced spirit furnaces can only evolve four times, or at most five times, but the two spirit furnaces in front of them are constantly evolving as their cultivation levels increase!

"You two can absorb it here! Afterwards, I'll travel with you. After watching the Demon Hunter Selection Competition, I'll continue my travels!" Qian Renxue said with a smile to the two of them.

"I have one too!" Li Xin pointed to herself, hardly believing it. She had initially thought that the Seraphim Spirit Furnace was also prepared for Hao Chen, but she never expected it to be hers.

"Okay!" Qian Renxue nodded, then picked up the controller from the coffee table again and started playing the game.

"Sister, just absorb it! The Seraphim Spirit Furnace was created by Sister Xue based on your cultivation attributes, it's not suitable for me!" Long Haochen said repeatedly.

Li Xin glanced at Qian Renxue, who was playing a game, then at Long Haochen, who had a smile on his face, and nodded: "Okay, I'll absorb it!"

Long Haochen laughed, and then he and Li Xin dripped a drop of blood into the two spirit furnaces. The two angel spirit furnaces then entered their bodies and began to refine them.

As the Holy Angel Spirit Furnace merged into his body, wisps of black energy began to emerge from Long Haochen's body. This was the dark power remaining in his body from the bloodline of the Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon Clan and the Nine-Headed Chimera Bright Moon. The Purple-Gold Bright Moon Sword inserted into his body also transformed into pure holy attributes under the influence of the spirit furnace.

Long Haochen's innate spiritual power instantly soared from 97 points to 120 points, and it was still increasing, albeit very slowly, not enough to increase it any further. However, as time went on, Long Haochen's innate spiritual power would reach 130 points, or even 200 points.

Li Xin, standing next to her, quickly reached 98 points of innate spiritual power, becoming a child of light and fire. Moreover, the spiritual power within her body changed from its original red to a golden-red color, becoming extremely hot and circulating rapidly within her body.

His spiritual power exceeded two thousand points, and he completed the liquefaction of spiritual power, becoming a true fifth-tier knight.

It took three whole hours for the two of them to completely fuse the spiritual furnace within their bodies. They stood up and looked at their hands in disbelief, never expecting them to be so much stronger.

"Little brother, I've finally broken through to the fifth rank! And I feel ten times stronger than before!" Li Xin hugged Long Haochen and jumped up excitedly.

"Congratulations, sister!" Long Haochen was also very excited. He felt more relaxed than ever before, as if he had been freed from heavy shackles.

Releasing Long Haochen, the two walked up to Qian Renxue, bowed ninety degrees, and respectfully thanked her, saying, "Thank you so much, Sister Xue!"

"Get up! Your good ranking in the Demon Hunter Team selection competition is the greatest thanks to me!" Qian Renxue waved her hand, and the two of them felt an extremely gentle force lift them up.

"Sister Xue, I will definitely win the championship!" Long Haochen said firmly.

"Then I'll try for second place!" Li Xin glanced at Long Haochen and felt that she probably couldn't beat him, but compared to the other contestants, she had blind confidence in herself and thought that getting second place shouldn't be a problem.

"I trust you!" Qian Renxue smiled. "Just let me know when you're leaving! Now, you should focus on getting familiar with your new spirit furnace!"

"Understood, Senior Sister!~"

Two days passed quickly. Long Haochen and Li Xin had become somewhat familiar with the Angel Spirit Furnace. After informing Qian Renxue, the group set off for the Temple Alliance.

Sitting atop the griffin, Ye Hua gazed at the breathtakingly beautiful Qian Renxue, who was quietly carving wood. He then turned to Long Haochen and whispered, "Haochen, is this the mysterious expert who has been teaching you?! He doesn't look like him at all!"

This left Ye Hua no choice but to suspect, because Qian Renxue had no aura whatsoever; apart from her beautiful appearance, she was just an ordinary person.

"That's right! Teacher, don't let Xue-jie's ordinary appearance fool you, she's definitely not weak. When I trained with her, I didn't even have a chance to fight back!" Long Haochen said with a wry smile.

Ye Hua nodded and said nothing more.

The Temple Alliance is a city in the center of the human region. Its geographical location is very special. It is the core area of ​​the war between humans and demons. It is equidistant from all six temples and has great strategic significance, as it can quickly support the six temples.

Upon arriving at the Alliance, Long Haochen and Li Xin went to sell the Emerald Twin Blade Demons they had hunted, while Qian Renxue strolled around the Holy City.

The preliminary rounds began quickly. Since the competition was not open to the public, Qian Renxue entered the venue as Teacher Li Xin to watch the competition and pass the time.

Although Long Haochen's cultivation level is currently at the fifth rank, his true combat strength is definitely at the sixth rank or above. None of the people selected are his match, not even Sheng Cai'er, who has cultivated through the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Li Xin, having fused with the Seraphim Spirit Furnace and combined with her spiritual power control skills, is invincible even at the fifth rank.

So both of them easily defeated their opponents in the previous few matches. Now all that needs to be done is to determine the number one player for the Knights. Next, Long Haochen will face Han Yu, and Li Xin will face Yang Wenzhao.

On the arena, Han Yu looked at Long Haochen opposite him with a solemn expression. He had watched all the battles just now, and Long Haochen basically defeated his opponents in one move, which Han Yu, who was also at the fifth level, could not do.

With the Knight's Sword of Radiant Shield appearing in his hand, Long Haochen looked at Han Yu in front of him with a smile.

"You're a Guardian Knight too!" Han Yu exclaimed in surprise.

During the previous match, he only saw Long Haochen with a single sword and defeat his opponent in one move. He had always thought that Long Haochen was a Retribution Knight, but he never expected that he would be a Guardian Knight.

"Hmm! Summon your magical beast companions! Otherwise, you'll never be a match for me!" Long Haochen nodded, his eyes filled with fighting spirit.

Han Yu dared not be careless; in order to avenge his defeat, he had to win this match.

A contract array appeared between the eyebrows, and an evil eye with both dark and spiritual attributes appeared in the field.

"Whoosh!"

A dark purple light shot out from the Evil Eye's enormous eyeball at incredible speed. At the same time, Han Yu raised his knight's sword high, and a golden six-pointed star magic circle appeared above Long Haochen's head.

"Light Gravity!"

A golden six-pointed star array cast down golden light, enveloping Long Haochen within it, like a prison, and the gravity inside the cage began to increase continuously.

"It's a combined attack with the monsters! They're using this gravity to restrict my movements while simultaneously using the Evil Eye to mentally interfere with me. If the mental interference hits, I'm a lamb to the slaughter!"

The Evil Eye is a mental attribute, and its mental power at the same level far surpasses that of humans at the same level. If interfered with by a mental ray, it will definitely make a human dizzy for several seconds.

"Unfortunately, the old me might have been hit, but after Sister Xue's guidance, this amount of gravity is nothing to me!"

A confident smile appeared on Long Haochen's lips as he stood ramrod straight. He had experienced all sorts of extreme environments with Qian Renxue, and gravity was just one of them.

Under the influence of gravity, Long Haochen's spiritual energy slightly erupted beneath his feet, and his body shifted half a meter to the side, directly dodging the Evil Eye's mental ray. Then, to Han Yu's astonishment, he easily stepped out of the gravity zone, his body turning into a blur, appearing before him like lightning.

"The Pure White Blade!"

The knight's sword emitted a golden light and slashed towards Han Yu.

Pure White Blade is a fundamental skill that knights must learn. It can enhance weapons and increase attack power, and can also unleash sword energy to attack.

"Even if you are stronger than me, you cannot defeat me with basic knight skills!"

A hint of disdain appeared on Han Yu's lips. His spiritual energy began to circulate rhythmically within his body, and he let out a low shout:

"The Shield of the Holy Land"

He raised his shield, and holy light spiritual power instantly covered it, intending to use it to block the pure white blade.

"Click!"

The golden blade clashed with the shield, and the blade sliced ​​through Han Yu's semi-spiritual weapon-level shield in two as easily as hot oil cutting tofu, with the blade pressed against Han Yu's throat.

"What?! A pure white blade sliced ​​through a semi-spiritual weapon! And it was a fifth-tier weapon against a fifth-tier weapon!"

Han Qian, who was watching the battle from the stands, stood up and exclaimed in disbelief, "In the Holy Demon Continent, in battles between people of the same level, apart from equipment, the competition is about how many skills they have mastered. Whoever has more and stronger skills will have a greater advantage in the battle."

However, Long Haochen below clearly did not fit this characteristic. He was only using the first skill that knights learn, and his level was not comparable to the Holy Shield used by Han Yu. Yet, he was able to easily split the semi-spiritual weapon protected by the Holy Shield in two with a single sword strike.

How did they manage to do that?!

"The winner is Long Haochen!"

Long Haochen sheathed his sword and shield, extended his hand to Han Yu, and smiled broadly.

Han Yu glanced at Long Haochen, his eyes filled with resentment, slapped away Long Haochen's outstretched hand, and turned to run off the stage.

Long Haochen gave an awkward laugh and turned to walk in the other direction.

"I never imagined the blessing from the Holy Angel's Spirit Furnace would be so powerful. He actually cleaved through the Holy Shield with a single strike using the Pure White Blade. He could never have done that before!"

Long Haochen felt that he had overestimated the Holy Angel Spirit Furnace as much as possible, but he hadn't expected that he had still underestimated it.

The Holy Angel Spirit Furnace does not contain any skills, but precisely because it has no skills, its enhancements in all aspects are unmatched by other spirit furnaces. Combined with the enhanced pure white blade under the control of spiritual power, it was able to cleave Han Yu's shield with a single sword strike.

On the other side, Li Xin slowly walked onto the arena, her eyes filled with fighting spirit as she looked at Yang Wenzhao opposite her.

The battle between the two punitive knights did not end with Yang Wenzhao winning easily as everyone expected. Instead, Li Xin overwhelmed Yang Wenzhao, leaving him with no chance to fight back. Riding on a rose, Li Xin unleashed scorching spiritual power with every sword strike, giving the impression of a fire mage who wielded fire rather than a knight.

"Light Slash Sword!"

The two Rose Knight Swords wielded by Li Xin were filled with scorching liquid spiritual energy, extending two or three meters outwards as she relentlessly slashed at Yang Wenzhao, who possessed the Star Sea Spirit Furnace and was utterly unable to withstand her attacks.

His armor was scorched to shreds by the intense spiritual energy, and the semi-spiritual knight's sword in his hand was covered in cracks.

"Snap!"

The knight's swords clashed again, and the sword in Yang Wenzhao's hand shattered like glass, sending him flying backward, spitting out blood.

"Li Xin! Like Long Haochen, she comes from the Haoyue Branch Hall. Although her strength is not as good as Long Haochen's, she can still suppress Yang Wenzhao. It seems that something happened to the Haoyue Branch Hall!" Han Qian looked at the information in his hand and began to ponder.

He knew Yang Wenzhao's identity very well. He was the grandson of Yang Haohan, the Divine Seal Knight. He was a genius since childhood and received the best guidance. His cultivation level could be said to be the best in his generation. But now he was defeated by a knight from a branch hall.

And then there's Long Haochen, whose fighting power is probably even greater than Li Xin's.

At the same time, he guessed Long Haochen's identity: "Could it be that Lord Xingyu is teaching them in Haoyue City!" Thinking of this, Han Qian shook his head violently: "No, although Lord Xingyu is the strongest punitive knight on the continent, his moves all contain powerful and pure killing intent, but Li Xin's moves just now did not have that. Haoyue City must have some way to improve combat power!"

If it's really as I think, even a slight increase in combat power could play a crucial role in the future war between humans and demons.

Thinking of this, Han Qian didn't care about anything else and got up to walk outside. He wanted to find Long Haochen and get some answers.

At this moment, Long Haochen and Ye Hua were chatting, but it was mainly Ye Hua asking questions. He had also noticed the changes in the power of Long Haochen's moves and was worried that he was forcing the growth, so he wanted to understand the situation.

"Teacher! Before the Demon Hunter selection, Sister Xue gave my sister and me each a Spirit Furnace. The reason our moves are so powerful is entirely due to the Spirit Furnaces!"

"What spirit furnace?!"

"It is not any known spirit furnace, but it is definitely no less than any top-tier spirit furnace, and it is very suitable for knights."

"That's good!"

Looking at the spirit furnace with six pairs of golden wings on Long Haochen's chest, Ye Hua breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that what he was worried about hadn't happened.

At this moment, Han Qian walked in. Long Haochen instantly withdrew the Sacred Angel Spirit Furnace and turned to look at Han Qian.

"Vice Hall Master!" Ye Hua stood up and bowed to Han Qian with Long Haochen.

"Long Haochen! I'm asking you, why are you and Li Xin's combat power so much greater than the other knights?!" Han Qian asked excitedly.

"My lord! This shouldn't have much to do with anyone else, right?" Long Haochen frowned slightly and said in a somewhat cold voice.

Even within the same hall, it is extremely impolite to inquire about someone's secrets in this way. Moreover, his combat strength is so great because of Qian Renxue's teachings. Even if he had her consent, in the past six months, he has only taught Li Xin and Yuehua the techniques of controlling spiritual energy; no one else knows them.

He didn't want to upset Sister Xue.

"I know this is wrong, but we humans are at a disadvantage in the war against the demons. As you know, at the same level, our human combat power is weaker than that of the demons. But if our human combat power could surpass that of the demons, our war would be much easier!" Han Qian said in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)