Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Spinning Top, Explosive Warrior

“Last time Wang Teng was underwater, I couldn’t feel anything from above.”

Ning Rongrong pursed her lips and remained silent.

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul emerged from her palm, its seven-colored light illuminating the dark ice cave.

Ning Rongrong didn't use any skills; she simply held up the pagoda, ready to support Wang Teng at any time.

At this moment, deep within the pool, Wang Teng had entered a meditative state.

His consciousness sank into his dantian, where it was still a state of chaos.

The hidden wounds left by the previous failure to condense have healed, but some fine scars remain on the meridian walls, which will take time to fade.

Wang Teng knew that the scar wouldn't affect the flow of soul power, but it would become a weak point when condensing the soul core, so he had to be careful.

Therefore, he did not rush to condense the soul core, but instead separated a wisp of consciousness and sent it into the sea of ​​spirit.

In the Sea of ​​Spirit, the sacred beasts stood ready.

Wang Teng's consciousness landed on the ice and looked at the Flame Bird, shouting, "Flame Bird, let's begin."

"Wow—"

The flamingo raised its head and cried out, then flapped its wings.

Golden-red flames erupted from its body, flowing down its meridians and into its dantian along its spiritual connection with Wang Teng.

That was an ultimate fire, extremely pure, capable of melting steel, but Wang Teng controlled it, slowly rotating it in his dantian, radiating a golden-red light.

Fire attribute, all set.

Wang Teng took a deep breath and then prepared to begin converting his ice-attribute soul power.

Beneath him, within the layer of ice, the millennia-old Xuanbing marrow sensed Wang Teng's soul power and began to resonate.

Extreme cold air emanated from the ice crystals, seeped through the skin, penetrated the meridians, and converged towards Wang Teng's dantian.

The external cold air touched Wang Teng's soul power and triggered a reaction.

Stimulated by the cold air, the soul power gradually transformed into the ultimate ice attribute.

Within the dantian, two soul forces of extreme attributes met.

Wang Teng's body trembled.

Last time, these two forces repelled and tore at each other, almost destroying his dantian.

But this time, the two forces did not collide or repel each other.

The two forces each occupied half of Wang Teng's dantian, forming a large, slowly rotating vortex.

Fire-attribute soul power rotates on the right side, while ice-attribute power rotates on the left side, sharing a common axis and maintaining a delicate balance.

This balance is not forced out; it is formed naturally.

Like the two kinds of water in the Yin and Yang cosmology, they counteract each other and coexist for millions of years.

The source of ice and fire within Wang Teng's body originally came from those two immortal herbs. Now, stimulated by the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and the Blazing Bird, he has regained his natural balance.

But balance is only the beginning.

Wang Teng steadied his mind, divided his spiritual power into two streams, and controlled the ice and fire soul powers respectively, guiding them to rotate along their respective orbits.

The rotation speed gradually increased, and the center of the vortex became brighter, hotter, and colder.

Two extreme sensations converged in the center of the dantian, forming a strange warmth that was neither scalding nor cooling, like the afternoon sun in spring shining on the skin.

Next is compression.

Wang Teng took a deep breath and transformed his mental energy into two invisible hands, squeezing them from the edge of the vortex toward the center.

The rapidly spinning soul power, like a nebula flung away by centrifugal force, began to contract inward under the pressure of spiritual power, its edges becoming thinner and its center denser.

The fire and ice elemental soul powers maintained their respective trajectories during the compression process, without interfering with each other, like two planets about to merge, rotating on the same orbit, getting closer and closer.

The temperature in the dantian began to rise while simultaneously decreasing.

Sweat beaded on Wang Teng's forehead, but it evaporated as soon as it appeared due to the heat inside his body.

A thin layer of white frost formed on his back, spreading across his skin before being quickly melted by the heat within his body.

The pain of alternating ice and fire was much milder than last time, but it still felt like countless fine needles piercing his limbs and bones from his dantian, causing both numbness and pain.

Wang Teng gritted his teeth.

His mental strength did not slacken in the slightest, continuing to compress inward.

Inside his dantian, the vortex of soul power shrank smaller and smaller, from the size of a washbasin to the size of a bowl, then from the size of a bowl to the size of a fist, and finally from the size of a fist to the size of an egg.

The translucent sphere floated in the center of the dantian, half of it golden-red like fire and the other half ice-blue like snow. The two colors slowly rotated inside the sphere, like a two-colored river frozen in amber.

"Just one last step."

Wang Teng focused all his mental energy on the ball and pressed down hard.

"Om-"

A deep, muffled sound emanated from his dantian, reverberating throughout his body and causing his meridians to tremble.

The pressure reached its peak at the last moment, and then, as if something had finally closed up perfectly.

Golden-red flames and icy blue light exploded from the sphere at the same time, the two lights mixing together and illuminating the entire dantian.

The ball was no longer translucent; it had become a complete, solid sphere, emitting a faint light, and hovering steadily in the center of the dantian, slowly rotating.

The dual-attribute ice and fire soul core is complete.

The moment the soul core took shape, the soul power within Wang Teng's body surged wildly, as if it had been ignited.

The bottleneck at level 69 has been broken.

Soul power surged from the soul core, flowing through the meridians to the limbs and bones.

His meridians were washed away, making them wider and stronger, and his flesh and blood became tighter and denser.

Wang Teng's soul power level jumped from sixty-nine to seventy, and then stopped steadily there.

Level 70, Soul Saint.

The ancient ice marrow at the bottom of the pool trembled violently from this energy fluctuation, flashing blue light like a swarm of fireflies awakened.

The pool water began to churn violently, forming a large whirlpool centered on Wang Teng. The eerie blue light was swept upwards, and the entire surface of the ice cave boiled.

On the water, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong simultaneously sensed that something was wrong.

The water in the pool was churning, like boiling water. White bubbles rose from the bottom and exploded on the surface, the splashing water instantly freezing into ice beads on the ground.

Violent energy surges rose from the water's depths, crashing against the rock walls, causing the hanging icicles to fall and shatter.

"Wang Teng!"

Ning Rongrong suddenly stood up, her face pale, and shouted loudly towards the bottom of the pool.

Zhu Zhuqing pressed down on Ning Rongrong's shoulder and said calmly, "Don't move."

"He should be breaking through, can't you feel it?"

Ning Rongrong paused for a moment, then carefully sensed the fluctuations.

The power emanating from the bottom of the pool, though violent, was not chaotic or out of control. Instead, it was somewhat rhythmic, like a heartbeat, one beat after another.

Ning Rongrong's expression gradually softened, but her eyes remained fixed on the water.

In the center of the pool, a halo of light, interwoven with gold, red and ice blue, shines up from the bottom of the pool, like a two-colored sun rising from the abyss.

The halo grew brighter and brighter, enveloping the entire ice cave in that strange light.

On Zhu Zhuqing's right arm, the Ice Bear Soul Bone trembled as if in resonance.

"Wang Teng has successfully condensed a soul core."

Zhu Zhuqing's voice was very soft, but her tone was very firm.

Ning Rongrong turned to look at her, her lips trembling slightly. Then she suddenly hugged Zhu Zhuqing's arm, buried her face in Zhu Zhuqing's shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "You scared me to death."

In the center of the pool, Wang Teng opened his eyes.

His body slowly rose from the bottom of the pool, not by swimming, but by being supported by the soul power within his body, like a leaf being lifted by the wind.

The moment he surfaced, the water droplets on Wang Teng's body evaporated instantly upon contact with the air, turning into a white mist that swirled around him.

Wang Teng walked out of the pool and stepped barefoot onto the cold rocks. The water on his feet quickly froze into ice, then melted back into water with his body heat, over and over again.

He bent down to pick up the clothes folded on the stones, put them on slowly, fastened his belt, put on his boots, and tucked his wet hair back.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong asked in unison, "Level 70?"

Level 70!

Wang Teng smiled upon hearing this.

Chapter 458 Poison Douluo in Danger, Wang Teng Rushes to His Aid

As soon as Wang Teng stepped out of the icy pool, a violent surge of soul power suddenly erupted from the cave passage beside him.

The ripples came suddenly, like a boulder crashing into a calm lake, exploding with a deafening roar, causing shards of ice to fall from the mountainside.

Wang Teng suddenly stopped, his mental energy surging outwards like a tide, instantly capturing the scene in the passage.

The emerald green poisonous mist churned in the narrow space, and the icy blue cold light collided with the emerald green soul power, producing a muffled roar.

Dugu Bo's soul power fluctuated violently within it, as if it were being suppressed by something.

"how is this possible?"

Wang Teng's pupils suddenly contracted.

Dugu Bo is a titled Douluo. How could anyone from a second-rate sect like the Earth Dragon Sect, which is located in a remote area, possibly be able to hurt him?

But the fluctuations were real; Dugu Bo's soul power plummeted in that instant, as if he had been injured.

Wang Teng didn't have time to think, or even to explain to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing behind him; his body reacted before his mind could process it.

"Soul Bone Skill: Teleportation!"

The power of the Lightning Sable's left leg bone was activated instantly, and Wang Teng's figure vanished in the snowstorm.