Douluo Dalu - Volume 01-48

by Tang Jia San Shao

  Dugu Bo sighed, his eyes revealing a meaning of the fox grieving for the death of the hare,

  “Facts are facts. Two great sects are finished. Even if the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School wasn’t completely extinguished, it still greatly lost strength. The two great Title Douluo were seriously injured simultaneously, and of them, the Sword Douluo had his strength greatly reduced from the heavy injuries. Think, capable of mobilizing several tens of thousands of Spirit Masters to besiege and annihilate two great sects practically simultaneously, who has that kind of power?”

  Tang San looked somewhat dully at Dugu Bo, muttering:

  “Fiercely done, Spirit Hall.”

  Dugu Bo smiled wryly:

  “Through these events I learned that I’ve originally always underestimated Spirit Hall. They can actually possess such tremendous strength. By the descriptions from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, when they launched the attack, the counterpart had mobilized four Title Douluo. And the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was attacked almost at the same time. Extinguishing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan without three or four Title Douluo is impossible. But there’s absolutely no evidence of the Spirit Hall Supreme Pontiff being present, and you say Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo were in Star Dou Great Forest. This means that Spirit Hall itself actually possesses the strength of more than ten Title Douluo.”

  Tang San’s eyes suddenly displayed a trace of alarm,

  “The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was destroyed, then Teacher……”

  Dugu Bo said:

  “Grandmaster is alright. Right now he’s already formed an alliance with the Heaven Dou imperial family, and is just painstakingly training the empire’s Spirit Masters. The destruction of two of the three upper sects rocks the balance of the two great empires. Spirit Hall’s actions this time can be said to have caused intense panic in both empires. It’s impossible for them not to deal with Spirit Hall. If you can draw on their power to deal with Spirit Hall, wouldn’t that be half the work for twice the effect? That’s why, get to the bottom of this matter with Xue Qinghe as soon as possible.”

  Tang San didn’t sit back down,

  “Old freak, you research the imperial family side some more. I have to go see Teacher at Shrek Academy. With his clan destroyed, even if Teacher’s natural disposition is staunch, I’m still afraid he’s unable to stand such a heavy blow. I’ll go see him at once.”

  Dugu Bo nodded,

  “Go. Take care to hide yourself. Right now you’ve made an enemy of Spirit Hall. Especially destroying their good occasion this time as well, plus killing so many of their experts. They absolutely won’t let that rest. Don’t go strutting on the streets afterwards. Even if this is the capital of Heaven Dou Empire, Spirit Hall’s influence still isn’t weak.”

  “I will.”

  Finished saying this, Tang San hurriedly left the tea house, heading straight for Shrek Academy.

  After this exchange with Dugu Bo, the confusion caused by the matters with Xiao Wu settled again. Everything was a lot more complex than he had imagined. This left Tang San with no other choice than to reconsider his plans.

  Holding Xiao Wu, Tang San used the fastest possible speed to reach Shrek Academy while not attracting attention. Grandmaster was like a second father to him. One might say that without Grandmaster, he wouldn’t be who he was today. Tang San could imagine Grandmaster’s pain over his family being destroyed.

  When he reached Shrek Academy’s gate, the students on duty this time didn’t block him. The frightening display of the Shrek Seven Devils in the Academy that time left an extremely profound impression on all the students.

  ……

  Grandmaster’s face was a lot more rigid than before, coldly watching the students doing their utmost to run in front of him. The chill on his face seemed like it could make the air solidify.

  These of course weren’t common students, but the young Spirit Masters with promising potential sent over by the imperial family. The reason why there were no Spirit Masters among those imperial forbidden guards Xue Beng had along, was because the majority of the Spirit Masters were already here, conducting unified training under Grandmaster.

  Heaven Dou Empire possessed a lot of Spirit Masters, but the ones truly grasped in the imperial family’s hand weren’t many. Including the Spirit Masters from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, there were altogether less than five thousand. And the powers among them were just a handful. In the area of Spirit Masters, Heaven Dou Empire was far from able to compare to Spirit Hall.

  Of course, if war truly started, Heaven Dou Empire could still dispatch some Spirit Masters from other regions. However, their overall strength was comparatively low. It was also due to the lack of Spirit Masters that the two great empires had no choice but to patiently endure against Spirit Hall. On a true battlefield, Spirit Masters facing one hundred alone wasn’t empty talk. Among the several tens of thousands of Spirit Masters controlled by Spirit Hall, there were powers like clouds, and they also had the backing of those duchies and kingdoms. Even if the two great empires joined hands, they still wouldn’t dare speak of certain victory. Even more, on the surface the conflict still wasn’t completely roused, therefore they could only endure silently, storing their strength.

  Grandmaster had split more than four thousand Spirit Masters into twenty teams for training. Even though Shrek Academy was a bit small, this could still be considered the most suitable place in Heaven Dou City. Not only were all kinds of facilities completely allocated, three were still numerous mimicry environments for Spirit Master cultivation.

  The twenty groups Grandmaster had sorted them into were separated according to cultivation direction. Among them, the most numerous were power attack and agility attack type Spirit Masters. Added together they accounted for sixty percent of all the Spirit Masters or so.

  Right now Grandmaster was just training a team of power attack type Spirit Masters. Before ordinary special training, terrifying hell model physical strength type drills were naturally unavoidable.

  Zhao Wuji stood to one side, his Gravity Control open, completely falling on the more than two hundred Spirit Masters currently running, making the weight each person carried extremely well distributed. Under the tiger like glare of Liu Erlong, these Spirit Masters could only train honestly.

  Not long ago, because of Grandmaster neglecting sleep and work, Liu Erlong had suddenly fallen ill. This had made Grandmaster rest a while because he had to look after her. But Liu Erlong couldn’t keep pretending forever. Helplessly, she could only accompany Grandmaster to train these students together, helping share some of his burden so he could relax a bit.

  She also knew that Grandmaster’s exhaustion came even more from the heart. She equally endured that kind of pain. Even though the two weren’t husband and wife in truth, their hearts were still as one. Tortured by this kind of pain, she had also almost collapsed. She also wanted to take revenge, but after constantly obtaining reports from Heaven Dou Empire about Spirit Hall’s strength, even her fiery temper had to grow colder and colder.

  Just at this time, suddenly, a somewhat irritable voice echoed,

  “I won’t do it. This isn’t something humans can endure.”

  One Spirit Master currently in training suddenly halted, quickly stepping out of the area of Zhao Wuji’s Gravity Control, sitting his butt on the ground and gasping for big mouthfuls of breath.

  The training Grandmaster gave these Spirit Masters really was very tough. Because they were all already twenty or thirty years old, their training capacity was thirty percent higher than the Shrek Seven Devils back then. These Spirit Masters’ training was too difficult for words.

  With someone taking the lead, among the more than two hundred Spirit Masters there was immediately a lot who halted, their clothes long since drenched in sweat, violently gasping for breath as soon as they stopped. One expectant gaze after another turned to Grandmaster.

  Grandmaster looked at those st
udents taking the lead to move away, coldly saying:

  “Who said this couldn’t be endured?”

  That Spirit Master looked thirty years old or so, build robustly, a power attack type, spirit power at the forty eighth rank. Among Spirit Masters of the same age, that was considered quite good.

  As a Spirit Master, always living like a prince, the focal point no matter where, when had he ever suffered like this? Shooting a glance at Grandmaster, he gasped:

  “Got skill…… got skill…… you come and…… try it?”

  “Right, this isn’t training for humans, if it goes on, we’ll all collapse.”

  With someone taking the lead, the resentful voices immediately spread, the halted Spirit Masters whispering among themselves, looking at Grandmaster with gazes filled with resentment and even hatred.

  Liu Erlong snorted furiously, stepping in front of that Spirit Master in a few steps, pulling him up from the ground,

  “Line up, continue training, otherwise, I’ll give you training alone.”

  Looking at a violent mother dragon like Liu Erlong, the robust Spirit Master’s eyes held some fear, but he still defiantely said:

  “We’re not your oxen. At worst I’ll quit. I don’t want to die here. Grandmaster is also only a Grandmaster of theory, if he can’t do it, why have us do it? Even Title Douluo might not be able to endure this kind of torment without using spirit power.”

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  Chapter 165: Reason For Eight Spider Lances’ Armor Evolution

  “You……”

  Liu Erlong was somewhat temperamental, and these days she was especially twitchy, and having heard what was said was immediately angry, raising her right hand, tyrannical spirit power fluctuations immediately suppressed the Spirit Master in front of her.

  “Stop.”

  Grandmaster shouted, blocking Liu Erlong’s actions.

  Slowly walking over in front of that Spirit Master, Grandmaster nodded to him,

  “Fine, I’ll train with you. As long as I still haven’t fallen, you can’t halt either.”

  Hearing this, Liu Erlong couldn’t help being anxious,

  “Xiao Gang, don’t be impulsive, remember your age, and moreover, you haven’t been resting these days, how can you play around like this.”

  The corner of that rebelling Spirit Master’s mouth twitched, saying in a low voice:

  “I knew he couldn’t. Just abuses us.”

  Grandmaster looked towards Liu Erlong with a gloomy gaze,

  “Erlong, you continue supervising from the side, I’ll accompany them for training.”

  Even though his intonation was very flat, his tone was unquestionable. Even a powerful woman like Liu Erlong unexpectedly didn’t dare prevent him at this moment.

  “When there are matters for a disciple to handle, Teacher, let me train with them. I also want to take a look at how strong so-called impossible training is.”

  Hearing this voice, Grandmaster’s ice cold expression finally changed a lot. Astonished turning his head, looking in the direction the voice came from, he found Tang San carrying a white rabbit, walking over with large strides, very quickly reaching him.

  “You’re back.”

  Looking at his disciple, Grandmaster couldn’t help all sorts of feelings welling up. Even to the extent that he didn’t notice Xiao Wu in his arms.

  Tang San nodded to Grandmaster, then turned to that robust Spirit Master, saying:

  “I’ll represent Grandmaster to train with you. I’ll do twice the training you do. No one has ever researched the extent of human limits. I’m Grandmaster’s disciple, so I’ll prove Grandmaster’s theory to you.”

  The robust Spirit Master said somewhat disdainfully:

  “You can talk big when you don’t know how we’ve trained. I want to see your double training.”

  Tang San stroked Xiao Wu in his embrace, walking over to Liu Erlong, handing her over,

  “Teacher Erlong, I’ll trouble you to help me hold her. This is Xiao Wu.”

  Liu Erlong stared blankly. Taking Xiao Wu from Tang San, for a moment she didn’t understand what he was saying.

  Tang San turned and walked over to that robust Spirit Master, looking straight at him face to face,

  “If I do it, apologize to Teacher.”

  While speaking, he walked to the center of the field with large strides, then turned to Grandmaster,

  “Teacher, please guide me.”

  Tang San’s appearance finally made Grandmaster’s gaze soften somewhat. Nodding, Grandmaster said:

  “You will run laps under Zhao Wuji’s Gravity Control. Gravity is tripled. Twenty laps. You may not use spirit power or spirit abilities.”

  The place where Zhao Wuji was the center of this practice field, relying on his Spirit Douluo strength, he could just spread his Gravity Control over the surrounding field.

  Tang San nodded to Zhao Wuji,

  “Teacher Zhao, I’ll trouble you. Give me six times gravity.”

  Zhao Wuji smiled faintly, nodding to Tang San. Even though his gravity strengthening ability wasn’t true gravity control, unable to weaken gravity, his present strength was still enough to strengthen gravity by ten times.

  The light of the third spirit ring brightened, six times gravity directly falling on Tang San.

  Tang San felt himself sink. His gaze turned to those halted students,

  “Please inspect for me.”

  As his words fell he was already running.

  Tang San didn’t run very fast, but the length of every step was practically equal, moving forward at an even speed. Very soon he came running up the outer ring.

  Those students weren’t too convinced Tang San really was enduring six times gravity right now, and subconsciously approached him. As Tang San passed by them, they immediately felt a formidable pressure, almost falling paralyzed to the ground from the weight. Then they were certain Zhao Wuji wasn’t throwing the game for Tang San.

  Of course, this couldn’t make them give up on inspecting. Each Spirit Master carefully observed Tang San. If he used spirit power, there would naturally be spirit power fluctuations, and they could instantly spot it.

  However, they very soon discovered that not only didn’t Tang San use spirit power, his running speed also started to accelerate.

  Tang San was no longer the Tang San from back then. Two hundred years, one thousand year, two ten thousand year, one hundred thousand year, six spirit rings had a frightful growth effect on his body. Let alone when he still had the baptism of two great immortal herbs, and the attribute growth of four spirit rings. The power of his physical body wasn’t something a human could compare to, not even the Motionless Bright king Zhao Wuji.

  Very soon, ten laps had passed, and Tang San was going faster and faster, the expression in his eyes without changing in the slightest, his breathing even. His complexion was level, just as if nothing was going on.

  “Teacher Zhao, apply your strongest gravity.”

  Tang San yelled to Zhao Wuji when he started his eleventh lap.

  Zhao Wuji secretly laughed, a little monster really was a little monster. With him taking Grandmaster’s fights, this time there was a good show to see. While his heart thought so, his mouth warned:

  “The strongest gravity is ten times, be careful.”

  Rather than saying this was his reminder to Tang San, it would be better to say he was telling those dumbstruck students.

  Gravity increased once again, but Tang San didn’t slow at all, the only change was that his face was a lot more flushed.

  These Heaven Dou imperial family Spirit Masters were all new transfers, and they hadn’t seen the the Shrek Five Devils fight Zhao Wuji and Flender last time, so they naturally didn’t recognize Tang San. Watching Tang San unexpectedly madly rush around under such terrifying gravity while relying only on his physical strength, everyone were instantly dumbfounded. The mouth of that robust Spirit Master that previously provoked Grandmaster hung open even further,
looking at him with incredulity.

  Twenty laps finished very quickly. Tang San once again returned to the center of the field, saluting to Grandmaster,

  “Teacher, what’s next?”

  Grandmaster waved his hand to Tang San, indicating he come over. Tang San very quickly reached Grandmaster, and right now, only a faint sheen of sweat was visible on his forehead.

  His eyes displaying a gratified expression, Grandmaster turned to the previously yelling robust Spirit Master,

  “Now you tell me, twenty laps in triple gravity, is that an impossible task for humans?”

  The robust Spirit Master stupidly looked at Tang San,

  “You, are you really human?”

  At these words, even Grandmaster and Liu Erlong’s faces couldn’t help displaying a slight smile.

  Liu Erlong kicked over that robust Spirit Master with one foot,

  “Less nonsense, return to your position. Everyone who stopped right now, start over with your laps. Begin. Whoever causes trouble again, don’t blame me for being blunt.”

  That robust Spirit Master even leaned over to run back to his unit, but still couldn’t help turning his head to look at Tang San,

  “Brother, what rank is your spirit power now? Was your physical strength trained by Grandmaster?”

  Tang San nodded to him,

  “I cultivated under Grandmaster’s instructions from childhood, right now I’m sixty sixth rank.”

  Putong—— The robust Spirit Master’s legs softened, falling to the ground.

  “Ho-, how much?”

  His voice trembled somewhat.

  Tang San calmly said:

  “Sixty sixth rank. I’m twenty one this year. Satisfied? You still haven’t apologized to Teacher.”

  While speaking, a formidable pressure abruptly radiated from him, instantly spreading over the whole field, giving each training Spirit Master a feeling of being unable to breathe.

  These Spirit Masters were for the most part at the fortieth or fiftieth level of spirit power. Capable of making them feel such pressure, only sixtieth rank Spirit Masters and above could manage it. Therefore, even though Tang San didn’t release his spirit rings, these Spirit Masters were already convinced beyond a doubt of what he said.