His challenge to Seahorse Douluo hadn’t used much time, but had actually consumed a considerable amount of energy. Fighting a Title Douluo was easier said than done. Tang San also understood that although Seahorse Douluo had used his full strength in the fight, he hadn’t fought with his life on the line. Otherwise, it would’ve been impossible for him to win so easily. Formulating mobile battle tactics as well as using a few formidable spirit abilities in conjunction had exhausted Tang San a lot too. Fortunately he’d had the Devouring Golden Threads for support, which had let him absorb a lot of Seahorse Douluo’s spirit power. His exhaustion was within permissible range.
Oscar and Ning Rongrong joined hands to challenge Seahorse Douluo in a battle without much suspense. Seriously injured in his battle with Tang San, and with his spirit power substantially consumed, it was difficult for Seahorse Douluo to even maintain his spirit avatar, so how could he defeat Oscar who was using the clone mirror sausage to copy one hundred percent of Ma Hongjun’s spirit abilities, as well as the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda buff from Ning Rongrong? The battle was very direct. Oscar chose the tactic of using large scale spirit attack abilities to collide with Seahorse Douluo. Even though it was a bit mean in some sense, it was undoubtedly the most effective way. After only three rounds, Seahorse Douluo could no longer hold out.
Ning Rongrong’s eighty percent all-round boost even made Oscar’s spirit power a bit higher than Tang San. Even if he didn’t have Tang San’s endless frightening abilities, the frontal spirit ability collision still forced Seahorse Douluo to admit defeat.
However, just as the Shrek Seven Devils judged before, after Oscar won with a shortcut, his reward was no longer one rank of spirit power, but rather half a rank, making him a bit gloomy. But this was already the best result. If he had confronted Seahorse Douluo in top condition, Oscar knew it would be very difficult for him to succeed.
Before leaving, Oscar left behind ten large recovery sausages for Seahorse Douluo, and after apologizing once again, everyone set off, leaving for their second destination.
This next fight was the true start of the battle. Because, according to everyone’s plan, Tang San’s challenges would be in between each time Dai Mubai and the others, like this he could rest for even longer, thereby maintaining his top condition. Consequently, their next choice was the Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar, also where Dai Mubai had to accept his challenge. He would face Sealance Douluo.
Before setting out, everyone had carefully studied the map of Seagod Island, the second battle choice, Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar, wasn’t only because Dai Mubai was the strongest apart from Tang San, but at the same time also because Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar was at just the right distance.
Two hours later, the Shrek Seven Devils plus Bai Chenxiang reached their destination. The Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar’s sea within the sea.
As the yellow and purple clothes spirit masters keeping watch by the sea within the sea saw the brands on everyone’s foreheads, they didn’t stop them, and very quickly brought them to the sea.
Judging by eye, this sea within the sea seemed about the same size as by the previous Seahorse Sacred Pillar, only its shape was different. At the center of the sea within the sea was a round platform, and at the center of the platform was erected a pillar at least a third higher than the Seahorse Sacred Pillar, with golden light soaring up. Just looking at the shape of this sacred pillar gave an impression of threatening sharpness. The entire sacred pillar was like a giant lance sticking up, golden light shot from the tip, and fine magic lines alternately hidden and visible under the golden light was magically obscure.
Below the sacred pillar, one person sat cross legged against it. Faint golden hair draped across his shoulders, both eyes closed. Even though the ravages of time had left some marks on his face, one could still tell that this Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar protector Title Douluo was an outstandingly beautiful man when he was young.
Dai Mubai looked face to face with Tang San,
“We’ll go.”
Tang San’s trial had a time limit. He wanted to save Tang San as much time as possible.
“Go for it.”
Everyone called out simultaneously. Oscar slipped a handful of sausages to Dai Mubai. He was the first to pass the trial, also in order to be able to support the others better.
Tang San didn’t say more, directly sitting down crosslegged, continuing to recover the spirit power exhausted in the first battle. The others also all took after him to sit down, cultivating, maintaining their peak condition. Only Oscar who had already passed the fifth trial observed the battle in front of the Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar.
Dai Mubai brought Ning Rongrong over with a few leaps, using the force from striking the surface of the sea with his toes, to land on the Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar platform. Just at the same time the two of them landed on the platform, a sharp aura immediately assaulted them. It was as if they didn’t confront a person, but rather a spear that could overcome any defense.
Ning Rongrong shifted her feet, swiftly dodging behind Dai Mubai. Not only did she release her spirit, she even instantly used her Nine Treasure Avatar. Illusory images drifted out, and the skull bone ability Fantasy Space spread out, enveloping the platform.
This was what everyone had planned in advance. The Sealance Douluo Dai Mubai confronted was very possible the seven sacred pillar Douluo second only to Seadragon Douluo. Some clues for this could be seen from him being a tool spirit master. It was more difficult for tool spirit masters to cultivate to Title Douluo than beast spirit masters, but at the same time, tool spirit master Title Douluo would ordinarily be stronger than beast spirit master Title Douluo.
“Hou——” Dai Mubai roared, his evil eyes radiating sudden light. His body abruptly expanded, the first, third, fifth, seventh, actually releasing four spirit abilities. With a sway of his body, within Ning Rongrong’s Fantasy Space, he incarnated as a more than seven meter long, brilliantly golden fierce tiger. With the four great boost abilities, Dai Mubai’s current physical condition was already at its peak. His hind legs used force, and he brazenly lunged.
This sacred pillar platform wasn’t particularly large, a diameter of just around twenty meters. Dai Mubai’s body was more than seven meters long, and he practically just changed form as his ejected sharp blade claws already reached Sealance Douluo. At the same time, strength, defense, and attack boost, three great buffing abilities caught up to him from behind, completing the boost.
Dai Mubai’s spirit power was after all already close to eightieth rank, further adding Ning Rongrong’s buffs, his spirit power intensity absolutely wouldn’t be lower than Title Douluo, and this lunge even more exploded from his tyrannical body.
Sealance Douluo was already floating in the air when Dai Mubai released his spirit avatar. As he sensed the aura of Dai Mubai’s attack, he couldn’t keep his eyes from displaying a trace of shock.
His eyes were blue, as if untainted by a hint of emotion. If you had Dai Mubai compare it to someone, then this Sealance Douluo’s expression was extremely similar to the Breaking Clan chief Yang Wudi.
Meeting Dai Mubai’s tiger claws was a golden lance. This lance didn’t have all the magic patterns the Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar did, but was as smooth as a mirror, without any decoration, seeming so simple and direct. But its two yellow, two purple, and five black spirit rings showed its true strength.
The third spirit rong brightened from the spear, and the spear shadow split into three, two of which thrust towards Dai Mubai’s two tiger claws, while the third stabbed straight towards Dai Mubai’s white tiger throat.
These three lances were incomparably fast, Dai Mubai didn’t even clearly see Sealance Douluo’s hands move. The three scarcely scattered attacks descended simultaneously. The attacks were extremely condensed, like three sharp needles. Even before the attacks arrived, a bone piercing chill already made the giant tiger’s hackles rise.
Dai Mubai wasn’t easy to deal with either. Hi
s forward momentum was unchanged, as both tiger claws suddenly criss crossed, bringing lines of spear sharp golden light.
Ear piercing cracks echoed continuously, and a series of sparks erupted between the lance and white tiger. Dai Mubai’s body stalled, falling to the ground. And Sealance Douluo was knocked away, striking the Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar not far behind him before he regained his balance. The golden lance in his hands flickered with light, and his face turned the color of blood. Three breaths later he had recovered to normal.
Clearly, in this first exchange, Dai Mubai had taken the advantage.
There really was a large gap in spirit power between both sides, seventy ninth rank confronting an opponent of at least ninetieth rank. But don’t forget that just as Dai Mubai lunged, he had completely started the four great boost abilities, and behind him he also had Ning Rongrong’s three boost abilities. Attack power, defensive power as well as strength were amplified by eighty percent. Under the numerous support abilities, his total attack power just exceeded Sealance Douluo’s third spirit ability.
Chapter 242: Control! Evil Eye White Tiger VS Sea’s Lance
This battle was destined to be a contest of force from the start.
As Sealance Douluo saw Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong’s age, he originally felt a bit contemptuous, even when Dai Mubai released the White Tiger Avatar, revealing his seventh ring, his thoughts didn’t change. After all, the gap between a Title Douluo and a Spirit Sage was really too wide.
But as they truly collided, he learned that these two youngsters weren’t as easy to deal with as he imagined.
Dai Mubai’s attack went smoothly, and he also equally sensed Sealance Douluo’s contempt for him, but he grew happy rather than angry. Just as he landed, his foreclaws violently struck the Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar platform once, propelling his enormous body once again into the air, tackling towards Sealance Douluo like a bolt of lightning.
This time his tiger claws were gathered at his chest, his whole body radiating golden light, and along with his charge, several dozen meters above him, countless white meteors fell from the sky, focused on Sealance Douluo. It was White Tiger Meteor Shower.
His goal was very simple, not giving Sealance Douluo time to catch his breath, he would exploit the bit of initiative he had at the start to forcefully suppress the opponent until he won. This was undoubtedly his best choice at present.
Dai Mubai’s White Tiger Avatar’s strongest capability was undoubtedly the melee, but his small number of attack abilities also possessed considerable might. Especially with Ning Rongrong’s support, his power could be displayed to its greatest degree.
At the same time as the White Tiger Meteor Shower emerged, another line of boost light reached him, Ning Rongrong’s third spirit ability, spirit power boost. Although this was just the third spirit ability, each of Ning Rongrong’s spirit abilities boosted eighty percent. As the world’s number one support spirit, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was an extremely abnormal existence in itself.
“Good——”
Sealance Douluo shouted, his back was against the Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar, unable to retreat. Seeing Dai Mubai transformed into the white tiger attacking him from all directions with the meteor shower in midair, he gripped the lance in both hands, suddenly sticking it into the ground in front of him. Immediately after, his seventh spirit ring flared with light. In just a split second, his whole body actually transformed into a golden liquid that merged into that spear.
These were circumstances Dai Mubai had never seen, even Tang San hadn’t seen it. The spirit master’s body blending into the tool spirit, this was a true union between man and spear.
Due to the advantage from the first attack, just before Sealance Douluo’s body merged into the lance, Dai Mubai had already lunged. Tiger claws striking from his chest, an ear piercing sonorous sound erupted, continuously striking countless spark from that Sea’s Lance. The White Tiger Meteor shower in midair also unerringly struck the lance.
However, bizarrely, no matter how violently Dai Mubai attacked, all his attacks seemed to fall on indestructible metal. Apart from those flying sparks, it basically didn’t seem like any of the attacks hit Sealance Douluo. The White Tiger Meteor Shower also only seemed to splash out white light on the lance, without any sense of a proper result appearing.
What was going on here?
“Mubai, careful.”
From the side came a loud shout. By the voice, it was Tang San. When Sealance Douluo transformed into that bizarre spirit avatar, Tang San had opened his eyes. Even though he was cultivating, his spiritual force had scanned the entire sea within the sea, and he’d naturally sensed the special circumstances of Dai Mubai’s battle with Sealance Douluo. Assisting in the battle was impossible, but speaking warnings didn’t break the rules. Discovering something amiss, Tang San immediately gave voice.
Dai Mubai and the others had an almost blind trust in Tang San. The giant white tiger’s body swiftly retreated almost without hesitation. Practically the instant he withdrew, that golden lance stuck in the platform abruptly shot up, countless golden lights exploding out like fine rain, like a sunburst, distributing countless golden lights.
Each golden trace caused a series of explosions in the air, almost instantly filling the entire Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar platform with golden light. Vaguely, one could see a black ring of light spreading out.
Dai Mubai’s huge body swiftly retreated in front of Ning Rongrong. He couldn’t retreat any further, because Ning Rongrong was behind him. If they entered the water, they would only be in even more danger. Fighting on this platform they still had some odds of success.
The giant tiger gaped wide, a surging white light jetting out, not dispersing, but rather condensing into a white shield of light in front of Dai Mubai, blocking the full power erupting from that golden lance. Having used the spirit abilities for so many years, how could they not change a bit? This shield of light was a clever use of the White Tiger Light Wave while in White Tiger Avatar state.
The golden light stabbed at the white light shield, instantly causing countless ripples, like rain falling on a calm lake. By constantly spitting out the White Tiger Light Wave, and with Ning Rongrong’s further all out boost behind him, this just helped him block that explosion of golden light.
On the shore, Tang San’s expression had become serious. Through his spiritual force probe as well as his own judgement, he could see that the attack just now was Sealance Douluo’s eighth spirit ability. His seventh spirit ability made his body blend into the lance like water, and the eighth spirit ability seemed to be able to use the lance to temporarily block the enemy’s attack, and possibly even reflect the energy of the opponent’s attack. If Dai Mubai hadn’t retreated fast enough and been hit head on by that exploding lance, the outcome might have already been settled. In order to regain the initiative, Sealance Douluo had revealed his power in their second exchange.
Such a powerful tool spirit avatar. As Grandmaster’s disciple, Tang San had never heard from Grandmaster that tool spirit masters could use their spirit avatar to merge into their tool spirit. In the spirit master world, tool Spirit Sages and higher level tool spirit masters were basically a lot fewer than beast Spirit Sages and higher beast spirit masters. Could this special case be specific to sea spirit masters?
Tang San didn’t dare be certain, but he could be sure that after the union of body and tool, this Sealance Douluo’s strength was absolutely even more formidable than ordinary tool spirit avatars. Without the body, Dai Mubai had lost his point of attack, and could only treat the opponent’s golden lance as his target. But judging by the circumstances just now, the golden lance not only had frightful defensive strength, but moreover endless might in this kind of tool spirit avatar form.
The sputtering ripples very soon disappeared. By dodging the golden lance’s frontal attack, as well as with Ning Rongrong’s support, Dai Mubai had relied on White Tiger Light Wave to block that slender as fine rain
golden light.
The golden lance had now shot into the air, sweeping past the Sea’s Lance Sacred Pillar Platform, falling towards the sea within the sea as if out of control.
Hesitating over the unclear circumstances, Dai Mubai didn’t pursue immediately. Ning Rongrong threw out a big recovery sausage into his white tiger maw, then also ate one herself. The two simultaneously adjusted their spirit power condition.
Just at this moment, the golden lance hit the surface of the sea. To be precise, it should be called lashed the surface of the sea. Amidst an explosive crack, a crystalline screen of water was thrown up by the golden lance. The lance whipped sideways, and countless droplets turned into specks of light, cutting through the air straight at Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong with ear piercing sounds. At the same time, the golden lance spun once in midair, pointing downward, then thrust towards the sea within the sea.
“Block it, don’t let it into the water.”
Tang San’s voice echoed once again. This time it was no longer a hasty shout. Through observation, the had already discovered some clues. Forcing his voice into a line, the sound entered Dai Mubai’s ear.
Hearing Tang San’s warning, Dai Mubai immediately understood. That attack from Sealance Douluo merged with the spear before had to have exhausted him a great deal, but as a Sea Douluo, he could undoubtedly display his greatest strength within the ocean. Whipping out these droplets was more in order to stall them. He didn’t have enough time to consider why Sealance Douluo didn’t directly enter the water, and instead first launched an attack to stop them, missing the opportunity. His enormous body was already lunging.
This moment clearly revealed Dai Mubai’s power. He didn’t dodge the droplet attack, using his forepaws to shield his eyes, his huge body forcefully pounced, straight for that golden lance.
The facts once again proved Tang San’s conjecture, as the lance tip was about to enter the water, the lance suddenly paused. The lance tip trembled, turning into countless lance shadows, stirring up the water below, instantly rendering it golden. It was like a whale inhaling, pulling up the seawater to merge into the lance. And that golden lance quickly expanded in the process.
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