Douluo Dalu - Volume 01-48

by Tang Jia San Shao

  In front of Seagod Hall, the seven Guardian Douluos were now as silent as frozen cicadas. They haven’t witnessed Bo Saixi’s strength for many years. Watching that noble and elegant Lady Bo Saixi unleash such terrifying destructive force with elegant movements made all of their faces pale.

  Sea Dragon Douluo immediately retracted his statement of being able to hold Bo Saixi back for a joss stick’s time with the seven of them in his heart. Until now, they still hadn’t seen Bo Saixi unleash her battle spirit! With just soul power, such a terrifying strength could be unleashed. What would it be if battle spirit were added to the mix? Using ‘unimaginable’ to describe it was the most fitting.

  Tang San however had no such feelings, because he wasn’t even contemplating about this. Right now he was thinking about how to protect himself by surviving under Bo Saixi’s attacks. According to the calculation of time, it was only a few minutes from start till now. That joss stick’s burning point would definitely not be past one sixth.

  Tang San didn’t dare to unleash his spirit power. Bo Saixi wasn’t like Seagod’s seven sacred pillars’ Guardian Douluos who were unable to sense his spirit waves. Being in the same stage, Bo Saixi would naturally search for Tang San’s exact location with gusto. But once Tang San’s spirit power would be used to counter the search, though that would be mutual locating on purpose, how would he be able to face Bo Saixi’s attacks?

  Blue Silver Emperor right leg spirit bone’s flying skill was activated. Tang San skidded along the seawater in high speed, and using the cloaking ability of Vast Sea Veil, even when creasing across, the seawater wouldn’t show any waves.

  Bo Saixi was using the connection of the trial to find Tang San’s location, but it was constantly changing as he was moving irregularly.

  Right when Bo Saixi was ready to attack the sea directly, she was shocked to discover that Tang San was already out of the sea and his presence was no longer there. It was then at Seagod Mountain. Bo Saixi couldn’t help but frown again.

  Bo Saixi could unleash large area attacks without reservations anywhere else, but the same couldn’t be said for Seagod Mountain. That was the sanctuary of Seagod, and there was Seagod Hall. If it were to be attacked, she would never dare to receive Seagod’s wrath.

  Tang San was evidently clear about this point when he flew to the mountain. Using the time of Bo Saixi’s hesitation, he also got to catch a breath. With his mental tracking, he knew that his companions would be scattered around Seagod Island by now. Bo Saixi would never find it easy to catch them. Now he just had to survive.

  While he thought about it, Tang San started climbing the mountain in high speed. He didn’t dare to fly, because he feared that he would immediately be hit by Bo Saixi’s omnidirectional attacks as soon as he left the mountain. His spirit power could still not be released, but he could feel that Bo Saixi’s spirit power was coming after him. It was obvious she had a way to find his general location.

  Eight Spider Lances were deployed from the back, and Tang San travelled in the woods of Seagod Mountain quickly towards the top of the it. Seagod Mountain was just several hundreds of metres in height. Now, without the obstruction of Seagod’s Light from before, in just a few blinks of eyes, Tang San neared the top of the mountain.

  Bo Saixi then hit a realization and knew what Tang San was up to. Her eyes once again shined in praise. Watching that burning joss stick, she flashed and floated down in front of Seagod Hall.

  Bo Saixi arrived suddenly, which scared the seven Guardian Douluos. They quickly got out of the way and showed the empty spot of land in front of Seagod Hall. Right then, a wave of incomparably stern presence was released from Bo Saixi herself. Under the cover of the massive blue light, a gigantic golden illusion was gradually projected behind her like a human figure. The stern presence was coming from that. Although the face wasn’t clear, it could still be seen vaguely. The illusionary figure was holding a gigantic trident.

  Indeed, this was Bo Saixi’s battle spirit, Seagod. Due to Tang San’s cunning, she was finally forced to release her battle spirit. Eight black and one red, nine spirit rings lined up neatly on Bo Saixi. She didn’t display any changes due to the appearance of her spirit rings, and she seemed to be the same old her. Just with extra nine spirit rings around, that’s all.

  Bo Saixi’s hands were locked together before her chest, and the third spirit ring glowed. This was followed by a spreading of blue light like flowing waters. The spread was actually like mercury, moving out to all of the surroundings. When touching plants and rocks, the blue light would disperse on its own, but it didn’t miss any single crack of Seagod Mountain.

  Now, Tang San was already nearing the peak. When he looked at the blue light coming from Bo Saixi, his mind was stunned. It wasn’t because of how powerful the blue light was, but because of how it was completely one with her spirit power. The fusion of them was harmonious. In other words, every bit of her soul power also had a bit of spirit power. This blue energy completely had dual elements. With how massive Bo Saixi’s spirit power was and a search was done with soul power in a mix, even when Tang San had Vast Sea Veil’s cover, he would be discovered immediately if he made contact with it. Yet if he wanted to fly out of the mountain, then Bo Saixi would immediately give him a large area attack, leaving him with no means to escape.

  Although he finally forced Bo Saixi to use her battle spirit, Tang San’s plans were undoubtedly ruined. Right now, his situation became even more passive than before.

  Just then, a scene suddenly showed in Tang San’s eyes. Before this, when he led the Shrek group and received the trophy of being the champion group of the entire continent’s high class spirit master schools, due to Xiao Wu’s identity leak and was about to be hit by Spirit Hall, Tang San’s father Tang Hao appeared and used his attack to attract the attention of Spirit Hall experts, bringing Tang San and Xiao Wu away. ‘That’s right, the Seagod Hall!’

  Tang San’s plan was to retreat into Seagod Hall when climbing the mountain. There, Bo Saixi would surely be limited in her movements. Using his other abilities, there would be greater chances. Evidently, Bo Saixi also knew about this, and that was why she got in front of Seagod Hall to release her battle spirit. It was to prevent Tang San from grabbing this chance.

  ‘Since you’re not letting me in, then I’ll just attack.’ When thinking about this, Tang San retreated in haste with Vast Sea Veil while focusing his soul power. He raised his right arm and a thick concentration of Blue Silver Emperor formed quickly.

  His fifth spirit ring glowed, and blue golden light mixed with that red spirit ring’s energy waves, Tang San’s right arm was covered in a blood colored glow.

  The fifth spirit skill ‘Blue Silver Overlord Spear’ had evolved to one hundred and fifty thousand years level, and the name also changed, into ‘Blue Silver Tyrant Emperor Spear’. It was a single target, hundred thousand year spirit ability, and was a focal point attack. From the looks of things, it was Tang San’s fifth spirit skill, but compared to other hundred thousand years level spirit attacks, this was one with the highest attack power of all Tang San’s spirit skills.

  The Vast Sea Veil would only disappear when releasing mixed traces, yet wouldn’t when focusing energy. When he saw that he was about to retreat to the bottom of the mountain, Tang San didn’t hide, but advanced, while blue silver domain was released instantly. He also ate an erect gold fly at the same time.

  The blue silver domain was released while in spirit avatar state, entering Boundless Nature domain. Under the pressure of Seagod Douluo Bo Saixi, Tang San’s potential was surely pushed to the limits. The entire process flowed like a seamless work without stopping. One should know that he was now deploying both his domain and one hundred and fifty thousand year spirit skill at the same time. The consumption of soul power and the use of spirit power were all a massive burden, especially he was still spiritually damaged. It was more than his usual load.

  The difference between Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear and t
he usual Blue Silver Overlord Spear was that it’s no longer shining gold, but bloody red all over. In the bloody redness there was a gold colored brand which appeared to be dazzling. The energies all around the surroundings of the spear were frozen and wouldn’t flow out. When the red light burst forth from Tang San’s hand, it shot directly towards the sky. The speed of it was so fast that Tang San and Bo Saixi’s spirit powers would never capture it in time.

  At the same time, Tang San’s blue silver domain was pushed to the extreme. In his brain, the spiritual collision had calmed down, and it was now completely in charge of the domain’s functions. Meanwhile, Tang San slammed his fists into his own chest, and with a ‘wah!’, he coughed out a mouthful of heated blood, which then splashed right on his domain.

  What Tang San had was Blue Silver Emperor’s blood. Even though his blood had extreme ice and fire energies, under the effects of blue silver domain, the blood’s energies were released completely as if the two energies were filtered out by force, making the Blue Silver Emperor blood spread throughout Seagod Mountain with the domain.

  The plants on Seagod Mountain appeared to thrive at an insane rate under the effects of Boundless Life Domain. If one were to look from a distance, it would appear as if Seagod Mountain was instantly bloating in size right now.

  Bo Saixi had to concern herself about avoiding damage to Seagod Mountain, but Tang San had none of it. In order to protect his own life right now, he could resort to any means possible.

  And it had to be right now that Bo Saixi couldn’t care about stopping Tang San. Even when his location was detected, she couldn’t launch attacks against him. The reason was simple; The Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear had formed a perfect parabola in mid-air with the speed of a bolt of lightning, straight towards the top of Seagod Hall. The speed of it was so fast, even Bo Saixi would find it extremely difficult to do so. After all, it was a hundred thousand year spirit skill! Even with Seagod Hall’s own defensive power, as Seagod Island’s hierophant, she would never take the risk. Even this good tempered Bo Saixi couldn’t help but cursing Tang San in her mind right now. ‘He dares to attack Seagod Hall in order to delay my attacks against him? This kid really has the gall!’

  Now when Bo Saixi flew up in order to block the falling spear, the plants on Seagod Mountain all swarmed upwards with Tang San’s reckless urging. They rose up like swarms of bees, rapidly covering Seagod Hall without acknowledging the seven sacred pillars’ Guardian Douluos. The swarm appeared to be so crooked and vile, it seemed poised to crush Seagod Hall into bits and pieces.

  It should be known that although this was Seagod Mountain, plants were not sea spirit masters or sea spirit beasts. They wouldn’t obey Seagod’s commands. Blue Silver Emperor on the other hand didn’t have as high a standing as Seagod when in the world of plants, but there weren’t a lot of other echelons which were above them. Under the effects of Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor blood combined with blue silver domain, it would be strange if the plants weren’t in such a frenzy. Especially when Tang San seemed to use his own blood to nourish these plants. When he didn’t extract a sliver of their life force, but used his own massive lifeforce to infuse them, how could these plants not go insane? Their simplistic lives executed Tang San’s commands without error. Facing these plants’ frenzied attack, the seven sacred pillars’ Guardian Douluos didn’t hesitate to meet it head on, so they couldn’t see that Tang San’s lips had formed a faint smile. From the start of the trial until now, he was finally on the active side of things.

  Chapter 251: Seizing Opportunity, Break Through, The Sixth Trial

  Upon watching how the plants on Seagod Mountain grew at an insane pace and swarmed after Seagod Hall, as Guardian Douluos who tasked themselves in protecting Seagod Island, there was no way they could just watch.

  In mid-air, Seagod Douluo Bo Saixi was finally able to halt the advance of the Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear before it fell on Seagod Hall. With the blast of a punch, a powerful collision was made. A massive wave of sound threatened to deafen everyone as a ring of red colored wave spread out from where the Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear exploded.

  Even with Seagod Douluo Bo Saixi’s power, she also stopped in mid-air as she let out a fistful of faint blue waves and blocked the shockwaves caused by the spear’s explosion. Before Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear was about to be hit by Bo Saixi’s attack, Tang San already cut off the link between him and it, while Bo Saixi discovered that this spear of his appeared to be fearsome and second to none, but in reality, the spear body had some spirit power. Right when she was going to face it head on, it was already decelerating, plus the severing of the link with Tang San, it caused the fearsome focal penetrating power to fail in being brought out completely. Even so, its attack power made Bo Saixi shiver in her heart.

  “Don’t block those plants!” Bo Saixi seemed to have realized something. She stopped in mid-air for a bit, and blocked the dispersed shockwaves from Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear, which needed an instant of soul power to some degree. And it was this slight duration of time which heralded the time of the plants’ arrival at the front of Seagod Hall.

  Bo Saixi’s caution was still late by a step. Protecting Seagod Island and Seagod himself had long become a directive that was deeply rooted in the minds of Seagod seven sacred pillars’ Guardian Douluos. Facing the intensity of the plants, how could they just do nothing? The seven of them almost moved at the same time and strong spirit powers burst out in order to stop the plants that were coming from all direction. They even used their own spirit avatar states in order to halt the creeping.

  Tang San’s forehead flashed as the golden trident brand was flickering. The thing he wanted to have had come.

  “Due to the Seagod seven sacred pillars’ Guardian Douluos taking part of the sixth trial, the difficulty of the trial has been increased, and the limitations were broken. Special permission to grant the trial participants to leave the testing grounds is in effect. Leaving the Seagod Island perimeter will count as passing the trial.”

  It wasn’t just Tang San who received the notification. Seagod Douluo Bo Saixi and the seven Guardian Douluos also received the same notification. They were stunned, yet Bo Saixi’s brows moved tighter. A red figure flew down to the bottom of Seagod Mountain in unprecedented speeds.

  Indeed, all of this was in Tang San’s calculations. When he saw the seven sacred pillars Guardian Douluos stood in front of Seagod Hall, the plan was already being executed. Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear truly was an attack which had all of his strength. Without doing so, it wouldn’t be able to restrain Seagod Douluo Bo Saixi. When it came to attacking head on, this strongest spirit skill of Tang San would have no effect whatsoever. But if the target became Seagod Hall instead, then Bo Saixi could do nothing but to protect it. No matter how powerful her strength, Tang San believed that it wouldn’t be possible for her to use a large area spirit skill to block his Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear. Since she would never let Seagod Hall be damaged in the slightest, she would surely protect it by herself.

  And it was at this time that Seagod Mountain’s plants were urged by Tang San to attack the Seagod Hall. Tang San thought about this as soon as three days ago, when he requested Bo Saixi to hold the challenge at the bottom of Seagod Mountain. The reason he wanted to fight here was not because he wished to use blue silver domain to tussle with Bo Saixi. When he reached the same stage as Bo Saixi, Tang San’s current domain power would not have any effect on her. The reason he chose here was not because there were trees, but because of Seagod Hall.

  Attacking Seagod Hall would result in Bo Saixi’s rescue, and the appearance of the seven sacred pillars Guardian Douluos gave Tang San a pleasant surprise. He had already calculated that when he attacked Seagod Hall, the Guardian Douluos would never stay still. With Bo Saixi restrained, they would surely give it their all to halt the plants’ attacks.

  In reality, whether it was Blue Silver Dominant Emperor Spear or the plants, Tang
San wouldn’t actually attack Seagod Hall seriously. He was too smart for that. He knew it clearly that if he really attacked Seagod Hall, then the Guardian Douluos and Bo Saixi would then receive orders to attack him. What good would come from encroaching upon Seagod’s pride? Hence all of his attacks had reservations. Whether the spear or the array of plants brought forth with blue silver domain, they would only reach before Seagod Hall instead of actually leading to destruction.

  The seven sacred pillar Guardian Douluos had fallen for it, and at the same time, the result was also exactly as Tang San predicted. Now that Tang San was in a bitter resistance under Bo Saixi’s attacks, the blocking of his attacks from the Guardian Douluos meant that they had taken part of the trial. Considering the strength of the Shrek Six, if they took the trial while under Bo Saixi and the seven sacred pillars Guardian Douluos’ attacks, they wouldn’t have even 1/10000th chance of succeeding. Seagod was fair, and so, the trial would naturally change again. If the sixth trial could have its difficulty bumped up because of shortcutting in the fifth trial, then surely Seagod would have something to say if the sixth trial were to have its difficulty increased by a large margin.

  It was exactly because of this that the current situation happened. When Tang San had to avoid Bo Saixi’s soul power and spirit power fused search earlier, he had already retreated to the bottom of Seagod Mountain. By ‘leaving Seagod Island perimeter’, it meant that once he entered the ring shaped sea, this incredibly difficult sixth trial would be passed and he didn’t have to care about the burning joss stick.

  However, looking at the ring shaped sea that was about a home stretch away, Tang San didn’t retreat but charged ahead instead. Just when he charged ahead, a red glow had zipped past his previous location and slammed the beach at the bottom of Seagod Mountain heavily.