Chapter 165: Refusing to Take the Easy Way Out, Is This Supposed to Roast Him Alive? (Two-in-One)
Three days later, Spirit Hall was ready and about to set off for the Star Dou Great Forest.
The team included Hu Bai, Bibi Dong, Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Ling Yuan, Shui Bing'er, Azure Luan Douluo, and Guang Ling Douluo.
There were six Titled Douluo in the team, and none of them were weak in strength.
During Bibi Dong's absence, Qian Daoliu naturally stepped forward to handle all affairs; he was still strong and capable.
During these three days, Hu Bai had also absorbed the Spirit Ascension Pill and the Saint Breakthrough Pill, and his cultivation had advanced to level 69, not too far from level 70.
Moreover, he discovered that a soul power vortex appeared in his body during the process of his cultivation, breaking through to level 69.
Those who have read Douluo Dalu 3 should be familiar with this soul power vortex, indicating that Hu Bai's cultivation speed had increased significantly, and his efficiency in absorbing external energy had also improved.
This time, they did not choose to travel by carriage to the Star Dou Great Forest.
After all, there were six Titled Douluo in the team, and Azure Luan Douluo's Martial Soul was an avian type, so she naturally served as their mount.
After Azure Luan Douluo unleashed her Martial Soul True Body, her body transformed into a massive Azure Luan bird, its broad back large enough to accommodate all of them.
Furthermore, the Azure Luan bird's speed was not slow; with Azure Luan Douluo's cultivation, they would reach the Star Dou Great Forest in no time.
In Hu Bai's Spiritual Sea,
Snow Empress's mature voice resounded: "Xiao Bai, you're going to the Star Dou Great Forest this time, presumably to hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, right? What are your thoughts on this?"
Both Snow Empress and Ice Empress were intelligent Soul Beasts. For Bibi Dong and the others to hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, truthfully, they did feel a little uncomfortable.
But there was no other way; Soul Masters could not advance without hunting Soul Beasts.
Who knows who set it up, forcing Soul Masters and Soul Beasts to be at odds!
Hu Bai naturally understood the concerns of the Ice Empress and Snow Empress and smiled: "Don't worry, I know that Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts already possess considerable intelligence. If they are willing to take human form, they can be treated as humans."
"However, this hunting mission, according to my teacher, is one of her God trials. She needs to obtain a Hundred-thousand-Year soul ring, and this cannot be changed."
"So, I have a compromise, which is..."
The Ice Empress spoke first: "You want that Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast to sacrifice itself?"
Hu Bai glanced at Ice Empress and nodded: "Exactly, Ice Empress is so clever."
"Hmph, of course." The Ice Empress proudly turned her head away, seemingly quite pleased with Hu Bai's praise.
Snow Empress nodded slightly: "Your method is indeed feasible. After all, both you and Bibi Dong have already received God trials.
According to your idea, as long as they are willing to sacrifice their all, then after you become a God, you should be able to resurrect them, right?"
Hu Bai nodded: "Yes, as long as the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast is willing to sacrifice its soul and attach its soul to the Soul Bone, then we can help resurrect them when we become gods in the future."
"However, there's a flaw, which is... those Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts are not the same existence as you two. Whether it's Ice Empress, Snow Empress, or Tianmeng, you are all intelligent Spirit Souls or intelligent soul rings, so your spirit bodies can be used freely like this and move freely within my Spiritual Sea."
"But Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts cannot. They have only just reached the conditions for human form. Their Souls, truthfully, are definitely not as strong as yours."
"So there's a risk: after we obtain this Hundred-thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, we should avoid using them if possible. The Soul Bone is fine, but if the soul ring is used too much, the Soul of that Soul Beast truly risks dissipating."
In the original work, Tang San's sixth soul ring was Xiao Wu's.
At that time, Da Ming and Er Ming saw it and wished they could kill him, but seeing Tang San's good attitude, they let him go. They also didn't want to kill the person Xiao Wu recognized.
They only informed him that Xiao Wu's Soul was attached to the soul ring and Soul Bone, and it was best not to use them; otherwise, it would accelerate the speed of soul dissipation.
Although Tang San in the original work never actively used the soul ring, he actively used many Soul Bone skills.
First: I promise I will never use Xiao Wu's skills in the future, to prevent Xiao Wu's Soul from being damaged!
Later: Invincible Golden Body! Invincible Golden Body! Teleportation! Teleportation!
Cough, cough.
"Of course, in fact, as long as the Soul Beast puts all its soul into the Soul Bone when it actively sacrifices itself, the risk will be greatly reduced.
After all, a soul ring and a Soul Bone are different. A Soul Master needs to use the soul ring constantly, while a Soul Bone is usually kept as a trump card and not easily used. Plus, a Soul Bone looks like a sealed box, so the Soul staying inside is definitely better than being in a soul ring."
Just then, Hu Bai sensed something and released Tianmeng Iceworm from the Soul Bone.
"Ah~~ What a refreshing sleep."
"Huh, Bingbing, good morning! Where are we going?"
When Tianmeng Iceworm woke up, he found that they were flying at an extremely fast speed in the air, and the direction seemed a bit familiar.
"Hey, Tianmeng, call me Ice Empress, or I'll eat you right now!" The Ice Empress put on a fierce expression.
Snow Empress stood beside Ice Empress, looking at Tianmeng Iceworm with a cold expression, her gaze so intense that Tianmeng Iceworm's chubby body couldn't stop trembling, and he could only laugh awkwardly.
Changing the subject: "Oh, right, Xiao Bai, seeing your direction and your team, are you going to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts?"
Hu Bai nodded: "Yes, looking at the time, if I can break through to rank 70 during this period, then I can use this opportunity to complete my third trial."
"Mmm, mmm, what's your third trial?" Tianmeng Iceworm asked curiously.
Hu Bai: "I need to obtain a soul ring from a designated Soul Beast."
Tianmeng Iceworm: "Mmm, mmm, that's quite simple then. What is this designated Soul Beast? When the time comes, with my mental power, I'll scan for you; it will definitely save a lot of time."
Hu Bai: "Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger."
"Oh, oh, so it's the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, simple!"
"Wait! What did you say?!"
"Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger!" Tianmeng Iceworm's chubby body immediately flew in front of Hu Bai, circling him.
"Are you sure it's the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger? Did the god who gave you the assessment say you need to hunt it alone? You can't kill that thing by yourself!"
The Ice Empress frowned and said, "Tianmeng, why are you making such a fuss! It's just a Soul Beast of over sixty thousand years, look at you!"
Tianmeng Iceworm smiled wryly and explained: "Bingbing, you used to live in the Extreme North, so you haven't heard of the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger and don't know its abilities.
But I've lived in the Star Dou Great Forest for quite some time..."
"Are you sure you lived there, and weren't captured?" Snow Empress retorted.
"Cough, cough, don't mind those details. Being captured, that's also living in the Star Dou Great Forest, no difference."
"The most crucial thing is, during my time in the Star Dou Great Forest, to find an opportunity to escape, I would occasionally use my mental power to explore the forest. Anyway, I was idle, so observing the lives of other Soul Beasts was also good."
"Then I discovered the only Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger in the forest. The Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger needs to devour humans and Soul Beasts to quickly improve its cultivation, belonging to the most evil and vicious of Soul Beasts. Killing it is not worthy of sympathy at all."
"But it itself is extremely difficult to kill. From my observation, this Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger possesses six elemental abilities, which are different from Xiao Bai's Heavenly Fox."
"Xiao Bai can control all natural elements, but that is control, not his own Martial Soul attribute. His Heavenly Fox attribute is mental, at most bringing Luck, which is fate. Elements are not the Heavenly Fox Martial Soul's attributes."
"And this kind of Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger is very terrifying. Multiple attributes are gathered in one body, and they don't conflict; even able to coordinate and exert various abilities, which is very powerful."
"And this is not its most powerful ability!"
"I once observed a battle between the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger and the Titan Giant Ape. That Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, over sixty thousand years old, was actually able to suppress the Titan Giant Ape! And just as the Titan Giant Ape was somewhat disheartened, a black light appeared, trying to draw it in, but precisely at that moment, the Sky Azure Bull Python appeared."
"The Sky Azure Bull Python, combining its strength with the Titan Giant Ape's, simultaneously released two Domain powers, which finally forced the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger to retreat. This is enough to show how extraordinary this Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger is."
"This Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger is extremely intelligent, Xiao Bai. This time, so many Titled Douluo powerhouses are dispatched. If you want to lure it out, I'm afraid you'll have to be the bait yourself, and the other Titled Douluo must temporarily withdraw thousands of miles away or even leave the Star Dou Great Forest, otherwise it will be very difficult to lure it out!"
Ice Empress frowned: "Tianmeng, are you exaggerating that much? Two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts, both possessing their innate Domains, can't defeat one evil tiger? Are you perhaps joking?"
Tianmeng shook his small body and smiled: "Bingbing, we are now a community of fate. If Xiao Bai dies, we will also die, so of course I wouldn't joke with my own life.
The Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger with multiple attributes is already very powerful. It has over sixty thousand years of cultivation and possesses a Domain, and not only that, its last method, unlike Domain power, was an ultimate darkness, an extreme rule power, making me feel a divine aura."
"It was that power that wanted to pull the Titan Giant Ape in, but it was interrupted by the Sky Azure Bull Python."
Hearing Tianmeng Iceworm say this, Ice Empress and Snow Empress also fell silent.
They had thought, how could this third trial be so simple, just to hunt a Soul Beast of over sixty thousand years?
"Xiao Bai, then what do you say we do? If it's really as Tianmeng says, to lure out the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, then Bibi Dong and the others must stay far away from you until their aura can no longer be detected by the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger.
But if it's just you alone, can you deal with the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger? Its strength is probably extremely close to a Fierce Beast!"
Snow Empress frowned and said.
Hu Bai had long been prepared in his heart; he understood the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger's strength better than the three of them.
In the original work, Tang San already possessed the Sea God Trident at that time, and his own strength had reached the Titled Douluo level, but even so, he almost capsized when dealing with the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger.
If it weren't for using Hidden Weapons combined with Sea God Light to break through the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger's Evil God Protection, causing the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger's cultivation to regress along with it, Tang San would have truly been doomed.
However, with Tang San's precedent, as long as he was careful, he couldn't possibly lose to the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, right?
He also had a Divine Artifact!
Moreover, he also had the help of Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Tianmeng Iceworm. If he truly encountered a crisis, they would definitely release their Origin power to help him, and he wouldn't lose no matter what.
And just as Bibi Dong and her group were on their way to the Star Dou Great Forest, two groups of people arrived at Spirit City one after another.
The envoys were dispatched by the Heaven Dou Empire and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, with Yu Yuanzhen personally leading the team!
Inside the Supreme Pontiff Palace,
Qian Daoliu sat on the chair in the center of the main hall, with Prince Xue Xing and the Heaven Dou envoys standing below.
Inside the hall, besides Qian Daoliu, there were no other Titled Douluo.
After all, among the several High Priests, Azure Luan Douluo, Guang Ling Douluo, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei had all gone to the Star Dou Great Forest. Golden Crocodile was also not in the Worship Hall, but was leading some people to help handle the Empire's affairs.
As for the remaining High Priests like Thousand Ton Douluo and Demon Suppressing Douluo, they were staying in the Angel Sacred Hall, ready to assist Qian Renxue in her training at any time.
If it weren't for Prince Xue Xing bringing people today, he would also be busy.
Qian Daoliu sighed inwardly: "After establishing the empire, there are really a lot of trivial matters. I wonder how Bibi Dong handles it every day. She has to cultivate, prepare for God's trials, and handle affairs. She's really busy!"
"Prince Xue Xing, what brings you and your group here to me?"
Qian Daoliu asked knowingly.
Prince Xue Xing looked at Qian Daoliu, his body slightly stiff. He originally thought he would be facing Bibi Dong, but he didn't expect to be facing Qian Daoliu!
Compared to Qian Daoliu, he was still more willing to face Bibi Dong!
The pressure Qian Daoliu brought was simply too great; after all, he was a long-established powerhouse on the continent.
Bibi Dong had only been Supreme Pontiff for a few years, so her aura was naturally not as strong as Qian Daoliu's.
However, in exchanges between two nations, envoys are not to be harmed.
Prince Xue Xing also bit the bullet and spoke: "High Priest, we have come this time hoping that the Spirit Empire can give our Heaven Dou Empire an explanation.
"That Tianshui City openly announced its allegiance to your Spirit Empire. People outside believe that your Spirit Empire used some means to recruit them. Is this true?"
"If not, then our Heaven Dou Empire will..."
Prince Xue Xing was eager to finish his sentence, but Qian Daoliu calmly looked at Prince Xue Xing and lightly uttered a sentence.
"Indeed, it is true. What do you, the Heaven Dou Empire, intend to do?"
The expression on Prince Xue Xing's face instantly froze.
He had just given the Spirit Empire a way out, but Qian Daoliu simply refused to take it!
Was this meant to roast him alive?
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