pertwk Chapter 151 Tang 3's Miscalculation Again and the 8-Corner Request
Chapter 151 Tang 3's Miscalculation Again and the 8-Corner Request
Chapter 151 Tang San's Miscalculation Again and the Eight-Cornered Request
The fragrance was very light, yet carried a hint of sweetness, refreshing and delightful. Beneath Kong Tianxu's skin, a layer of golden-red radiance flowed faintly. The golden essence of life released a rich life force, interacting and circulating with the medicinal power of the Love-Sickness Heartbreak Red, subtly creating a self-contained cycle.
Under his deliberate control, most of the medicinal power of the Acacia Heartbreak Red was directly integrated into his body and blood vessels, guiding his physique to improve in an all-round way.
Kong Tianxu's physical strength, which had progressed extremely slowly after reaching the Title Douluo level, is now increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Cain seemed to be nourished by the primordial energy emanating from Kong Tianxu's body, and his breathing gradually became longer and more even.
She sat down cross-legged as if struck by a sudden inspiration. Bathed in the soft, warm red light, the two figures seemed to become somewhat transparent, like a pair of exquisite crystals formed by heaven and earth, beautiful beyond compare.
However, for the many immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, no matter how beautiful the scene was, it couldn't improve their mood in the slightest.
Ye Xishui's figure flashed, landing in the direction of the Fiery Apricot Blossom. At this moment, the 100,000-year-old immortal herb had lost all its arrogance, and its voice trembled slightly: "That...that was a test left behind by that person. How dare he eat it like that? Aren't you afraid of divine retribution?"
"Divine retribution?"
Ye Xishui smiled disdainfully, and a terrifying blood aura emanated from her body, as if hundreds of thousands of souls were wailing at the same time. Countless sharp shrieks almost tore apart Liehuo Xingjiao's soul, but under her exquisite control, she perfectly avoided Kong Tianxu and the others.
As soon as the terrifying scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood appeared, the weather even began to change dramatically.
"My Blood Soul Demon Art is already defying the heavens, so why should I fear divine retribution? Besides, even if there were divine retribution, it would only be for the sake of the Holy Emperor. Who else would be worthy of it? You dare to talk to me about divine retribution? Very well, the Holy Emperor has ordered that I am not allowed to kill you now, but I can still tear off a few strands of your soul from your spiritual consciousness cultivated over ten thousand years and sever your foundation."
As she spoke, Ye Xishui slowly raised her right hand. Her palm seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and the blood energy that was raging in mid-air suddenly and strangely merged into her palm.
In an instant, a burst of blood-red light erupted, and Ye Xishui's right hand instantly turned completely blood-red, her translucent blood-red palm looking as if it were formed from a solidified ruby.
Within the entire range of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, more than twenty mature immortal herbs released intense light. This light quickly gathered in the high sky to form a huge light shield, attempting to counter Ye Xishui's aura.
However, all of this is clearly futile in the face of the overwhelming strength of the current era's Limit Douluo.
The terrifying blood energy surged and boiled outwards like waves, bursting forth. The light shield melted instantly upon touching this blood-red color. Even the liquid soul power, like droplets of blood, that fell from the melting light shield rapidly corroded the soil around the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.
Many of the immortal herbs were already trembling and speechless. How many people must Ye Xishui have killed to accumulate such terrifying evil soul blood energy?
Just as Ye Xishui reached out her hand towards the fiery apricot blossom, a voice suddenly came from the direction of the adjacent frigid spring: "Wait!"
"Hmm?" Ye Xishui narrowed her eyes slightly, her cold, blood-red gaze sweeping over the many immortal herbs before locking onto the speaker.
It was a large, octagonal white flower with tiny, sparkling stamens in the center, like ice crystals, but it emitted no fragrance.
And its location is precisely at the center of one side of the Cold Extreme Yin Spring.
With Kong Tianxu's instructions, Ye Xishui naturally knew what this meant.
"Eight-cornered Ice Grass? What, are you going to plead for it?"
Ye Xishui raised her hand and unceremoniously plunged it into the delicate heart of the Fiery Apricot, instantly forcing open the tightly closed, fiery red opening.
Through the flower's body, which was somewhat transparent due to the intense red light reflecting its fear, one could clearly see the slight pulsation of Ye Xishui's blood-red fingernails.
"Yes, senior, please don't harm it." The Eight-Cornered Ice Grass's voice was peculiar, cold and devoid of any emotion. "I can exchange this with you."
As it spoke, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass began to emit an icy blue light, and rings of icy blue light slowly surged upward from the soil where it was rooted, transforming into rings of icy blue light.
The already beautiful, dry leaves of the star anise gradually transformed into a dazzling blue crystal, shimmering with a magnificent light. It looked like a perfect work of art.
"Eight-cornered, you actually did this for me—" Lie Huoxing Jiaoshu looked at this scene and seemed to have forgotten her fear, muttering to herself.
The enormous flower head of the Fragrant Silk Fairy Plant was fully unfurled, sensing the effects of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass.
Before long, a blue, rhomboid crystal slowly rose from the very core of the octagonal ice grass.
The rhomboid crystal has very obvious sharp points at both ends and sides, but there is a ridge on each side in the center, which naturally forms a shape with two sharp points on each side, making a total of eight corners.
As expected of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass, even the special thing it condenses has eight corners.
The moment the crystal appeared, an extremely pure chill spread outwards. Gradually, the moisture in the air seemed to condense from this chill, and several glistening water droplets appeared.
Even with Ye Xishui's cultivation level, she couldn't help but shiver when she felt this chill. Even the Snow Emperor, who was absorbing the Frosty Spring, seemed to be awakened by this coldness.
The Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass spoke in a somewhat weak voice: "Senior, this is the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Crystal that I have condensed over ten thousand years. If it is embedded in a weapon, it can give any metal the power of extreme ice. The water droplets beside it are the icy rain you need. The most essential part of my ten thousand years of refining from the extreme icy spring is all here. Unless I have the will, no one else can take it away from me."
"They are indeed loyal and righteous." Ye Xishui raised her left hand and put the icy rain into her sleeve. When she pulled her right palm out of the heart of the fiery apricot blossom, she had a piece of fiery red and transparent gelatinous substance in her hand.
The moment this enormous piece of molten glue appeared, even with Ye Xishui's powerful aura suppressing it, the air still distorted slightly, demonstrating just how terrifying its heat was.
As for the octagonal ice crystal, she did not act rashly. The intense coldness emanating from it was something even she did not have a suitable way to store.
Whether it was frightened by Ye Xishui's aura or suffered severe damage from losing the gelatinous substance, the originally beautiful fiery red light on Liehuo Xingjiaoshu dimmed by more than half, and her body was still twitching incessantly.
But at this moment, it didn't care that its scorching glue had been swept away by Ye Xishui. It shook its cabbage leaves with great emotion and said, "Star anise~ So you've always had such feelings for me. It's a pity that we are both plants."
"Don't misunderstand, I have other purposes. You're just a side effect." The voice of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass remained icy cold, just like the mood of the Fiery Apricot.
"Crack—" The fiery apricot suddenly froze on the spot, and many immortal herbs also trembled, as if they couldn't hold back their laughter.
After saying this, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass seemed to sense something, and its icy stamens all pointed towards Kong Tianxu's location.
The golden-red light gradually faded. With all his might suppressing the medicinal power of the Love-Sickness Heartbreak Red within his own bloodline, Kong Tianxu successfully absorbed this divine herb in less than half an hour.
Five spirit rings—two purple, one red, and two black—that exceeded the optimal ratio rose one by one behind him, bringing with them distorted halos of light.
The Snow Empress and Ye Xishui were simply too powerful, and most of the immortal herbs were drawn to them. In addition, Kong Tianxu's ability to conceal his aura was extremely outstanding. Only now have these beings, who have existed for 100,000 years, noticed Kong Tianxu's extraordinary abilities.
What kind of spirit ring configuration is this?
The Fragrant Fairy, with its profound knowledge of the outside world, was filled with endless doubts. Then, it realized Kong Tianxu's current age.
This human clearly looks to be under fifteen years old, how could he already be a Soul King? And he even has a 100,000-year Soul Ring, could it be that I've misunderstood, and he's actually that person's descendant?
As Youxiang Qiluo Xianpin's mind was filled with doubts, Kong Tianxu's third-ranked red soul ring suddenly shone brightly, and the white freezing air above the ice spring finally stopped pouring towards the Snow Emperor.
She opened her eyes, her deep blue pupils so clear and profound they seemed to reflect the heavens and earth.
Snow covered her body, transforming into a stunning white dress, while her long hair, flowing freely, turned an icy blue, just like an ancient glacier.
An extremely cold aura instantly filled the air. In that instant, even the aura of the Blazing Yang Spring was completely suppressed by this terrifying cold.
She simply gestured with both hands in the air. Instantly, the icy white, frigid spring surged up, rising to a height of a hundred meters.
Immediately afterwards, a fierce wind arose and snowflakes danced in the air above the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, instantly transforming the sky into a silver-clad landscape.
The ice and snow spread from the sky to the ground. The plants on the Ice Spring side were doing better, as they all preferred the cold, but the plants on the Blazing Sun Spring side were already shivering in the face of the extreme low temperatures of the ice. Many plants were releasing their own scents to resist the ice and snow falling from the sky.
Snow dances under the bright sun, Emperor Hantian, the Snow Emperor unleashes Emperor Hantian in its full glory!
The Emperor's Cold Heaven, which enveloped the entire Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, even the poisonous miasma that had just begun to condense a little more in the air was blown away by the terrifying cold current and scattered into the sky, unable to descend at all.
Immediately afterwards, Kong Tianxu's third soul ring flashed one after another. Xue Di first waved her right hand in the void, and a deep blue light blade that seemed to be able to split the world flashed and disappeared.
The once clear sky was ripped open, revealing a deep space within, and even that seemingly boundless space was rapidly turning deep blue.
Then, she slowly raised her right hand, and the raging ice and snow in mid-air began to spin violently clockwise in a bizarre manner. In an instant, a huge and terrifying ice and snow tornado gathered above the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.
With a single palm strike, the snow melted and the wind condensed, sealing the terrifying spatial rift. A black hole in the sky, resembling a wound, remained unchanged for a long time.
The unparalleled ice and the frigid cold with no snow—such formidable imperial sword and palm techniques proclaim that the Snow Emperor at her peak has truly returned.
With a light touch of her toes, her exquisite figure rose into the air without a trace of worldliness, drifting into Kong Tianxu's arms like a snowflake, her face filled with satisfaction.
Although Xue Di emerged from her human embryonic state relatively smoothly with Kong Tianxu's help, she had been sealed by the Conferred God Platform for so long and had voluntarily given up cultivating back into a human, so her strength was naturally greatly diminished.
However, now, stimulated by the power of the Frosty Spring, her essence has been reawakened, and her strength will gradually return to its peak.
Blood and blue stood on either side of the sky, the boundless sea of blood and the eternal coldness were now just a backdrop for Kong Tianxu. He clenched his fist, and bursts of explosions rang out in the air around his body.
The Love-Sickness Heartbreak Red has the magical property of being indestructible, and its effect is even better than he imagined, directly raising his physical strength to a level that is almost on par with that of a Super Douluo.
It's important to understand that the reason why a level 95 Super Douluo can create a fundamental difference in survivability compared to an ordinary Title Douluo is primarily due to the change in their physical strength.
Even with the body of a Super Douluo, standing there and being attacked by an Eighth Ring Soul Douluo, he might not be killed even after twelve hours.
However, Kong Tianxu, with his Soul King level cultivation, was already just one step away from reaching that level.
Moreover, a considerable portion of the medicinal power of the Love-Sickness Heartbreak Red remains in his body and will be gradually absorbed as his cultivation level increases and he experiences pressure. It is foreseeable that by the time he absorbs his sixth spirit ring, he will possess a true Super Douluo-level physique.
"So what do you want?"
Kong Tianxu and Cain stood up together. Their martial spirits did not move, but the special aura on his body managed to occupy a place in the aura of the two top experts.
In the perception of immortal herbs like the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes, which are extremely sensitive to special auras, there is even a hint that it surpasses both of them.
The eight-pointed white flowers on the Eight-Pointed Ice Grass suddenly rippled, as if a pair of eyes had lit up, and even its voice was no longer so cold: "I want to go with you."
"I can tell that the ice-attribute powerhouse beside you is also a soul beast, and your third soul ring also comes from her. You can fuse with her in that form, so you should be able to do the same with me. I am a 100,000-year-old soul beast, so I can help you too. Transform me into that form as well."
Upon hearing its words, the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal was immediately shocked. The other plant soul beasts were also filled with confusion, especially the Fiery Apricot, whose aura was clearly mocking the taste of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass.
"No, your level is still a bit too low for me."
Kong Tianxu refused without even thinking. The Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass wanted to go with him simply because she wanted to gamble on a chance to become a god.
However, as a plant-type soul beast, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass has far fewer innate skills compared to animal-type soul beasts. In the original work, when it served as Huo Yuhao's soul ring and soul bone, it even provided only one soul skill.
Even considering only its own level, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass is somewhat inferior. Although it grows around the Extreme Ice Spring of Extreme Ice, it does not actually possess the attribute of Extreme Ice. With the Snow Emperor's Pearl as a precedent, it is really not suitable for any of Kong Tianxu's martial souls.
"However, your choice is wise. I know what you're thinking. I'll accept this octagonal ice crystal. Perhaps you can achieve your wish in another way."
Kong Tianxu waved his hand into the void, and the octagonal Xuanbing Crystal immediately fell into his hand. The extreme cold that even the Snow Emperor was affected by seemed to have no effect on him at all. It disappeared after a few rubs between his fingertips.
Is this a case of offering a warm welcome only to be met with a cold shoulder?
The surrounding immortal herbs were stunned for a moment, seemingly never expecting that anyone would refuse the temptation of a 100,000-year soul ring. Then they all became very happy.
It's a good thing he looks down on us! They'll be safe!
Especially for Liehuo Xingjiaoshu, her excitement and schadenfreude were no longer concealed.
But the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass remained silent for a while, and finally just touched its icy, crystal-like stamen, saying nothing more: "Thank you."
Kong Tianxu took in the reactions of all the immortal herbs to the eight-cornered star anise, sneered inwardly, but simply nodded on the surface.
The harvest from the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire this time was quite good. Putting aside the alchemy materials, the Fiery Gel produced by the Fiery Apricot Blossom is a top-grade immortal product. Normally, the Fiery Apricot Blossom needs to absorb the essence of the Fiery Yang Spring for ten thousand years to produce even a tiny amount of it.
It took this plant ten thousand years of diligent cultivation to produce such a large piece of scorching glue.
For some powerful fire-attribute soul masters, this amount of blazing glue might drive them even crazier than the Fiery Apricot Blossom itself, as it could refine a human fire-attribute soul master's cultivation to the level of ultimate fire.
Presumably, through this incandescent glue, Kong Tianxu's own fire attribute can also be improved to the level of ultimate fire.
As for the Frosty Rain and Dew, it is nourished by the extreme coldness of the Frosty Spring that the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass absorbs all day long, and its effects are even better than those of the Blazing Glue.
The Fragrant Silk Elixir is also quite good; within a radius of thirty feet, all potent poisons will be rendered ineffective. Even if one is poisoned and the toxins have entered the bloodstream, simply placing it in the mouth can neutralize all poisons.
The dense elemental energy in the air didn't seem to be very friendly to him. He tried to absorb it slightly, and was immediately affected by the impact of the two different temperatures of ice and fire.
It seems that both of these different temperatures have melted into the primordial energy of heaven and earth, which makes the abundant primordial energy of heaven and earth in this place quite domineering and difficult to absorb normally through cultivation.
It seems we can't force it; perhaps we should find a stepping stone?
Kong Tianxu pondered for a moment, just as he was about to order the return journey, the Fragrant Silk Fairy Item, which had just been unsealed, jumped out again: "Don't go yet! Since you have gained the approval of the Heartbreak Red, then accept this."
The purple stamen at the center of the fragrant and exquisite fairy product trembled slightly, and an antique-looking book, made of some unknown material, emerged.
The book is entirely white and looks very soft, somewhat like silk, but much more durable, and seems to have a faint sense of warmth.
After flying out from the heart of its flower, the book immediately hovered in front of Kong Tianxu. Youxiang Qiluo Xianpin's slightly urgent voice rang out: "That person said that this book, like the Acacia Heartbreak Red, is the most precious thing he left behind in this Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire. It even records some methods for mastering divine power. Since you were able to take the Acacia Heartbreak Red, then you must be the person he mentioned. Take it with you, and my mission will be complete. You should be able to tell that I'm not lying."
When they heard about "god-level power," everyone except Kong Tianxu's eyes lit up.
Kong Tianxu's own experience has proven the real existence of the gods. Is this also an opportunity bestowed by the gods?
Suddenly, the snow-white book emitted a precious light, just like those divine herbs, making it incredibly alluring.
High above, Tang San sat at the head of the round table, his face expressionless as he stared intently at a wall beside him that displayed countless shifting and shimmering scenes. However, the unnatural tapping of his fingers on the round table betrayed his far from calm state of mind.
You must take it! You absolutely must take it! You're someone who doesn't miss the slightest opportunity to strengthen yourself. Do you really think you'd let this treasure slip through your fingers?
If you take it, I can—
"No." Kong Tianxu's answer was even more decisive than when he refused the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass, without even stopping his steps.
"You!" Youxiang Qiluo Xianpin never expected Kong Tianxu to refuse so resolutely. She wanted to continue to introduce some of the wonders of this book left by Tang San, but she saw his figure already soaring up under the cover of two brilliant lights, blue and blood-red, leaving her alone in the wind, disheveled.
"Why are you keeping him around? Isn't it a good thing he's gone? I'd love to have someone else come. This time it's the culmination of our years of cultivation, but next time it could be our lives. It's just that it seems like we're offering ourselves up, but the other party isn't even willing to take it," Lie Huoxing said sarcastically.
"That's not entirely true. Bajiao's choice might not have been wrong. That human's talent was indeed very strong. I think it might have even surpassed Tang San's back then," Youxiang Qiluo Xianpin said wistfully.
"He still wants to surpass that person? In the past ten thousand years, has even one human on the Douluo Continent become a god?"
Lie Huoxing retorted instinctively, "You should think about what to do next time these people come. He said he doesn't need our soul rings, but the way he looks at us is no different from how he looks at our essence. Next time, you might not be able to protect yourself even if you betray your friends, hmph."
The petals of the fragrant, exquisite fairy plant swayed violently, as if trying to explain something.
However, some changes suddenly occurred in the sky above the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.
A purple-gold light suddenly shone, accompanied by a peculiar aura, and a large portion of the previously frozen Azure Phosphorus Poison Cloud suddenly disappeared.
"This, this is—" Lie Huoxing was startled and her voice began to tremble.