Chapter 559: A new school of the True Self, the Dou Shen?

Zhao Xing understood what Number Thirteen was saying. He had spent too long passing this trial, which clearly indicated that his soul and willpower were somewhat mediocre.

However, he did not take Number Thirteen's words to heart, because Number Thirteen only said this because he believed Zhao Xing was at the God level, while in reality, he was only a Demigod.

"Senior Thirteen, may I ask how long the previous person took to pass the trial?" Zhao Xing asked.

"You mean the one with the pendant."

"Yes, that's him."

"He was fast; he withstood my sword in an instant," Number Thirteen said.

"Senior, if a Demigod were to enter here, would the difficulty be the same?" Zhao Xing asked.

"Hahaha, a Demigod?" Number Thirteen couldn't help but laugh out loud. "How could a Demigod possibly be qualified to receive the Master's inheritance?"

"The Master left behind the inheritance trials in the hope that the successor would help with certain tasks."

"A mere Demigod is too much of a variable."

"God Soldiers and God Generals are all within the Master's considerations; below the God level, even God Kings are not considered."

Hearing this, Zhao Xing couldn't help but frown. He had originally hoped that if a Demigod came to challenge it, the difficulty might be lower, allowing him to voluntarily drop his disguise.

He hadn't expected Number Thirteen to say this.

"God King Yuheng's requirement is nothing more than to save Zhangyue. Could it be that he found some method, which is why he is screening like this?"

Zhao Xing didn't know if God King Yuheng could discover his disguise.

Since the Ancestral Dynasty had deceived God King Zhangyue, God King Yuheng should not be able to see through it either.

However, there seemed to be no hope of lowering the difficulty by exposing his Demigod realm.

After resting for a while, Zhao Xing cupped his hands and asked for directions: "Senior Thirteen, may I ask where to go for the next trial?"

The ice and snow melted, and the wilderness became vibrant with life as an ancient city appeared before Zhao Xing.

Following Number Thirteen's guidance, Zhao Xing arrived at the second trial: Dou City.

On both sides of the city gate stood a metallic giant. On its forehead was a red gemstone; apart from the smooth gemstone, the rest of the body's surface was very rough, with black and yellow interlaced textures and protrusions, looking just like a rusted mechanical puppet.

"I am called Dou Shen, the second trial left behind by the Master in his internal world."

As Zhao Xing approached, a rough voice immediately sounded from within the red gemstones on the foreheads of the two metallic giants.

Zhao Xing looked closely and discovered that these were actually mechanical puppets, only they used many God-level plants as materials, possessing immense vitality.

Their two feet were deeply embedded in the ground, as if they had taken root and sprouted.

"Dou Shen, what is the content of your trial?" Zhao Xing asked.

"Mind and willpower," Dou Shen's voice sounded like a thunderclap. "You can enter either of the puppets, control one of them, and battle against me. No matter which one you control, as long as you can defeat the other Dou Shen, you pass the trial."

"Mind?" Zhao Xing nodded slightly. For a True Self school Sinuong, the trial of soul and mind-willpower was an essential component.

Ever since the Primordial Realm assembly, the soul and willpower had been the most valued aspects for True Self school Sinuongs, because only in this way could they subdue wild plant troops and avoid being counter-controlled by them.

"You have thirty years to familiarize yourself with the situation of the two Dou Shen. During this time, it doesn't matter how many times you fail; only the battle after thirty years counts."

After hearing the rules, Zhao Xing immediately understood.

Without wasting any time, he immediately entered the forehead of the metallic giant on the left.

"Gurgle~" What appeared to be a hard gemstone felt like being wrapped in liquid once he entered.

The giant's body was quite massive, and the space inside the gemstone was not small, like a lake.

The liquid was murky and contained many root hairs. When Zhao Xing flew to the center of the liquid, he felt the liquid exerting pressure on his mind.

"My physical body is completely unaffected, even feeling somewhat comfortable, but the longer I stay, the greater the pressure on my mind."

Zhao Xing stood still in the center of the gemstone, and thousands of white tentacles immediately drifted over and stuck to his body.

"Hmm? These things are roots? They look a bit like symbiotic plants."

Zhao Xing looked carefully, and a name appeared on his interface:

【Zheng】

【Quality: God-level】

【Type: Soul Symbiotic Species】

【Description: An original species collected from the Huang Great World, it is a derivative species created by God King Yuheng based on Huang Grass. It can greatly enhance soul control ability, but it exerts powerful pressure on the mind. Being symbiotic for too long will cause side effects such as hallucinations and even madness.】

The surface of the red gemstone also recorded some instructions for controlling the metallic giant, and Zhao Xing quickly understood what the metallic creation was.

"Dou Shen, these are the two metallic giants. Their bodies combine mechanical arrays with the True Self school's parasitism, symbiosis,

and various mutation techniques."

"For example, its head, the gemstone space on the forehead, is actually a spirit lake created from a World Heart, housing countless killing grasses. It is also the core of the giant, acting as the brain."

"The hands and feet contain mechanical God bones, and within the bone marrow is a plant life form called 【Chaos Demon Fungus】, forming a living colony."

"There are a total of 108,000 mechanical God bones, each engraved with martial arts secret techniques. The combinations are ever-changing. By controlling the killing grass, one can mobilize the entire Dou Shen, equivalent to possessing a Martial God body."

"My god, the highest level of Dou Shen is a God King. To fully control it is equivalent to becoming a Martial God King?"

Zhao Xing was shocked. God King Yuheng had clearly pushed the life array school and life mechanical school to the extreme, which is why he combined plant troops with mechanical array diagrams to create the Dou Shen.

The weakness of True Self school Sinuongs is that their God bodies are too weak.

The Heavenly Timing school has the Hou Bian technique; if they encounter close-quarters attacks, they can transform into powerful races to cope.

The Geographical Advantage school is inherently skilled in defense; in the Extreme Continent, there are two schools: Mustard Seed Mountains and Rivers, and Giant God Peak.

Among them, the Extreme Continent Giant God Peak's God body is also very powerful, like a divine mountain that simply cannot be moved.

Zhao Xing had once learned the Great Five Finger Mountain; its prerequisite was the "Treasure Mountain Divine Ability," which was the path of the Martial Sinuong, with a physical body as hard as a mountain. During the Primordial Assembly, Zhao Xing's Treasure Mountain Divine Ability could even compete with martial artists in defense.

As for the True Self school, compared to the Heavenly Timing and Geographical Advantage schools, it didn't have very good means for close-quarters combat.

Only the symbiosis school could barely make up for some flaws; it could nurture some plant troops to root in the physical body, forming a defense to protect the body.

But it was not as famous as the Hou Bian technique or the Mountain technique.

"God King Yuheng, on the basis of the symbiosis technique, also combined the life array school and life puppet school. Do these many God bones, all hiding a set of martial artist secret techniques, come from killed Martial Gods, intercepted from their bodies?"

Zhao Xing scanned carefully and found that most of the God bones inside this metallic giant were Martial God Soldier bones; Martial God General bones were rare.

The two Dou Shen here could at most exert the combat power of a peak God General.

However, even so, it made Zhao Xing somewhat excited.

Undoubtedly, God King Yuheng had created an emerging True Self school, which not only made up for the True Self school Sinuong's weakness in close combat but also possessed a new combat mode.

"Sure enough, there are no weak professions, only weak people." Zhao Xing let the killing grass stick to his body. Soon, his right hand was completely covered by the killing grass, and root hairs pierced into his flesh. Zhao Xing felt his right hand suddenly possess powerful strength, and his spirit became excited.

As the killing grass burrowed in, Zhao Xing also saw many combat scenes, subconsciously raising his hand to clench his fist.

"Boom!"

The metallic giant outside also suddenly raised its hand and clenched its fist. A black light shot out from the fist, drilling into the ground like a whirlwind, blasting a bottomless hole in the ground.

"The move I just performed is a fist technique created by a Martial God, called Black Death Fist?"

"A fist technique that fuses the Destruction Dao and the Darkness God Domain, yet I clearly haven't comprehended the Destruction Dao, nor have I realized the Darkness God Domain."

Zhao Xing immediately realized the power of the 【Dou Shen】.

If one kills an enemy, intercepts their God bones, and fuses them into the Dou Shen, even if one hasn't comprehended the opponent's techniques and Dao, one can still use the moves.

"Just need to master the killing grass, and through the root tentacles of the killing grass, one can mobilize the entire Dou Shen!"

Zhao Xing was extremely excited. He threw out hundreds of punches in a row; this sense of power was incredibly intoxicating.

He intended to see what was different about the other Dou Shen, but just as he stepped out with one foot, a strong sense of reluctance surged, and his heart felt extremely empty.

Watching the killing grass leave his arm, Zhao Xing had an urge: don't take it off, keep wearing it!

Unable to help himself, Zhao Xing wanted to return to the gemstone space, but a warning bell quickly rang in his heart.

"Hmm? I've been influenced?"

"I actually completely ignored my own thoughts and just wanted to be symbiotic with the killing grass?"

A flash of lightning crossed Zhao Xing's eyes, and he immediately used his left hand to tear at the killing grass. At this time, the killing grass had become black sticky strips, as if it had life, constantly screeching.

These screeches caused pain in Zhao Xing's soul, and the feeling of reluctance became even stronger.

"Cut!"

Zhao Xing immediately performed the Golden Cicada True Form Second Body. His arm suddenly pulled back, and a new hand was pulled out, while the original arm still had a thin layer of skin, still covered by the killing grass.

Because it lost its life, the killing grass quickly devoured this thin layer, leaving behind some residue, which was expelled from the gemstone space.

"Gurgle~"

A figure rushed out along the momentum.

"Sss-ha~ Sss-ha~"

Zhao Xing gasped for air, while also feeling more wary of this metallic giant.

It was too terrifying; this feeling was like being addicted to Dao Profound Pills. How long had he stayed? Not even a quarter of an hour, and his mind had already developed a sense of dependency.

And he had even hallucinated "screeches."

"Now, do you understand the difficulty of controlling the Dou Shen?" A figure jumped out of the other metallic giant. His face was youthful, like a teenager of thirteen or fourteen, with red lips and white teeth.

He had just called himself Dou Shen, clearly an existence similar to an artifact spirit among the Dou Shen. However, Zhao Xing could feel that this youth seemed to be some kind of collective, because he had many dim consciousnesses.

"This is not the highest-level Dou Shen." The youth's voice changed, and his expression became cold: "If it were the highest-level Dou Shen, it could exert the combat power of a Martial God King!"

"At the same time, the requirements for mind and willpower are also higher. Stay for a second, and you will completely sink, eventually becoming a part of me."

"It's not too late for you to give up now."

Become a part of the consciousness body?

Zhao Xing's face changed.

He had always thought God King Yuheng was a seed of deep affection, different from the obsessive and perverted True Self school Sinuongs he had seen before, but who said that someone deeply affectionate couldn't be perverted?

"I won't give up." Zhao Xing shook his head.

"As you wish." The artifact spirit spoke lightly, his voice seemingly having layers of echoes: "For the sake of the token, I have already warned you. If you insist on breaking in, dying is just right to add nutrients to me."

After saying that, the artifact spirit stopped talking, and no matter how Zhao Xing asked, he ignored him.

"Thirty years, only thirty years. Not only do I have to control the Dou Shen, but I also have to defeat this artifact spirit. Clearly, I am not as proficient with the Dou Shen as he is. This is really difficult." Zhao Xing frowned.

"I wonder which trial Old Qing is in."

He scanned the two metallic giants and did not feel the presence of Qing Yuzi. Clearly, the place where Old Qing was trapped was not this trial.

"Senior, can I withdraw and come back later?" Zhao Xing wanted to exploit a loophole. If he could re-enter after withdrawing, then he could withdraw in the twenty-ninth year and re-enter, giving himself more preparation time.

"Hehe, what do you think?" A ruthless mockery came from inside the giant.

Zhao Xing curled his lips; it seemed he could only take this trial within thirty years.

Not immediately entering the metallic giant's body again, Zhao Xing turned to open his internal world and entered it.

In front of the two metallic giants, only one spinning World Core remained.

Zhao Xing entered his internal world, quickly crossing the boundless continent and the primitive ocean, arriving at the binary star system.

The Keyang God Tree was still in its seedling form, circling in the middle of the nine stars, while God General Huali had been waiting here.

"Zhao Xing, you're here."

"Yes, I encountered some trouble." Zhao Xing looked at his own original species, the Keyang God Tree, which was both a sun species and a time species.

If thirty years was too little time, the method Zhao Xing thought of was to use the talent skill of the Time God Tree to change the flow of time in a certain area of his internal world, allowing himself to gain more time to cultivate.

Zhao Xing flipped his hand, and a wriggling white root hair appeared in his palm. "God General Huali, I would like to ask you to help cultivate this derivative species and see if it can be propagated."

"Hmm? Is this a parasitic species?" God General Huali took it and immediately judged that it was a parasitic species because it was constantly burrowing under her skin.

"So strong." God General Huali tore her skin and let it burrow in, immediately feeling the special nature of this parasitic species.

"Where did you get this? This parasitic species is simply a treasure!"

Zhao Xing was worried about this thing, but God General Huali looked excited, her eyes even becoming gentle and full of maternal love.

Seeing God General Huali like this, Zhao Xing suddenly felt that his True Self school was not pure enough.

"Can you cultivate it?" Zhao Xing asked.

"I can try." God General Huali pondered: "I see this parasitic species has absorbed the characteristics of the Soul Tree, but its nature is more extreme than the Soul Tree. The true spirit enhancement brought by the Soul Tree is relatively gentle and has no side effects, but this one has strong side effects. Do you need to remove its side effects?"

"No, I need to resist its pressure on the mind." Zhao Xing said, "This is a trial."

"That's a bit difficult. Perhaps you should give me more samples." God General Huali said in a dilemma: "Because it is a parasitic species that came from a mutation, its life origin has been modified post-natally. This method is even more powerful than the Guluo River. I cannot guarantee success with just one."

"How many do you think are enough?" Zhao Xing asked.

"Of course, the more the better."

"Alright, I'll go get some more." Zhao Xing gritted his teeth, exited his internal world again, and then entered the metallic giant's gemstone space.

Gurgle~ After experiencing another round of mental torture, Zhao Xing brought out another one.

He found that he had to at least surround his arm and experience pain to bring one out.

To get more, he could only repeatedly experience mental pain.

And the more he brought out, the longer he had to stay, and the deeper the mental pressure and infection would be.

In a short time, Zhao Xing reached his limit after fishing out fifteen.

"A bit delirious."

"If I continue, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out."

Zhao Xing shook his head with a pale face. Thanks to Bowei's Golden Cicada True Form Second Body, once activated in advance, it could slightly reduce the impact of the Zheng on his mind.

But fifteen times in a row, even the Second Body couldn't hold on.

Fifteen, hopefully, that's enough for God General Huali.

Zhao Xing entered his internal world again and handed the fifteen to her.

"Good, I will cultivate the finished product as soon as possible so you can clearly see the Life Dao Diagram."

In the internal world, the influence of the Zheng is controllable. If God General Huali can cultivate a patch, then the strength can be controlled, and it can be exercised step by step.

"I also need the God Tree to accelerate time." Zhao Xing looked at his original species.

Whoosh! A large amount of Earth God Crystals were summoned over; these were all obtained from the Universe Boat.

"Little guy, it's up to you. Help me change the flow of time in this area."

"Eat as many Earth God Crystals as you want here!"

Zhao Xing was also going all out. These Earth God Crystals were very difficult to obtain; they were prepared for him to break through the Geographical Advantage school's God techniques.

But now they could only be used for the Keyang God Tree. After all, activating time-type talents consumed a lot, and it was only in a seedling state.

"Yu~"

The Keyang God Tree's leaves trembled gently, and a weak but dependent thought linked to Zhao Xing's mind.

The surrounding space-time suddenly changed, and Zhao Xing carefully distinguished it.

There was a ten-fold time difference between the outside world and his internal world.

"Thirty years pass outside, three hundred years pass in the internal world. Although three hundred years is still not much, it is already much more abundant than before." The time flow quickly stabilized, and Zhao Xing and God General Huali began to go about their own business.