Chapter 138

Gu Rong's body reshaped into human form, the clothing on his surface had turned into scraps due to using his martial soul true body, leaving only specially made underwear covering vital parts.

Since breaking through to Titled Douluo, he has rarely used his martial soul true body.

The Dark Evil God Tiger at this moment, like an egg about to hatch, was wrapped in a spatial seal; even exerting all its strength could not break the barrier, and it had become a lamb awaiting slaughter.

Gu Rong at rank ninety-seven is terrifying beyond measure; if anyone saw him now, they would surely suck in several breaths of cold air, making a major contribution to global warming.

Gu Rong once again entered the three-meter-diameter spatial gate, returning to Gu Xuan and Du Gu Yan's side.

Seeing Gu Rong return, Gu Xuan smiled slightly; when he saw Gu Rong holding the Dark Evil God Tiger in his hand, he couldn't help but feel excited inside.

At the same time, Gu Xuan became even more satisfied with Gu Rong's strength; now his grandfather had far surpassed his original strength in the story, the Seven Treasure Glazed Sect had undergone earth-shaking changes, and if the spirit-hunt operation five years later were to happen again, it would definitely give the Spirit Hall a big surprise.

Seeing the Dark Evil God Tiger, though restrained by Gu Rong's spatial seal, still struggling fiercely inside, Gu Xuan also smiled slightly; this is his fifth soul ring.

"Grandpa, this guy's abilities are too mixed; you'd better make him lose his ability to resist." Gu Xuan said directly to Gu Rong.

Gu Rong nodded, slightly curling his hand gripping the Dark Evil God Tiger's right hand; the spatial seal restraining the Dark Evil God Tiger began to compress directly, and after being pressured, the Dark Evil God Tiger resisted even more violently.

"Hmph!" Gu Rong snorted coldly: "Wretched beast, you still dare to resist me? Spatial compression."

Gu Rong directly used spatial power to compress the Dark Evil God Tiger; the tiger's resistance became even more fierce, but it was of no use.

As Gu Rong increased the compression of his spatial power, the Dark Evil God Tiger's body directly shrank into a clump, then its bones turned entirely into powder; the originally eight-meter-long Dark Evil God Tiger was compressed into a sphere only two meters in diameter.

The Dark Evil God Tiger's bones were completely shattered throughout its body, leaving only a breath hanging on; it had no strength left to resist.

"Xuan'er, quickly give it the final blow; it won't last long." Gu Rong immediately spoke up to remind.

Gu Xuan nodded; four soul rings—two yellow, one purple, one black—rose on his body surface, the fourth ring lighting up. Gu Rong released a hint of his spatial seal's power, and Gu Xuan's right hand transformed into the Dark Gold Terror Claw, reaching into Gu Rong's spatial seal to crush the Dark Evil God Tiger's head and heart directly.

After Gu Xuan crushed the Dark Evil God Tiger's heart and head, Gu Rong did not immediately withdraw the spatial seal, because after the tiger had completely lost vitality, a strange bead was floating on its completely crushed body.

The bead appeared pitch black all over, yet it emitted green and blue glows.

Moreover, the bead faintly resisted the power of his spatial seal, so Gu Rong naturally would not just withdraw the seal like that.

Although I don't know what miraculous effects this strange bead has, the fact that it can resist his spatial seal alone is enough to prove its special nature.

Gu Xuan naturally also saw the bead; having read the original work, he of course knew this was the Evil God Pearl that gathered the Dark Evil God Tiger's entire essence and evil god power.

This item's miraculousness is enough to let an ordinary mortal possess talent comparable to a deity; its heaven-defying effect is the greatest external plugin that lets an ordinary person achieve godhood.

"Grandpa, grab that bead; this bead should be the condensed essence of the Dark Evil God Tiger, and the evil god power is likely contained within it!" Gu Xuan immediately spoke up to remind Gu Rong.

Gu Rong nodded slightly; then his spatial power erupted, directly isolating the Evil God Pearl from the Dark Evil God Tiger's body; afterward the bead collided once more with Gu Rong's spatial barrier, the collision sound gradually diminished, and then it fell still.

After a long while, Gu Rong confirmed that the bead's spirituality had vanished before withdrawing the spatial seal; the Dark Evil God Tiger's body lay limp on the ground like a puddle of modeling clay, all its bones shattered.

A pitch-black ten-thousand-year soul ring slowly rose from the Dark Evil God Tiger's body, emitting strong soul power fluctuations.

And the Evil God Pearl was held in Gu Rong's hand; devoid of spirituality, it was like an ordinary bead, except that the evil and cold aura it emitted made people feel a chill.

"Grandpa, this thing is the Dark Evil God Tiger's entire essence; please hold it for me first, lest it suddenly pierce the spatial barrier and escape; in the future this will be of great use to me." Gu Xuan looked at the Evil God Pearl in Gu Rong's hand and said directly to Gu Rong.

Gu Rong nodded, then applied three spatial seals to the Evil God Pearl, and stored it in his own storage soul tool.

"Xuan'er, absorb the soul ring first." Gu Rong said.

Gu Xuan also did not delay; after being out for nearly three months, today he finally found his fifth soul ring; for this, he himself felt delighted inside.

Gu Xuan took out a porcelain bottle, poured out a greenish-blue pill and tossed it into his mouth, then sat cross-legged beside the Dark Evil God Tiger's soul ring, began to meditate and cultivate to let his essence, energy, and spirit reach their peak.

After a quarter hour, Gu Xuan's four soul rings—two yellow, one purple, one black—rose on his body surface, and as he began to use soul power to draw in the Dark Evil God Tiger's soul ring.

A grayish stream of energy flashed from the black soul ring on the Dark Evil God Tiger's corpse and directly settled atop Gu Xuan's head.

At the same time, a not-large but extremely sharp cold current instantly pierced into Gu Xuan's body, madly impacting his entire meridians.

That cold current was filled with jealous evil and strong unwillingness; the instant it rushed into Gu Xuan's body, he was stimulated to spit out a mouthful of blood mist.

"Xuan'er!"

"Little Xuan!"

Seeing this, Gu Rong and Du Gu Yan could not help but feel extremely worried inside.

Fortunately, Gu Xuan's prior preparations were not in vain; the present facts fully proved how correct it was for him to first restore his essence, energy, and spirit to peak condition.

At the same time, the greenish-blue pill in Gu Xuan's mouth was crushed, its powerful medicinal power flooding his viscera, preventing his internal organs from being destroyed by this terrifying aura.

After being instantly struck by that cold evil aura, Gu Xuan had already finished adjusting, adapted to the impact; afterward, his soul power and medicinal power filled his body, enveloping that cold current within.

Gu Xuan's absorption of the fifth soul ring began.

As the soul ring left the body, the massive corpse of the Dark Evil God Tiger, which had turned into a puddle of modeling clay beside Gu Xuan, began to dissipate into strands of gray vapor, slowly fading away.

It was as if it had never existed in this world; body and spirit both annihilated!

Gu Xuan began to absorb the soul ring; his internal soul power operated to the extreme, like a huge millstone, gradually devouring the energy of the Dark Evil God Tiger's soul ring, which was filled with evil aura.

This time, Gu Xuan's process of absorbing the soul ring was incomparably longer than his previous four absorptions; one could see that, while absorbing the Dark Evil God Tiger's soul ring, Gu Xuan's body surface occasionally showed surges of green wind-attribute power, blue thunder-attribute power, black darkness, gray evil, silver spatial, and white temporal light.

Each light's circulation on Gu Xuan's body surface basically lasted five double-hours, i. e., ten full hours; when each attribute sank into Gu Xuan's body, his soul power and meridians grew a little stronger. Two and a half days passed, and the time again reached ten minutes past noon; the sun blazed fiercely, yet Gu Xuan was unaffected in the slightest.

After two and a half days of being unmoved by wind or rain, finally this pitch-black ten-thousand-year soul ring settled into the fifth soul ring position on Gu Xuan's body surface, and a majestic, overbearing soul power fluctuation surged from within him.

Beside him, Gu Rong felt the intense soul power fluctuation within Gu Xuan, his eyes twitching slightly, because Gu Xuan's soul power had actually reached rank fifty-five, which was just a breakthrough into the Soul King realm.

Reaching rank fifty-five Soul King before fifteen years old, this could no longer be described merely as talent; calling Gu Xuan a monster is by no means an exaggeration.

As for Gu Xuan's soul power having increased by a full five ranks, Gu Rong thought this was only reasonable, after all Gu Xuan's fifth soul ring had an age limit of sixty thousand years.

"Grandpa, Yanzi, I succeeded." Gu Xuan opened his eyes, stood up, and joyfully said to Gu Rong and Du Gu Yan.

"Rank fifty-five, my soul power is already fifty-five; no wonder it's a soul ring produced by the Dark Evil God Tiger—I feel the gain from this ring is not inferior to that of a hundred-thousand-year soul ring." Gu Xuan excitedly explained to Gu Rong and Du Gu Yan: "Absorbing this soul ring, I not only gained a powerful soul skill, but my power increased more than threefold compared to before; just this alone is enough to give my strength a huge boost."

Gu Xuan was indeed excited, because the Dark Evil God Tiger's enhancement was too great, making it hard for him not to be excited.

"Moreover, not only has my power increased, but my spiritual power has also made great progress; although my soul power is only fifty-five, my spiritual power has now touched the threshold of a Soul Douluo-level Soul Master; only an opportunity is needed to break through!"

Hearing Gu Xuan's words, Gu Rong and Du Gu Yan also felt happy from the bottom of their hearts, after all, the stronger Gu Xuan becomes, the more reliable he will be for them in the future.

"Xuan'er, when you absorbed the soul ring, what about the six kinds of attribute energy that surged on your body surface? Didn't that bring you any gain?" Gu Rong asked.

Hearing this, Gu Xuan smiled slightly: "This is also what I wanted to say next, because after absorbing the Dark Evil God Tiger's this soul ring, I also digested its comprehension of those six attributes."

Gu Xuan said, slowly raising his left and right hands; thunder condensed above both hands, and a wind blade condensed above his right hand.

Afterwards, Gu Xuan casually threw something directly at Gu Rong; Gu Rong's face twitched, and his right arm instantly turned into silver-white bone claws, blocking Gu Rong's sudden sneak attack.

However, it wasn't just that; after the lightning ball and wind blade were flung out, dark black and gray qi swirled around Gu Xuan's hands, as if he were holding two differently colored basketballs.

I saw Gu Xuan fuse the two; subsequently, the two different energies merged together like practicing Taiji, forming a new energy that somewhat resembled the gray-black qi flow on the Evil God Hook of the Dark Evil God Tiger before.

Gu Xuan hurled the washbasin-sized gray-black qi flow at Gu Rong; although Gu Rong easily shattered Gu Xuan's strike, his expression had already changed somewhat.

Gu Xuan has already used four kinds of attribute abilities just now; although none of them are ultimate, they are absolutely the strongest and purest among peers of the same level.

Even if Gu Xuan later uses no soul skills or abilities, relying solely on these few attributes he can be invincible among his peers, of course excluding attribute counteraction.

However, with Gu Xuan mastering six attributes simultaneously, it is difficult for any single attribute to counter him.

However, Gu Xuan seemed to feel that this kind of test could not let Gu Rong sense his strength; I saw five soul rings—two yellow, one purple, two black—vibrating on Gu Xuan's body surface, and actually four of them lit up at the same time.

"First Soul Skill: Ancient Dragon Battle Body!"

As Gu Xuan's strength increased, the Ancient Dragon Battle Body went from an initial ten percent boost to all attributes to a current thirty percent boost; just this first soul skill alone directly increased Gu Xuan's strength by thirty percent.

"Second Soul Skill: Dark Gold Terror Claw!"

Attack and power increase by one hundred percent; the claws turn from silver-white to dark gold, accompanied by strong penetrating ability.

"Fourth Soul Skill: Spatial Gate! Breaching the barrier between two spaces, Gu Xuan's figure has already sunk into it and disappeared; one word: handsome!"

"Fifth Soul Skill: Evil God Annihilating Thunder Extinction!"

This soul skill is currently Gu Xuan's strongest single-target attack soul skill; its power even surpasses the sword technique of the nine‑ten‑thousand‑year Eight‑Wing Sword Dragon—'Flying Dragon Breaks Heaven in One Sword'.

Because Gu Xuan currently cannot fully unleash the power of this External Soul Bone.

But his fifth soul skill combines the six attributes of wind, lightning, evil, darkness, time, and space into one, blending into the ultimate annihilating force; wherever it reaches, things turn to ashes and vanish, just like the disappearance of the Dark Evil God Tiger's body, leaving no trace.

I saw Gu Rong suddenly open a three‑meter‑diameter spatial gate behind him; Gu Xuan's right hand turned golden and expanded to twice its size, five fingers with distinct joints, forming claws; upon it, the annihilating force formed by the fusion of the six attributes was endless, directly striking at Gu Rong's back heart—'You wretch!'

Gu Rong actually sensed danger from Gu Xuan's strike; if he were hit in the back heart without any defense, even if he didn't die he would be seriously injured.

I saw Gu Rong's body surface suddenly rise with nine soul rings—two yellow, two purple, five black—and the black sixth soul ring lit up instantly.

"Sixth Soul Ring: Bone Dragon Illusory Array!"

This is Gu Rong's strongest defensive soul skill; the reputation of being the world's top defense originally came from this soul skill.

I saw, as Gu Rong released his sixth soul skill, six bone dragons each reaching a length of ten meters instantly appear from the void, forming a mysterious and profound array before Gu Rong.

As the array formed, brilliant silver‑white light burst forth, and Gu Xuan slammed a claw directly onto this mysterious array!

The terrifying annihilating force surged forth; one of the six bone dragons had its head completely melted. Witnessing this, Gu Rong immediately had his martial soul possess him, charging forward to unleash a barrage of blows upon Gu Xuan's head and face!

Although only one dragon head was melted, this is Gu Rong's sixth soul skill unleashed with the strength of a ninety‑seventh‑rank Super Douluo, while Gu Xuan is only fifty‑fifth rank—how could he achieve such power? The force of Gu Xuan's strike could instantly kill even a Soul Saint who has unleashed his martial soul true body; even if it couldn't kill, the outcome would certainly be severe injury.

Gu Rong almost had his precious grandson sent away—what infuriation! He grabbed Gu Xuan's face with a big hand and slammed him straight onto the ground.

"You wretch, today I will clean up the sect!" Gu Rong shouted indignantly while beating him.

Gu Xuan realized he had gone too far, and directly sacrificed his natal magic treasure: 'Yanzi, save me, otherwise you'll have to stay a widow!'

Although Ning Rongrong is gone, the precious daughter‑in‑law has already been found for Gu Rong, after all—Gu Xuan isn't relying solely on Ning Rongrong as his protective charm!

ps: Typos will be corrected later.

(End of chapter)