Chapter 148: Fire Dragon King Secret Technique, Ye Lingling's Promotion, Return Journey

Soon, twenty days passed, and Gu Xuan finally found that twenty-thousand-year-old Pure White Lotus without shirking hardship. The Pure White Lotus's attack ability is not strong; it generally relies on cultivation to intimidate weak soul beasts, and its own combat power is even less than that of a five-thousand-year-old soul beast.

However, a Crimson Fire Lizard guarded the Pure White Lotus around it, a symbiotic relationship where both benefit, similar to how plant-type soul beasts with strong healing abilities usually cooperate with powerful soul beasts.

This Crimson Fire Lizard has reached a full twenty-thousand-year level, its strength is not weak, and it also masters explosive fire-attribute abilities.

However, in Gu Xuan's eyes, this thing is perfectly suited to be Ma Bao's fifth soul ring, isn't it?

Coincidentally, Ma Bao is already at rank forty-eight; it won't be long before it breaks through to rank fifty. Now we capture this thing and bring it back, so Ma Bao's fifth soul ring won't need us to waste time searching in other areas.

With Gu Xuan's current soul power at rank fifty-six, just in terms of soul power intensity he is already not inferior to a twenty-thousand-year-old soul beast, and his actual strength is even more terrifying.

Moreover, Gu Xuan now also possesses the ability to manipulate flames, because he has inherited the secret technique of the Ice and Fire Two Dragon Kings and can already preliminarily unleash its power.

The Crimson Fire Lizard stared at Gu Xuan with a fierce, tiger-like gaze. Gu Xuan shielded Ye Lingling behind him and slowly raised his left hand; the Fire Dragon King brand on the back of his left hand emitted a crimson glow, and the Fire Dragon Flame, whose power approaches that of ultimate fire, rose upon his left hand.

As the flame appeared, Gu Xuan's gaze, sharp as a torch, fixed on the Crimson Fire Lizard; the purest dragon clan might pressed down on it, making the lizard feel as if facing a formidable foe.

However, the Crimson Fire Lizard ultimately bears a trace of the dragon clan's Fire Dragon bloodline; although suppressed by this pressure, its deep-seated survival instinct tells it not to sit and wait for death.

Even if this human before it possesses the bloodline of its ancestors' ancestors, it cannot joke with its own life… so… the Crimson Fire Lizard decisively chose to abandon the Pure White Lotus and bolt away.

The Pure White Lotus, having reached twenty thousand years of cultivation and gained intelligence, sensed the Crimson Fire Lizard's fear, but before it could offer encouragement or comfort, it saw the lizard leave without looking back.

The Pure White Lotus now seems to have realized its fate; ultimately, it was mistaken…

Just as the Crimson Fire Lizard had run a hundred meters away, Gu Xuan's body surface already blossomed with five splendid soul rings: two yellow, one purple, and two black.

The fourth black soul ring on his body lit up; a spatial gate three meters in diameter appeared before Gu Xuan. He stepped into it with his left hand already claw-shaped, transforming into a ferocious dragon arm covered with crimson, mysterious runic dragon scales.

The Crimson Fire Lizard that had just fled a hundred meters away had no time to think further; only then did a dark spatial gate appear above its head, and a crimson dragon claw resembling a qilin's arm extended, pressing down on its skull and slamming it hard into the ground.

Secret Technique: 'Fire Dragon King's Claw!'

With one heavy blow, the Crimson Fire Lizard pressed into the ground now suffers greatly; its originally magnificent fire crown is completely scorched black, one eye burned, half its mouth burned away, revealing sharp teeth and blackened gums.

You know the Crimson Fire Lizard also possesses formidable fire-attribute abilities, yet now it is wounded to this state by the very fire attribute it prides itself on.

With just one strike, Gu Xuan severely injured a soul beast that reaches a full twenty-thousand-year level; this Crimson Fire Lizard is very strong, capable of easily handling a Soul Emperor, yet now it is on the brink of death, unable to withstand even a single blow from Gu Xuan.

Seeing the Crimson Fire Lizard on its last breath, after confirming it wouldn't die immediately, Gu Xuan bound it and stored it inside the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Bag.

After doing all that, Gu Xuan returned to Ye Lingling's side; the Fire Dragon Flame surging on his left dragon arm directly burned the Pure White Lotus to the brink of death, and finally Ye Lingling drew her dagger to end the lotus's life.

This world is black and white; perhaps the Pure White Lotus is not wrong, but this is the way of survival in this world.

A black soul ring slowly condensed over the Pure White Lotus's body; Ye Lingling sat cross-legged and began to absorb the soul ring.

After three hours, Ye Lingling opened her eyes; her soul power had reached rank fifty-two, making her the second Soul King powerhouse in the Royal Battle Team after Gu Xuan.

It had been nearly a month since they set out; after Ye Lingling successfully advanced to Soul King, Gu Xuan nonstop brought her back to Heaven Battle City.

The preselection tournament lasts only about a month, after which there will be a one-month break, then the promotion tournament; during the promotion tournament, the soul master teams of another four kingdoms and one principality will come, making a total of fifteen competing teams.

The purpose is to determine the rankings for the finals.

Three days later, Gu Xuan brought Ye Lingling back to Heaven Battle City, went straight to the Royal Battle Team's rest hotel; Yu Tianheng and the others will also monitor the preselection matches, after all there are too many dark horses this season.

Seven Treasure Team, Divine Wind Team, Blazing Fire Team, Shrek Team, and Azure Splendor Team.

Indeed, the Azure Splendor Team of Azure Splendor Academy, which was defeated by Tang San in the original work, has now become a dark horse!

Because this year's tournament added a Seven Treasure Team, compared to the original, some matchup orders have changed; so far, the Shrek Team has not yet faced the Azure Splendor Team, so the latter has remained until now, with a chance to advance to the top five.

Just yesterday, the Azure Splendor Team, relying on their trump card, the Seven-body Fusion Technique, actually defeated the Thunder Academy, known for its strong attacks, causing the Thunder Academy to miss out on the top five.

However, the good news is that today the Shrek Team finally met the Azure Splendor Team.

The Azure Splendor Team has been able to stay until now because their Seven-body Fusion Technique is very powerful; although it cannot compare to a martial soul fusion technique, by combining the soul power of seven people, the mental field they create is so strong that even a Soul Emperor-level soul master struggles to break free.

For teams without a Soul King, the Azure Splendor Team basically can win relying on the Seven-body Fusion Technique; but when they encounter strong teams like the Seven Treasure Team or Divine Wind Team, they also will forfeit the match.

After all, the Seven-body Fusion Technique consumes considerable soul power and mental power; they naturally won't engage in thankless struggles, and rather than spend time on a hard fight they might not win, they'd better just rest.

However, the Azure Splendor Team doesn't know that in the original work, Tang San's Purple Extreme Magic Pupil broke their Seven-body Fusion Technique; although this lifetime Tang San's Purple Extreme Magic Pupil is somewhat weaker than before, dispelling their Seven-body Fusion Technique should not be a problem.

Only that Tang San might have to pay a greater price.

After Gu Xuan learned of this series of news, what surprised him most was the matter of Feng Xiao Tian and Huo Wu; after all, this big sycophant Feng Xiao Tian has not only won the beauty's heart but also made a qualitative leap in strength—how could he not be surprised?

Of course, this result Gu Xuan can still accept; after all, back then he himself had painstakingly advised Feng Xiao Tian.

Moreover, this kid's talent is not bad to begin with; in the original work, Feng Xiao Tian, even without heavenly-grade medicinal herbs, still broke through to Soul Emperor after five years and caught up with the Shrek Seven Monsters.

And after that, the Shrek Seven Monsters went to Haishen Island to cheat; otherwise, Feng Xiao Tian's talent would absolutely not be much weaker than that of the Shrek Seven Monsters who had taken heavenly-grade herbs.

And now the 'Shrek Six Monsters' lack heavenly-grade herbs; although they still obtained some cheat resources thanks to Tang San, compared to Feng Xiao Tian after he rose up, they are not worth mentioning.

Feng Xiao Tian's future is certainly not limited to this.

As for another matter that surprised Gu Xuan, it was that the Thunder Academy's Thunder Team was defeated by the Azure Splendor Team.

From this we can see the Azure Splendor Team's strength is indeed not weak; although they only have three Soul Ancestors, they possess a Seven-body Fusion Technique; in the original, if not for Tang San's cheat, unless a soul master specializing in mental power intervenes, they would basically be doomed to defeat.

However, now the Shrek Team and the Azure Splendor Team are still facing each other; this will surely be a hard battle.

And precisely because of this, Gu Xuan recalled something.

ps: Typos will be corrected later.

(End of chapter)