Chapter 308: with translation of chapter title

After Tang San and Hu Liena received the inheritance information, they went to Slaughter City to start the God's trial, and in three months they completed the first assessment.

Then came their second assessment; among the three God's trial inheritors, only one could ultimately prevail and inherit the final Shura God's position.

After learning the rule, both felt heartbroken, because in the end only one of them could inherit the god's position.

As for why they thought that, it was naturally because they would not kill each other, but would instead team up against the other inheritor.

Hu Liena initially had no feelings for Hu Liena, but unable to bear constant companionship later, plus not seeing Meng Yiran (Meng Yiran was under surveillance, Tang San dared not approach), eventually as time passed, he discovered his feelings for Hu Liena had also deepened.

Otherwise, they would not feel heartbroken upon seeing the assessment content.

Now the two have jointly begun the God's trial; this second trial is such an assessment task, and both feel deeply torn inside.

Fortunately, Hu Liena is very sensible; she chose to let Tang San inherit the god's position, and after helping Tang San eliminate the other inheritor, she simply conceded.

Because their objective was to defeat the other two, not to kill Du Gu Yan.

The reason for this is also that the Shura God wanted to minimize the gap between Du Gu Yan and the two of them as much as possible, so as to select the outstanding one.

Although He had initially promised Gu Xuan that He would choose Du Gu Yan, the inheritance of the god's position is His matter; Gu Xuan's face has been given, but exactly how to proceed is still His own affair.

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Du Gu Yan wandered through the ruins, her route always avoiding those special soul beasts; but as she went farther out, she increasingly discovered that the number of these special soul beasts was too great.

Moreover, most importantly, this place is much larger in scale than Tian Dou City; previously she had guessed this place was roughly the same size as Tian Dou City, only appearing similar from the line of sight.

Now she has been wandering here for three hours, and the diameter of the area she has walked out already exceeds the scale of Tian Dou City.

Furthermore, the farther out she went, the more of those special soul beasts surrounded Du Gu Yan, to the point that she now discovered she could no longer avoid them.

Within the range of her spiritual power, that is, within a diameter of one kilometer, there are actually twelve of these special soul beasts.

This made Du Gu Yan quite unhappy, because she had already roughly guessed what these soul beasts were for.

Given how numerous these special soul beasts are, and that she has searched for so long without finding the other two inheritors, this proves that these special soul beasts are meant to consume her condition.

As for why she hasn't encountered the other two inheritors, there are only two possibilities: either the place is too vast and she simply had bad luck and didn't meet them, or she just happened to miss them.

Or it could be that the Shura God, that old coot, deliberately did this; after all, so much time has passed, and she hasn't found any traces of battles with those special soul beasts here.

This also shows that the other two inheritors are very likely to have never directly encountered those special soul beasts, or they are simply too far away for Du Gu Yan to meet.

And just as Du Gu Yan was pondering this problem, in the God Realm, inside a dim room, the Shura God expressionlessly gazed at the huge model map before him.

The map is large; on it there are three green light dots and densely packed red light dots.

Two of the green light dots have already overlapped, but they are far from the third green light dot, almost at opposite ends of the map.

In fact, the Shura God fundamentally has no interest in manipulating the trial; Du Gu Yan's entire experience is merely due to her extremely bad luck.

Putting it that way, it's because Du Gu Yan's luck is too poor, resulting in the Shura God still not seeing any exciting scenes, leaving him somewhat bored.

"Hehe… one is a genius recommended by Gu Xuan, the other is a genius with twin martial souls; I don't know who will ultimately prevail." The Shura God, looking at the map where that lone green dot and red dot finally made contact, let out a murmur.

At this moment, Du Gu Yan was facing off against one of these special soul beasts, without even time to observe it closely; the instant she was discovered, the soul beast lunged straight at her.

Du Gu Yan's on-the-spot adaptability is strong; at the moment the soul beast attacked, her body surface burst forth with a sparkling azure light, and nine soul rings—three purple, three black, three gray—rose on her body surface, with the black fourth soul ring already lit.

"Fourth Soul Skill: Medusa Gaze!"

Upon release of the soul skill, two silver-white light pillars shot suddenly from Du Gu Yan's eyes; although the soul beast was very fast, at close range it could not escape her spiritual lock.

Struck by Du Gu Yan's fourth soul skill, the soul beast didn't even have time to emit a roar before turning to stone; Du Gu Yan's two straight jade legs swung and shattered it outright.

Du Gu Yan's first two yellow soul rings had already been upgraded to thousand-year level in the previous God's trial, and her third soul ring was approaching ten-thousand-year level.

And the three gray hundred-thousand-year soul rings are sealed by the power of this place, rendering their power unusable.

After this attack, Du Gu Yan fully understood the strength of this special soul beast; it is roughly at the peak Soul Emperor level, still far below a Soul Saint after using the martial soul true body.

However, for a mere sixty-three-level Soul Emperor, this is definitely a formidable opponent, especially since such special soul beasts are everywhere in this place.

To Du Gu Yan, this special soul beast is nothing much; it's just that each use of a soul skill consumes her soul power.

At this moment, another eleven special soul beasts from the surroundings had already surrounded her; although Du Gu Yan had just instant-killed this one special soul beast, they still gathered around, indicating that there must be some special perception among them.

Therefore Du Gu Yan dared not waste time, because she did not know how many more of these special soul beasts might be around.

Thinking this through, Du Gu Yan's two straight, round, long legs moved swiftly, directly luring the eleven special soul beasts together, while she herself happened to be right in the midst of their encirclement.

"Second Soul Skill: Spirit Snake Exhalation!"

"First Soul Skill: Snake Spirit Source!"

Then only saw Du Gu Yan's front two purple soul rings light up, terrifying toxin emanating from her body surface, instantly enveloping all the special soul beasts.

When the eleven special soul beasts were enveloped by the poison mist, Du Gu Yan lightly snapped her fingers, and the poison mist that had been inhaled by this group of special soul beasts instantly rampaged through their bodies like a virus.

Then Du Gu Yan gently clenched her jade hand into a fist, eleven clusters of refined energy circled her surroundings, which she slowly absorbed, restoring her soul power and spiritual power to peak once again.

The toxin released by Du Gu Yan's second soul skill can simulate the characteristics of any deadly poison, and is itself an ultimate poison.

Her first soul skill, on the other hand, can absorb any toxin and convert it into refined soul power to replenish herself; furthermore, it can extract the vitality of poisoned organisms and convert it for her own use.

Thus, the eleven peak Soul Emperor-level exotic beasts were easily dealt with by Du Gu Yan.

Du Gu Yan suddenly realized she had no need to worry that this group of exotic beasts would affect her; on the contrary, they were like walking power banks in the ruins.

Thinking this through, Du Gu Yan boldly began to quickly search the ruins, because this group of exotic beasts cannot be immune to her poison.

Thus, from then on, whenever Du Gu Yan encountered an exotic beast, it became her power bank energy.

Finally, after wandering the ruins for most of the day, Du Gu Yan discovered traces of humans; upon following them, she found a young man.

The youth appeared to be about twenty, with a head of blue-gold long hair tied behind his back, his visage handsome yet bearing a hint of sternness; he wielded a Clear Sky Hammer and was engaged in frontal combat with five exotic beasts, already gaining the upper hand.

Du Gu Yan did not rush forward immediately; instead, she covertly observed for a moment, and only after confirming there was no other inheritor present did she decide to reveal herself.

Although puzzled that this handsome youth was actually a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect, Du Gu Yan could also judge from his strength that, prior to being sealed, his power was at the Soul Douluo level, and he was not the weakest among the three inheritors, the sixty-three-level Soul Emperor.

Otherwise, he would have long been torn to shreds under the siege of those five exotic beasts; how could he handle them so easily?

Du Gu Yan walked out openly, her gaze indifferent as she watched him face off against the five exotic beasts.

At this moment, Tang San also noticed Du Gu Yan; the instant he saw her, Tang San froze.

Du Gu Yan may not know him, but he certainly knows Du Gu Yan; at the Spirit Master tournament back then, Du Gu Yan was, besides Gu Xuan and him, the only one possessing a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring.

Moreover, Du Gu Yan's beauty that astonishes heavenly beings and her extremely alluring figure are impossible for him to forget, because there aren't many who dress as boldly as she does.

Since Du Gu Yan's martial soul mutated, she has never worn shoes again; her bare feet, unknown how many people secretly yearn for but cannot attain………

Du Gu Yan sized up Tang San, because she indeed did not recognize the Tang San whose appearance had completely changed.

Tang San was also sizing up Du Gu Yan, and when he noticed from her expression that she indeed did not recognize him, a plan spontaneously arose.

ps: Correct the typos first, then revise.

(End of chapter)