Chapter 143: The Asura God's Doubts

After resting and relaxing slightly, Ning Feiliu touched the remaining corpse of Hu Da.

But unfortunately, this ordinary Soul King with poor Soul Ring compatibility did not drop a soul bone.

He suddenly gave a dumbfounded smile; as expected, he was not a Child of Destiny like Tang San or Huo Gua.

When Tang San killed a random thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider, he would accidentally drop an External Spirit Bone while constantly torturing and abusing the spider in a state of extreme rage.

Killing the Soul Saint Shi Nian also dropped a head soul bone, and even later, killing a wolf bandit—who was neither human nor beast, with at most the cultivation of a Soul Emperor—could drop a soul bone.

As for Huo Gua, heaven-defying opportunities were delivered to his doorstep; first it was the Tianmeng Iceworm, then Tianmeng Iceworm kidnapped Bing Di over, then he met the Necromancer God Yi Lai Ke Si from another world, and later Bing Di, the Emperor Snow Empress, and the Mermaid Princess were all delivered to him one by one.

This kind of Child of Destiny is characterized by being able to obtain resources and opportunities without needing to put in much effort.

Ning Feiliu is working himself to the bone right now, yet he hasn't even obtained a single soul bone.

However... the Revitalization Rune Fragments he obtained through his cheat have effects that are absolutely no weaker than so-called soul bones.

Moreover, runes do not seem to occupy space, and the percentage Enhancement effect of the Revitalization Rune Fragments is definitely not inferior to so-called External Spirit Bones, or even so-called Ten-thousand-year Soul Bones.

Although Hu Da's corpse didn't drop a soul bone, Ning Feiliu found something very unexpected in his Soul Guidance Device.

A detailed map of the Heaven Dou Empire...

The most critical thing was not this map, but the fact that a place was marked on it—Slaughter City.

Seeing Slaughter City marked in the center of the map, along with the detailed terrain and routes nearby, Ning Feiliu knew that Hu Da most likely intended to run to Slaughter City after killing him and Ye Lingling.

Perhaps in his eyes, Slaughter City was a lawless zone where the two great empires and the Spirit Hall could not reach, a holy land for murderers and Fallen Ones like them.

It's just that he didn't know that with his level of strength, entering Slaughter City would either result in him being killed by others or becoming a Fallen One who survives like a beggar.

In any case, in a place like Slaughter City, although everyone has their soul power and soul skill usage restricted, and can only use the most basic abilities of their martial soul.

Strength is still the main theme there.

There are even Soul Douluo-level Fallen Ones there, and not just one or two; a Soul Douluo-level Fallen One might not be able to use soul power and soul skills, and their strength would be greatly discounted.

But one must know that the increase in soul power level can, to a certain extent, enhance a Spirit Master's original physical fitness.

Therefore, the strength and speed of a Soul Douluo-level Fallen One are still very formidable, and they will definitely remain powerful experts.

Unless they encounter a guy like San Ge who plays with Hidden Weapons, uses techniques, and possesses top-tier arts, they really wouldn't flip over.

Ning Feiliu shook his head; for him, there was no point in going to Slaughter City.

High risk, low reward—why go there?

First of all, in Slaughter City, one has to fight at high intensity every day and guard against sneak attacks from others, keeping one's mental state highly tense; it's impossible to even get a good night's sleep.

And the risk is too great; who can guarantee that they really won't flip over in Slaughter City?

It's equivalent to being asked to play ranked matches at high intensity every day while ensuring a 100% win rate for the whole season... without a professional player win-rate team, would you dare guarantee you could go without losing a single game?

Anyway, Ning Feiliu doesn't want to take that risk; after all, he doesn't have a "Slaughter God" dad and a Law Enforcement God King Asura God watching over him.

Secondly, after taking such a big risk and passing the trials of Slaughter City, one still has to guard against Tang Chen, who has lost his mind, turning hostile; and the result is just a Slaughter God Domain?

Heh.

Although the Slaughter God Domain is the so-called symbol of accepting the inheritance of the Asura God, Ning Feiliu doesn't think the Asura God is willing to give him the God Position already reserved for San Ge.

Tang San's transmigration in the original plot was already very suspicious.

A soul from another world transmigrating into a world supervised by gods all over the sky, especially since this world was originally the hometown of the Asura God.

Among the five Law Enforcement Gods, Goodness, Evil, Destruction, and Life are all native gods; only the Asura God is a human god who ascended from the lower realm.

It would be strange if he didn't pay attention to his hometown, the Douluo Continent; when a soul from another world transmigrated over, wouldn't he be worried that this guy was some kind of extraterrestrial demon coming to turn his hometown upside down?

So it is highly probable that the Asura God actually knew about the transmigration of Tang San's soul and even arranged it.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that Tang San was Tang Chen's great-grandson, leading to Tang Chen later voluntarily giving up the Asura Demon Sword to Tang San?

This old guy, who was thinking about running away, later gave the Asura God inheritance to Tang San, helped Tang San resurrect, and even told the Sea God that he was reasonably utilizing the rules.

One can only say that the Asura God clearly had a premeditated plan...

However, thinking of this, Ning Feiliu was also very curious: would his own transmigration... be known to those gods in the God Realm?

And if it were known to these gods, could he also be a chess piece arranged by someone?

Ning Feiliu's mood suddenly became heavy; the moment he thought that there might be someone in the God Realm watching him right now, he felt very uncomfortable.

However, he thought about the cheat he had...

Could it be that he possesses this cheat, whose origin is unknown and which doesn't look like a system, and thus hasn't been discovered by the Douluo God Realm?

He shook his head and threw these redundant thoughts out of his mind; it was useless to think so much now, the most important thing was that he had to continue to improve his strength.

Only with sufficiently powerful strength could he explore the truth that might exist.

After struggling with these questions for a while, Ning Feiliu ended his rest and once again took Ye Lingling to search for that already severely injured Pale-Scaled Flying Fish.

That Pale-Scaled Flying Fish was severely injured and couldn't go very far at all.

However... what he was more worried about was that this severely injured Pale-Scaled Flying Fish would be intercepted by other Spirit Masters.

The clouds and mist were ever-changing, sometimes like rolling waves, sometimes like a quiet beauty; every change had no rules, yet it brought people more beauty and shock.

Thick heaven and earth energy wandered in the clouds and mist; in this illusory space, everything around was filled with hazy colors.

A figure completely wrapped in dark red magic patterns was slowly standing in a huge blood-colored temple.

Dark red light surrounded his body, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly; one could only vaguely see that he was wearing armor covered in dark red magic patterns.

"It's strange... why do I feel that there are some strange fluctuations in the barrier of the lower realm?" The Asura God frowned tightly; the most critical thing was that in this short moment, the fluctuations had disappeared without a trace, and he couldn't find them at all.

One year in the lower realm, one day in the heavens.

From the time the world barrier of the Douluo World showed fluctuations until now, it had been no more than a day, and he could no longer find this fluctuation.

This almost made him think it was his illusion.

He thought for a moment, then strode out of the blood-colored temple and found... in the God Realm.

The God King of Goodness.

After all, the figures of the two great God Kings were still very conspicuous.

One could only see, within a massive pillar of white light, a figure whose human shape could only be vaguely discerned, and it was impossible to tell whether the body was a hundred meters, a thousand meters, or ten thousand meters tall.

"Asura?" the God King of Goodness looked at him with some curiosity, "Are you here to find me?"

"Hmm... Goodness, have you felt any fluctuations in the lower realms recently?" the Asura God asked.

"The lower realms? No, I haven't felt any powerful existence passing through the world barrier," the God King of Goodness said with a beaming smile.

"Is that so... It seems it was my illusion then," the Asura God shook his head and said.

"Sorry to bother you, Goodness." After he finished speaking, he turned and left.

The God King of Goodness looked at him in bewilderment, shook her head, and said, "Asura has really been... getting stranger and stranger lately; he seems to be overly concerned about the lower realms."

What she and Evil had noticed was that ever since the battle between the Asura God and the Dragon God, his prying into the lower realms had become more and more frequent, and he had even personally arranged for a soul from another world to go down to the lower realms to possess and devour a newborn soul...

After all, the God of Goodness and the God of Evil were the two strongest native deities of the Douluo God Realm, and originally, only they could be called God King level.

The God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, and the Asura God, although they were also God Realm Law Enforcers like them, were absolutely inferior to the two of them in terms of strength.

However, after the Dragon God War, the Asura Demon Sword in the Asura God's hand seemed to have been promoted to a Super Artifact, and his strength now seemed to be on par with the God King of Goodness and the God King of Evil, or perhaps even stronger than the two of them.

But it seemed that because of this, the God King of Goodness always felt that the Asura God's mind was increasingly less focused on the God Realm...

Yet, whenever there was the slightest disturbance in the lower realms, he would always appear worried, and this time he had even come specifically to ask her.

It really is... strange...

"Lingling, come here." Ning Feiliu took a long sword from his Soul Guidance Device, sat on the dying Azure Scale Flying Fish, and while personally restraining the Azure Scale Flying Fish, he smiled and signaled to Ye Lingling.

Fortunately, no accidents occurred next.

The severely injured Azure Scale Flying Fish was not intercepted by others, nor was it killed by other Soul Beasts, and in the end, it did not escape.

After all, the Sunset Forest was truly inconspicuous compared to the much larger Star Dou Great Forest, which had a richer variety of Soul Beasts.

Most people were more willing to go to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts, so currently, besides Ning Feiliu and Ye Lingling coming here to hunt, there were no other Spirit Masters hunting Soul Beasts at all.

Ye Lingling immediately stepped forward and took the long sword from Ning Feiliu's hand.

"Aim here, this is its brain marrow center; as long as you insert it one meter and destroy its brain, it will die immediately." Ning Feiliu took out a charcoal pencil, drew a cross on the brain marrow center of the Azure Scale Flying Fish, and said.

Regarding his attitude toward Soul Beasts, as a human and as a Spirit Master, although he would not sympathize with them, he also had no intention of torturing or abusing them for fun.

He killed Soul Beasts simply for the sake of a Soul Ring.

Since there was no hatred or grudge, it was better to give the Soul Beast a quick end.

However, for the sake of Ye Lingling, he didn't actually give the Azure Scale Flying Fish a quick end, but rather beat it until it had only one breath left before letting Ye Lingling personally deliver the final blow.

"Okay." Ye Lingling did not show any hesitation; without another word, she directly plunged the long sword into the brain marrow center of the Azure Scale Flying Fish.

The Azure Scale Flying Fish, which had already been tortured to the point of being on its last breath by Ning Feiliu, did not erupt with a violent struggle at the moment of death, but instead let out a whimper and lost all signs of life.

From its body, strands of purple energy swirled out like smoke, and then a purple Thousand-Year Spirit Ring slowly condensed.

Ye Lingling did not need Ning Feiliu to say anything more; she sat cross-legged on the spot, summoned her martial soul, and began to absorb the Soul Ring.

During this process, there was no lack of painful expressions on Ye Lingling's pretty face.

But Ning Feiliu was not panicked at all; in his perception, Ye Lingling's body could still hold on, and there was absolutely no possibility of life-threatening danger.

It was just because she was an Auxiliary System Spirit Master, and her physical fitness was a bit weak.

And as a first-class, barely top-tier Soul Beast, even if the Azure Scale Flying Fish had just broken through the thousand-year limit, the power of its Soul Ring was significantly greater than that of an ordinary Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.

Therefore, it was normal for Ye Lingling's absorption process to be safe despite the risks.

During this period, Ning Feiliu teased Xiao Jiu again.

After the incident with Hu Da, he felt more and more that Xiao Jiu might have miraculous effects in future battles.

Most importantly, at a critical juncture of life and death, Xiao Jiu could really be a great help.

In ordinary battles, however, Ning Feiliu disdained letting Xiao Jiu help.

In a normal, upright battle, using despicable tricks like poisoning from the shadows—isn't that low?

Especially since his martial soul was not a poison-type martial soul like those of Dugu Bo or Dugu Yan, secretly using poison in a fight was naturally a despicable tactic.

"Xiao Jiu, oh Xiao Jiu... It's a pity you aren't a Soul Beast; if you were a Soul Beast, how good that would be... I would directly help you become a god and take you to the God Realm." Ning Feiliu smiled and tapped Xiao Jiu's head as he spoke.

He did not have much exclusion toward Soul Beasts, but he would not have an overflowing sense of love to the point of being overly concerned about the entire Soul Beast population.

In fact, he actually felt that Tang Hao's behavior of protecting his wife A Yin was correct.

It was just a bit too stupid.

The Spirit Hall's act of killing A Yin was not justifiable in any way, and Qian Xunji's pursuit of A Yin was merely to obtain a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring for Bibi Dong's second martial soul.

There was no moral high ground there at all.

A Yin was indeed a Soul Beast, but she hadn't killed any humans; was she guilty just because she was a Soul Beast?

That logic doesn't hold.

And to put it broadly, that was Tang Hao's wife, so of course he had to protect her.

Let alone a wife, even if it were Tang Hao's pet, it would be Tang Hao's own personal property; he hadn't broken the law, and his pet hadn't hurt or killed anyone, so what right did the Spirit Hall have to judge Tang Hao and A Yin so self-righteously?

So, from the perspective of not being biased, Tang Hao did nothing wrong.

It was just that he himself was too stupid; knowing his wife was a Soul Beast, he still brought her out and let A Yin's identity be exposed.

The key was that A Yin was pregnant at the time, and with the baby almost due, she didn't return to the sect to wait for the birth properly, but continued to wander outside... it really is...

Actually, even if the Clear Sky Sect didn't welcome A Yin's identity as a Soul Beast, to be honest, Tang Hao's father was the Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect at the time, and also a Title Douluo, likely the strongest Title Douluo of their generation.

If his father had accepted A Yin, who in the Clear Sky Sect would have dared to disobey?

Moreover, before the Spirit Hall's attack on the Clear Sky Sect occurred, the Clear Sky Sect probably wasn't that hostile toward A Yin yet.

The resistance to accepting A Yin should not have been as great as the resistance Tang San faced later when he returned to the sect to acknowledge his ancestors.

Besides, these were all things his father could have decided directly; old people are always hard-mouthed but soft-hearted.

Even if Tang Hao's father disliked A Yin, faced with the repeated pleas of his youngest son—the one with the best talent and the highest expectations—could he really be so heartless as to let Tang Hao and A Yin, who was pregnant with Tang San, wander outside?

Tang Hao was the successor to the Clear Sky Douluo across generations; only he practiced the Clear Sky Douluo's cultivation technique, the Great Sumeru Hammer.

A Yin was not an enemy of the Clear Sky Sect, nor was she the descendant of an enemy of Tang Hao's father; as long as Tang Hao had softened his stance, even if it were just a flexible admission of fault like Tang San's "before I had a title, I and my father were wrong; after achieving the title, I and my father were wrong about what," he could have assessed the situation.

Then he and A Yin would not have been hunted by the Spirit Hall outside, which eventually forced A Yin to sacrifice herself to Tang Hao.

One can only say... Tang Hao's stance on protecting his wife was correct, it's just that he was a bit too stupid.

Therefore, Ning Feiliu does not like idiots; bad people at least know what they are doing and know what is the right way to act, so they would absolutely never ruin the things they intend to do.

But this kind of idiot with an underdeveloped brain only does bad things with good intentions; not only will they harm themselves, but they will also harm the group of people around them.

Tang Hao is the best example; his series of maneuvers resulted in his wife dying, his sect being pressured by the Spirit Hall's army, more than half of his own sect's clansmen and kin suffering casualties, his own father being angered to death, and the grand Clear Sky Sect being forced to close its mountain gates, which was the height of humiliation.

One can only say it is fortunate he had a good son like Tang San, otherwise he would surely have ended his life burdened with infamy and curses, and there would be no later status for Tang Hao as the Master of the Plane.

Tang San, if nothing else, although after becoming a god, he split his own daughter's Spirit Soul, embezzled Huo Gua's opportunities, and possessed world-shocking wisdom for his ten-thousand-year plan.

But regardless of how others in the Douluo Dalu and the Douluo God Realm are faring or how miserable they are, the descendants of his family are all illustrious and possess extraordinary strength.

This is the benefit of being bad but not very stupid; in the original plot, he plucked all of Dugu Bo's Immortal Herbs, occupied Dugu Bo's Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well without saying a word, swallowed the Dragon God's bloodline, took away the Spirit Soul of the Emperor Auspicious Beast, and Huo Gua's spiritual power and soul power were also absorbed by Tang Wutong under his arrangement, and so on and so forth.

But Tang God King's family has completely grown strong, becoming the sole power in the God Realm, and his name is still praised by everyone.

Even if the Douluo World suffered countless casualties because of his world-shocking wisdom, so what?

Tang God King's family, at the very least, did not end up half-dead like the Clear Sky Sect under Tang Hao; instead, they became the veritable number one family of the Douluo World, a divine clan that has lasted for ten thousand generations!

There will be an explanation later; the cheat setting is a cheat given to oneself, so rest assured, there is no mastermind manipulating the protagonist, and it will be explained at the grand finale.

(End of this chapter)