Chapter 56

Upon hearing this, Shu Yan looked at Qiangu Chaosheng with some surprise, but then nodded and did not refuse.

Qiangu Chaosheng did not feel surprised by Shu Yan's attitude. A hint of reminiscence appeared in his still-bright eyes, and then he said softly:

"The old man was born in a small city in the south of Star Luo. My father's martial soul was the Coiled Dragon Staff, and my mother's martial soul was a mutated Chasing Wind Wolf."

"When I was six years old, I successfully awakened my father's Coiled Dragon Staff martial soul and finally learned from my father's mouth the origin and past of our lineage."

"But I was still young at that time and didn't have much realization of everything my father said. At that time, what I thought in my heart was just wanting to become a powerful Soul Master. One was not wanting to let my parents down, but more was wanting to satisfy the desire for powerful strength and high status in my heart."

"Youth, always has its own spirit and goals, but all this will eventually change as one gets older. Growing up forced by reality and various reasons is also like this. Slowly, I also saw through many things and finally understood the true meaning of the words my father said to me back then."

Qiangu Chaosheng sighed lightly when he said this, and then continued:

"The watershed of my life probably started from here. I lived for my youthful spirit in the first half of my life, and I fought for my family and descendants in the second half."

"The year I broke through to the Titled Douluo realm, my mother also passed away due to illness. In sadness and confusion, I bid farewell to my father and other elders and embarked on the road of traveling the continent. It was this trip that truly changed my life."

Shu Yan clearly sensed the change in Qiangu Chaosheng's tone. It was an incomparably complex feeling, mixed with hatred, regret, luck, and many other emotions, making people unable to figure out what he was thinking.

Just as Shu Yan was thinking, Qiangu Chaosheng's slightly low voice had already sounded again:

"On that trip traveling the continent, I inadvertently stepped into a ruin full of weirdness."

"There, I met a beast-level existence that was dying..."

"Beast..."

Shu Yan was slightly surprised, his expression toward Qiangu Chaosheng changing slightly, as if he didn't expect the other party to have had such an encounter.

Qiangu Chaosheng didn't seem surprised by Shu Yan's surprise. He shook his head and chuckled, then continued:

"Long after I came out of that ruin, I learned the true name of that ruin from ancient books. From that time on, I leaped from a Titled Douluo with an ordinary ratio who didn't even possess a 100,000-year soul ring to a top-tier Titled Douluo with three 100,000-year soul rings. Since then, my cultivation path could be said to be smooth sailing. Less than twenty years later, I reached the level of level 98."

Speaking of this, Shu Yan really couldn't sit still. A Titled Douluo chose to travel the continent after his mother passed away, then encountered a ruin, and then completed a great transformation and rose step by step. Isn't this completely a protagonist template?

Looking at Qiangu Chaosheng in front of him, Shu Yan had many thoughts, but soon, he captured a hint of unusual meaning.

"Elder Qian, can you tell me what kind of existence the ruin you entered was, that it could make you produce such a big change in such a short time..."

Qiangu Chaosheng just looked at Shu Yan quietly. After a long time, he said softly: "That was the City of Slaughter, the place of slaughter and freedom that imprisoned countless evils in the world."

"And that beast was the former Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King." Shu Yan was slightly stunned, and then said somewhat incredulously: "After the City of Slaughter was destroyed by the Tang Sect ancestor Tang San, the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King also fell into his hands. How could it appear in this era as a beast?"

Qiangu Chaosheng shook his head lightly, correcting Shu Yan's words:

"The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King ten thousand years ago did not fall. At the last moment when it was melted by the Sea God's light, it used a secret method, allowing its soul to escape, and finally reborn in the endless sea of blood."

"After the City of Slaughter was destroyed, all the evil Soul Masters imprisoned there entered the world, and the sea of blood that permeated out completely swallowed all living beings within a hundred miles, making that place an ominous land permeated with blood-colored fog all day long."

"According to common sense, without the protection of the sea of blood, the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King should not have lived long, but this guy insisted on lingering for nearly ten thousand years by various methods, and its cultivation even reached the level of nearly 500,000 years..."

"It initially came with the idea of seizing my body, but it was helpless that it had almost reached its limit in the last heavenly tribulation. Even after recuperating for thousands of years, it was still too weak. It had powerful cultivation but no corresponding strength, so it could only rely on mental power to create illusions to trap me and slowly erode and parasitize."

"But what it never dreamed of was that the Evil-Breaking Dragon parasitizing in my Coiled Dragon Staff martial soul was a special existence condensed by the righteousness of heaven and earth, possessing the characteristic of breaking all evil. The Evil-Breaking Dragon, awakened by strong stimulation, caused great damage to it, which was already fragile, at the last moment, and also allowed my consciousness to regain the initiative of the body. And at that time, it had almost injected and sealed all its cultivation and origin into my body..."

"Later, with the help of my father and many elders, I completely cleared the sleeping soul of this guy, and its cultivation of more than 500,000 years and powerful origin all benefited me, which allowed me to complete the thorough transformation in such a short time..."

Shu Yan's mouth twitched wildly. The incredulous expression in his eyes was almost undisguised, and the feeling in his heart was indescribably stimulating and numb.

I thought you achieved today's achievements by your own hard cultivation, but now you tell me that after you broke through to Titled Douluo, a legendary-level big resource package was delivered to your door so easily?

Qiangu Chaosheng watched the change in Shu Yan's expression, then sighed lightly again, and continued: "This is a kind of luck, but at the same time, it is also a torture for me."

"The origin soul power of the beast-level Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King was almost contaminated with its own evil attributes. When refining this soul power, the Evil-Breaking Dragon soul residing in the martial soul would occasionally riot uncontrollably. The reason I have already said, how could the Evil-Breaking Dragon condensed by the righteousness of heaven and earth allow its master to accept evil power..."

"When I broke through to level 98, the Evil-Breaking Dragon soul rioted again. It was that riot that caused irreparable damage to my origin in the struggle with those evil energies, which also made me lose the opportunity to go further and become a Limit Douluo for life..."

Shu Yan lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly asked: "Then your life is about to come to an end, is it because of the poison of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King?"

Qiangu Chaosheng shook his head, a clear regret appearing in his eyes.

"At that time, I had just fallen in love with a high-level woman of the Star Crown Sect. My lover learned about my situation and introduced me to the Medical Immortal Douluo, who was already the number one healing Soul Master on the continent at that time. I also joined the Star Luo Elder Hall. In the decades that followed, through the continuous efforts of the three of us, we finally cleared all the poison deep in my bone marrow, and even expelled the faint evil energy in my origin soul power..."

"It's a pity, I met that guy Medical Immortal too late. Otherwise, even if the damage to my origin could not be completely cured, at least there would be a chance to remedy it a little. Even if it was just a little, it would never have kept me at level 98..."

"As for my lifespan, hehe, it can actually be considered complete. After all, ordinary level 98 Super Douluos cannot live to my age. I can live to this day, thanks to the huge vitality left by the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King..."

(End of chapter)