Chapter 207: Protagonists of the Extreme North

The Extreme North of the Douluo Continent.

This place is covered in ice and snow all year round, and the temperature is extremely low; even in summer, the temperature is between minus twenty and thirty degrees.

However, this is a paradise for Ice Attribute Soul Beasts, and many types of Soul Beasts live inside, so it has attracted quite a few people to come here to hunt for Spirit Rings.

Ever since Jerry published the attributes of soul power in the Spirit News, letting Spirit Masters across the entire continent understand that the Ice Attribute is merely a classification of the Water Attribute, and that Ice Attribute Spirit Masters can absorb Water Attribute Spirit Rings, very few people have come to the Extreme North.

There is no need to personally run to the harsh climate of the Extreme North; one can directly exchange for Spirit Rings at the Spirit Hall, and there is not the slightest risk in absorbing Spirit Rings exchanged from the Spirit Hall. Any normal person would choose to exchange for Spirit Rings from the Spirit Hall, right?

In fact, this is also the place where the Ice God fell. Although the god has fallen, the Divine Might still remains.

The Extreme North can be said to be the tomb of the Ice God, and it is precisely for this reason that it is covered in ice and snow all year round.

It is also for this reason that the Sea God teleported Tang San here.

In a place covered by Divine Might, it is very difficult for other gods to perceive the situation in the covered area unless their strength is very powerful.

Later, Ma Hongjun obtained the Fire God inheritance, and Oscar obtained the Food God inheritance; under the guidance of the God Trial, they both came here.

The three of them are all classmates from Shrek Academy and brothers who have fought together, so the three of them teamed up to train here.

A few months later, the Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang also came here.

The safe area of the Extreme North is not large, and within a few days, the group met.

After talking, they each learned of the other's situation, and Tang San and the others felt that they finally had a backbone and were all very happy.

At that time, after the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family was destroyed, Yu Xiaogang endured immense sorrow, pretending on the surface to be indifferent, and kept hiding from the Spirit Hall to cultivate diligently.

He dared not show any sadness, because he had long discovered that someone was monitoring him, and he knew that if he showed even a trace of sadness or hatred, the Spirit Hall would definitely take action against him.

Yu Xiaogang still understood the principle of cutting weeds and eliminating roots.

It was not until a year later that the Spirit Hall's surveillance of Yu Xiaogang relaxed, finally allowing him to find an opportunity to leave Wuhun City.

His soul power had already broken through, and his martial soul had also evolved, so he could cultivate anywhere; it was just that cultivating outside was not as fast as in Wuhun City, and he had a premonition that Jerry would not let him off so easily.

Originally, he wanted to wait for Bibi Dong to come out of seclusion and go directly to rely on her, but after waiting for a year, he did not receive any news of Bibi Dong coming out of seclusion.

Moreover, Wuhun City was developing very quickly, all of which he saw with his own eyes; various departments cooperated with each other, the division of labor was clear, and a fixed working method had been formed. The power of the Spirit Hall had already been dispersed and was controlled in the hands of the Elders.

Furthermore, many of these Elders had broken through to Title Douluo. Currently, the number of Title Douluo in Wuhun City, just counting those Yu Xiaogang knew of, was over thirty, and these Title Douluo all held real power.

Therefore, even if Bibi Dong came out of seclusion at this time, it would be very difficult to directly control the Spirit Hall.

Although Bibi Dong was also a Title Douluo, it would not be an easy task to take back power from so many Title Douluo.

And based on his understanding of Bibi Dong, after coming out and seeing that there were so many affairs in the Spirit Hall now, it was highly likely she would not take over.

Later, there was a piece of news in Wuhun City: Jerry had used means of commercial competition to sanction all the Elders of the Spirit Hall and other Title Douluo with real power.

Under the mediation of the Great Elder Qian Daoliu, these Elders and Title Douluo bowed their heads to Jerry one after another, and only then did Jerry let them go.

This Jerry was simply too terrifying, bringing all the figures with real power to heel.

Coupled with the fact that the emperors of the two great empires, the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire, had both become Jerry's junior sisters, Yu Xiaogang felt Jerry's ambition. Moreover, there had always been a rumor circulating in the Spirit Hall that Jerry would be conferred as the Saint Son of the Spirit Hall in the future; would he then directly suppress Bibi Dong after she came out of seclusion?

And for him to go and rely on Bibi Dong would undoubtedly be seeking death. In the end, Yu Xiaogang made a decision: to leave Wuhun City.

After successfully leaving Wuhun City, Yu Xiaogang had nowhere to go. The two great empires could basically be said to be managed by the Spirit Hall behind the scenes, so he finally decided to return to the residence of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family to take a look.

The location of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family residence was excellent, but the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family had already been destroyed, and the place had long been desolate and uninhabited.

Because it was rumored that this place was unlucky, no one else had dared to come here to live for so long; if it were any other place, it would probably have been occupied by others long ago.

Although no one lived there, after the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family was destroyed, it had attracted some people to come. These people held the mentality of picking up scraps, but after searching for a long time, they found nothing other than the houses.

These houses could not be taken away and had no value, so they had worked in vain. These people were also angry and vented their rage on the houses.

Therefore, when Yu Xiaogang returned to the residence, the place was very desolate, rotten, and dilapidated.

Seeing such a scene, Yu Xiaogang felt a trace of desolation in his heart.

How glorious and powerful the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family used to be, and now...

Yu Xiaogang sighed.

Walking and walking, he arrived at the back mountain of the residence. Yu Xiaogang remembered that his father had warned him before not to go to the back mountain unless it was a moment of life and death.

What a pity! When his father and the others truly encountered a moment of life and death, they did not have time to enter the back mountain.

Yu Xiaogang entered the back mountain directly; he wanted to see what exactly was in this back mountain that it could only be entered at a moment of life and death.

In the back mountain, after searching carefully for a few days, Yu Xiaogang finally sensed a different place.

In an inconspicuous little mountain stream, year after year, no one asked about it. This place had already been covered by vines. He did not know what was inside, but it had been attracting Yu Xiaogang.

After checking the situation nearby and finding no danger, Yu Xiaogang began to clear away these vines.

As a thick layer of vines was cleared away by Yu Xiaogang, the secret behind them was finally revealed.

Behind the vines was a cave, dark and silent inside. Because it had been blocked by vines all year round and saw no sunlight, the ground was relatively damp, covered in rotten leaves, and a lot of moss had grown on the cave walls.

He found some materials, made a torch, and without hesitation, Yu Xiaogang walked directly into the cave.

This cave had a world of its own, with many forks and a complex layout, making it very easy to lose one's way inside.

Along the way, Yu Xiaogang saw many white bones, and through the items left behind, he discovered that these were all predecessors of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family.

As he went deeper, more and more white bones appeared. Yu Xiaogang's curiosity was piqued: what exactly was inside that could make so many predecessors of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family disregard their lives to come to this place?

Later, Yu Xiaogang himself also lost his way in the cave. Perhaps it was Yu Xiaogang's good luck; just as the food he carried was about to run out, he arrived at a plaza, and in the middle of the plaza was a Teleportation Array.

Next to the Teleportation Array were several white bones. It seemed that someone had reached this place before, but they did not know what this plaza was, and eventually, after exhausting all their supplies, they remained here forever.

If it were before, Yu Xiaogang would definitely not have recognized a Teleportation Array, but after Jerry made the Floating House public in Wuhun City, teleportation was also made public, so Yu Xiaogang recognized at once that the thing on the plaza in front of him was a Teleportation Array.

For Yu Xiaogang, who was about to run out of food and supplies, there was nothing to consider now; there was no way back, and he could not care where the Teleportation Array led. He just wanted to get out now, otherwise, he would starve to death in this cave just like his predecessors.

So without any hesitation, he stepped directly onto the Teleportation Array. This was a one-way Teleportation Array, and with a flash of white light, Yu Xiaogang arrived in a new space.

This space had nothing, it was very empty, and inside there was only an altar. In the middle of the altar, a middle-aged man sat on a throne, and on the throne, many conspicuous lightning bolts were carved.

Seeing this middle-aged man, Yu Xiaogang was startled, and then he hurriedly stepped forward, wanting to beg this middle-aged man to help him.

"Senior, I broke into this place unintentionally. After getting lost in the cave, I finally arrived here by chance. I implore you, Senior, to give me a way out, and I will leave immediately."

Yu Xiaogang asked after performing a salute.

Unfortunately, this middle-aged man sitting there did not reply.

He asked a few more times, but still received no reply, and this middle-aged man remained motionless.

Yu Xiaogang gathered his courage and walked toward the middle-aged man sitting there; only when he got close did he realize that this was not a living person at all, but a statue.

It was just carved so lifelike that if one did not look carefully, one would truly think it was a living person.

After walking around the statue to look at it, he saw a stone tablet standing to the side, carved with many ancient characters; fortunately, Yu Xiaogang had studied ancient characters, so he could basically understand the text on this tablet.

After reading it, Yu Xiaogang suddenly realized that this statue was the Thunder God; when the Thunder God was on his deathbed, he had set up this Secret Realm, leaving behind his own inheritance, hoping that a fated person in the future could inherit his God Position.

The stone tablet recorded that one only needed to perform three kowtows and nine prostrations to open the God Trial.

Following the records on the stone tablet, Yu Xiaogang began the three kowtows and nine prostrations directly at the designated spot.

After the three kowtows and nine prostrations, the middle-aged man statue emitted a golden light, which directly covered Yu Xiaogang.

Subsequently, a voice appeared directly in Yu Xiaogang's mind: "Congratulations on opening the Thunder God Nine Trials."

If it were before, Yu Xiaogang definitely could not have opened the Thunder God Nine Trials, but because of Wuhun City, his martial soul had evolved; now his martial soul had become the Top-tier Spirit Golden Sacred Dragon, and his aptitude had also improved, which was why he had the opportunity to open the Thunder God Nine Trials.

So this was the secret of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family, a place of inheritance for a god.

The Spirit Hall was also famous because of the Angel God's inheritance site; it turned out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family was similar to the Spirit Hall, but for so many years, although many people from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family had entered, not a single person had ever successfully accepted a God Trial.

Even though many people reached the plaza, they missed the opportunity because they did not recognize the Teleportation Array, and they died.

If the Thunder God were still alive now, he probably would not have imagined that ten thousand years later, people outside would not even recognize a Teleportation Array.

After accepting the God Trial, the first three trials were very simple for Yu Xiaogang, and the rewards after the God Trials were also very generous; with the God Trials, Yu Xiaogang's Cultivation could be described as smooth sailing.

The Thunder God and the Asura God were not from the same faction back then, but in the dark, Yu Xiaogang also arrived at the Extreme North and successfully met up with Tang San and the others.

After introducing themselves to each other, everyone understood that they were all inheritors of a God Position.

In the following months, the few of them supported each other, and with Yu Xiaogang there, they also had a new understanding of Cultivation.

Because besides the Spirit Master knowledge he knew before, Yu Xiaogang had also learned a lot of new knowledge in Wuhun City, and this knowledge was very valuable to Tang San and the others.

A few months later, they met another person they knew, Dugu Yan.

After Dugu Yan's grandfather was captured by the Spirit Hall, Dugu Yan's status in the academy plummeted; the noble students who used to hide when they saw her even began to mock Dugu Yan to her face.

At first, she still had her boyfriend Yu Tianheng to help her, but later, Yu Tianheng received a letter from home and announced in public that he was breaking up with Dugu Yan.

Her grandfather was captured, her boyfriend left, and her best friend went to the Spirit Hall; other people in the academy began to bully her intentionally or unintentionally. At this time, Dugu Yan could be described as lonely and helpless, without even a single person to vent to.

Therefore, Dugu Yan left the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and traveled the continent alone, preparing to find a place where no one knew her, work hard on her Cultivation, and then avenge her grandfather.

Through a stroke of luck, she obtained the inheritance of the Poison God.

As she passed one God Trial after another, her strength improved tremendously, and slowly she was guided by the God Trials to the Extreme North.

Finally, she met Tang San and the others; because they knew each other before, and Dugu Yan was alone, after chatting, they learned that she was also an inheritor of a God Position and, like them, hated the Spirit Hall, so the five-person God Trial squad was established just like that.

Among the five, Ma Hongjun and Oscar originally had no hatred for the Spirit Hall.

They were both orphans, and after Flender discovered them, he brought them to the academy.

Moreover, Flender was very irresponsible in bringing up students; after the two of them embarked on the path of a Spirit Master, they basically relied on the Spirit Master subsidies from the Spirit Hall to get by.

Therefore, their attitude toward the Spirit Hall was different from that of Tang San and the others.

However, the content of the God Trials guided them step by step toward the opposite side of the Spirit Hall.

Coupled with Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Dugu Yan badmouthing the Spirit Hall every day, it slowly changed the mindset of the two of them.

In fact, the Empire distributed Spirit Master subsidies through the Spirit Hall to help Spirit Masters get through the early stages of Cultivation, hoping that these Spirit Masters would be grateful and, after achieving success in their Cultivation, could serve the Empire or the Spirit Hall.

But after a long time, as the older generation passed and the new generation appeared, Spirit Masters felt that receiving Spirit Master subsidies was a normal thing and had no sense of gratitude.

This was why Ma Hongjun and Oscar were easily influenced by Tang San and the others.

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