Chapter 547

Accompanied by a booming sound, the ground in the city center suddenly caved in.

Amidst the smoke and dust, a figure shot up into the sky, gasped two rough breaths, and exclaimed:

"Dragon King Douluo? How did you find this place?!"

As for Tang Wulin, he understands him far better than ordinary people.

Rather, the Holy Spirit Sect members are very well informed about the vast majority of powerful soul masters.

As street rats of society, they must be familiar with the world's top experts in order to survive unexpected encounters with them.

Thus, in an instant, his mind recalled all known information about Tang Wulin.

It is said that before traveling to the era ten thousand years ago, his martial soul was Blue Silver Grass, and after returning from ten thousand years ago to take command, he already bore the title Dragon King Douluo.

From the title Dragon King Douluo, one can infer that Tang Wulin's martial soul ability is likely related to dragons.

Moreover, from the few videos of Tang Wulin taking action, his main combat style appears to be close-quarters fighting.

Facing an opponent of this level, the Dark Blood Demon harbored no illusions; he knew Yun Ming's strength, and since Yun Ming could not defeat Tang Wulin, even if all the forces of this small world joined together, they would hardly inflict any damage on him.

Therefore, the moment he saw the opponent's appearance, he resolved to flee with all his might.

Tang Wulin also leapt out of the large pit that had sunk into the ground, looked up, and gazed at the Dark Blood Demon in the sky.

The Dark Blood Demon is a tall, thin middle-aged man, his entire body concealed within a large dark-red cloak.

At that moment, hovering behind him was a roughly three-meter-tall wraith, entirely dark-red, its face pitch black like ink, with only two clusters of blood-red flame-like eyes burning and flickering.

His nine soul rings were all a deep, lustrous black, seemingly merging with his own black-and-red hues.

The wraith behind him did not resemble a human shape but rather a bulging mound, and the air around it grew markedly chilly due to its presence.

Tang Wulin is extremely sensitive to life force, so he could clearly sense that the Dark Blood Demon's life force was terribly turbid, making him feel very nauseated.

Having cultivated to his present level, the Dark Blood Demon's hands are stained with an unknown amount of blood; his life force is so foul that it seems he not only absorbs souls but also uses others' flesh and blood to aid his cultivation.

Moreover, this guy is quite tenacious; Tang Wulin estimated that his earlier punch should have knocked him out of combat, yet the Dark Blood Demon can still move freely, indicating his strength far exceeds that of ordinary fellow cultivators at the same soul master level.

As the booming sound rang out, shrill alarms began to blare throughout the city.

It seems that, as the rebel organization's stronghold, this city's alarm system is quite good.

Tang Wulin ignored the Dark Blood Demon's questioning, disregarded the blaring alarm, raised his hand, and a golden long spear appeared in his grasp.

"Tsk!"

Seeing Tang Wulin's move, the Dark Blood Demon also realized the opponent had no intention of conversing; thus, the wraith behind him violently arched its body backward, and a terrifying suction erupted from him.

The name of this soul skill is Devouring Spirit, and it is his first soul skill.

Although it is merely his first soul skill, in practice this skill almost constitutes the core of the Dark Blood Demon's combat; it is highly effective for both attack and crowd control, and even when facing Yun Ming, whose strength far surpassed his own back then, it still produced a significant weakening effect.

Yet against Tang Wulin, his usually infallible soul skill failed.

"Ah—!"

The Dark Blood Demon suddenly let out a shriek, for Tang Wulin, who had been several hundred meters away just moments before, abruptly appeared before him and thrust his spear straight through his body.

The speed of this attack was truly too fast; he could barely react to it.

He could feel his own life force draining away at a chilling rate; if this continued, even if Tang Wulin did nothing, the Dark Blood Demon would not survive more than five seconds.

Moreover, in the Dark Blood Demon's perception, all his curses that landed on Tang Wulin seemed to be blocked by some mysterious force, rendering them ineffective.

What he did not know was that a similar method had already been employed ten thousand years ago by a quasi-god-level powerhouse named Ye Xi Shui, yet it had no effect on Tang Wulin, who possesses the Light Dragon King's skull; as a demigod, he need not even be mentioned.

At the critical moment, a piercing black-red light began to burst forth from his body.

Then, plates of metal emerged from his surface, armoring him.

This is his battle armor; as a member of the Holy Spirit Sect, he cannot obtain the heavenly forged metal forged by Zhen Hua or Tang Wulin, so his battle armor is merely a three-word battle armor.

Tang Wulin raised his eyebrows, and then an intensely strong nine-colored light suddenly burst forth from his body.

For a moment, it seemed as if a new nine-colored sun had appeared in the sky, causing everyone on the street to instinctively look up.

Tang Wulin's entire body was clad in armor made of nine-colored metal, his aura swelling to an unimaginable degree, making him appear extraordinarily heroic.

This is the four-word battle armor he forged for himself, Azure Rain Dragon Pupil.

Thus, he can now call himself Azure Rain Dragon Pupil Tang Wulin.

This battle armor, he provided the materials, Huo Yutong designed its structure, and the materials used are all the highest-grade heavenly forged metal in the world.

According to the evaluations of Zang Xin and Yun Ming, it has far surpassed the standard of ordinary four-word battle armor, reaching a higher level.

If the four-word battle armor made from his heavenly forged metal alone could already be called five-word battle armor, then his four-word battle armor is even superior to those, to the extent that it could be considered six-word battle armor without issue.

However, since the Soul Master World has not yet graded this newly emerged batch of four-word battle armors, his armor is still classified as four-word, just like the others.

According to Ilex, the two battle armors used by him and Huo Yutong have already entered the realm of divine artifacts, possessing a qualitative difference from others' battle armors.

The Dark Blood Demon's own strength already lagged behind Tang Wulin's, and once both donned their battle armors, that gap widened to a despairing extent.

At the instant the nine-colored light flared up, he sensed something amiss and hastily raised his hands above his head; all nine of his black soul rings blazed brightly, actually beginning to emit a 'crack-crack' sound.

"Huh?"

Having just donned his four-word battle armor, Tang Wulin witnessed this bizarre scene, after which an immensely terrifying force erupted from the Dark Blood Demon's body.

This is……is he boosting his own strength dramatically in a short time at the cost of shattering his soul rings?

Quite impressive.

Gazing at the scarlet frenzy surging toward him, Tang Wulin reflected inwardly.

Then he threw a punch, and a massive nine-colored dragon head flashed past.

This is a derived skill from the blood and qi reverse circulation technique he learned from the Turbid World; the move is called Dragon Shocking Heaven.

Like the Turbid World, whose martial soul is the Crimson Armored Dragon, when he uses it it becomes Crimson Dragon Shocking Heaven.

When Tang Wulin uses it, it becomes Divine Dragon Shocking Heaven.

"Boom—!"

The nine-colored dragon head's qi and blood power instantly devoured the scarlet frenzy, slammed into the Dark Blood Demon, and knocked him to the ground.

His full-body battle armor shattered into fragments under the force of that blow, his whole body collapsed on the ground, continuously spasming.

Tang Wulin looked at him like that, not rushing to deliver a killing blow, but instead came to his side, planting his spear in the ground, and gazed at him calmly.

Previously, Yun Ming had also killed the Dark Blood Devil, but the end result was that the Dark Blood Devil revived again; after several decades, his cultivation not only did not retreat, but actually increased, becoming an Evil Soul Master of Limit Douluo level.

Tang Wulin didn't know how he managed that; to prevent this situation from recurring, he decided to wait for Huo Yutong to finish dealing with the other opponents before letting Huo Yutong handle it.

Otherwise, if he rashly killed the Dark Blood Devil, causing him to revive by some unknown means, everything would be wasted.

When it comes to dealing with this type of opponent, Huo Yutong is the expert.

The Dark Blood Devil didn't expect Tang Wulin to not kill him; seeing Tang Wulin standing beside him, gazing at him, the Dark Blood Devil suddenly felt a bad premonition.

Tang Wulin's guess was actually correct; he indeed had a means to escape death.

Through the Blood Devil Curse, he had controlled countless blood slaves worldwide, and among these blood slaves there existed some special beings.

The interiors of these blood slaves had been completely emptied by him, even their souls reduced to only a last thread; if that final thread of soul were lost, the blood slave would instantly turn to dust.

These blood slaves have no combat ability; their greatest use is to give him a chance to revive.

He can, through a special method, reincarnate into the body of such a special blood slave after death; although he will lose all his strength for a short time, if he cultivates for a few years, his strength can recover to about seventy or eighty percent.

When previously facing Yun Ming's pursuit, he escaped using this method.

Originally he actually intended to repeat the old trick, using all his means, feigning weakness, and then after Tang Wulin killed him, revive through this method.

Although the shattering of the Three-word Battle Armor pained him greatly, in the face of life, that battle armor amounted to nothing.

But he didn't expect Tang Wulin to appear unwilling to act.

After hesitating for a moment, the Dark Blood Devil made up his mind.

Seeing Tang Wulin like that, this Dragon King Douluo might have some secret weapon aimed at him; if he doesn't run now, it will be too late.

Thus his soul power surged within him, preparing to commit suicide directly.

However, unexpectedly, as his soul power just began to flow, a spear instantly pierced his palm, beginning to absorb his soul power and life force.

"Ah——!"

This pain caused the already heavily wounded Dark Blood Devil to involuntarily cry out; he reached out with his other hand to grip the shaft of the Golden Dragon Spear, straining with all his might to pull it out. But Tang Wulin's strength was immense; no matter how hard he tried, the Golden Dragon Spear remained unmoving in Tang Wulin's hand, steadily absorbing his power.

Even to prevent him from being sucked dry in just a few seconds, Tang Wulin deliberately reduced the absorption speed, preserving his life.

Under the intense pain, the Dark Blood Devil's control over his inner soul power sharply decreased; combined with the soul power disturbance caused by the Golden Dragon Spear absorbing soul power, his plan to commit suicide by using soul power thus came to nothing.

Tang Wulin held the Golden Dragon Spear, looking down at him, and coldly said: "Don't entertain any treacherous thoughts, otherwise I'll make you wish for life but unable to die."

He had merely been paying attention to the Dark Blood Devil's movements, so as soon as the other contemplated suicide, he noticed it immediately.

The Dark Blood Devil's action not only failed, but also let Tang Wulin completely confirm that this guy had an escape method that needed to be triggered by death.

As expected of an Evil Soul Master, in terms of uncanny and evil abilities, no being in this world can match them.

While Tang Wulin was doing these actions, the city also erupted in great chaos, with explosions ringing out everywhere, clearly indicating that the others who had come here had started to act.

Through Huo Yutong's mental detection, Tang Wulin could see that the Star Net Empire's attendants had not exterminated the enemies; those who were clearly usable again were merely captured by them.

No wonder, as an organization capable of opposing the Star Net authorities for a thousand years, the Green Skull's talent reserves are also extremely ample; among them are many talents that even the Star Net Empire's officials covet greatly; if they could all be absorbed, the Star Net Empire's future national strength would increase significantly.

As for absorbing this batch of people who once harbored rebellious intentions—what problems might arise? One can only say it depends on Dai Tianling's specific execution; a slight mistake could turn this into another dagger aimed at the Star Net Empire.

However, just as Dai Tianling had instructed before Tang Wulin began his actions, this operation ultimately remains an internal affair of the Star Net Empire; whatever they do is unrelated to Tang Wulin, as long as they do not cooperate with the Holy Spirit Sect, whether they become strong enough to rival the Sun Moon Federation or collapse to imminent destruction, he will not intervene.

"Speaking of which, Ling Zichen really went all out with his attacks..."

Using mental detection to observe Ling Zichen's actions, Tang Wulin couldn't help but sigh.

This guy perhaps vented all the resentment from his forced research suspension onto these rebel troops, striking with utter ruthlessness.

Only see her pink mecha constantly maneuvering in the city, countless missiles launching from its mecha's shoulders, blasting at the spots marked by mental detection.

From the Star Net Empire's attendants, Tang Wulin could sense a feeling of surprise.

By fighting with missiles, it can basically be determined that Ling Zichen is using not battle armor but a mecha.

However, her mecha's size is exceptionally special—only slightly taller than a human, and very agile, vastly different from ordinary mechas.

Moreover, most importantly, she isn't an ordinary person, so why can she operate what is clearly a god-level mecha?

The Star Net Empire's attendants, observing this scene via mental detection, all felt heavy-hearted.

Although they previously knew that Tang Sect's soul tool technology surpassed theirs, only after seeing Ling Zichen's performance did they gain a rough idea of how strong it is.

Even ordinary people can now pilot god-level mechas; although such mechas are mostly costly, they also carry extraordinary significance.

If decades or centuries pass and the cost of this mecha drops, then the Star Net Empire will have no capacity to resist before the Sun Moon Federation.

Just then, with a booming sound, a red mecha landed beside Tang Wulin.

This mecha gripped a huge sword in its hand, emanating a fierce and malevolent aura; it was indeed a god-level mecha.

Only see it raising its great sword high, then chopping down toward Tang Wulin's head.

As a high-ranking member of the Green Skull organization, this mecha's driver had some understanding of the Dark Blood Devil, but not much.

He merely knew that this black-clothed person was an honored guest of the leader, but he didn't know that the Dark Blood Devil's cultivation had already reached the Limit Douluo level.

Therefore, he also misjudged Tang Wulin's strength.

With a clang, inside the god-level mecha's cockpit, the person controlling it stared wide-eyed in astonishment.

In front of his gaze, Tang Wulin actually didn't dodge at all, directly taking the blow head-on.

The result was that Tang Wulin himself was unharmed, while the god-level mecha's great sword was shaken open by the huge recoil, leaving a small notch on it.

"This..."

He knew Tang Wulin's strength was certainly not weak, but he originally thought that no matter what, he could at least buy some time.

But Tang Wulin's reaction exceeded his expectations.

Taking a head-on strike from a god-level mecha's full-power slash? Is that something a human can do? Tang Wulin glanced at him indifferently, his expression extremely cold.

The god-level mecha pilot's heart suddenly filled with a chill, and before he could react, his real body was suddenly enveloped by a strong chill.

At some point, a white-haired girl in a white dress appeared beside that god-level mecha, placing her hand on its fuselage; surging ice element emanated from her, forming intense cold that froze it into an ice sculpture.

After Huo Yutong finished all this, she didn't even glance at him, quickly stepping up to Tang Wulin and patting his head.

Wulin, did he hurt you?

Tang Wulin smiled and shook his head lightly.

Don't worry, I'm fine—my body, as your husband, is very strong.

Then that's good.

Huo Yutong let out a breath of relief and shifted her gaze to the Dark Blood Demon beside Tang Wulin.

Is he that Dark Blood Demon?

Yeah.

Tang Wulin asked, "How is it? Have you taken care of all your targets?"

All taken care of.

Really fast.

If Tang Wulin remembers correctly, when they first arrived here, he sensed via Huo Yutong's spiritual detection a powerful existence of rank ninety‑eight, but now that person's aura has completely vanished.

From the moment Tang Wulin arrived beside the Dark Blood Demon until now, less than a minute has passed; in that short time Huo Yutong has dealt with all experts at the level of Green Skull Honored Douluo and above, showing how strong she is.

That's only natural.

Huo Yutong lifted the hem of her skirt and gave Tang Wulin a shy smile.

After all, I'm wearing the four‑word battle armor you made for me.

Huo Yutong's four‑word battle armor is the same rank as Tang Wulin's, but its overall enhancement effect is slightly inferior to his.

This is unavoidable, unrelated to whether Tang Wulin put his heart into it; the main reason is that the metal used for forging was all made by Tang Wulin, imbued with the power of the Dragon God bloodline, naturally making it closer to him.

Apart from the strength issue, the style of Huo Yutong's four‑word battle armor can be said to be completely different from Tang Wulin's.

Tang Wulin's four‑word battle armor simply and crudely enhances his Dragon God power; after all, whether it's the power of the Blue Silver Emperor or the vitality of the Son of Life, compared to the Dragon God's abilities they seem rather insignificant.

Therefore, when designing Tang Wulin's battle armor, Huo Yutong chose to maximize enhancement in a single direction.

Without exaggeration, after these years of secondary absorption of several dragon bones, Tang Wulin wearing the four‑word battle armor now has strength comparable to when he used the Dragon God true form three years ago, even without activating it.

Meanwhile, Huo Yutong's four‑word battle armor focuses on strengthening each of her martial souls separately.

Her battle armor has three modes, each corresponding to one of her three martial souls, able to separately enhance the spiritual, ice, and death attributes.

Although each attribute's enhancement is much weaker, considering her combat style, this design is obviously more suitable for her.

The name of this four‑word battle armor is Snow Dance Linpupil.

Snow refers to the Ice Sky Snow Girl, the pupil to her initial martial soul Spiritual Pupil, and the dance lin represents Tang Wulin.

Wearing this armor, she is now the four‑word battle armor master Snow Dance Linpupil, Huo Yutong.

Huo Yutong looked at the Dark Blood Demon, her gaze gradually becoming focused.

Being stared at intently by her, the Dark Blood Demon inexplicably felt a sudden chill.

Soon, Huo Yutong nodded in understanding.

I see, his qi and blood are extremely deficient, and his soul has a certain defect; if I'm not mistaken, he split off part of his own soul and placed it in the object he cursed, to serve as a vessel for borrowing a corpse to return the soul.

Her expression while speaking was utterly calm, as if stating something utterly ordinary, yet the Dark Blood Demon felt his hairs stand on end all over.

This corpse‑borrowing soul‑returning technique is his core secret; even his fellow Holy Spirit Sect members don't fully understand the details of his resurrection ability, yet Huo Yutong spoke of it as if it were utterly ordinary, laying bare his entire background.

This feeling is truly terrifying, as if Huo Yutong had seen through everything about him.

Indeed, that's the case.

Tang Wulin wasn't surprised and asked, "Then is there any way to resolve it?"

Of course there is, and there are many.

Huo Yutong smiled faintly.

If it's just the corpse‑borrowing soul‑returning trick, I don't even need to use the abilities of a necromancer.

(End of chapter)