Dugu Yan paused for a moment before continuing, "Once we leave the range of this poisonous miasma and fight Tang Chen again, I'm afraid I won't be a match for a Limit Douluo."
Although Dugu Yan possessed the ability to easily kill ordinary ten-thousand-year soul beasts,
for a Limit Douluo with a domain, the gap was still quite large—plus Tang San had the toxin-avoiding pearl.
"All three of them have been poisoned by the Poison of Misfortune. That's enough."
With Tang San present, Tang Chen and Bo Saixi were extremely cautious.
There was also the purifying ability of the toxin-avoiding pearl—nobody knew where Tang San had gotten such a thing.
Even if the Poison of Misfortune might not be fatal, as long as it could delay their path to becoming gods, that would be sufficient.
"To be honest, if you do this, Tang San might end up retaliating against the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan later."
The Myriad Demon King had agreed to become Dugu Yan's soul spirit mainly because both were poison-attribute, and secondly because he had been severely injured before and didn't know how long it would take to fully recover.
He simply couldn't catch up to the Lord's counterattack plan. Rather than that, it was better to take a gamble.
Moreover, in terms of talent, Dugu Yan was quite good—becoming a god wasn't impossible. Most importantly, Dugu Yan was Ning Rongrong's person.
"I inquired from Qian Renxue's side," Dugu Yan said. "The clan has already pulled the important members back inside. The rest are all those who signed life-and-death contracts—personnel running the merchant association."
"With the current relationship between the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan and them, even if I don't make a move, they will still retaliate."
"Besides, when I came out, Senior Lou Gao had just advanced to ninth-rank soul engineer."
"Soul tools..." The Myriad Demon King fell silent. "To be honest, if not for the plan in preparation, we would directly destroy this kind of thing that threatens soul beasts. Otherwise, soul beasts might one day face extinction."
"Perhaps." Dugu Yan sighed without arguing. "If soul beasts no longer produce soul rings, and humans don't need soul rings to cultivate,"
"then the relationship between both sides wouldn't be one of predator and prey, and there probably wouldn't be natural enemies either. Things could improve a lot. Aren't we also working toward that?"
"By the way, this is what Rongrong told me." Dugu Yan gave a light smile.
"That little girl?" Thinking of Ning Rongrong made the Myriad Demon King angry. "Damn it, give me back my ten-thousand-year cultivation and my time divine ability."
"Later, go find Qian Renxue. Isn't she avenging Xue Qinghe?"
"You humans really play fancy games." The Myriad Demon King complained.
Dugu Yan pretended not to hear the Myriad Demon King's complaint.
The toxins permeating the city converged toward Dugu Yan. Even toxins from farther away began gathering here.
More than ten minutes later,
in the Barak Kingdom, everything that carried poison had completely turned into ordinary objects.
Dugu Yan's strength broke through another level, reaching level 95.
...
"Great Sumeru Hammer Ring Explosion—Ninth Soul Ring."
"Explode!"
Eight black and one red—the last soul ring, Tang Chen's strongest one—directly detonated.
All the energy converged onto the Haotian Hammer.
"Divine skill—Angelic Judgment."
The sword light directly tore through Tang Chen's martial soul true body. Tang Chen's martial soul true body was split in two by the phantom of the six-winged angel.
"Fifth soul skill—" Qian Renxue appeared behind Tang Chen in a flash and severed his head.
Qian Renxue didn't glance at it any further. She took out a coffin from the soul tool in her hand.
She tossed Tang Chen's body and head inside, then put it away.
"Tang San has been defeated, Tang Chen is dead!"
"The human obsession of the angel toward Asura has been removed." Qian Renxue gazed at the sky, her tone calm.
As she spoke, behind Qian Renxue, the holiness of the six-winged angel martial soul began to peel away. The white feathers were invaded by pitch black. What was once holy was now filled with oppression and gloom.
Her originally level 96 soul power broke through to level 98 at this moment.
"You're here." Qian Renxue turned her head to look.
Dugu Yan arrived beside Qian Renxue and looked her up and down.
"Where's Tang Chen?"
"Dead!"
"I see..." Dugu Yan nodded. "I hope you won't go back on what you promised me."
"I won't. Since the Star Luo Empire dared to do it, there's no need for them to wash it away."
"How is Senior Dugu doing?"
Qian Renxue was a bit curious. In fact, she was quite surprised by Dugu Yan's change.
"Mm, I've been out for a while now. He hadn't woken up yet at that time." Dugu Yan sighed. "He probably couldn't handle such a huge blow. It's the first time I've seen Grandfather like this."
"After taking over, I plan to declare war on the Star Luo Empire."
"What about your identity? How will you handle it? You wouldn't..."
"Xue Qinghe's wife—with Xue Ke's acknowledgment, plus Tang Chen's head, and Xue Beng's failed rebellion—these added together are enough."
"You're not thinking about yourself?" Dugu Yan's mouth twitched.
"Just like Rongrong said, after becoming a god and wanting bloodline inheritance, isn't it just a matter of creating one?"
Dugu Yan: "..."
Ning Rongrong had corrupted another child.
"You're the strange one in this situation!" Qian Renxue's eye twitched.
"Uh, Grandfather is still young. He should have the energy to continue the Dugu clan's bloodline." Dugu Yan fell silent. "If that really doesn't work, just do like you said and create one. The current me still has some confidence in becoming a god."
Qian Renxue: "..."
You're not much better than me—six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Also, that Ning Rongrong doesn't seem to plan on... either.
Uh, how come none of the people who can play together are normal!
After thinking for a moment, Dugu Yan spoke up: "Do you think Xue Ke's side— I mean her identity—really has no issues?"
Emperor Xue Ye was Xue Ke's father. You killed her father and seized her country.
"When the time comes, I will revive Emperor Xue Ye."
"Transforming from the swan martial soul to the Emerald Swan martial soul, plus a full set of Emerald Swan soul bones."
"With Xue Ke's current talent, reaching Title Douluo won't be a problem."
"This can be considered compensation. I can't offer anything else!"
You have to know that back then, Bi Ji was holding a hoe and shovel, digging and cursing "bang bang bang" while excavating the soul bones of her dead clansmen from the ground to give to Xue Ke.
Low soul power indeed makes it impossible to become a Title Douluo, but that's not absolute.
As a god-level "civilization" backed by Gu Yuena, forging a trash swan martial soul to the point where it can cultivate to Title level is simply a matter of course.
Since martial souls seem to be related to the Dragon God fragments,
no one understands martial souls better than Gu Yuena, one of the Dragon God's split bodies.
Yes, she understands them extremely well!
After chatting idly for a moment, Dugu Yan returned to the main topic: "Qian Renxue, if Heaven Dou attacks the Star Luo Empire, I can help you eliminate their million-strong army over there."
"Don't be so bloodthirsty." Qian Renxue's eye twitched.
Others might not know, but didn't Qian Renxue know?
Dugu Yan had some issues in her heart before. Now, attacking the Star Luo Empire,
creating an unparalleled poison demon—if Dugu Yan really turned into that, with Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan's relationship, she might end up getting chopped to death by Ning Rongrong.
Don't look at Ning Rongrong being cunning and scheming, but she really has no faults when it comes to her own people. A large number of unparalleled experts in the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan are basically all related to Ning Rongrong.
"Um, really, when two armies clash, you don't have to kill them all. Even prisoners of war are good labor. Just disarm them appropriately." Qian Renxue wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, really not wanting to see an unparalleled demon born.
"Mm, alright!" Dugu Yan nodded thoughtfully. "If the killing intent is too strong, Rongrong probably won't be happy either."
Qian Renxue: "..."
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(End of chapter)