The Asura God really wanted to give that face wearing an evil smile a loud slap.
He answered lightly: "It's not as if you don't know the trials of my Slaughter City. As long as one obtains the Domain of the God of Slaughter, they all have the chance to receive my inheritance.
"Besides, that Tang Chen has taken several decades and still hasn't even passed the eighth trial. Can't I change people?"
The God of Evil clicked his tongue twice and said: "Asura, among the five of us, you're the thickest-skinned. Using such a shameless method to select an inheritor, whoever can obtain your Domain of the God of Slaughter isn't some peerless genius? Then you pick from among them, and when you finally meet a better one you can still switch anytime…"
The Asura God said coldly: "That Tang Chen couldn't pass the eighth trial even after several decades. It shows he has no destiny to become a god. What's wrong with me abandoning him? You're not thinking of snatching this kid from me, are you?"
His gaze fearlessly glared at the God of Evil.
The other three also turned their gazes over, all somewhat puzzled.
The Goddess of Life asked in confusion: "Evil, are you also planning to choose an inheritor?"
The God of Evil did not answer directly. He smiled and said: "Let's first see what result the High Priest can calculate before speaking further."
No one said anything more. Their gazes all fell upon the screen on the wall, watching Jiang Chen crossing the tribulation inside, strange light occasionally erupting in their eyes.
A trace of worry flashed through the Asura God's eyes. He had originally been a little happy at being able to claim Jiang Chen early, but after hearing the High Priest's words, his mood immediately grew heavy.
Although he had spoken nicely, saying this was a test the Heavenly Dao gave Jiang Chen, how was this not also a kind of punishment?
If the High Priest calculated something unfavorable toward Jiang Chen, what should he do?
Moreover, what Jiang Chen had said to him before was that the rewards were actually given by that existence called the System who transcended the God Realm.
Being able to shield the senses of all the deities of the God Realm, its strength was probably far beyond theirs.
Previously, the five of them on the committee had blocked the divine senses of the gods from probing the Douluo Continent after discussing it a little. They worried that among the gods there would be quite a few who wanted to snatch the inheritor and thus trigger turmoil, so they sealed off probing.
The God of Evil suddenly asked in puzzlement: "There's still one thing I don't understand. Why couldn't we sense this kid during the previous few law fluctuations?"
His gaze, however, looked toward the Asura God.
The Asura God said lightly: "Who knows? Perhaps the Heavenly Dao laws deliberately didn't want us to discover him."
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Douluo Continent, atop that small hill.
When the final nine thunder tribulations began, Jiang Chen had already released his martial soul in advance.
Those previous dozens of thunder tribulations had actually not forced his martial soul out.
He released his first soul skill. Black, ferocious armor covered his entire body, and the defense of his zombie body was also raised to the maximum by him.
Actually, his seventh soul skill, Martial Soul True Body, could still greatly enhance his defensive power, and the eighth soul skill also possessed extremely strong defensive power.
But he did not dare release them immediately.
Because he discovered that after the soul rings upgraded to five hundred thousand years, even the first soul skill's soul power consumption multiplied several times.
Wanting to support a five-hundred-thousand-year soul skill, the amount of soul power consumed was extremely terrifying.
Although the power had also greatly increased, this was not yet the final thunder tribulation. He did not dare use up all his trump cards.
With the enormous soul power currently in his body, if it was completely exhausted, even with those soul-power-recovering pills, it would be difficult to recover in a short time.
The ninth-to-last bolt of lightning descended. That blood-colored lightning contained terrifying pressure and power.
Bibi Dong's pretty face changed color. She already understood Jiang Chen's pattern of crossing tribulations very well. Those previous bolts of lightning were merely appetizers; these final nine bolts were the truly deadly ones.
Jiang Chen's expression was grave as he brandished Lightning Fist, shattering the might of that red lightning.
Afterward, this lightning seemed to possess spirituality. After dispersing, it surged toward Jiang Chen's body from all directions once more.
But having already been shattered by Jiang Chen once, the might attached to the lightning had weakened a great deal, greatly reducing Jiang Chen's pressure.
His Lightning Fist kept swinging. This fist technique had no fixed forms. As long as one comprehended its essence, one could freely unleash it.
Having the fist in one's heart, formless surpasses formed.
That red lightning burrowed into Jiang Chen's body like flood dragons and fierce beasts, wantonly destroying.
Jiang Chen's Lightning Fist was like iron chains, straining to lock down these flood dragons and fierce beasts one by one, converting them for his own use.
"Do any of you feel that his movements are a bit strange? They look completely without pattern, yet seem to contain supreme principles." The God of Evil, who was observing, suddenly asked.
Nonsense, this daddy discovered it long ago… the Asura God roared in his heart. He nodded slightly: "It is a bit strange, but I can't understand it."
"I also can't understand it." The beautiful Goddess of Life answered the same.
"This human kid is truly strange. There are so many things about him that we can't see through." The God of Destruction finally rarely spoke a sentence.
At the beginning he had looked down on Jiang Chen the most, but now he had no choice but to admit that this human little fellow was a bit mysterious.
Associating it with the enormous crisis the High Priest had spoken of, a trace of brutal light flashed in the depths of his eyes.
The Asura God warily glanced at the God of Destruction. It was not that the God of Destruction had leaked anything, but that his personality made the Asura God involuntarily become vigilant.
The God of Destruction was ambitious, wanting to control the entire God Realm and become the sole God Realm Emperor.
His ambition was known to the others.
It was just that the God of Evil's status and strength were a bit higher than the God of Destruction's, so the five members of the God Realm Committee took the God of Evil as the leader.
What the Asura God worried about was that if the High Priest calculated a result unfavorable to Jiang Chen, would the God of Destruction break the law while knowing it and make a move against Jiang Chen, a human?
This was the inheritor he had chosen, one he was two hundred percent satisfied with.
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Douluo Continent. After the fifth-to-last thunder tribulation, Jiang Chen felt he was almost unable to hold on.
When the next tribulation fell, he would definitely enter a state of flesh and blood flying again.
"Screw it." He lowly roared. The eighth soul ring lit up, and all the soul power in his body was completely exhausted.
A heavy stone coffin about two and a half meters long and nearly one meter wide smashed down beside his feet. The entire mountaintop trembled once.
Enduring the sensation that his whole body was about to fall apart, he drilled inside, then nimbly pulled the coffin lid that was like a door panel shut.
Bibi Dong's peerlessly beautiful face stiffened. She stared in astonishment as Jiang Chen suddenly summoned a coffin and then drilled inside without the slightest hesitation.
What is Little Chen doing? Bibi Dong's mind was full of questions.
So his eighth soul skill is actually this… the Asura God thought, his expression a bit strange.
The Goddess of Kindness covered her mouth and lightly laughed a few times. "This little fellow's soul skills are quite interesting."
After entering the stone coffin, Jiang Chen immediately took out soul-power-recovering pills and swallowed them. His movements were smooth and without the slightest drag.
At the same time, his Eye of Heavenly Punishment activated. His gaze pierced through the coffin lid and looked toward the tribulation clouds above that had already turned purple.
Those tribulation clouds were still rolling, yet the heavenly tribulation was delayed in falling.
Jiang Chen felt that the sensation of being locked onto by the heavenly tribulation on his body disappear. Only then did he let out a breath, surprise appearing on his face.
The soul skill he had extremely despised when it first appeared last night actually possessed such a heaven-defying effect.
It could even shield the heavenly tribulation's lock on him.
While surprised, Jiang Chen's heart was again very puzzled. This heavenly tribulation was produced by the Heavenly Dao laws. Could a mere soul skill shield the perception of the Heavenly Dao laws?
"Perhaps it can't be separated from the System." This thought flashed through his mind.
Seeing that the tribulation clouds remained there and did not disperse, Jiang Chen simply recovered soul power and injuries inside the coffin.
Since he couldn't avoid it, then he would recover to peak condition before enduring it.
With this soul skill, in the future when crossing tribulations he no longer needed to fear being smashed to pieces by the heavenly tribulation at the end.
He grabbed a handful of pills and swallowed them into his stomach. His cultivation method operated with all its might, rapidly absorbing that enormous medicinal power and converting it into his own soul power.
At the same time, some of the injuries he had suffered on his body were also rapidly recovering.
Within the God Realm Committee, the God of Evil revealed a puzzled expression and said: "Strange. I actually can't see through that coffin soul skill of his. Divine sense also can't penetrate it."
Hearing him say this, the others were all extremely surprised. With God King-level divine sense, they actually couldn't penetrate a stone coffin?
The others, including the Asura God, all projected their divine senses toward the Douluo Continent, landing upon that stone coffin.
What shocked them was that the stone coffin generated by this soul skill could truly isolate their divine senses.
At this moment, although they could see this stone coffin, they did not know what Jiang Chen inside was doing.
"Asura, what's going on with this?" The God of Destruction looked toward the Asura God.
Jiang Chen's eighth soul ring had been bestowed by the Asura God. They naturally believed the Asura God understood this skill.
The Asura God shook his head: "I don't know either. I hadn't carefully observed this soul skill of his before."
Half an hour later, Jiang Chen broke out of the coffin.
After being held back for half an hour, that heavenly tribulation seemed to have become enraged. The instant he appeared, it immediately bombarded down.
Jiang Chen cursed once and subconsciously raised the coffin to block.
The stone coffin above his head violently trembled, yet actually tenaciously blocked it.
Jiang Chen was a bit astonished. This fourth-to-last bolt of lightning, even if he used his hard fists to block it, he estimated his skin would split and flesh would burst.
Yet this stone coffin actually blocked it.
That purple-tinged lightning bombarded the stone coffin, then dispersed and surged toward Jiang Chen's body again.
Purple lightning entered his body. Jiang Chen's soul power was abundant, so he did not bother dealing with those lightning bolts. Instead, he put down the stone coffin and carefully observed.
He flipped the stone coffin over and stroked the place that had just been bombarded.
There were only a few hair-thin cracks there. Overall it was still very sturdy.
Only then did Jiang Chen understand the sentence describing this soul skill: possessing extremely strong defensive power.
This defensive power already rivaled his own hardest bones.
With this soul skill, he no longer needed to directly use his body to endure the bombardment of the heavenly tribulation. He could directly absorb the energy after the heavenly tribulation's attack.
An extremely rich smile appeared on his face. This soul skill that he had extremely despised at the beginning now repeatedly exceeded his expectations, continuously giving him surprises.
In the distance, Bibi Dong sensed Jiang Chen's joy and couldn't help but smile as well.
A great weight in her heart finally fell.
She also thought of it. With this stone coffin, the difficulty for Jiang Chen to resist the final few bolts of thunder would greatly decrease.
When the thunder fell, the terrifying power it carried was borne by the stone coffin. Only that violent energy entered Jiang Chen's body, making things much easier for him all of a sudden.
After continuously blocking two more heavenly tribulations, this stone coffin finally shattered and dispersed into unreclaimable soul power.
This soul skill could not be released again in a short time.
The final heavenly tribulation fell. Jiang Chen's condition, however, was much better than when dealing with the final tribulation in previous crossings.
The soul power in his body had already been completely consumed by the lightning that had entered. He could no longer unleash soul skills.
Seven-colored lightning shining with radiance bombarded down. Jiang Chen condensed a Thunder Giant Dragon with Lightning Fist from within his body and met the seven-colored lightning head-on.
Immediately after, he stepped on empty air, soared into the sky following behind the Thunder Giant Dragon, brandished the remaining coffin lid of the eighth soul skill, and fiercely swung it to strike upward.
That condensed Thunder Giant Dragon only lasted an instant before dispersing. Then the coffin lid contacted that seven-colored thunder.
Bibi Dong's jade hand lightly covered her red lips, her delicate body slightly trembling.
Regarding this final bolt of thunder, she had a strong premonition that even if she used all her methods, she would be unable to block it.
She knew that although Jiang Chen's body was abnormal, he had only just broken through to the Spirit Douluo realm. How could he endure such an attack?
This final bolt of lightning's power was probably already approaching the attack power of a Rank 99 Limit Douluo.
Jiang Chen didn't even last a second. The coffin lid in his hand was sent flying. His body was directly bombarded by that violent lightning like a cannonball smashing onto the mountaintop.
Bibi Dong's heart pounded wildly, almost jumping out of her throat.
She judged in her heart that this should be the final bolt of lightning.
Indeed, under her expectant gaze, those tribulation clouds finally dispersed.
She did not hesitate for even a moment. Purple-glowing wings drilled out from her back. Her figure flickered several times and arrived at that small hill opposite that had become much shorter again.
Before her was a deep pit. Jiang Chen had actually been driven into the depths of the mountain rock by that final strike.
"Little Chen." Bibi Dong anxiously called out once.
She squatted down and reached in to feel around a few times before finally touching Jiang Chen's arm.
Crackling. Terrifying lightning energy surged up along her arm.
The sleeve on her arm exploded with a bang, shattering all the way to her shoulder.
A slender, pure-white soft arm was exposed under the sunlight. The skin was smooth and firm, just like that of a teenage girl in the flower of youth.
"Nngh~" That violent lightning rushed into Bibi Dong's body, making her unable to help but let out a pained hum.
But she still did not let go. Her face grew increasingly anxious.
Just a single contact was already this painful. She could hardly imagine how terrifying the pain Jiang Chen had endured was.
She clenched her teeth tightly. Soul power surged as she forcefully dragged Jiang Chen out of the deep pit.
After dragging Jiang Chen out, she rapidly withdrew her arm.
In just that brief moment, quite a bit of lightning had already invaded her body.
Her pretty face was slightly pale. Under internal vision, she saw a mass of seven-colored lightning rampaging everywhere inside her.
She urged her soul power, wanting to force this lightning out, yet discovered that this lightning was abnormally troublesome and was actually rapidly consuming her soul power.
Her expression turned ruthless. All the soul power in her body was mobilized and charged toward that violent lightning energy. Only then did she force this lightning out of her body.
The colorful lightning shot out from her fair arm and once again entered the body of Jiang Chen beside her.
Bibi Dong's pretty face was pale. Her gaze followed that mass of lightning as it fell upon Jiang Chen.
In just an instant, that pale complexion actually rapidly reddened.
Just like that section of sleeve of hers earlier, Jiang Chen's clothes likewise could not withstand such violent lightning energy.
That perfect flesh body emanating masculine aura had strands of colorful electric arcs occasionally shooting out from it from time to time. The body radiated a faint luster, glittering and shining like a rare treasure, actually making Bibi Dong unable to shift her gaze for a moment.
This time, Jiang Chen's body was not tattered, nor was it charred black. This perfect body as if meticulously carved naturally emanated a different kind of alluring power.
Jiang Chen had been struck senseless by that final blow. His head continued to spin. He could no longer care about the lightning rampaging inside his body.
Fortunately, that lightning could no longer cause him too much harm.
Then he felt someone pull him up.
He seemed to still hear Bibi Dong's pained hum.
The dizziness in his head gradually faded. He slowly opened his eyes and at a glance saw Bibi Dong kneeling beside him, staring at him.
"Teacher, why is your face so red?" Jiang Chen clearly had not yet sensed his own situation and asked straight out.
"Ah." Bibi Dong cried out in alarm. Her face seemed to suddenly rise with two clusters of flame.
She immediately turned her body away.
"The afternoon sun is too fierce. I… I'm just a bit hot." Bibi Dong's voice slightly trembled.
Immediately after, her voice turned serious: "Since you're fine, hurry and put on your clothes. I still have to rush back to handle affairs."
Only then did Jiang Chen discover his own situation. Even his face as thick as a city wall couldn't help but redden. He hurriedly covered his vital areas.
Bibi Dong slightly turned her head and glanced once. Forcing herself to remain calm, her tone appeared extremely unconcerned as she said: "What are you shy about? When you were little, Teacher even helped bathe you. What haven't I seen?"
Saying this, that sudden trace of awkwardness in her heart finally dissipated. She let out a long breath of relief.
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