chapter 3 part 1
Chapter 3: Nine Treasures Glazed Tile!
Author: Fu Hejun
His home was destroyed, his family annihilated, and the massive clan vanished overnight like smoke. For a mere six-year-old boy, such a turn of events felt as if the sky had fallen... Fortunately, people on the Douluo Continent mature early, and even at six, the boy already understood many things.
After several days of endless tears, grief, and helplessness, the boy finally pulled himself together.
He swore to take revenge!
At this moment, Ning Fengzhi, who was watching the video, saw the boy's lost and helpless appearance and felt a secret pang of anxiety. He had subconsciously ignored that this was something that happened in the past. He thought to himself, "Silly child, come to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect! As long as you come to your father, revenge will be nothing more than a wave of the hand."
If Ye Cheng's Martial Soul truly were the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda plus the Flying Rainbow Sword, a Twin Martial Soul with a perfect offense-and-support configuration, then he truly would choose to seek refuge with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and his biological father. But unfortunately, the video was fabricated. In reality, his Martial Soul was merely the product of a failed mutation, and worst of all, he had no innate spirit power.
In such a situation, what good would it do for a good-for-nothing like him to go to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect? At best, he would just be a freeloader. As for revenge, he could forget about it.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would never go to great lengths for a good-for-nothing!
Nor would Ning Fengzhi mobilize the sect's resources to eradicate a faction for a lover he had no feelings for, or for a good-for-nothing son. After all, he had too many sons.
Unless he had feelings for that lover, or if that son had value and was worth the effort.
Otherwise, revenge would be a pipe dream.
The video continued—
After the boy resolved to take revenge, the scenes in the video began to fast-forward, with only a few fragments constantly flashing by.
Among them were scenes of the boy diligently practicing swordsmanship every day, day in and day out for ten years, regardless of spring, summer, autumn, or winter!
There were also scenes of the boy traveling the world, entering deep mountains and ancient forests to fight fierce Soul Beasts!
He also journeyed to the Extreme North Land, where white snow and glaciers covered everything, battling against the bitter cold!
And he even ventured into the vast and boundless ocean, commanding schools of fish!
He directly faced towering waves, fierce winds, and torrential rain!
He struggled against nature!
Just a few dozen fragments flashed by, enough to show how magnificent the boy's experiences truly were.
Who knows how many details were omitted?
When the scene reappeared at the end, the boy had already grown into an adult.
Dressed in white robes, with his hair tied up and fluttering, he was dashing and elegant, truly like an immortal!
This young man named Ye Cheng was now twenty-six years old.
The scene was set in a certain sea area.
Standing in the vast and boundless great sea, he regarded the surrounding surging waves as nothing. Dressed in white robes, he walked on the water, holding a long sword with a white jade hilt and a crystal blade, like a work of art!
Spirit Ring after Spirit Ring circled around his body, emitting an incredible presence.
Yellow! Yellow! Purple! Purple! Black! Black! Black! Black! Red!
He was now a nine-ring Titled Douluo!
[*Gasp!* Twenty-six years old! A Titled Douluo!]
[And his ninth Spirit Ring is actually a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring!]
[Terrifying, truly terrifying!]
[This Ye Cheng will probably break the record for the youngest Titled Douluo in the Soul Master World!]
[Unbelievable, simply unbelievable!]
[But, what is he doing now?]
[...]
The bullet comments in the Live Broadcast Room constantly flowed by, but they did not affect the person in the video.
Within the surging and vast great sea, huge waves suddenly erupted!
A colossal beast burst out from the waves, carrying monstrous might, its towering wave crest seemingly intending to completely submerge the insignificant human!
Yet, facing the enormous monster that attacked like toppling mountains and overturning seas, the young man in white robes, holding his long sword, with eyebrows like cold blades, merely raised his sword and swung it!
A beam of sword light shot up into the sky!
The furiously attacking waves were split in half.
Also split in half was the colossal beast.
Fresh blood splattered across the ocean, staining the surrounding seawater crimson!
And on the corpse of the beast, which had been split in half, a blood-red Spirit Ring slowly formed!
The Live Broadcast Room exploded again.
[A hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring!]
[This Soul Beast is actually a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast!]
[A hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, killed with a single sword strike...]
[Just what kind of strength does this Ye Cheng possess now?]
[Oh no, what a waste! He's already a Titled Douluo, so this hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring is useless to him.]
[Useless? Have you forgotten he has another Martial Soul?]
[You mean this hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring is for his other Martial Soul?]
[Most likely...]
A series of bullet comments streaked across.
In the video, seeing the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring appearing on the beast's corpse, the young man in white robes put away his long sword, then with a flicker of his body, appeared on the corpse.
The beast's enormous corpse floated on the sea surface, like a massive ship.
Ye Cheng directly sat cross-legged on the corpse, then raised his other hand, and accompanied by a burst of seven-colored glazed light, an exquisite little pagoda appeared.
Unlike the Flying Rainbow Sword, which was fully adorned with nine Spirit Rings, this small pagoda was completely bare, without even a single Spirit Ring.
[Could it be... he wants to directly attach a hundred-thousand-year ring as his very first Spirit Ring?]
[How is that possible?]
[How is it impossible? With his strength as a Titled Douluo, he is fully capable of absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring.]
[*Tsk tsk,* is this the power of a Twin Martial Soul? The first Spirit Ring starts directly at a hundred thousand years... Truly terrifying!]
In the video, Ye Cheng's absorption of the Spirit Ring was very smooth. That hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring was perfectly absorbed in just half an hour, with no complications.
After it was done, his seven-storied pagoda gained a crimson Spirit Ring!
Although it was just one Spirit Ring, to have a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring as the very first one was likely a unique case.
"Not enough! Far from enough!"
Unexpectedly, Ye Cheng in the video frowned as he looked at the seven-storied pagoda in his hand. It seemed the pagoda's transformation hadn't met his expectations, failing to satisfy him.