"This is...?"
"This isn't a cultivation system belonging to the Douluo Continent; it's what Yao Lao taught Yang Fan."
By now...
Yang Fan's Dou Qi cultivation was long since no secret to the Douluo Continent. Almost everyone knew that Yang Fan possessed a unique cultivation system that didn't belong to the Douluo Continent and was one of a kind.
"Now we can only watch this kid."
Dugu Bo was now very glad that the one who came was Yang Fan and not Yang Wudi.
If it had been Yang Wudi...
Every single one of them would have been silenced in Tang Chen's domain right now.
"What's so impressive about that?"
"Does he have three heads and six arms more than others?"
Old habits die hard!
Ning Rongrong's witchy temper hadn't mellowed with age.
"Rongrong!"
Ning Fengzhi rebuked her softly with anger.
He looked at Yang Fan, then at his own daughter...
He suddenly had a feeling that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was done for!
He had previously sent Ning Rongrong to Shrek Academy with the true purpose of tempering her, but he hadn't expected that Shrek Academy would face closure due to certain matters.
"Fengzhi."
"I'll go help him!"
As a Level 96 Super Douluo and the only person present besides Yang Fan who could release soul skills, Chen Xin felt somewhat embarrassed standing below watching foolishly at this moment.
Speaking of which...
This matter was originally their Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's business.
"Mm..."
Ning Fengzhi indicated that Chen Xin could rest assured.
Based on the situation they currently grasped, they knew Tang Chen was a lone wolf. At this time, his and Rongrong's safety wasn't an issue.
Not to mention Dugu Bo, this Titled Douluo, standing beside them!
Even without being able to release soul skills, Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison wasn't something ordinary people would dare touch lightly.
Chen Xin appeared on his way to join the battle with a single sword flight technique.
At this moment...
Yang Fan in the high sky had already fought Tang Chen to a white-hot stage.
Tang Chen roared...
The Asura Divine Sword in his hand suddenly swung, and scarlet blood-colored sword energy instantly exploded in the high sky.
Slaughter, annihilation!
Although the entire sky had already lost living creatures due to their battle, the space still gave people a strong sense of deathly stillness.
Swoosh—
Yang Fan struck out with his ruler.
Terrifying fire-colored flame waves rampaged through the sky like floods and beasts, gradually engulfing the Asura sword energy.
The fusion of fiery red and scarlet energies formed a storm tornado over ten meters in diameter roaring in midair. Under the powerful suction, trees five hundred meters from the high sky were uprooted and the moment they were drawn into the tornado, they were instantly pulverized.
"Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin!"
Level 96 of vigorous soul power transformed into thousands of soul power swords at this moment, shooting forth like a pear blossom storm in the rain.
Chen Xin's appearance undoubtedly broke the stalemate between the two.
A flash of scarlet light in the high sky.
When Tang Chen appeared again, he had already arrived less than five meters from Chen Xin.
A sword thrust!
Forced Chen Xin to retreat several hundred meters away.
It was in this fleeting moment when Chen Xin attracted Tang Chen's attention that a flame lotus appeared in Yang Fan's hands.
The lotus displayed four colors: fiery red, orange-red, ice blue, and ice white.
Fused together, it was magnificent!
The current Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus was no longer what it used to be. The addition of the Extreme North Ice Flame had substantially increased the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus's power.
He dared to say...
Now no Titled Douluo would dare to receive this four-colored fire lotus head-on.
"What is this thing?"
The moment the four-colored fire lotus appeared, Tang Chen was also greatly startled, clearly showing instant fear toward the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
"Retreat!"
Dugu Bo, watching from the ground, sensed something was wrong.
Others might not have seen Yang Fan's Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, but he had witnessed the power of this small flame with his own eyes.
Back when it had three colors, it could beat the Titan Giant Ape until it howled, let alone now with an additional color.
Above the high sky!
Yang Fan's wings flapped...
The lotus left his hand while his body also flew backward.
Ha—
The influence of killing intent didn't give Tang Chen any choice to retreat half a step. The long Asura sword in his hand surged with a hundred-meter red light, then cleaved toward the four-colored fire lotus.
From a distance...
It looked as if Tang Chen was wielding a hundred-meter-long sword in battle.
Boom—
The moment the killing sword energy made contact with the four-colored fire lotus, a massive explosion occurred, producing a colorful mushroom cloud.
The sky looked as if a rainbow had been stirred and melted into it.
Dazzling, brilliant!
But beneath this once-in-a-century "beautiful scenery," the forest outside Heaven Dou City had already been ravaged beyond recognition.
Sand and stones flew, trees shattered!
As far as the eye could see, not a single patch of good ground remained.
"Fresh blood!"
"I want fresh blood!"
"I want to drain all of your blood completely."
The bursting Heavenly Flame seemed to have some subtle chemical reaction with the Asura slaughter, making Tang Chen even more violent.
Eyes blood red!
The blood-colored demonic patterns on his face also became more pronounced at this moment.
"Be careful!"
"This old fellow doesn't look right."
The moment Yao Lao's warning sounded, Tang Chen, suspended in midair, suddenly erupted with a ball of scarlet light.
At the same time...
The demonic patterns on the long Asura sword also emitted dazzling red light, and within the radiance, Yang Fan sensed powerful energy that didn't belong to this world.
"Be careful!"
"His strength now is no longer simply that of a Level 99 peak Douluo."
Divine power!
This was the first thought that emerged in his mind.
The Asura Sword was itself the weapon of the Asura God and the key factor in the inheritance of the Asura God position; its blade inherently contained Asura divine power.
This old fellow Tang Chen must have already been able to briefly mobilize this portion of Asura divine power, resulting in the current situation.
"Just leave it to me."
For Yao Lao, Yang Fan had already done well enough.
He could now say that on the Douluo Continent, no Titled Douluo could defeat Yang Fan, even though this kid still hadn't obtained his ninth soul ring.
But the killing power currently erupting from the Asura Divine Sword was clearly beyond Yang Fan's level.
"No!"
"Master, I want to try."
Yang Fan's eyes suddenly became burning and resolute.
This was the first time he encountered divine power on the Douluo Continent; if he didn't try out a portion of Asura's divine power now, who knew when he would encounter it next.
"Be careful!"
Yao Lao understood Yang Fan.
If he didn't have at least seventy percent confidence, this kid would have turned and run rather than confronting it head-on.
"Asura divine power, huh... bring it on."
At this moment, Yang Fan suddenly retracted the Heavy Xuan Ruler in his hand, then spread his arms wide, completely relaxing his entire body.
"What is this kid doing?"
Dugu Bo, Ning Fengzhi, and the others watching from below were completely baffled by this move. Yang Fan's behavior of leaving himself wide open was undoubtedly suicidal in their eyes.
Chen Xin, with his rich combat experience, also wanted to rush up to stop him, but given his distance and the current situation, he clearly couldn't make it in time.
However...
Only Yao Lao knew what Yang Fan was doing.
This kid was burning his soul (spirit)!
Yao Lao knew this kid would learn everything he had, whether essence or dross.
After swallowing the Seven Core Pill and the Luo E Pill, Yang Fan's improvement wasn't just in strength, but also in his originally extraordinary powerful soul power.
His soul power had now entered the Soul State!
The burning of his soul caused his strength to instantly skyrocket, from Seven-Star Dou Huang instantly reaching the level of Nine-Star Dou Huang.
"Annihilation!"
Tang Chen, having mobilized Asura divine power, seemed to awaken, actually using a divine technique at this moment.
Tang Chen pointed the Asura Divine Sword forward!
A seemingly simple and unadorned thrust contained powerful Asura divine power within.
At this moment...
Yang Fan, burning his soul, suddenly opened his eyes. In his black pupils, three flames of different colors seemed to be burning fiercely.
To speak of Yang Fan's strongest trump card.
It wasn't the Soul Breaking Spear, wasn't soul bone skills, wasn't the Heavy Xuan Ruler, and certainly wasn't Dou Techniques.
Yang Fan fused the three Heavenly Flames he could control together once again, only this time what was different was that this Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, fused from three different Heavenly Flames, also contained the fusion of Dou Qi and soul power.
One must know!
The first time he learned this kind of fusion of different things was completed using soul power and Dou Qi.
"This works too?"
This pot of 'random bullsh*t go' directly stunned Yao Lao.
Whether placed on the Douluo Continent or the Dou Qi Continent, it could be considered unique—a scorpion's tail sting.
Asura divine power collided with the 'hodgepodge' version of the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus. Sword energy and flames pressed against each other in the high sky, mutually competing for control of this sky.
Under the collision of the two great energies, the sky seemed to divide into two different camps.
Rolling thunder, pressing dark clouds!
The originally clear sky of thousands of miles turned into something like night in the blink of an eye.
Although Tang Chen mobilized Asura divine power, he himself wasn't a true Level 100 expert. The divine power under his wielding ultimately didn't complete a qualitative transformation.
At this moment...
Yang Fan made a move that surprised everyone.
With his mortal body, he passed through the Asura divine power, and in the instant before the Asura Divine Sword descended, he punched Tang Chen in the chest.
Eightfold force, eightfold stacking!
Each stacking caused a fatal impact to Tang Chen's internal organs.
Pfft—
Tang Chen spat out a mouthful of blood, his body arching as he flew backward at a forty-five degree angle downward, crashing into the ground like a meteor.
Rumble—
The already ruined ground once again produced a ten-meter deep pit. Inside, Tang Chen lay motionless, his chest also showing obvious collapse from the might of Yang Fan's single punch.
"Hahahaha..."
Tang Chen didn't choose to immediately climb out of the deep pit, but laughed wildly without restraint, only in his laughter, the original sharpness and strangeness were gone.
"Who am I? Who am I?"
"I am Tang Chen!"
Tang Chen roared toward the sky, and two lines of bloody tears flowed down his cheeks.
When these two lines of bloody tears flowed down, they also seemed to narrate his later life.
He had it so hard!
Originally recognized by the Asura God, he thought he could already become a god, after all, at that time he had already stood at the peak of the Douluo Continent.
But he hadn't expected...
During the inheritance of the god position, he was invaded by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King, his mind eroded, his body becoming a parasite host for the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King.
"Haha... cough cough cough... ugh..."
Tang Chen spat out another mouthful of old blood. His broken ribs had already pierced his heart; even without the stirring of the eightfold force, his life had reached its end.
"This... has he gone crazy?"
"This old thing was already a lunatic."
"..."
Tang Chen lying in the deep pit didn't pay attention to everyone's gazes, only at the final end of his life, using his last breath to shout loudly: I am Tang Chen!
Accompanied by a furious roar, Tang Chen no longer showed any signs of breathing.
The last drop of bloody tear falling from his chin also meant that Tang Chen's life was hereby ended.
...
The distant Divine Realm.
Boundless immortal energy was dense as if substantial, transforming into various forms in the air, shining with pure white halos.
A palace floated above.
Inside the palace, a tall, thin man stood before a massive crystal about twenty meters long and ten meters high.
What appeared on the crystal was everything happening on the Douluo Continent plane, and the battle between Tang Chen and Yang Fan just now had been completely witnessed by the tall, thin man before him.
"He lost?"
The tall, thin man's eyes were dull.
"How could he possibly lose?"
"The Asura Divine Sword I left on the Douluo Continent possesses a sliver of Asura divine power; even if Tang Chen didn't pass this seat's trial, he shouldn't have lost to such a kid."
The tall, thin man standing before the massive blue crystal was precisely the Asura God.
Divine Realm Law Enforcer, one of the Five Great God Kings!
"We ascended from the Douluo Continent a thousand years ago; it's not impossible that talented individuals are emerging from that continent now."
Another man standing beside him said with a smile.
This one had eyes as clear as the ocean, his smile carrying a vast and boundless quality.
"Spare me!"
"What the Douluo Continent is like, both of us know."
"If there really were cultivators capable of opposing divine power, they would have already stood before us."
The divine power falling into disadvantage clearly made the Asura God begin to lose face.
"But this is the fact, something both of us witnessed with our own eyes."
"Although the partial divine power you left on the Douluo Continent was defeated by a mortal, this isn't necessarily a bad thing for you."
"Haven't you always wanted to leave the Divine Realm and see the world outside Douluo Star?"
The meaning of these words was already self-evident.
Tang Chen's failure meant he couldn't become the inheritor of the Asura God position, so what need was there to occupy the latrine without shitting?
"Easier said than done."
"I currently have no way to contact this kid at all; how do I let him inherit my Asura God position?"
Was it that he didn't want to?
No!
It was that he couldn't do it!
"This... what's going on?"
After a moment of gravity, the Asura God said: "The god position inheritance I left in Slaughter City was originally interfered with by the Rakshasa God, and due to the changes in Slaughter City, the Asura divine power left on the Douluo Continent weakened. Another reason is that a powerful soul elder lives inside this kid's body..."
Various reasons intertwined together, creating the current awkward situation.
"How about... personally descending?"
The ocean-like man said from the side.
"What a joke."
"The Divine Realm has clear regulations absolutely forbidding interference with the lower realms."
The Asura God thought back and forth, and ultimately decided to observe secretly for now.
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