266: Heart of Life
The City of Slaughter, the Killing Field of Hell.A life-and-death battle is going on in the ring, with only one of ten remaining.
Half a year ago, after killing Tang Hao and Tang San, father and son, and giving the Canmeng Ring to Hu Liena, another half a year has passed.
In a whole year, Lu Buliang won ninety-nine battles in the Hell Killing Field.
As long as we win today's game, we will complete the challenge of 100 victories and be qualified to open the Road to Hell.
Compared to when he first came here, Lu Buliang's murderous aura has become extremely powerful, and the momentum created by the fusion of murderous aura and evil aura is even more astonishing.
It is no exaggeration to say that in terms of momentum alone, Lu Buliang can definitely intimidate the other five priests in the Temple of Worship except Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo.
Anyone below the level of Soul Douluo, even those with insufficient willpower, would faint if not careful when facing the resonance of murderous and evil spirits released from Lv Buliang.
This is just an improvement in momentum, not to mention the strength. After Dark A Yin sacrificed his seventh soul ring, his fifth and sixth soul rings also became one hundred thousand year soul rings. The extra reward from the second test of the Evil God also increased the age of all soul rings by five thousand years.
In addition, the evil energy accumulated from the killing in the second half of the year has allowed the Shadow Mask Bone to grow, and its age has increased from 90,000 years to 100,000 years, turning it into a 100,000-year-old external soul bone. The characteristic of "Evil Thoughts Devouring" has become the Shadow Mask Bone's second soul bone skill.
The Shadow Mask Bone's first soul bone skill, Evil Thought Fusion, can forcibly perform a martial soul fusion skill with any evil thought body or dark body.
The second soul bone skill of Shadow Mask Bone is Devouring Evil Thoughts. Not only can it devour its own evil thoughts and transform them into energy, but it can also devour the evil thoughts of the other party and transform them into its own energy. No matter whose evil energy is devoured, when the evil energy in the body is overdrawn, it will become a kind-hearted existence like the Virgin Mary.
Lu Buliang has mastered the ability of the 'Heart of Life', the external soul bone sacrificed by Dark A Yin, in the past six months.
The first soul bone skill of the Heart of Life, Life Return, can give new life to the shadow of the dead, and allow the life forms of the dark world to appear in any world in a real way.
In other words, with this skill, Lu Buliang can summon life forms from the dark world to assist in combat. All consumption is only related to mental power. The stronger the mental power, the stronger the life forms that can be summoned.
For example, with his current level of mental strength, Lv Buliang is at most an ordinary Titled Douluo. It is not a problem for him to summon any life form below the Titled Douluo level in the dark world.
However, if one wants to summon Tang Hao at the peak state of level 95 to assist in the battle, the mental strength he possesses must be higher than that of a Titled Douluo at level 95.
The second soul bone skill of the Heart of Life is the Ancient Tree of Life. It consumes soul power to create an ancient forest. The breath in the forest can both devour life and give birth to life.
The Ancient Tree of Life is a group-wide skill. The extent of the ancient forest created depends on the density of soul power and the distance that mental power can detect.
Logically speaking, as long as the mental power is enough to cover the entire Douluo Continent, the ancient forest formed by the skill "Ancient Tree of Life" can cover the entire continent.
After the prototype of the first dark world appeared, Lu Buliang discovered that abilities such as the fifth soul ring's two fifth soul skills, Shadow Contract and Shadow Clone, as well as the external soul bone's Heart of Life, the summoning of shadow troops, etc., were all closely related to mental strength.
He already possessed two external soul bones that were both over 100,000 years old, but he did not have a head soul bone that could truly enhance his mental power.
If he wants to expand the dark world in the future, he will inevitably need huge mental power to support it. Lu Buliang thought that after leaving the City of Slaughter, he should focus on finding the head soul bone.
He had made a clear plan for this before, intending to obtain the head soul bones from the two spiritual soul beasts, the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord and the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.
The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord is said to be the overlord of the Demon Forest in the Sun-Moon Continent. Currently, the Sun-Moon Continent has not collided with the Douluo Continent, so it is impossible to go to the Demon Forest to look for the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord.
Just when Lu Buliang was worried about his head soul bone, good news came from the two hundred ghost soldiers who were sent to the Xingdou Great Forest to search for the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm a year ago.
To the north of the Star Dou Great Forest, on the sea leading to the Far North, dozens of ghost soldiers intercepted the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm that was floating from the Far North to the Star Dou Great Forest.
The original novel said that the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm escaped to the Star Dou Great Forest and was willing to have its energy absorbed by those powerful soul beasts in order to survive. As a result, the soul bones of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm were damaged, and no soul bones were produced when it was sacrificed to Huo Yuhao.
If it was the state before the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest, the energy in its body should be intact and able to produce soul bones.
That is a million-year-old soul beast with spiritual attributes. The soul bone it produces is most likely a head soul bone, and it is a million-year-old soul bone related to spiritual amplification.
With such a soul bone blessing, do you still need to worry about lack of mental strength?
After absorbing the head soul bone produced by the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Lu Buliang could be completely sure that he was definitely the strongest being in the entire continent in terms of mental power.
With a million years of spiritual power as support, let alone summoning Tang Hao from the dark world, even summoning Tang Hao's grandfather, the ninety-nine-level Tang Chen, would be easy in the future.
Lu Buliang was fortunate that he remembered the description in the original book and knew that the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm would drift from the Far North to the mainland. This was how he intercepted the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm before the ferocious beasts of the Beast God Di Tian.
This was also thanks to Dark A Yin's sacrifice to become the seventh soul ring, which allowed the Shadow Evil God's martial soul to completely merge with Lu Buliang, while greatly enhancing the capabilities of the Ghost Shadow Corps.
The number of ghost soldiers that can now be summoned has increased from two hundred to two thousand.
Because of this, Lu Buliang was able to send nearly two thousand ghost soldiers to search for the trace of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm along the ocean leading to the Far North in the next six months.
According to the vision shared by the ghost soldiers, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm has been sent to the dark world and is being imprisoned in a jungle.
Controlled by the dark energy, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was unable to commit suicide and kept crying, "Don't kill me. I just woke up and haven't done anything bad, nor have I eaten anyone. I'm a very good supplement, and the energy in my body is more valuable than the spirit ring. As long as you don't kill me, I can give you endless energy for your cultivation, wuwuwu——"
Turning off the God's perspective of the dark world, Lu Buliang was also thinking about how to deal with this million-year-old soul beast in order to maximize benefits.
Hell's killing field, on the ring.
Among the ten people who walked onto the stage, nine of them surrounded Lü Buliang without any prior agreement. However, at this moment, Lü Buliang's mind was completely not on this final killing.
After all, his current strength is enough to kill an ordinary Titled Douluo.
After leaving the City of Slaughter and obtaining the Domain of the God of Slaughter, and replacing two of the first four spirit rings with hundred thousand year spirit rings, your strength will definitely become even stronger.
If he absorbs the million-year soul bones of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and the million-year soul bones of the two dragon kings of ice and fire, plus the eighth soul ring, his soul power level will directly soar to level ninety. He can then obtain the ninth soul ring and become a Titled Douluo.
When he thought of this, Lu Buliang was already obsessed with what kind of title he should give himself after his soul power broke through level 90. He had no time to pay attention to the nine opponents who surrounded him.
Seeing that Lu Buliang looked absent-minded, a Fallen One winked at the other eight people, and it seemed that they had reached some kind of consensus. The nine of them released their soul power and martial spirits almost at the same time.
Knives, guns, hammers, halberds, bows, as well as ghost leopards, mammoths, killer ant kings, and bloodthirsty giant bats.
Weapon spirits, beast spirits, and evil spirits, at the moment when the nine people completed the release of their spirits, huge soul power auras blended together. From the terrifying pressure, it can be seen that these nine people are of different ages, but they are all strong people above the Soul Saint level.
"Go!" A tall and thin Fallen shouted, and rushed towards Lu Buliang together with the other eight people, bringing with them gusts of strong wind formed by the fusion of soul power and murderous aura. The attack angle was extremely tricky, and every move was aimed at Lu Buliang's temple, neck and heart.
At this time, Lu Buliang also came back to his senses from his reverie about the title. He glared, and a murderous and evil aura burst out of his eyes at the same time, forming a terrifying shock wave.
The nine opponents who pounced on him were like being suddenly hit by a jack. They were impacted by the momentum released by Lu Buliang. All of them were knocked away, their bodies swollen. Three of them even fainted from the strong shock of evil energy and murderous intimidation.
They were all Fallen with a record of 80 victories, and their strength was unquestionable. However, they still could not withstand the simultaneous oppression of Lü Buliang's murderous aura and evil aura, which was enough to prove how outstanding Lü Buliang had become in terms of momentum.
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Seeing three opponents being knocked unconscious, the remaining six were also trembling all over.
In fact, they didn't want to fight to the death with Lu Buliang at all. When they signed up for the competition, it was not their intention. Instead, they were controlled by Lu Buliang's illusion, so they participated in the massacre in a daze.
"Kill them—"
"Hurry up, cut them into pieces, we want to see blood splattered on the killing field—"
Similar shouts echoed in the audience. Those degenerates who enjoyed watching others fight each held a glass of Bloody Mary in their hands.
After taking a sip, he wiped the corner of his mouth and shouted at Lu Buliang and the other six Fallen who were fighting to the death in the arena of the killing field, "Kill——".
The audience was filled with hopeless degenerates who worshipped violence and the art of blood, except, of course, Hu Liena, who, like Lü Buliang, aimed to acquire the realm of the God of Killing.
Half a year ago, after receiving the Canmeng Ring from Lu Buliang, Hu Liena began to participate in death fights in the Hell Killing Field more and more frequently. After half a year, she has participated in a total of fifty death fights, and her current record is sixty-five wins.
Thanks to the phantom group granted by the Canmeng Ring, and the assistance of Shi Nian's seven illusion-type soul skills, Hu Liena was able to win so easily. Over time, she became dependent on the Canmeng Ring.
Whenever she was defeated, she would always call upon the darkness deep in her heart and summon the phantom soldiers of the Phantom Corps to fight together. As a result, the shadow contract remaining in Hu Liena's body had been activated, and the word "shadow" moved from her forehead to her left chest.
Now Hu Liena can gain powerful strength by borrowing the darkening of the Shadow Contract like Zhu Zhuqing, and dark energy has also been generated in her body that is undetectable to outsiders.
Hu Liena was being assimilated by the darkness little by little. In the following six months, she told Lu Buliang all the secrets related to Bibi Dong without reservation.
It was also when she became dependent on the Canmeng Ring that Hu Liena had already developed deep feelings for Lu Buliang. Of course, this was only one-sided. After all, Lu Buliang did not get anything important or feel anything from Hu Liena, so naturally no feelings developed.
"Kill them--" A fallen man in the audience finished the Bloody Mary in the glass and threw the glass towards the ring in the killing field.
With a bang, the cup happened to fall at Lu Buliang's feet, causing the already tense atmosphere on the ring to suddenly freeze, as if everything had stopped, and the sound of his heartbeat could be clearly heard.
Ever since he obtained the external soul bone, the Heart of Life, Lu Buliang's heart has been wrapped in a heart-shaped blue-gold bone-like object.
The blue-silver vines wrapped around the surface of this heart-shaped bone object not only constantly release the breath of life to repair Lu Buliang's body, but also protect his heart, completely concealing the beating of his heart, so that the beating sound of the heart cannot be heard at all.
The heartbeats on the ring came from the six opponents. At the moment the cup smashed under Lu Buliang's feet, their heartbeats accelerated, as if they saw the scene of themselves being torn apart.
The Heart of Life, the external soul bone at the position of Lu Buliang's heart, suddenly flashed with blue-gold light, and the second soul bone skill "Ancient Tree of Life" was activated.
The huge arena of nearly fifty meters in height was shaken violently by a certain force. Countless blue-silver vines shot up from the floor of the arena, becoming thicker and taller as they entwined with each other, and finally transformed into towering trees tens of meters high.
In just a blink of an eye, the arena of the Hell Killing Fields had turned into an ancient forest. Darkness and the breath of life formed a magic mist that lingered in it, making the forest look extremely gloomy and weird, as if every big tree was a deadly weapon, faintly revealing a hint of murderous intent.
Except for Lu Buliang who was standing in the forest, the other six opponents had their limbs and necks entangled by countless thick tree roots in the forest and were hanging high in the air.
The dark energy devoured the vitality of the six opponents, and they were killed in an endless feeling of suffocation.
The Shadow Tomb field was activated, and Lu Buliang sealed the shadows of the six opponents' corpses hanging high in the forest into the field.
As the ancient forest turned into a black and gray light and dissipated, the entire arena also changed from the appearance of a dark forest to a arena.
What the audience saw was only Lu Buliang standing quietly on the ring. The bodies of the other six opponents, including the three who had been knocked unconscious earlier, a total of nine people, all disappeared.
After the life-and-death battle of ten to one, Lu Buliang finally won his hundredth battle and was qualified to open the road to hell.
The fallen in the audience were stunned by the ancient forest. Even Hu Liena was speechless. During the elite competition, Lv Buliang didn't seem to have used this skill. Was it a new ability?
After a moment of silence, crazy cheers rang out from the audience. They felt extremely honored to be the witnesses of the hundred victories.
"Congratulations to the Fallen No. 500 for successfully challenging for the 100th victory. Your powerful strength makes other Fallen feel terrified, which means that you have earned your own place in the City of Slaughter."
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