Chapter 314: The Asura God Trial
Clear Sky Clan's mountain range.
"Father!"
Upon seeing Qian Xunji streak through the sky to return to the mountains, Qian Renchuan hastily went up to greet him.
"Father, are you all right?"
Qian Xunji waved his hand. "It's nothing serious. Xiao Chuan, we're short on time. Take the Shura Demon Sword and you all go back to Spirit Hall right away. I'll stay here to buy you some time."
"But Father…"
Qian Renchuan showed hesitation. Brothers together fight tigers, father and son go into battle shoulder to shoulder. He wanted to remain and fight, thinking that with his current strength, he might at least be of some help.
Qian Xunji barked, "Move it! If you stay, all you'll do is tie my hands!"
"Yes, Father."
Qian Renchuan walked up to the Shura Demon Sword, floating in midair and radiating a thick murderous aura. His Slaughtering Angel spirit emerged automatically in his left hand, and its Killing God Domain grew incomparably excited and searing, with crimson patterns gleaming—an appetite for carnage.
Bloodthirsty, homicidal, terrifying… all manner of negative auras continued radiating from those scarlet lines, intermingling with the blood aura swirling around the Shura Demon Sword, almost compelling Qian Renchuan to grasp it.
Reaching out with his left hand, he took hold of the Shura Demon Sword. Immediately, a dazzling crimson light blazed from the sword-shaped symbol on his brow. His pale hair behind him billowed by itself. Amid that brilliant blood-red glow, the Shura Demon Sword merged into Qian Renchuan's body—just as it did for Tang Chen before him.
A mechanical, majestic voice resounded in Qian Renchuan's mind:
"Asura God Trial initiated. Examinee: Qian Renchuan. First Asura Trial complete—obtained the Killing God Domain through traversing the Hell Road. Reward: Five percent Asura affinity.
Second Asura Trial: Evolve the Killing God Domain into its second stage, Asura Hell. Time limit: Half a year."
Once the voice ended, Qian Renchuan opened his eyes again, their gaze flickering. "Father, the Shura Demon Sword merged into me and something called the Asura God Trial appeared in my mind. Seems I have to accomplish various tests. So this is a god's inheritance?"
Qian Xunji nodded with a faint smile, then his expression turned solemn. "Hurry—get back to Spirit Hall now!"
"Your Holiness…" Tang Yuehua—eyes slightly reddened—hadn't slept in the two and a half days since Qian Xunji battled Bibi Dong, leaving her quite tired, red veins in her eyes.
"Yuehua, I'll be fine."
Qian Xunji's tone gentled. "White Crane, take Yuehua away at once!"
As for Tang Yuehua, Qian Xunji had won her heart by psychological manipulation from the start. In the beginning, he only considered her a tool to produce funds, and eventually to help eradicate Qian Renchuan's Killing God Domain effect—after all, she was from the Tang family, a clan he deemed innately selfish. Yet through these years of Tang Yuehua's unwavering devotion and sacrifice, Qian Xunji developed some sentiment for her, gifting precious heavenly treasures to keep her middle-aged body well-maintained, slowing her aging.
Qian Xunji had been Pope for so many years; he had seen all sorts of people and things. Ning Fengzhi, that sly old fox Soul Saint, feuding with Spirit Hall for years, turning knives behind people's backs. Ning Rongrong, that little Bibi Dong, once she'd defected he still housed her in Spirit Hall, granting suitable status and cultivation resources—so why not Tang Yuehua, who gave him her full devotion?
"Yes, Your Holiness."
White Crane commanded the disciples of the Speed Clan to form a battle formation. As the Speed Clan's patriarch, personally serving as the formation's core, those clan members who'd survived gathered together. Their spirit rings shone one after another, releasing their spirits to create a matrix.
A dozen Sharp-Tailed Swallows fused into one colossal Sharp-Tailed Swallow capable of carrying more than a hundred people, bearing the Clear Sky Clan survivors away, wings spread, heading in the direction of Spirit Hall. With White Crane at the formation's center, their speed could match about one-tenth of Qian Xunji's maximum flight speed.
Elsewhere, the Sea God's divine sense, seeing that Qian Xunji had fled the moment it showed up, found itself powerless to strike from ten kilometers out—even if he possessed the Sea God's Trident, he had no way to effectively attack. It was but a wisp of divine sense, at best infinitely near a god's might, but many techniques remained beyond its means.
Yet, to save face, the Sea God's sense simultaneously contacted the Sea God's true body in the Divine Realm while explaining the abilities of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Bibi Dong.
The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had four techniques. The first was called the Vast Sea Barrier, able to form a triangular space that hid everything inside, including one's aura—entirely invisible, intangible.
The second, the Cosmic Stasis Barrier, was based on spiritual power. It could freeze any target whose spiritual power was up to triple the user's own. But it wouldn't harm them—during the freeze, no attacks were allowed. The user could seize the chance to slip away tens or hundreds of kilometers, and afterward the Vast Sea Shroud would automatically return to them.
The third skill was the Vast Sea Surge, an area-of-effect attack, and the last was the Cosmic Demon-Break, a single-target assault. Regardless how much spirit power the soul master had, all of it would be drawn in. The power of the strike varied accordingly.
Hearing these uses of the Vast Sea Shroud inside her mind, Bibi Dong was inwardly full of envy. Each skill on these rings was top-tier, each a hundred-thousand-year-level effect! The luck that world's Tang San had was unbelievably broken!
Relying on the Vast Sea Shroud and Sea God's Trident, Tang San once used a mere Soul Douluo's power to toy with five of Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo—herself included—in Star Dou Forest, even having the Sea God's divine sense come out to fight on his behalf when things got tight. Now, all of it belonged to her!
With those four abilities, did she need to fear Qian Xunji any further?
The Sea God's sense had already conferred with the Sea God, who now grasped the situation.
So that's it. My main body in the Divine Realm, bored, was about to be replaced. Unexpectedly, there was such a monstrous talent like Bibi Dong, achieving that step.
The Sea God felt some sense of helplessness; no one expected Bibi Dong to actually take that step and seize the Sea God's Heart. If he withheld the godhood, once Bibi Dong reached the God Realm, she could cause him trouble. Though Bibi Dong had sworn enmity to the Angelic and Asura God inheritors, the rules in the God Realm forbid gods from assassinating one another. Besides, now that Bibi Dong had taken that step toward becoming the Rakshasa God, it wasn't guaranteed she'd lose to the new Asura God. Better to leave at once.
"Bibi Dong, I've taught you the Shroud's abilities and the first three Halberd Moves I created. Go inherit my godhood soon."
As the golden glow dispersed, the faint trident symbol on Bibi Dong's forehead turned radiant. Her face was pale, blood and qi both depleted. Plenty of blood had been siphoned by the Vast Sea Shroud, yet being an Extreme Douluo, this level of loss wasn't a big deal.
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