The Rotting Axe Go Game and Angel's Protection
"Done. Come collect the spoils."
A few more classes passed before Su Tianxuan suddenly sent Qian Renxue a message by voice transmission, his voice carrying a distinctly pleased laugh.
The viewers in the past finally breathed a sigh of relief.
With top-tier Soul Master cultivation lessons on one side and top-tier Soul Tool crafting on the other, they had practically wanted to split themselves in two to watch the Sky Screen.
Qian Renxue rose without a moment's hesitation and hurried to the hall.
The cultivation lessons here had helped her improve greatly, but compared with Su Tianxuan, they were hardly worth mentioning.
She knew better than anyone which mattered more.
When she reached the hall, she saw only Su Tianxuan and Ye Guyi there.
Su Tianxuan held an ancient-looking black-and-white Go stone and a piece of metal that gave off a sacred presence.
Beside him, Ye Guyi was asking all sorts of questions about Soul Tool crafting.
Clearly, only the victors were fit to remain here.
"You're here. Come try out these two Level 10 Soul Tools."
Su Tianxuan greeted Qian Renxue with a smile.
The piece of metal was a Level 10 defensive Soul Tool made by Wang Hongchen. It was called Angel's Protection, an upgraded version of Red Dust Protection.
The expressions on Jing Hongchen and the others' faces when they had seen it earlier had been quite a sight.
It was as though something important of theirs had been remade into something entirely different.
And the person who had done it was their own descendant.
Angel's Protection had much the same effects as Red Dust Protection. A Soul Master of any level could use it; it could sense attacks and activate its defenses on its own, or be activated deliberately for stronger defense.
However, it consumed less Soul Power, had stronger defenses, and could be deliberately activated more times.
"Like this."
After Qian Renxue put it on, Su Tianxuan casually tossed the carving knife in his hand.
With a whoosh, the knife reached her in an instant.
Before Qian Renxue could react, a golden shield of light appeared in front of her.
With a bang, the knife bounced back. Qian Renxue felt only the tiniest bit of her Soul Power being consumed.
"Now you know which is stronger, Hidden Weapons or Soul Tools, right?"
Su Tianxuan said with a smile.
This kind of automatically triggered Soul Tool was the living ancestor of the vast majority of Hidden Weapons.
With this on, there was no need to worry about sneak attacks with Hidden Weapons.
Without even knowing it, Wang Hongchen had made something good for Qian Renxue.
After Qian Renxue also tested its active effect, Su Tianxuan picked up the Go stone he had made.
"As for this..."
The Rotting Axe Go Game, as its name suggested, was a Level 10 Soul Tool with the time attribute.
Once activated, it brought the flow of time within a certain area nearby almost to a standstill, as though one had entered a game of Go that lasted until an axe rotted away.
Moreover, aside from the small amount of Soul Power needed to activate it, maintaining the stasis required no Soul Power from the user. It would actively absorb all the Soul Power within its area of effect.
No one below the level of a Super Douluo could resist that suction.
Unless it was forcibly destroyed, there was no Soul Power around for it to absorb, or the user chose to turn it off, this "game" would never end.
The nastiest thing about this Soul Tool was that it could be activated remotely...
This was a sealing-type Soul Tool at the peak of Level 10, and for a long time, it had existed only as a design.
It was extremely difficult to make, and no one had ever managed to produce one.
But now someone had.
Wang Hongchen had not expected Su Tianxuan to actually make it, so he had conceded defeat without any fuss.
Qian Renxue held the little Go stone in her hands, the shock in her heart beyond words.
A Soul Tool that could seal Titled Douluo at will, and even drain their Soul Power dry!?
With her experience, she could already think of many uses for it.
Looking at the two marvelous Soul Tools, Qian Renxue found herself more torn than ever before.
For a while, she did not know which one to choose.
Su Tianxuan did not mind. He sat to one side and continued pondering the origins of that faith from earlier.
Ye Guyi sat beside him and left the choice to Qian Renxue.
She had chosen the Soul Spirit first, so she would not compete for the Soul Tool.
After a long time, Qian Renxue finally made her choice.
"I'll take this one."
She picked up Angel's Protection.
She was still wary of Tang San.
There were an awful lot of accounts online about how she had been defeated by him.
Aside from the later battle between two gods, where she really had been powerless, each one of the others made her angrier than the last.
Some said she had brought two Titled Douluo to stage the Heaven Dou coup, only to be defeated by Tang San, who had brought just the Poison Douluo, and that one of her Titled Douluo had even died;
Others said that after becoming the Angel God, she had been no match for Sea God Tang San at their first meeting and had ultimately fled in disgrace;
Most outrageous of all, some even said that after becoming a god, she had fought Tang San before he became one, only for him to pierce her heart with a Hidden Weapon.
How could that be possible!
How could she be that weak!
Qian Renxue wanted nothing more than to kill everyone spreading those rumors!
But angry as she was, reason told her she should prepare more things to deal with Tang San.
Since Angel's Protection countered Hidden Weapons, she had to take it back with her.
The Rotting Axe Go Game naturally went to Ye Guyi.
Ye Guyi stroked the stone, unable for the moment to think what she could use it for.
But she could not possibly trade it away either. Su Tianxuan had made it with his own hands, and she had been watching right beside him.
She carefully tucked the Rotting Axe Go Game into her robes, then asked curiously:
"Your Holiness, what does 'rotting axe' mean?"
She had looked it up on her communicator but had found no special meaning.
Su Tianxuan was taken aback for a moment. Then he shook his head and chuckled.
"Just an allusion no one knows. Returning home, I seemed the man whose axe had rotted away. Heh, come on, let's go eat."
The Douluo I era.
Tang San's face was as still as water.
Su Tianxuan dared to say behind his back that Tang Sect Hidden Weapons were inferior to Soul Tools!?
Unforgivable!
He would write "Su Tianxuan already has a way to die" into the rules of the Tang Sect, so future generations would kill Su Tianxuan the moment they saw him!
Then he would see how Su Tianxuan could still swagger about in the future!
But could his Hidden Weapons really break through that Angel's Protection?
No,
they certainly could!
Tang San had absolute confidence in his Hidden Weapons.
The Guanyin's Tear could make even Guanyin shed tears, let alone deal with a mere Soul Tool!
Su Tianxuan only dared to talk so wildly because his knowledge was far too shallow.
The Douluo II era.
Shrek Academy.
The elders of the Sea God Pavilion all frowned as they watched Ye Guyi in the sky.
Were Level 10 Soul Tools really that terrifying?
At last, they had a concrete idea of what the very highest-level Soul Tools were like.
Yan Shaozhe took a deep breath, stood up, and said:
"Everyone, hear me out.
"The Sun Moon Empire harbors the ambitions of wolves. If they obtain such powerful technology, the people of the continent will surely be plunged into misery!"
"So what do you want to do? Give our Soul Tool Department money?"
Xian Lin'er gave a cold laugh and spoke disdainfully.
Yan Shaozhe raised his head, his eyes full of ferocity.
"Follow our ancestor's example and wage war on the Angel fiend!"
The Holy Spirit Cult.
Yan Shaozhe's mother, Ye Xishui, watched Ye Guyi on the Sky Screen and coldly ordered the Evil Soul Masters under her:
"Send more people to find out where this Angel comes from. When she returns, seize her and bring her here immediately."
"Yes."