Releasing Hu Liena
Tang San remained silent for a moment, as if weighing something.
Hu Liena had already woken up, and he probably guessed that the person from that night wasn't really Zhang San. Therefore, Tang San hadn't gone to see her for the past few days.
Tang San didn't know how to face Hu Liena. After all, although that night was great, it wasn't exactly something to be proud of.
Now we're caught between a rock and a hard place: we can't kill them, but we don't want to keep them alive.
All he wants now is to get rid of this hot potato as soon as possible.
Tang San finally nodded. "Okay. I accept this condition. Release them now."
He sent someone to inform Dugu Yan to bring Hu Liena to the messenger.
When Dugu Yan brought Hu Liena, her short orange hair was hanging messily on the side of her face, and her complexion was very pale.
Hu Liena stood there, her eyes filled with resentment as she looked at Tang San.
Tang San felt a little embarrassed and guilty, and avoided her gaze. He waved his hand, signaling the messenger to take Hu Liena away.
Hu Liena remained silent throughout, only staring at Tang San with resentful eyes. Finally, urged by the messenger, they left together.
After Hu Liena left, Tang San finally breathed a sigh of relief, but felt a little guilty, since he had exposed her untouched state.
On the other side, in the Spirit Hall Empire's military camp.
With the people from the Worship Hall gone, the Spirit Hall Empire's top combat power was clearly at a disadvantage.
Bibi Dong could no longer muster anyone capable of directly confronting Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, Dugu Bo, and Chen Xin.
Meanwhile, the Heaven Dou Empire only defended and did not engage in battle, so the Spirit Hall Empire's advantage in its Soul Master legion could not be fully utilized.
A direct assault on Jialing Pass would, to say the least, be utterly ineffective.
Ultimately, Bibi Dong realized that the war was unwinnable.
So she took the distraught Hu Liena back to Spirit City, leaving the army outside Jialing Pass to maintain a stalemate, but the momentum for attack had vanished.
The two armies' camps faced each other across the plain and the pass, without disturbing each other.
Seeing this, Tang San and Dugu Yan also prepared to retreat back to Heaven Dou City.
He left Tai Tan, Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He to oversee the defense at Jialing Pass, and with top-tier combatants like Dugu Bo, Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Sword and Bone Douluo as backup, the defense was virtually foolproof.
He then led the Shui Bing'er sisters, Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling back to the Blue Hao Prince's Residence.
The battle has reached a delicate balance.
The current situation is that the Heaven Dou Empire is only defending and not attacking in order to avoid large-scale civilian casualties, while the Spirit Hall Empire is lacking top-tier combat power and is unable to launch an attack.
On his first day back at the Prince's Palace, Tang San took out the two Soul Bones.
He handed the 70,000-year-old Snow Demon Wolf King's right arm bone to Shui Bing'er, and the 50,000-year-old Death Demon Spider's left leg bone to Dugu Yan.
The two did not refuse; they sat down cross-legged, closed their eyes, and guided the energy to merge with their bodies.
An hour later, the light subsided, and Shui Bing'er's aura rose slightly.
The ice-type amplification from the right arm bone was highly compatible with her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, and the absorption process went more smoothly than expected.
Her Soul Power also broke through from level 88 to level 89, and she was only one step away from becoming Titled Douluo.
Right Arm Soul Bone skill: Extreme Cold Wolf Claw.
Once activated, Shui Bing'er's right arm will unleash a sharp, knife-like ice claw with extremely high penetrating power, dealing high amounts of ice-attribute damage to enemies in its path.
Dugu Yan also completed the absorption of the Death Demon Spider's left leg bone. The poison attribute of this left leg bone was also compatible with her Evil Dragon Martial Soul, making the absorption almost without any obstacles.
Her Soul Power remained at level 97; a 50,000-year-old Soul Bone could no longer provide a significant Soul Power to Soul Master of this level.
However, the poison attribute boost from her left leg bone still made her even stronger in combat.
Left leg Soul Bone Skill, Demon Spider Sweep. Launches an area-of-effect poison attack centered on the user.
Once activated, Dugu Yan will sweep her left leg out with several purple light blades, condensing the deadly poison energy of the Death Demon Spider onto the blades, causing area-of-effect poison damage to all surrounding enemies.
At this point, Dugu Yan's entire Soul Bone had been collected: head, torso, arms, and legs, each piece of which was of quality over ten thousand years old.
The next day, Tang San and Ye Lingling returned to the secret chamber and began the Sixth Trial, "Plane Creation."
Arrived on the Chaos Planet.
This place has no clouds, no sun, and no moon.
There was no wind, no water, no sound, no life.
There was only an endless, desolate, gray-white wasteland.
Tang San stood still, feeling the silence of the land beneath his feet.
He took a deep breath, and the Creation Power surged from within him—a power of "bestowing," a primal will capable of establishing order in Void.
Emerald green and dark purple light intertwined and merged in his palm, slowly converging into a pale golden sphere of light.
Tang San gently pressed the ball of light onto the ground beneath his feet.
The moment the sphere of light touched the ground, it silently merged into the gray-white rock layer, like water droplets seeping into parched soil.
About half an hour later, water began to gush out from the ground that had been permeated by the Creation Power, forming a spring.
In the days that followed, Tang San and Ye Lingling began the long process of creation on this chaotic planet.
The Creation Power within him formed a completely new rhythm.
It keeps merging and releasing, then merging and releasing again.
Tang San's understanding of the Creation Power is also deepening step by step, like the establishment of a set of rules.
Having grasped this point, Tang San's creation efficiency increased significantly.
He began to plan the terrain, creating an ecological foundation suitable for life, including air, sunlight, mountains, rivers, forests, and oceans.
Then there are the laws of nature: day and night, various weather conditions, the changing of the seasons, and so on.
Then, using the ninth Soul Skill "All Things Bestow Spirit," he created batches of animals, including insects, fish, herbivores, and carnivores, forming a complete ecosystem and giving them the ability to reproduce and evolve on their own.
Finally, they created the first humans.
These humans are in a most primitive state; their consciousness contains only the most basic language ability and survival instinct.
In this world without Soul Power or Soul Rings, they can perceive the energy flowing between heaven and earth through a method similar to meditation.
That was the natural energy formed after Tang San integrated the Creation Power into the entire world.
Humans in this world call it "Qi" and cultivate it to guide the flow of this energy within their bodies, gradually improving their own cultivation.
After Tang San finally arranged the land, ocean, mountains, forests, rivers, and all life on the entire planet, he looked at the scene before him and was momentarily dazed.
It was a vast, vibrant blue planet, with rolling mountains, crisscrossing rivers, forests covering large swathes of land, and oceans that converged into expansive blue waters in low-lying areas.
All the laws governing this planet originated from Tang San's Creation Power. In the future, this will be a world and a plane that belong only to him.
In this process, Tang San's fusion of the power of life and destruction has reached a level of perfection, a power that surpasses even the ultimate.