Douluo: Meeting a Blind Douluo, I Am the Metal Emperor
Chapter 45

A Loss May Turn Out to Be a Gain

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"Affectionate Douluo, why have you brought so many outsiders here?"

The agreement between the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and the Tang Sect allowed only one person to enter every hundred years, and they could obtain no more than two kinds of medicinal herbs.

So what did he mean by bringing three people this time? Was he trying to expose the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well?

Zang Xin glanced at Mu Han. "He and I are only here to keep watch."

Mu Han nodded, then casually pointed at the two in front of him. "These two, then?"

"Natural treasures that can take human form. Their rank surpasses even that of hundred-thousand-year treasures."

"Impossible." The man in purple rejected the idea without the slightest hesitation.

Xu Xiaoyan and Zheng Yiran couldn't help being secretly stunned by Mu Han's words.

Was he saying they had to eat the ones here?

How could they possibly agree to that?!

The man in purple let out a cold snort. A layer of purple light bloomed from his body, and an intoxicating fragrance swept over them.

At the same time, within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well behind the Ferocious Beasts, the differently colored lake waters suddenly surged into the sky.

"Greetings, Dragon Lords!" The six Ferocious Beasts retreated several steps together, their faces full of reverence.

Floating above the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well were two giant dragons formed from the lake water.

One was ice blue from head to tail, while the other was scarlet red.

An overwhelming aura swept toward them. Even Zang Xin, the Affectionate Douluo, couldn't help turning pale and taking a step back.

But the next moment, he moved in front of Mu Han and the others.

Mu Han couldn't afford to get hurt. If anything happened to him, the Fatui's three leaders would absolutely fight the Tang Sect to the death.

Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua probably wouldn't let it go, either.

As the two dragons, one blue and one red, appeared, every plant in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well seemed to come alive.

The vitality of many plants surged, and they began growing rapidly. All the pressure bore down on their group.

Zang Xin's expression was grim. "Brother Luo, the Tang Sect has guarded the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for ten thousand years."

"And this is how you repay us? You've prepared all this to deal with us?"

Before they came, Mu Han had told him that things were unsettled at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

The two of them had then reached an agreement: Mu Han would take the lead in negotiating and sound out the Ferocious Beasts.

At first, Zang Xin had thought Mu Han was worrying over nothing.

Now, though, it seemed he had been far too naive.

The Tang Sect had sheltered them for years, only to raise a pack of ungrateful wretches.

It seemed the Soul Beasts' extinction on the continent had not been entirely undeserved.

Mu Han's punch sent a dragon's roar echoing across the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Even Zang Xin felt a powerful threat!

The two Ice and Fire Dragon Lords in the sky trembled all over, fear rising within them.

As dragon souls, they had already lost their intelligence and retained only a fragment of their essence.

Only after years of nourishment and aid from the many Plant-type Soul Beasts had they been able to take shape again.

But they couldn't change the instincts buried deep in their blood.

The Golden Dragon King's roar was the most direct intimidation imaginable.

Mu Han beat his wings and soared into the sky.

The man in purple was just about to stop him when a sharp intent burst from Zang Xin, pinning him in place.

The bodies the two giant dragons relied on were made of the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Guided by Mu Han, they immediately flew back above the lake and sank into it once more.

Only two tiny dragon souls remained, each no more than two meters long. They fused into Mu Han's legs.

Mu Han had already absorbed two leg Soul Bones.

They came from wind- and earth-attribute Soul Beasts.

Both had come from hundred-thousand-year lesser dragons.

Now that he had fused with two dragon souls, the two Soul Bones had improved even further.

Fire gives rise to earth! Fire Dragon King Earth Right Leg Bone.

Water gives rise to wind! Ice Dragon King Storm Left Leg Bone.

The Affectionate Douluo clearly hadn't expected things to turn out this way.

The Tang Sect had definitely taken a huge loss this time.

Though the two dragon souls had been prepared by the Ferocious Beasts of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to deal with the Tang Sect, they still belonged to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well—and thus to the Tang Sect!

But what could he do now? He couldn't exactly ask Mu Han to remove them from his legs and hand them back to the Tang Sect, could he?

At the thought, he turned his icy gaze on the man in purple.

They were no more than plants that had cultivated into beings. How much experience could they have in battle? And what bloodline could they possess that excelled in fighting?

Forget six of them. Even if there had been sixty, Zang Xin could have easily torn them to pieces.

If the Ferocious Beasts of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well hadn't been able to make better use of it and produce more natural treasures,

not one of them would have survived today.

Even so, the Ferocious Beasts were given a severe beating by Zang Xin.

Their previous agreement was immediately voided.

Besides Xu Xiaoyan's hundred-thousand-year Star Luo Spirit Bead,

and Zheng Yiran's hundred-thousand-year Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum,

Zang Xin also took away many other hundred-thousand-year natural treasures.

The Ferocious Beasts had suppressed these treasures so thoroughly that they had never developed intelligence.

Taking them back would help strengthen the Tang Sect. Leaving them in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well would be a waste of Heaven's bounty.

The Ferocious Beasts could only rage in silence.

Since they had already fallen out, they had to be ready to face the consequences.

The Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest had once unleashed a beast tide. Having lost, they could only accept the result.

The farce at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well was no different.

But a wise man would never drain a pond to catch all the fish.

After this upheaval, the Tang Sect no longer had to worry that the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well would grow too powerful.

Humanity was so powerful that, in the future, the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well would still have to shelter under the Tang Sect's protection.

When they believed their lifespans had reached their end, they would willingly become Soul Spirits and seek that sliver of a chance to become gods alongside Soul Masters.

"But you must also keep your promise from before. Don't take too much from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well."

Mu Han paid no further attention to the Tang Sect's negotiations with the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

After all, he was just an outsider.

Being allowed into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well this time was already an exception.

What's more, he had taken the Dragon Lords' souls. The greatest opportunity the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well had offered was gone.

Next, he had to prepare his Sixth Soul Ring.

He had already made preparations. He didn't just want to obtain his Sixth Soul Ring; he also planned to use the opportunity to condense his own Soul Core.

The Soul Master World of the Douluo Continent was dominated by water, fire, earth, and wind.

But that didn't mean the other elements were absent. Wasn't metal a derivative of earth? Wasn't that the same principle as earth giving rise to metal?

And Xun represented wind, while Zhen represented thunder. Both wind and thunder belonged to the wood attribute.

So Mu Han's wind-attribute Soul Power Vortex could also fuse with things that had the thunder attribute.

Among thunder-attribute Soul Beasts, the strongest was naturally the Thunder Hell Vine, a plant with the bloodline of the Thunder God.

But the strongest after that wasn't the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. It was the super Soul Beast, the Thunder Beast.

Why were there no hundred-thousand-year Thunder Beasts? Because their foundations were too deep and they were simply too powerful.

If one cultivated to a hundred thousand years, it would become almost impossible to control.

That was why the Soul Beast world would never allow a Thunder Beast to live that long.

What's more, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's strength came mainly from the Tyrant Dragon.

As an assault-type Beast Martial Soul, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's greatest strength lay in Dragon Transformation.

Its lightning was secondary.

So the Thunder Beast was indeed the strongest thunder-attribute Soul Beast.

And the original story had mentioned that the Spirit Pagoda did have a Thunder Beast Soul Spirit.

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