Star Child, Tang San's Killing Intent

Red light flickered in Xu Yue's eyes as he looked down at Tang Wulin below, as though he saw the shadow of Tang San, Tang Wulin's father, in him.

Was the promotion tournament really that important?

He had already tried his best to hold back.

Yet there were still people who could not see the gap in their strength.

At this moment, the destructive urge stirred by his bloodline power had never been stronger.

"Enough. Kneel before me!!!"

A black-red gravitational field descended like heavenly might, enveloping all space within a hundred-meter radius.

This Gravity Domain was far more powerful than before.

Everyone felt an inexplicable pressure in their hearts, and even breathing became somewhat difficult, but only Tang Wulin truly experienced the descent of the gravity.

Under the pressure of twenty-four times gravity, Tang Wulin felt his blood slowing toward coagulation.

Every beat of his heart took immense effort, and every expansion of his chest cost him tremendous strength.

With insufficient oxygen reaching his brain, his vision rapidly blackened until everything before him was pitch-dark.

Even supported by the Golden Dragon King bloodline, he could not withstand such terrifying pressure and instantly collapsed onto the arena.

One had to know—

The normal human limit for gravitational load was roughly five times.

Even professionally trained pilots wearing G-suits could only endure pressure of nine to ten times gravity.

Twenty-four times gravity, even for only a few seconds, would inflict irreversible damage on an ordinary person.

Even though soul masters possessed physical constitutions far beyond ordinary people, their internal organs could hardly bear a burden twenty-four times their own weight.

Yes, twenty-four times.

Not the eightfold gravity Xu Yue had controlled at the Soul Elder stage.

What made this possible was the thirty percent authorization controlled by the plane consciousness, which granted Xu Yue a threefold enhancement.

It did not merely triple the gravity multiplier, but the range as well.

With Xu Yue going all out, he could now envelop an area five hundred meters in diameter within the Gravity Domain.

Previously, Xu Yue had been unwilling to use this enhancement.

It was not that a threefold enhancement was not powerful, but because he had learned during his brief communication with the plane consciousness—

Although Tang Hao had been injured by Eden's Star's devouring, he was merely in temporary slumber to recover.

Once the authorization was used excessively, it would rouse Tang Hao, who was currently asleep.

When that happened—

As the master of the plane with seventy percent authorization, Tang Hao held an overwhelming advantage in seizing the plane consciousness's authorization.

One careless mistake, and Xu Yue would hand over the thirty percent authorization he had worked so hard to obtain.

Tang Hao might even set his sights on Xu Yue himself.

But in his fury, Xu Yue had no mind to worry about so much.

At the same time, two people were staring unblinkingly at every movement Xu Yue made.

They were Tang San's divine sense and Gu Yue.

"How is this possible... This feeling of the will of heaven and earth descending upon him is..."

"A Child of the Star?!"

The moment they thought of those three words, their expressions became astonishingly identical.

Shock, confusion, disbelief!

Generally speaking, on a living planet, there were roughly three kinds of beings divided according to the amount of fortune they possessed.

The first was naturally the utterly unremarkable ordinary lifeforms.

Mundane, ordinary, and vast in number.

The second was the trendsetters.

Such figures were already exceedingly rare, yet every era would still produce anywhere from several to dozens of them.

The three supreme figures from twenty thousand years ago, the three ultimate figures from ten thousand years ago, and the many demigods of the present era all belonged to this category.

Of course, anyone who could reach the rank of Super Douluo or above was, in truth, a trendsetter of their respective era, leading the age for a time.

The third was the children of fortune.

Such people were easy to understand. Tang San, Huo Yuhao, Rong Nianbing, and the like were outstanding individuals selected by a plane once every several thousand or ten thousand years.

They were special existences capable, to a certain extent, of advancing the development of the plane.

For instance, Huo Yuhao bore the mission of balancing the relationship between humans and soul beasts, preventing the natural ecosystem from declining excessively.

However, due to Electrolux's premature death and no one restraining the Spirit Pagoda's expansion, this had already ended in failure.

In this era, Yun Ming could in fact be considered a Child of Fortune, born in response to the times.

If not for the deliberate suppression of the Plane Lord, he might have led Douluo Continent's many quasi-gods to forge a path to godhood.

But above those three, there was another special kind of existence.

Child of the Star!

As the name implied, they were the children of the stars.

Once a Child of the Star matured, they could rightfully take direct control of a star and become its Plane Lord.

Generally speaking, a normal planet with plane consciousness would not choose to give rise to such an existence.

Yet given Douluo Star's current unusual state, combined with the empowerment of the Herrscher rank, Xu Yue had naturally become a Child of the Star who should not have existed.

"Child of the Star... so that's it!"

Gu Yue had temporarily pushed aside the matter of the Golden Dragon King. Looking at Xu Yue, she murmured, "That was the reason for the changes in the heavens back then. Everything makes sense now."

However, Tang San was not nearly so patient. He looked at Xu Yue with gritted teeth, his killing intent fully exposed.

"No wonder I couldn't contact Father or Mother. A Child of the Star had actually been born on Douluo Star from who knows where."

"Even the Plane Lord's authority has been split apart. This is utterly outrageous!"

"You hurt my father and ruined my plans. Xu Yue, you deserve to die!"

The instant the thought crossed his mind, Tang San's expression abruptly changed.

In midair.

The enraged Xu Yue directly condensed a rock spear in his hand and hurled it at Tang Wulin without a second thought.

At the critical moment, a white figure flashed into view.

Two yellow, two purple, and two black soul rings emerged, while the Frost Sky Sword pointed straight at the golden rock spear.

It was Class Five's homeroom teacher, Wu Zhangkong.

Clang!

A metallic explosion rang out as the stern-faced Wu Zhangkong slashed out a streak of frost, shattering the incoming rock spear.

The conjured rocks crashed onto the metal arena, producing a series of clanging sounds.

Though the strike had appeared effortless, the shock on his face and the slight tremor in his arm showed that it had been anything but easy.

He had already held Xu Yue in high regard, but only after seeing him completely stop concealing himself did he realize he had still greatly underestimated him.

An innate domain! Spear intent! And the pure elemental power he had felt in that collision—it was clearly an ultimate attribute!

Any one of those traits, if possessed by a single soul master, could create a super powerhouse capable of reaching the pinnacle of the continent.

What kind of genius, then, was Xu Yue, who possessed all three?

Logically, encountering such a genius should have made Wu Zhangkong happy.

But given the current situation, he could not feel happy at all.

Tang Wulin was not only his student, but also a member of the Tang Sect. No matter what, he could not simply stand by and watch.

Wu Zhangkong stared coldly at Xu Yue, his expression rigid.

"Stop! Can't you see that he has lost the ability to resist?"

"Heh! Did he admit defeat?" Xu Yue sneered, looking down arrogantly at Wu Zhangkong.

"Wasn't he the one who wanted this battle to continue?"

"Now I'm granting his wish and carrying it through in the way that respects battle the most, yet you're telling me to stop?!"

Xu Yue looked at Wu Zhangkong's slightly changed expression and continued.

"Besides, Wu Zhangkong! You are neither the referee nor a participant. What right do you have to step onto the arena and tell me to stop?"

"Or are you saying you want to take his place and have a try against me?!"