The golden sigil of the Eight Trigrams Seal was branded over Tang Chuan's dantian. He let out a long breath.
A million-year soul beast was his!
At that same moment, however, Huo Yuhao's brows lifted slightly.
He clearly sensed several more surges of spiritual energy rising from all directions in the Star Dou Forest!
They were nowhere near as powerful as Tang Chuan or the other presence he had sensed earlier, but they were far from weak.
Good grief. Was the Star Dou Forest hosting a transmigrator reunion today?
Just then, heavy footsteps sounded nearby.
A young man with a black ruler strapped to his back emerged from the forest and stopped a short distance from Tang Chuan.
"Never thought I'd run into someone from home here."
"You're the one who took Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, aren't you?"
Tang Chuan rose slowly from where he sat cross-legged. The three tomoe in his Sharingan kept spinning.
"So what if I am?"
He sneered.
"Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was supposed to belong to Huo Yuhao, the Child of the Plane. We're all here to steal his advantages. What makes you any better than me?"
"You have a point!"
The black-clad young man showed no anger. He swung his Heavy Xuan Ruler across his body.
"But we're from the same world, after all. Out here, surely we can talk things through."
"Hand Sky Dream Ice Silkworm over to me, and we'll part on good terms. How about it?"
"It's precisely because we're from the same world that I know what you're after!"
Tang Chuan slipped his hands into his pockets, contempt flashing through his Sharingan.
"Enough talk!"
"If you want Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, come and fight me!"
"Hahaha! Gladly!"
The black-clad young man threw back his head and laughed.
"I, Xiao Yan, have never met my match among those at my level!"
"Let's see how many strikes from my Heavy Xuan Ruler you can withstand!"
"So what if you have techniques from the Dou Qi Continent?"
Tang Chuan held out his right hand. Lightning crackled in his palm.
"They might not beat my ninjutsu!"
The instant the words left his mouth, both of them moved!
"Lightning Release: Chidori Blade!"
Violent lightning gathered around Tang Chuan's right hand, forming a long blade that slashed hard toward the Heavy Xuan Ruler!
Clang!
The lightning blade struck the black ruler with a deafening crash!
"Now that's some fierce lightning!"
Xiao Yan's eyes lit up. Rather than showing the slightest fear, he grew even more eager to fight.
They clashed head-on at close range for over a dozen exchanges, neither gaining the upper hand.
The next instant, Soul Power surged around Tang Chuan, and a stalk of Blue Silver Grass appeared in his palm.
Three soul rings—one yellow and two purple—circled the Blue Silver Grass.
A thousand-year second ring already exceeded the theoretical maximum age for a soul ring!
"My Blue Silver Grass martial soul has fused with the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai!"
A proud smile curled Tang Chuan's lips.
"Today, I'll show you what it can do!"
"Second soul skill!"
"Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees!"
The purple second soul ring above the Blue Silver Grass flared!
The ground within a dozen meters cracked apart with a rumble that shook the earth!
Countless thick trees burst from below as though alive, racing upward and growing wildly!
Massive branches coiled like giant pythons, trapping Xiao Yan in layer after layer.
Worse still, a huge, uncanny flower bloomed among the branches.
The moment it opened, pale yellow poisonous mist spread silently through the air.
"Poison?"
Though tough branches bound his limbs, Xiao Yan laughed aloud.
"You dare show off such paltry poison in front of me?"
Xiao Yan took a pill from his storage Soul Tool and swallowed it. A faint green glow instantly enveloped him.
The moment the poison touched the glow, it melted away like snow before a fire.
"I have the Flame Emperor Template System. Did you think I couldn't refine a pill?"
"Your Wood Release isn't bad, but too bad you ran into my Martial Soul: Emperor Flame!"
A mass of multicolored fire rose from Xiao Yan's palm.
Three soul rings—one yellow, one purple, and one black—rose slowly beneath Xiao Yan's feet!
His third ring was ten thousand years old. He had pushed the limits even further than Tang Chuan!
"Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler!"
Multicolored flames poured into the Heavy Xuan Ruler. Xiao Yan swung, and fire blazed into the sky!
A terrifying wave of fire swept out like a tsunami. In an instant, the entire grove conjured by Wood Release was reduced to ash!
Tang Chuan's Sharingan spun furiously as he tried to spot a weakness in Xiao Yan's defense.
The two plunged straight back into battle.
Lightning, fire, vines, and the massive ruler flew back and forth in a fierce exchange.
At the edge of the battlefield, Huo Yuhao, supposedly "caught in an illusion," took it all in.
The fights on the Douluo Continent had gone completely off the rails!
Naruto versus Battle Through the Heavens? Back in my old life, clickbait channels could have milked this for a month!
Huo Yuhao could hardly imagine what the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament would look like a year from now.
A bunch of native Douluo Continent primitives up against transmigrators who all started with thousand-year second rings and had advantages coming out of their ears...
Too brutal to watch!
While Tang Chuan and Xiao Yan were locked in battle, Huo Yuhao quietly slipped away from his original position and headed toward the other spiritual fluctuations he had sensed earlier.
I might as well take care of the remaining easy targets while I have the chance!
But not long after Huo Yuhao left...
The sky above the Star Dou Forest darkened without warning!
A thunderous boom sounded high overhead. In that instant, darkness blotted out the sun!
An indescribably terrifying pressure descended, as though the sky itself were collapsing!
A stream of gray energy suddenly fell from above!
Space warped wherever the gray energy passed.
An aura both deathly and sacred enveloped the entire forest in an instant.
The Holy Necromancer, Electrolux!
"He's here?!"
In the middle of the battlefield, Tang Chuan and Xiao Yan stopped at the same time and looked skyward.
The moment they saw the gray energy, they exchanged a glance.
"He's mine!"
Tang Chuan and Xiao Yan spoke in unison.
"Third soul skill! Wood Release: Wood Dragon Jutsu!"
The third soul ring of Tang Chuan's Blue Silver Grass martial soul lit up.
A massive wooden dragon woven from countless vines burst from the ground. Tang Chuan stood on its head as it charged toward the falling gray energy!
"Second soul skill: Heavenly Flame Transformation Wings!"
The second soul ring of Xiao Yan's Martial Soul: Emperor Flame lit up. A pair of wings formed from multicolored flames spread suddenly from his back.
With a beat of those wings, he shot into the sky too!
Both raced to claim the gray energy overhead.
Just then, a clear voice rang out from afar.
"Hahaha! Heroes truly are as countless as fish crossing a river!"
"But I, Fang, will be taking the Holy Necromancer!"
The next instant, a powerful spatial disturbance erupted!
The gray energy containing a fragment of Electrolux's divine consciousness was drawn toward it and hurtled down into another part of the Star Dou Forest!
"Cold winds buffet me, light as drifting catkins; alone I cross the sea of fate!"
"Today I spread my wings and fly; tomorrow I'll ascend and spur the phoenix!"
"Hahaha! Fang bids you farewell!"
Tang Chuan and Xiao Yan turned toward the voice.
On the distant horizon, the phantom of a jade-green butterfly gently beat its wings, then vanished into the wind.
Both their faces turned grim.
"Fixed Immortal Travel?!"
Tang Chuan forced the three words through gritted teeth.
The Great Love Immortal Venerable's Immortal Gu, Fixed Immortal Travel!
A supreme Gu worm that could teleport through space regardless of distance!
There was another transmigrator?!
The two of them had fought tooth and nail, only for another transmigrator to swoop in and steal Electrolux with Fixed Immortal Travel!
How was that fair?!
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