Over here, Tang San was wailing and crying, utterly broken.
He swore a curse, vowing to take the perfect development route and achieve the strongest Clear Sky Hammer. Yet, the first Soul Ring went awry. The despair and collapse were unimaginable.
On the other side, in the Beast Taming Space,
Nangong Lingyun had already begun to reward those who had contributed.
"Tiger, you did well this time. Tomorrow, I will introduce you to the members of the training camp, and you will be allowed to stay at the academy.
But remember, don't cause any trouble, or your privileges will be revoked."
"And Lion, don't always bully the black one. As fellow beast tamers, you should all be united and get along with each other."
...
Watching the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger rolling around excitedly,
Nangong Lingyun's mind moved, and a virtual screen slowly unfolded before him.
[You, through various methods, induced and instigated Tang San to cultivate his second Martial Soul in advance, causing his Twin Martial Souls' most heaven-defying potential to be greatly depleted. You also designed for him to absorb an 8,200-year-old Dark Tiger as the Clear Sky Hammer's first Soul Ring. Compared to the original first Soul Ring, which was a 120,000-year-old quasi-god-level Soul Beast, the Titan Giant Ape, possessing the dual-extreme attributes of power and gravity, it was a world of difference. Not only did his Martial Soul not receive sufficient development and evolution, but the enhancement to his physique and spirit was also negligible. Even the attributes were completely mismatched, and the skills were even more incomparable.]
[Achieved special plot achievements [Fifty-two Conned Loser], [Fifty-three Conned Loser], [Fifty-four Conned Loser], [Fifty-five Conned Loser], [Fifty-six Conned Loser],
and gained a pleasure point reward of 1,800,000,000]
[You showed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to Tang San, enticing him, and then orchestrated its disappearance.
A Soul Beast less than twenty thousand years old managed to escape from a Super Douluo who had cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill. This made Tang San secretly suspect whether his father, Tang Hao, had intentionally let it go.
The rift in their father-son relationship deepened once again.]
[Achieved special plot achievement [Twenty-eight Conned Rat],
and gained a pleasure point reward of 100,000,000]
"Holy shit, one hundred and ninety million in one go?"
"Tsk tsk, all my scheming for so long wasn't in vain. Awesome."
Five words floated across the sky: "Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome." It's just this feeling that's so cool, haha."
Nangong Lingyun almost burst out laughing.
The true potential of the Blue Silver Emperor was stronger than the Clear Sky Hammer, but this first Martial Soul had already been severely screwed over by that big turd in the original story. The room for improvement wasn't that big.
The Clear Sky Hammer was different. Tang San only started adding Soul Rings after reaching level ninety and becoming a Quasi-Title Douluo.
He had a full four hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings. The ninth, from the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, was even a million years old, and there was also a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger divine beast Soul Ring, all extremely precious and powerful.
The remaining three were also at least seventy thousand years old, and the quality of the Soul Beasts was extremely high.
The room for improvement and the room for operation were extraordinary.
In the Star Dou Great Forest,
Tang San wailed and cried, his heart breaking, filled with grief and despair. Within minutes, he was in so much pain that he cried himself unconscious.
When he was adding a Soul Ring to his Blue Silver Emperor, he was still a complete novice, knowing nothing.
But practice makes perfect, as the saying goes.
After diligently studying, coupled with Nangong Lingyun and Qin Feng occasionally revealing and instilling various profound theories, his understanding of Martial Souls was now quite strong.
Aiming for perfect development, yet still ending up with the same result, how could he accept it?
After waking up, Tang San locked himself in his tent, not allowing anyone to come near.
And silently, he took out the Flying Immortal Order and started challenging Clone No. 9.
He wanted to know what level of strength he could achieve if he took the route of compensating for the defects and adding a dark attribute to the Clear Sky Hammer.
The familiar giant octagonal arena.
A Tang San slowly appeared, dressed in black clothes and boots, with thick black hair and eyes that were as black as if absorbing light, his aura was also extremely cold and stern.
Clone No. 9 could freely choose the additional attributes it would attach; lightning, profound ice, flames, as long as it wasn't too absurd, anything was possible.
This time, he set his sights on darkness, wanting to test the quality of this development direction.
The next moment, the Clear Sky Hammer slowly appeared.
It should have been a dark, unassuming ebony color,
but it was now completely bright black, as if emitting black light, drawing attention.
It was also surrounded by billowing black energy, like a demonic weapon, incredibly evil.
Soon, four Soul Rings, yellow, purple, purple, and black, emerged, constantly pulsing and rotating, giving off a palpating feeling.
"Clear Sky Nine Ultimate Shocks!"
"First Soul Skill: Dark Erosion!"
Tang San roared and, taking the initiative, swung the Clear Sky Hammer and charged forward.
His eyes turned purple, his palms became jade-colored, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track flickered beneath his feet. He went all out from the start.
But it was clear that he couldn't contend with an opponent who was a Soul Ancestor and whose background data had been modified by someone.
The opponent's four Soul Rings shone brightly.
The massive Clear Sky Hammer immediately slammed down at an extreme speed, as if a mountain had fallen, instantly crushing Sanzi into a pulp.
Tang San tried to dodge, but before he could move, a burst of dark power erupted from the clone's Martial Soul, causing his body to suddenly stiffen.
The moment his body made contact with the hammer, an even more powerful erosion force surged wildly into his limbs and bones.
Its power was comparable to the most terrifying poison, melting away like ice and snow. He felt his body dissolving in that instant.
After trying several more times, all of them ended in the same way. Sanzi couldn't help but think to himself:
"Taking a path to compensate for flaws, with the addition of a dark attribute, doesn't seem so bad, does it?
As an evil branch, the darkness isn't weak, and its various powers are enough to rank among the top.
Anyway, in the early stages, the Martial Soul is used to transition to the Blue Silver Emperor's life recovery ability. Wouldn't it be better to make the most of the situation?"
When Tang San came out of the tent, his face was no longer filled with despair and indignation, but began to show a hint of life.
He came to Yu Xiaogang's side and asked, with a commanding air:
"Do you know of any Soul Beast that possesses both power and dark attributes?"
Yu Xiaogang might be useless at other things, but he had memorized the Soul Beast illustrations inside and out, including some rumors and even the secret data.
In this regard, he was undoubtedly a master, with a very high level of expertise.
Hearing this, he was about to speak,
Zhang Kai opened his mouth, but then he froze in place.
"What's wrong?"
"It seems there aren't any Soul Beasts that possess both strength and darkness attributes, except for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
Darkness-related powers seem to mostly excel in agility and control abilities."
The two of them didn't know that,
darkness was a property that someone had carefully selected after extensive comparisons and calculations, specifically to target Tang San.
Although it wasn't directly opposed to strength, in terms of its destructive effect on the source of life, it was even more exaggerated than poison.
And life abilities were indirectly related to things like strength and Blood Essence. When a Soul Beast's life foundation wasn't strong enough, it was difficult for it to possess powerful strength and Blood Essence attributes.
Even if there were, they would degenerate generation by generation, like the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to the Dark Tiger, until they completely disappeared.
The only exception was the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
But its ancestors were both holy and evil, their status not lower than the Dragon God. What could ordinary Soul Beasts even compare with?
Therefore, Tang San's far-fetched plan, simultaneously developing power and enhancing darkness, had no chance of success.
Either change course and start developing power from the second Soul Ring, or go down the dark path and continue to strengthen the darkness.
There was no third option.
(End of Chapter)