Douluo Dalu - Volume 18 - Three Spirit Bones

by Tang Jia San Shao

  At this very moment, even though the competition still hadn’t begin, his heart was already incomparably carefree.

  Since childhood, each time Dai Weisi had seen him, there had been that thick disdain and contempt deep in the corners of his eyes, he had never been considered an opponent. But right now, he found seriousness and dread in Dai Weisi’s eyes. All this was something he had relied on his own strength to take.

  “Begin match.”

  Along with the referee’s shout, this attention-grabbing match finally began.

  “Rongrong, give me spirit power.”

  As they released their spirits, both sides already formed up. Tang San swiftly withdrew behind Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu took a step forward, taking Dai Mubai’s left side. Ma Hongjun was still as ever, protecting the two support Spirit Masters in the rear.

  The loud shout came from Tang San. When Ning Rongrong released her spirit she was directly behind them. At least from the front the brightly colored light of her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda couldn’t be seen.

  Hearing Tang San’s directions, a purple spirit ring flared concurrently. A line of dazzlingly bright light entered his body, and along with it was still a pink flash thrown from Oscar’s hand.

  White Tiger Barrier already appeared over Dai Weisi. Their spirits were the same, and even though his spirit abilities weren’t exactly the same as Dai Mubai’s, the first three were still identical. After all, these three spirit abilities was the optimal conclusion their clan had obtained after countless revisions.

  Tang San without the slightest hesitation threw the pink light from Oscar into his mouth. Instantly, a faint layer of pink light merged with the bright light that leapt up as Ning Rongrong poured it into him.

  Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun moved.

  Dai Weisi took the lead, tyrannical imposing manner releasing on all sides, White Tiger Vajra Transformation also launching at this moment, unexpectedly by himself suppressing Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu.

  No need to doubt it, his spirit power was the strongest of everyone present. His choice at this time was the most proper. He was even more tyrannical than Dai Mubai, the imposing manner cultivated over several years in the top position wasn’t something Dai Mubai, this melancholy dreamless brother, could compare to.

  Behind Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun also moved. A supporting light shot into her from behind her back, and Zhu Zhuyun disappeared practically instantly. With a flicker, her entire body only left behind faint afterimages in the air, drawing an enormous arc, curving around the side, going straight for Tang San.

  Clearly, they already considered Tang San’s black spirit ring as the biggest threat.

  Tang San didn’t even seem to notice Zhu Zhuyun’s arrival, his face very serious, the light of his fourth spirit ring rushing out, dense black rising with all its strength under the boost of the stimulating pink sausage and Ning Rongrong’s fourth spirit ability spirit power boost. Instantly, he was completely covered in a black layer. At the same time, in his right hand, surging blue light completely condensed in his palm with hardly anything showing outside. His palm just slowly closed.

  Ding—— Zhu Zhuyun’s illusory silhouette halted in midair, because an equally fast silhouette suddenly blocked in front of her.

  Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun’s fierce collision in midair left behind a trail of sparks.

  In terms of strength, Zhu Zhuqing was still very inferior to Zhu Zhuyun, there was after all still a gap of five ranks or so between them in spirit power. However, don’t forget that behind Zhu Zhuqing was still the unprecedented Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit Master Ning Rongrong, with speed amplification, using Three Aperture Governing Heart to focus on her, directly increasing her speed by forty percent. To agility attack system Spirit Masters, speed and attack power were directly proportional. Even though Zhu Zhuyun also had the speed boost from her companion behind her, how could the effect compare to the world’s number one support spirit?

  Zhu Zhuyun’s shock didn’t make her pause, she of course saw that Tang San was just about to release that terrifying ten thousand year spirit ring ability. From Tang San’s storing power circumstances she clearly understood that this spirit ability absolutely wasn’t any small matter, no matter what she couldn’t let the opponents fully use it.

  The two sisters continuously collided in midair like shooting stars, countless sparks glittering in the air from the collision of their claws.

  The battle on the other side had already begun. Meeting Dai Weisi’s domineering pressure wasn’t Dai Mubai, but Xiao Wu. Figure flashing, Xiao Wu already appeared in front of Dai Weisi. Her second spirit ability, Demonic Confusion, released along with her eyes turning pink.

  Dai Weisi snorted coldly, the radiance in his eyes suddenly growing sharply, unexpectedly completely disregarding Xiao Wu’s Demonic Confusion ability. Under the boost of White Tiger Vajra Transformation, a White Tiger Light Wave shot out at her. At the same time he sped up, tiger paws opening, his target still Dai Mubai.

  However, in the end he still underestimated Xiao Wu. In just an instant, Xiao Wu shocked everyone.

  Teleportation launched, dodging the White Tiger Light Wave attack. The next moment, Xiao Wu’s body was suddenly covered by a layer of golden light, and she wound directly around Dai Weisi.

  As the chief heir to the clan, Dai Weisi possessed the formidable White Tiger Spirit, and prodigious talent.

  His real combat experience was naturally extremely plentiful.

  Faced with Xiao Wu’s sudden change, he wasn’t flustered at all, White Tiger Vajra Transformation with White Tiger Barrier instantly rising to the limit. Rich white light gushed out of his body, he wanted to use his own superior spirit power to directly bounce away Xiao Wu.

  But, Dai Weisi miscalculated. The instant the white light over his body touched the golden light Xiao Wu released, the white light unexpectedly didn’t have the slightest blocking effect. The next moment, Xiao Wu’s scorpion braid already swept out, firmly twisting around his neck.

  Soft Bones Demon Rabbit Xiao Wu, fourth spirit ability, Paragon Golden Body[3], launched.

  To Xiao Wu, there was no spirit ability that suited her better than this.

  * * *

  [1] (戴维斯) Could also be read “Davies”, but let’s keep family names consistent

  [2] (朱竹云) “Vermillion Bamboo Cloud”

  [3] (无敌金身)

  Chapter 123: Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ability Variant Ability

  Part 1 (TL by Bagelson)

  After launching Paragon Golden Body, all attacks of any level were completely ineffective. Internal strength doubled. Three second duration. For every ten spirit power ranks, the invincibility and strength boost time would increase by one second.

  Three seconds would seem very short, but very often it was enough to take control of the crucial moment. This fourth spirit ability nevertheless traded time for a formidable effect. No matter what attack it faced, it would be invincible for three seconds. This gave Xiao Wu ample time to get in close.

  Long hair twisted around her opponent’s neck, Xiao Wu had already dodged behind Dai Weisi. Both of Dai Weisi’s palms struck back in the final second of Paragon Golden Body, the intense backlash making his palms numb.

  Tang San had long ago told Xiao Wu that he didn’t like seeing her use her body to twist around the opponents, she was after all a girl. Consequently, Xiao Wu’s Soft Skill had already changed a lot by now. The braid that had twisted around Dai Weisi’s neck tightened abruptly; and, having dodged behind Dai Weisi, her one foot supporting on the ground, Xiao Wu planted her other foot on Dai Weisi’s waist.

  First spirit ability, Waist Bow, launched.

  Xiao Wu’s entire body braced for a moment in that golden ring of light, just before erupting with her full strength.

  The effect of Paragon Golden Body had doubled her strength, and the Waist Bow boost doubled it once again. The force her seemingly slender body could exert right now was enough to induce terror
. Even a sixtieth rank Spirit Master would still find it impossible to resist when controlled by her.

  Dai Weisi shot out like an artillery shell, slamming directly into his comrades.

  And at this moment, with a tiger’s roar, Dai Mubai finally moved. Three White Tiger Light Waves shot out, and under the amplification of White Tiger Vajra Transformation, it forcibly obstructed the other several Star Luo Academy Spirit Masters from unleashing their spirit abilities.

  However, strangely, from the start of the match, the Shrek Seven Devils had never shown any intent of charging in to attack.

  The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda suddenly added another radiant stream, attack power boost; altogether two streams of light condensing on Zhu Zhuqing.

  With an immense sound, Zhu Zhuyun was shocked flying by Zhu Zhuqing’s instantly increased attack cat claws. Right now her face had already become extremely unsightly. She wasn’t losing to Zhu Zhuqing, but rather to the combination of Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong.

  The Shrek Seven Devils were always as one, and right now, these two sisters were both taking an equal share in scars and bruises.

  “Seven Devil riot.”

  A shout in a steady voice came from Tang San. Having constantly stored power, he finally moved. Left foot taking a step forward, that right fist stored full of deep blue radiance smashed the floor with a loud rumble.

  At the same time, behind Tang San, Oscar threw out altogether four stimulating pink sausages from his hands, each reaching Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun’s hands. He had naturally never stopped making sausages while Tang San stored power.

  Faint light flickering, Tang San’s face revealed a tyrannical expression, deep blue rays of light bursting from his fist in a flash.

  Being thrown by Xiao Wu, Dai Weisi was completely unable to control his body, and three of his companions had to join hands to catch him; but at this moment, time seemed to slow by half.

  Hong—— Chi——

  Along with a bizarre sound, a circle of deep blue hazy light quietly spread with the Star Luo Academy team at its center. The moment that hazy blue light had spread to its limit, suddenly, countless strands of Blue Silver Grass broke through the ground and shot up within the range of that hazy light, completely pushing all the Star Luo Academy team members into the air.

  Before this critical moment, the Star Luo team’s members only had time to release their protective spirit abilities. Right now, of the seven, only Zhu Zhuyun was slightly separated from the team; the other six were practically all together.

  The defense protected them, but, the Blue Silver Grass that stabbed them into the air seemed to have a peculiar stunning effect. The seven Star Luo Academy team members all sunk into a brief period of dizziness.

  Thousand Hands Asura Tang San, fourth spirit ability, Blue Silver Prison variant ability, Blue Silver Thrust, launched.

  This was the result of Tang San’s focused research. When Blue Silver Prison was used in live combat, it was Blue Silver Grass suddenly erupting from the ground, trapping the opponent within a cage. Since it was like this, what would the effect be if his entire spirit power was completely released on the Blue Silver Grass bursting from the ground?

  This made the Blue Silver Grass of the Blue Silver Prison extremely hard. If the opponent was a bit weak, he would be directly pierced through. It was also impossible for stronger opponents to escape this kind of area attack.

  Through experimentation, Tang San discovered that when his spirit power was condensed to a certain degree, Blue Silver Thrust could cause a brief stunning effect. The duration of this effect depended on the opponent’s strength.

  However, even more powerful opponents would still be stunned for at least a second.

  This discovery made Tang San expend a lot of effort to study this spirit ability. After all, it was a ten thousand year spirit ring’s ability, how could it be so simple? Blue Silver Prison itself had a stun effect, but it required the opponent to break open the cage to take effect; even so, the effect was exceptionally faint. When large numbers of Blue Silver Prisons erupted densely, the stun effects overlaid, immediately becoming clear.

  At present, Tang San’s research into this spirit ability still wasn’t completely mature, but he still had some certainty of restraining his opponents.

  In order to strengthen the effect of the spirit ability, Tang San had, from the start, used Ning Rongrong’s spirit power amplification and the attribute boost from Oscar’s stimulating pink sausage. Like this, the effect of his Blue Silver Thrust reached its maximum level the first time it was used on the battlefield.

  Even an opponent like Dai Weisi with much higher spirit power than him, would be stunned for more than three seconds right now. Moreover, even though all the opponents had blocked Blue Silver Thrust’s attack, they were still injured.

  Seven Devil Riot had begun the instant Tang San swung his fist.

  Bathing Fire Phoenix, Phoenix Ascension, two great spirit abilities simultaneously flashed from Ma Hongjun, this was his moment to shine.

  The fat body was covered with flame and soared up, leaving behind a trail of distorted light.

  Blue Silver Thrust disappeared the moment Ma Hongjun was about to land, and the place Ma Hongjun had picked was just perfect, just at the center of where Dai Weisi’s six people were gathered. Evil Fire Phoenix’ fourth spirit ability, Phoenix Cry Sky Strike, launched.

  With a distorted explosive sound, the terrifying effect of the follow-up restraining ability erupted.

  It was very difficult for the follow-up restraining ability to take effect, because of the small range necessitating proximity, generally speaking, it was very easy for the opponent to dodge.

  But when truly hit by it, the duration of the follow-up restraining effect would be a lot longer than the initial restraint.

  Unleashing the first part of Phoenix Cry Sky Strike made the almost sober Dai Weisi and the others instantly sink even deeper into dizziness.

  Immediately afterward, the ground and the air erupted practically simultaneously.

  White Tiger Meteor Shower rained from the sky, Phoenix Cry Sky Strike’s second part surged from the ground. The two great fourth spirit abilities simultaneously enveloped the six within their attack range.

  Yellow green light dispersed from Tang San’s palm. Due to the support of Ning Rongrong’s spirit power amplification, even after the enormous spirit power consumption of Blue Silver Thrust, he still had an abundant reserve. Ma Hongjun’s follow-up restraint encompassed all but one person, and this person was naturally left for Tang San.

  Spiderweb Restraint twisted around Zhu Zhuyun’s body the instant before she recovered from the stun, basically leaving her without the opportunity to save her comrades.

  Within the tremendous explosive rumble, miserable shrieks echoed from the location blasted by White Tiger Meteor Shower and Phoenix Cry Sky Strike simultaneously.

  In terms of burst power, what could be more powerful than the combined attacks of Phoenix and White Tiger?

  However, all this still wasn’t over.

  White Tiger leapt up, flickering with golden light, fusing together with that faintly black lit Civet in midair. The enormous Hell White Tiger once again appeared in front of everyone, and right now, the other two capable of using the same spirit fusion ability were trapped in different restraints.

  The violent pain made Dai Weisi sober from the dizziness, but he discovered with overwhelming shock that his White Tiger Vajra Transformation had already consumed a frightening degree of his spirit power, and two of the companions beside him had already lost consciousness.

  Consecutively erupting several major spirit abilities had already completely overdrawn Dai Mubai’s spirit power, but he and Zhu Zhuqing were still determined to use the Hell White Tiger. In this final moment, his and Zhu Zhuqing’s full potential erupted completely. The emotions suppressed for several years finally released. The enormous Hell White Tiger advanced with world dominating strides,
becoming a flowing and enormous surge of light in the air.

  Grandmaster had also heard Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s story. Before going up, he had given the Shrek Seven Devils some simple directions.

  The Grandmaster of a generation, Yu Xiao Gang had not only researched spirits, but was still a Grandmaster in Spirit Master tactics. He saw the opponents’ biggest weakness with a glance.

  Underestimating the enemy.

  At least, to the teams advancing from Star Luo Empire, it seemed that the reason Shrek Academy could advance to the third round was mostly related to their luck with the draw. From Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s descriptions, he immediately judged that it would be even easier for Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to have an attitude of underestimating the enemy.

  It was just because of this that Grandmaster told Tang San to go all out, showing no quarter. His directions to the Shrek Seven Devils was to erupt instantly, destroying the enemy.

  Part 2 (TL by Bagelson)

  Grandmaster’s directions naturally had a purpose. If they let the opponents completely unleash their strength, then even if the Shrek Seven Devils could obtain the ultimate victory in the match, it would be a pyrrhic one.

  At least the spirit fusion ability of the high spirit power Spirit Masters Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun could inflict heavy casualties on the Shrek Seven Devils.

  While underestimating their enemy, the opponents certainly wouldn’t reveal all their trumps from the start, but the Shrek Seven Devils did.

  From Tang San’s amplified fourth spirit ability Blue Silver Thrust, to the twin slaughter by Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, and again to this final Hell White Tiger attack.

  The Shrek Seven Devils undoubtedly revealed the peak of their strength.

  With the simultaneous amplifying effects of Oscar and Ning Rongrong on their comrades, the burst strength at this moment made the entire audience change color.

  Hong—— Without the least suspense, the already heavily injured six members simultaneously flew out of the ring from the Hell White Tiger’s powerful strike. The Hell White Tiger turned a beautiful circle in midair.