Chapter 3: Central Wu Earth Qi
The next day, early morning.
Before the sky was even bright, a carriage rushed towards the direction of the Spirit Hall. Inside the carriage were naturally Zhou Chen, Tang San, and Old Jack.
Nuoding City's Spirit Hall was located in the center of the city. It was a huge domed building. The width of the front alone exceeded one hundred meters, and it was twenty meters high.
The entire building was brown. The symbol on the main gate featured only a single long sword. This represented that the Nuoding City Spirit Hall was the lowest level of Spirit Branch Hall.
At this time, the square at the entrance of the Spirit Hall was already a sea of people. This made Old Jack and Tang San admire Zhou Chen's foresight.
After getting off the carriage, Old Jack led the two of them over.
"Halt. Queue up. Can't you see the square full of people?"
The two guards at the gate crossed their long halberds, blocking the path.
Old Jack was unhurried. He took out a badge from his bosom. The character "Su" was written in large letters on the badge.
Seeing this badge, the pupils of one of the older guards constricted immediately, and he hurriedly said: "It turns out to be... Please, please enter."
"Many thanks."
Old Jack said politely, then led the two into the main hall.
Then, Old Jack found a secret room with familiarity and knocked on the door. It seemed the deacon he made an appointment with yesterday was inside.
"Come in, all of you."
A faint voice sounded from inside the secret room. Old Jack then pushed the door open and entered with Zhou Chen and Tang San.
Inside the secret room, there was a youth in his twenties. He had sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes. Although he was not even half as good-looking as Zhou Chen, he was still quite handsome.
He wore a white outfit with a black cloak behind his back. In the center of his chest, there was a "Spirit" character. On his left chest was a badge with three crossed long swords, representing the third rank of spirit master, the Great Spirit Master.
At this moment, the more Zhou Chen looked at this man, the more familiar he felt. associating this with the badge containing the "Su" character that Old Jack showed just now, his heart skipped a beat.
Damn, what a coincidence?
"Hello, respected Battle Spirit Grandmaster. We will be troubling you this time."
Old Jack bowed to the male youth with slight respect. The male youth revealed a faint arrogance between his brows and bowed slightly indifferently, considering it a return of the greeting.
"Old gentleman, you go out first. The ceremony cannot be disturbed." The male youth made a gesture of invitation.
"Okay."
Old Jack nodded; he knew this rule. Thus, he immediately walked out of the secret room and closed the door.
"Little friends, let's start."
The male youth's gaze fell on Zhou Chen and Tang San, and he spoke gently.
"Wait."
Zhou Chen suddenly spoke.
"What is it?"
The male youth looked at Zhou Chen and frowned.
"I want to ask a question."
Zhou Chen's eyes gradually became playful: "Su Yuntao, Level 26 Battle Spirit Grandmaster, Martial Soul Lone Wolf?"
"Huh? How do you know?"
Su Yuntao was instantly confused. He looked down at Zhou Chen and suddenly felt this kid was very strange.
"Because you are famous far and wide, Grandmaster Su."
Zhou Chen 'complimented' with a sincere expression, but he couldn't help laughing wildly in his heart.
The legendary Number One Jinx of Douluo Continent, the gravedigger of the Spirit Hall, Su Yuntao. This young master has finally met you today!
"Famous far and wide? You flatter me, you flatter me."
Hearing Zhou Chen's 'compliment', Su Yuntao actually took it seriously.
He pretended to be humble and waved his hand, saying: "Just a little undeserved fame, not worth mentioning. Let's not mention it, I will awaken your Martial Souls first."
Speaking, Su Yuntao uncovered the dust cloth covering the ground, revealing a hexagonal formation embedded with six black circular stones. Then he took out a blue crystal ball used to test soul power.
"You come first."
Su Yuntao pointed at the relatively obedient Tang San, signaling him to walk into that hexagonal stone formation.
"Do not be afraid."
Saying that, Su Yuntao shouted in a low voice: "Lone Wolf, possess."
Instantly, green light appeared suddenly. His body swelled abruptly. Many gray hairs appeared on his limbs. Ten wolf claws also extended from his hands. Two soul rings, one white and one yellow, were slowly rising from under his feet.
Seeing Su Yuntao turn into this appearance of neither human nor dog, although Tang San was surprised, he did not show it. Zhou Chen was even more extremely calm.
And very quickly, just like the original plot, Tang San awakened the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. And the soul power rank was impressively Innate Full Soul Power!
"Sigh, it is a pity that Blue Silver Grass is a waste Martial Soul."
Su Yuntao muttered a sentence. With quite some regret, he took the crystal ball from Tang San's hand and handed it to Zhou Chen.
"Little friend, it is your turn. Just right, let's test soul power first."
"En."
Zhou Chen nodded and extended his hand. He also wanted to see what the difference was between the mysterious energy produced by the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon hidden in his body and the soul power of the Douluo Continent.
"Buzz!"
Just as he pasted his palm onto the crystal ball, Zhou Chen felt a strong suction force, frantically sucking the energy inside his body into the crystal ball!
At the same time, the crystal ball also lit up. The dazzling blue light became extremely bright in the blink of an eye, filling the entire secret room. It also reflected the faces of everyone present into blue!
"Unexpectedly also Innate Full Soul Power!"
Su Yuntao was inexplicably shocked in his heart. He really wanted to know, how could this Innate Full Soul Power, which is hard to meet in a hundred years, appear in clusters like Chinese cabbage?
However, the next second, he had no time to think.
Because, the dazzling blue light inside the crystal ball was gradually transforming into another color—gold!
At the very beginning, only the part of the crystal ball in contact with Zhou Chen's palm was turning gold. But gradually, the golden rays of light spread continuously, gradually filling the entire crystal ball, and began to spread outwards!
"Boom!!"
When the gold color inside the crystal ball was brilliant to the extreme, circles of visible golden light waves surged out with Zhou Chen as the center. A vigorous oppression like a mountain also shrouded the entire secret room along with it!
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
Instantly, cracking sounds rang out continuously. On the surface of the sturdy crystal ball, strips of fine cracks like spider webs began to appear!
At this time, Su Yuntao and Tang San only felt that their eyes were full of a golden world. Circles of golden light waves washed over their bodies, making them feel as if they were carrying a mountain on their backs!
This was soul power pressure!
In just an instant, Tang San was knocked down to the ground by this soul power pressure. Only Su Yuntao, who had the highest soul power rank, was still struggling to support himself.
"Stop, quickly... quickly take your hand off the crystal!"
Su Yuntao hunched his waist and forcibly leaned over, wanting to reach out and pull Zhou Chen away from the crystal.
However, the closer he got to Zhou Chen, the greater the soul power pressure he endured. Even his own bones were crushed to the point of creaking. So much so that just as he touched the corner of Zhou Chen's clothes, he was already pressed prostrate on the ground!
And Zhou Chen had unspeakable suffering at this time.
The mysterious energy in his body was completely out of his control at this moment, surging wantonly towards that crystal ball like a surging river. His whole person had even lost the ability to move!
If this went on, he would definitely be sucked dry!
"Ding... Central Wu Earth Qi activated. Adapting to soul power rules..."
"System, what the hell are you doing? Stop it for me quickly!" Zhou Chen shouted wildly in his heart.
"Ding... The energy in the Host's body is the Central Wu Earth Qi from the beginning of the Primordial Era! This Qi conflicts fiercely with the soul power rules of the Douluo Planet. Therefore, it needs to adapt to the soul power rules, otherwise the Host will explode and die!"
Hearing these words, Zhou Chen was instantly terrified.
Cherishing his life, he began to calm down, cooperating with the system to try his best to control the energy surging wantonly in his body.
(End of this chapter)