The Legend of the Dragon King - Chapter 360

Chapter 360

Chapter 360 – Charging Through the Tower

As soon as it completely took shape, the illusory spirit pagoda faded away, and moments later, the hall was empty once more . Octagonal in shape, the hall had a diameter of at least three hundred meters . Tang Wulin’s team of seven stood in the center of the hall . Eight doors, each ten meters tall and five meters wide, surrounded the students, towering before them .

“Yuanen, Zhengyu, triangle formation . Xie Xie, adapt to the situation . Gu Yue, Xiaoyan, Lizhi, stay in the center,” Tang Wulin barked as he stepped forward to form one of the triangle’s points . Yuanen Yehui and Yue Zhengyu immediately did as they were told and moved into position .

And three soul rings appeared beneath Xu Lizhi, all of them purple .

Tang Wulin was certain that Xu Lizhi only had two yellow soul rings the last time he saw him . Shock filled him as he realized that Xu Lizhi’s spirit soul had ascended . He knew just how hard it was for a food-type soul master to have their spirit soul ascend, especially when they already had two soul rings .

“I have a pork bun,” Xu Lizhi muttered, and his first soul ring lit up . A pork bun appeared in his hands and he threw it to Tang Wulin, who caught it and devoured it two bites . Warmth filled Tang Wulin after eating the bun . His blood essence roared and his mind sharpened . He and Xu Lizhi truly were a perfect match! Xu Lizhi recited the chant several more times and distributed buns to the rest of the team . These pork buns restored their stamina and soul power, as well as providing some basic healing . Without looking back at Xu Lizhi, Tang Wulin gave him a thumbs up .

At that moment, a low rumble resounded throughout the hall as all eight doors slowly slid open .

Just beyond the doors, dozens of green eyes peered through the darkness at Tang Wulin’s team .

“They’re wolf-type soul beasts,” Xie Xie said . “They excel at attacking in packs . ”

Tang Wulin firmly met the gazes of the predatory eyes . His three purple soul rings rose up while bluesilver grass began swarming out of the ground around him, swiftly slithering outward to cover a radius of around a dozen meters .

“Conserve your soul power . We won’t have a chance to rest as we climb the tower,” said Gu Yue .  

This was everyone’s first time here . Even Yue Zhengyu didn’t have the strength to participate in the tower attack when he got his first soul . No one within a three-year age range of him had been able to help him either, so there was no point in him even trying back then .

After distributing pork buns, Xu Lizhi sat down on the floor and began meditating . He was no combatant . In spite of that, Tang Wulin had undoubtedly been right to invite Xu Lizhi . Although he couldn’t fight, his support would allow them to endure longer and display even more strength .

Soul beasts began pouring out of the doors, wolves with dark-green fur and emerald eyes . They were wind wolves, a type of soul beast usually found in forests . Despite the fact that none of them were powerful alone, they were terrifying in packs . Their strength lay in their numbers and how they didn’t fear death . They would attack until either they or their prey were wiped out .

Over a hundred wind wolves surrounded Tang Wulin’s team . The wolves slowly circled around the seven students, gradually drawing closer and closer . This was just the first floor of the spirit soul tower, and they were beginning to understand just what sort of challenges awaited them now .

“Stay back, everyone . Gu Yue and I will take care of this,” said Tang Wulin .

Yuanen Yehui stood stock still while Yue Zhengyu withdrew his soul rings . In order to advance as far as possible, they had to work as a team and take advantage of each other’s strengths .

The wolves drew nearer, but had yet to breach the domain of Tang Wulin’s bluesilver grass . They continued watching from the perimeter, patiently waiting for an opportunity to pounce . The seven that made up Tang Wulin’s team remained unmoving . The battle would begin the moment either side took action .

Tang Wulin looked at the wolves with contempt, and the bluesilver grass suddenly stirred, shooting out like vipers and binding several wolves . The grass then yanked the wolves toward Tang Wulin . A wall of earth erupted from the ground, protecting everyone but Tang Wulin, and the pouncing wolves crashed into it .

As if he had just poked the hornet’s nest, the wolves reacted instantly, swarming toward him in a ferocious onslaught . Wind wolves had the innate ability to lash out with blades of wind, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of criss-crossing wind blades slashed at the earth wall . Most of the wolves, however, focused on Tang Wulin, and although he wasn’t protected by the first earth wall, another sprang up to defend him from the slicing winds . He thrust his hands into that giant wall and hoisted it into the air, using it like a shield against the onslaught of attacks .

All of the wind wolves pounced at Tang Wulin at the same time, but his second soul ring lit up . Spears of bluesilver grass skewered the closest ones mid-air . Many of the wolves were impaled through their stomachs by the grass spears, and all of them went rigid upon getting struck . At the same time, an icy light burst from the center of the earth wall, shooting three meters into the air and exploded into a storm of countless jagged icicles .

A baptism of ice rained down upon the wind wolves, every single icicle aimed at their eyes .

Death came for the wolves, raining from above and piercing up from below . Tang Wulin’s Bluesilver Impaling Array stabbed them from the ground and Gu Yue’s icicles speared them from the sky .

Everyone knew that wolf-type soul beasts had bones as hard as metal, but their bellies were as soft as tofu . As a result, most soul masters took advantage of that . However, be it the lowliest soul beast or a tyrannical overlord, the eyes were always a weak point . If the icicles were just an inch off target, they would harmlessly shatter against the hard skulls of the wolves . However, they struck the eyes with keen accuracy .

The grass spears swiftly withdrew and the earth wall collapsed . When Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui stepped out from the rubble, they only saw was a sea of corpses . The sight stunned them . Not a single wolf had survived .

They understood how amazing such a feat was . After they were enclosed in the earth wall, Tang Wulin displayed powerful crowd control abilities and restrained all of the wolves . But that wasn’t what amazed them . The truly amazing person was Gu Yue, who had masterfully directed hundreds of icicles to pierce through the eyes of all the wolves! Not a single wolf didn’t have an icicle sprouting from their eye sockets . They couldn’t even begin to fathom just how much spiritual power she possessed . Even Tang Wulin, as familiar as he was with Gu Yue, turned to look at her in surprise . Her spiritual power had definitely progressed by leaps and bounds once again . There was no way she would be able to control each and every icicle so precisely otherwise . Tang Wulin had thought that he and Xie Xie would need to clean up the stragglers .

But Gu Yue proved him wrong .