In a dark cave filled with dim reddish yellow light three boys appeared out of thin air, they were dressed in blue combat uniforms that actually had a visible silvery glint in this dim environment,
These three were Qian Kun, Yuan Beng and He Lisi, the three looked at each other and sudenly a screen materialized before them with some information,
You are at the 29th entrance of the Troll dungeon, your task is to eliminate all the guarding trolls in this path, the killing of each troll will earn the team two points, clearing the path earlier than expected will also contain additional rewards. Time limit is six hours.
With this the screen vanished, Qian Kun fhrn said that they need to get moving, as they moved he explained to He Lisi their situation, he says that in the training camp the main goal is training,
As they speak, their bodies in the pods are in the resting period, however their minds are still active. This is how they will be spending their nights till the end of the training, each night they face a simulated battle to get them accustomed to the different battle environments they may have to face in the future.
He reveals that the oldest age a recruit can be is thirteen, he reveals that he and Yuan Beng are just twelve years old but He Lisi is even younger than them, he says that previously they had a third brother.
His name was Pang Jin and he came from the Pang family, Qian Kun said that like it explained everything, He Lisi said that he doesn't originate on Douluo star, he says that he is an orphan and his teacher found him on Tiandou star.
After worshiping him as a teacher he followed his teacher to Douluo star which has become his new home now, he reveals that he doesnt know much about this place, in fact he doesnt know anything about this place at all.
The two of them look at eachother and an understanding passes between them, Yuan Beng reveals that he and Qian Kun are orphans too, he says that he came from Mingdu city however his family was usurped by some other big family.
After his father died in the federation wars, his family didn't have anyone to support it anymore, as a soul douluo his father protected them but with his death no one else would. He says that his mother came from a big family and they usurped his family.
He reveals that after the family was usurped his mother was remarried and Yuan Beng was left abandoned in the family where he was mistreated on a daily basis, he says that on one occasion they even attempted to kill him off in the disguise of an accident.
Luckily at that time his father's old friend was passing by and he happened to see this situation, he approached the family and requested custody of Yuan Beng which the family granted happing without any second thought.
He then says that his mother didn't even care when she learned that Yuan Beng had been taken away, so he followed his new rescuer and worshiped him as a teacher, his teacher brought him to the Tang sect and registered him as a trainee.
That was four months ago and since then he has been living in the sect, he then turns to Qian Kun who also explains his situation, he says that he doesn't know much about his origins, he was born on the battle field in space, his mother and father belonged to the Tang Army however they were tragically lost in battle,
He says that he has heard that he had a Tian brother however his whereabouts are unknown, he says that he was rescued and raised within the Tang sect and when he made twelve years old he chose to join the Tang Army, he reveals that the three of them are orphans and if they want to he could accept the two of them as his brothers.
He Lisi says that he has never had a family all his life, he goes on to reveal his life story to them. When he is done the sorrow in the two of them was astounding, they thought their situations were bad but he didn't even have a name, his was given to him by his teacher,
He didn't even have a martial soul until two weeks ago and he is already at rank 16, Qian Kun then says that he will do his beat to help out, he says that it already shows remarkable talent that He Lisi can reach his current strength in just two weeks,
He says that his strength just recently broke through the 32nd rank and Yuan Beng reached rank 28, however compared to He Lisi they are still lacking in talent, He Lisi smiles and says that it could just be accumulated energy from the delayed awakening, in fact he may be worse than them seeing as he hasn't even awakened his bloodline yet and the two of them already have their bloodlines awakened.
Yuan Beng says that their bloodlines only awakened because of the stimulation of endless battles they have been undergoing for months, he says that with He Lisi's talent it won't be long before his bloodline awakens, he suspects it may happen before he even reaches rank 20.
He Lisi simply smiles and asks what they meant by the Pang family, Yuan Beng says that the Pang family is the home of his mother Pang Yi, it's an ancient family that happens to inherit the bloodline of an ancient beast called the Golden Roc bird.
He says that their ancestor was a 299,999 year old Golden Roc bird great beast that failed to surpass his second heavenly tribulation, at he last minute he chose to reincarnated as a human being and trained once again until he broke through the god level, he is currently one of the War gods of the War god hall.
Because of this his family enjoys a prestigious reputation on Douluo star, however they haven't used their name for good, he says that his father Yuan Xue was a lone soul master with an ancient bloodline as well, he had manifested the Wing dragon king martial soul and bloodline.
Although the war god temple tried several times to recruit him he turned them down as he didn't want to choose between sides, he was a student of Shrek academy and his beat friend had joined the Tang sect while his girlfriend came from the War god hall.
He says that to maintain peace he joined the Federal army and quickly rose through the ranks, he started his own family not wanting to join the Pang family, however with his death all his efforts went in vain.
He reveals that Pang Jin is the young master of fhe Pang family, when he learned that Yuan Beng had joined the Tang sect he too came and made an application, because of his talent he was given a chance but little did they know he had only joined Tang sect to torture his cousin Yuan Beng.
Pang Jin tried many underhanded methods to end Yuan Beng's life but they all failed, although the sect was patient, their tolerance came to its limit and he was expelled with the family even ordered to reimburse the training expenses spent on their son.
But before he left he said something that has always bothered Yuan Beng, he said that no wonder his father fell so easily, it seems the Pang family knew of the circumstances that led to his father's death, he says that he doesn't have much evidence right now so he cannot prove it.
However when he gets stronger in the future he will pursue this matter, Qian Kun then says that they all need to get stronger and when the time is right they will help eachother out. The three of them make an agreement and although they may not know it yet they had forged a life long bond.
Just then they encountered their first troll, instantly they all summoned their martisl souls and weapons, Qian Kun summoned a sword in his hand and looking atvthe sword He Lisi was shocked, it looked just like his martial sword except the attributes were reversed,
His sword was jade white with a fiery gold hilt and red-gold inlaid suns, what he was looking at was the same except the sword was jade black with a silver hilt however the silver was the silver of the ice atrribute, on the sword blade were nine silver blue moons radiating cold light.
It was the reverse of his own sword and when he summoned his sword even Qian Kun was confused temporarily, as the two of them stared at each other's sword they were distracted and were almost mowed down by the troll, luckily Yuan Beng was there and he moved the two of them out of the line of attack saving their lives.
The two came back to their senses instantly Qian Kun sudenely released a terrifying cold aura, his body swelled to twice his size, silver markings appeared on his skin and his forehead just as two silver black horns bore out of the sides of his head, these were curved bull horns with silver stripes as well.
He rose to over 2 meters tall and a silver blue tail appeared behind him, three purple soul rings appeared around him instantly and the first soul ring was radiating purple light signifying that it had been activated, on the side Yuan Beng had also already transformed, he had a diamond shaped crystalline cyan dragon scale on his forehead, his eyes had turned into vertical blue green dragon eyes,
His skin was coated with illusory small but exquisite cyan dragon scales, two wings spread from his back and they had golden feathers, these were the wings of a roc bird except they had a fine layer of cyan scales below the feathers, He held in his hand a long golden spear and two purple rings rose around him with the first one radiating purple light meaning it was activated as well.
As for He Lisi he summoned his single purple soul ring but his body didnt change much, he simply radiated heat and light just from holding his sword, Qian Kun stared at him and said that they will have a discussion after dealing with the troll to which He Lisi replied with a nod.
The troll turned back to them and snarled, it released a dangerous aura that was actually slightly higher than Qian Kun's aura, this troll was comparable to a peak soul elder and the three of them had to face it, Woelding his sword Qian Kun Lunged at the beast directky.
At that moment the three of them radiated three bright auras of silver-blue, cyan and red-gold, the fight didn't actually last as long as they had thought, As Qian Kun lunged forward so did He Lisi Wielding his sword, the two triggered their sword intent and a miracle apeared,
As He Lisi triggered his golden sword intent and Qian Kun triggered his silver sword intent, the two sword intents overlapped with eachother and in that moment they fused generating a single silver gold sword shadow radiating terrible killing intent,
The sword shadow approaches the troll and seemingly vaporized it in an instant, the troll couldn't even fight back under the absolute supression often sword intent, as if to prove a point the system dinged in their minds and they checked to see that gwe points had been credited to their team.
Appearing right beside them with a gust of wind Yuan Beng simply asked how this was possible, he didn't have to elaborate much as it was certain what he was talking about, Qian Kun said that he was told by his teacher that his Jade moon sword was a mutation that appeared once in a lifetime.
He says that it was unique innits own way and its likeness had never appeared in the federation, because of this he was advised to first train his Taotie divine bull martial soul which had also mutated from it's original Ultimate earth element to moonlight and earth power,
He says that when He Lisi said his martial soul was the Jade sun sword he thought it was just a coincidence that the names resembled but he didn't know the swords would be identical as well, the fusion of their sword intent also implies that the two swords have a deeper connection.
Yuan Beng then asked whether it was possible that the two of them could develop a martisl soul fusion ability. Qian Kun said it could be possible bit they cannot know it yet, he says that he will request his teacher fr guidance when they wake up in the morning.
For now they just need to pass through the dungeon, everyone agreed to this and they moved forward, He Lisi then asked whether Qian Kun had twin martial souls and Qian Kun nodded in affirmation, He says that his teacher won't tell him much about his parents but all he knows is that their martial souls created a mutation in him.
The Taotie divine bull is a rare martial soul of the ultimate earth element said to contain ancient dragon blood, however the Taotie he awakened was different, for one it wasnt brown gold like normal taotie but it was pitch black with silver stripes,
Secondly his Taotie actually has teo emerging wings although they aren't fully developed like the beast hasn't matured into it's full form, however in addition to that he also developed a tool martial soul which was also a mutation in it's own.
He says that his teacher said that all will be explained when Qian Kun reached the seventh ring but that was still far away in the mean time of they could find a way of manifesting this fusion ability their chances of success in the future will skyrocket and there is even a possibility that they will be nurtured as special seeds by the sect.
A martisl soul fusion ability of their level isn't something that happens so easily, as they went forward in the tunnel, they found that the sword intent of the two of them seemed to act on it's own eliminating the trolls without putting up much of a fight, inaddition the feedback from the two swords was beneficial in the development of their sword intent making it even deeper.
Within just two hours they had eliminated all thr trolls in their tunnel and appeared at the team gathering point, they were the first ro arrive having taken only a third of the time required, as such their team was credited an additional 100 points on top of the 400 points they had collected killing trolls in their tunnel.
Obtaining a combined total of 500 points their team jumped to the top of the table leaving the other teams in the dust, now all they had to do was wait patient for the others to arrive so they can face the troll king.