33 Chapter 33 Self-Condensed Soul Rings, Tang Hao's Suspicion.

Tang Hao glared at Rayne with hatred.

"You monster… you'll pay for this one day!" Tang Hao uttered while glaring at Rayne with aggression.

Rayne frowned upon hearing this. He appeared before Tang Hao in an instant and kicked him the face, sending him sliding on the ground, leaving a trial.

"Don't make it look like you're the victim here. You reap what you sow. Your current pathetic situation is the consequences of your own actions."

"Don't forget. You're the one who started this."

Rayne sneered at Tang Hao. At the same time, he was observing a certain energy hidden within Tang Hao's martial soul.

This certain energy is the divine power of Asura God hidden in Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer, along with Death God Domain.

The quantity alone even faintly surpassed that of the energy hidden in Xiao Wu.

Rayne slowly walked towards the fallen Tang Hao, with an indifferent expression.

Seeing Rayne come towards him with a condescending manner, Tang Hao's eyes briefly flashed with cruelty.

When Rayne had reached about ten meters in range, Tang Hao jumped up and erupted with enormous power.

His soul rings appeared, and his last four soul rings also exploded.

"Die! Great Sumeru Hammer!" Tang Hao swung his hammer at Rayne in a manner, which he believed to be unexpected.

At the same time, Rayne who was observing Tang Hao noticed a movement in Asura God's divine energy within him.

'As I thought. This divine energy has a rule added to it. The only function is to temporarily amplify Tang Hao's power greatly. It is most likely due to this that Tang Hao managed to beat Qian Xunji, despite the three or four level difference. At the same time, it will also send a hidden signal to Asura God himself.' Rayne thought, as everything was moving in a very slow motion.

'I can't really get the attention of God Realm for my personal reasons. But fortunately, I happen to have the perfect Divine Tool for suppressing and sealing energy, especially divine power.'

"Bind him, Chains of Heaven." Rayne whispered.

Then, in Tang Hao's eyes of disbelief, about a dozen of golden chains came out of nowhere, and bound him in place.

Tang Hao reacted quickly and wanted to get rid of the golden chains.

And to Tang Hao's shock, all the energy within him was suppressed to the level of a normal human. Not even a trace of his energy leaked out. Everything was completely sealed within his body.

Seeing the Asura divine energy being completely suppressed in Tang Hao's body, without getting a chance to activate it's designated abilities… Rayne secretly nodded.

His Super Divine Tool, Chains of Heaven, is the most feared artifact in Divine Realm. This is solely because of its absolute suppression of all sorts of divine powers and authorities. It's main ability is to suppress the bound targets energy to almost null.

Although it can't exert it's full capabilities because of Rayne's current strength, there is no problem in suppressing everyone below God-level.

Rayne looked at the bound Tang Hao and whispered, "Before killing you, let's make full use of you."

"I was planning on doing this after I had collected enough energy resources. But you look like a decent replacement."

A transparent energy dome spread out from Rayne, covering him and the chain bound Tang Hao.

This was an energy barrier generated from the power of Chains of Heaven. Within this space, nothing can be detected from the outside.

Rayne sensed weak mental power from the surrounding blue silver grasses, observing him and Tang Hao, since the beginning of their confrontation. Now, this very weak mental power showed some intense fluctuations.

Rayne could guess the source of this weak mental power. It was most likely the Blue Silver Empress Ah Yin.

'As expected of a singular monarch species of a wide spread plant race. Even in its weak state, it is still able to observe the world by sharing senses with other Blue Silver Grasses.' Rayne thought.

[Ding! An Elite Quest has been generated.]

"Hm? System? What's going on? Are the quests supposed to be so frequent?" Rayne asked in his mind, puzzled by the high rate of quest triggering.

[Reminder: The chances of triggering quests greatly increase when characters with greater roles in the original work, is involved.]

[Quest: Curiosity for Truth and Punishment for Spying.

Task: (1) Have Tang Hao talk about the incident of Ah Yin's Sacrifice. (2) Make Ah Yin hear a heartbreaking truth.

Reward: Sacred Evil-Cleansing Pill, Dragon Phoenix Cauldron (Ninth Class Soul Tool).

Penalty: None.]

"…" Rayne looked at the quest and the rewards. The quest simply required Tang Hai to talk about the incident back then, not the so-called truth. As for the heartbreaking truth for Ah Yin, revealing some things about Tang San would suffice.

Before the simulations, Rayne was looking forward to taking Ah Yin for himself. But now, he doesn't care much.

He has understood that, trying to conquer these kinds of women who are obsessed with their so-called love, is simply a fools behavior. Their so-called love where they will give up everything or do some atrocious acts for someone, regardless of right or wrong, is nothing but a mental illness in Rayne's eyes.

So, he doesn't have much intention for Ah Yin at this point.

Rayne continued to deploy the energy barrier. Only the senses of Blue Silver Empress Ah Yin was allowed to sense what was happening inside.

After the energy barrier was created, Rayne summoned his Blue Silver Grass martial soul in his left hand.

Then, he started to circulate his soul power in a peculiar pattern within his body. His soul power poured into the Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

With the infusion of his soul power, the Blue Silver Grass martial spirit started to glow. It started to emit faint life energy, which is slowly getting stronger. The emitted energy turned into thousands of white light spots.

"…" Tang Hao couldn't understand what this monster was doing. Although, he seems to feel a sense of déjà vu, as if he's seen something similar before.

And in a few seconds, tiny spots of white light started to gather into two parts above the Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

Then, under Tang Hao's shocked eyes, the white lights gathered to form two white soul rings.

"You… what are you… Are you a soul beast…?" Tang Hao was completely baffled. He also understood his sense of déjà vu. Although most of the process was different, the feeling he got from watching Rayne condense these two soul rings were the same as that of Blue Silver Empress Ah Yin.

But what really confused Tang Hao was… Why was this monster condensing soul rings at this time, in front of him?

Rayne watched indifferently as the two white soul rings sank into his Blue Silver Grass. It was absorbed almost instantly.

His soul power level also broke past it's limit, almost reaching level 21.

After all this was over, Rayne looked at the confused Tang Hao and slowly said.

"Now that the preparations are done, let's get to the main event."

Rayne jumped off the ground lightly, and floated to the chain bound Tang Hao.

Under his confused eyes, Rayne put his hand with Kāma markings on Tang Hao's shoulder.

"…" Tang Hao was silent. He knew that his end is approaching. He wasn't afraid of death before Tang San had awakened his martial souls. But he is afraid of death now, especially when he now has the hope of vengeance via Tang San.

At this moment, Yu Xiaogang's face appeared in his mind. Tang Hao was suddenly filled with resentment towards Yu Xiaogang in his heart.

"Damn you, Yu Xiaogang!"

Tang Hao felt that he most likely wouldn't have gotten into this certain death situation, if it wasn't for Yu Xiaogang's instigation.

In fact, when he had first known of Rayne's identity as Ordeaz's son, Tang Hao was quite dismissive about it. He wasn't bored enough to target a six-year-old child.

Later, it was only under Yu Xiaogang's clever use of words that, Tang Hao's hatred for Ordeaz was re-ignited.

Even though Yu Xiaogang tried to convince Tang Hao to spare Rayne later on, it was only for his selfish motives.

Rayne heard Tang Hao cursing Yu Xiaogang. He had an intrigued expression.

Rayne: "Do you hate Yu Xiaogang?"

"…" Tang Hao didn't reply. He was still struggling to break free from the Chains of Heaven.

"Well, don't worry too much. Yu Xiaogang will pay the price. That pretentious scum dared to act as if he can decide my life and death, just because he got a thug like you." Rayne said.

"Let's begin my soul ring ascension."

A horrifying suction force erupted from Rayne's hand, terrifying Tang Hao.

Tang Hao's soul power and the Asura divine energy hidden in him, was drawn in by the Kāma seal.

At the same time, Rayne also started to absorb the Asura divine energy he had got from Xiao Wu.

Within this energy barrier, the disappearance of the divine energy won't get Asura God's immediate attention. Though it will be discovered soon, it won't be now.

All these energies were purified and transformed into energy essence with no attributes or traits by the Kāma seal.

Rayne infused these pure energy essence into his Blue Silver Grass. The Blue Silver Grass started to pulsate, as if a heart was beating loudly.

The two white rings started to change.

From yellow to purple. Slowly it was getting even darker, getting closer to black, ten thousand years level.

As more energy was poured in, the soul ring's age and quality started to improve greatly.

At the same time, his soul power level was also slowly increasing.

After about an hour, Rayne had completely absorbed the two bundles of Asura God divine energy and Tang Hao's cultivation.

His current soul power level is level 25. And both of his soul rings have an age of about 25,000-years. This is only the initial state. The quality of his soul ring will only continue to grow, since they are self-condensed soul rings.

Honestly speaking, a great amount of God King's divine energy and the full cultivation of a level 95 Super Douluo, can make even a pig reach level 97+ or more than 400,000-years of soul beast cultivation, if properly refined.

But Rayne is in a troubled state right now.

His Kāma martial soul has gained a lot of biological data from the simulated lives.

Now, these data are being slowly extracted and downloaded into Rayne's body. To put it simply, he is currently in a constant state of evolution.

He had gained Infinity Dragon bloodline from the simulation rewards. But that bloodline is from the period when Rayne had just become a God in the first timeline. You know, the bloodline has undergone massive upgrades since then. Even his Six Eyes seemed to have gained new powers.

Now his Kāma martial soul is extracting all these upgraded biological data into Rayne. The process itself will take about eight to twelve years, because of the enormous amount of data.

But because of this, Rayne's combat power and Life level is increasing drastically. Also because of this upgrade, the energy needed by Rayne for upgrades have increased even further.

Even in the past era, where the natural energy of Douluo planet was thousands of times what it is now, Rayne had to hunt down more than eight hundred dragon soul beasts, that had more than 500,000-year cultivation, to devour their cultivation to advance. There is a reason why he was feared by many soul beast races before he became a god.

In this present era, the Douluo planet doesn't have much resources or energy. Even, it can barely allow one God to appear every ten thousand years. Any more than that, will affect the 'vitality' of the planet.

Thankfully, Rayne doesn't exactly need to worry about his soul power level. The system sign-in will give him three levels of soul power every year. So he doesn't have to drain this planet of its energy.

…

Tang Hao was barely awake. Because of him using exploding rings, the power of his soul rings were also of absorbed by Rayne with the Kāma seal. Because of this, Tang Hao lost all of his soul rings and cannot be recovered.

He can now be considered as, being turned into crippled soul master.

Rayne looked at his hand and frowned. When he absorbed the exploded fragments of Tang Hao's ninth red soul ring, he understood some things.

"So that's how it is… Even Blue Silver Empress was part of that trash's calculations. I always felt it odd as to why Blue Silver Empress, of all soul beasts, chose to transform into human. It obviously has the ability to overcome the thunder tribulations with it's incredible vitality." Rayne muttered to himself.

Rayne looked at Tang Hao, who was almost dead. He used the absorption ability of Kāma seal once again.

Just like he did with Yu Xiaogang, Rayne deprived the origin power of Clear Sky Hammer from Tang Hao and stored it in his Gate of Ashburn. He has a plan on how to use these martial soul origin essences.

At this point, Tang Hao was nearly dead. He was hanging on to the last trace of life.

Rayne looked at him and said, "It's about time I seal the deal."

He pointed his palm at Tang Hao, and a black energy started to condense. The black energy gave off a very destructive and eerie aura. Tang Hao felt his very soul shudder.

This is a killing method that utilises the concept and traits of Death and Spiritual Destruction.

When he said kill, Rayne meant to destroy Tang Hao's soul in its entirety. The cycle of reincarnation of this planet is a complete mess. To the point where, Gods can casually resurrect people, if their some of their soul still exists. Mind you, this is a God that doesn't have much achievements in the concepts of Life and Death.

In many worlds, the cycle of reincarnation can't be messed with, even by strongest of Gods.

Tang Hao feebly raised his head and looked at the black energy gathering. He understood that his death is unavoidable at this point.

As he looked at Rayne, Tang Hao suddenly thought of something.

He asked, "I… actually have something.. to ask you?"

Rayne: "…. What?"

Tang Hao: "Why are… you so strong at such a.. young age? Are you by some chance… forcibly occupying that body?"

Rayne raised his eyebrows a bit, as he looked at Tang Hao.

"Are you asking me this because of your son's suspicious behaviors over the years?"