Chapter 77: War on Star Luo Finale

Chapter 77: War on Star Luo Finale

Word count = 2823 on 9/8/2023

"Sorry big cat, had to do it. I have more entertaining guests to serve. Come out come out wherever you are" Xue Tie says as he is immediately surrounded by 13 cloaked figures that all seem strikingly the same.

"Damn, there's a lot of you. I'm gonna have to restart my count. TRES"

A red thing encircles all 15 people. 3 of them move towards him with various daggers or swords. The ones with daggers strike first but only deliver a small cut on Xue Tie but that heals as his foot is still on Zhu Zhiyuns head. The vampirism in effect. The swords inflict much more damage, being able to actually cut Xue Tie. After them is one fellow who has a barrel-like hammer that crashes down on Xue Tie's head. It's only for this one that Xue Tie activates immutable again for.

All 15 of these fellows have a glow around them that indicates that they are buffed in some way, so while the dagger and sword didn't do much. It's in the perspective that Xue Tie's body is ungodly strong and slashing weapons do so little to him. He only defends against the hammer precisely because his internal organs aren't reinforced and the shock can hurt him.

Once Xue Tie tanks the hammer, and is buried a bit into the ground. Earth spikes manifest around his protected face but he activates his fire tornado (A/N: blood vortex, it's the real name but it's a bit edgy which is why i keep calling it fire tornado, it has a higher chance of causing bleed proc due to constant damage which is where the blood comes from) once more to break the ground and knockback his enemies. He is encircled by the 15 while Huang Zhizhi and Dai Zi Bai are in the background. Unfortunately for them, Zhu Zhiyun is dead due to the fire tornado. Xue Tie recovered because of that.

"So, does anyone wanna tell me who they are or why they are attacking me? No wait, I can figure this out. You're definitely not from Spirit Hall since I don't recognize the martial spirits of the three of you and they don't have any food type titled douluos. Sniff Sniff. I smell hypocrisy and divine energy. Is it the food god thing again? I told your previous bunch of idiots that I didn't choose this title. If he wasn't so forgettable, we wouldn't have this problem in the first place. Why are you blaming me for expanding the capacities of all chefs and food type masters? Doesnt seem like a very godly thing to do, no? It's not like I'm interested in his divinity. But since you're all here to kill me, I'll take it in the future just cause I can and you have annoyed me." He throws out his analysis and even sniffs dramatically for them before berating them and their god.

"Granted, I do have to compliment you all for staying hidden so long in your service. You can outright overpower both empires if it wasn't for the fact that you would likely infringe on the territory of the other gods like Rakshasa, Asura and Angel. Maybe even Sea God, though I doubt your all that suicidal. That not facing me gives you a high chance of surviving this encounter. DUO" He rambles on which they all realize was a stall tactic to entice his 4th ring once more. A second red ring encircles all 17 of them as he hasn't forgotten about Huang Zhizhi nor Dai Zi Bai. They have retreated and are recovering while 13 of the 15 envoys charge at Xue Tie. They showcase various animals like a Squirrel, who he plans to kill first due to nostalgia from his childhood, A fat belly martial spirit, Alligators, Beavers, A leopard and various other animals. There are also more tool types like a rake or butter knife of all things. It seems they didn't attack in the beginning to get an estimate on his defensive powers. Which is high by the way.

The 2 spirit masters in the back also throw various food items at the hammer envoy since they noticed that Xue Tie defended more against him than the other 2.

Claws, teeth, swords and daggers all are about to strike xue Tie who shakes his trident to the right while activating his spears 4th ring. A chime rings out which makes all 13 of them cough up blood due to their organs being injured by the pseudo nihil spirit skill.

Xue Tie smiles as he hugs his trident, he hasnt been able to use this since the Balak Capital fight and he wasnt in control then. So he really wants to show off now. A glow covers his robes and trident. The envoys strike out at him and cause many injuries but it's all for nought as Xue Tie's figure expands until he is 50 ft tall or so with an 120 ft trident that looks remarkably similar to Mohgs'.

All envoys and the 2 remaining commanders from Star Luo along with the few hundred soldiers from Star Luo all look at Xue Tie in fear while the Empyrean soldiers feel like they got a second wind as they redouble their assault on the enemy causing mass death in the enemy forces who are distracted.

Xue Tie looks down at them all and grins. He clenches his left hand since his right is holding the trident. "So this is how this feels. I am quite erect. Im gonna need Bibi's help with this.Though after I shrink down of course" he muses to himself for his enemies to hear. They sweat quite a bit when Xue Tie mentions his erection as that makes them think about something they don't wanna since he is 50 ft tall.

"Now let's gives these rings a try". 8 Mutated rings revolve around him. All red, some still have a few black tints since his robes rings aren't 100k-year-old yet. While his 7th and 8th are half red and half black. Somewhat akin to a yin yang sign without the dot in each other.

Xue Tie has naturally obtained the information on what his fused rings can do which is why he goes for the 4th immediately.

"UNOS". A third red ring encircles them which knocks them out of their stupor as Huang Zhizhi and Dai Zi Bai retreat a long distance away, abandoning their army for their own survival. While the other 13 strike out with their 9th rings. Some even use combination rings but it's all for nought as after stabbing his trident up for the red ring and then slams it down onto the ground which releases the noxious gas as their attacks collide on him at once.

Xue Tie is knocked far away as a result of the explosion but he doesnt care as his martial spirit fusion avatar has the effect of immutable as a passive bonus, not to mention activating his third ring which would apply it again. That isn't to say he isn't injured. He is, and coughs up blood from the collective usage of 13 buffed 9th spirit rings on him. Some even used their personal combos to make it even strong. So he does cough up some internal organs due to the impact that he carelessly took.

But what's the point if he can't be dramatic. He just needs to hit them once to heal again. So, did they really injure him? Yes, but it's not a permanent injury unlike them who are now all poisoned by the noxious gas that he promptly ignites as manifesting fire without using his rings is now possible. He could probably give the god of fire a run for his money now, if there is one.

The gas cloud created by him being blasted away gets caught on fire and it rapidly spreads to the enemy encirclement, The fire enters through their noses and other orifices that provide the fire access to whatever they breathed in. That causes a third of them to vomit blood and breathe out black smoke as they seriously got burned.

8 of them were able to activate various techniques to block the gas and flame so they are only poisoned but the explosion is still drastic due to all his affinity boosts with fire.

"1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7.8.9.10...wait, where's the last one?" Xue Tei says as he counts the envoys only to find a knife in his belly as a sizable shadowy dagger is stabbed into his side due to the knife ambusher from the beginning escaping quickly to sneak attack him.

"Cheeky bugger' He back hands the assassin who is sent 80 ft away due to the collision.

The 2 food type spirit masters throw out a 2 new types of food which the 12 eat and they begin to recover. Xue Tie assumes it's an anti poison and then a healing one as the 8 who didn't blow up internally cough up green gas after eating while the others rapidly heal. All 13, including the assassin. Take out a familiar golden vial and drink it down.

"Ah fuck. Time for phase 2 I guess" A golden aura encompasses all 13, 3 of them, including the assassin had a different vial but it provides the same visual effect but provide a noticeably lesser healing effect as they are followers of the night mother, the goddess Rakshasa. Their speed is instead heavily enhanced that all three send out 10 attacks in one moment which actually surprises Xue Tie as he has no chance to defend. But that doesnt mean he has no followup.

He stabs his trident down into the ground, activating his 5th ring which originated fro his earthquake and fire tornado spirit skills. The end result will surprise you.

IT'S A VOLCANO.

The ground underneath Xue Tie explodes in majestic fire as the tornado manifests underground. Lava and burning rocks spew out everywhere. Almost as it the hill they were standing on was a very well hidden inactive volcano this whole time and not a completely normal hill that was randomly chosen by Xue Tie. Multiple other explosions ring out in the surroundings as the traps that Xue Tie's people planted are activated.

The original plan was to use the martial spirit fusion avatar to test it out against the 3 commanders of Star Luo but a wider audience came about to fall victim to it. Speaking of victims, the trio from rakshasa are bibbing and bobbing around each bit of volcanic rock. They are dodging very well but what they underestimated was the range. As volcanic lines spread out from the initial burst around Xue Tie and spread up to 200 ft away. His soldiers have already killed off all the enemy soldiers in their fear and have run off to not interfere anymore in the fight.

Unfortunately they are ambushed by the retreating Huang Zhizhi and Dai Zi Bai who wish to make Xue Tie pay for killing their people and invading their land. Xue Tie naturally notices this and shakes his head.

"I allow them to run off when I could have easily given chase but they didn't appreciate it. I should wrap this up." He throws his trident at the squirrel martial spirit envoy some distance away. This stops the spread of the volcanic eruption. The squirrel naturally dodges but it's not the trident itself that Xue Tie is relying on. But his 8th spirit ring which unleashes waves of destined death all around it which the squirrel can't fully avoid. Getting it's leg and arm cut by the waves and rapidly losing their vitality. The other nearby envoys who were healing were also affected in the enhanced range of destined death but they are luckier than the squirrel envoy.

Once the wave ends, the martial spirit avatar is spawned at the trident location, it lifts up the main trident in its off hand and stabs it down on the crippled dying form of the squirrel Douluo. The clone then tosses the trident back before vanishing.

"Time to end this. Do give your gods my regard."

"NIHIL" All 15 envoys explode into a shower of guts and blood as if their every muscle and bones was reduced to its base cell and then blown out. While a normal nihil would not have killed them like this. You must not forget that Xue Tie was buffed before he entered the fusion state and that carried over and was empowered even if he didn't reactivate it. The fusion state itself already doubles the power of his bloodline. Which means with 3 blood traced rings, causing a 45% damage based on total lifeforce. Being doubled means that anyone that fights him outright has a 90% chance of outright dying on the first Nihil.

The 2 commanders of Star Luo were also in range of this effect and exploded as they were about to clash with the battalion leaders of his army. Their blood covered all 4 of his leaders and their lieutenants.

All the remaining soldiers turn to look at Xue Tie. He instead undoes his transformation as he takes up an imposing stance and looks to his soldiers.

"WHAT ARE OUR FOUNDATIONS?" "BLOOD". They chant

"WHAT WILL BE TAKE WHEN WE CONQUER" "BLOOD"

"WHAT HAVE WE TAKEN THIS DAY?" "BLOOD" The chant finishes and Xue Tie takes out a few plaques and a sign.

"Write down the names of the 3 commanders of Star Luo. So all may know this is where they died. Assemble the sign so that all of Star Luo may know that this is where 18 titled douluo died. This land belongs to Empyrean now. Rest and then we return home." He says and returns to his tent but not before being interrupted by one brave soldiers.

"What should we do with the loot my liege?" "Hmm? Since you so bravely asked, collect the items of the titled douluos for me while the enemy camp can be ravaged for materials. You may have first dibs at the enemy supplies but the rest belong to me"

"By your command" There is tisking and low voiced angry comments as the person who asked was one of the newbies who strangely felt much braver as the battle progressed. Even when 15 titled douluo showed up. He felt no fear as they quickly slaughtered the enemy troops and then began their escape.

ELSEWHERE

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THEIR ALL DEAD. RAKSHASA, ARE YOUR PEOPLE SO USELESS?"

"You sent 13 titled douluo and they all died, I only sent 3 and we agreed to never send any hyper douluo or higher. So you tell me who is more useless here? My people injured him at least. If you hate him so much. Just bestow a Deity punishment on him. You should have enough faith accumulated after so long."

The Food god opens and closes his mouth like a catfish seeking water as he contemplates going through with it as faith is needed for him to continue growing stronger. He isn't that far off from actually reaching half step god king (level 131-140. Ill put the levels past 100 just below the chapter since we are finally venturing into that territory).

Rakshasa god simply walks away from him as she has no time for such trifles. She is more worried about her newest disciple and attempting to get her away from him. A blush on her cheeks as she once again experiences a bit of the emotions and memories through her conduit within Bibi Dong.

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So for anyone interested.

A short memory trip back.

91-94: Titled Douluo

95-98: Hyper Douluo

99: Limit Douluo

100 = God Officer

101-110: 3rd class god

111-120: 2nd class god

121-130: 1st class god

131-140: half step god king

141-149: Quasi God king

150-?? God king

Gods level up the same way as before but they use Immortal Energy which is how one is supposed to ascend in the first place. The ascension process will bring one from level 100 to level 101. It's not an immediate process afterall, from what I know in canon. Both Tang san and Bibi Dong reached level 100 and then they fought to the death before bibi dong fell.

Again ,I have not actually read the end of any soul land novel or manga, so most of my information is based around the necessity of a god position and faith. It's the wiki that brings up immortal energy and how it's the foundation of the god realm itself.

Yall welcome to tell me what your explanation is for how gods level up or are made in party chat

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