Douluo: The Dragon King's Descent of the Gods

Chapter 62 Journey to the Ascension Platform

"Classmates," Long Bing clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention and said,

"We should keep everyone's test data to ourselves and not share it with others. It's a matter of personal privacy, understand?"

"Understood, teacher," everyone answered in unison.

Some students even silently added to themselves, "With such outrageous data, who would believe it if they heard it out loud!"

"Alright, let's go to the Ascension Platform together now."

Long Bing smiled and led the children out of the testing room. After turning several corners in the corridor, they entered the room used to access the Spirit Ascension Platform.

"Have any of you students been to the Ascension Platform before?"

Although the question was directed at everyone, Long Bing's gaze was focused on Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, and Wei Xiaofeng.

Zhang Yangzi, representing the three, replied: "No, teacher, this is the first time for the three of us to enter the Ascension Platform."

They had never been there before, not because their families couldn't get tickets to the Spirit Ascension Platform, but because the stronger a Soul Master was, the more benefits they could obtain from it.

Before the start of the semester, they were only first-ring Soul Masters, so entering the primary Spirit Ascension Platform was not cost-effective and not worthwhile.

Long Bing nodded to indicate that he understood, and then explained the relevant rules and precautions of the Spirit Ascension Platform to the three of them in detail.

After the explanation, the members of Class Zero, under Long Bing's arrangement, used the relevant equipment to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform.

The landing point for Soul Masters entering the Spirit Ascension Platform is randomly teleported. Although it is possible to teleport everyone together through the backend, Long Bing felt that there was no need to do so.

If they are teleported together, with Meng Xinghe and Gu Yuena, two powerful figures, by their side, then the other students' journey to the Spirit Ascension Platform will be completely pointless.

"Oh dear, some students aren't so lucky." Looking at the screen displaying the soul guide, Long Bing couldn't help but laugh.

The Primary Spirit Ascension Platform restricts entry to Soul Masters of Soul Grandmaster rank and above. Correspondingly, the simulated Soul Beasts in the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform have a maximum cultivation level of 1,000 years and are very few in number.

There are only eight students in Class Zero, and three of them have encountered the Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

However, some people are just unlucky, while others are just unlucky spirit beasts.

……

One of the two unlucky ones was Wang Jinxi.

His random teleportation point was an ordinary forest, filled with towering ancient trees with lush foliage. But the Ascension Platform simulated the Star Dou Great Forest, and such a scene was just as ordinary in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The trees were very tall, so Wang Jinxi looked up out of curiosity and saw a stunningly beautiful face...

That was—a human! A demon! A spider!

"..." Wang Jinxi was numb.

What incredible luck he has!

Is his first attempt at ascending to the Spirit Platform going to end in disaster?

……

Xie Xie was one of the two unlucky ones.

"Um... hi!" Xie Xie waved and greeted them, his skin crawling with goosebumps.

His response was a long hissing sound as the snake coiled around the tree trunk and descended, its long, narrow eyes staring menacingly at the human who had suddenly intruded.

Damn, it's a plant!

How could he be so unlucky as to be teleported to the territory of a thousand-year-old soul beast, and it's a damn Mandragora Snake.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Xie Xie made full use of the speed advantage of the agility-type soul master and ran away, playing a real-life parkour game with the thousand-year-old mandala snake on the spirit ascension platform.

"Help! Please stop chasing me!"

……

An unlucky soul beast—the Cave Demon Spider.

A prey stepped into a trap it had set beforehand. Excitedly, it rushed from its hiding place to the location where the trap was set, and then... it discovered that the one who had stepped into the trap was actually that man!

"What a coincidence, my random teleportation point is exactly where you set up your trap." Meng Xinghe looked at the Cave Spider, his expression seemingly smiling.

The cave spider retreated repeatedly, its mouth moving as if it were trying to explain itself.

"Don't worry, since you didn't attack me first this time, I won't send you to the fountain to wait for resurrection."

The types and number of soul beasts simulated on the Spirit Ascension Platform are fixed, just like game dungeons. After a soul beast is killed, a new soul beast will spawn after a certain period of time.

The refreshed soul beast is a different individual from the previously killed soul beast. However, there are only a few thousand-year-old soul beasts on the primary spirit ascension platform, so they are given the authority to retain their memories. This is equivalent to being reborn with their memories in a body that is exactly the same as before.

Upon hearing this, the cave spider nodded as if granted a pardon.

Although it couldn't understand human language, it understood the spiritual fluctuations contained in the man's voice.

Watching the cave spider use all eight of its legs to escape as fast as it could, Meng Xinghe found it somewhat amusing.

Is he really that scary?

Meanwhile, Gu Yuena was leisurely strolling in the Star Dou Great Forest when she heard a familiar voice coming from afar after only a few steps.

"Big Sister, save me!"

Following the sound, Gu Yuena lightly touched the silvery-white spatial ripples with her toes and instantly appeared behind Xie Xie. With a wave of her hand, a colorful fireball incorporating multiple elements accurately struck the Mandragora Serpent.

When Xie Xie turned around, the thousand-year-old Mandala snake had disappeared, and all he could see was the purple energy that Gu Yuena had not yet fully absorbed.

Gu Yuena rolled her eyes at Xie Xie and said, "The enemy is so weak, how dare you ask me for help?"

In her view, although the Mandala Serpent was a thousand-year-old soul beast, Xie Xie was not without the power to fight it.

The true dragon bloodline at the level of the Time-Space Sacred Dragon can completely suppress the Mandala Serpent. Coupled with the advantages of time and space attributes, as long as the situation is managed well, Xie Xie can remain invincible. If he is good at seizing opportunities, he may even be able to kill the Thousand-Year Mandala Serpent.

Without giving Xie Xie a chance to refute, Gu Yuena directly announced the result, "Your practical combat ability is too poor. I'll have to give you some proper training in the future."

She has the right to say that about Xie Xie.

What she lacks is practical experience, not practical skills. Experience and skills are two different things.

Although Xu Xiaoyan is also a follower, she doesn't have much practical experience, but she has an excellent ability to seize opportunities. She knows when to make a move and when not to, and her practical ability is much stronger than Xie Xie's.

The gap is quite large; Xie Xie has a lot to catch up with Xu Xiaoyan in terms of areas he needs to improve.

"Perhaps I should ask the Milky Way for a golden apple."

"Golden Apple? No rush." ​​After they reunited, Meng Xinghe transmitted his voice:

"Xie Xie has gotten a bit cocky lately. Let him calm down a bit more, and don't let him think that becoming your follower means he can just lie back and relax all the time."

"Okay, I understand. I'll make sure Xie Xie calms down." Gu Yuena nodded in deep agreement.

Xie Xie really needs to reflect on his actions.

Both Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi encountered a thousand-year-old soul beast, but after meeting Zhang Yangzi, the two used their martial soul fusion skill to successfully kill the thousand-year-old human-faced demon spider. In contrast, Xie Xie's performance was hard to describe.

Xie Xie: No, big sister, I would like to team up with you, but didn't you kill the opponent in one move?

Gu Yuena: Didn't you ask me for help?

Xie Xie: ...