Chapter 450: Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor [450]
The Nine Dragon Grass certainly reduced Tang San’s rationality, but without the physical enhancement from the Nine Dragon Grass in the first place, Tang San wouldn’t have even survived to the point where his rationality declined.
Most of Tang San’s current soul power comes from external sources. Some of these, like soul rings and soul bones, are relatively mild and can be absorbed after some adjustment, while others, gained through devouring, are much harder to integrate.
If this process had taken three years, Tang San wouldn’t have had major problems. However, in less than a year and a half, Tang San had raised his strength by nearly thirty levels through extreme and unorthodox means. The fact that he hadn’t exploded yet was already the result of multiple factors working in his favor.
His body was like an overinflated balloon, where even the slightest external pressure could make him feel as if he were about to burst. If he pushed forward any further, it would lead to the rupture of all his meridians and death. At this point, he was walking a tightrope on the edge of a cliff, constantly at risk of sudden death due to the strain of using his soul power.
Although Tang San himself could sense that something was wrong with his body, he brushed it off when he considered that, at the age of just fourteen, he had already reached the level of a Soul King, with five ten-thousand-year soul rings on his body. He was not far behind even compared to some titled Douluos.
In Tang San’s mind, Tang Chen was his great-grandfather. Others might harm him, but his great-grandfather surely wouldn’t, right?
With his father captured, his godfather Yu Xiaogang being utterly useless, the Clear Sky Clan rejecting him, his foster father Tang Xiao misunderstanding him—if even his only remaining support, his great-grandfather, harbored ill intentions toward him, then Tang San felt that, apart from Xiao Wu, he truly had no one else to trust.
With this uneasy mindset, Tang San followed Tang Chen to Spirit City, waiting for the grand finals to begin.
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