Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor-Chapter 182: Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor []

The sacred and light powers fused into Chen Ming's martial soul, causing further transformations in his Scorpion Emperor martial soul. To be honest, with all the mutations and fortuitous encounters, Chen Ming had experienced, his martial soul could no longer be called an Emerald Scorpion Emperor. It was simply that Chen Ming hadn't bothered to give his martial soul a new name yet.

The sacred power enabled the Scorpion Emperor's martial soul to grow, its carapace gaining intricate and complex patterns. As soul power flowed, a pair of wings sprouted from Chen Ming's back.

It's worth mentioning that although these wings were born from the sacred and light powers, their attributes weren't sacred or light. Instead, they reflected Chen Ming's innate dual attributes of life and death.

Forcibly enhancing attributes would destabilize a martial soul. This power was meant to integrate into Chen Ming's family's martial soul, not destroy it. Chen Ming's martial soul was already very powerful, and disrupting its structure would only have negative consequences.

Counterintuitively, the sacred and light powers strengthened Chen Ming's life attribute while reluctantly boosting his death attribute. Once these two attributes grew enough to form wings, the sacred and light powers gradually merged into the core of Chen Ming's martial soul and then slowly subsided.

Currently, Chen Ming still primarily wielded the poison attribute, with various other attributes acting as auxiliaries. He could infuse different attributes into his poisons to create bizarre and unnatural toxins or directly unleash specific attributes to confront his enemies.

Fire poison, cold poison, corrosive poison, death poison, metal poison. His existing poisons grew even more potent, and on that foundation, Chen Ming would continue to develop light poison, spiritual poison, life poison, holy poison, and even more unusual and powerful composite attributes.

When Chen Ming awoke again, Qian Daoliu had already leaned in close, staring at him with a conflicted expression.

Just as Chen Ming was about to ask what Qian Daoliu was thinking, Qian Daoliu spoke first.

"Xiao Ming, I feel you share a connection with the lineage of the Angel God. Would you like to try inheriting the legacy of our Angel God?"

The other worshippers instantly understood what Qian Daoliu meant by legacy and began looking at Chen Ming with newfound respect.

The Spirit Hall had many legacies, but the one Qian Daoliu referred to as the Angel God's legacy could only mean the Angel God's divine trials.

Seeing Chen Ming's puzzled expression, Qian Daoliu slowly began to explain.

It was said that in the millennia following the Angel God's ascension to the Divine Realm, the Angel God's trials were relatively common. At that time, high-level soul masters and those who had greatly contributed to humanity could receive a divine trial in front of the Angel God's statue.

In that era, any soul master above the Soul King level could receive a trial of three to five tests, using the Angel God's blessings to raise their soul power to the level of Soul Emperor, Soul Sage, or even Soul Douluo.

However, as time passed, the Angel God gradually raised the threshold for the trials, and the number of trials granted began to decrease.

In recent millennia, the Angel God had almost stopped issuing divine trials. Only the current High Priest could manually use the divine power and faith energy left in the Angel God's statue to activate a trial.

But such manual activations were far less effective than trials personally granted by the Angel God, and they consumed much more energy.

In the past, when the Angel God's faith spanned the entire Douluo Continent, the faith of the populace could replenish this energy. However, now that the Angel God's faith had waned, each manual activation required a long recovery period.

As a result, even within the Angel Clan, only a select few could enter the Angel God's trials.

After explaining the history of the divine trials, Qian Daoliu began to talk about their benefits and restrictions.

For outsiders unrelated to the Angel Clan, the divine trials would at most consist of seven tests. Although this wouldn't elevate them to godhood, it also meant they wouldn't bear the responsibilities of a High Priest, like those who completed eight tests within the Angel Clan.

Completing the seven tests brought only benefits to soul masters, with no drawbacks. Even if a soul master failed one of the trials, it merely meant they couldn't proceed with the remaining trials and wouldn't face any punishment. Of course, this lack of consequences only applied to ordinary failures. Should someone who had accepted the Angel God's trials commit atrocities or slaughter innocents on the continent, they would undoubtedly face divine retribution from the Angel God.

If a soul master who had benefited from the Angel God's trials later fell into depravity, all recipients of the Angel God's blessings and the Angel Clan itself would band together to eliminate them.

To Chen Ming, this restriction seemed practically non-existent.

In this era, soul masters who committed atrocities were already targeted by the Spirit Hall. Even soul masters who didn't believe in the Angel God wouldn't hesitate to eliminate those who threatened humanity.

This restriction seemed less like a limitation imposed by the Angel God and more like an expectation.

As long as one didn't commit evil, the divine trials offered only benefits with no downsides.

The most amusing part was that the Angel God's divine trials didn't even require recipients to believe in the Angel God. No wonder the power of faith had dwindled over time.

"Xiao Ming, are you willing to accept the Angel God's divine trials? If you do, your status in the Spirit Hall will become equal to those in the Worship Hall. If you're willing, I can even support you in becoming the next Pope of the Spirit Hall."

Qian Daoliu's gaze was clear and sincere, revealing his true intentions.

Based on Chen Ming's earlier transformations and performance, Qian Daoliu believed that even if Chen Ming wasn't a reincarnation of the Angel God, he must be the reincarnation of some deity in the Divine Realm who had a good relationship with the Angel God.

Such talent, such power—Chen Ming was no ordinary mortal.

Qian Daoliu only hoped that this time, he wasn't mistaken and that Chen Ming could build a good relationship with the Spirit Hall, especially with Xue'er (Qian Renxue).

Even if Chen Ming couldn't assist Xue'er in becoming a god, at the very least, he shouldn't become an enemy of the Spirit Hall.

Moreover...

Qian Daoliu stole a glance at Qian Renxue and saw the way she looked at Chen Ming, sighing inwardly.

What he feared most now was that his granddaughter might suffer too much emotional turmoil and, like that person, develop a twisted psyche, eventually becoming unrecognizable.

Qian Daoliu felt that matters of the younger generation's emotions weren't for him to interfere with, but he couldn't help but be concerned after past experiences.

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"Thank you for your kindness, High Priest," Chen Ming nodded but then suddenly changed the subject.

"By the way, High Priest, do you recall encountering a member of the Chen family with an Emerald Scorpion martial soul decades ago?"

"A member of the Chen family with an Emerald Scorpion martial soul? Oh, you mean Chen Youliang? He was a good friend of mine during my travels across the continent." Recalling events from decades ago, Qian Daoliu fell into thought, then raised his head and looked at Chen Ming with curiosity.

"Wait, his surname is Chen, and your surname is also Chen. His martial soul was an Emerald Scorpion, and your martial soul is... also a scorpion (probably)? And it seems to have some characteristics of the Emerald Scorpion. What is your relationship with Chen Youliang?"