Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San

Chapter 487: The Terrifying Scorching Sunflower

At that time, the Scorching Sunflower Emperor ranked relatively low among the Nymph Emperors. However, when the Sunborne Nymph Emperor's bloodline mutated and allowed it to achieve the status of Nymph Emperor, its power surpassed all others of its kind, and it became the top existence in the Solstice Empire.

After becoming an emperor, the Sunborne Nymph Emperor always hoped to cultivate the Scorching Sunflower bloodline in order to reproduce its own, but it never succeeded. This did not affect its care for the clan, so the Scorching Sunflower clan remained one of the strongest in the Solstice Empire. Of course, the fact that such a powerful clan had sent this person to participate in the Ancestral Court Elite Competition indicated that the contestant was one of their best seedlings.

In the first round, Tang San encountered the descendant of an emperor, a demon from the Golden Mammoth clan that had the most potent defensive abilities of all demons. Now, he faced the Scorching Sunflower in the second round. His luck couldn't be described as anything but terrible.

Tang San had naturally never met anyone from the Scorching Sunflower clan, but he had heard of them. So, when the opponent activated the Scorching Sunflower bloodline, he recognized it. His lips twitched. He hadn't used his fortune blessing today—was he now enduring the misfortune that came with using the Celestial Fox abilities all the time?

A ninth-order powerhouse with a top-tier bloodline wouldn't back down even against a regular tenth-order opponent. Just as he could defeat the Ice Maiden clan leader, Huang Bingbing, he believed the strong members of top clans could challenge god-level opponents. Undoubtedly, the representative of the Scorching Sunflower clan was one of them.

While Tang San was pondering, the other half of the arena had turned into a world of blazing fire. The temperature continued to rise, and more crimson sunflowers were growing on the vines sprouting from his opponent. Based on the opponent’s aura, his bloodline power seemed to be somehow beyond the peak of the ninth order, although it was clear that he hadn't ascended yet.

Tang San was speechless. Defeating this opponent would not be easy.

At this moment, the Scorching Sunflower started to walk toward Tang San. As he moved forward, the sunflowers blooming on the vines became even more vibrant, with their dark red stamens faintly glowing. There were already over a hundred sunflowers in full bloom.

This one opponent alone felt stronger than the Spider Tree Nymph and the Corpse-Devourer Nymph combined.

Tang San didn't know that if his opponent knew his thoughts, he would be furious. If the Spider Tree Nymph and Corpse-Devourer Nymph were before him, they would not even entertain thoughts of resisting; they would simply concede and pray he didn’t cause trouble for them.

The nymph had released his bloodline power to such an extent because he had researched Tang San beforehand. As a direct descendant of the Scorching Sunflower clan, there were naturally countless others at his beck and call, so he had some information about his opponent. Tang San's victory over the Golden Mammoth Clan in the previous match made him wary. He didn't believe it was a fake match. Would a Golden Mammoth intentionally lose to a human? What a joke! So, how did the Golden Mammoth kid lose?

Before this match, his elders advised him that this human was likely hiding some ability that allowed him to take down his opponents in close combat. He shouldn't let the human get close and should use long-range attacks to solve the problem. That was why he fully activated his bloodline power from the start, putting pressure on Tang San.

Tang San's gaze focused, and a faint glow appeared on his skin. He had to confront this opponent head-on.

In the next moment, he suddenly disappeared.

The nymph’s pupils contracted instantly, and his sunflowers suddenly emitted dazzling light. Fiery red beams shot out from the stamens of dozens of sunflowers, each beam about a palm’s length in diameter. They instantly wove into a fiery net, closing off all the space around the Scorching Sunflower.

He knew that he could not give his opponent a chance to get close. If he dared to appear anywhere near, the human would immediately face the pure yang fire attack from the sunflowers.

Amidst the scorching flames, large ripples appeared; the space around the Scorching Sunflower seemed to become somewhat illusory and distorted.

Mei Gongzi, being the space element expert she was, saw at a glance that the intense heat was actually causing the surrounding space to become extremely unstable. Under these conditions, attempting to teleport could not only result in reaching the wrong place, but also suffering a backlash from the wild space element energy.

Her hands clenched into fists.

At the same time, Tang San indeed appeared. But to everyone's surprise, it wasn’t anywhere near the Scorching Sunflower contestant. Instead, he appeared about ten meters away and off to the side. Then, he raised his hand, and a strange device appeared in it.

Something shot out of the device, straight at the Scorching Sunflower.

At a distance of ten meters, there was no possibility of dodging such powerful bolts from the Godly Zhuge Crossbow. Even a Demon or Nymph King could hardly manage it. In addition, the Godly Zhuge Crossbow gave off a strange golden halo—and only the user knew that this halo was the result of using the Golden Roc bloodline to activate the crossbow’s array.

The speed of the Godly Zhuge Crossbow's bolts was incredible to begin with. With the added speed and sharpness granted by the Golden Roc bloodline, almost as soon as the mechanism's sound began, dozens of bolts had already pierced the opponent's body.

Everything happened so fast that many spectators didn't even see the bolts being shot.

However, in the next instant, Tang San's pupils contracted, and he vanished once more

Flame beams crossed and pierced through the space where he had been, distorting the air.

The nymph had indeed been struck square by the crossbow bolts; he withered immediately, and was engulfed by the vines behind him. But if one looked closely, one would see that three of the sunflowers had silently withered in that instant.

At the same time, on the other side, a large sunflower's petals closed, then quickly opened again. The Scorching Sunflower emerged from it, completely unharmed.

As he appeared in the distance, Tang San's eyes showed a look of surprise. Body substitution?

To nobody’s surprise, his crossbow shot had in fact hit the opponent exactly as intended, and being shot from such close range was bound to severely injure even a demon or nymph at the peak of the ninth order. Of course, the Golden Mammoth was an exception.

Yet this opponent had seemingly swapped his critically injured body with one of the sunflowers behind him, an ability Tang San had never seen before.

Tang San immediately grasped the issue, given his experience and understanding. The Scorching Sunflower's humanoid form was not its true self; the nymph’s essence lay in the vines and the sunflowers behind.

It was clear to Tang San that the humanoid Scorching Sunflower was actually the embodiment of three of the crimson sunflowers. That was why three flowers had withered, yet the humanoid body had emerged unharmed from another flower. Having the humanoid body destroyed was definitely not something pleasant, but the nymph could simply generate more bodies. In other words, the only way to kill off a Scorching Sunflower was to get rid of all the vines and flowers.