Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San

Chapter 529: The Dragon Knight Duo

As they stepped onto the stage, a wave of cheers erupted from the audience. With a string of victories behind them, both competitors had captured the audience's attention—one had already secured a spot in the finals, while the other was virtually guaranteed to advance.

As for their human identities, few in the audience paid attention to that detail. Many strong individuals from various clans also had human appearances. Most of the audience could hardly imagine that real humans could participate in the Ancestral Court Elite Tournament, while those in the know had other priorities—securing the loyalty of these powerful humans, for instance.

On the other side of the competition stage, a man and a woman also stepped up. Both were about two meters tall, and their powerful auras even caused the light around them to distort.

The woman was tall and strong, and looked heroic rather than delicate. A diamond-shaped, bright red dragon scale shimmered on her forehead. The man was leaner, with faint red light flickering in his eyes.

"A female dragon!" Tang San said softly. It was clear that the female competitor was from the Fire Dragon clan and the male competitor from the Scorching Sunflower clan.

"Yes, a female dragon. What's the matter?" Mei Gongzi asked.

Tang San said, "That's just wrong. Look at us, we’re doing things the proper way."

Mei Gongzi rolled her eyes at him. "We're in a competition. Are you really going to let me ride you? Is that okay?"

Tang San said, "What's wrong with a brother carrying his sister?"

This was their first close interaction, and he couldn't be happier. A husband giving his wife a piggyback ride was perfectly natural.

"Then I won't hold back," Mei Gongzi said with a smile, clearly not overthinking it.

"No need to be polite, go ahead. Or we could go their way and you could let me be the Peacock Knight. Hehe," Tang San couldn't help but tease her.

"In your dreams!"

At that moment, the referee announced the start of the match. "Begin!"

"ROAR!" An intense dragon roar suddenly echoed as the female Fire Dragon stepped forward, her body rapidly expanding in the next instant.

Dragons naturally had perfect transformation abilities, allowing them to turn directly into their original forms. The Wind Dragon from the other day had been unlucky, not even having time to transform—or perhaps not even intending to—before being instantly defeated by Tang San.

The female Fire Dragon in front of him looked at Tang San with obvious hostility. Her body swelled and in an instant transformed into a massive dragon over fifteen meters long. Her wings spread wide, and her roar shook the heavens and earth, while her scales emitted a dazzling blaze. Every scale seemed to overflow with fire elemental energy.

The Scorching Sunflower youth leapt up and landed on the fire dragon's back. Vines with blooming sunflowers rapidly grew, attaching themselves to the dragon's wings and along its neck. The surging fire force illuminated half the arena, exuding an aura that seemed to be capable of burning the heavens and boiling the earth.

Tang San nodded to Mei Gongzi. "Come up!"

Mei Gongzi, looking a his widespread golden wings, was a bit stunned and instinctively asked, "How do I do that?"

Tang San's mouth twitched, and he said, "I can't transform! I'll carry you on my back!"

"Ah?" Mei Gongzi then remembered they were human and couldn't transform completely like the dragon and phoenix clans. She had instinctively thought Asura was omnipotent, but now she realized there were in fact things he couldn't do.

Seeing the fire dragon on the opposite side already taking to the sky, Tang San urged Mei Gongzi, "Hurry up!"

Mei Gongzi didn't have time to think about it and quickly climbed onto Tang San's back. Just as she was about to ask how they would fight this way, Tang San's golden wings flapped, lifting them both into the air.

Mei Gongzi could fly on her own with her Peacock Transformation, of course, but this was her first time being carried like this.

Tang San's back was broad and strong, and for some reason, lying against his back gave her a natural sense of security.

With a flap of his golden wings, Tang San ascended much faster than the fire dragon.

On the opposing side, the Dragon Knight Duo's appearance was truly dazzling, while Tang San and Mei Gongzi's piggyback style lacked visual impact. If anything, they looked rather comical.

At this moment, Tang San silently felt the softness on his back and Mei Gongzi's fragrant scent, his mind becoming a bit distracted.

"How do we fight like this?" Mei Gongzi couldn't help but ask.

"Ah?" Her call brought Tang San back to full awareness. "Oh... I'll lend you my strength. Once they are high enough in the air, use your spatial power to bind them and throw them down," Tang San said.

"Can this work? The energy intensity is too high, I'm afraid I’m not strong enough," Mei Gongzi said doubtfully. Under the opponents’ intense flames, space itself was being distorted by the heat. In such a state, using spatial power to bind them seemed nearly impossible.

Tang San said, "Trust me. You can do it. Use the Celestial Plume."

As he spoke, the Peacock Transformation imprint within Tang San had already begun to glow. In an instant, Mei Gongzi felt a surge of mighty bloodline energy suddenly pouring into her body. In that moment, the Peacock Crown on her forehead burst into dazzling brilliance, and she instinctively raised her head.

The peacock wings almost instantly spread out, overlapping with Tang San's golden wings, making them look like one four-winged being. At the same time, Mei Gongzi felt her perception of space suddenly soar. She wrapped one arm around Tang San's neck, freeing the other hand to grasp the Celestial Plume.

Dazzling golden light burst from her entire body, and layers upon layers of silver ripples spread out.

At that moment, she felt as if she had become the true ruler of space. Her cultivation had not only risen to the pinnacle of the ninth order, but she also felt as though she were transcending space itself. This was clearly touching the threshold of the god level!

How did he do this? How could he give me such a huge boost? Even between members of the same clan, this shouldn't be possible!

What Tang San was doing was quite simple. He had activated his Peacock Transformation, and through the physical connection between them, he was transferring his internal energy to Mei Gongzi. Like this, his entire internal energy could be filtered through the Peacock Transformation imprint and used to support her.

With his cultivation advancing to the ninth order, Tang San's control over his own cultivation and understanding of bloodline power had greatly increased. He finally had the confidence to use the bloodline imprints to convert the internal energy produced using the Mysterious Heaven Technique. So now, he was not only a powerful warrior but also a powerful support, provided the supported person had a bloodline he also possessed.

Mei Gongzi was the first test subject, but he was entirely certain that this would work. If he hadn’t been, Tang San wouldn't have chosen this course of action.

What he had said earlier about relying on Mei Gongzi wasn't just talk. Whoever the opponent was, Tang San really planned to play second fiddle and allow her to do the work.

This method allowed the power of two to concentrate into one. Before yesterday, Tang San could have only boosted Mei Gongzi to the peak of the ninth order. But with Mei Gongzi's recent understanding of the Mysterious Circles of Heaven and the mysteries of space, she was only short of the process of tribulation and breakthrough to reach the god level. Her comprehension of spatial mysteries had actually reached the level of a god.

Under these circumstances, influenced by Tang San, Mei Gongzi's cultivation naturally increased. Even without Tang San using his divine consciousness to influence her—given the numerous spectators, he couldn’t risk that—she could be considered a bona fide tenth-order cultivator.

Moreover, she held the Celestial Plume in her hand, a true divine artifact. And now that she was powering it with the actual energy of a god, even Tang San couldn’t tell how powerful a spatial force she could unleash.

The Peacock Crown on her forehead gradually turned platinum, and Mei Gongzi's eyes also became silver. She felt it—a new realm, a new world where the entire space was hers to control.