A Traitor to the Soul Beast Realm? Slaying the Ten-Thousand-Year Light-Winged Mantis!
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger thought again.
No, that wasn't right!
Wasn't this a ready-made human hired thug?
Soul Beasts fought one another for territory, and the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger was relatively weak in a head-on clash. It was often beaten up by other Soul Beast overlords.
Now its chance for revenge had finally come!
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger excitedly led Yu Fan straight toward its enemy.
"Awoo!"
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger suddenly remembered that this enemy of its had sharp claws and fangs, didn't it?
Perhaps this was the Soul Beast Yu Fan was looking for!
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
A golden spear patterned with serpents descended from the sky, carrying terrifying, peerless Soul Power. Then a figure unmatched under heaven slowly descended.
He stood in midair, clad in golden scale armor. Though he looked nearly thirty-four, his presence was immensely powerful, and he was in the prime of his life.
And he!
Was none other than the rank ninety-one Snake Lance Douluo, Yu Long!
In Spirit Hall, he belonged to the Elder Hall under Bibi Dong's command...
One of its seven great elders!
"Young master, that commotion just now seemed to be an earthquake."
So said Snake Lance Douluo Yu Long.
"But I saw a large swath of forest collapse. I don't know why the earthquake went sideways. It's rather strange."
"Since it was an earthquake, there's no need to pay it any mind."
Xue Qinghe nodded slightly. She had come to the Star Dou Great Forest because she was on the verge of breaking through to Soul King and urgently needed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with the light attribute for a Soul Ring.
In the original story, Spirit Hall had devised a scheme that sent Xue Qinghe, the Heaven Dou Empire's eldest prince, to the Yellow Springs, all to pull off a switch of the crown prince with a civet cat.
That was, to take the Heaven Dou Empire without shedding a drop of blood.
Qian Renxue had now been disguised as Xue Qinghe for five years.
Her Angel Inheritance skull bone had a disguise skill that could completely conceal her presence, as well as the colors of her Soul Rings and the appearance of her Martial Soul.
If that cheat Tang San hadn't had the Purple Demon Eye, Spirit Hall's plan would most likely have succeeded, and dealing with the Star Luo Empire afterward would have been as easy as grabbing it in their palm.
"Yes, young master."
The tremor just now, like an earth dragon turning over, had put Yu Long, a powerful Titled Douluo, on high alert.
After all, Qian Renxue was Spirit Hall's future Pope.
If anything at all happened to her...
Forget his own life; even choosing a decent way to die would be a problem.
Porcupinefish Douluo had not accompanied them on this mission because he had to keep watch over the situation in the imperial palace at all times.
At the slightest rustle of wind or stir of grass, Porcupinefish Douluo would immediately come to report.
"Let's go, Elder Snake Lance."
"Yes, young master."
The two headed toward the core area.
Light-attribute Soul Beasts were too scarce on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest. They would have to search the core area instead.
"Awoo!"
(You! Get going, quick!)
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger led Yu Fan to the foot of a valley.
Looking at the Light-Winged Mantis, which was sleeping soundly while clutching half a Soul Beast carcass,
Yu Fan rubbed his chin and pondered.
"Are you sure you're not messing with me?"
"However I look at it, this Light-Winged Mantis is a light-attribute Soul Beast. It does have a sharpness-attribute boost, but that's clearly not its main attribute."
"You little bastard..."
"Don't tell me you brought me to your enemy?"
Looking at the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger prostrate on the ground, Yu Fan couldn't help falling into deep thought.
Was this little beast using him to kill with a borrowed knife?
Whatever. It was better than nothing.
The Light-Winged Mantis would have to do...
"Way of Jin and Che!"
Yu Fan aimed at the Light-Winged Mantis and abruptly unleashed a slash.
"Swish!"
A piercing rush of air instantly rang out.
A slash of extreme speed descended fiercely toward the Light-Winged Mantis's body.
"Boom!"
With a tremendous crash, a wound was instantly cut into the metallic-looking carapace covering the Light-Winged Mantis's body.
It jolted awake from its sleep.
It looked at Yu Fan before it.
"Roar!"
The Light-Winged Mantis was furious. It hadn't expected that a mere ant whose cultivation hadn't even reached Soul Grandmaster...
Among Soul Beasts...
A stinking maggot with less than a thousand years of cultivation would actually dare come before it and act so brazenly.
But when it saw the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger, the truth became clear.
Well, well!
There was a beast traitor among the Soul Beast Clan!
[Light-Winged Consecutive Slashes]
The Light-Winged Mantis swung its two blades repeatedly, sending a succession of sharp slashes at Yu Fan.
Every one of its slashes actually contained the light attribute.
"Swish! Swish, swish!!"
Seeing several slashes descending toward it,
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger decisively chose to run, leaving the battlefield to Yu Fan and the Light-Winged Mantis.
"Hmph, you've got quite a temper!"
"But I'll soon make sure you can't lose it anymore."
Yu Fan raised his arm to block the Light-Winged Mantis's consecutive slashes.
When the slashes struck his arm, they produced nothing but the sound of metal clashing against metal.
"Clang! Clang, clang!!"
There wasn't even a white mark on his arm.
Other Soul Masters had built up their cultivation through their own talent and hard work, so naturally it was hopelessly shaky.
Yu Fan's cultivation was different. He had gradually raised it by allocating points through the system.
Thus, the difference was immediately clear.
"That's it?"
Yu Fan vanished from the spot in an instant, his figure trailing countless black afterimages. Then he slammed a fist into the Light-Winged Mantis's back.
"Boom!!"
The earth shook violently. The carapace on the Light-Winged Mantis's back shattered in an instant, and even the Soul Power defenses covering its entire body were pulverized by Yu Fan's terrifying punch.
The ground beneath the Light-Winged Mantis began to crack apart inch by inch!
Finally...
"Thud!!"
The terrifying force crushed the Light-Winged Mantis to death.
Seeing that the Light-Winged Mantis had kicked the bucket, the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger cautiously returned.
Looking at the cracks in the ground that stretched for over a hundred meters...
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger looked at its old enemy. Half the Light-Winged Mantis's body had been reduced to a pulp, and even the wound on its body had been crushed out of existence.
Wait, what?
So your basic attack was stronger than your Soul Skill!
Did giving you a Soul Skill actually make you weaker?
"Awoo! Awoo!"
Looking at the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger lying on the ground and bowing in submission,
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger's words translated into human speech: You hit it, so you can't hit me anymore!
Yu Fan couldn't be bothered with the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger. He watched a pitch-black Soul Ring slowly rise from the Light-Winged Mantis's body.
"It's here, it's finally here!"
This pitch-black Soul Ring was a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring!
And what was more, it was a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring with both the light and sharpness attributes!
Though the light attribute was useless to him, the sharpness attribute could greatly improve his armor-breaking power!
"If a Soul Ring isn't absorbed for too long, it'll dissipate on its own. Looks like I need to hurry."
Yu Fan looked at the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger and grinned.
"Interested in being my personal guide?"
"Awoo? Awoo, awoo??"
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger was utterly dumbfounded.
Wait, so you were getting addicted to this?
If word of this got out...
The Soul Beasts of the entire Star Dou Great Forest would probably hunt it down.
From this day forward, it would be the disgrace of the Soul Beast Realm.
"What, looks like you're not too willing."
Yu Fan blasted a Way of Jin and Che at a large tree.
The towering ancient tree dozens of meters away was sliced in half at the waist and slowly toppled to the ground.
"Crash!"
After the crash,
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger frantically nodded while prostrate on the ground, as if it were kowtowing.
"Awoo! Awoo, awoo!!"
It looked very willing.
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[Ps: Yanzus, please leave a five-star review~]
[Some of the settings came from the two halves of Sanshao's brain fighting each other. I'll try to revise them to be more reasonable later.]
[For example, Bo Saixi couldn't lift the Golden Trident, yet she could use Soul Power to hold up the Seven Sacred Pillars, which weighed hundreds of thousands of jin.]
[I'll spend an entire day watching Douluo Continent and giving this question serious thought.]