A Claw to Guard Against Arrogance and Impatience

As soon as the battle began, Tang Feng used Genjutsu: Sharingan to take control of Tang San in an instant. He stood motionless himself, giving Dai Mubai the illusion that Tang San and the man opposite him had taken each other out of the fight.

(Genjutsu: Sharingan could be unleashed as soon as one obtained the Three-Tomoe Sharingan. It could just about be considered a standard ability of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.)

Behind his mask, Dai Mubai looked at Zhu Zhuqing and had the nagging feeling that he had seen her Martial Soul somewhere before.

It felt very familiar.

That, coupled with Zhu Zhuqing's cold, stunning beauty, made Dai Mubai let his guard down.

He was just about to make a rude remark when the cold beauty opposite him vanished.

A searing pain followed in his abdomen, and he looked down.

With the speed boosts from her first and third Soul Skills, as well as the boost from the Life Blessing Tang Feng had bestowed on her before the match, Zhu Zhuqing used Six Powers: Soru and moved so fast that she appeared to teleport. She arrived in front of Dai Mubai and struck him with a claw.

This claw was to guard against lust and desire. Five wounds, each at least forty centimeters long, were instantly torn across Dai Mubai's stomach by her sharp Cat Claws.

The strike also sliced the organs in his abdomen into several pieces.

If Zhu Zhuqing's claws had been any longer, Dai Mubai might already have been cut in half at the waist.

The agonizing pain in his abdomen drove Dai Mubai to unleash his full strength and tear Zhu Zhuqing to shreds.

But everything was too late, and too slow.

Before Zhu Zhuqing had withdrawn the claw that had raked across Dai Mubai's abdomen, her other claw was already stabbing toward his chest.

Her five-fingered Shigan plunged into Dai Mubai's abdomen, piercing his ribs, his lungs, and his heart.

"Urgh..."

A gurgling sound came from Dai Mubai's throat as blood surged up from his abdomen through his airways.

Zhu Zhuqing pulled out her fingers and shook the blood from them. Before Dai Mubai could fall, she pressed her fingers together into a hand blade and, without the slightest hesitation, brought it down, chopping halfway through his neck.

With a thud, Dai Mubai fell stiffly to the ground, his eyes bulging and refusing to close in death.

Less than ten seconds had passed from the announcement that the Soul Fight had begun to the instant a member of the Silver Tiger team was killed.

After Dai Mubai fell, Tang Feng moved as well, walking toward Tang San.

He held the King Ball in his hand and pressed it directly against Tang San, who was trapped in the Genjutsu.

After killing Dai Mubai and capturing Tang San once again, Tang Feng, who had kept his Divine Sense active the entire time, suddenly frowned.

That figure was...

"Hm? Tang Hao!?"

"Fuck, run!"

Without waiting for the host in the arena to announce the Tiger-Slaying team's victory, Tang Feng put away the King Ball, scooped Zhu Zhuqing onto his shoulder, and ran.

He headed toward another exit of the Suotuo City Great Soul Arena.

Tang Feng could clearly sense that Tang Hao was still a long way from him, and, from the looks of it, had no idea what had happened here. That meant he had every chance of escaping Tang Hao this time.

Toward Spirit City, flee at full speed!

On Tang Feng's shoulder, Zhu Zhuqing was still a little dazed. She did not quite understand why they had suddenly started running for their lives.

The scenery rushed past them, and for the first time, Zhu Zhuqing saw Tang Feng exert his full strength.

He was so fast.

At the Soto Great Soul Arena, Gangzi had watched the entire match between the Tiger-Slaying duo and the Silver Tiger duo from the spectator stands.

He saw Tang San stand motionless as soon as he entered the arena, and the masked man opposite him stopped moving too. It appeared to be a special Soul Skill that took them both out of the fight.

Gangzi could still make sense of everything that had happened so far.

But the next scene left Gangzi dumbstruck. Dai Mubai had the highest Soul Power Level of the four Shrek Academy students, at a full thirty-eight.

Before he could react, the female Soul Master on the other team had torn open his abdomen with a single claw.

Less than five seconds had passed by that point.

Just when Gangzi thought the Tiger-Slaying duo would stop there, Dai Mubai's heart and lungs were pierced!

Not only that, half his neck was chopped through!

Gangzi shot to his feet, trembling all over and unable to speak.

As he watched in panic, his beloved disciple Tang San, the one he relied on to prove his theories, was also captured by the other side!

"F-f-f-f-f-f... Fatty..."

"D-d-d-did I see that r-r-r-right?"

Looking at Dai Mubai on the stage, who could not be any more dead, Oscar could barely get his words out.

Ma Hongjun was so terrified that his mind had gone blank and a roaring rang in his ears.

He could not hear what Oscar was saying at all.

A long while later, the scruffy-bearded Tang Hao walked into the Soto Great Soul Arena.

He had just returned from feeding his blood to 'Ah Yin' in the Swordbreak Mountain Range, and had heard the teachers at the academy talking about how Little San and the others had gone to Suotuo City for a Soul Fight.

Wanting to see his son in action, Tang Hao had come from Shrek Academy to the Soto Great Soul Arena.

As soon as he entered the Soto Great Soul Arena, a short, chubby red figure wreathed in flames came charging straight toward him.

Isn't that Little San's friend Ma Hongjun?

Where's he going in such a frantic rush?

Tang Hao stepped slightly aside, keeping Ma Hongjun from running into him.

When he reached the spectator stands, Tang Hao searched for Tang San.

Not there, not there, not there...

He did not find Little San, but he did see Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang. The Grandmaster, however, looked rather panicked and dejected.

Recalling Ma Hongjun's behavior just now, Tang Hao instantly thought of many possibilities.

He hurried over to Yu Xiaogang.

Only then did he see Dai Mubai's corpse.

"What happened?!"

"Where's Little San?!"

Tang Hao demanded in shock and anger.

Hearing the familiar voice, Gangzi turned around. When he saw Tang San's father, Tang Hao, he tearfully told him what had happened, tears and snot streaming down his face.

Meanwhile, Tang Feng was still racing toward Spirit City at full speed.

He could not sense any sign of Tang Hao within the range of his Divine Sense.

Even so, Tang Feng did not let his guard down.

Carrying Zhu Zhuqing on his shoulder, he went all the way to Spirit City. Once inside, he did not stop at all, but flew straight to the Worship Hall.

Only after returning to the Worship Hall did Tang Feng breathe a sigh of relief.

No matter how formidable Tang Hao was, even if he detonated all eight of his rings, he would not dare barge into Spirit City.

Besides, Tang Hao might not even know which way he had fled.

Inside his hall at the Worship Hall, Tang Feng put Zhu Zhuqing down from his shoulder and rested.

Zhu Zhuqing looked around. If she was not mistaken, this seemed to be the Pope Hall in Spirit City, didn't it?

Tang Feng had barged in so openly, and no one had stopped him.

Clearly, Tang Feng had some connection to Spirit Hall as well.

As for Spirit Hall, Zhu Zhuqing only knew that it was the foremost power apart from the two great empires, with no equal.

Other than that, she knew of a few instances when Spirit Hall had gone to the countryside to awaken Martial Souls.

As far as Zhu Zhuqing knew, Spirit Hall was a relatively positive force.

(The original story's early portrayal of it was indeed relatively positive.)

"Zhu Zhuqing, do you know why we ran just now?"

Zhu Zhuqing shook her head. Even now, she did not understand why Tang Feng had carried her away from Suotuo City after she killed Dai Mubai.

Could it be that Tang Feng had seen an expert from the Star Luo Empire at the Soul Saint level or above?