Chrysanthemum Douluo froze for a moment, then tossed away the chrysanthemum in his hand. The corner of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
After a long while, he finally forced out a sentence.
"He really is a fearless newborn calf. Does he think Soul Beasts are like that brat Yan, something he can threaten with a dagger?"
A fifty-year Soul Beast was difficult for most Soul Masters to handle.
What was more, this fifty-year Soul Beast was no ordinary Soul Beast. Even some low-rank Soul Grand Masters might lose their lives against it!
"What do you think? Should we help him?"
Ghost Douluo asked as he kept an eye on Su Chen.
"Let him suffer a little first. Break a few bones before we step in."
Yue Guan waved his hand impatiently.
"Let the brat learn that a Soul Beast forest isn't a place to play house. But don't overdo it either. It wouldn't be good if he ended up with hidden injuries."
He narrowed his eyes and smiled, seemingly already seeing Su Chen trembling in fear. Then they would descend like divine soldiers and instantly kill that Soul Beast with thunderous force.
Surely that would give the brat a taste of a Titled Douluo's might, right?
"Old Ghost, how long do you think that brat will last before he calls for help? My guess is—Old Ghost? Old Ghost?"
After receiving no response from his old friend for a long time, Yue Guan looked up in confusion, only to find that Ghost Douluo had somehow opened his mouth wide, wearing an expression as though he had seen a ghost.
Though seeing a ghostlike expression on Ghost Douluo's face was a rather abstract notion, Yue Guan could say with certainty that he had never seen such an expression on his old friend before.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't tell me that brat got himself killed?!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo flipped upright in shock and hurriedly looked over.
Then his mouth slowly fell open, and the same expression appeared on his face as Ghost Douluo's.
"This... this isn't right."
Bang!!!
A thick tree trunk was violently snapped in half. Splinters flew everywhere, striking the surrounding trees with crackling explosions. The remaining section of trunk continued onward, smashing through two more large trees before finally coming to a stop.
The entire area had already been reduced to a complete mess.
Roar!!
A silver gorilla over three meters tall roared furiously, pounding its chest with booming thuds. Its blood-red eyes were fixed firmly ahead.
Reflected in its pupils was a small silver-haired figure.
It was Su Chen.
"Angry?"
The youth stood lightly upon a tree branch. His silver hair fluttered in the gusts, revealing a pair of blood-red eyes beneath it.
The Single Tomoe within his eyes slowly rotated, radiating an ominous aura as it firmly locked onto the gorilla's movements.
The Sharingan!
The Uchiha Clan's exclusive Bloodline Limit from the Naruto World, capable of improving dynamic vision and neural reflexes, as well as casting illusions.
Roar, roar, roar!!!
The gorilla let out a furious roar, slammed both hands against the ground, and charged forward. It grabbed a boulder and hurled it at Su Chen with all its strength, the stone tearing through the air like a cannonball.
The silver-haired youth remained calm. In his eyes, the boulder's speed slowed for an instant, and that instant was enough for him to determine its trajectory and calculate the angle needed to evade it.
Bang!!!
Another large tree was pierced clean through, while the youth had vanished without a trace.
The gorilla panted heavily. The relentless high-frequency attacks had greatly drained both its stamina and Soul Power, and it was even at risk of being attacked.
But it did not matter. As long as that hateful human, as long as that—
"Tired already?"
A voice as gentle as the breeze came from behind it. The Silverback Gorilla's eyes widened as it stared in disbelief at the completely uninjured silver-haired youth.
The latter hung upside down from a tree, smiling at it. The tomoe in his crimson eyes filled even the gorilla with a trace of dread.
"Then it's my turn to attack."
The silver-haired youth's smile did not change, but the tomoe in his blood-red eyes suddenly began spinning at an accelerated speed!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!
Piercing whistles rang out as countless kunai flashing with cold light flew in from every direction, all stabbing toward the Silverback Gorilla's poorly defended vital points—its eyes, mouth, nose, and ears!
It hurriedly turned its back and crouched down, clutching its head. Yet several kunai collided with one another in midair, tracing unbelievable arcs around the gorilla's back before still plunging into its ears.
Roarrrgh!!!
The Silverback Gorilla let out a miserable scream and wildly slapped at its ears. The blood and searing pain completely ignited its ferocity, and it began attacking indiscriminately.
Trees shattered, dirt flew, and broken stones and chunks of wood carried terrifying force as they destroyed everything around them!
Yet a silver figure moved through the forest like a light feather and a swimming fish. Whether tree branches or flying rocks, he leaped across them as though walking on level ground. From time to time, he flung out another kunai, adding fresh bloody wounds to the Silverback Gorilla's body.
No one knew how long it took, but the frenzied Silverback Gorilla finally slowed to a stop and collapsed weakly onto the ground.
At this moment, it looked utterly miserable.
Blood poured from all over its body. One of its eyes had been completely blinded, while vicious wounds covered its ears, mouth, and nose. Even if it survived today, in such a terrible state, it would not live to see another day in the Star Dou Forest.
Tap!
The light sound of landing drew the Silverback Gorilla's attention. Enduring the agony, it raised its eyes and saw the silver-haired youth it hated beyond measure standing before it, walking toward it with a smile.
Damn human Soul Master.
A flash of venomous hatred passed through the Silverback Gorilla's remaining eye.
Roar!!
Just as Su Chen took another step forward, the gorilla, which had seemed on the verge of death a moment ago, suddenly sprang up and charged at him!
Die, die!!
Seeing the youth seemingly frozen with fear, neither dodging nor evading, a humanlike delight appeared on the Silverback Gorilla's face. It opened its bloody maw and lunged forward with all its strength, intending to bite off his head!!!
But in the next instant, its body abruptly stopped.
Bang, bang, bang!
Fine sprays of blood burst from its body. The Silverback Gorilla let out an incomparably shrill scream, twisting its body in agony.
Countless blood-red steel wires had cut deeply into its flesh, binding it tightly and leaving it unable to move.
Perhaps under normal circumstances, it would not have even noticed such things. But now, they became the final straw that harvested its life.
Su Chen walked over unhurriedly, raised his kunai, and stabbed it into the gorilla's head through its ear.
Roar!
The unwilling, miserable roar came to an abrupt halt. The youth did not stop, stabbing the gorilla's heart several more times.
Only when a white ring radiating a faint yellow glow rose into the air did he finally lower his kunai.
"It's really been a long time since I used such basic things in battle."
The youth recalled the process just now with a hint of nostalgia.
Steel wire, kunai, Manipulated Shuriken.
Even in the Ninja World, those were extremely distant memories.
That fellow Jiraiya had suspected more than once that he was from the Uchiha Clan because of his shuriken throwing.
Shaking his head and casting aside that slight melancholy, he turned his gaze forward.
"So this is a Soul Ring?"
Su Chen looked curiously at the ring carved with strange patterns.
He gently touched it, but felt nothing.
"A special aggregate of energy. Hmm, like energy compressed into a ring, but mixed with something different from Soul Power. Is it Soul Energy?"
"It looks like I'll need more samples, preferably from Hundred-Year or Thousand-Year Soul Beasts."
Su Chen thought to himself.
After recording the patterns and ignoring the faint pull emanating from the Soul Ring, Su Chen tidied up the area and turned to leave.
A Ten-Year Soul Ring was beneath his notice.
The youth left with effortless grace, unaware that he had completely stunned someone watching from the shadows.
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