Gods Hunt Like This

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Several crisp metallic clangs rang out.

The Sleeve Arrows Tang San fired struck the Violent Vajra Ape's chest and face with perfect accuracy.

Yet the arrows, capable of piercing iron and stone, merely burst into showers of sparks upon striking the giant ape's steel-like black fur before being deflected and falling uselessly to the ground.

They had not even scratched its outer hide.

"What terrifying defense!"

Tang San's heart sank, but his feet did not pause for even a moment.

He pushed the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to its limit, his body like a fallen leaf caught in a gale as he darted and twisted through the giant ape's storm-like attacks, repeatedly escaping death by a hair's breadth.

Every punch and kick from the giant ape contained terrifying force capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks.

The wind from its fists lashed across Tang San's cheeks, making them sting.

Boulders crashed down, exploding into countless fragments around him.

He was like a dancer on a blade's edge; one misstep would leave him crushed to pieces.

"Little San!"

Xiao Wu's eyes reddened with anxiety. She tried several times to rush in and help, but each time, Lin Xi stopped her with a cold glance.

"Teacher! Please! Save Tang San! He'll die!"

Yu Xiaogang was terrified out of his wits. He dropped to his knees, clung to Lin Xi's calf, and pleaded desperately.

"He's only level ten! You're making him fight a two-thousand-year spirit beast! This isn't a trial—this is sending him to his death!"

Lin Xi lowered her head and glanced at him.

"You're noisy."

She lightly stamped her foot.

A gentle yet irresistible force directly sent Yu Xiaogang flying. He landed more than ten meters away, unable to approach again.

Her gaze returned to the battlefield.

"Too slow."

She lightly shook her head, seemingly dissatisfied with Tang San's performance.

"Your Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track has only learned the form, not grasped the essence. You're merely dodging passively instead of actively seeking openings."

"Your hidden weapons are too rigid as well. You only know to attack vital points, yet you don't understand how to use the environment or feint in one direction while attacking in another."

"And your Mysterious Heaven Skill is circulating in complete disorder. With your mind unsettled, how can you unleash its true power?"

Every word of her critique was like a steel needle, piercing precisely into Tang San's weak points.

Yet upon hearing her words at the brink of life and death, Tang San was suddenly jolted awake.

That's right!

I've only thought about dodging and forgotten to attack!

I've only thought about killing and forgotten to outwit my enemy!

I've only thought about surviving and forgotten to calm my mind!

He suddenly bit down on his tongue. The sharp pain instantly cleared his mind.

He no longer watched the giant ape's fists. Instead, he immersed all his focus into sensing the battlefield.

The wind, the shadows of the trees, the ground beneath his feet, the rhythm of each breath the giant ape took...

Everything formed a three-dimensional picture in his mind.

Now!

At the instant the giant ape's punch missed, when its old force had been spent and its new force had yet to arise.

Purple light blazed in Tang San's eyes!

Rather than retreating, he charged straight toward the giant ape's massive body!

Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track!

This time, his footwork was no longer mere evasive movement. It carried a mysterious rhythm, as though he had merged with his surroundings.

Like an azure phantom, he instantly closed in against the giant ape's chest.

The giant ape's vision entered a brief blind spot.

"Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon!"

Tang San shouted low, thrusting out both hands. A strange suction force formed in his palms as he seized a tuft of long fur on the giant ape's calf!

At the same time, his other hand had already retrieved something from Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night.

A slender... poisoned needle gleaming with an eerie blue light!

The number one hidden weapon of the Tang Sect's Outer Sect in his previous life—the Dragon Beard Needle!

His target was not the giant ape's indestructible hide and flesh.

It was the sole weak point in its defenses—the bottom of its foot!

However, he had still underestimated a two-thousand-year spirit beast's combat instincts.

Just as he was about to succeed, the Violent Vajra Ape let out a deafening roar!

It abruptly lifted its other foot and viciously stomped down toward its own chest!

It actually intended to use this method of injuring the enemy for a thousand while suffering eight hundred itself, crushing Tang San—the annoying fly—into pulp!

"Not good!"

Cold sweat broke out across Tang San's body. He wanted to retreat, but it was already too late!

That mountain-like foot rapidly enlarged in his pupils!

Death was right before him.

"It's over."

At that moment, a cool voice sounded softly.

It was Lin Xi.

She had finally moved.

No one had even seen how she moved.

One second, she had been more than ten meters away.

The next, she had appeared before Tang San like a ghost.

She raised her head, looked at the massive foot about to descend, and extended one slender finger.

A finger as pale as jade, seemingly untouched by the dust of the mortal world.

Then she lightly pointed upward.

Time seemed to freeze at that instant.

The enormous foot, capable of crushing mountain rock, stopped abruptly just an inch from Lin Xi's fingertip.

It was as though an invisible divine mountain had forcibly held it up.

The Violent Vajra Ape's massive body froze in midair in an utterly bizarre posture, unable to move.

For the first time, terror and confusion appeared in its eyes.

It could not understand why all the strength in its body seemed to have vanished.

"Gravity... control."

Lin Xi softly uttered four words.

Buzzz!!!

A black spirit ring as deep as ink, gleaming with a cold metallic light, suddenly rose from beneath her feet!

Her second spirit ring—the ten-thousand-year spirit skill of the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear!

Activated!

With Lin Xi at its center, gravity within a hundred-meter radius increased tenfold in that instant!

Thud!

The Violent Vajra Ape's enormous body could no longer support itself and crashed to its knees!

Even the earth groaned!

It felt as though ten great mountains were pressing down upon it. Even lifting a single finger had become an impossible dream!

"This... this is..."

Yu Xiaogang's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. The little notebook in his hand fell to the ground with a slap.

"A Domain Type Spirit Skill! This is the legendary Domain Type Spirit Skill!"

"My god! Her second spirit ring is actually a domain! This... this defies all reason! It overturns everything!"

He looked like a madman, speaking incoherently.

Tang San and Xiao Wu had also been completely petrified.

They stared blankly at the girl standing before the giant ape, like a goddess descended into the world.

One finger determined heaven and earth.

One word decided life and death.

Was this her true power?

Lin Xi ignored the three of them's shock.

She slowly walked before the giant ape, which was kneeling on the ground and could only let out unwilling whimpers.

She extended her right hand.

Buzzz!

That blood-red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring silently appeared.

A phantom Silver Needle, crystal-clear as though condensed from endless starlight, appeared in her palm.

The Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle.

"Tang San's martial soul is the Blue Silver Emperor. It belongs to the plant type, its vitality enduring and capable of embracing all things."

As Lin Xi spoke, she lightly inserted the Soul Suppressing Needle in her hand into the Violent Vajra Ape's brow.

"And this Violent Vajra Ape is a power-type beast martial soul. Its energy is violent and destroys everything."

"Their attributes are completely opposed, as incompatible as water and fire."

Her voice was calm, as though she were describing something that had nothing to do with her.

"So..."

Her tone shifted, and golden light flashed in her eyes.

"I need to tailor the most perfect spirit ring for him."

"Divine Needle Averting Calamity, reverse yin and yang, guide forth vitality!"

As her words fell, the Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle embedded in the giant ape's brow suddenly erupted with incomparably brilliant golden light!

Roar!!!

The Violent Vajra Ape let out an incomparably agonized howl.

Before everyone's horrified eyes, the violent earth-yellow Soul Power inside its enormous body was forcibly extracted by that tiny Silver Needle!

The Soul Power gathered in midair, repeatedly washed and refined by the golden light!

Its violent and destructive properties were gradually erased.

In their place emerged a gentle, heavy Soul Power filled with vast life force... wood-attribute Soul Power!

She was actually forcibly changing a spirit ring's fundamental attribute!

This was no longer a "divine miracle"!

This was creation!

The authority possessed only by a Creator!

Yu Xiaogang's mouth hung open. Only raspy sounds emerged from his throat, but he could not utter a single word.

His mind had completely crashed under the burden of too much information beyond his comprehension.

In the end, that mass of transformed pure Soul Power condensed in midair into a yellow spirit ring that radiated the aura of a thousand years.

The Violent Vajra Ape, having lost all its power, let out one mournful cry before its enormous body crashed to the ground, utterly devoid of life.

Lin Xi withdrew the Soul Suppressing Needle.

She turned around, looked at Tang San, who was still frozen in a daze, and flicked her finger.

The yellow spirit ring she had "tailored" gently floated before Tang San.

"Now, absorb it."

"This is the first gift I'm giving you."