One Shadow Transforms into Three Pure Ones

With a squelch, one knife plunged into the Ghost Tiger's neck, while another Zhu Zhuqing gripped her knife in reverse and drove it through the Ghost Tiger's eye.

It went abnormally smoothly!

"Good grief, I always knew Ultimate Attributes suppressed ordinary attributes, but isn't this suppression a little too brutal?"

Planting one foot on the thoroughly dead Ghost Tiger, Zhu Zhuqing slowly pulled out both Blade Edges.

The blades gleamed with cold light, not a trace of blood clinging to them!

By now, Blade Edge had grown to the level of five thousand years. Its sharpness was difficult for even Ten Thousand Year defensive soul beasts to withstand.

That was also why the Ghost Tiger had died so easily.

Of course, there was also the suppression of Ultimate Attributes.

Within this naturally formed dark environment, Zhu Zhuqing received a greater boost than the Ghost Tiger did.

And Extreme Darkness's suppression over darkness was practically like a father beating his son.

The moment Zhu Zhuqing appeared, the Ghost Tiger collapsed.

"This... Ultimate Attributes don't seem so bad. At least when hunting soul beasts, it seems no soul beast can resist my hunt anymore?"

Both of Zhu Zhuqing's martial souls possessed Ultimate Attributes, and the Soul Rings she needed were basically from soul beasts with those two attributes. What kind of soul beast could resist the suppression of Ultimate Attributes?

"This... isn't a ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger a little too low-level?"

Looking at the Ghost Tiger she had instantly killed with two strikes, Zhu Zhuqing felt that a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring was nothing special.

"No, I can't get carried away. I killed the Ghost Tiger so smoothly because, first, I ambushed it, and second, because of attribute suppression. If we really fought head-on, I could win, but it definitely wouldn't be this easy!"

After rationally weighing the pros and cons, Zhu Zhuqing decided to play it safe and absorb this Ten Thousand Year Ghost Tiger Soul Ring.

She could not become smug over a momentary illusion. Most people who fell to their deaths had wanted to fly.

After silently reciting the Coward's True Scripture once, Zhu Zhuqing quickly steadied her mind.

Ghost Tigers were creatures with an extremely strong sense of territory. Within their territory, they would absolutely not tolerate the existence of a second carnivorous animal.

Furthermore, this was a mixed region. A Ten Thousand Year Ghost Tiger was already the ruler of this area.

As long as she absorbed it quickly enough, no blind soul beast would come disturb her while she absorbed the Soul Ring.

Though she thought so, Zhu Zhuqing still dragged the Ghost Tiger's massive body to a cliff face, then slashed out a square cave with several crackling strikes.

After stuffing herself and the Ghost Tiger into the cave, she placed the first chunk of stone wall she had cut out back into place.

Taking out several luminous pearls and placing them in the stone chamber as a light source, Zhu Zhuqing clapped her hands in satisfaction.

"Very good. This way, no one should disturb me while I absorb the Soul Ring!"

Resting one hand on her waist for a moment, Zhu Zhuqing adjusted her condition, then sat directly atop the Ghost Tiger's corpse and began absorbing the Soul Ring.

The ground was icy and hard. Sitting on the Ghost Tiger was much more comfortable.

The Soul Ring was drawn onto Zhu Zhuqing's body, and a vast amount of Soul Power surged directly from the Ghost Tiger's Soul Ring into her body.

Boom!

At that moment, Zhu Zhuqing's Dantian seemed to transform into a greedy glutton. No matter how much Soul Power poured in, it absorbed all of it without exception.

Then, after both martial souls refined it once, the originally surging Soul Power transformed into a trickling stream and returned to her Dantian.

Yet during this process, Zhu Zhuqing's body unconsciously began absorbing a small portion of the Soul Power to repair the body that had been washed over, cycling continuously between injury and restoration.

Compared to the commotion others caused when absorbing Soul Rings, Zhu Zhuqing's absorption could only be described as sweeping through like a whirlwind.

An hour later, the pitch-black Soul Ring completely stabilized. After circling Zhu Zhuqing twice, it was directly absorbed into her body.

Bang! Bang!

With two muffled sounds, Zhu Zhuqing's Soul Power directly rose two levels, reaching Level 32.

"What a pain. A Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring only raised my cultivation by two levels. This rate of improvement is seriously worrying!"

Opening her eyes and sensing that her Soul Power had only risen two levels, Zhu Zhuqing became somewhat frantic.

She let out a frustrated howl, then, as if venting her anger, violently punched a half-meter-thick stone wall. With a boom, the entire wall flew away.

Huff, huff, huff!

Looking at the stone wall that had flown more than ten meters away, Zhu Zhuqing's mood finally calmed down a tiny bit.

"My strength has increased again, and my physical constitution is a little stronger too!"

Zhu Zhuqing clenched her fist. This was probably the only piece of news lately that could be considered good.

Whoosh!

After absorbing the Soul Ring, she should not linger in the Star Dou Great Forest. Right now, she could not defeat the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, could not defeat the Titan Giant Ape, and could not defeat the Sky Azure Bull Python.

The Star Dou Great Forest was truly terrifying. She should leave now and come back later to pick up scraps.

Using Shadow Stealth, Zhu Zhuqing ran all the way to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest before stopping.

"Third soul skill, Shadow Clone!"

Zhu Zhuqing put on a show of forming a hand seal, and then three popping sounds rang out. The shadow behind her split into three, transforming into three clones identical to her that appeared behind her.

"One Shadow Transforms into Three Pure Ones?"

Looking at this soul skill, Zhu Zhuqing thought of a Saint Tier skill.

Each of the three clones formed from Zhu Zhuqing's shadow inherited eighty percent of all the attributes of Zhu Zhuqing's Dark Martial Soul, and they could use every soul skill Zhu Zhuqing would possess in the future, aside from soul skills from Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and Soul Bones.

Furthermore, within a hundred-meter range, Zhu Zhuqing could exchange positions with any shadow clone through Spatial Swap.

This soul skill did seem to have a tiny flaw, but in Zhu Zhuqing's eyes, it was already a godly skill.

First of all, Zhu Zhuqing currently saw herself as an assassin, and an assassin's job was to kill in a single strike and end battles as quickly as possible.

And what method was faster for ending a battle than ganging up on someone?

However, Zhu Zhuqing currently could not fully control the three clones and make them fight as naturally as her own limbs.

For now, she could only give the clones simple commands, after which they would fight on their own.

But in Zhu Zhuqing's view, that was truly too wasteful.

If used well, this skill could absolutely become one of Zhu Zhuqing's trump cards.

But before that, she needed to learn a soul skill that would allow her to multitask, such as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Heart Separation Control method.

Although the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had always claimed that Heart Separation Control was not exclusive to their sect.

After generations of improvements by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, however, their Heart Separation Control had long become different from the ordinary Heart Separation Control methods found across the continent.

"Ah, so annoying. Why does it feel like I still have so many things to do?"

Zhu Zhuqing gloomily scratched her hair.

She suddenly felt that she had so much left to do. If she were still at...

"Ugh, impossible. Going back is impossible. Although I could order servants to do anything there, I would lose my freedom!"

Zhu Zhuqing shook the thought from her head, then ran toward the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.