Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

"ROAR—!!"

A deep roar rang out from the nearby woods as a massive soul beast abruptly rose from its crouch, glaring viciously in Xiao Yang's direction.

It was a gigantic black tiger, its entire body pitch-black without a single stray color. Its red eyes brimmed with a sinister aura. Nearly eight meters long, its muscles bulged all over, while the character for king on its forehead emitted a strange, mist-like evil energy.

Its tail was far longer than that of an ordinary tiger soul beast. Rather than hanging down, it stood upright, formed from countless bony segments. At its tip was a massive hook that gleamed with a cold, ghostly light.

Within the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Yang and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger stood facing one another.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger stopped thirty meters away from Xiao Yang. It did not roar again, and its cold, blood-red eyes seemed terrifyingly calm.

It's looking for an opening!

Xiao Yang's eyes narrowed. This tiger truly was no ordinary opponent!

Gray currents of air quietly spread around the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's body. They carried the aura of death, but unfortunately, they were utterly meaningless before Xiao Yang's vast, righteous protective douqi.

The power of a Heaven-Tier Cultivation Technique had long surpassed what this world called god-tier.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger finally moved. In stark contrast to its earlier slow, steady bearing, the instant it moved, Xiao Yang felt a foul wind rush toward him. The air around him churned violently as fierce winds howled, and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger vanished from his sight in an instant.

Xiao Yang closed his eyes. Releasing his soul perception, he moved his feet and activated Flash Step. With a sharp whistle of wind, he evaded the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's paw aimed at the back of his head, as well as the claw slashing toward his waist.

Xiao Yang turned to look at it. Sure enough, compared to underhanded sneak attackers like the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, he still preferred straightforward simpletons like the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, which charged head-on.

But since that was the case, Xiao Yang would not hold back. He suddenly threw back his head and roared. Golden light exploded from his entire body, and a fifty-meter-tall golden giant abruptly appeared, its body seemingly forged from golden glass!

Thanks to the gigantification skill he had obtained from the Cyclops, Xiao Yang had broken through the limit of nine zhang and nine chi imposed by the Vajra Glazed Body combat technique.

If Xiao Yang cultivated the Vajra Glazed Body to perfection, he could grow to a height of one hundred zhang.

After all, Xiao Yang's Vajra Glazed Body had been produced by the system. Compared to the original version created by the Glazed Saint a thousand years ago, it possessed far greater potential.

Naturally, the height one could achieve varied according to one's physical constitution.

In essence, the Vajra Glazed Body combat technique had been created in imitation of the legendary body of a Dou Emperor.

But a true Dou Emperor's body was a full ten thousand zhang tall. Nine zhang and nine chi was not even one-thousandth of that...

After that, there was nothing more to say.

At fifty meters tall, based on human proportions, Xiao Yang's foot was roughly one-seventh of his height. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's body length was about equal to the length of Xiao Yang's foot...

So, with one stomp, Xiao Yang crushed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger into a meat pancake. It did not even have the chance to flee.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had never imagined that Xiao Yang, this shameless bastard with no martial virtue, would resort to cheating when he could not win, directly crushing it through sheer size.

As the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was slain, the system notification rang out in Xiao Yang's mind once more: "Dark Demon Evil God Tiger killed. Reward: external soul bone—Hollow Mask. Included skill: King Hollow's Flash."

The golden light receded, and Xiao Yang returned to his original size.

Xiao Yang walked over to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's corpse. Zangetsu hovered above it. Immediately, a gray current of air drifted up from the corpse, instantly gathering into a ring in midair. It rapidly changed from gray to black, then transformed into a streak of light that flew toward Zangetsu.

With a flash of ghostly light, it slipped directly onto Zangetsu.

At the same time, an incomparably sharp, icy current of energy pierced Xiao Yang's body in an instant, madly battering the countless meridians and acupoints within him.

With a thought from Xiao Yang, Zangetsu seemed to transform into an enormous black hole. A terrifying suction force erupted, refining every trace of that icy energy!

As the frigid current was devoured and refined, a faint layer of radiance began to flow across Zangetsu. The entire blade also seemed to grow more solid.

At the same time, an exceptionally pure spiritual force surged into Xiao Yang's sea of consciousness. This was the feedback of spiritual power produced after refining the soul ring.

As for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's natal source pearl, the system had long since turned it into Xiao Yang's external soul bone, the Hollow Mask.

So, future Hercules Zhou Weiqing—Little Fatty Zhou—sorry about that.

With that, this journey into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul rings had come to a perfect conclusion.

The luck brought by that Opportunity Card had also been completely exhausted.

The remaining Opportunity Card had to be saved for use after returning to the Douqi Continent.

His intuition told him that a tremendous surprise awaited him then.

Afterward, Xiao Yang returned beneath the large tree from before and left the Star Dou Great Forest with She Long, heading back to the Heaven Dou Empire.

Night fell, in Qian Renxue's bedchamber.

Xiao Yang and Qian Renxue lay together on the incomparably luxurious handmade velvet bed.

Qian Renxue turned her head, her amethyst-like eyes fixed on Xiao Yang. "You..."

Xiao Yang sighed. "Promise me you won't ask, okay? Go to sleep!"

Qian Renxue looked at Xiao Yang. After a long silence, she closed her eyes. Yet her eyelashes still trembled.

The next day, Xiao Yang and Qian Renxue got up. After washing up and having breakfast, the group prepared to head for Sunset Forest.

Qian Renxue had long arranged a substitute for herself, so leaving for a while would not be a problem.

At the same time, after receiving Qian Renxue's message yesterday, the Third Worshipper, Azure Luan Douluo, had already set out from Spirit Hall.

They would meet at the entrance to Sunset Forest, then proceed together to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Now, Tang San had only just been born. According to the original work, Dugu Bo found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well ten years before he met Tang San—in other words, four years after Tang San's birth.

Therefore, the current Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well should not yet have been discovered by anyone.

That meant this treasured land would belong to Spirit Hall from this day onward.

More precisely, it would belong to the Hall of Elders.

Azure Luan Douluo was highly proficient in pharmacology, his expertise even surpassing Chrysanthemum Douluo's.

With him present, aside from the Grand Priest Qian Daoliu, the other priests of the Elder Hall might not be unable to advance even further.

By then, apart from Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile Douluo might become Spirit Hall's second Ultimate Douluo.

And once all this was done, Xiao Yang's journey through the Douluo world could come to a temporary end. It would be time to return to the Douqi Continent.

The Douluo arc would end in the next chapter.