Poor Little Lord (Part 2)

Xia Yi's First Soul Skill was incredibly powerful—one could even call it heaven-defying—but it was a healing type soul skill.

After a transformed Soul Beast underwent Transformation, each Soul Ring it produced allowed it to obtain one of the soul skills it had possessed as a Soul Beast.

Before undergoing Transformation, Xia Yi had only been a Ten-Year Soul Beast. He originally had no soul skills, but after drinking Gu Yue's blood and evolving a tail, he gained a soul skill—Star Shift.

After his Transformation, with the appearance of his First Soul Ring, the soul skill Star Shift had also been forcibly bestowed upon his First Soul Ring.

However, Xia Yi still felt that Star Shift resided in his tail rather than in his Soul Ring. The Soul Ring was merely a medium through which he released Star Shift.

At times, Xia Yi even felt that Star Shift was not a soul skill at all. But for now, he could not find a better way to describe it and could only treat Star Shift as a soul skill.

The name Star Shift had appeared in Xia Yi's mind the moment his tail first grew out.

Xia Yi had also immediately understood the ability of this soul skill.

It was a healing soul skill that made the left side grow from the right. Why was it heaven-defying? Because as long as he had sufficient Soul Power, even if his hands or feet were severed, Star Shift could regrow them.

Xia Yi had a feeling that as long as he continued evolving and grew more tails, he could obtain corresponding soul skills again.

And they would be soul skills as heaven-defying as Star Shift.

He just did not know whether they would be combat soul skills.

With Star Shift, Xia Yi could originally have recovered from his injuries quickly. But facing Na'er, a Soul Grandmaster, he did not dare use Star Shift to heal himself. Star Shift consumed far too much Soul Power.

"You're a support Soul Master? Who are you trying to fool? What kind of fox can be support-type? What support Soul Master has strength like yours, or combat instincts like yours?" Na'er did not believe Xia Yi's words and thought he was using them to belittle her.

"Believe it or not!" Xia Yi sneered. He had not expected Na'er to believe him anyway.

"You dared use me for practice. I'd like to see what you can use to stop me now that your Soul Power is exhausted." Na'er looked coldly at Xia Yi. Although she was shocked by his formidable combat ability, she still had no intention of letting him go.

Instead, it only strengthened her resolve to kill Xia Yi.

"I admit it. I was using you for practice, because you're different from Di Tian and Zi Ji. You truly wanted to kill me. Only you could let me know where my limits lay. Unfortunately, you disappointed me." Xia Yi shook his head and said, "If my Soul Power hadn't been exhausted, then even with your superior cultivation, you could never have defeated me. The power you erupted with as a Soul Grandmaster simply could not force out my limits."

At that point, Xia Yi's gaze turned disdainful as he said flatly, "You're too weak!"

"Good! Good! Good!" Na'er's face turned green with rage as she spat out three consecutive "goods." Everything Xia Yi said was true, but she was a clone of the Master of Soul Beasts, yet she was being mocked so mercilessly by a "Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast." How could she endure that?

"Your Soul Power is exhausted, yet you still dare act so arrogantly? You're courting death!" Na'er hesitated no longer. Her Second Soul Ring lit up decisively as she thrust her spear at Xia Yi again. She would make him understand the price of underestimating her.

Xia Yi merely glanced at her. He did not even dodge, only cleared his throat and said calmly, "If you kill me, Tang Wulin won't live either!"

"Y-you know why I want to kill you?" Everything had gone exactly as Xia Yi expected. Na'er's Silver Dragon Spear stopped a foot in front of him.

"Obviously. At a time like this, why else would you come to kill me except because of Tang Wulin?" Xia Yi gave Na'er a bland look.

"What did you mean by what you said earlier?" Na'er asked coldly.

"Which sentence?" Xia Yi asked casually.

"You said that if you died, Brother would die with you. What did that mean?" Na'er asked, killing intent surging from her.

"You believed me just because I said it? You're really pitifully stupid." Xia Yi looked at Na'er as though she were an idiot and said, "Why don't you try it?"

"You..." Na'er was instantly furious, smoke practically coming out of her seven orifices. She said coldly, "Don't think I can't do anything to you just because you won't talk. I'll go back now. Once I figure out what's going on, I can still come back and take your life."

"Stop. Let me show you something." Xia Yi called out to Na'er. He gathered the Soul Power he had recovered while speaking at his fingertips, then lightly flicked it into the air before suddenly clenching his fist. The Soul Power in the air immediately exploded.

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Na'er asked coldly. What Xia Yi had just done was something any Soul Master could accomplish. It was no impressive technique.

She did not understand why Xia Yi had shown her that.

Xia Yi grinned and said, "Nothing much. I'm just telling you that I also left a bit of Soul Power inside Tang Wulin earlier. As long as you dare take even one step out that door, it will immediately explode."

Na'er's expression changed slightly, but she quickly calmed down. "Stop trying to scare me. Once Soul Power leaves the body, it cannot exist for long. And with your cultivation, you simply cannot control Soul Power from such a distance."

Na'er's change in expression naturally did not escape Xia Yi's notice, but he did not show it. He continued smiling as he said, "I know that, given your status, you naturally wouldn't think highly of ordinary Soul Beasts like us. But let me remind you of something: not a single Soul Beast capable of cultivating to a hundred thousand years is weak. Every one of them has their own special talent. There are so many kinds of Soul Beasts that any ability you can think of, some Soul Beast will possess."

"Why should I believe you?" Na'er asked coldly.

"I never insisted that you believe me." Xia Yi shrugged and continued, "Through the Soul Power I left inside Tang Wulin, I can sense a powerful being treating his injuries."

Suddenly, Xia Yi slapped his forehead. "Oh dear, my cultivation is too low right now. I can't conceal the Soul Power very well. The Soul Power in his throat has been discovered. Oh dear, the Soul Power in his eyes has been discovered too."

"Hehe, let's see what you still have to be smug about." Na'er had already believed Xia Yi. One reason was that his words made perfect sense. Another was that Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li should indeed be treating Tang Wulin right now. If Xia Yi had not left Soul Power inside Tang Wulin, there was no way he could know that.

Of course, the most important reason was that she trusted Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li. In her eyes, even if Xia Yi had truly tampered with Tang Wulin, he could not hide it from the Holy Spirit Douluo.

"What are you so pleased about? Isn't there still one more spot?" Xia Yi looked at Na'er disdainfully and chuckled. "Even if it doesn't kill Tang Wulin, you'll only be able to call him Elder Sister from now on."

As Xia Yi spoke, he had already made the motion of clenching his fist.

"Don't!" Na'er screamed. She still remembered that Xia Yi had detonated the Soul Power earlier by clenching his fist.

"Kneel down, kowtow a hundred times, then slap yourself a hundred times." Xia Yi's voice turned cold as he directly gave the order.

"Do you know who I am? You dare make me kowtow to you? You've got some nerve!" Na'er's gaze instantly became ten thousand times colder than Xia Yi's.

"That's precisely why I'm making you do it. As the ruler of the Star Dou Forest, you actually tried to kill one of your own people for a human. Tell me, shouldn't you slap yourself?" Xia Yi said coldly.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to bear the consequences." Na'er replied coldly.

Xia Yi did not respond. He merely extended his hand and slowly curled his fingers into a fist.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"Stop!" The moment Xia Yi shouted "one," Na'er interrupted him with a scream.

"Don't think you can stall for time. It's useless! I've already finished the countdown." Xia Yi said coldly, once again making the motion of clenching his fist.

"You will regret humiliating me today." Na'er stared at Xia Yi with an incomparably venomous gaze. Tears streaming down her face, she let out a hysterical roar, then—thud—bang... bang... bang... bang... slap... slap... slap... slap...

Zi Ji, is this the leader in your heart? No principles, no brains. Why protect her? Xia Yi sighed inwardly. He did not know Na'er's exact identity, but he remembered the undisguised respect in Zi Ji's eyes when she had mentioned Na'er before.

Although Xia Yi had never met Na'er, the moment he saw her appear in this courtyard, he knew that she had to be the person King of Ten Thousand Demons and Scarlet King were protecting.