"Just as I expected, a Soul Sage was no longer a match for me."
As the dust settled, Gu Yi's figure appeared before everyone.
With a flash from the storage ring on his hand, a Qi Recovery Pill appeared. He swallowed it in one gulp to replenish the True Qi he had expended in battle.
Gu Yi was not surprised that he could defeat Zhao Wuji.
More than a year ago, when Gu Yi had still been at the eighth level of the Qi Martial Realm (Soul Power rank 40), he had been able to hunt a twenty-five-thousand-year soul beast for his fourth soul ring.
And the soul beast Gu Yi had hunted was no ordinary soul beast.
It was an Ice Jade Scorpion with the 'Ultimate Ice' attribute, which Gu Yi had specifically ventured deep into the Extreme North to hunt!
—Although this so-called Ultimate Ice was a joke when viewed across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, it was still extremely powerful on the Douluo Continent.
Thus, a twenty-five-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion was already comparable to a rank-60 human Soul Emperor.
Yet such a powerful soul beast had been killed through Gu Yi's planning when he had only been at the eighth level of the Qi Martial Realm.
—In truth, back then, even with all sorts of methods at his disposal, Gu Yi could at most contend with an ordinary first-level Spirit Martial Realm warrior on the Nine Heavens Continent.
But on the Douluo Continent, he could kill a twenty-five-thousand-year soul beast, or a rank-60 Soul Emperor, whose realm was comparable to the third or fourth level of the Spirit Martial Realm.
This showed just how formidable Gu Yi's combat strength was, and how weak the soul masters and soul beasts of the Douluo system were. They were far