Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers

Tang San felt that his previous defeat had been entirely due to his lack of understanding of Zhu Rong's attack methods.

"Zhu Rong, no matter how bizarre your attacks are, your attack range can't possibly be that far!"

Tang San retreated using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track while thinking to himself.

As long as someone was human, they would have weaknesses. He refused to believe Zhu Rong had none at all!

"Hm?"

Seeing Tang San toss aside the rabbits and swiftly put distance between them, Zhu Rong failed to react for a moment.

Last time, Tang San had charged straight at him without hesitation. Why had he changed tactics this time?

Looking at the rabbits on the ground, Zhu Rong felt an urge to pick them up and run. After thinking it over, though, he decided against it.

He had searched for Tang San for so long, not for the sake of a few rabbits.

Tang San was extremely fast. In less than a few seconds, he had opened a distance of over forty meters between himself and Zhu Rong.

Just as he was about to stop, Tang San backed away another ten-odd meters before finally breathing a sigh of relief. Forty meters still did not feel safe enough to him. Farther was better.

"At my current level, using hidden-weapon techniques to control pebbles at fifty meters won't have too high an error rate. Zhu Rong's attack range can't possibly be... Wait?"

"What the hell are you doing?"

After coming to a stop, Tang San had been about to pick up a few pebbles from the ground and teach Zhu Rong a proper lesson.

But when he turned around, he nearly coughed up blood from anger at the sight of Zhu Rong, and he roared.

"I thought you didn't want them anymore!"

Zhu Rong answered righteously.

Seeing that Zhu Rong had not picked up the rabbits and run off, Tang San finally let out a sigh of relief.

Catching those rabbits had not taken much effort, but they were still his spoils! He could give them to anyone but Zhu Rong!

"Zhu Rong, you beat me last time using underhanded methods! I, Tang San, refuse to accept it! Today, I'll teach you a proper lesson!"

Tang San quickly picked up several pebbles from the ground and shouted at Zhu Rong.

With more than fifty meters between them, the other party might not hear him if he merely spoke. He could only shout.

"Me, underhanded?"

Zhu Rong rolled his eyes. Underhanded methods to beat you? Are you even worth that?

"You don't accept it, huh? Then I'll beat you until you do!"

Since Tang San claimed he had used underhanded methods and refused to accept the result, then Zhu Rong would beat him until he did.

The Blade of Sanction silently appeared in Zhu Rong's hand. A hundred-year soul ring slowly rose from beneath his feet, and his eyes were dyed gold.

A pair of flawless white wings unfurled from Zhu Rong's back, slowly lifting him from the ground until he floated in midair.

Sacred, radiant, righteous, hopeful.

At that moment, he was like the rising sun.

Tang San: "???"

Tang San, who had been preparing to attack Zhu Rong with pebbles, suddenly felt his mind crash.

His mouth hung slightly open, his purple-glinting eyes fixed firmly on Zhu Rong in midair.

The pebbles fell from his hand to the ground, yet he remained unaware.

Without any enhancements, Zhu Rong's current "attack range" indeed did not reach fifty meters.

After Zhu Rong became a Soul Master, the Judgment Heavenly God Kail Martial Soul had also been strengthened.

Though it had not yet successfully ranked up, both his base attributes and attack range had increased slightly.

"Attack range" referred to the area covered by his spiritual power.

Zhu Rong's spiritual power currently covered an area of roughly thirty-five meters.

With the enhancement from Wings of Light, the area covered by his spiritual power had reached an astonishing fifty meters!

"You should've run farther away. But this is fine too—it saves me the trouble of chasing you..."

After the Judgment Heavenly God Kail Martial Soul was strengthened, whenever Zhu Rong used his martial soul again, even if it was only the weapon-summoning portion...

His emotions underwent subtle changes as well.

A martial soul could influence a person's personality. The more powerful the martial soul, the more pronounced the effect.

And Judgment Heavenly God Kail was already a God-Tier Martial Soul...

Zhu Rong's voice was not loud, yet under the influence of spiritual power, it reached Tang San's ears with precision.

Tang San's back turned cold, sweat pouring down him as his legs began to tremble uncontrollably.

In terms of sheer presence, Zhu Rong's current aura was worlds apart from when he had been level ten.

That indifferent tone, devoid of even the slightest emotion, made it seem as though Tang San was already a dead man in his eyes.

"When did he obtain a soul ring?"

"When did he become a Soul Master?"

"Why does he have wings? He can even fly?"

"He..."

A barrage of questions exploded in Tang San's mind.

"Why... am I afraid?"

Though Tang San did not want to admit it, his body was being brutally honest!

If he was not afraid, then why was he trembling? Was he cold?

"Damn it!"

Tang San clenched his fists tightly, his gaze turning even fiercer.

"If only I had the Godly Zhuge Crossbow right now!"

"I'd turn you into a sieve!"

Gritting his teeth, Tang San swiftly picked up the pebbles that had just fallen to the ground and muttered:

"So what if you can fly? You're still a target for my hidden weapon techniques!"

He who struck first gained the upper hand; he who struck later suffered.

With a flick of his wrist, Tang San sent the pebble in his hand flying toward Zhu Rong along an extremely strange arc.

The tiny pebble sliced through the air, radiating a chilling killing intent.

In that instant, Zhu Rong raised his right hand and swung the holy sword in his grip.

A silent attack struck the pebble Tang San had thrown.

With a "bang," the pebble exploded midair, turning into fragments that rained down from above.

Golden flames appeared where the pebble had exploded, like heavenly fire descending upon the mortal world.

Tang San: "???"

This was too strange!

The pebbles he had chosen were all small and highly concealed.

Yet Zhu Rong had actually used that bizarre attack to hit the pebble he had thrown!

How absurd was that?

"I don't believe it... It was luck, it had to be luck!"

"If one isn't enough, then try this!"

Tang San spread all ten fingers, with at least two or three pebbles tucked between every pair of fingers.

Leaning slightly forward with his hands hidden behind his back, Tang San stared fixedly at Zhu Rong, his mind frantically calculating force, angles...

"Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers!"

Dozens of pebbles flew out with a sweep of Tang San's hands. Like tiny living sprites, they spun and danced through the air...

Some of the pebbles were even stranger. They had clearly veered away from their trajectory toward Zhu Rong, yet after colliding with one another, they flew toward him once more.

Tang San was suffering a bit of mental exhaustion now. Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers was not so easy to use.

"Let's see what you do this time!"

Tang San was incomparably excited. As long as he could defeat Zhu Rong and wash away his humiliation, what did a little mental exhaustion matter?

"Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers? I thought a child was just tossing clumps of dirt around! And tossing them pretty carelessly too..."

Zhu Rong shook his head and muttered to himself.

Once each pebble entered his attack range, Zhu Rong could clearly sense it and lock onto the target.

That was also why he had been able to accurately strike the pebble earlier.

Although he could sense dozens of pebbles, he could not shoot them down one by one in such a short time.

If they had been hidden weapons like needles, knives, or darts, Zhu Rong's current flesh-and-blood body would not have been able to withstand them head-on.

But mere pebbles...

"First Soul Skill!"