Enemies Meet on a Narrow Road

After entering the Star Dou Great Forest, Chen Xilin headed into the Mixed Zone at top speed.

"Hm?" Chen Xilin sensed dozens of auras nearby.

Chen Xilin placed one hand on the ground and focused his senses.

"...Thirty-five people, two Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts? Two Spirit Douluos, seventeen Soul Saints, fifteen Spirit Emperors, and one quasi-Spirit Emperor?"

Chen Xilin sensed that a major force was likely helping a junior hunt Spirit Beasts.

"Hm? This person is?" Chen Xilin sensed Soul Power carrying an aura of death. He knew this Soul Power all too well.

Bibi Dong!

"Hmph! Enemies really do meet on narrow roads! I'll kill you today!" Chen Xilin slipped into the darkness, his hatred overwhelming his reason.

Elsewhere,

"Holy Maiden, if you want a suitable Spirit Beast, we'll need to enter the Mixed Zone. The quality of Spirit Beasts here is too low; it would be difficult to encounter a compatible twenty-thousand-year Spirit Beast." A Spirit Douluo bowed to Bibi Dong as he spoke.

Bibi Dong was seventeen years old now. Unlike several years ago, she still had fair skin and nearly perfect features, while the curves of her figure had become even more pronounced.

In particular, the intangible nobility and holiness emanating from her made the Spirit Douluo beside her feel the urge to worship her.

"Hmph! What a waste of such a beautiful face! Too bad you're a spider woman. Go die!"

Chen Xilin used Shadow Escape within the darkness and attacked immediately, opening with his Sixth Spirit Skill.

"Sixth Spirit Skill, Apocalypse Dragon Claws!"

An enormous black dragon claw appeared in the sky and slammed down toward Bibi Dong.

"Protect the Holy Maiden!"

Two Soul Saints rushed forward, only to be smashed into pulp the instant they touched the dragon claw.

Bibi Dong stared at the sky in terror. She knew that aura too well. It was that person again—he had come to kill her!

"Impudent!"

An incomparably holy voice rang out. A beam of sacred light descended from the heavens, and Qian Xunji stood in the air, splitting the dragon claw in two with a single sword strike.

"Qian Xunji! Hmph, try this!" Chen Xilin's eyes turned bloodshot the moment he saw Qian Xunji. He drove all his Soul Power into motion, gathering the darkness around him into a pitch-black crescent.

"Dark Spirit Curse!"

Once the attack was unleashed, eighty percent of Chen Xilin's Soul Power was drained away, and his position was exposed.

"Over there! Angel Holy Sword!"

A golden vortex appeared before Qian Xunji's palm, and a golden sword of light gradually emerged from its center.

Qian Xunji remotely controlled the light sword and slashed it toward Chen Xilin's location.

Chen Xilin failed to dodge in time and was grazed by the sword of light, but the Dark Spirit Curse he had released had also reached Qian Xunji.

Qian Xunji looked disdainfully at the seemingly ordinary slash. Such an attack? It was beneath notice.

Qian Xunji released a Soul Power barrier to block the pitch-black crescent.

To everyone's surprise, the pitch-black crescent passed straight through the Soul Power barrier and slashed directly at Qian Xunji's head.

"What?!" Qian Xunji instinctively tilted his head aside. The crescent left a cut across his face and severed a few strands of his hair.

"Damn it! Chase him! That thief was hit by my attack—destroy him for me!" Qian Xunji roared furiously.

"Yes!" All the Spirit Douluos and Soul Saints went after him.

Chen Xilin had already slipped into the darkness and fled, but when he entered the darkness, the Angel Soul Power on his body scorched his flesh.

It prevented him from moving perfectly through the darkness.

"Damn Qian Xunji!" Chen Xilin emerged directly from the darkness and ran toward the Core Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Qian Xunji remained where he was, watching over Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong was no longer as miserable as she had been back then. Looking at her teacher, she took healing ointment from her Soul Tool.

"A mere slash. I... Hm?" Qian Xunji circulated his Soul Power to strengthen his recovery, only to discover that this simple cut was incredibly difficult to heal.

"How could this be?!" Qian Xunji activated all the Angel Soul Power in his body. He thought it was due to the Dark Attribute, but even Angel Soul Power proved useless!

As a dark spatial spell, the Dark Spirit Curse was somewhat lacking in power when cast with Soul Power, but its annihilating attribute remained intact.

The Soul Power barrier Qian Xunji had deployed was easily pierced by the Dark Spirit Curse before it struck his body. Annihilating attacks were not so simple.

Unfortunately, this was Chen Xilin's first time using the Dark Spirit Curse, and he was still unfamiliar with it. Otherwise, he would not have inflicted so little damage on Qian Xunji.

"You little bastard, since you didn't die, I'll destroy you myself!" Qian Xunji's gaze turned icy. "Dong'er, we'll get your sixth Soul Ring first. After that, I'll find time to crush that wretch to death!"

"Don't run!"

"You dared attack Spirit Hall, boy? You've got some nerve."

Chen Xilin was being hunted again. This felt rather familiar to him. It seemed he had often encountered such situations in his previous life as well. What a familiar script.

Chen Xilin stopped and turned around. There were thirty-two pursuers in total.

Two Spirit Douluos, fifteen Soul Saints, and fifteen Spirit Emperors. Quite a lot.

"Boy, aren't you running anymore? Waiting to die?" One Spirit Douluo asked with his arms folded.

"Sigh, there are so many of you. Killing you all will be difficult," Chen Xilin muttered.

"Kill us? Hahahahaha, that's really amusing." The other Spirit Douluo burst into laughter.

"Fifth Spirit Skill, Dark Sky Curtain!"

At once, an incomparably deep darkness enveloped Chen Xilin and the thirty-two members of Spirit Hall.

Core Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest,

A Hell Demon Dragon taking an afternoon nap suddenly woke with a start. She looked toward a certain part of the forest, then immediately got up and ran in that direction.

"This is a Domain Spirit Skill! Why has my strength dropped so much?!" A Soul Saint cried out in shock. He now had only half his usual strength.

The two Spirit Douluos wore grim expressions. Their strength had been weakened by nearly thirty percent, and they could barely resist the effects of the dark domain.

As for Chen Xilin, dragging this group into the Dark Sky Curtain in one go was more than he could bear. He had just used the Dark Spirit Curse, consuming eighty percent of his Soul Power, and had only recovered a little while fleeing.

But there were simply too many of them!

"Pant, pant..." Chen Xilin gasped for breath. The Dark Sky Curtain eroded his opponents' power and used it to strengthen him.

It was somewhat similar to the law of conservation of energy.

If Chen Xilin had been in normal condition, he would never have struggled this much.

"Fourth Spirit Skill, Myriad Dragon Devouring Abyss!"

Ferocious evil dragons continuously formed within the Dark Sky Curtain, tearing into Spirit Hall's Spirit Masters. The screams of Spirit Hall's Spirit Masters.

Those Spirit Emperors could not withstand the dragons' bites and were bitten alive, while several Soul Saints with insufficient defenses were also torn to death.

"Martial Soul Avatar!"

The two Spirit Douluos activated their Martial Soul Avatars. They intended to break the Dark Sky Curtain at their strongest.

"Eighth Spirit Skill, Lion's Pounce!"

The Lion Spirit Douluo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and transformed into a mighty lion, launching an attack against the Dark Sky Curtain.

"Eighth Spirit Skill, Earth-Shattering Shock!"

The other Rock Lord Spirit Douluo unleashed his strongest Spirit Skill as well.

Crack—

The two Spirit Douluos joined forces and shattered the Dark Sky Curtain outright.

"Pfft—" Chen Xilin's Dark Sky Curtain had been destroyed, and the backlash from his Spirit Skill affected him as well.

"Shadow Escape!" Chen Xilin swiftly entered the darkness and began fleeing.

"Don't even think about leaving! Sixth Spirit Skill, Earthquake!"