I Traveled to Douluo and Split into Five People: Chapter 7

An Lan sucked in a sharp breath. How could Zhou Xuefeng come up with such a horrifying idea?

"Without madness, there can be no life!" Resting one hand against his cheek, he spoke as though it were something utterly insignificant. "Didn't Ning Yulin speculate that unless all five of us are killed at once, as long as even one remains, the others will not truly die? At worst, I'll only die once. But if I really fail, remember to avenge me against the Zhu Family."

With that, Zhou Xuefeng was the first to leave the space.

The remaining four looked at one another.

"We all have the same soul. We weren't that obsessive in our past lives, were we?"

Tang Yin spoke softly.

"Did what he went through in the Zhu Family really affect him that much?"

"Either way, let's wait for his experiment results first. None of us should obtain Spirit Rings for now. If he really dies once and we help him recover, we might have a period of weakness."

Ning Yulin tapped on the table. Zhou Xuefeng's proposal had frightened him somewhat, but it also excited him. This method seemed quite feasible.

Yu Tianrui suddenly added, "It's one thing for a Tool Spirit to shatter, but can a Beast Spirit shatter?"

Are you trying to get yourself killed?

The other three stared at him speechlessly. Was the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon not strong enough? Or was it not cool-looking enough? Why would he want to shatter it?

They shook their heads and went their separate ways.

Obsessive? Zhou Xuefeng did not think so.

He merely wanted to hurry up and stop wasting time.

A gentleman could wait ten years to take revenge, but a petty man took revenge from dawn to dusk. He wanted to return to the Zhu Family sooner and send those people all down below. They had treated him, a child barely old enough to walk, as less than human. And there was also the steward who had beaten this body's mother to death. He did not have much feeling for her, but before he awakened his Martial Soul, her protection had been an essential reason he survived.

"Haa..."

He cultivated the Solar Term Method, silently recited the Calm Heart Mantra, relaxed his emotions, and soothed his mind.

"Ancient ice, all things still. Let the heart be calm and the qi tranquil. May I alone be divine. Heart and spirit as one, qi follows accordingly. Let there be space between them; remain unshaken amid countless changes. No delusion, no anger, no desire, no seeking, no abandonment, no forsaking, no action, no self..."

Drugging

Zhou Xuefeng wandered through the Soul Hunting Forest, while the other three cultivated steadily and accumulated Soul Power. Ning Yulin had finally finished documenting his experiments with Whale Rubber. Naturally, he took the records with him to find Ning Fengzhi.

There were guests?

A maid informed him that the Sect Master was in the reception hall. Ning Yulin came looking for him and found people inside, apparently discussing some sort of cooperation. It would be impolite to barge in, so Ning Yulin waited beside the door.

He waited for more than ten minutes.

Only then did the two emerge.

Ning Fengzhi caught sight of the person waiting by the door from the corner of his eye and actually paused before remembering that this was his sixth son.

He glanced at the person Ning Fengzhi had escorted out. He seemed to be someone from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

This should not be Xue Qinghe. He looked a little too old.

The initial contact for Xue Qinghe becoming a disciple.

Qian Renxue should still be in Spirit Hall right now...

"Yulin, what do you need from me?"

"I was looking for Eldest Brother and happened to pass by here."

The expression Ning Fengzhi had just shown, as though he had needed to remember who Ning Yulin was, made Ning Yulin inexplicably uncomfortable. He immediately abandoned the thought of telling Ning Fengzhi about the Whale Rubber, let alone exposing the fact that he had Twin Martial Souls.

I know you have many sons, but do you really have to think before recognizing one of them?

He gave a slight bow and left directly.

Ning Fengzhi was somewhat baffled.

Beside him, another maid opened her mouth, wanting to say that Sixth Young Master had waited there for more than ten minutes. But casually interrupting in matters concerning the master's family was a major taboo for servants. Since Ning Fengzhi had not asked, she did not dare comment freely.

She was not Ning Yulin's personal maid either. If she had been his bedchamber maid, she could at least have subtly expressed some of Ning Yulin's displeasure.

He drifted into the garden, wandering with the wind.

A whirlwind swept up fallen petals and leaves, sending them spinning through the air. Some fell into the pond, while others landed in the pond on the other side.

As he passed a pavilion, a voice called out.

"You are... Xiao Liu? What are you doing here?"

Hearing the voice, Ning Yulin looked up. Around the corner behind one of the pavilion pillars, a section of clothing was visible.

"So it's Second Brother. How's the fishing today?"

Ning Fengzhi's second son, Ning Yuhuan, was twenty-two years old. His Martial Soul was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and he was Rank 39.

He shook his head.

"The fish in this pond have all been fed too well... You've been reading for so long. What are your thoughts?"

"The more I read, the more confused I become. I'm increasingly unsure what I should do."

After watching for a while, Ning Yulin found that the fish in the pond were indeed clever. They only knocked the bait off the hook before sucking it up, never taking the hook itself.

"Continue, Second Brother. I'll be going first."

He was about to take his leave when a sentence drifted over from behind him.

"No matter what you want to do, be careful."

He turned back and cupped his hands in salute before Ning Yulin walked away.

That afternoon, he went to Eldest Brother again and asked for several tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins. Once he got the money, he immediately sought out the same steward as before.

"The age of the ones last time wasn't high enough. Find more older ones this time. Ten-thousand-year ones would be best."

Ten-thousand-year?

The steward looked troubled.

"Sixth Young Master, would you like to seek the Sect Master's approval and directly organize people to go out to sea?"

"No need. Purchase as much as you can, and the older, the better. There's no need to send the sect's disciples into the sea and risk their lives over something like this."

"Sixth Young Master is truly kindhearted. This subordinate deeply admires you."

Ning Yulin's expression turned subtle. This guy can flatter even an insignificant young master like me. He's quite something.

Since that was the case, Ning Yulin did not stint on rewards.

"Handle it well. If you do a good job, I'll put in a few good words for you with Eldest Brother."

"Rest assured, Sixth Young Master. This subordinate will certainly do his utmost."

Inside the space.

Zhou Xuefeng delivered some exhilarating news.

"I found a Fire Leopard. If the information you gave me is correct, it should be around five hundred years old."

Suppressing his excitement, Ning Yulin remained calm.

"Five hundred years is not bad. Try it first. If it succeeds, when I go hunt for a Spirit Ring, I'll directly overwrite it with a high-year Spirit Ring."

This would be the first Spirit Ring shared by all five of them. Everyone was looking forward to it. Zhou Xuefeng nodded, dispersed his spiritual power, and left the space.

After resting fully, he prepared to act.

By sharing the senses of the surrounding Blue Silver Grass, he followed the Fire Leopard from afar and mapped out its territory. Zhou Xuefeng buried himself in the soil and cultivated like grass. With the support of the Essence of Qi Method, he had naturally mastered this ability.

It resembled a domain, but was not yet one.

After tracking it for three days, he found a water source shared by the soul beasts. Zhou Xuefeng withdrew, calculated the route and timing, and prepared to act. He hunted a ten-year Giant Tooth Pig, smeared it with the laxative and animal aphrodisiac he had prepared beforehand, dug a trap, and placed it along the Fire Leopard's route to the water source.

He could not fight a hundred-year soul beast head-on, but a mere ten-year soul beast was no problem.

While waiting, he summoned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul and tapped it with a stone, producing a pleasant, crisp sound. However, Zhou Xuefeng looked troubled.

"Although the Glazed Pagoda Martial Soul isn't very strong, that's only compared with other Tool Spirits."

Shattering it would be difficult.

Holding the small pagoda in his palm, Zhou Xuefeng considered many possibilities.

Then he slowly waited for the Fire Leopard to appear.

Tap, tap. The Fire Leopard appeared, pacing leisurely. It was a tyrant in the area. Its agile body was powerful, and it could wrap its attacks in flames. Not a single nearby hundred-year soul beast was its match.

"Roar roar? What is that?"

Its nose caught a familiar scent of blood, and it let out a puzzled low growl. Lowering its body into a hunting stance, it sniffed warily.

It did not detect any strange scent. Throughout the operation, Zhou Xuefeng had smeared himself with Blue Silver Grass juice. All it could smell was the rich scent of Blue Silver Grass and the flesh and blood of the Giant Tooth Pig.

"Roar. A gift from nature."

It approached and tested the situation several times. The pig before it was indeed dead, and it was fresh.

"Roar. Nothing smells strange. Time to eat."

The medicinal scent was concealed by the stench of blood, and it did not smell anything unusual. It began eating on the spot, tearing and swallowing. It failed to notice that the ground beneath it was slowly collapsing.

After it had eaten nearly half.

The ground suddenly split open, and it fell together with the Giant Tooth Pig's corpse.

The time had come. Zhou Xuefeng swiftly pulled the rope. Leaves rustled all around as a great deal of water splashed down, rapidly mixing with the loose soil in the pit to form mud. The Fire Leopard roared in alarm and struggled to leap out, but its four limbs were firmly sucked into the mud.

It bounced several times but could not escape.

Flames erupted across its body, drying out the mud. Only then did it break free and leap out.

It flipped out of the pit and assumed a hunting stance, watching the surroundings vigilantly. There was no movement at all. Its shallow intelligence could not understand how this trap had appeared. It looked back at the pork in the mud pit with some regret. But it was all dirty now. After pawing at it twice, it decided not to eat anymore and turned toward the river.

Suddenly, its hind legs stiffened, and a stream of yellow water shot out.

It continued for more than ten seconds. It let out a relieved roar, shuddered all over, and did not continue toward the water source. Instead, the animal aphrodisiac took effect. It turned and charged in another direction, intending to find a few female beasts to vent its urges.

After turning and running only a short distance, it started spraying again.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Shatters

Watching the Fire Leopard run for a while, stop for a while, and gradually move away, Zhou Xuefeng finally climbed down from the tree and slowly followed it.

After chasing it for several hundred meters, he found the Fire Leopard, weakened to the point of collapse yet still excited, desperately rubbing itself against a tree.

"After weakening it to this extent, it should be about enough..."

He slowly exhaled, summoned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, enlarged it with Soul Power, grabbed the tip of the pagoda, and charged at the Fire Leopard. Zhou Xuefeng could not shatter his Martial Soul by himself, but this Fire Leopard, in heat and weakened by diarrhea, should be able to do it.

The Fire Leopard took a hit to the waist and jolted. It turned around, its dark yellow eyes filled with bloodshot veins glaring fixedly at Zhou Xuefeng.

With a roar, it was about to pounce.

But its legs went limp, and it collapsed onto the ground.

Zhou Xuefeng gripped the Glazed Pagoda and deliberately rammed it into the Fire Leopard's mouth. The Fire Leopard cooperated very well, opening its jaws and biting down. Then the edges of the Glazed Pagoda became lodged in its mouth.

It tried to rise but had no strength at all. Instinctively, flames erupted across its body again, but they were nothing compared to the state it had been in within the mud pit. It was utterly pathetic. A few faint flames flickered twice before going out.

Zhou Xuefeng used materials at hand, snapping off a thick, rough branch. He circled behind the Fire Leopard and aimed for its chrysanthemum.

"ROAR!"

The chrysanthemum was ruined.

The Fire Leopard's ferocity was aroused, and its viciousness fully emerged. Trembling, it stood up with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda stuck in its mouth, trying to turn around and attack Zhou Xuefeng. But Zhou Xuefeng held the branch in one hand and circled around it, twisting the branch as he moved.

The spraying yellow water quickly turned into bloody water.