Shared Heavens from Douluo Continent

"Listen up, you old profiteer!"

Dai Changsheng lifted his chin slightly and introduced himself with a proud look. "I am the Fourth Prince of the Star Luo Empire, the Pope of Spirit Hall's personal disciple, and the grandson-in-law personally chosen by the Poison Douluo—Dai Changsheng!"

"..."

Learning that Dai Changsheng had such an immense background, Flender's mouth twitched. He hurriedly withdrew his killing intent and forced out a smile. "So it is Your Highness the Fourth Prince. Your presence truly honors my humble shop. What happened just now was all a misunderstanding.

"It is my honor that Your Highness has taken a liking to this crystal. How about I give it to you for free, as an apology?"

It was no wonder Flender had backed down. Dai Changsheng's connections ran far too deep. Whether it was the Star Luo Empire, Spirit Hall, or the Poison Douluo, none were people he could afford to offend.

"Are you joking with me? Do you think this lousy crystal can make up for the face I lost?"

Now that he had revealed his true identity, Dai Changsheng naturally would not let Flender brush him off so easily.

"What do you want, then?"

Seeing that Dai Changsheng had no intention of letting the matter go, Flender's smile faded as well.

Though Flender was somewhat wary of Dai Changsheng's background, he would not be intimidated by a mere child.

After all, Flender's Martial Soul was a Cat-owl, and his flying speed was extremely fast. If he truly wanted to flee, even a Soul Douluo would not be able to do anything to him.

Besides, Flender had not truly injured Dai Changsheng. No matter how unreasonable Bibi Dong and the others were, they would not send a Title Douluo to hunt him down over a mere verbal dispute, would they?

"Don't worry! Unlike you, I'm not some unreasonable person."

Dai Changsheng shook his fist. "As long as you can take one punch from me today, I'll pretend nothing happened."

"That simple?"

Flender could not help revealing a doubtful expression.

Although Dai Changsheng stood nearly 1.9 meters tall, the childishness had not yet fully faded from his face. He looked no older than fifteen or sixteen.

Therefore, Dai Changsheng's Soul Power could be no more than around level thirty.

Even without Martial Soul Possession, a Soul Elder in the thirties could not possibly injure him.

"That simple."

Dai Changsheng nodded slightly, revealing a kindly smile.

"Fine, then come on!"

BOOM!!!

The moment Flender finished speaking, Dai Changsheng vanished from where he stood as though he had used Teleportation, leaving behind two footprints several inches deep in the floor.

Dark Demon Evil God Tiger

"Not good!"

Seeing Dai Changsheng burst forth with such terrifying speed without even using his Martial Soul, Flender's expression changed dramatically.

"Bang bang bang..."

Before Flender could use a soul skill to defend himself, Dai Changsheng's fist had already struck his chest. The terrifying force of the Seven Injuries Fist surged into Flender's body, instantly shattering all his internal organs.

The Seven Injuries Fist was a martial art passed down through the ages by the Mount Kongtong Sect, one that could only be practiced by those who had mastered Internal Force.

When this fist technique was unleashed, it carried overwhelming momentum. A single punch contained seven different types of force: some fierce and forceful, some soft and insidious, some hard with softness within, some soft with hardness within, some sweeping sideways, some driving straight ahead, and some contracting inward. If an enemy could not withstand these unceasing forces, they would suffer severe internal injuries.

The greatest strength of the Seven Injuries Fist was its ability to strike through barriers, directly attacking an enemy's internal organs.

"You..."

Flender, his organs shattered by the force of the Seven Injuries Fist, could not help spitting out a jet of blood mixed with fragments of his organs. He fell dead with his eyes still open.

"Get up!"

At Dai Changsheng's low shout, Flender's soul, which had yet to disperse, was forcibly transformed into a soul slave by Aid and Abet.

After enslaving the profiteer Flender's soul, Dai Changsheng had no intention of lingering in Suotuo City. He immediately rode the Ten Thousand Year Light Swan toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

Next, Dai Changsheng intended to find a suitable soul beast for his seventh soul ring, and he had already chosen his target: the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was an exceptionally special magical beast. Its numbers were extremely scarce, yet it was also one of the most powerful soul beasts.

Legend had it that the first Dark Demon Evil God Tiger came into being when the God of Evil forcibly descended upon a White Tiger, causing it to mutate. The White Tiger's original light attribute became a dark attribute, while black wings symbolizing corruption grew from its body, along with an Evil God Hook like a scorpion's tail.

In the original story, Tang San had discovered a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with more than sixty thousand years of Soul Power in the Star Dou Great Forest. It was just right for Dai Changsheng's seventh soul ring.

To be honest, if Dai Changsheng had not possessed the White Tiger Martial Soul, he would never have hunted a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for a soul ring.

Top-tier soul beasts like the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger usually possessed the ability to fight above their rank.

In other words, the combat strength of a Ten Thousand Year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was enough to rival that of an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Therefore, rather than risk hunting a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, it would be better to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast directly!

After all, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would not only yield a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, but also drop a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. The returns far surpassed those of a Ten Thousand Year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

More than half a month later

Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest

"I finally found you!"

Hidden in the shadows, Dai Changsheng watched the colossal creature feeding with its head lowered several hundred meters away, the corners of his lips curling up slightly.

With the help of the seven soul slaves, after more than half a month of searching, Dai Changsheng had finally found the elusive Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

It was an enormous tiger with pitch-black fur. Its pair of blood-red tiger eyes radiated a chillingly murderous aura.

The tiger was over eight meters long, its muscles bulging high beneath its fur. A pair of black wings grew from its back, while its tail was composed of white bone segments, ending in a massive hook that gleamed with a cold, sinister light.

"Go! Kill it!"

At Dai Changsheng's command, aside from the Light Swan, which was not skilled in combat, the other five soul slaves charged at the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger under Flender's lead.

The first to attack were the two Ten Thousand Year Cave Spiders serving as control-type soul masters. They unleashed their innate abilities and used Web Cage to trap the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in place.

Next came the Ten Thousand Year Thousand Jun Ant acting as an assault-type soul master, along with the Ten Thousand Year Golden Back Centipede acting as a defense-type soul master. They took the initiative to rush before the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, preparing to engage it in close combat.

Finally, the Ten Thousand Year Snow Eagle, which possessed the ability to fly, joined forces with Flender to swoop down on the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger from the air, preventing it from breaking out through the skies.

"ROAR!!!"

Faced with the joint siege of six soul slaves, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger showed no trace of fear. Instead, it let out an excited, bloodthirsty roar.

"Rip—"

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger raised its massive paw and slashed with all its might. The two Web Cages, harder than steel, were forcibly torn open with huge gaps.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh..."

Having broken free of its restraints, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger suddenly spread its black wings and beat them violently. Countless streaks of black light shot forth, condensing into dozens of black blades about a foot long that hurtled toward Flender and the others.

The Thousand Jun Ant and Golden Back Centipede charging at the front were struck by the black blades and sliced into dozens of pieces in an instant, as though hot knives had cut through butter. Their bodies, which should have been harder than steel, offered no resistance at all.

Even the Thousand Jun Ant and Golden Back Centipede, with the strongest defenses, could not withstand the black light blades unleashed by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, much less the Cave Spiders.

Other than Flender and the Ten Thousand Year Snow Eagle, who escaped the range of the black light blades in time thanks to their ability to fly and evade, the other four soul slaves were wiped out in a single move by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

Watching from the shadows, Dai Changsheng was not surprised in the slightest.

Most of the soul slaves enslaved by Dai Changsheng were soul beasts with cultivation between twenty and thirty thousand years, and their strength was only around seventy percent of what it had been in life. They were already no match for soul beasts with over fifty thousand years of cultivation.

Not to mention that this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed more than sixty thousand years of cultivation, with strength sufficient to rival an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

That was why Dai Changsheng had deliberately used the Thousand Jun Ant and the others as cannon fodder. Their strength could no longer keep pace with his growth anyway.

Even if the Thousand Jun Ant and the others had not been killed by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, Dai Changsheng had planned to free their souls and replace them with a new batch of stronger soul slaves.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh..."

Just as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was preparing to attack again and finish off Flender and the Ten Thousand Year Snow Eagle in midair, hundreds of grain-sized golden pellets suddenly shot out from the slowly dissipating bodies of the Thousand Jun Ant and Golden Back Centipede. Before it could react, they burrowed into its nostrils with lightning speed.

Before the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger could respond, those golden pellets transformed under Dai Changsheng's control into Dragon Beard Needles as thin as strands of hair, wreaking havoc within its body.

"Roar! Roar! Roar..."

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger felt as though countless sharp needles were piercing through its internal organs. Unable to endure the pain, it began rolling wildly across the ground.

Rather than showing the slightest hint of pity at the sight, Dai Changsheng's sword-like eyes turned even colder as he controlled some of the Dragon Beard Needles to bore into the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's brain.

Though the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was formidable, faced with such an attack from within, it could only wait helplessly for death.

The Second External Soul Bone

As the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's brain was destroyed by the Dragon Beard Needles, it gradually stopped struggling.

To prevent the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger from launching a final counterattack before death, Dai Changsheng did not approach immediately. He waited until black motes of light rose from its body and condensed into a Ten Thousand Year soul ring above its corpse before stepping out from the shadows.

"Whoosh!"

Drawn by Dai Changsheng's Soul Power, the Ten Thousand Year soul ring immediately flew above his head and descended around him, who had already activated Martial Soul Possession.

"Rumble..."

An incomparably pure, extremely yin Soul Power surged explosively from the Ten Thousand Year soul ring. It clashed violently with the supremely yang Soul Power within Dai Changsheng's body, like hot oil meeting cold water, erupting in an instant!

Fortunately, Dai Changsheng had created the Life and Death Talisman and had already grasped the method of transforming extremely yang Soul Power into extremely yin Soul Power.

Very quickly, all the extremely yang Soul Power in Dai Changsheng's body was converted into extremely yin Soul Power, and the nourishing Soul Power flowing from the soul ring was successfully absorbed into his body.

Since the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had originally mutated from a white tiger, and because a soul master would inevitably awaken their Martial Soul Avatar upon absorbing their seventh soul ring, Dai Changsheng's White Tiger Martial Soul also underwent an evolution at this moment.

The originally pure-white White Tiger Martial Soul gradually transformed into a pitch-black giant tiger under the influence of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's soul ring. Its Tiger Tail became a white bone tail resembling that of a scorpion, while two enormous black feathered wings grew from its back.

"Puff! Puff!"

At the same time, two strange bulges suddenly rose from Dai Changsheng's back. Immediately afterward, two pitch-black bone wings emerged from his back.

Like the tailbone of the Thousand-Year Adamant Tiger, those two bone wings were External Soul Bones even rarer than Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.

In truth, a top-tier soul beast like the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which had awakened a domain ahead of time, should have been guaranteed to drop a soul bone upon death.

In the original work, the reason Tang San had failed to obtain a soul bone after killing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was because it had spat its life pearl into the void before dying.

The so-called life pearl was somewhat similar to a demonic beast's inner core. It contained all of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's origin energy and could also be considered the manifested form of a Soul Core.

Just like Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, he had been unable to produce a million-year soul bone because part of the origin power in his body had been devoured by other fierce beasts.

Just now, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had been tortured by the Dragon Beard Needles until it could not even stand. Naturally, it had been unable to spit out its life pearl before death, so it was perfectly normal for a soul bone to drop from its body.

What Dai Changsheng had not expected, however, was that an External Soul Bone would drop from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

The soul skill attached to the Dark Demon Evil Tiger Bone Wings was called Tiger Grows Wings. It could increase Dai Changsheng's flight speed fivefold.

Aside from the active soul skill Tiger Grows Wings, the Dark Demon Evil Tiger Bone Wings also possessed a hidden passive soul skill that increased all of Dai Changsheng's attributes by fifty percent.

Although a fifty-percent boost to all attributes might not seem like much, passive soul skills did not consume soul power and could remain active at all times.

Dai Changsheng's physical strength in his normal state had originally been over six thousand jin. Now, with the support of the Dark Demon Evil Tiger Bone Wings, his normal strength could reach around ten thousand jin.

Dai Changsheng's physical constitution was now even stronger than that of an ordinary Title Douluo. In other words, he could forcibly absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.

It had to be said that hunting the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger this time had been an absolute windfall. Not only had Dai Changsheng obtained his second External Soul Bone, but his White Tiger Martial Soul had also evolved into the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul.

Perhaps the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul still could not compare to divine martial souls like the Angel Martial Soul and the Sea God Martial Soul, but the gap should not have been too great.

If Dai Changsheng's guess was correct, then once he broke through to the rank of Title Douluo, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul should awaken its corresponding domain as well.

After several hours of full-force refinement, Dai Changsheng finally absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger soul ring completely, and his soul power broke through to level seventy-two.

After adjusting to his greatly increased strength, Dai Changsheng had no intention of leaving the Star Dou Great Forest just yet. Instead, he began searching for traces of the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers.

With Dai Changsheng's current cultivation, if he wanted to increase his soul power through hard cultivation alone, he would need to spend at least several years before he could possibly break through to the rank of Soul Douluo.

Dai Changsheng was not foolish enough to cultivate bitterly. He planned to attach high-level soul rings to the Tiger Soul Saber Martial Soul and use the soul power feedback from those soul rings to rapidly raise his Soul Power Level.

Although the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers only possessed cultivation of over ninety thousand years, if their soul rings were absorbed at the same time, they could complement one another and evolve into pseudo-hundred-thousand-year soul rings.

They were called pseudo-hundred-thousand-year soul rings because normal hundred-thousand-year soul rings usually came with two hundred-thousand-year soul skills.

However, after the soul rings of the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers evolved into hundred-thousand-year soul rings, each of them possessed only one hundred-thousand-year soul skill.

If Dai Changsheng could absorb the soul rings of the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers, his soul power would definitely break through to level eighty.

Unfortunately, plans could not keep up with change. Dai Changsheng's idea was a good one, but he had overlooked how difficult it would be to find the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers.