Su Muyue's Desperate Fight

"If you dared to seek death, then your son would do all of this in your place. After all, that disobedient son of yours needed to be taught a proper lesson."

Watching Su Muyue swallow the Dou Ling Pill, Chang Wei sneered. As a Soul Douluo with soul power at level eighty-eight, he had absolute confidence in his ability to suppress Su Muyue.

If not for the fact that he had never seen Su Luo's Soul Skill and feared that some unusual ability might allow the two of them to escape, he would not have needed to do this at all.

Su Muyue did not reply. She simply drew her sword and thrust it at Chang Wei without the slightest hesitation.

At first, Su Muyue had wanted to settle things peacefully. Considering the other party's strength, she had not wanted to clash with an eight-ring Soul Douluo like Chang Wei. But once he said he would cripple Su Luo, there was nothing left to discuss between them.

A mother could endure humiliation to protect her child. But if they still refused to spare her child even then, Su Muyue could only risk her life against them as his mother.

Even though she could not possibly defeat him in theory, Su Muyue had never intended to defeat Chang Wei. For Su Luo to live, all she wanted as a mother was to die together with Chang Wei.

Seeing Su Muyue draw her sword and stab at him, Chang Wei was just about to mock her for overestimating herself, for daring to use the cultivation of someone not even at the level of a six-ring Soul Emperor to challenge someone like him, an existence already close to a Title Douluo.

But the next instant, Chang Wei sensed that something was wrong. As an eight-ring Soul Douluo who was very close to becoming a Title Douluo, he had no shortage of combat experience, nor had he lacked trials between life and death. It was precisely because of that that, just before Su Muyue's sword could strike him, he felt an intense sense of danger.

At that moment, he still did not understand how someone not even at the level of a six-ring Soul Emperor could make a Soul Douluo close to a Title Douluo feel threatened. Yet his body reacted before his mind, causing him to evade Su Muyue's strike.

Because he had initially looked down on Su Muyue—or rather, because he had been too confident in his level eighty-eight strength—Chang Wei did not completely avoid that sword. And it was that strike he had failed to fully evade that made him suck in a sharp breath.

"Hiss... Where did you mother and son get so many strange pills? That brat used a pill to withstand the impact of a Four-Thousand-Year Soul Ring without fear, and now what did you take? This is absolutely not power the Su Family could possess!"

As a hereditary count of the Star Luo Empire, and one whose family had possessed Soul Douluo-level experts for a long time, the Su Family's martial souls were no secret, aside from Su Luo's somewhat unusual case.

To everyone familiar with the Su Family's martial souls, the Su Family were indeed Battle Soul Masters, but they were also somewhat similar to auxiliary-type Soul Masters.

They could summon creatures to assist them in battle, but their bodies were as frail as those of auxiliary-type Soul Masters.

But how did Su Muyue's previous sword strike resemble the weak body of a Su Family member in the slightest? The sharpness of that blade and the speed of her strike made Chang Wei certain that even an ordinary Sword Martial Soul Soul Sage would not possess attack power of that level.

The protective soul power of an eighty-eight-level Soul Douluo could not be broken through without at least level seventy-five soul power as a foundation, even if Chang Wei was a Soul Douluo who leaned toward the agility-attack type. And the other party's martial soul could not be of poor quality either.

The further a Soul Master advanced, the harder it became to fight above one's level. After all, anyone who could cultivate to the realm of Soul Douluo was a genius with an exceptionally high-quality martial soul. Although fighting above one's level was common among lower-level Soul Masters, most of those who later cultivated to the level of Soul Douluo had possessed at least some ability to challenge stronger opponents when they were weaker.

There were occasionally those whose martial souls or talents were lacking, but if they could still cultivate to the realm of Soul Douluo, they might be even more terrifying than those with superior martial souls and talent, because it meant they possessed another kind of frightening strength.

Su Muyue did not answer Chang Wei. She simply continued swinging her sword at him.

The powerful medicinal effect of the Dou Ling Pill caused her dou qi to rise at a terrifying rate, but at the same time, the medicinal power that only a Dou Wang's meridians could bear brought waves of intense pain to Su Muyue's meridians. She was only a Seven-star Great Dou Shi and a five-ring Soul King.

Fortunately, the cultivation methods and combat techniques Su Muyue practiced were all Earth-tier. The meridians tempered by Earth-tier cultivation methods and combat techniques prevented her from immediately being unable to endure the Dou Ling Pill's medicinal power. But being unable to endure it was ultimately still being unable to endure it. Su Muyue knew very well that it was only a matter of time before the Dou Ling Pill destroyed her meridians. She had to deal with Chang Wei quickly. Otherwise, once her meridians could no longer hold, she and Su Luo would be at his mercy.

Su Muyue had married into the Qin Family. If she and Su Luo were captured by Chang Wei and handed over to the Qin Family, then even if the Su Family wanted to help them, they would be powerless.

The Su Family no longer had a Soul Douluo, while the Qin Family had a Soul Douluo backing them. Even if they wanted to reason things out, this was both an internal matter of the Su Family and an internal matter of the Qin Family. The Star Luo Empire would never provoke a Soul Douluo and a family with the potential to produce a Soul Douluo or even a Title Douluo for the sake of a declining Su Family. At the end of the day, this was merely a private matter between two families.

"Bastard! You crazy woman, do you not care about your life anymore?!" Chang Wei cursed.

He had thought Su Muyue would be easy to handle, but after she swung that first sword, she seemed like a completely different person.

After covering herself in a full suit of Dou Qi Armor, Su Muyue only attacked and never retreated. She let his attacks strike her body without showing the slightest intention of backing down. She merely covered her wounds in Dou Qi Armor again and continued forward. Yet Su Muyue's sword could inflict real damage on him, and after exchanging blows for only a short while, he discovered that Su Muyue's attacks were impossible to block.

But if he tried to evade, then unfortunately for him, speed was precisely what Wind Attribute dou qi excelled at. Though he too leaned toward the agility-attack type, the Earth-tier Azure Cloud Roaming Heaven Steps sealed off every one of his escape routes, forcing him to compete with Su Muyue by trading injury for injury.

In truth, he still held the advantage under those circumstances, since the gap in their cultivation was right there. But Su Muyue was prepared to drag him down with her, while he had no desire to die at her hands. His momentum therefore fell as low as it could possibly go, leaving him suppressed throughout the entire fight.

Fortunately, as an eight-ring Soul Douluo, his vitality and physical constitution were sufficient. Coupled with the Dou Ling Pill continuously destroying Su Muyue's body, their battle ultimately ended with Su Muyue collapsing first.

"Hahahahaha! You Jealous Woman! The wicked will be punished by heaven, and victory will ultimately stand on my side! I no longer intend to make you serve Teng'er and his mother by handling their filth. Once I cripple your soul power, I will definitely make a woman like you into Beauty Paper!"

Chang Wei, whose hand had been severed and who had lost one eye along with part of a Head Bone, slumped to the ground. Looking at Su Muyue, whose body had finally given out, he burst into laughter. He was in terrible condition, but he had ultimately won.

But before he could laugh for long, Su Luo's icy voice carried over.

"What did you say you were going to do?"