25 Five-Year Pact

Chang Wei looked toward the source of the voice and found Su Luo, who had finished absorbing the Soul Ring, staring at him with icy eyes.

"You absorbed that four-thousand-year Soul Ring so quickly? What kind of pill did you take? Not only did it let you absorb a four-thousand-year second Soul Ring, it even let you absorb it so fast. And this Jealous Woman—she was able to fight this old man for so long with just one pill. Where did your pills come from? Tell me honestly, and this old man can make your suffering a little less painful."

Although Chang Wei was in an utterly miserable state, with one arm severed and part of the Head Bone atop his skull sliced away, nearly exposing his brain, and more than half his Soul Power depleted in the battle just now, he no longer possessed the strength of a Soul Douluo. At this point, he did not even have the strength of a Soul Sage.

Yet even though his strength had fallen to the level of a Soul Emperor, Chang Wei could not possibly fear a mere two-ring Soul Grandmaster.

Even if Su Luo's second Soul Ring was as old as four thousand years, a difference of ten or twenty Soul Power Levels was needed before one could barely rely on high-level Soul Rings to put up a fight. But Su Luo was facing him, someone who still possessed the strength of a high-level Soul Emperor. Unless Su Luo also took that kind of explosive pill and allowed his two-ring cultivation to erupt with the power of a six-ring Soul Emperor.

But having already suffered a hidden loss from pills once and nearly lost his life because of them, how could Chang Wei possibly give Su Luo another chance to take one?

For a Soul Douluo who still had the strength of a Soul Emperor to stop a two-ring Soul Grandmaster from taking medicine in battle was not particularly difficult.

Su Luo did not answer Chang Wei. He merely took out a long spear from his Soul Tool.

Unlike Su Muyue, who had long since reached the level of Soul King and Grand Dou Master, Su Luo had previously been a Soul Master without a second Soul Ring, still at the Dou Qi stage. He could not cultivate overly high-level Dou Techniques. Fortunately, Ye Fan's collection was sufficiently abundant. Among the many cultivation methods and Dou Techniques he had left behind was a Mysterious-tier high-grade Dou Technique that, like Xiao Yan's Eight Level Collapse and Xun'er's Swallow Return Strike, could be cultivated during the Dou Qi stage: the Cloud Piercing Spear.

Chang Wei sneered. "What, you want to resist like that bitch too? Fine. Once this old man catches you, you'll use your tongue to wipe people clean just like that damned Jealous Woman! Don't worry. You refuse only because you've never seen what real torture is."

With his one remaining hand, Chang Wei grabbed at Su Luo. As someone who still possessed the strength of a high-level Soul Emperor, he had no reason to fear Su Luo, who had not taken any pills.

One yellow and one purple Soul Ring appeared around Su Luo. As he thrust out his spear and activated the Mysterious-tier high-grade Dou Technique, Cloud Piercing Spear, the four-thousand-year Green Wood Vine Soul Ring that Su Luo had just absorbed instantly shattered.

This was precisely the Clear Sky Sect's secret technique from Douluo Continent Season 1: Ring Detonation.

In the original Douluo Continent Season 1, only the Clear Sky Sect's most outstanding geniuses could learn this technique. But the fact that Tang San had been able to use Ring Detonation immediately after learning about it showed that its essence was not truly difficult. What was difficult was the risk one had to bear from detonating a Soul Ring, as well as the compatibility of one's martial soul.

When a Soul Ring shattered, its power would flood into the Soul Master's body and grant terrifying strength. Yet correspondingly, when that vast Soul Power entered the meridians, it was not something an ordinary Soul Master could withstand.

Whether it was Tang Hao defeating a Title Douluo with Ring Detonation as an eight-ring Soul Douluo, defeating three Super Douluos with Ring Detonation as a Title Douluo, or Tang San using Ring Detonation to contend against Qian Renxue, their bodies all shared one prerequisite: each possessed not just one top-tier Soul Bone that strengthened their physical bodies. Only then could they avoid suffering backlash from Ring Detonation.

Su Luo did not possess such a thing as a Soul Bone—much less a top-tier Soul Bone. Fortunately, the Meridian Protecting Pill's Potency he had consumed earlier was still present. With the pill's effects, the dual tempering of a Dou Fighter's and Soul Grandmaster's physical constitution, and an Alchemist's powerful Soul Power allowing him precise control over his own Soul Power, Su Luo barely suppressed the danger brought by shattering his second Soul Ring, ensuring that not quite so many of his meridians ruptured.

"A mere two-ring Soul Grandmaster refuses to surrender and even dares strike back at this old man? Ridiculous!"

Chang Wei grabbed at Su Luo's spearhead, intending to show him what it meant for a starved camel to still be larger than a horse. The dignity of a Soul Douluo was not something a Soul Grandmaster could challenge at will.

But the instant he grabbed Su Luo's spearhead, he regretted it completely.

In Douluo Continent Season 1, the power of Tang Hao detonating his two yellow, two purple, and four black Soul Rings was enough to make a Title Douluo question his life. His two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red Soul Rings had allowed him, newly entered into the Title Douluo realm, to make three Super Douluos experience the terror of standing at death's door. Then there was Tang San detonating a Hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring to attack Qian Renxue. All of it proved the power of Ring Detonation.

Although that four-thousand-year Soul Ring was, at most, the fourth Soul Ring of a powerful Soul Master, and the Soul Beast that produced it had possessed only the strength of a Soul Ancestor, the power that erupted in the instant the Soul Ring shattered was something even a high-level Soul King or low-level Soul Emperor would have to avoid.

Not to mention that Su Luo had also used a Mysterious-tier high-grade Dou Technique. Though Su Luo's mastery of the Cloud Piercing Spear could at most be considered minor accomplishment, even a Mysterious-tier high-grade Dou Technique at minor accomplishment was no weaker than an ordinary Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill.

At this point, the question was clear: could a Soul Douluo whose own combat strength had already fallen to the level of a high-level Soul Emperor casually receive a Ten-Thousand-Year single-target Soul Skill unleashed at full power by someone at the peak of the five-ring realm, or even the six-ring realm, while caught off guard?

The answer was no.

The moment Chang Wei grabbed Su Luo's thrusting spear, its fierce edge severed the fingers on his hand and brutally pierced his vital point.

Feeling his life force drain away, terror filled his heart.

Not only for himself, but also for the Chang Family of He City.

The Su Family only had Su Muyue's father as its sole Soul Douluo, but was not the Chang Family likewise supported by only one Soul Douluo?

Not only was he about to die, but if these two enemies capable of killing him were allowed to grow, he did not even dare imagine what kind of foes the Chang Family of He City would face.

Even he was no match for these two when they risked their lives. Could his disciple possibly grow strong enough in a few years to protect his family? Chang Wei did not think so.

"You can take all the money and valuables in my Soul Tool. Coming to trouble you was a personal grudge and has nothing to do with the Chang Family. I ask that you do not vent your anger on the Chang Family." Before his death, Chang Wei finally felt fear.

"First, once I kill you, everything in your Soul Tool will still be mine."

"Second, I promise you that within five years, I will definitely attack the Chang Family. Then I will slaughter the entire Chang Family, leaving not even chickens or dogs alive."