Despairing Zhang Lexuan

"Sister Ruoruo, when do you think I'll be called Shrek's Senior Disciple Sister? I want to be able to stand on my own two feet sooner rather than later."

"Don't even think about it. No matter how high your cultivation is, you're still our Junior Disciple Sister. Unless something unexpected happens during this Soul Beast hunt, like Senior Disciple Brother and the others getting into trouble, or you manage to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Eighth Soul Ring, it's probably impossible."

"呸, 呸, 呸! Sister Ruoruo, don't say such unlucky things! We're going deep into the Star Dou Great Forest later!"

"What's there to be afraid of? Just tell me, which of the two things I mentioned is even remotely possible? Leaving aside Shrek and the Star Dou Great Forest's rules about not being able to kill Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts at will, just consider your Soul Ring's endurance limit. Can your body withstand a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring? I doubt you could even handle a Ninety-Thousand-Year one, so a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring is impossible."

"As for Senior Disciple Brother and the others getting into trouble, Junior Disciple Sister, the one leading the team this time isn't just any Titled Douluo, it's Profound Elder!"

"With his old man's ninety-eighth level Soul Power, unless he deliberately abandons us, we could even encounter those Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year or older ferocious beasts and still retreat unscathed. What are you worrying about?"

"No! Don't! Don't trust Profound Elder! He'll kill us!" Zhang Lexuan cried out, as if she was seeing the scene of their group of twelve heading to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Rings once again.

She tried to tell everyone not to trust Profound Elder, but those people seemed unable to see her, walking into the Star Dou Great Forest one by one, and then stopping in the forest formed by the Hundred-Thousand-Year Banyan Tree.

The time they rested under that Banyan Tree was long, so long that every minute and every second was an ordeal for Zhang Lexuan.

But the time they rested under that Banyan Tree was also very short, so short that before long, Zhang Lexuan saw her fellow senior brothers and sisters die in front of her one by one again, and she could only watch silently. Faced with the reality that had already happened, she could only be an outsider who couldn't do anything.

At that moment, Zhang Lexuan once again recalled the fear and despair of the past. Faced with that sudden change, she was so powerless back then, and she was just as powerless now.

"No! Don't!"

Zhang Lexuan watched herself absorb the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and then watched herself lead the remaining people trying to get out of the Star Dou Great Forest, but they encountered the Sixty-Thousand-Year Nether Poison Wolf. The despair of her body and spirit nearing collapse struck again, but at this moment, Zhang Lexuan could do nothing but kneel and cry.

"I can't do anything!"

Watching the remaining three senior brothers and sisters dwindle down to just Han Ruoruo, Zhang Lexuan's mental defenses completely collapsed.

She could do nothing but kneel on the ground and shiver.

But she wanted to escape, but this Nightmare Illusory Domain had no intention of letting her go.

As her memory of her own body reaching its limit surfaced, in an instant, the scene changed again.

This time, she returned to her childhood. That day, she was hiding under the bed playing hide-and-seek with her mother.

She had hidden in this place many times, and she knew she couldn't hide it from her mother, but as a child, she really liked hiding here.

She thought that she would be found by her mother soon this time, but her mother did find her, but she found her covered in blood.

In the sudden change in her family, she subconsciously wanted to scream, but her mother's hand reached under the bed and covered her mouth, stopping her from screaming.

In this way, facing the helplessness against the assassins sent by the great nobles, Zhang Lexuan once again felt despair, the despair of being powerless and only being able to watch everything happen.

But things didn't end there.

She didn't wait for the road to Shrek, didn't wait for the moment to ask Mu En to help her avenge her family. Instead, her consciousness returned to the day she went to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Rings once again.

"Sister Ruoruo, when do you think I'll be called Shrek's Senior Disciple Sister? I want to be able to stand on my own two feet sooner rather than later."

"Don't even think about it. No matter how high your cultivation is, you're still our Junior Disciple Sister. Unless something unexpected happens during this Soul Beast hunt, like Senior Disciple Brother and the others getting into trouble, or you manage to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Eighth Soul Ring, it's probably impossible."

"呸, 呸, 呸! Sister Ruoruo, don't say such unlucky things! We're going deep into the Star Dou Great Forest later!"

"What's there to be afraid of? Just tell me, which of the two things I mentioned is even remotely possible? Leaving aside Shrek and the Star Dou Great Forest's rules about not being able to kill Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts at will, just consider your Soul Ring's endurance limit. Can your body withstand a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring? I doubt you could even handle a Ninety-Thousand-Year one, so a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring is impossible."

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!"

The despair of encountering a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast while hunting for Soul Rings, the despair that everything didn't end after killing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the despair of encountering the Sixty-Thousand-Year Nether Poison Wolf when she was at her weakest, watching the other two senior brothers also die, and even she was about to be buried in the wolf's mouth.

Coupled with the despair of her entire family being exterminated when she was young, the despair of being killed at any time, and the despair of watching her mother die in front of her but being unable to do anything, all of this was constantly playing out in the depths of Zhang Lexuan's consciousness, making Zhang Lexuan's despair reach its peak, and she wanted to escape all of this.

But just then, a voice that was not majestic, not solemn, and not even loud, but was extremely reassuring, entered Zhang Lexuan's mind.

"It's okay, I'm here."

A reassuring hand rested on Zhang Lexuan's shoulder. At this moment, Zhang Lexuan slowly opened her eyes and found that Han Ruoruo was also in tears, obviously, she also recalled something sad.

"A Titled Douluo going to deceive and ambush three young people, can you have some shame?"

After dispelling the influence on Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo, Lin Feng stared intently at a piece of air not far away. Then, the light there began to distort, and before long, an old man in black robes appeared.

"Heh heh heh, three young people? I won't comment on the other two, but you, who can wake up from this old man's Nightmare Illusory Domain and even help others become immune to it, don't seem like a young person."

"Believe it or not, anyway, I didn't lie."

"Hehe, whether you lied or not is not important, what's important is that since you dare to come to Mingdu, then don't leave. Obediently leave those two little girls behind, as for you..."

"Someone who can break through this old man's domain, my Holy Cult can't control you, so, die!"

As the old man spoke, two Yellow, one Purple, five Black, and one Red Soul Ring appeared, and with the aura of a ninety-eighth level Titled Douluo, he pounced towards Lin Feng.