In a dense forest near the center of the Sunset Forest.
A huge ape with an earthy-yellow body and a height of nearly six meters let out a bursting roar toward the opposite side, and its boulder-like fists slammed fiercely into the ground.
The earth trembled as a result, rippling like the surface of water, and a massive amount of earth elements were stimulated, dispersing into midair to form more than ten stone balls with a diameter of a full meter.
The Giant Ape slapped the ground once more, and the dozen or so stone balls around its body shot forward toward the opposite side like cannonballs.
The handsome young man dressed in white with a long head of golden hair on the opposite side couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva at the sight, the expression on his face clearly a bit helpless, yet he was not flustered.
Urging the third purple soul ring on the surface of his body, his figure instantly swelled significantly, his hands transformed into dagger-long sharp claws, and the character for king was manifested on his forehead with white stripes, completely turning into a humanoid white tiger.
Looking at the incoming boulders shooting fiercely toward him, he hardened his heart, gritting his teeth as he prepared to test the power of this move.
Yet at that very moment, a huge Crimson Dragon Claw suddenly swooped down from above, easily crushing the boulders in front of him into fine powder.
The young man immediately breathed a sigh of relief, while a somewhat hoarse voice came from behind him.
"Alright Mubai, this Chaos Demon Ape has a cultivation of around four thousand years, and this move Earth Meteor Shower is its signature soul skill, which the current you has no way of handling, so come back first, and leave the rest to the teachers."
A few days ago, the Immortal Herbs brought down the mountain by Tang-San caused the spirit power of the Seven Monsters to surge wildly, making Dai-Mubai the first soul master among the Seven Monsters to break through the bottleneck of level forty, and coming to the Sunset Forest this time was precisely to look for his fourth soul ring.
Hearing this, Dai-Mubai withdrew the third soul skill, White Tiger Vajra Transformation, then returned to the team behind him, and asked the middle-aged man who had just spoken, "Grandmaster, then my fourth soul skill should be this move, right."
Yu-Xiaogang nodded slightly, then added, "It should be this move, but this Chaos Demon Ape has another innate soul skill, which is also quite troublesome." Having said that, he looked ahead.
At this moment, because the boulders had shattered, dust was already filling the air, completely blocking their vision.
Liu-Erlong subsequently wielded her Dragon Claw, stirring left and right amidst the turbid sand and stones before finally reopening the field of vision in front of them.
The group looked ahead, only to discover that the hill-like Chaos Giant Ape on the opposite side had suddenly vanished.
Yu-Xiaogang had anticipated this and spoke up, "This is another innate soul skill of the Chaos Demon Ape, Earth Escape. It can conceal its aura and burrow underground to escape, though it has a certain distance limit."
"Flender, use your martial soul to scout the sky, and search a radius of one kilometer; you will definitely find it."
Flender nodded, releasing his martial soul, and his body suddenly leaped from the ground into midair.
Then, urging the seventh black soul ring on his body, he unleashed Martial Soul Avatar, instantly transforming into a huge Golden Owl and flying toward the high sky with just a single flap of his wings.
The owl transformed by Flender circled once in the sky, spirit power surging within a pair of golden eagle eyes as his narrow pupils contracted rapidly, quickly magnifying the scenery on the ground below so that every single detail became crystal clear.
Sure enough, a thousand meters away to the northeast, Flender spotted the figure of the Chaos Demon Ape crawling out from underground.
He let out an eagle cry toward Yu-Xiaogang and the other two on the ground, and then flew toward the location of the Chaos Demon Ape.
As members of the Golden Iron Triangle, Yu-Xiaogang and Liu-Erlong naturally understood Flender's intent, leading Dai-Mubai as the three of them marched rapidly all the way in the direction pointed out by Flender.
Upon reaching the spot, they discovered that apart from the owl transformed by Flender and the large pit beneath his claws, there was no sign of the Chaos Demon Ape.
Seeing the three of them arrive, the owl transformed by Flender immediately spat out human speech, saying, "This Chaos Demon Ape is truly sharp; the moment I swooped down from the sky, it noticed and immediately used Earth Escape to burrow into the ground like a rabbit."
With that, an expression of intense human-like anger appeared on the owl's face.
"It's fine, we'll just find it again. This Earth Escape consumes a lot of spirit power, and that Chaos Demon Ape won't be able to keep it up for long." Yu-Xiaogang responded immediately.
Flender nodded, then with a shake of his wings, his figure soared up into midair.
After circling in the sky once, he immediately let out an eagle cry and then continued to fly toward the northeast.
Seeing this, Yu-Xiaogang and the other two immediately gave chase, and in the process of pursuing the Chaos Demon Ape, the group began to continuously draw closer to the core area in the center of the Sunset Forest.
More than ten minutes later, Yu-Xiaogang and the three reunited with Flender once again. This time they still failed to catch the Chaos Demon Ape, but Flender's face clearly showed a look of excitement.
"Chasing all the way along this path, the spirit power fluctuation on that Chaos Demon Ape has grown weaker and weaker. Just now when it executed Earth Escape, the spirit power on its body was clearly somewhat insufficient, so this should be its very last time. Furthermore, I saw through its soul skill with my eagle eyes, and its escape direction this time is still the northeast."
Finished speaking, Flender wanted to fly into the air once more, but before he could even flap his wings, a powerful roar suddenly came from the northeast.
The group immediately looked toward the northeast, and right at that moment, a massive patch of black thunderclouds appeared in the northeastern direction, accompanied by muffled rumbling thunder and flashing electric light, followed closely by two powerful dragon roars.
Yu-Xiaogang and Liu-Erlong exchanged a glance immediately upon hearing the dragon roars, the look of astonishment in each other's eyes letting them understand the other's thoughts.
"It's the Martial Soul Avatar of the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon!" Liu-Erlong took the lead to speak.
"That's right, the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon martial soul within my body was just triggered by that dragon roar." Yu-Xiaogang clenched his left hand, slowly pacifying the restless aura within his palm.
At this moment, Flender also cancelled his Martial Soul Avatar, came before the two of them, and said, "Should we go take a look? Judging by the momentum, it shouldn't exceed the Soul Douluo level, so we can handle it."
Yu-Xiaogang and Liu-Erlong looked at each other, then nodded.
The three of them immediately adjusted their formation, with Flender and Liu-Erlong in front, Yu-Xiaogang in the back, and Dai-Mubai protected in the middle, and the group maintained this triangular formation as they advanced at a steady pace toward the northeast.
The closer they got to the thunderclouds, the stronger the oppressive sense of momentum became.
When Yu-Xiaogang's group entered the area covered by the thunderclouds, the scene before them was completely presented to everyone's eyes.
It was precisely a lake of enormous size, and because of the dark clouds shrouding the sky at this moment, the lake water was reflected pitch-black like ink, growing dim and deep.
Right at the exact center of this dim lake, three colossal beasts were fighting and slaughtering one another.
Among them was a giant python about twenty meters in length, its entire body covered in black scales, with blue patterns growing on its surface from which blue electric light continuously flowed, wrapping the entire python's body in a layer of lightning.
On the other side were two slightly smaller thunder dragons whose bodies were covered in blue scales, bearing single horns on their heads and four claws on their bellies. With lightning flashing all over their bodies, they continuously launched attacks surrounding the black thunder python in the center, only it seemed to have no major effect.
"The one in the middle is a Thunder Abyss Python, and its cultivation should be around fifty thousand years, while the other two Blue Electric Tyrant Dragons should be transformed from soul masters at the Soul Sage level. Relying on just the two of them, they probably aren't that Thunder Abyss Python's match."
Having spoken, Yu-Xiaogang looked toward Flender and Liu-Erlong. The three exchanged glances, and then circulated their spirit power, unleashing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
Three golden pillars of light subsequently soared into the sky, their powerful momentum instantly startling the python and two dragons locked in combat at the center of the lake, causing all three to stop immediately and look toward the golden pillars of light.
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