Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching and Martial Souls (13)

Elsewhere, in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Amid a dense sea of trees, a massive Golden Earth Walking Dragon was frantically fleeing through the forest, as though something were chasing it.

"Don't run, little lizard!"

As the Golden Earth Walking Dragon fled in panic, a little boy raced through the trees behind it, shouting as he pursued the Golden Earth Walking Dragon at incredible speed.

He was a little boy dressed in crimson beast-hide clothing, with a milk flask made from an exotic rhinoceros horn hanging from his waist. He looked like a porcelain doll.

Clearly, this was Bai Luo's Young Desolate Heaven Emperor Clone.

With Shi Hao's speed, he quickly caught up to the fleeing Golden Earth Dragon King.

Leaping fiercely into the air, Shi Hao somersaulted midair. With a childish shout, he raised his fair little fist and slammed it down at the Golden Earth Dragon King below.

Bang!

With a muffled boom, the instant Shi Hao's fair little fist struck the Golden Earth Dragon King, a huge swath of scales on its back shattered, sending flesh and blood flying.

Shi Hao's punch directly blasted a massive crater into the Golden Earth Dragon King's back.

As flesh and blood splattered everywhere, the Golden Earth Dragon King let out a miserable wail, and its enormous body instantly collapsed to the ground.

After punching the Golden Earth Dragon King flat, Shi Hao stomped down on its back.

As he crushed another bloody crater into the Golden Earth Dragon King's body,

Shi Hao borrowed the force to leap into the air, instantly activating the Azure Scaled Eagle Precious Technique.

A dazzling silver radiance erupted from Shi Hao's body. The brilliant silver divine light quickly condensed into vast, hazy divine clouds, which rapidly gathered behind Shi Hao and formed a silver moon disc.

Then, numerous phenomena appeared upon the moon disc: a lunar palace, a cassia tree, demonic birds, and more.

Immediately afterward, the moon disc trembled, and pure silver divine light burst forth from it, condensing several incomparably sharp moon blades around it before shooting them out with explosive force.

Amid sharp whistles through the air, several silver moon blades traced gleaming paths across the sky and instantly pierced through the Golden Earth Dragon King's enormous, gold-crested head!

As pale brain matter and crimson blood poured from the wounds in the Golden Earth Dragon King's head, Shi Hao descended to the ground, dispelling the Azure Scaled Eagle Precious Technique. The silver divine moon disc behind him vanished as well.

"Done!"

Having dealt with the Golden Earth Dragon King, Shi Hao looked at the golden motes constantly drifting from its corpse and contentedly patted his fair little hands.

At the same time, accompanied by a rustling sound, a handsome, clean-cut youth with short silver hair swiftly leaped over from tree to tree. He was not particularly tall and wore a modern tracksuit with a black base and yellow patterns.

"Is it done, Shi Hao? You're far stronger than I am."

After arriving beside Shi Hao, Feng Xingtong gazed at the enormous Golden Earth Walking Dragon corpse before him and spoke with considerable envy.

"It's nothing. I'm only stronger than you for now. You have great potential too, and you'll definitely become strong in the future."

Faced with Feng Xingtong's envy, Shi Hao blinked his large eyes. Though slightly pleased with himself, he still modestly waved his hand.

"Alright, I've dealt with the Golden Earth Dragon King. Hurry up and use Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching to capture its soul. It wouldn't be good if anything unexpected happened."

"Alright."

Hearing Shi Hao's words, Feng Xingtong immediately grew serious. Standing beside the Golden Earth Dragon King, he circulated the Innate One Qi within his body and began using the Eight Wonders—Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching.

As Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching was activated, streams of black aura began to seep from Feng Xingtong's body, coiling around him as his eyes instantly turned completely black.

"Soul Grasping!"

Feng Xingtong fixed his pitch-black eyes on the Golden Earth Dragon King's corpse, shouted, extended his right hand, and made a fierce grabbing motion through the air.

In an instant, an invisible pulling force descended upon the Golden Earth Dragon King.

Accompanied by a mournful cry, the soul of the Golden Earth Dragon King was immediately pulled out. It looked exactly like the Golden Earth Dragon King itself, except it was like a shadowy projection.

While Feng Xingtong used Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching to extract the Golden Earth Dragon King's soul,

the little baby clone took the rhinoceros-horn milk flask from his waist, sat down, and took small sips of the milk he had filled it with in the city earlier, his little face full of bliss.

As for why the little baby clone was traveling with Feng Xingtong's clone through the Star Dou Great Forest, hunting Soul Beasts so Feng Xingtong could extract their souls with Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching,

that naturally had to do with Feng Xingtong's Eight Wonder, Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching.

Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching could control souls and even allow controlled souls to possess the user through spirit invocation, increasing their power. Its nature was actually very similar to a Martial Soul.

When Bai Luo had created Feng Xingtong's clone,

Feng Xingtong had received a system notification that Master Zhong, the spirit he controlled, had actually transformed into a Martial Soul.

Thus, Bai Luo assigned separate tasks to each of the clones he had created. Feng Xingtong's clone was assigned to join Spirit Hall.

Feng Xingtong actually approved of this task.

After all, as the young master of the Under Heaven Society in the world of Under One Person, Feng Xingtong was accustomed to joining powerful organizations and using their resources to cultivate.

However, before going to join Spirit Hall, Feng Xingtong intended to see whether he could use Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching to obtain a powerful Beast Martial Soul.

To acquire a powerful Beast Martial Soul, he needed to hunt a formidable Soul Beast.

That was certainly beyond Feng Xingtong's current abilities.

So, Feng Xingtong requested Bai Luo's permission to have Shi Hao help him.

As it happened, Dugu Qiubai Clone was still in seclusion cultivating at the time, while the little baby had been leisurely sightseeing along the road after leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, heading toward Heaven Dou Imperial City.

Therefore, after Feng Xingtong asked for help, the little baby loyally agreed. He brought Feng Xingtong to the Star Dou Great Forest in search of Soul Beasts, eventually finding this top-tier earth-element draconic Soul Beast, the Golden Earth Dragon King.

While Shi Hao waited, sipping beast milk in small mouthfuls,

Feng Xingtong used Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching to quickly draw out the Golden Earth Dragon King's soul, absorb it into his body, and begin refining it.

Thanks to the Eight Wonder, Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching, Feng Xingtong swiftly refined and completely controlled the Golden Earth Dragon King's soul.

At that moment, a system notification also sounded in his mind, informing him that the Golden Earth Dragon King had transformed into a Martial Soul.

"Success!"

Having successfully transformed the Golden Earth Dragon King soul he had subdued into a Martial Soul, Feng Xingtong was incredibly excited. He summoned the Golden Earth Dragon King Martial Soul and began testing all sorts of ways to control it.

"Stop playing around! Hurry and absorb this Golden Earth Dragon King's Soul Ring. Aren't you afraid it'll dissipate? I still need to help you hunt more Soul Rings afterward. I wonder what your cultivation translates to in terms of Soul Master level on Douluo Continent, and how many Soul Rings you can absorb."

Seeing Feng Xingtong excitedly playing with his newly acquired Golden Earth Dragon King Martial Soul, Shi Hao let out a milky burp, stood up, and hung the milk flask back on his waist.

"I nearly forgot about the Soul Ring!"

Reminded by Shi Hao, Feng Xingtong finally came to his senses and awkwardly scratched his head.

However, due to the power of Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching, Feng Xingtong had subdued the Golden Earth Dragon King's soul very quickly.

At this point, the Golden Earth Dragon King's Soul Ring had only just finished forming.

Sitting cross-legged beside the Golden Earth Dragon King's corpse, Feng Xingtong began absorbing its Soul Ring.

After several hours, Feng Xingtong successfully absorbed the Golden Earth Dragon King's Soul Ring and gained his first Soul Skill: Golden Dragon King Transformation!

Afterward, with Shi Hao's help,

Feng Xingtong successively hunted two more draconic Soul Beasts with dragon bloodlines: the Great Earth Dragon Turtle and the Hawksbill Dragon Turtle. He obtained his second Soul Skill, Gravity Suppression, and his third Soul Skill, Golden Dragon King Armor.

However, after absorbing three Soul Rings, Feng Xingtong felt that he could not continue absorbing any more.

His cultivation, when converted to Soul Power Level, seemed to be only at the Soul Elder level.

Still, after adding three Soul Rings to the Golden Earth Dragon King Martial Soul, Feng Xingtong had also gained the Great Earth Dragon Turtle and Hawksbill Dragon Turtle Martial Souls through Soul Grasping and Spirit Dispatching.

That was more or less enough of a harvest.

With Shi Hao's help, after acquiring new Martial Souls and hunting his Soul Rings,

Feng Xingtong parted ways with Shi Hao, going their separate ways with the Red Devil Clone's assistance.

At the same time, after leaving Holy Soul Village,

Bai Luo finally broke through to level 10 through cultivating the Heaven and Earth Undying Evergreen Art and taking medicinal pills.