"Help! Somebody help!"
"Hold it off! Hurry!"
"My Soul Skill can't hurt it! Its hide is too thick!"
The clearing deep in the forest was a mess.
Xiao Chenyu, who had been swaggering around at the entrance earlier, was now rolling around on the ground in terror, desperately dodging one deadly blow after another.
Several of his lackeys were already lying on the ground, groaning, their bodies covered in blood.
But the creature hunting them wasn't the Iron-Hide Savage Bull Qin Feng had expected.
It was a giant snake four meters long, its body a deep green and a pink flower pattern on its triangular head!
Its body looked as though it had been cast from steel, and its scales glinted with a cold sheen in the sunlight.
It opened its gaping maw and spat out clouds of sickly sweet poisonous mist. Wherever the mist passed, the plants withered and rotted in an instant.
"A Datura Snake!"
Yu Xiaogang whispered from behind a clump of bushes. A flicker of excitement crossed his eyes, but was quickly replaced by fear.
"Judging by its length and the color of its scales... it must be at least four hundred years old!"
"And its venom is extremely potent. Its scales are as hard as iron, impervious to blades and spears."
"This is the perfect Soul Ring for a control-type or power-attack plant Martial Soul!"
"Too bad for Xiao Chenyu and the others. They're done for."
"Their Soul Grandmaster cultivation is nothing in front of this berserk Datura Snake."
In the clearing.
Xiao Chenyu's Martial Soul was a gray wolf, but the poisonous mist had left it staggering.
"Damn it! I'm the City Lord's son! I can't die here!"
Xiao Chenyu roared in despair, swinging the fine-steel sword in his hand at the snake's body. It only sent a shower of sparks flying, without even leaving a white mark.
Amusement filled the Datura Snake's cold, vertical pupils.
It lashed out with its tail.
Smack!
Xiao Chenyu flew through the air like a rag doll and crashed hard into a tree. He spat out a mouthful of blood. Who knew how many of his ribs were broken?
The giant snake opened its jaws, baring its venomous fangs, and lunged for Xiao Chenyu's head.
At that critical moment.
Hiss—!
A stream of white frost shot from the bushes at the side like a sword.
It struck the Datura Snake squarely in its open mouth.
A burst of extreme cold erupted.
The Datura Snake froze mid-motion.
Its jaws, just about to snap shut, were frozen together in an instant!
And it wasn't just its mouth.
The white frost spread rapidly, devouring its body heat as it raced through its mouth and throat and even across the scales on its skin.
In a mere two seconds.
The fearsome four-hundred-year-old Soul Beast turned into a lifelike ice sculpture before Xiao Chenyu's horrified eyes!
It remained frozen in its lunging pose, but every trace of life had vanished.
"Th-this..."
Xiao Chenyu stared blankly at the ice sculpture, his mind a complete void.
Who had saved him?
Was it some powerful Soul Master passing by?
"The temperature was minus 196 degrees. The liquid nitrogen vaporized instantly, absorbing heat."
"Hmm, the cooling effect is pretty good."
Qin Feng emerged from the bushes, carrying a spray gun attached to a massive tank.
Wisps of white vapor still curled from the muzzle.
"Next time, I'll need to make the nozzle smaller. I wasted half a liter of liquid nitrogen just now, and it took so much effort to separate it from the air."
Yu Xiaogang also came out. He looked at the frozen Datura Snake, his expression beyond complicated.
Is this the power of science?
There was no need to compete with Soul Power or search for weaknesses.
They had simply used extreme physical cold to stop its biological functions at the molecular level.
This was practically an attack from another dimension!
"Y-you?!"
Xiao Chenyu's eyes nearly bulged out of his head when he recognized Qin Feng.
"How is that possible? What's that broken pipe of yours?!"
"You actually killed a four-hundred-year-old Datura Snake?!"
Qin Feng walked over to the Datura Snake, completely ignoring Xiao Chenyu's shouts.
He took out a small hammer and tapped lightly on the snake's body.
Knock, knock, knock.
It made a crisp sound.
"Frozen solid. That'll make it easier to take apart."
Qin Feng turned to Grey Wolf.
"Brother Wolf, get to work."
"Peel off the snakeskin intact. It's a good insulator, perfect for flooring in my lab."
"Pull out the tendons. I'll use them to make a shock-absorbing sling for my Barrett."
"Most importantly, don't damage the spine. It's got a natural sheath for biological cables."
"Don't waste the venom sac either. Extract the venom. We'll make a few gas bombs and let Tang San try them out."
"Sure thing!"
Grey Wolf rubbed his hands together excitedly and pulled out the buzzing Vibration Blade.
Bzzzz—
The grating sound of cutting filled the air.
As Xiao Chenyu and Yu Xiaogang looked on in horror,
the two "demons" expertly butchered the four-hundred-year-old top-tier Soul Beast right there on the spot, as if they were slaughtering a chicken!
The dignity of a Soul Beast, the terror of a fearsome predator—none of that mattered now.
It was nothing more than a pile of raw materials waiting to be sorted.
"S-stop!"
Xiao Chenyu came to his senses, greed overcoming fear.
He struggled to his feet and pointed at the snake carcass.
"We found this snake first! We wounded it, and you just swooped in to take advantage!"
"I get its Soul Ring! And the materials too!"
"You two commoners, get out of here! Or I'll get my father to—"
Before he could finish,
Qin Feng stopped what he was doing.
He slowly turned around, still holding a piece of the snake's gallbladder dripping with green fluid.
"You're saying it's yours?"
Qin Feng smiled, but there wasn't a trace of warmth in that smile.
"What did you just call me? A commoner?"
He walked toward Xiao Chenyu, one step at a time.
The same presence that had let him dare to fire a cannon at Tang Hao now pressed down on Xiao Chenyu, leaving him unable to breathe.
"I saved your worthless life. You could at least say thank you."
"And instead, you have the nerve to demand my things?"
Qin Feng drew a newly modified revolver from his waist.
It wasn't a gunpowder firearm.
It was an "Air Compression Cannon" that Grey Wolf had built from the parts of a discarded Soul Tool.
Bang!
A dull boom rang out.
A high-pressure air bullet hit the ground beside Xiao Chenyu's foot, blasting a bowl-sized crater into the earth.
Dirt splattered all over Xiao Chenyu's face.
"Ah—!"
Xiao Chenyu dropped onto his backside in terror, a large wet patch spreading across his trousers.
"Get lost."
Qin Feng said just one word.
"Before I decide to recycle you as raw material too."
Xiao Chenyu looked at the dark muzzle, then at the werewolf calmly dissecting the carcass beside him.
He broke down.
"Freaks! You're all freaks!"
He scrambled away, rolling and crawling, without even sparing a thought for his subordinates.
Yu Xiaogang watched him go and sighed.
"Qin Feng, you've completely offended the City Lord's Mansion by doing this."
"What's there to fear?"
Qin Feng tossed the snake's gallbladder into a bottle of formalin, his eyes feverishly bright.
"Once I've put this batch of materials to use,"
"the City Lord's Mansion won't scare me."
"I'd even dare storm the imperial palace of the Heaven Dou Empire."
Just then,
the radar in Grey Wolf's hand suddenly began blaring an urgent alarm.
Beep beep beep beep!
"Qin Feng! There's something big!"
"Due north! High-energy readings!"
"Energy index over a thousand! And... there's a strong electromagnetic signal!"
Qin Feng jerked his head up, his eyes flashing.
Over a thousand?
A Thousand-Year Soul Beast!
And it was giving off electromagnetic waves?
That was a trait of lightning-attribute Soul Beasts!
"Finally."
Qin Feng licked his lips, the greed of a mad scientist surfacing once more.
"I was just worrying that the lab didn't have enough power."
"And now a living generator has come knocking?"
"Grandmaster, get ready."
"Tonight, we're going big."
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