Boom!
The spear shook heaven and earth, its flash rolling like thunder.
Chu Feng's spear thrust surged forward like a rainbow-shaped serpent, as if a devil god had descended upon the world, carrying the annihilating force to destroy everything in its path.
The spear's immense momentum ignored all authority wherever it passed.
The spear intent burst forth, turning into a bolt of lightning that shot through the air at tremendous speed. It pierced through the Sky Azure Bull Python's body as if nothing were there.
That thrust held no authority—only pure power.
A two-thousandfold increase in strength!
With two thousand times the strength concentrated at a single point, even a body made entirely of steel wouldn't have saved the Sky Azure Bull Python.
The strike did more than shatter its physical defenses; it also wiped out its soul.
A Forest Emperor of its generation had fallen!
After the Sky Azure Bull Python died, its enormous body toppled with a crash.
It landed heavily on Lake of Life.
Its massive body smashed into the water, sending up a huge splash before slowly sinking toward the lakebed.
It sank beneath the surface of Lake of Life.
"Brother Da Ming!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python had been killed by a single spear thrust from Chu Feng. The Titan Giant Ape roared in human speech.
Its voice shook the heavens.
It was filled with boundless grief.
"Roar!"
The Titan Giant Ape clenched its fists, pounding its chest in a frenzy as it raised its head and let out furious roars.
But no matter how loudly its rage rang out, no matter how heart-rending its howls, the Titan Giant Ape didn't dare charge at Chu Feng and fight him to the death.
Fight Chu Feng to the death?
No. That wouldn't be a fight to the death—it would be suicide!
The Titan Giant Ape might have powerful limbs, but it wasn't stupid.
Chu Feng's combat strength was terrifying; he could decide the outcome of a battle with a single strike.
If he could kill the Sky Azure Bull Python with one spear thrust, he could just as easily kill it.
The Titan Giant Ape might have been slightly stronger than the Sky Azure Bull Python, but only slightly. In every other respect, the Sky Azure Bull Python outclassed it completely.
Otherwise, Da Ming wouldn't have been the Forest Emperor while Er Ming was the Forest King.
Chu Feng had easily killed the Sky Azure Bull Python with a single thrust. Naturally, killing it would be no challenge either.
But that was his Brother Da Ming!
Just yesterday, they had been laughing together. Today, Brother Da Ming had become a cold corpse lying at the bottom of the lake.
The Titan Giant Ape stared at the Sky Azure Bull Python's body, now sunk beneath the lake. Its tusks trembled as it let out a low, unwilling growl.
"Brother Da Ming, I'll avenge you. I swear I will!"
"Brother Da Ming, if your spirit can hear me, please protect me—help me make it out of Star Dou Forest alive today!
Only if I survive can I avenge you someday!"
After roaring furiously over and over, the Titan Giant Ape suddenly fell silent. It brought its hands together and bowed toward the Sky Azure Bull Python.
Then it did something astonishing.
The Titan Giant Ape abruptly turned around.
The next moment, it fled at full speed without looking back.
In an instant, it bounded dozens of meters away.
By the time Chu Feng reacted, the Titan Giant Ape had already darted over a hundred meters away, leaving only its retreating figure behind.
Chu Feng watched the Titan Giant Ape flee in a panic but didn't pursue it.
First, there was no need to do so right now. Second, he didn't have to.
He only needed one Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring. Killing the Sky Azure Bull Python was enough.
If he killed the Titan Giant Ape now, he would only be wasting another Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
Chu Feng didn't have a Second Martial Soul, so he couldn't use the Titan Giant Ape's Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
But while he couldn't use it, his woman, Qian Renxue, could.
Qian Renxue was only a Soul Saint. She still needed to equip her eighth and ninth Spirit Rings.
So Chu Feng planned to save the Titan Giant Ape's Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring for her.
And he didn't need to chase it because the Titan Giant Ape couldn't escape his grasp anyway.
When he had activated his Martial Soul Avatar earlier, Chu Feng had used Haki to place a soul mark on the Titan Giant Ape.
No matter how far it ran, Chu Feng could learn its location with a single thought by means of that soul mark.
Nearby, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo stood dumbfounded.
They swallowed hard.
Chrysanthemum Douluo raised a hand and gave Ghost Douluo a hard pinch.
"Old Ghost, was I dreaming just now?"
"I... I actually saw...!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo was breathing unevenly, unable to find words to describe it.
He recalled Chu Feng's invincible thrust, the one that had killed the Sky Azure Bull Python in a single strike.
Chrysanthemum Douluo's heart hammered. The shock left him breathless.
That... that was the Sky Azure Bull Python!
A Forest Emperor more than a hundred thousand years old, with Azure Dragon Bloodline.
And Chu Feng had... had casually killed it with a single thrust!
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chrysanthemum Douluo wouldn't have believed a Spirit Master could defeat an opponent so far above his level.
Even having witnessed it firsthand, he still found it unbelievable!
It was beyond comprehension!
"Ah! Why'd you pinch me?"
Startled by the pinch, Ghost Douluo yelped and quickly slapped Chrysanthemum Douluo's hand away.
His voice was full of exasperation.
"If you think you're dreaming, pinch yourself! Why pinch me?"
"It's my body that hurts, not yours!"
As he spoke, Ghost Douluo rubbed the spot Chrysanthemum Douluo had pinched red.
"An accident, an accident. It was just instinct—I'm used to it, okay? That's right, I'm used to it!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo hadn't meant to pinch Ghost Douluo. He felt guilty for a second, then immediately grew indignant.
They had been partners for years; each knew what the other was going to do before he did it. They certainly wouldn't fall out over something so trivial!
Ghost Douluo was just mouthing off.
He was trying to lighten the mood and help the two of them come to terms with reality.
A Quasi-Title Douluo had killed the Sky Azure Bull Python—at full strength, and with its domain active—with one spear thrust.
Unfathomable!
Absurd!
"But if that's the case, we've become two useless ornaments!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo voiced his confusion.
At that, Ghost Douluo fell silent too.
Judging by the power of Chu Feng's last thrust, he could hunt the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape all by himself.
The two of them were completely unnecessary.
Chu Feng's last thrust had been instantaneous, with no windup or recovery.
So why had he asked the Pope to send them along?
Chu Feng had explained that his skill took a long time to activate.
The Sky Azure Bull Python might dodge it, so he needed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to hold it in place.
But in reality, the Soul Skill had been instantaneous—and its speed was terrifying.
"Is... is he a monster?!"
Hidden nearby, Bibi Dong had watched Chu Feng, as a Quasi-Title Douluo, kill the Sky Azure Bull Python with a single Overlord Spear strike.
In an instant, she was completely dumbfounded.
Was that really the combat strength a human Spirit Master could display?
An eight-ring Spirit Master had killed a Ferocious Beast nearly two hundred thousand years old with one spear thrust!
Bibi Dong felt as though the world had gone mad.
But a moment later, a cold smile curled across her lips.
Her beautiful eyes fixed on the Sky Azure Bull Python's corpse, submerged beneath the lake, and on the Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring slowly rising to the surface.
She murmured to herself.
"My chance to strike is coming soon!"
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