"Waist Bow!"
Jiang Nannan's sneak attack came so suddenly and dishonorably that Ji Fengyu had barely stepped into the Hall of Heroes before she landed a blow on him.
Bam!
He only had time to reach out with his right hand and catch her foot.
Then...
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
Ji Fengyu's face twisted with fury as he grabbed Jiang Nannan by the ankle and slammed her down over and over—yeah, just like Hulk smashing Loki.
A sneak attack?
You like sneak attacks, huh? A zero-frame opening, huh? I'll show you a sneak attack! I'll show you!
"Uh..."
"Little Zhangkong, are you sure he's a support?"
Sect Master Yang of the East Sea Tang Sect stared at the video, the corner of his mouth twitching.
That was brutal!
Absolutely brutal!
"I'm sure!"
Wu Zhangkong's mouth twitched too. Clearly, Ji Fengyu's wild and vicious fighting style had shaken him.
"You didn't tell him that the people in the Hall of Heroes are Tang Sect ancestors?"
Sect Master Yang's face darkened.
He was practically beating their Tang Sect ancestors like dogs.
"No."
Wu Zhangkong hadn't even given them a chance to prepare. He'd wanted to catch them completely off guard.
"Fine."
"I hope that brat repents after he gets out."
Sect Master Yang gave a soft snort, then looked at the other screens. His eyes instantly widened.
There were more hidden beasts!
On another screen,
Riiip!!!
Tang Wulin muttered as he fought:
"Where did Brother Ji go?"
"If Brother Ji is in danger, I'll make you pay with your life!"
His eyes bloodshot, he tore apart Bei Bei's illusion from the first stage with his bare hands!
Tang Wulin had finally figured out the right way to use the Golden Dragon Claw's tearing and crushing effect.
Anyone who deserved to die—
He'd rip them apart with his bare hands!
"Holy crap, Little Zhangkong, are these your regular students? You've got a whole pack of baby tyrannosaurs here!"
Sect Master Yang gaped, then checked the progress of the other trials.
Gu Yue defeated Huo Yuhao's illusion, Na'er defeated Tang Wutong's illusion, and Wang Xie defeated the illusions of He Caitou and Xiao Xiao.
Lan Xuanyu stood undefeated against Xu Sanshi's attacks.
The first stage on advanced difficulty was basically no challenge for them.
In the second stage,
Only Wang Xie, Na'er, and Tang Wulin were eliminated.
On ultimate difficulty, Gu Yue was eliminated, but Lan Xuanyu's clothes weren't even dirty.
"Ultimate difficulty, third stage, begin!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Four Soul Rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple—appeared beneath Jiang Nannan's feet.
Hiss!!
A pink python hissed and coiled before Jiang Nannan. The Rouge Soft-Muscle Python!
"They even made her a Soul Ancestor..."
"And did Jiang Nannan have a Rouge Soft-Muscle Python when she was a Soul Ancestor?"
Ji Fengyu was speechless.
Tang Sect, fine, you secretly tweaked the stats, but now you've even dragged out a Rouge Soft-Muscle Python.
If you can't handle losing, then don't play.
"Bah, your Rouge Soft-Muscle Python is female."
"My Rouge Dragon-Muscle Python is male!"
Ji Fengyu summoned his own Rouge Dragon-Muscle Python—bigger, thicker, and longer!
Roar!!!
The Dragon-Muscle Python let out a hiss, and Jiang Nannan's Soft-Muscle Python immediately shrank back in fear.
Its Spirit Soul was suppressed.
Even Jiang Nannan's illusion wore a humanlike expression of confusion, defiance, and irritation.
"Gravity Control!"
"Teleportation!"
"Waist Bow!"
Jiang Nannan's first three Soul Rings lit up at once.
The weight of a crushing force settled on Ji Fengyu's shoulders, making his whole body sink.
Whoosh!
Then Jiang Nannan teleported behind him and launched a Fragrant Kick straight at the back of his head.
As a four-ringed Soul Master, Jiang Nannan's abilities were already absurdly overpowered.
And with such overpowered abilities,
Tang Sect had secretly tweaked the stats too!
That combo was shameless and utterly unreasonable.
"You've gone too far!!!"
Ji Fengyu was about to take a blow to the back of the head. His Flawless Golden Body could have taken it,
but—
It seemed a roar rang out from the Dark Gold Terror Claw on his right hand.
Hiss!
The next moment, Ji Fengyu instinctively swung a claw behind him.
Dark Gold Terror Claw!
Five claw strikes, sharp as golden blades, instantly tore through the air.
Their terrifying power made even Sect Master Yang and Wu Zhangkong, watching through the screen, feel their scalps prickle!
Jiang Nannan's pupils contracted to pinpoints.
"!!!!"
"Invincible Golden Body!"
She used her life-saving divine skill, Invincible Golden Body!
But!
It seemed an incredibly powerful pressure suppressed Jiang Nannan's Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul.
Not only did it shatter her Invincible Golden Body, it even forcibly dispelled her Martial Soul Possession!
Whoosh!!
Jiang Nannan was sliced into six pieces!
"What?"
Ji Fengyu was a little dazed.
Since when had the Dark Gold Terror Claw become this powerful?
It could even forcibly break through Invincible Golden Body.
He'd thought fighting a four-ringed Jiang Nannan with a Soft-Muscle Python would be a tough battle...
"Hiss!!!"
Jiang Nannan's shattered illusion faded away, and her Soft-Muscle Python was about to disappear too.
But another change occurred.
The Dragon-Muscle Python beside Ji Fengyu suddenly lit up with a flash of astonishing brilliance and spirit in its snake-like pupils.
Whoosh!
The Rouge Dragon-Muscle Python lunged forward, coiling around and capturing Jiang Nannan's illusion's Soft-Muscle Python.
"Hiss!!!"
Once captured, Jiang Nannan's Soft-Muscle Python suddenly erupted with an agility and intelligence completely unlike before.
It hissed in terror and struggled desperately.
But the Dragon-Muscle Python now possessed Dragon Might so powerful that even Ji Fengyu could hardly believe it. It held the Soft-Muscle Python firmly in check.
A dramatic snake-eats-snake spectacle unfolded!
It swallowed Jiang Nannan's Rouge Soft-Muscle Python!
"Ah!!!!!"
Sect Master Yang Haofeng of the East Sea Tang Sect let out a pained wail as he watched.
"My Rouge Soft-Muscle Python!"
"That was the Rouge Soft-Muscle Python belonging to Ancestor Jiang Nannan!"
"The genuine original!"
"It had been worshipped by generations of the Tang Sect, and its actual cultivation had already surpassed ninety thousand years!"
"I can't believe it got swallowed after we suppressed its power and placed it in the Hall of Heroes!"
Yang Haofeng's heart ached so badly he could barely breathe.
The Rouge Soft-Muscle Python's cultivation and strength alone made it precious, but compared with what it symbolized, that was nothing.
That was Ancestor Jiang Nannan's Spirit Soul!
And now it had been swallowed just like that...
And the most absurd part was—
At the last moment, the Rouge Soft-Muscle Python had unlocked its intelligence and power, unleashing its full, original strength.
Yet Ji Fengyu's mere thousand-year-old Soft-Muscle Python had still swallowed it up, merging its kind into one.
It made no sense!
Ji Fengyu was cheating! He was playing dirty!!
Sizzle!
"Rouge?"
Ji Fengyu curiously examined the changes in the Rouge Dragon-Muscle Python.
After swallowing Jiang Nannan's Rouge Soft-Muscle Python,
the Dragon-Muscle Python flushed red from head to tail and began to swell. Two small, delicate dragon horns even pushed out from its forehead!
Its originally rouge-colored scales also began to take on other colors, becoming dazzlingly bright and multicolored.
Hiss!!!
The Rouge Dragon-Muscle Python—no, it was now the Nine-Colored Dragon-Horned Python!
The Nine-Colored Dragon-Horned Python gave Ji Fengyu a sincere, complicated look. Then that special glimmer quickly faded, and it returned to the innocent, muddled state of an ordinary Spirit Soul.
(The Dragon God from the author's other book sensed the existence of his wife in a parallel universe and cameos here.)
"Rouge?"
Ji Fengyu was a little startled.
That clearly hadn't been his Rouge just now. Had something possessed it?!
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