Sky Azure Bull Python

Their fists and palms collided, and Zhao Wuji spat blood on the spot. He clearly wouldn't last much longer.

Dai Mubai saw this and turned to say,

"Tang San, cover everyone's escape. I'm going to help."

Then he turned and charged back into the fight.

Tang San naturally wouldn't leave either. The others had no intention of abandoning their companions, and all charged forward to attack the Titan Giant Ape.

Seeing everyone around him, Zhao Wuji summoned even more strength.

Ning Rongrong stood rooted to the spot, at a loss. She felt certain she was still dreaming.

"Calm down. If it were him, what would he do..."

Ning Rongrong quietly tried to steel herself.

Should she use Trapped Beast? No. Trapped Beast still required her to endure some damage, and she couldn't take it.

Should she turn and run? Could she even get away? And what would going back to school accomplish? Confirming that she was a coward?

Call the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect? She didn't have the proper tool!

"Phew..."

Ning Rongrong let out a breath. Strength Amplification, Speed Amplification, and Poison Attribute Amplification took effect on the seven of them.

At that moment, Ning Rongrong could feel her Soul Power draining rapidly, but she gritted her teeth.

"If only I could use the Blue Potion. Every time I drink one, my Soul Power recovers..."

She murmured as she reached into her Space Soul Tool with her mental power, but the Blue Potion was still locked and completely unusable.

All she could do was curse, "Damn it."

With the three layers of amplification, Zhao Wuji felt his strength surge.

"As expected of the world's number one auxiliary Martial Soul."

Thinking this, Zhao Wuji added a little more strength. Right now, he felt he could trade a few blows even with a Titled Douluo.

But the instant his next fist struck the Titan Giant Ape, his mind reeled.

The Titan Giant Ape was far too powerful. Even with the enormous amplification from the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, Zhao Wuji had only managed to make it pause for an instant. The Titan Giant Ape roared, sending the others flying as well. Even Ning Rongrong, the farthest from it, was sent tumbling through the air.

Because she had Strength Amplification active, Ning Rongrong took the full force of the blow. She flew several meters before crashing into a tree and fainting.

"No!" Xiao Wu cried out as she watched her companions get knocked away.

The next second, the Titan Giant Ape seized her in its hand.

"Xiao Wu!" Seeing the Titan Giant Ape about to leave, Zhao Wuji immediately gave chase.

But Ning Rongrong was already unconscious, so the Speed Amplification had naturally worn off. With Zhao Wuji's own speed, there was no way he could catch the Titan Giant Ape.

Tang San slid down from the tree, quickly righted himself, and stared hard in the direction the Titan Giant Ape had gone.

"You've earned your death!"

Zhao Wuji's Martial Soul Avatar faded. Seeing the five injured companions and Ning Rongrong, who still hadn't woken up, his face turned ashen.

No one could survive in the hands of the Titan Giant Ape. That was a universally acknowledged fact in the Soul Master World.

"I'm sorry, everyone..."

Zhao Wuji hadn't finished speaking when the forest shook violently again.

This time, it came from the opposite direction from where the Titan Giant Ape had appeared—from behind them.

A gigantic Soul Beast with the head of a bull and the body of a serpent appeared, even larger than the Titan Giant Ape they had just faced.

"This is...!"

Tang San turned around, ready to unleash the rage he felt over Xiao Wu being taken, but the sight of this even larger Soul Beast overwhelmed it.

He didn't recognize this Soul Beast!

If even Tang San didn't know what it was, there was no need to mention Zhao Wuji and the others.

The Sky Azure Bull Python's tail swept through the forest and came to rest beside the seven of them.

"Is this the end for us?" Zhao Wuji said bleakly. He could tell that this Soul Beast was probably no weaker than the Titan Giant Ape. Gritting his teeth, he forced himself to summon his Martial Soul Avatar again and attacked the tail, but it took only a single blow to send him flying.

Zhao Wuji crashed heavily to the ground. Zhu Zhuqing carried Ning Rongrong on her back, while the other four rushed to help Zhao Wuji. In the next instant, the tail lashed toward Zhu Zhuqing. She lost her footing and fell, and Ning Rongrong slid off her back, right into the Sky Azure Bull Python's grasp. Then Ning Rongrong and the Sky Azure Bull Python disappeared from sight.

Zhao Wuji got to his feet and watched, his fists clenching involuntarily.

"What is going on? Why are these two Soul Beasts in the outer region?!"

He pounded the ground, striking a deep crater into it.

"Xiao Ao, give me a Flying Mushroom Sausage."

Tang San's words to Oscar reached him from beside him.

"Oscar, give me one too."

This time, it was Zhu Zhuqing.

They hadn't lowered their voices, so the others all knew what they were planning.

"You... Fine. Then we'll fight our way in and rescue Rongrong and Xiao Wu!"

Seeing what Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing were doing, Zhao Wuji was still furious, but his fighting spirit flared anew.

Oscar chanted his incantation and quickly made six Flying Mushroom Sausages. Everyone ate one.

The group flew toward the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest. Without Ning Rongrong's Speed Amplification, they still had the advantage of flight, which was definitely faster than traveling on foot.

Xiao Wu sat on the Titan Giant Ape's shoulder, gazing toward the direction Shrek's group had gone, her face full of worry.

"Put me down. They'll be worried about me. Erming, you shouldn't have come out."

The Titan Giant Ape stopped at Xiao Wu's words and set her down.

"How's Daming...?"

Xiao Wu had just started to ask about Daming when she heard movement behind her. She turned and saw Daming.

Ning Rongrong was still lying on his tail.

"Rongrong?"

Xiao Wu looked at Erming in confusion.

"I understand why you took me—you missed me. But why take Rongrong?"

Then she turned toward Daming.

"Daming! Put Rongrong down. She's my friend!"

The Sky Azure Bull Python paused, but only for a moment. He looked at Xiao Wu, then at Erming, and continued toward the core region, where the Lake of Life lay.

Xiao Wu turned to Erming again. The Titan Giant Ape looked completely innocent.

"What do you mean, even you don't know why Daming did this? No, we have to go find him."

She climbed back onto the Titan Giant Ape's shoulder, and the two beasts headed toward the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Behind them, Tang San relied on the Tang Sect Secret Arts to pull far ahead of the others. But along the way, he encountered a Man Faced Demon Spider, one that was two thousand years old. Tang San didn't care about anything else; Xiao Wu was all that mattered to him. So he killed the Man Faced Demon Spider and began absorbing its Soul Ring, pushing past his limit.

Ning Rongrong had absorbed a Soul Ring beyond her limit, so he could do it too.

But when the Man Faced Demon Spider's poison entered his body and its energy began surging through him, Tang San realized this would be anything but easy.

He fought with everything he had to absorb the Soul Ring and its energy. Sweat fell to the ground. When the others arrived behind him, they were shocked.

Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong's fates were still unknown, and now Tang San looked like he might die too.

"How could this happen?!"

Zhao Wuji felt deeply unwilling to accept it. Tang San's chances of successfully absorbing this Soul Ring were low, but if they tried to stop him, Tang San would die for certain.

"Another Man Faced Demon Spider?"

Dai Mubai looked at the corpse not far away, somewhat surprised.

Ning Rongrong's third Soul Ring had also come from a Man Faced Demon Spider. Earlier, he hadn't thought much of it. But now, seeing that this Man Faced Demon Spider was clearly not three thousand years old, yet had left Tang San looking half-dead, he couldn't help but feel afraid.

How had Ning Rongrong managed to absorb a Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring back then?