Vina

"Roar...!!!"

The Scorpion Tiger opened with a battle cry, announcing its arrival.

"..." Liu Feng was nearly driven mad by it.

Even without much combat experience, he knew how important it was to strike first.

He had just fired an arrow. If the Scorpion Tiger had pounced on one more person, only three Evil Soul Masters would have remained.

But now...

"Another Soul Beast? Or a Soul Master?"

"A Scorpion Tiger! A thousand-year-old Scorpion Tiger! Take it down! All together!"

"What a bountiful haul today!"

The Evil Soul Masters were excited, too.

They all eagerly hurled various Soul Skills at Liu Feng.

The Scorpion Tiger was incredibly fast, and its agility was just as impressive!

Bracing its paws against the ground, it shifted almost sideways, dodging the Evil Soul Masters' attacks. Their assault gouged furrows into the ground.

It whipped its tail, and its scorpion stinger shot out, slamming into a skull.

"Clang...!!!"

The skull immediately flew back toward the Evil Soul Master.

"Roar...!!!"

The Scorpion Tiger let out another excited roar, circled around, and pounced at the Evil Soul Master holding the bone spear.

Liu Feng had already killed one. It had to kill the other four!

The Evil Soul Master hurriedly unleashed a Soul Skill to strengthen himself, but didn't dare face the Scorpion Tiger head-on. He rolled across the ground, dodging in a sorry heap.

The other three Evil Soul Masters attacked the Scorpion Tiger at the same time.

The Scorpion Tiger leaped straight up, vaulting clear of their attacks.

Liu Feng kept his legs clamped tight around its back, steadying himself as he seized the chance to fire another arrow.

"Demon-Breaking Retrospection!"

A flash of purple sped straight toward the Evil Soul Master with the bone spear.

The Evil Soul Master had just scrambled to his feet when he felt the breath of death. He bent backward in an utterly counterintuitive dodge, avoiding the arrow.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!"

But three more arrows came, sealing off every direction he could dodge!

"!!!"

The Evil Soul Master hurriedly swung his bone spear, knocking one arrow aside.

But the other two light arrows struck him in the shoulder!

They pierced straight through, leaving two holes in his body.

His face twisted with malice. If anything, the wounds only roused his ferocity!

"Die...!!!"

He charged forward with reckless courage, failing to notice that the holes in his body were growing larger!

Soon, they had widened to the size of bowls!

He pitched forward and fell, convulsed a few times on the ground, then went still.

"!!!"

The other Evil Soul Masters stared in shock.

What kind of power could suppress them like the Angel Clan had tens of thousands of years ago?

It was practically their natural nemesis!

After only a few breaths of fighting, their Soul Skills hadn't even hit their opponent, yet they had already lost two men!

"Roar...!!!"

The Scorpion Tiger was even more agitated than they were.

It had meant to show Liu Feng just how powerful it was.

Instead, Liu Feng had killed two of the five Evil Soul Masters.

Liu Feng suddenly said, "Someone's coming! On the left!"

He had caught the scent of the invisible Evil Soul Master and immediately warned the Scorpion Tiger.

The Scorpion Tiger couldn't see the attacker, but instinctively obeyed Liu Feng's command. It veered to the right and swung a paw.

At that very moment, the two remaining Evil Soul Masters finally found an opening.

One opened the mouth of his skull and spewed black flames.

The other sent a cloud of pink mist toward the Scorpion Tiger.

The Scorpion Tiger's gaze went hazy for an instant, and it froze in place.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft...!"

Thick, black, viscous flames splashed across the Scorpion Tiger's face.

A chilling sizzling sound rang out.

Liu Feng leaned back on the Scorpion Tiger's back at the same time, using the Purple Star Spirit Bow to block the invisible Soul Engineer's attack.

"Clang...!!!"

His arm went numb from the impact.

Fortunately, it was nearly evening, and he had already grown to look twelve or thirteen years old.

His strength was naturally greater now, and the Sprite Dragon had strengthened his body as well.

He couldn't see the invisible Evil Soul Master, but he could "smell" where the other was.

Hooking the Scorpion Tiger's tail with his toes, he whipped its stinger around in an arc and stabbed it into midair.

"Thud...!"

The stinger was razor-sharp, and it sank into empty air.

Dark red blood trickled down the Scorpion Tiger's tail.

Lying on the Scorpion Tiger's back, Liu Feng drew his bow behind him.

"Demon-Breaking Retrospection!"

Purple light flashed as the arrow shot toward the Evil Soul Master with the skull.

The Evil Soul Master hurriedly pulled back to defend. He let the skull swallow him, raising a shield of gray air around himself.

"Clang, clang, clang...!"

Liu Feng's arrows formed a straight line, relentlessly striking the shield.

The Evil Soul Master was appalled. He was a Soul Ancestor, and his strength should have surpassed Liu Feng's.

His Soul Skills were naturally beyond anything a One-Ring Soul Master like Liu Feng could match.

But beneath the thousand-year Soul Skill he had raised, Liu Feng's arrows seemed endless, giving him no chance to escape.

And their powerful demon-breaking effect left him suffering miserably.

"Du Hong! Help me...!"

But the only other surviving Evil Soul Master ran without even looking back.

He had no intention of weathering the danger together with his companion.

At that moment, the Scorpion Tiger roared furiously and came back to its senses, nearly enraged to death!

It had volunteered to show off its strength using these Evil Soul Masters.

Yet of the five, Liu Feng had killed three!

And what about it? It had dodged around, only to get its face scorched!

"Roar...!!!"

With an angry roar, the Scorpion Tiger sprang into the air, opened its enormous jaws, and bit at the Evil Soul Master with the skull.

Its massive tiger head smashed through the crumbling shield in an instant.

It bit down on the skull, and in the next instant, a purple line ran down from its shoulder.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!"

The purple line pierced the Evil Soul Master's chest, blasting a gaping hole through it.

It destroyed his heart, killing him instantly!

The Scorpion Tiger landed and paced in place amid the corpses of the Evil Soul Masters, letting out low growls of mortified rage.

How humiliating! As the number-one follower, it had killed fewer than Liu Feng?

Such a powerful sense of shame made the Scorpion Tiger forget the pain in its face.

Liu Feng jumped off its back and went over to examine its injuries.

The Scorpion Tiger had suffered the same treatment as the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear couple.

However, the Scorpion Tiger was naturally inclined toward evil, and had strong resistance to evil Soul Power.

Only its fur and whiskers had been burned off. It looked uglier, but its body was unharmed.

"Roar...!"

The Scorpion Tiger looked at Liu Feng pitifully.

It still wanted to volunteer for the hunt, to track down the fleeing female Evil Soul Master!

"All right. I'll point you toward her."

Liu Feng climbed onto its back. He glanced at the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who was holding down the Golden Hawksbill, then chased after the female Evil Soul Master.

He wasn't worried about his safety. The Scarlet King or Bi Ji would surely be protecting him from the shadows.

At the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were quite rare.

Liu Feng and the Scorpion Tiger could basically run roughshod over the area.

Following the female Evil Soul Master's scent, they soon came upon a camp.

After she ran inside, she deliberately suppressed her presence.

The moment the Scorpion Tiger approached, the Soul Masters in the camp immediately blocked its path.

Seeing Liu Feng and the Scorpion Tiger together, they were all stunned.

A human was actually riding a Soul Beast?

The belief that Soul Beasts could not be tamed had been accepted by humanity for tens of thousands of years!

And yet now...

"Roar...!" The Scorpion Tiger snarled at them impatiently.

Liu Feng stroked its back to calm it, then said, "An Evil Soul Master ran into your camp. Her name is Du Hong, and she's a woman."

Looking at the many people in the camp, Liu Feng felt curious.

Human society was dangerous, but it was also fascinating.

There were many fine things he couldn't enjoy in the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Soul Masters didn't know how to respond. They simply summoned their Martial Souls and stood ready for battle.

After all, although the Scorpion Tiger was fierce, Liu Feng was a friendly elf.

Just then, a pleasant female voice rang out.

"Sir, we're not Evil Soul Masters."

A girl with pale silver hair walked to the camp entrance. Her eyes were bright and her teeth were pearly white as she smiled at Liu Feng.

Her face showed goodwill, while her eyes were full of wonder and curiosity.

"Vina, be careful..."

Another pretty girl hurriedly stepped in front of her, watching Liu Feng warily. After getting a good look at him, she relaxed for a moment—then grew even more vigilant.