Nine Nether Beast, Supreme True Body!!

"Don't," Lin Yuan said, stopping her.

Hu Liena looked up at him, somewhat puzzled.

"Why? I read in the books that this kind of white fox is the most suitable for fox-type martial souls."

Lin Yuan swept a glance over the white fox, his tone calm as he spoke:

"The attributes are indeed a match, but the age is too low. Judging by the length of its body and tail, this white fox has at most three hundred years of cultivation."

"The quality of your first spirit ring determines the foundation and growth ceiling of your martial soul. As a genius of Martial Soul Hall, absorbing a three-hundred-year spirit beast would not only waste your talent but also severely lower your potential."

Hearing these words from Lin Yuan, a warmth spread through Hu Liena's heart.

She knew that Lin Yuan was truly planning for her future.

She released her grip on his sleeve and nodded firmly.

"Alright, I'll listen to you! Let's keep looking!"

Lin Yuan didn't even spare the white fox another glance; he walked right past it, leading Hu Liena deeper into the forest.

As the two ventured further, the surrounding light grew dimmer, and the air became heavy with the scent of blood and damp earth.

The vegetation around them took on a more sinister appearance, the towering canopy almost completely blotting out the sky.

Hu Liena could clearly feel the aura of the spirit beasts lurking nearby becoming increasingly powerful.

She was, after all, only a six-year-old girl who had never experienced true slaughter.

This oppressive environment made her heart race and her breathing grow shallow.

"Lin Yuan..." Hu Liena stopped in her tracks, her voice laced with obvious worry.

"It feels like we've gone too deep. The books say that if we go any further, we'll be in the inner region. That place is full of thousand-year spirit beasts, and even some fierce beasts with several thousand years of cultivation."

"If we run into one, we won't be able to fight it at all. Why don't we just look around the outer perimeter again?"

Lin Yuan stopped and turned to look at Hu Liena.

"With me here, I won't let you come to any harm. You just need to stay close to me; you don't need to worry about anything else."

Looking at the boy of her own age before her, Hu Liena's panicked heart suddenly calmed down.

The aura Lin Yuan possessed—the ability to remain unmoved even if Mount Tai were to collapse before him—gave her a tremendous sense of security.

She took a deep breath, suppressing the fear in her heart.

"Mm! I'm not afraid! I believe in you!"

Hu Liena nodded heavily.

Hidden in the canopy a few hundred meters behind them, Bibi Dong took in everything.

She watched as Lin Yuan led Hu Liena across the outer boundary and stepped straight into the inner region, her brows knitting into a tight knot.

"This brat, how can he be so ignorant of the dangers!"

"Even if his talent is high, he has no spirit ring and no spirit skills. How could he possibly deal with a thousand-year spirit beast relying solely on spirit power?"

Bibi Dong felt anxious in her heart.

The spirit beasts in the inner region were extremely ferocious, far beyond the low-level beasts with a few hundred years of cultivation found on the outskirts.

She immediately gathered all her spirit power, ready to rush out and save them at any moment. These were the two children she valued most; she could not allow anything to go wrong here.

Just as Lin Yuan and Hu Liena stepped into the inner region, a piercing whistle of wind tore through the branches overhead.

Immediately following, a massive red shadow descended from the sky, slamming into the clearing ten meters in front of them with a thunderous boom.

The earth trembled, and the fallen leaves were whipped up by the gale, scattering in all directions.

As the dust settled, a fox-type spirit beast the size of a tiger appeared in their line of sight.

The Nine-tailed Fox Demon was a strange, blood-red color all over, and most striking of all were the nine huge, fluffy tails dragging behind it.

The Nine-tailed Fox Demon's narrow, beastly pupils glinted with a bloodthirsty light as it stared at the two human children.

A thick, pungent stench washed over them, accompanied by the powerful pressure of a thousand-year spirit beast, crushing down directly upon them.

Hu Liena felt her breath hitch and her legs go weak; she stumbled backward in terror, nearly falling to the ground.

"This is... a thousand-year Nine-tailed Fox Demon!"

Hu Liena's voice trembled.

She had seen this spirit beast in the Martial Soul Hall archives. Those nine tails and that size meant this fox demon had at least fourteen-hundred years of cultivation!

For a child who hadn't even absorbed a ten-level spirit ring, a fourteen-hundred-year spirit beast was an invincible grim reaper.

Bibi Dong could no longer hold back; purple-black light surged from her body, and she prepared to kick off the ground to rush down and protect them.

However, what happened in the next second forced Bibi Dong to stop in her tracks, her beautiful eyes widening in shock.

"You're exactly who I was looking for."

Lin Yuan exerted force through his legs, and the ground instantly cracked into two deep pits beneath his feet.

He launched himself like a cannonball, charging straight toward the fourteen-hundred-year-old fox demon!

At this moment, Lin Yuan held nothing back.

His eyes narrowed as he instantly unleashed the Nine-Nether Slaughter God's Domain within his body.

A blood-red light, pure and domineering to the extreme, erupted from him and spread wildly in all directions, instantly shrouding a hundred-meter radius.

The moment the domain expanded, the surrounding air plummeted, and even the light began to warp.

Within this blood-red domain, an absolute suppression descended from the depths of the soul.

The once incredibly arrogant Nine-tailed Fox Demon felt a flicker of extreme, human-like terror flash through its beastly eyes the instant it was enveloped by the domain.

Its body trembled uncontrollably, and its originally formidable thousand-year aura withered in an instant.

Before the Nine-Nether Slaughter God's Domain, all soul beasts with a bloodline rank lower than Lin Yuan's were subjected to a dimensional strike.

A mere thousand-year fox demon wasn't even fit to tie his shoes, let alone compare bloodlines!

"ROAR--!"

The fox demon let out a miserable shriek, attempting to pull away and flee.

"Do you think you can run?"

Lin Yuan was mid-air, his blood and qi boiling.

He directly awakened the Nine Nether Beast Bloodline within him.

BOOM!

An ancient, vast, and world-destroying dark wave surged into the sky from Lin Yuan's body.

Behind him, the massive phantom of a ferocious black beast slowly emerged.

The phantom possessed nine heads and was covered in pitch-black scales, with every strand of hair resembling a sharp battle spear.

This was merely a faint aura manifested by the Nine Nether Beast Bloodline, yet it terrified all the soul beasts in the entire Inner Forest, forcing them to lie flat on the ground, not daring to even breathe.

The Nine Nether Beast was a supreme ferocious beast capable of devouring the heavens and the earth.

This level of bloodline pressure was simply something that creatures of a low-tier plane like the Douluo Continent could not withstand.

The fox demon was pinned to the ground by this pressure, the bones in its four limbs emitting cracking sounds under the unbearable strain.

Lin Yuan landed in front of the fox demon, having no need to use any flashy soul skills.

He directly unleashed the innate divine ability of the Nine Nether Beast—Devour!

Lin Yuan reached out a small, fair hand and pressed it directly onto the fox demon's massive head.

The fox demon struggled desperately, its nine tails thrashing wildly against the ground, yet it could not break free from Lin Yuan's iron-clamp grip.

Within Lin Yuan's palm, a deep, pitch-black vortex appeared out of thin air.

Visible blood-red life force was forcibly stripped from the fox demon's body, flowing continuously through Lin Yuan's palm and surging madly into his own body.

The fox demon's originally robust body shriveled at an incredible speed. Its fur lost its luster, and its life aura drained away as rapidly as mercury spilling onto the ground.

In just a few breaths, this once-haughty thousand-year soul beast didn't even have room to resist before it collapsed limply to the ground, on the verge of death.