No... Urinating and Defecating Randomly in My House... Uh, Dying!

End it yourself!

The low whisper of Medusa struck Li Hao's heart like a heavy hammer.

He could no longer maintain the calm of a bystander.

Trouble.

A massive, world-ending trouble.

Yet this trouble had already landed right at his doorstep!

Li Hao's body reacted a step faster than his brain.

He transformed into a blur, charging directly toward the deep, dark cave.

His social anxiety instincts were completely crushed at this moment by a more primal impulse.

It was the most direct fury of a homeowner whose territory had been violated!

"Medusa, guard the entrance!"

His command echoed through the dim forest, but he had already vanished behind the vines.

Medusa did not hesitate in the slightest, her massive soul power erupting instantly.

Her emerald snake eyes locked onto every inch of shadow around the cave, and a terrifying pressure belonging to an ancient exotic beast descended with a boom.

Inside the cave, it was cold and damp.

A pungent, suffocating scent of blood mixed with that deathly, nether aura, frantically assaulting Li Hao's senses.

He pushed his soul power to the limit, unleashing his level 35 Soul Elder cultivation without reservation, reaching the peak of his speed.

In just a few breaths, he rushed to the deepest part of the cave.

The scene before him froze him in his tracks.

It was a shocking sight.

At the end of the cave, a massive Hell Spirit Cat lay in a pool of blood.

Its fur was dull and lusterless, its body bathed in blood, with a hideous, terrifying wound tearing from its left shoulder down to its abdomen, nearly splitting its body in two.

Fragments of internal organs mixed with blood flowed across the ground.

Its life force was as weak as a candle flickering in the wind.

Those golden vertical pupils, which should have been agile and cunning, were already beginning to dilate, leaving only a final trace of unwillingness and despair.

Standing before it was another Hell Spirit Cat.

This spirit cat was a size smaller, but its aura was filled with brutality and cruelty.

Its sharp claws were still stained with warm blood.

It was closing in step by step, preparing to deliver the final, most lethal blow to its dying kin.

[Ding!]

[Detected a pure soul on the verge of death—Hell Spirit Cat (Royal)!]

[Meets system rescue criteria!]

[Death-lock and healing functions activated!]

The system's notification chimed frantically in Li Hao's mind.

Royal!

It really was a royal bloodline!

Li Hao had no time to think, nor did he want to.

He only knew that he could not watch this top-tier Soul Beast Girl, who was about to become his collection, die in his own home.

"Stop!"

With a furious shout, Li Hao's Fishing Rod Martial Soul manifested instantly.

That seemingly ordinary fishing rod now emitted a faint golden halo under the infusion of his soul power.

First Soul Skill, Entangle!

A flexible thread condensed from pure soul power tore through the air at a speed faster than lightning!

The Hell Spirit Cat about to deliver the killing blow seemed to sense the danger and tried to dodge.

But it was too late.

The soul power thread wrapped around its limbs and body with pinpoint accuracy, jerking it backward with a violent force!

"Meow—!"

It let out a sharp, angry hiss, stumbling as it was pulled by the immense force, losing its balance.

Right at this moment.

An even more terrifying, suffocating pressure surged in from the cave entrance, flooding the space like a tidal wave.

The figure of Medusa appeared silently behind Li Hao.

She did not make a move, merely standing there in stillness.

Yet, those emerald-green snake eyes were locked firmly onto the smaller Hell Spirit Cat.

It was a gaze from the very apex of the food chain.

It was the innate bloodline suppression that serpentine soul beasts held over feline soul beasts!

The Hell Spirit Cat, previously brimming with violent intent, instantly stiffened.

Every strand of its black fur stood on end, and while it emitted a threatening low growl from its throat, its body trembled uncontrollably.

Fear.

An irresistible fear, originating from the deepest depths of its soul.

It could sense that the aura radiating from the woman at the cave entrance belonged to an existence it could never hope to contend with.

It was a true terror, capable of killing it in a single instant!

It cast a wary glance at the bizarre fishing rod in Li Hao's hand, then looked again at the cold-blooded Medusa.

Finally, it looked with unwillingness at its dying kin on the ground, its golden pupils filled with spite and confusion.

It could not understand why two such powerful beings had suddenly appeared in this remote valley.

In the end, the instinct for survival overwhelmed the desire for slaughter.

It let out a hiss of frustration, its body gave a violent jerk, and it tore itself free from the soul power threads that had not yet fully tightened.

The next second, its figure transformed into a bolt of black lightning, and without looking back, it bolted out of the cave, vanishing rapidly into the dense forest in the distance.

Li Hao paid no mind to the creature that had fled.

The moment it broke free, he had already lunged forward to the side of the dying Hell Spirit Cat.

He crouched down and gently pressed his palm against the only patch of its fur that remained relatively intact.

[Near-Death Lock and Heal, activating at full power!]

A vast, vibrant green light, brimming with the essence of life, poured from his palm without reservation, flooding wildly into the Hell Spirit Cat's body.

However, the scene of the wounds rapidly knitting together, which he had anticipated, did not occur.

"Roar—!"

The Hell Spirit Cat, which had been on the verge of death, suddenly erupted into a roar of unbearable agony!

Its body convulsed violently; instead of healing, wisps of black smoke began to rise from its massive wound.

One force was the pure life energy from the system.

The other was its own cold, domineering Hell Spirit energy.

These two diametrically opposed forces were locked in the most intense conflict within its body!

The life force was attempting to repair its injuries, while the Hell Spirit energy was instinctively repelling and devouring this foreign power.

Its body had become a battlefield.

The instinct for survival made it desperately crave the absorption of that warm life force.

But the instinct of its bloodline was causing it to be torn apart by that very power!

It was enduring a pain a thousand times more terrifying than death itself!

Li Hao felt the violent resistance coming from his palm, and he felt its soul being torn asunder.

If this continued, it would die!

Not from its injuries, but from the soul collapse caused by the energy conflict!

[Warning! Target's soul is exhibiting an incompatible rejection reaction!]

[Life energy and Hell Spirit energy are in violent conflict; target is on the verge of soul annihilation!]

[Emergency protocol initiated...]

For the first time, the solemn voice of the system carried a sense of urgency, like a rushing torrent of data.

[Hell Spirit Cat Royal Family bloodline detected, containing a strong will to survive!]

[Consume a massive amount of origin essence to forcibly execute the final protocol—Bond Evolution?]

Li Hao's movements paused for a split second.

He lowered his head, meeting those golden, slit pupils.

Those eyes were filled with endless pain, filled with the despair of being torn apart.

Yet, in the deepest reaches of that despair, a faint but incredibly stubborn flame still burned.

It was a thirst for life.

Li Hao looked into those eyes and, without a moment's hesitation, made his choice in his heart.

"Yes!"