Taking on a Fifty-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Alone, Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison Induction!

But just as they reached Thunder Pattern Cliff, the Titan Giant Ape came to a stop.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing the Titan Giant Ape stop, Xiao Wu, sitting on his shoulder, asked in confusion.

"Sister Xiao Wu, there's the aura of a Titled Douluo here."

The Titan Giant Ape spoke gravely.

"What?!"

Xiao Wu's expression grew serious as well.

She looked toward the top of Thunder Pattern Cliff.

The Titan Giant Ape was enormous.

Sitting on his shoulder, she had a clear view of the cliff top.

Xiao Wu's eyesight was decent, and she easily spotted the young figure standing there.

But suddenly, her eyes narrowed slightly, and a look of astonishment crossed her face.

"Er Ming, look at the cliff top."

"What is it?"

"Look at that human's Soul Rings. How is that possible?"

Xiao Wu knitted her brows tightly.

Although she hadn't had much contact with the human world,

a purple, purple, black Soul Ring configuration simply shouldn't be possible.

Even among the people who had hunted her and her mother, everyone's Soul Rings had started with yellow. At the very least, a Soul Ring wouldn't be black until the fifth one.

"So that's why. No wonder there's a Titled Douluo's aura here."

By now, Er Ming had also seen Yu Tianchen's Soul Ring configuration on the cliff. A look of understanding came over his face.

"That kid must be a genius among humans, and that Titled Douluo is probably protecting him."

"A genius..."

Xiao Wu murmured softly, her lovely eyes shifting slightly.

A little idea suddenly came to her.

But with a Titled Douluo here, this was going to be tricky...

Meanwhile, near the outer edge of Thunder Pattern Cliff,

Dugu Bo, who had been resting with his eyes closed on a secluded tree, abruptly opened them. His expression grave, he looked toward the Mixed Zone.

"This aura..."

"How could something of that caliber appear here?!"

He sat up, but didn't act immediately.

He could sense that the colossal presence in the Mixed Zone had no intention of approaching.

Perhaps, for now, it had no plans to come this way.

If he acted recklessly and startled it, drawing the attention of that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast,

things could go terribly wrong.

Though he didn't move, Dugu Bo had already pushed his Soul Power to its peak.

The moment that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast showed any sign of approaching Thunder Pattern Cliff,

he would appear at once and take Yu Tianchen away.

Yu Tianchen had no idea that he was caught between a Titled Douluo and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Knees bent slightly, panting, he gazed at the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion before him, his smile growing broader and broader.

"A fifty-thousand-year Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion... now that's a real challenge!"

Really.

This was the most satisfying battle Yu Tianchen had fought since awakening.

Neither sparring with his grandfather, Yu Yuanzhen, nor sparring with his father, Yu Xiaotian,

had ever made him feel this way.

When he sparred with his grandfather and father, they wouldn't truly try to kill him. Yu Tianchen knew that himself, so he felt no pressure at all.

But fighting the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion before him was different.

His opponent was genuinely trying to kill him!

And he could fight without holding back, unleashing every move he had against it!

The thrill of this life-or-death struggle was utterly intoxicating to Yu Tianchen.

Across from him, the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion was faring no better.

Its fur had been scorched black by the lightning, and its left forepaw was twisted at an unnatural angle.

Its body kept turning red, then white, while wisps of icy and scorching energy leaked from it.

It looked at Yu Tianchen as if he were a monster, its eyes filled with wariness.

This human before it—

he looked absurdly young,

yet he was terrifyingly strong.

They had been fighting for quite some time.

The lion had taken hit after solid hit, but its opponent was like a slippery loach, impossible to catch.

Every time it got the chance to attack,

the other man vanished from its sight as if he had teleported.

And the lightning he unleashed was strange, too.

The Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion had a high resistance to lightning because it fed on thunder energy.

But the lightning its opponent unleashed made it experience something it never had before.

Mostly pain, but somehow... there was a little pleasure mixed in?

"Again! Today, Thunder Pattern Cliff is changing hands!"

The five small drums behind Yu Tianchen blazed with dazzling lightning.

Lightning bloomed in his hand, taking the shape of a long halberd. He teleported through the lightning feathers scattered across the ground to the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion's flank and swung down with a mighty slash.

"ROAR!!"

Wounded across its side, the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion let out a furious roar. Lightning burst all around it, hurling Yu Tianchen away.

At the same time, it reared up and slammed its right paw—about as large as Yu Tianchen's head—toward him.

Yu Tianchen unleashed Instant Thunder Startling Feather again, teleporting to the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion's other side and launching another fierce assault.

The Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion whipped its tail around. Like a steel whip, it whistled through the air and shot toward Yu Tianchen.

Yu Tianchen teleported again.

With his agility pushed to the limit,

the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lion's massive body had become its biggest weakness.

Just then, roars suddenly sounded behind Yu Tianchen.

Several Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions, each around ten to thirty thousand years old, had reached the cliff top and surrounded him.

"Hmph. A pack of lions ganging up on one person?"

"Bit of a breach of honor, don't you think?"

Yu Tianchen's brows furrowed slightly. He stamped one foot and rode a bolt of lightning into the air, then clapped his hands together.

"Wherever thunder strikes, nothing escapes destruction!"

"Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison Induction!"

Above, vast banks of dark clouds gathered under the pull of the Five Thunder Shock Drums.

Countless bolts of lightning poured from the clouds, forming an unrelenting thunderstorm over the top of the cliff.

The Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions roared, glaring at the figure in the sky.

The purple markings on their bodies lit up in unison. They opened their mouths, gathering lightning between their jaws.

But the instant the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions unleashed the lightning in their mouths,

Yu Tianchen used Instant Thunder Flying Feather again, teleporting some distance away.

"I'm running low on Soul Power..."

Yu Tianchen frowned as he sensed the Soul Power within him.

He was only a Soul Elder, and he had been fighting at high intensity the entire time.

Even for him, that was becoming too much.

He had the Soul Power stored in his Soul Power Vortex to thank for that.

Otherwise, he would probably have run out of stamina back at the foot of the cliff.

"Looks like I won't be able to take them down tonight. I'd better retreat for now."

Yu Tianchen weighed his options.

He wasn't afraid of fighting a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast one-on-one.

But being surrounded by several ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts was more than even he could handle.

Still, he really wasn't willing to just leave like this...