Three-Person Combo: Whoever They Target Dies, a Hero Saving a Beauty, and a Spear That Pierced Heaven and Earth (4K)

The night was silent, with only a faint glow coming from the direction of Heaven Dou City in the distance.

Flying a thousand meters above the ground, Ling Jingfeng looked at the exquisite wings behind Qiangu Yunche, as though carved from emerald, and remarked with emotion,

"An External Soul Bone... Judging by that dragon's might and its spatial attribute, could it have come from an Emerald Dragon?"

"Elder Ling is truly well-informed. This junior admires you," Qiangu Yunche replied with a smile.

"You little brat are not only exceptionally talented, but I also like the way you speak." Ling Jingfeng smiled kindly, but his next words startled both Qiangu Yunche and Ling Luochen, who had been secretly peeking at Qiangu Yunche's External Soul Bone from the side.

"It is rather regrettable. If I had been more decisive back then and directly arranged a marriage between you and Luochen, you would have to call me Grandpa now."

At those words, Qiangu Qing immediately raised his brows. "You old eunuch, isn't this your own fault? You waited until you were seventy or eighty to marry and have children, making the generations among these youngsters all muddled. Otherwise, with the friendship between us, even if we could not become in-laws through our children, we could at least become in-laws through our great-grandchildren."

"See? Getting worked up again." Ling Jingfeng chuckled. "Why not just count the generations separately? Besides, it is not too late even now..."

"Grandpa!" Ling Luochen could no longer pretend not to hear. Cracks appeared in her frosty expression, faintly revealing embarrassment and irritation.

"Alright, alright, Grandpa will stop. Grandpa only wanted to find you a safe place to settle down before I die." Ling Jingfeng's tone was filled with indulgence, though a trace of helplessness flashed through his eyes.

Qiangu Yunche understood somewhat.

It seemed Ling Luochen's situation within the Ling Family was not very good.

The hundred-li journey passed in the blink of an eye.

At some point, verdant mountain ranges and terraced land built along the slopes became the dominant sights before them. Nestled amid the mountains were roughly a hundred simple wooden or earthen houses built along a river, looking somewhat bleak and chilling beneath the night sky.

Only a few hundred li away, the brilliant lights of Heaven Dou City could no longer conceal the twisted truth of this world.

In this era, commoners suffered even greater poverty and oppression than they had ten thousand years ago.

Thus, Qiangu Yunche believed one saying was absolutely right: the true dividing line on Douluo Continent was not Martial Soul awakening at the age of six, but the amniotic fluid in one's mother's womb.

"Indeed, there is hardly any sign of living people here."

Qiangu Liting delivered the conclusion coldly, while also discovering with astonishment that this tiny village had gathered at least a hundred Evil Soul Masters of varying strength.

As for whether Evil Soul Masters counted as living people?

It could only be said that in any era, from the moment their Martial Souls awakened, Evil Soul Masters had lower status than watchdogs and possessed none of the human rights they ought to have had.

It was precisely because of this belief that they were innately evil that the more Evil Soul Masters were killed, the more emerged, and the more emerged, the more were killed.

This too was a twisted cycle.

But regardless of the rights and wrongs behind its origins, once someone stepped onto this path, there was no turning back.

Of course, Qiangu Yunche could not really comment on how Shrek Academy in another spacetime and the revitalized Tang Sect had respectively made the Holy Spirit Cult's Fire Phoenix Saintess and Blue Silver Saintess their supreme leaders.

He could only say it fit his established impression of those two factions.

You had an objection?

Trident warning!

Path to death warning!

After landing, the village was deathly quiet. There was not even a single insect chirp.

Qiangu Liting exchanged a glance with Yang Shu before the former said,

"We will handle any Evil Soul Masters at Soul Douluo rank or above. Leave the rest to Yun Mei and the others. Remember, be careful."

With that, the two of them shot straight toward the very center of the village.

Taking advantage of the moment, Qiangu Yunche quickly laid out a battle plan.

"Big Sister Luochen, both my sister's and my Martial Souls possess some ability to suppress evil. I also have a domain. Within its range, an Evil Soul Master's combat strength will be reduced by at least forty percent. Try to keep the battle within my domain. You handle the follow-up control, and leave the killing to us."

"Alright." Though Ling Luochen was shocked, she quickly agreed.

It was universally recognized across the continent that assault-type Soul Masters should form a battle formation around control-type or support-type Soul Masters. They could advance to attack and retreat to defend, making for an extremely well-rounded approach.

The moment Ling Luochen finished speaking, a sharp shriek suddenly came from the distant mountainside.

The shriek was followed by piercing explosions and humming.

"They are here," Qiangu Yunche said quietly.

In an instant, the little village that had been so quiet not even insects could be heard suddenly boiled like an oil pan splashed with cold water. Figures rushed out from every house, some still wearing the coarse linen clothes of villagers.

These Evil Soul Masters were mostly between two or three rings and five or six rings in cultivation, totaling more than a hundred people. Even Ling Luochen, who had completed several inspection missions and considered herself experienced, could not help but catch her breath at the sight of Evil Soul Masters filling the area.

So many Evil Soul Masters had gathered barely a hundred li beyond the imperial capital. This was a huge problem!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"They are over there! Kill them!"

More and more Evil Soul Masters awakened from their sleep by the commotion noticed the three of them, then surged toward them like a tide.

The three exchanged a glance before releasing their Martial Souls at the same time.

Qiangu Yunmei took the lead. Her one yellow, two purple, three black, and one red Soul Rings nearly blinded Ling Luochen.

A hundred-thousand-year seventh ring, and she was this fierce!

Whose general was this?

Immediately afterward, two purple and three black Soul Rings rose beneath Qiangu Yunche's feet, while the Domain of Destruction swiftly covered a radius of fifty meters.

Another one—and that domain...

Ling Luochen's eyes widened. Before she could even be shocked by the siblings' Soul Ring configurations and domain, she felt a surge of pure Soul Power suddenly flow into her body.

After the Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul Spear evolved into the Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear, the Domain of Destruction evolved alongside it, gaining the ability to link with and amplify allies.

Taking a deep breath, Ling Luochen also raised two yellow and two purple Soul Rings beneath her feet, an optimal four-ring configuration.

Then, a layer of crystalline ice suddenly covered her entire body. As her second Soul Ring lit up, the ice crystals swiftly combined into a suit of pale blue ice armor, reflecting dazzling colors beneath the Soul Power radiance of the others around her.

Her first Soul Ring lit up almost simultaneously. Ling Luochen slowly raised her right hand and grasped the air. At once, amid flashing blue light, a two-meter staff entirely condensed from ice crystals appeared.

First Soul Skill, Ice Staff!

Second Soul Skill, Ice Armor Protection!

Ling Luochen's first two Soul Skills seemed incompatible with her identity as a control-type Soul Master, yet these seemingly unconventional abilities were precisely one of the major reasons she firmly held the position of control-type Soul Master among the Shrek Seven Devils.

Ice Staff could reduce Ling Luochen's Soul Power consumption by twenty percent while greatly enhancing her control over the ice element, allowing her to expend less energy and wield greater ease when using control techniques.

Ice Armor Protection, meanwhile, was a group defensive Soul Skill. Not only could it be applied to allies, but it could also protect her from being instantly killed by an enemy at a crucial moment.

Ling Luochen knew very well that for control-type Soul Masters like them, only the living could be useful!

With her Soul Power enhanced, Ling Luochen held nothing back. With a tap of the Ice Staff, a frigid current spread outward, freezing the legs of an Evil Soul Master who had rushed close inside ice crystals.

For Ling Luochen, Soul Skills sometimes did not even count as her primary means of control. Manipulating the ice element was her true core method of combat.

Qiangu Yunche arrived in an instant. With a thrust of the Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear, he immediately took that Evil Soul Master's life.

The battle that followed was exceptionally uniform.

Ling Luochen's all-out ice control was nearly impossible to counter for low-level Evil Soul Masters below five rings within the Domain of Destruction. So long as she lightly tapped with the Ice Staff, the Qiangu siblings could immediately follow up and finish the job. The entire battle flowed as smoothly as clouds and water, as though they were playing a relay game.

A three-person combo—whoever they targeted died!

Gradually, the low-level Evil Soul Masters on the outskirts seemed to realize there was no point in continuing to throw their lives away, and they no longer dared rush forward recklessly.

Feeling the fear in those Evil Soul Masters' eyes, Qiangu Yunche's lips curved into a wicked smile.

The three exchanged glances. Though it was their first time working together, their coordination was extraordinarily seamless.

The siblings circled around Ling Luochen and began shifting from defense to offense, rapidly pushing forward.

Every Evil Soul Master they passed had their head or body explode like a watermelon. Their brutality frightened this group of Evil Soul Masters, who committed every evil imaginable on ordinary days, into crying that they had encountered Evil Soul Masters themselves!

After advancing to the mountainside, the battle raging high overhead was deafening. The low-level Evil Soul Master fodder had all been wiped out. Several high-level Evil Soul Masters tried to escape amid the chaos, only to be kicked back by Qiangu Qing lurking in the shadows. What awaited them afterward was Qiangu Yunmei's black cudgel after activating her Martial Soul Avatar!

Just as Qiangu Yunmei was killing to her heart's content, a figure that had been hiding in the surrounding shadows finally moved.

"Soul-Devouring Demon Palm!"

Like a ghost, the black figure emerged from the shadows. Eight Soul Rings glimmered blood-red beneath the night sky, while resentment soared from the black-red giant palm. His target was unmistakably Ling Luochen, whose Soul Power was the lowest and whose combat strength was the weakest among the three.

Faced with a Soul Douluo's full-force sneak attack, Ling Luochen absolutely could not withstand it with Ice Armor Protection alone. Her eyes widened as nearly all color drained from her face in an instant. Yet just as the giant palm came within less than a meter of her, Qiangu Yunche suddenly flashed before her. His left fist, wreathed in deep blue radiance, struck out and collided head-on with the black-red giant palm.

It was still the same clichéd story of a hero saving a beauty!

Qiangu Yunche knew the rules for handling such situations, so he had prepared early!

"Boom—"

With a tremendous explosion, the ground cracked inch by inch, and the terrifying shockwave directly destroyed the wooden houses nearby.

The black-robed elder stared at Qiangu Yunche in horror, unable to understand how a Soul King had blocked his all-out fifth Soul Skill.

But in the very next instant, something even more terrifying happened!

The deep blue light originally wrapped around Qiangu Yunche's left fist suddenly blazed brightly. Then, that viscous radiance spread like liquid along their touching fist and palm, rapidly crawling up the elder's right arm.

"Explode!"

With Qiangu Yunche's soft cry, the thunderwater energy within the highly compressed Cangming Thunder Prison was instantly detonated.

Of the two great Soul Skills granted to Qiangu Yunche by the three-hundred-thousand-year Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor, Myriad Tide Heavenly Thunder focused on water with lightning as a secondary attribute, while the domain-type Soul Skill Cangming Thunder Prison focused on lightning with water as a secondary attribute!

Yet under the overall principle of lightning intensifying water's force and water containing lightning's might, the power of these two Soul Skills was absolutely not to be underestimated.

Another thunderous boom rang out. Qiangu Yunche used Soul Power to block the splattering flesh and blood, then looked at the elder whose body had been blown apart on one side and smiled disdainfully.

"Old bastard, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

The elder let out a painful howl and stared at Qiangu Yunche with fear and resentment. Then, he directly lit up his eighth black Soul Ring.

Blood mist churned, and vengeful spirits surged skyward. One could imagine just how vast the slaughter he had committed was.

"I will be back!"

But immediately afterward, under Qiangu Yunche and Ling Luochen's gazes, he suddenly shouted those words before transforming into streams of blood mist and fleeing into the depths of the mountains at a speed too fast for the naked eye to catch.

"Turning into energy and creating multiple clones... Using such an incredible Soul Skill to run away, you really are a damn talent."

Qiangu Yunche gritted his teeth and looked toward Ling Luochen, who was clearly still not fully back to her senses, before asking,

"Do you have a Soul Skill that can restrain energy bodies?"

"Yes." Ling Luochen looked at Qiangu Yunche and nodded, her eyes clear yet bewildered.

"Open your mouth." Qiangu Yunche spoke, and Ling Luochen obediently did so in a daze.

A bead of ice as large as a cherry was flicked from his fingertips and flew directly into Ling Luochen's mouth.

Ling Luochen was startled. The moment she fully came to her senses, she instinctively swallowed it into her stomach.

Then Ling Luochen felt a strong arm wrap around her waist, and the scenery around them immediately began rushing backward.

Before Ling Luochen could ask what Qiangu Yunche had fed her, she felt an extreme chill that sent a shiver through her entire body, carrying an incredibly pure ice-element energy that seeped into her from the hand around her waist.

Then, a terrifying ice-attribute power she had never felt before suddenly erupted inside her body and coursed through her meridians into every limb and bone.

"Ah—"

Ling Luochen could not stop herself from moaning. The feeling was not pain, but an ultimate, overwhelming pleasure.

The Emerald Wings flapped once more, and spatial power erupted, carrying the two of them forward at a thousand meters in an instant and catching up with the elder's true body, which had already transformed into blood mist.

Ling Luochen instantly understood Qiangu Yunche's intention. Without caring about anything else, she immediately conjured the Ice Staff again.

"Grasp of Frost!"

As an ice-blue beam as thick as a water barrel shot forth, Ling Luochen felt as though all her strength, energy, and focus had been drained away in an instant. Her entire body went limp as she pressed against Qiangu Yunche.

The Grasp of Frost, infinitely close to the level of Ultimate Ice and having thoroughly drained Ling Luochen's Soul Power, successfully struck the blood shadow darting below. Amid the elder's terrified cries, the blood mist was gradually frozen solid, and his figure was once again exposed to the air.

Qiangu Yunche held Ling Luochen around the waist with his left hand while raising the Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear with his right. At the same time, his first Soul Ring, now transformed into purple, lit up.

"Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Cleave!"

As his words fell, Qiangu Yunche exerted force. The brilliant golden Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear descended like a falling meteor with the force to tear apart heaven and earth. Then, beneath the elder's utterly terrified gaze, it violently pierced through his chest and completely extinguished his life force.

Leaning against Qiangu Yunche's shoulder, Ling Luochen watched the scene in extreme shock, her heart churning with monstrous waves...