Martial Soul Fusion, Zhang Lexuan, Ten Thousand Years Later!

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Silver Moon... a Moon Martial Soul.

"What the hell is this place?"

Huo Si stood there, dumbfounded. Not far away, the woman had already sat down cross-legged and begun absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Before long, she suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Keep watch on all sides!"

"Don't let any Soul Beasts get close!"

"Protect the Planar Pioneer!"

Long Weiguo issued three orders. He was covered in blood, with a sharp branch piercing through his body.

Huo Si hurried to Long Weiguo's side.

"Hang on, hang on... Weiguo, stay with me."

Long Weiguo's breathing grew weaker and weaker, but his hands still gripped his weapon tightly. His eyes swept frantically across their surroundings as he seized Huo Si's hands.

"Weiguo will never let anything happen to the Planar Pioneer."

"Even if the entire Plane Guard Army is wiped out!"

"Commander, my eyelids feel so heavy... I... I'm so tired!"

In an instant, Huo Si's eyes reddened.

Long Weiguo had been one of the first two people to enter the Douluo World plane with him. He had guarded Huo Si diligently every day, never letting him suffer so much as a scratch.

Even now, on the verge of death, Long Weiguo thought only of him.

"Hang on, hang on, Weiguo. I'll summon the Plane Star Gate right now and send you back."

"You'll be all right. Our motherland will make sure you're healed."

Huo Si raised his hand, trying to circulate his Soul Power, but his body was completely drained. He didn't have a trace left.

Panic flashed across his face. There was no time to absorb the Soul Power in the air.

His gaze turned fierce as he looked toward the corpse of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

He sprinted over and cut off a large chunk with his dagger.

"Xiao Bai, come out!"

When Xiao Bai appeared, he saw the massive body of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Even in death, its terrifying pressure still lingered.

Fear filled Xiao Bai's huge pupils, and his serpentine body retreated one section at a time.

"Damn it, take another step back and I'll shoot you!"

Huo Si snatched a gun from one of the special forces soldiers protecting him and pointed it at Xiao Bai's head.

"I've put up with you being a coward and a wimp all this time."

"But if you dare let me down when it matters, I'll kill you, even if it means giving up my Martial Soul!"

Huo Si's eyes were bloodshot, his breathing ragged. He was on the brink of losing control.

He knew fear was an instinct shared by all living things, especially when faced with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast whose life level was beyond Xiao Bai's comprehension.

But Xiao Bai couldn't afford to be afraid. Huo Si needed him, and so did Long Weiguo. If he dared run away at this critical moment, Huo Si would skin him alive.

"Hold him down!"

Huo Si ordered the two remaining special forces soldiers.

"Commander, don't... Weiguo can't be sent back... Don't hurt Xiao Bai."

After a brief hesitation, the soldiers lunged at Xiao Bai and pinned him down.

Huo Si pried open Xiao Bai's mouth and shoved a large chunk of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's flesh inside.

Terror and fear filled Xiao Bai's eyes, but his instinct to feed made him swallow it.

The instant Xiao Bai swallowed the large chunk of flesh, his body began convulsing violently, pain twisting his expression.

Huo Si couldn't worry about him now. He immediately recalled his Martial Soul.

The moment it vanished, a ball of flame seemed to ignite in his abdomen.

"Argh!!!"

Huo Si clenched his teeth as blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. He endured the agony and forcibly refined the Soul Power.

After recovering a little Soul Power, Huo Si endured the burning in his abdomen and summoned his Second Martial Soul, the Plane Star Gate.

"Stay alive! That's an order!"

"I haven't even taken you to truly conquer the Douluo World!"

Seeing Huo Si's face contorted in pain, Long Weiguo couldn't stop his tears from falling.

He knew Huo Si was terrified of pain, even of dying, yet he was doing all this for him...

"My final order is to protect the Planar Pione—"

Before Long Weiguo could finish, Huo Si threw him through the gate.

"Yes, Commander!"

The two special forces soldiers fought back their tears and kept watch on their surroundings.

The instant Long Weiguo disappeared into the Plane Star Gate,

Huo Si collapsed to the ground in agony.

"It hurts so much... It feels like my stomach's about to explode."

"No... There's too much Soul Power... My body can't take it."

Huo Si gritted his teeth and forcibly summoned Xiao Bai, only to find him writhing on the ground just like Huo Si.

Cracks began to spread all over his body.

"Watch out for the Soul Beast!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A volley of gunfire rang out.

"Use the high-caliber rifles! Don't let it get near the Planar Pioneer!"

Huo Si lifted his head in pain. The instant he saw the Soul Beast, dazzling golden light blazed in his eyes.

"A Titan Giant Python, over five meters and two... a thousand-year Soul Beast... and more than two thousand years old!"

He glanced at the high-caliber sniper rifle Long Weiguo had left behind.

Huo Si snatched it up. Soul Power instantly flowed into the rifle, coating every bullet.

The two special forces soldiers were still suppressing the Titan Giant Python.

Huo Si's hand trembled violently from the agony in his abdomen. He could barely hold the rifle steady.

"Steady, steady! Get the hell under control!"

Huo Si's furious roar tore from his throat. Not far away, White Snake trembled from hearing it.

His violently twisting body stilled. Deep fear filled his pupils as he coiled tightly around himself. Then, gritting his teeth, he bit down hard on his own body. The cracks across his scales widened.

At the same time, Huo Si steadied the trembling rifle in his hands.

Without the slightest hesitation, he pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The tremendous recoil made Huo Si's whole body shudder.

The high-caliber sniper rifle struck the Titan Giant Python right between the eyes. Its formidable defenses deflected the bullet, but a large scale between its eyes was ripped away.

"Roar!!!"

The excruciating pain in its forehead made the Titan Giant Python throw back its head and howl.

Bang! Bang!

Huo Si didn't hesitate for a second and fired twice more.

His hand trembled as he fired the first shot. That tremor sent the bullet straight into the Titan Giant Python's eye.

Squish!

The bullet pierced its eyeball and shot out through the back of its head.

The second shot hit it right between the eyes.

Huo Si quickly rushed forward.

The Titan Giant Python's body was still twisting and thrashing, but a purple Soul Ring had already begun to rise slowly from it.

"This is my last chance. My last chance to survive."

Huo Si turned to look at the two special forces soldiers left from the entire squad.

"If I fail to absorb it and die, get out of this hellhole."

"With your skills and your Martial Souls, you can join the Heaven Dou Empire or the Star Luo Empire, avoid the war with Spirit Hall, and live out your lives here."

At Huo Si's words, both soldiers burst into tears.

"Pioneer!"

"Is there really no other way?"

Huo Si turned around, his gaze growing resolute.

If there were another way, he would never force himself to absorb a Soul Ring whose age was somewhere past two thousand years.

But there was no other choice. He could only gamble that he could absorb it.

There was too much Soul Power in his body. He was close to breaking.

He had twenty levels of Soul Power but no Soul Ring. Without one, he couldn't break through to Soul Grandmaster. His only option was to risk absorbing the Soul Ring. If he broke through to Soul Grandmaster, the Soul Power would have an outlet, and he could smash through the Soul Power barrier. Then he might survive.

"I'm sorry."

That was all Huo Si said. Then, without a moment's hesitation, he began absorbing the Soul Ring.

As the deep purple Soul Ring rose, a terrifying surge of Soul Power crashed down from above.

Cracks instantly spread across Huo Si's body.

Not far away, Xiao Bai shuddered as he felt the external surge of Soul Power and the explosive Soul Power inside him.

The dense cracks covering his body began to mend under the external pressure, which counteracted the Soul Power on the verge of exploding inside him.

But the Soul Power within him hadn't diminished. Xiao Bai could only hold so much.

The external Soul Power would eventually enter his body, too.

The two forces clashed without end. Xiao Bai's eyes grew bloodshot... His internal organs were being flooded with Soul Power.

The clashing forces repeatedly tempered his flesh and blood.

Xiao Bai's scales fell off in an eerie fashion, only to grow back almost at once.

All the pressure shifted onto Huo Si.

Xiao Bai looked at the cracks covering Huo Si's body, panic in his eyes.

Hum!

A yellow Soul Ring instantly rose from Huo Si.

Xiao Bai's body abruptly surged in size, and he rushed to Huo Si's side.

The two special forces soldiers didn't dare stop him. They watched in despair.

The next moment, something even more despairing happened.

Xiao Bai opened his mouth wide and swallowed Huo Si, along with the purple thousand-year Soul Ring above his head.

"It's over... It's over... This Martial Soul killed its master!"

Hum!!!

Light blazed around Xiao Bai as the external Soul Power surged into his body. In an instant, cracks spread across his whole body.

Bang!!!

A dazzling white light exploded.

Beep, beep, beep!!!

The Douluo Plane Research Institute.

After Long Weiguo returned to the Dragon Kingdom, piercing alarms immediately rang throughout the entire Douluo Plane Research Institute.

"What happened?"

"What's going on?!"

"What happened!!!"

Long Weiguo clutched Elder Long's hand tightly.

"Grandpa... We... encountered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast... The Planar Pioneer... the commander..."

Before he could finish, he suddenly fainted.

Hum!!!

For a brief moment, Elder Long seemed to age by more than a decade. His pupils contracted violently.

"Medical team, save him!"

"Activate the second plan!"

"Launch every satellite in the country! No matter how many resources it takes, we must find the Douluo World somewhere in the vast sea of stars!"

"Send reinforcements to the Pioneer!"

The entire Douluo Plane Research Institute had no time to grieve.

They launched into full operation.

They hadn't heard any bad news about Huo Si. That meant he still had a chance.

Huo Si had sent Long Weiguo back through the Plane Star Gate, but hadn't returned himself. That meant there was still hope.

"Activate the highest-level alert!"

"Bring out every hidden Truth. As soon as the Planar Pioneer opens the Plane Star Gate—"

"Send it through!"

Douluo Continent

"Waaah... It's over, it's over... Everything's over!"

"Pioneer... Pioneer..."

Two voices burst into anguished sobs, echoing through the Star Dou Great Forest.

The two special forces soldiers were both young, barely into their twenties. They had enlisted as soon as they came of age; some had even been specially recruited before they were adults. They had stayed with the unit ever since, but after their mental defenses crumbled again and again, they finally couldn't hold on any longer.

Amid a wash of white light, a pair of cold, vertical pupils suddenly appeared. Snow-white scales, a massive body, powerful muscles—its length exceeded five meters.

"Hiss—roar!"

Its hiss was like a furious roar, ringing in every direction.

The two jolted, fear and anger showing in their eyes.

"Th-this is the Pioneer's Martial Soul!"

"Damn it, damn it! If you hadn't eaten the Pioneer, I'd kill you!"

Hatred flashed in one special forces soldier's eyes. He was just about to raise his gun and fire.

"Stop!"

The next instant, a familiar voice rang out, and both of them stared wide-eyed.

"Pioneer...!"

"Pioneer, where are you?!"

Buzz—!

As Soul Power surged outward, the enormous White Snake slowly took human form. Huo Si's face emerged, followed by his arms and torso, all covered in dense white scales.

"Damn, so this is what it feels like to have a Beast Martial Soul possess you?"

Huo Si raised a hand and pulled Xiao Bai straight out of his body.

Once Xiao Bai had fully separated, Huo Si returned from his half-beast state.

He clenched his fist. Xiao Bai quickly came over and licked his hand over and over.

Huo Si shoved it away without an ounce of mercy.

"Pioneer, you're alive!"

The two soldiers wiped away their tears and swiftly returned to combat readiness.

"Interesting. I've already mastered all three states: full beast transformation, half-beast transformation, and a Martial Soul separated from the body."

"But switching between them isn't smooth. I'll need to work on our compatibility."

"My Soul Power has also broken through to... level twenty-five!"

Huo Si's eyes flew wide open. He had broken through five levels in a row while still a Soul Grandmaster. Good grief.

Yellow and purple Soul Rings slowly rose into view.

Xiao Bai quickly came over, wanting to cuddle up to him, but Huo Si coldly shoved it away again.

"Waaah!!!"

Not far away, the woman finished absorbing her Martial Soul and suddenly spat out another mouthful of blood.

Huo Si turned and quickly headed toward her.

"Hiss, hiss!"

Xiao Bai looked a little aggrieved and was also afraid of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's corpse nearby. But when it saw Huo Si heading toward the woman, it gritted its teeth, endured the discomfort of the hundred-thousand-year pressure, and slowly slithered after him.

The woman was gravely injured. After forcibly absorbing the Soul Ring, she had lost the ability to move. Now, she was briefly conscious.

Huo Si frowned.

"Your name? Where are we, and which faction are you from?"

The woman wearily glanced at Huo Si and opened her mouth.

"Zhang Lexuan. The core area of the Star Dou Great Forest. The inner court of Shrek Academy!"

"Save my junior sisters!"

Zhang Lexuan pointed toward two people lying motionless nearby, their fate unknown. The next instant, she lost consciousness.

She had no idea how deeply those words had shaken Huo Si.

Not everyone who had read Douluo Continent would necessarily recognize Zhang Lexuan, but the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest and the inner court of Shrek Academy were both widely known.

Those three clues could only point to one answer.

"The Peerless Tang Sect era, ten thousand years in the future!"

"A hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. Inner-court disciples of Shrek Academy killed while hunting Soul Beasts. Zhang Lexuan... Damn it, I've been thrown ten thousand years into the future!"

"Xuan Zi, the Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult, led the inner-court disciples on a Soul Beast hunt. Because he was greedy and wandered off from the disciples, the ones separated from him ran into a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. Of the twelve, eight died and four were gravely injured!"

Huo Si's scalp went numb. Did the Plane Star Gate lead to a different world with each Soul Ring?

Or could it travel through time and space?