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

Chapter 15: Martial Soul Fusion, Zhang Lexuan, Ten Thousand Years Later!

A hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

A hundred-thousand-year soul ring.

Silver Moon... Moon martial soul.

Where the hell did this land me?

Huo Si was completely bewildered. He watched as the woman not far away sat cross-legged to absorb the hundred-thousand-year soul ring, only to cough up a mouthful of blood a moment later.

"Secure the perimeter!"

"Do not let any soul beasts get close!!"

"Protect the Planar Pioneer!!!"

Three orders were issued by Long Weiguo. At this moment, Long Weiguo was covered in blood, a sharp tree branch having pierced through his body.

Huo Si rushed to Long Weiguo's side.

"Hold on, hold on... Weiguo, hold on."

Long Weiguo's breathing grew weaker, yet his hands still gripped his weapon tightly. His eyes scanned the surroundings with a manic intensity before he grabbed Huo Si's hands.

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

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

"Sir, my eyelids are so heavy... I... I'm so tired!"

In an instant, Huo Si's eyes turned red.

Long Weiguo was one of the two people who had entered the Douluo World with him in the first wave. He had spent his days diligently guarding him, ensuring he never suffered the slightest harm.

Even as he lay dying, his only thoughts were for Huo Si.

"Hold on, hold on. Weiguo, I'm going to summon the Plane Star Gate right now to send you back."

"You will get better. The motherland will definitely heal you."

Huo Si raised his hand, intending to circulate his soul power, but his body was empty; there wasn't a shred of soul power left.

Huo Si's expression turned anxious. There was no time to absorb the soul power from the heavens and earth now.

His gaze hardened as he looked at the carcass of the hundred-thousand-year soul beast not far away.

He quickly ran over and carved off a large chunk with his dagger.

"Little White, come out!"

After Little White emerged, it looked at the massive body of the hundred-thousand-year soul beast and the terrifying pressure that still lingered even after its death.

Its large pupils were filled with fear, and its serpentine body retreated step by step.

"Damn it, if you dare to back away again, I'll shoot you!"

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

"No matter how cowardly or timid you've been in the past, I've tolerated it."

"But if you dare to fail me at a critical moment, I'll kill you, even if it means losing you as my martial soul!"

Huo Si's eyes were bloodshot, his breathing heavy, his anger pushed to the brink.

He knew that fear was a biological instinct, especially when facing a hundred-thousand-year soul beast that existed on a life level far superior to Little White's.

But Little White couldn't be afraid. He needed it now, and Long Weiguo needed it. If it dared to desert at this critical juncture, Huo Si would skin it alive.

"Hold it down!"

Huo Si ordered the two remaining special forces soldiers.

"Sir, don't... Weiguo can no longer return... don't hurt Little White."

After a moment of hesitation, the soldiers forced themselves forward.

Huo Si decisively pried open Little White's mouth and shoved a large piece of the hundred-thousand-year soul beast's flesh inside.

There was terror and fear in Little White's eyes, but the instinct to feed forced it to swallow.

The moment it swallowed the large chunk of meat, Little White's body began to struggle violently, its expression twisted in agony.

Huo Si couldn't care about it now; he retracted his martial soul.

The moment he retracted it, a ball of fire seemed to burn crazily in his abdomen.

"Argh~!!!"

Huo Si gritted his teeth, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. He endured the agonizing pain, forcibly refining his soul power.

After recovering a sliver of soul power, Huo Si endured the burning sensation in his gut and summoned his second martial soul, the Plane Star Gate.

"Survive. That is an order!"

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

Watching Huo Si's features twist in agony, Long Weiguo could not hold back his tears.

He knew Huo Si was terrified of pain, and even more so of death, yet for his sake...

"My final order: protect the Planar Pioneer with your life..."

Before Long Weiguo could finish, Huo Si threw him straight inside.

"Yes, Instructor!"

The two special forces soldiers held back their tears and stood guard.

The moment Long Weiguo vanished into the Plane Star Gate, Huo Si collapsed to the ground in agony.

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

"No, there's too much spirit power... my body can't take it anymore."

Huo Si gritted his teeth and forcibly summoned Little White, only to find the White Snake rolling on the ground just like him.

Dense cracks began to appear all over his body.

"Watch out for the spirit beast!"

Bang, bang, bang!

A rapid barrage of gunfire erupted.

"Use the large-caliber rounds! Don't let it get near the Planar Pioneer!"

Huo Si lifted his head in pain. The instant he saw the spirit beast, a dazzling golden light erupted from his eyes.

"A Titan Giant Python, over 5.2 meters, a thousand-year spirit beast... and it's over two thousand years old!"

He glanced beside him at the large-caliber sniper rifle left behind after Long Weiguo's departure.

Huo Si decisively grabbed it, instantly channeling his spirit power into the rifle and coating every single bullet.

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

Huo Si's hands were shaking violently from the excruciating pain in his abdomen; he couldn't even hold the rifle steady.

"Steady, steady, goddamn it, stay steady!"

Driven by extreme rage, Huo Si let out a heart-wrenching roar. Not far away, the White Snake shuddered at the sound.

Its violently twisting and struggling body froze, its pupils filled with deep fear. It coiled tightly around itself, then gritted its teeth and bit down hard on its own body, the cracks on its skin widening further.

On this side, Huo Si finally steadied the trembling rifle in his hands.

Without a moment's hesitation, he pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The massive recoil made Huo Si's entire body shudder.

The large-caliber round struck the Titan Giant Python square in the center of its brow. Its formidable defense deflected the bullet, but a large chunk of scales was torn away.

"ROAR!"

The intense pain in its forehead made the Titan Giant Python rear its head and hiss.

Bang, bang!

Huo Si didn't hesitate, firing two more shots in quick succession.

His hand had shaken on the first shot, and because of that tremor, it struck the Titan Giant Python directly in the eye.

Squelch!

The bullet pierced the eyeball and exited from the back of the creature's head.

The second shot struck the center of its brow perfectly.

Huo Si quickly stepped forward.

The Titan Giant Python's body was still twisting and struggling, but a purple spirit ring had already begun to rise slowly.

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

Huo Si turned to look at the two remaining special forces soldiers from the entire battalion.

"If I fail the absorption and die, get out of this hellhole."

"With your skills and your spirits, join the Heaven Dou Empire or the Star Luo Empire. Stay away from the war with Spirit Hall, and you can live a full life."

Hearing Huo Si's words, the two soldiers burst into tears.

"Pioneer!"

"Pioneer, is there really no other way?"

Huo Si turned his head, his gaze gradually hardening.

If there were another way, he would never have attempted to forcibly absorb a spirit ring of unknown age, well over two thousand years.

There was no other way; he had to gamble, gamble that he could absorb this spirit ring.

The spirit power within his body was too vast, and his physical frame was nearing its limit.

At level twenty spirit power, without a spirit ring, he could not break through to become a Great Spirit Master. He had no choice but to risk the absorption. As long as he successfully broke through to become a Great Spirit Master, his spirit power would have an outlet, allowing him to directly breach the spirit power barrier and survive.

"I'm sorry."

Huo Si spoke only this final sentence, and in the next instant, he began to absorb the spirit ring without the slightest hesitation.

As the deep purple spirit ring rose, a terrifying shockwave of spirit power descended from above his head.

Dense, spiderweb-like cracks instantly appeared all over Huo Si's body.

Not far away, Little White shuddered, feeling the external spirit power shockwave and the explosive spirit power within its own body.

The dense cracks originally covering its body were unexpectedly offset by the external spirit power shockwave, balancing out the spirit power that had been on the verge of exploding from within.

However, the internal spirit power did not decrease; Little White's capacity for spirit power was only so large.

The external spirit power would eventually enter the interior as well.

The two forces clashed repeatedly, Little White's eyes bloodshot, its internal organs flooded with spirit power.

Under the impact of the two opposing forces of spirit power, its flesh and blood were tempered again and again.

The scales on Little White's body fell off in a bizarre fashion, only to rapidly regrow.

All the pressure shifted onto Huo Si.

Little White looked at the dense cracks on Huo Si's body, its eyes filled with anxiety.

Hum~!

A yellow spirit ring instantly rose from Huo Si's body.

Little White's body surged in size, rapidly arriving in front of Huo Si.

The two special forces soldiers dared not intervene, watching the scene in utter despair.

In the next instant, something even more desperate occurred.

Little White suddenly opened its massive maw and swallowed everything, including the purple thousand-year spirit ring above Huo Si's head, in one gulp.

"It's over, it's over... This martial soul is killing its master!"

Hum~!!!

Light shone violently from Little White's body as the external spirit power shockwave surged into it, and cracks instantly spread across its entire body.

Bang~!!!

A blinding white light exploded outward.

Beep, beep, beep~!!!

At the Douluo Plane Research Institute.

After Long Weiguo returned to the Dragon Kingdom, sharp alarm sirens rang out instantly throughout the entire Douluo Plane Research Institute.

"What happened!"

"What's going on!!"

"What on earth is happening!!!"

Long Weiguo gripped Elder Long's hand tightly.

"Grandfather... we... encountered a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast... the Planar Pioneer... Commander..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he fainted abruptly.

Hum~!!!

In that single moment, Elder Long seemed to age a dozen years, his pupils contracting violently.

"Medical department, save him!"

"Initiate Protocol Two!!"

"Launch all national satellites! No matter the cost in resources, we must find the Douluo World in the vast sea of stars in the universe!!!"

"Support the Pioneer!!!!"

The entire Douluo Plane Research Institute had no time for grief.

They began full-scale operations.

They had not received any bad news regarding Huo Si, which meant Huo Si still had a chance.

Huo Si had been able to teleport Long Weiguo back while remaining behind himself, which still represented hope.

"Initiate Level One security alert!"

"Deploy all hidden Truths; as soon as the Planar Pioneer opens the Plane Star Gate."

"Send them through!"

Douluo Continent

"Waaah... it's over, it's all over!"

"Pioneer... Pioneer..."

Two wailing cries echoed through the Star Dou Great Forest.

Both special forces soldiers were young, barely in their early twenties. They had enlisted as soon as they came of age, some even recruited before they were adults. Having stayed in the unit ever since, their mental defenses, already frayed by repeated collapses, finally shattered completely.

Amidst a blinding white light, a pair of cold, slit pupils suddenly appeared, accompanied by snow-white snake scales, a massive frame, powerful muscles, and a body over five meters long.

"Hiss—roar!"

The hiss sounded like a roar, reverberating in every direction.

The two men shuddered, their eyes filled with terror and rage.

"It's... it's the Pioneer's martial soul!"

"Damn it, damn it! If you hadn't eaten the Pioneer, I would have killed you!"

One of the soldiers glared with hatred, raising his rifle to fire.

"Stop!"

The next instant, a familiar voice rang out, and both men widened their eyes.

"Pioneer...!"

"Pioneer, where are you?!"

Hum!

With a surge of soul power, the giant white snake slowly transformed into human form. Huo Si's face gradually emerged, his arms and torso covered in dense white scales.

"Damn, so this is what it feels like to have a beast martial soul possessed?"

Huo Si raised his hand and pulled Little White directly out of his own body.

Once Little White had completely detached, Huo Si reverted from his half-beast state.

He clenched his fists, while Little White quickly scurried over, licking Huo Si's hand incessantly.

Huo Si pushed it away without mercy.

"Pioneer, you're not dead!"

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

"Interesting. I managed to master three states just like that: full beast transformation, half-beast transformation, and detached martial soul."

"It's just that the switching isn't smooth yet; I need to hone the synchronization."

"My soul power has also broken through to... level twenty-five!"

Huo Si's eyes widened instantly. To jump five levels in the Great Soul Master realm—what a guy.

One yellow and one purple soul ring rose slowly.

Little White scurried over again, wanting to cuddle, but was coldly pushed away by Huo Si once more.

"Waaah—!!!"

Not far away, the woman finished absorbing the soul ring and suddenly spat out another mouthful of blood.

Huo Si turned his head and walked quickly toward her.

"Hiss, hiss!"

Little White felt a bit aggrieved and was also afraid of the nearby hundred-thousand-year soul beast carcass. However, seeing Huo Si walk toward the woman, it gritted its teeth against the discomfort of the hundred-thousand-year pressure and slithered slowly behind him.

The woman was severely injured and had lost the ability to move after forcibly absorbing the soul ring, but she was briefly conscious now.

Huo Si frowned.

"Name, where is this, and which faction are you from?"

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

"Zhang Lexuan. Core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, Shrek Academy Inner Court!"

"Save my junior sisters!"

Zhang Lexuan pointed toward two people lying on the ground not far away, their status unknown, before falling into a coma the next instant.

She did not know how much of a shock those two sentences had caused Huo Si.

Perhaps not everyone who had read Douluo Continent knew Zhang Lexuan, but the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest and the Shrek Academy Inner Court were widely known.

The Star Dou Great Forest had no partitioned zones in the first Douluo Continent, and the third part went without saying, while the Shrek Inner Court was closely linked to Zhang Lexuan.

These three clues pointed to only one conclusion.

"Ten thousand years later, the Peerless Tang Sect era!"

"A hundred-thousand-year soul beast, Shrek Academy Inner Court disciples killed while hunting, Zhang Lexuan... damn it, I've been sent ten thousand years into the future."

"The Holy Spirit Cult's Supreme Elder Xuan Zi led the Inner Court disciples to hunt soul beasts, but got separated from them because he was busy eating. Unfortunately, the separated disciples encountered a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Of the twelve, eight died and four were severely injured!"

Huo Si's scalp tingled instantly. Was the Plane Star Gate a world for every soul ring?

Or did it possess the ability to traverse time and space?