Tang Yuehua: Oh Ho Ho----

"Boss, they've left the city."

At the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group headquarters, the mercenary responsible for surveillance rushed into the main hall.

"Liu Erlong left through the East Gate with two women. That man isn't with them, but there's a new woman I haven't seen before. She has a smoking hot figure and is wearing the same black leather outfit."

Blood Wolf sat upright in his tiger-skin chair, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

"Heaven is helping me."

"Are you sure? That man really isn't following them?"

"Absolutely certain. It's just the three women."

Poison Scorpion toyed with the dagger in his hand, a sinister grin spreading across his scarred face.

"Without that man of unknown background, those three mere girls are as good as ours. With our dozen or so Spirit Ancestors and the boss, a Spirit Emperor, it'll be a piece of cake."

Blood Wolf stood up and threw his tiger-skin cloak over his shoulders.

"Move out."

Outside the East Gate of Heaven Dou City, Jiang Ce was traveling along the main road with Liu Erlong, Ye Yingling, and Tang Yuehua.

Tang Yuehua was still not quite accustomed to her physical form; since her other body was being put through its paces by Jiang Ce, her gait was somewhat stiff.

Ye Yingling supported her from the side from time to time, whispering reminders to relax her body and not to fight the tension.

Tang Yuehua nodded in thanks.

However, she still felt extremely ashamed.

After all, the other version of her was being... by her own teacher.

Less than five miles outside the city, the terrain on both sides of the main road gradually narrowed, and a dense forest spread out along the foot of the mountains.

Liu Erlong's footsteps suddenly came to a halt.

She tilted her head toward the dense forest, her eyes narrowing slightly.

With a wave of her hand, she condensed a ball of flame using her spirit power.

"Senior Sister?" Ye Yingling had just started to speak when the fireball in Liu Erlong's hand flew out, smashing into the bushes beside the road.

The mercenaries hiding inside turned pale with shock.

"Retreat!"

With a boom, the flames exploded, sending wood fragments and dirt flying in all directions.

Several screams erupted from behind the bushes as seven or eight figures were flipped out by the shockwave, rolling onto the ground in a pathetic heap.

Blood Wolf flashed out from behind an ancient tree as thick as a man's embrace, his face livid, wisps of smoke still rising from his tiger-skin cloak.

"You—"

He had barely uttered a single word before Liu Erlong moved.

Blood Wolf instinctively released his martial spirit—the Iron-Backed Gray Wolf.

As a level 65 Battle Spirit Emperor, his defensive and close-quarters burst capabilities were top-tier among his peers.

However, Liu Erlong had already lunged right in front of him.

She gripped his shoulders with both hands, her fingers embedding into the gaps of his shoulder blades like iron hooks, and exerted sudden force to pull outward.

Riiip!

Blood Wolf's two arms were ripped clean off at the shoulders by her raw strength.

Splurt.

She tossed the severed limbs to the side of the road, and blood gushed out from his torn shoulder sockets.

Blood Wolf shrieked in agony.

Immediately following this, she kicked his kneecaps, shattering them, and he collapsed onto his knees with a heavy thud.

She reached out, grabbed his chin, and twisted her knuckles; his jaw joint popped out of place with a sickening crack.

The entire sequence of movements happened in the blink of an eye.

Liu Erlong grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and tossed him to the side of the road like a piece of trash.

The entire scene fell into dead silence.

The sinister grin on Poison Scorpion's scarred face froze, and the dagger he had toyed with for half his life clattered to the ground.

The dozen or so Spirit Ancestor-level members who had just summoned their martial spirits felt as if their feet were nailed to the spot.

Their leader, a level 65 Battle Spirit Emperor, had been crippled by this woman with her bare hands—what could they, a group of Spirit Ancestors, possibly do if they charged?

Liu Erlong did not give them time to think.

Her figure transformed into a bolt of lightning, weaving through the dense forest.

Every pause was accompanied by the sound of shattering bones and a shrill, miserable scream.

A moment later, Liu Erlong shook the blood from her hands, her expression indifferent.

A dozen corpses lay scattered across the main road, and the air was thick with the heavy stench of blood.

Ye Yingling was long accustomed to such scenes and stood quietly to the side, ready to cast healing spells for her senior sister—though Liu Erlong had no need for them at all.

Tang Yuehua was completely different.

Having never even seen a chicken slaughtered in her life, she stared at the spreading pool of blood on the ground, her face as pale as paper.

A Soul Ancestor-level mercenary had been punched through the chest by Liu Erlong, his corpse lying less than three feet from her feet, his fingers still twitching.

Tang Yuehua's stomach churned violently, her throat tightened, and she froze in place, unable to move.

Then, the Black Latex Suit on her body tightened abruptly.

The tentacles on another clone happened to be executing a third-grade sword technique at that very moment—

Attacking the upper, middle, and lower paths simultaneously.

With the dual sensations of the main body and the clone overlapping, fear and stimulation collided within the same consciousness; her legs trembled violently, and tears welled up in her eyes uncontrollably.

"Teacher..."

Ye Yingling was quick-witted; she pulled a cork from her Storage Soul Tool and stuffed it into Tang Yuehua's mouth, forcing her to bite down on it.

There was no need to guess what kind of torment the teacher was putting the clone Tang Yuehua had left at the Moon Pavilion through.

Liu Erlong stepped on Blood Wolf's head, which was still intact, and looked down into his eyes, which were filled with terror.

Blood Wolf's jaw had been dislocated, leaving him unable to speak, but the shock and regret in his eyes made it clear what he wanted to ask—

What kind of fortuitous encounter had she experienced to transform from a mere Soul Elder into a monster capable of instantly killing a Soul Emperor?

"What kind of benefits did I encounter?" Liu Erlong looked down at him from her superior position, a cold arc forming at the corner of her mouth. "You will never know."

Thin filaments extended from the Black Latex Suit on her feet, crawling into Blood Wolf's brain.

A moment later, the Venom was retracted.

Liu Erlong applied a slight force with her foot, and with a dull thud, Blood Wolf's head burst open like a watermelon smashed by a sledgehammer, blood and brains splattering across the ground.

The cork in Tang Yuehua's mouth was nearly bitten through.

"A bunch of trash, daring to play highwayman." Liu Erlong wiped the blood from her soles on the grass and bent down to loot the corpses.

Storage Soul Tools, money pouches, soul bone fragments, and a few decent daggers were all stuffed into her own storage bag.

Someone who had known the fear of poverty would not waste a single hair.

Once the looting was finished, she raised her hand and flicked out several clusters of golden flames, Burning the corpses and the entire patch of blood-soaked soil into charred remains.

"These guys were straightforward enough; no entanglements or grudges, they just wanted to rob you of your money."

Liu Erlong snorted and tucked the last handful of looted gold coins into her Soul Tool.

The Black Latex Suit tightened again, earning an eye-roll from her.

"Alright, let's move."

The four of them continued along the main road, their goal clear—the Star Dou Great Forest.

Liu Erlong was at level fifty-nine, only one step away from level sixty, And for her sixth soul ring, she had to find a soul beast worthy of the slot.

Jiang Ce's initial idea was the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

It was a top-tier soul beast with the bloodline of a Behemoth, Possessing terrifying attack and defense, and most importantly, its right palm bone had an extremely high drop rate—

The soul bone, Dark Gold Terrorclaw, had power sufficient to tear apart a dragon.

Moreover, based on Liu Erlong's previous skill, The Dragon Emperor Gaia Cannon, He even suspected that it might truly be possible to create a so-called dragon-beast nemesis.

That would be a massive profit.

The reason why the soul beasts of the Douluo Continent had evolved into their current state, Ultimately, was because the Silver Dragon King lay sleeping deep beneath the Star Dou Great Forest.

The aura it emitted caused ordinary animals to mutate into soul beasts.

In other words, almost every soul beast on this continent possessed at least a trace of dragon essence flowing through its veins.

The Dragon Beast Bane's suppression of the dragon attribute would encompass the entire soul beast ecosystem.

I see that you are a dragon!

You are a dragon!