"The boss, they've left the city."
At the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group's headquarters, a mercenary keeping watch hurried into the hall.
"Liu Erlong left through the east gate with two women. The man isn't with them, but there's another woman I haven't seen before. She's got a very curvy figure and is wearing the same black leather outfit."
Blood Wolf sat up straight in his tiger-skin chair, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.
"Heaven's helping us."
"You're sure? The man really didn't go with them?"
"Absolutely. There are only three women."
Poison Scorpion toyed with the dagger in his hand, a vicious grin spreading across his scarred face.
"Without that man whose strength we don't know, three little girls are nothing. We've got more than ten Soul Ancestors, plus the boss, a Soul Emperor. Taking them down will be a piece of cake."
Blood Wolf rose and tossed his tiger-skin cloak over his shoulders.
"Move out."
Outside Heaven Dou City's east gate,
Jiang Ce was walking along the main road with Liu Erlong, Ye Yingling, and Tang Yuehua.
Tang Yuehua's main body still hadn't gotten used to it. Jiang Ce had been putting her other body through its paces, leaving her with a slightly stiff gait.
Ye Yingling occasionally steadied her, quietly reminding her to relax and not tense up.
Tang Yuehua nodded in thanks.
Even so, she still felt utterly ashamed.
After all, her other self was being penetrated bare by her own teacher.
Less than five miles out of the city,
the terrain on either side of the main road gradually narrowed, and a dense forest spread out along the foot of the mountain.
Liu Erlong suddenly stopped.
She turned her head toward the forest, her eyes narrowing slightly.
With a wave of her hand, she condensed her soul power into a ball of flame.
"Senior sister?" Ye Yingling had just started to speak when the fireball in Liu Erlong's hand was already flying into the bushes beside the road.
The mercenaries hiding inside paled.
"Fall back!"
With a thunderous boom, flames burst outward, sending splintered wood and dirt flying in every direction.
Several screams came from behind the bushes. Seven or eight figures were hurled out by the shock wave, tumbling across the ground in a sorry heap.
Blood Wolf darted out from behind a thick old tree, his face livid. Wisps of smoke still rose from his tiger-skin cloak.
"You—"
He had barely managed to utter a single word when Liu Erlong was already in motion.
Blood Wolf instinctively released his Martial Soul—Iron-Backed Gray Wolf.
A level sixty-five Battle Soul Emperor, with defense and close-combat power that were both among the best at his level.
But Liu Erlong had already closed in on him.
She clamped both hands onto his shoulders, her fingers digging into the gaps around his shoulder blades like iron hooks, then wrenched outward with sudden force.
Riiip!
She tore both of Blood Wolf's arms clean off at the shoulders.
Splurt.
She casually tossed the severed limbs onto the roadside as blood gushed from his torn shoulder sockets.
Blood Wolf screamed in agony.
Then,
she kicked him twice, shattering his kneecaps. He dropped to his knees with a thud.
She grabbed his chin, twisted her fingers, and his jaw joint popped out of place.
The entire sequence happened in a flash.
Liu Erlong grabbed him by the nape and flung him to the roadside like a piece of trash.
The entire scene fell silent.
The vicious grin on Poison Scorpion's face was still frozen on his scarred features. The dagger he had toyed with for half his life clattered to the ground.
More than a dozen Soul Ancestor-level members had just revealed their Martial Souls, but now their feet seemed nailed to the spot.
Their leader was a level sixty-five Battle Soul Emperor, yet this woman had crippled all four of his limbs with her bare hands. What could a bunch of Soul Ancestors like them possibly do if they charged in?
Liu Erlong gave them no time to think.
Her figure became a bolt of lightning, darting through the forest.
Every time she stopped, bones cracked and someone let out a shrill scream.
Moments later,
Liu Erlong shook the blood from her hands, her expression cold.
A dozen or so corpses lay strewn across the road, and the air reeked of blood.
Ye Yingling was already used to scenes like this. She stood quietly to one side,
ready to cast a healing spell on her senior sister at any moment—though Liu Erlong had no need for one.
Tang Yuehua, however, was completely different.
She'd never even seen a chicken slaughtered in her entire life.
Now she stared at the pool of blood spreading across the ground, her face as pale as paper.
A mercenary at the Soul Ancestor level had been punched through the chest by Liu Erlong. His corpse lay less than three feet from Tang Yuehua, and his fingers were still twitching.
Tang Yuehua's stomach churned, her throat tightened, and she stood frozen in place, unable to move.
Then the black latex suit on her body suddenly tightened.
At that very moment, the tentacles on her other body performed a third-grade sword technique—
attacks coming simultaneously from above, the middle, and below.
The sensations of her main body and her other self overlapped. Fear and stimulation collided within a single consciousness, making her legs tremble violently as tears welled uncontrollably in her eyes.
"Teacher..."
Ye Yingling reacted in a flash, pulling a cork from her Storage Soul Tool and stuffing it into Tang Yuehua's mouth for her to bite down on.
There was no need to guess what their teacher was doing to Tang Yuehua's other body back at Moonlight Pavilion.
Liu Erlong stood on Blood Wolf's still-intact head, looking down into his terrified eyes.
With his jaw dislocated, Blood Wolf couldn't speak, but the shock and regret in his eyes made it clear what he wanted to ask—
What kind of fortuitous opportunity had you stumbled upon? How could you have gone from a Soul Elder to a monster capable of killing a Soul Emperor in an instant?
"What benefits did I come across?" Liu Erlong looked down at him from above, the corner of her mouth curling into a cold smile. "You'll never know."
Several thin strands extended from the black latex suit on her foot and burrowed into Blood Wolf's brain.
A moment later, Venom withdrew.
Liu Erlong applied a little force beneath her foot. With a muffled bang,
Blood Wolf's head burst open like a watermelon smashed by an iron hammer, spraying blood and brains across the ground.
Tang Yuehua nearly bit through the cork in her mouth.
"A bunch of trash, daring to block the road and rob people." Liu Erlong wiped the blood from her soles on the grass, then bent down to search the corpses.
Storage Soul Tools, purses, Soul Bone fragments, a few decent short blades—she stuffed them all into her own storage pouch.
People who'd known poverty wasted not a single hair.
Once she'd finished looting, she flicked her hand and sent out several golden flames,
burning the corpses and the entire patch of blood-soaked earth to cinders.
"Those guys were pretty straightforward. No grudges or entanglements—they just wanted to rob you of your money."
Liu Erlong snorted and shoved the last handful of coins she'd taken into her Soul Tool.
The black latex suit tightened again, earning it a glare from her.
"All right, let's go."
The four continued along the main road, their destination clear—the Star Dou Great Forest.
Liu Erlong was level fifty-nine, just one step away from level sixty.
For her Sixth Soul Ring, they had to find a Soul Beast worthy of it.
Jiang Ce's first choice had been the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
It was a top-tier Soul Beast with Behemoth blood,
possessing terrifying attack and defense. Most importantly, its right palm had a very high chance of producing a Soul Bone—
the Dark Gold Terrorclaw, powerful enough to rip a dragon to shreds.
And based on Liu Erlong's previous skill,
the Dragon Emperor Gaia Cannon,
he even suspected it might really produce something called a Dragon Beast Nemesis.
That would be a massive gain.
The reason the Soul Beasts of Douluo Continent had evolved into what they were today
ultimately came down to the Silver Dragon King sleeping beneath the Star Dou Great Forest.
The aura she gave off had mutated ordinary animals into Soul Beasts.
In other words,
nearly every Soul Beast on this continent carried at least a trace of dragon aura in its body.
The Dragon Beast Nemesis's suppression of dragon attributes would cover the entire Soul Beast system.
You say you're a dragon?
Then you're a dragon!
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