Slaying the Dragon Beast Alone
One day later, in the inner area of the "Star Dou Great Forest", on a rocky desert.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh—!!!"
Amidst the whistling wind, a cyan-gold figure, like a cheetah, pounced on a "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast".
Standing over three meters tall and with a head and tail spanning over ten feet, the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" was extremely agitated at this moment, roaring repeatedly. Its fiery red scales seemed to be burning, emitting a crimson light, and the black lines on its body were as terrifying and ferocious as charred charcoal!
"One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" looks awesome!
As a noble dragon-born Soul Beast with the bloodline of "Fire Dragon", the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" has a cultivation of 18,000 years, and its combat power is no less than that of the "Green Ridge Tiger King" that occupies the mountains next door, which has a cultivation of 23,000 years.
Over thousands of years, the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" has encountered many human Soul Master, but it has never encountered one like the one before it.
In the eyes of the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast," human Soul Master are almost synonymous with weakness. Apart from their tender flesh and relatively high energy content, they are no different from the Soul Beast in its territory, such as the "Fanged Pig," "Giant Roar Rabbit," and "Green-Maned Beast," which serve as its food.
Of course, over the years, it has also encountered human Soul Master with extremely powerful combat abilities. But almost every time, it was able to sense the formidable aura emanating from its opponent in advance, thus retreating beforehand to avoid battle.
But this human Soul Master in front of me, whose Soul Power fluctuations are not very strong, is actually able to unleash such powerful strength. He is too cunning!
It's even more cunning than that ten-thousand-year-old "Moon Shadow Bei" that disguised itself as having a thousand-year cultivation level three hundred years ago!
The "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" vowed that after it defeated the human Soul Master in front of it, it would devour the opponent's head only after chewing up the ten-thousand-year-old "Moon Shadow Bei"!
Unfortunately, the human Soul Master in front of him was not only extremely fast and agile, although not as fast as the ten-thousand-year-old "Moon Shadow Bei", but also no less than the eight- or nine-thousand-year-old "Wind Shadow Leopard". The defensive power of the metal armor on his body was also comparable to the ten-thousand-year-old "Black Water Turtle" carapace. This made the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast's " idea of emulating the battle three hundred years ago and wearing down the opponent by exchanging wounds a pipe dream.
What made the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" even more distressed was that the opponent's martial Martial Soul was extremely powerful, and every time it struck its body, it left a wound that caused it excruciating pain.
When the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast," bleeding profusely, tried to escape, it despairingly discovered that it no longer had the strength to flee. It could only manage a final, mournful cry before its head was severed.
"Huff—! Huff—! Huff—!..."
Beneath the visor, Yang Shelly gasped for breath. The sweat that had been contained suddenly gushed out as her mind relaxed, soaking the clothes inside the "Azure Wood Battle Armor".
Despite catching her breath, Yang Shelly didn't hesitate for a moment. She immediately stepped forward and put the severed head of the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" into the "Active Storage Bracelet" that Ling Yi had specially prepared for her.
Turning her head to glance at a spot outside the Gobi Desert, Yang Shelly gathered her remaining Soul Power, activated the speed-boosting Soul Guidance Array on her "Azure Wood Battle Armor" boots, and ran upstream into the rocky stream without looking back.
A few breaths later, two tall figures emerged from behind a large tree, staring blankly in the direction Yang Shelly had left.
"Third Uncle~"
Woma's face was filled with shock. As if in a dream, he looked at Zhang Ji beside him and asked almost in a daze, "Are all members of the [Breaking Clan] this strong?"
That's an 18,000-year-old dragon-blooded Soul Beast, the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast"!
Let alone when Woma was still Soul King, even now that he has absorbed the "Six-Armed Demon Bear" Soul Ring and advanced to Soul Emperor, he wouldn't dare say that he could kill that "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" in one go!
"They're all this strong?" Zhang Ji rolled his eyes at his nephew, his shock no less than his nephew's. He said irritably, "What are you thinking? If they were all this strong, how could they have become an affiliated clan of the Clear Sky Sect?"
"I've dealt with the [Breaking Clan] before. Take the previous clan leader, Yang Zhenyue, the father of the Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang. He should be Soul Douluo like me now. Back when I was Soul King, he was also Soul King. I fought with him... cough!"
"Huh?" Woma looked surprised and immediately asked curiously, "Third Uncle, who won?"
Zhang Ji ignored his nephew's curiosity and continued, "Anyway, Yang Zhenyue, who was at the Soul King realm back then, wasn't as fierce as that girl just now!"
Woma
Glancing sideways at her third uncle, and considering the need to save face for him and to avoid physical harm to herself, Woma wisely refrained from pursuing the previous question.
He then asked, "Then, Third Uncle, should we still follow her to protect her?"
Zhang Ji was troubled by this problem.
He had seen the look in Yang Shelly's eyes before she left; she seemed to be very wary of the uncle and nephew.
Zhang Ji considered turning around and leaving with his eldest nephew out of the forest, but when he thought of Ling Yi, who had been kidnapped by the "Titan Giant Ape," and Yang Shelly, who was now prepared to fight to the death, he became conflicted.
He wondered if he and Yang Shelly had worked together when the "Titan Giant Ape" appeared, would they have been able to rescue Ling Yi?
After all, judging from the situation at the time, it seemed that the "Titan Giant Ape" was just passing by, not even glancing at them, and casually grabbed the metal ball where Ling Yi was hiding before turning around and leaving.
Perhaps, if Ling Yi hadn't taken out that big metal ball and hidden it inside, he might not have been kidnapped?
Zhang Ji thought to himself.
Although he knew that if Ling Yi hadn't entered the metal sphere, he would have been more likely to be crushed to death when the "Titan Giant Ape" descended from the sky and crushed him.
A metal sphere capable of withstanding Power Attack System Eighth Soul Skill, leaving only a trace; armor that allows Soul Ancestor to contend with a ten- Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast; Innate Domain that allows one to survey the surrounding area for dozens of miles...
It must be said that the more Zhang Ji interacted with Ling Yi, the more "surprises" he discovered in Ling Yi that overturned his previous understanding.
Someone like that shouldn't die here so easily, right?
Thinking of this, Zhang Ji gritted his teeth and said to Woma, "Let's go! Follow them, but don't get too close. Keep your distance so that the girl doesn't misunderstand."
If a young Soul Ancestor in her early twenties dares to face the "Titan Giant Ape" head-on, how could Old Zhang, Power Attack System Soul Douluo, a high-ranking member of the Spirit Hall, and the vice-commander of the Temple Guardian Knight Corps," possibly back down?!
Meanwhile, more than ten miles away.
Yang Shelly followed the Gobi Desert to the upper reaches of the stream and stopped in front of a large blue stone that was more than two meters high and three meters in diameter.
Looking around, Yang Shelly sensed the surroundings with her enhanced spiritual awareness but found no aura. She then took out a Hoe from her Storage Soul Tool and with a single Hoe, lifted a square patch of grass about a meter in size in front of the large blue stone.
Then, he quickly dug a pit, jumped down into it, and continued digging, using his Storage Soul Tool to collect the soil and stones as he dug.
In less than five minutes, under Yang Shelly's powerful strength, a three-meter-deep hole with a ground opening only one meter in diameter was formed.
Carefully cover the turf and activate the life force of the "Blue Silver Grass" within the "Azure Wood Battle Armor" to slightly encourage the growth of the grass on the turf, allowing the grass roots to grow and spread, connecting with the surrounding land.
In the pitch-black cave, Yang Shelly took out soil and stones from her Storage Soul Tool to fill in the area near the ground and continued digging downwards.
When Zhang Ji and his nephew Woma caught up to this area, they had no idea that ten meters below a large blue stone, there was a secret chamber supported by metal plates on all four sides.
After activating the forty-eight metal plates that were assembled on all four sides, the Soul Guidance Array, which had the effects of concealing one's aura and soundproofing, allowed Yang Shelly's tense mind to relax, and she immediately slumped down on the cold, hard metal ground.
Only then did Yang Shelly have time to check her own condition.
That's terrible!
Even though the Soul Guidance Array composed of eighteen "Vitality Blue Silver Grass" inside the "Azure Wood Battle Armor" was constantly casting the "Soul Skill: Endless Life" on Yang Shelly, her body was still in a terrible state.
His right hand was shattered, only held together by the skin and flesh. He had unleashed his Soul Skill beyond his limits, with 80% of his meridians on the verge of collapse. He had also overloaded himself with multiple advanced versions of "Beast Martial Soul Xingyi Fist Soul: Xingyi Fist Stance," tearing 90% of his muscle groups apart. Three of his ribs were broken, barely coming back together thanks to the nourishment of life force. His entire body was riddled with bone fractures, ruptured blood vessels, and bruises everywhere...
While the "Azure Wood Battle Armor" offers strong defense and can reduce kinetic energy shocks, there is a limit to how much it can reduce them.
It can be said that Yang Shelly used all her skills to hunt down the 18,000-year-old "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" on her own, relying on the amplification of the "Azure Wood Battle Armor" and fighting desperately, but in the end she only achieved a pyrrhic victory.
In fact, if Yang Shelly had found an opportunity to activate "Starry Sky Fireworks" during the battle, with the terrifying destructive power of that space-shattering ability, she might not have been able to kill the "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast" without taking any damage, but at least she wouldn't have been injured so badly.
Unfortunately, "Starry Sky Fireworks" was Yang Shelly's trump card, a grand feast reserved for "Titan Giant Ape," which she was unwilling to waste on the mere "One-Horned Flame Dragon Beast."
To be continued tomorrow, goodnight everyone~