Kill the Servant Father and Son

"Tai Long, watch out for fire."

Tai Nuo's pupils contracted as he shouted instinctively.

Zhou Tao had moved too quickly, catching them completely off guard.

This brat actually had a fire-element soul skill.

It was practically their natural counter.

Hearing his father's furious roar, every hair on Tai Long's body stood on end.

Without time to think, he rapidly retreated.

However, it was already too late.

Flame Dragon fire instantly wrapped around the right side of his body.

Tai Long hurriedly rolled across the ground, trying to put out the flames.

Tai Nuo stepped in front of him.

"Brat, you've got some skill, but it's not enough."

"I told you, I'm going to kill you."

Hearing that, Zhou Tao's expression remained unchanged.

"You're about to die, yet you're still talking big."

As his words fell, Zhou Tao's figure moved swiftly.

"Second Soul Skill, Golden Earth Dragon Array!"

Immediately afterward, dozens of Golden Ancient Trees rapidly appeared before Zhou Tao. Their roots spread swiftly and burrowed into the ground.

The Golden Ancient Trees grew rapidly, their countless aerial roots spreading out and swiftly surrounding the servant father and son.

Faced with the wildly spreading aerial roots, Tai Nuo moved at once.

"Third Soul Skill: Wild Stomp!"

The purple third spirit ring on Tai Nuo's body erupted with dazzling light.

His feet smashed fiercely into the Golden Ancient Trees before him.

His attack blasted a huge hole through the Golden Ancient Trees.

Golden fragments scattered everywhere, littering the ground.

"Hahaha, brat, your Martial Soul is utterly worthless."

Tai Nuo laughed wildly, his words filled with arrogance.

As long as he kept attacking, he would smash all of Zhou Tao's Golden Ancient Trees to pieces.

However, he had miscalculated.

The instant the Golden Ancient Trees exploded, they miraculously began to heal.

The upper half of the trunks that had exploded returned to their original state.

The entire process took only a few breaths.

"How is that possible?"

Tai Nuo was shocked.

The Golden Trees' regenerative ability was simply terrifying.

That punch had essentially done no damage at all.

And—

After that brief delay, the aerial roots of the Golden Ancient Trees had already completed their formation.

The area within several dozen meters was completely covered by aerial roots.

Dense aerial roots wrapped around Tai Nuo and Tai Long.

Alarm bells rang in Tai Nuo's heart.

He had never seen such a strange Spirit Master...

He furiously swung his iron fists, trying to smash the aerial roots winding toward him.

But even if he shattered ten aerial roots, over a hundred more would coil around him.

In just a few breaths, hundreds of aerial roots had wrapped around him.

His desperate swings of his iron fists merely slowed the process.

His son, Tai Long, had long since been restrained.

At this moment, Tai Nuo—

felt utterly humiliated.

Humiliated to the extreme.

Because every punch felt as though it had struck cotton.

"Destroy!"

Tai Nuo roared.

At the same time, he instinctively unleashed his fourth soul skill, swinging an incomparably powerful iron fist at Zhou Tao!

But Zhou Tao's target had never been Tai Nuo.

The moment Tai Nuo unleashed his soul skill—

the Ice Dragon King Spirit Bone in Zhou Tao's left hand activated. "Ice Dragon Breath!"

The next second—

Tai Long, wrapped up like a dumpling, was struck directly.

Within a few breaths, he turned into an ice crystal.

His entire body was frozen stiff, unable to move.

"No! My son!"

Seeing the terrifying Ice Dragon Breath, Tai Nuo's eyes turned bloodshot. He panted like a bull and instantly went berserk.

However—

Zhou Tao did not stop.

"First Soul Skill, Golden Blue Silver Overlord Spear!"

The sharp Golden Blue Silver Overlord Spear tore through space and instantly pierced Tai Long within the ice.

A hole the size of a bowl appeared atop Tai Long's head.

Blood sprayed out.

Tai Long died without any reaction.

"Tai Long!"

Tai Nuo's face flushed red as he roared.

The light around his fist became so intense it nearly solidified.

This punch!

It contained the pain of losing his son and a heart full of fury. Tai Nuo had gathered all his Soul Power into this punch.

This punch shattered more than thirty aerial roots in succession.

But it was still useless!

A strength-type Spirit Master fighting the Golden Ancient Tree aerial-root formation?

It was simply like punching cotton!

How could he fight?

Tai Nuo's full-force strike did indeed pierce through dozens of aerial roots.

It punched straight through them.

But—

what awaited him ahead was still even more aerial roots.

Thousands upon thousands of aerial roots.

And these aerial roots could regenerate at any time.

"The Great Strength Gorilla Martial Soul does have some use."

"Pure strength enhancement, stacked with so many Soul Rings, truly gives it considerable combat power."

"But no matter how great the strength, it can't match the growth speed of my Martial Soul."

"It is simply naturally countered."

Of course, this battle had also shown Zhou Tao how to improve things in the next stage.

That was to increase the toughness of the Golden Ancient Trees.

If the Golden Ancient Trees possessed endless vitality and the enemy could not sever them, wouldn't that make them invincible?

Zhou Tao's figure appeared behind Tai Nuo.

That mocking voice made Tai Nuo feel as though he had fallen into an ice pit.

"You dared to kill my son. The Strength Clan will hunt you to the ends of the earth."

Tai Nuo turned around and shattered more than ten tree roots, but it was still useless.

He could not even catch a glimpse of Zhou Tao.

It could only be said—

that a strength-type Spirit Master had no ability to fight back against Zhou Tao.

"Tai Nuo, you servant. You can die together with your little servant."

By then, Tai Nuo had been completely bound.

Zhou Tao silently arrived behind Tai Nuo.

A golden spear pierced through his back and heart.

Splat!

Blood sprayed everywhere!

Tai Nuo stared wide-eyed in terror, unable to believe what he was seeing.

His heart had been pierced through!

That meant the end of his life!

"My father is Tai Tan, the clan leader of the Strength Clan. He will find you and grind your bones to dust!"

Tai Nuo stopped struggling and spoke coldly.

"I know."

"There's no one in this alley."

"No one will know who killed you."

Zhou Tao walked in front of Tai Nuo and looked down into his eyes.

The light faded from Tai Nuo's eyes, and his swollen muscles returned to normal.

Tai Nuo was dead!

"After you die, I'll wipe out that pack of beasts in the Strength Clan."

"So your bunch of monkeys won't keep harming the Spirit Master World."

Standing between the two corpses, Zhou Tao lightly beckoned. Aerial roots wrapped around the two men's Soul Tools and delivered them into his hand.

Inside were Millennium Whale Rubber.

And three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

"You insisted on courting death. Now you've gotten your wish!"

Zhou Tao waved his hand and put away the Golden Ancient Trees.

Then a ball of blazing fire appeared in his hand, burning both corpses completely into ashes.

Then he scattered their ashes!

Leaving no trace!

Even—

the pits in the ground caused by their Martial Souls had been repaired.

Of course—

he had still left something behind for the Strength Clan.

After doing all this, Zhou Tao vanished into the darkness.

The next day.

Morning.

Tai Tan, who had just woken up, received terrible news.

"Old Clan Leader, the young master and the young young master... are missing!"

The old butler knelt trembling before Tai Tan, panic filling his heart.

"What?"