Taming

"Roar!"

Da Ming let out a howl of pain, his expression savage.

"Death God's Wail!"

Zhu Huang shouted softly, and his long blade slashed down again. A strange sound rang out from the void, and in an instant, the sky churned like black ink. Pitch-black raindrops, carrying the wails of ten thousand ghosts, were driven by the blade light as they crashed down overwhelmingly toward Da Ming and Er Ming.

Every drop of rain contained terrifying death power and spider venom. Wherever it passed, vitality was extinguished and the earth corroded. Da Ming and Er Ming instantly cried out in agony.

Their bodies were corroded until they were pitted and scarred all over. The venom and death power entered their bodies, wantonly destroying them from within, leaving both of them severely injured in an instant.

Er Ming had already been poisoned by the spider venom earlier, and now he could barely stand. The Titan's Wrath punch he had thrown had long since lost much of its power and was easily pierced through by a spider spear.

"No challenge at all. Even with the two of you working together, you still couldn't force out my strongest ultimate move."

Zhu Huang shook his head. It wasn't that Da Ming and Er Ming were weak; it was that he was too strong.

The strength of a rank ninety-eight Title Douluo completely crushed the two great soul beasts, each of whom was equivalent to a rank ninety-five Title Douluo. Defeating them was not difficult at all.

Roar!

Da Ming roared, and his massive body transformed into a streak of blue light. Within the blue light, it was as though a divine dragon coiled around him. In an instant, he swept through the void, wrapped around Zhu Huang, and tightened violently.

This was Da Ming's other ultimate technique, Azure Dragon Coil. The Sky Azure Bull Python possessed divine dragon bloodline, and when he used this ultimate skill, its might became even more formidable under the enhancement of that dragon blood. Anyone caught by him would immediately have their Soul Power sealed, their limbs constricted, and would no longer be able to break free. They could only be strangled to death alive.

A soul beast's body was terrifyingly powerful. If a human soul master were caught like this, the result would basically be shattered bones and a crushed body.

But Zhu Huang merely curved the corner of his mouth. First, he waved a hand, and a huge spiderweb enveloped Er Ming. Then he allowed the Sky Azure Bull Python to transform into a dragon and coil around him. No matter how much force Da Ming exerted, Zhu Huang remained completely unmoved.

Although he had transformed into a human, his body was that of a demon cultivator, even more formidable than a soul beast's. This move was a killing blow against human soul masters and even soul beasts, but against him, it was completely useless.

After quite a while, Da Ming had exhausted his strength and was trembling all over from fatigue. Just as he was preparing to fire an Annihilation Divine Thunder at close range, his neck suddenly tightened. Zhu Huang had grabbed him in his hand.

Zhu Huang exerted force with both hands. That terrifying power instantly squeezed the Sky Azure Bull Python's neck until it creaked. Da Ming's eyes bulged, and he roared toward the sky, groaning in suffocating agony.

"Do you submit?"

Zhu Huang said calmly, continuing to increase the strength in his hand as he fiercely choked Da Ming's neck.

Da Ming felt as though his neck would soon be snapped. When that happened, he would be a dead python. Fear surged through his heart.

"I submit. From now on, I am willing to serve you as my master, to go through water and fire for you, and never betray you."

After Da Ming finished saying those words, his entire body relaxed.

He had truly submitted. Zhu Huang's unfathomable strength made him understand that he was no match for him at all. Among soul beasts, the strong were revered. Acknowledging the other party as master was not something difficult to accept.

"Very good!"

Zhu Huang released his hand and, while he was at it, drew out the spider venom and death power from Da Ming's body before placing him on the ground.

Da Ming gasped for breath, his face filled with lingering fear.

On the other side, Er Ming was still struggling inside the spiderweb. Even though he possessed boundless strength, the web was incredibly elastic, tough beyond compare, and stuck to his body. No matter how much force he used, he could not tear it apart. Instead, it only tightened more and more, trapping him like a giant zongzi and cutting through his skin.

Even more spider venom and death power surged into his body. By now, Er Ming's head was muddled, the world spun around him, and his body was unbearably weak. With a boom, he collapsed to the ground.

"Er Ming, do you submit or not?"

"I... I submit too. Hurry up and get this damned spiderweb off me."

Er Ming's voice buzzed with a trace of weakness, and his expression revealed submission and fear.

Zhu Huang smiled lightly, waved his hand, and withdrew the spiderweb. He pressed his hand against Da Ming's head and eliminated the spider venom and death power.

Only after quite a while did the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape recover. They looked at each other, their expressions complicated.

The two soul beasts struggled to kneel on the ground, imitating humans as they paid respects and said, "Greetings, our emperor!"

Zhu Huang accepted their salute calmly and helped the two of them up. "From now on, we're all brothers. If we stand shoulder to shoulder, we'll definitely be able to hold up a sky for soul beasts and make humans understand our strength."

Er Ming scratched his head and chuckled. Da Ming also smiled.

Zhu Huang grabbed the little rabbit beside him and said with a smile, "Since you're awake, stop pretending to be unconscious. The two of them have already submitted to me. What about you? Do you submit?"

"I..."

Xiao Wu quietly opened her crimson eyes. Her vision was still a little chaotic, and her mind, which had suffered a backlash from spiritual power, was still in a mess. She said weakly, "I submit too!"

"Hahaha..."

Zhu Huang could not help laughing. He placed the little rabbit on the ground and said, "Since we'll all be on the same side from now on, I'll pass on to you the secret method I created myself. This is also a cultivation technique. It can transform your Soul Power qualitatively, make you stronger, and you won't have to worry about the heavenly tribulation that comes once every hundred thousand years. You'll only need to undergo one transformation tribulation."

Naturally, what he intended to pass on to the three of them was not the Heavenly Demon God-Creation Art, but a cultivation technique derived from it. It was likewise a demon cultivation method, but after cultivating it, they would forever be controlled by the person who cultivated the Heavenly Demon God-Creation Art. They would have no way to resist, nor any way to betray him.

"Thank you, our emperor!"

Da Ming and Er Ming's eyes revealed anticipation, while Xiao Wu's eyes also showed longing and excitement. Gratitude toward Zhu Huang even rose in her heart.

Under both grace and might, the three soul beasts were now thoroughly convinced and loyal, their loyalty nearly maxed out.

Zhu Huang immediately passed on to the three of them a cultivation technique called the "Demon God Art." This so-called Demon God Art was used by the Demon Emperor to cultivate Demon God subordinates, and one could cultivate it all the way to becoming a Demon God.

And the might of a Demon God had long since surpassed the upper limit of Douluo Continent by who knew how much.

When Zhu Huang taught it, he converted the technique into language the three soul beasts could understand. Even so, it was still as if they were listening to a heavenly scripture, their eyes filled with confusion.

Zhu Huang pressed a hand to his forehead. Although these soul beasts were not necessarily less intelligent than humans, their learning ability truly needed improvement. Teaching them was honestly exhausting.

Fortunately, Zhu Huang was in no hurry, so he simply called over the Death Spiders under his command as well and taught them together.

The hundred-year and thousand-year Death Spiders were one thing; they were not very intelligent and lived in a muddled haze. But the five or six ten-thousand-year ones all possessed intelligence no inferior to humans, and were fully capable of cultivating the Demon God Art.

It took a full month or so, but the group of Soul Beasts barely managed to get started with cultivation. Fortunately, the initial stage was not all that complicated, and nothing was likely to go wrong.

However, the Demon God Art was, after all, far inferior to the Genesis Art. Moreover, these Soul Beasts' learning ability, comprehension, and cultivation aptitude were also far below Zhu Huang's.

As a result, if they wanted to convert all their Soul Power into demon power and then successfully take human form, Zhu Huang estimated that it would probably take two or three years.

During this time, Zhu Huang did not plan to just sit around doing nothing. They were not the only four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

He did not dare provoke those fierce beasts beneath the Lake of Life for the time being, but he intended to subdue the remaining Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, as well as the ones on the Arctic Ice Plains, one by one.

In the process, he could also search for Xiao Wu's mother. Perhaps there was still time to save her.