Tearing Apart the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, Absorbing the Ninth Soul Ring!

"Soul Ring?"

Xiong Jun's elder brother, the Malevolent Beast King that had lived for 530,000 years, seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world.

Its sinister crimson eyes locked onto the figure in green standing amid the sea of flames. Its thick, low roar made the earth tremble.

"Human, you are courting death!"

Before its words had even faded, it moved!

There were no flashy soul skills, only the purest, most extreme power!

Its enormous body transformed into a black-gold bolt of lightning that tore through the heavens. That Dark Gold Terrorclaw, more vicious and far larger than Xiong Jun's, carried enough terrifying force to shatter mountains as it crashed down upon the Mysterious Person's head!

Before that claw, space itself was as fragile as paper, torn open into one black tear after another!

Yet facing this world-ending strike, the green-robed figure did not even raise an eyelid.

He merely lifted his left hand and flicked the multicolored fire lotus floating above the Furnace Martial Soul.

"Too noisy."

Whoosh!

The seemingly dazzling, beautiful fire lotus instantly turned into a streak of light and flew toward the Dark Gold Terrorclaw that blotted out the sky.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

Only a scalp-numbing sizzling sound.

Before the horrified eyes of countless people in the Chat Group, the tiny multicolored fire lotus, upon touching the Dark Gold Terrorclaw, was like a red-hot iron plunged into butter!

Within the flames seemed to lie a vast starry sky!

As the power of the stars flowed, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw—said to be able to tear through anything, even space itself—began melting away at a visible rate!

"Ahhh—!!!"

A miserable scream, so piercing it hardly sounded like something a living creature could make, rang through the skies!

Xiong Jun's elder brother frantically tried to pull back its claw, but the starry fire lotus clung tightly to its palm like a parasite on bone, madly scorching its flesh and Soul Power!

In just one breath!

Its proud right claw was burned through, leaving a hole clear from front to back. Charred flesh curled outward, exposing even the ghastly white bones within!

"Th-this is impossible!"

For the first time, terror appeared in Xiong Jun's savage bear eyes.

No one knew better than it how terrifying its elder brother's defenses were! That was the supreme body that had once clashed head-on with Beast God Di Tian without suffering the slightest damage!

And now, it had been gravely wounded by a human's casual attack?!

"Holy shit! That's insane!"

"What kind of flame is that? Even a 500,000-year Beast King's defenses are like paper before it?"

"The aura is off the charts! This ancestor is too damn cool!"

The human Soul Masters in the Chat Group instantly erupted!

Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian's golden dragon eyes suddenly contracted as he stared fixedly at the Sky Curtain. A feeling of foreboding rose within him.

This power... why did it feel so familiar?!

Just then, a sudden change occurred!

"Roar!!!"

Xiong Jun's severely wounded elder brother had completely fallen into madness.

It threw back its head and roared. Its entire body suddenly swelled, while streaks of blood-red patterns emerged beneath its black-gold fur.

Immediately afterward, resentment and deathly energy so dense they could not be dispersed surged from its body into the heavens!

Countless twisted, anguished human soul phantoms, filled with venomous hatred, poured wildly out of its body like a burst dam!

These souls included the old and young, men and women, and even soldiers clad in armor! They were densely packed, numbering in the thousands upon thousands!

They gathered into a gray-black storm of souls that enveloped Xiong Jun's elder brother, and its wounds began healing at a visible rate!

This was how Malevolent Beast Kings cultivated—by devouring living beings and refining souls!

The tens of thousands of humans it had devoured had all become part of its power!

Seeing this, the green-robed Mysterious Person, who had still seemed somewhat playful until now, instantly darkened.

The last trace of amusement vanished from his deep eyes, replaced by an icy killing intent capable of freezing souls!

"So you are a Malevolent Beast King that cultivates by devouring my human brethren..."

"You have crossed my bottom line."

"You must die!"

Boom—!!!

A terrifying aura ten, a hundred times more violent than before erupted explosively from the green-robed figure's body!

The Furnace Martial Soul behind him shone brilliantly. The starry flame was no longer a dazzling blend of colors, but turned into a deep, dark black hole that seemed capable of swallowing all light!

The terrifying pressure descended upon reality through the Sky Curtain!

Spirit Hall, Worship Hall.

"Thud!" "Thud!"

Other than Qian Daoliu, seated cross-legged in the foremost position, and Golden Crocodile Douluo in the second, all the other Title Douluo-level worshippers' legs gave out at once, and they fell uncontrollably to their knees!

Their Martial Souls were wailing, and their souls were trembling!

"Th-this is... divine might?!" A Level 96 worshipper spoke in a trembling voice, his face filled with terror and disbelief.

Qian Daoliu abruptly rose to his feet, staring at the Sky Curtain as he cried out, "No! This is not divine might! This is... the power of a human who has cultivated a force to its very limit, transcending the laws themselves!"

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin's face was deathly pale. The Seven Kill Sword in his hand hummed without cease. Only by exhausting all his Soul Power did he barely keep himself from kneeling, though his legs had already begun trembling uncontrollably.

Bone Douluo had long since collapsed to the floor, his face full of shock.

Skywater Academy.

Lin Xuan looked at the soul storm on the Sky Curtain, like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with eyes cold to the extreme.

He had never believed that Soul Beasts and humans could coexist peacefully twenty thousand years ago.

Perhaps the Three-Eyed Golden Lion could, and ordinary Soul Beasts could too, but without a Soul Spirit system, and without humans becoming powerful to a certain degree, humans and Soul Beasts were destined to fight to the death.

Humans needed Soul Rings to grow stronger, so humans killing Soul Beasts was only natural!

And if Soul Beasts dared to treat humans as food, they were courting death!

In Lin Xuan's eyes, until Soul Beasts had been slaughtered into an endangered protected species, they should never dream of discussing equal status with humanity!

Lin Xuan was human. His stance would forever be on humanity's side!

It was a simple and pure principle!

On the Sky Curtain.

Feeling that terrifying killing intent capable of incinerating all things, Xiong Jun's elder brother finally realized what kind of terrifying existence it had provoked!

A final trace of clarity emerged within its mind, which had been consumed by madness and brutality.

It suddenly turned toward Xiong Jun behind it and used all its strength to release an earth-shaking roar:

"Little brother! Run! Take the Imperial Auspicious Beast back to Star Dou! Run!!"

"I'll... tear this human apart!!!"

Before its words ended, it ignited every bit of soul power, resentment, and life essence it had accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years in that instant!

Its body transformed into a massive black-gold meteor, dragging a roaring storm of souls as it slammed toward the green-robed figure who had become the god of death in its eyes!

This was the strongest, and final, strike of its life!

The green-robed figure remained expressionless and merely slowly raised his right hand.

That palm, burning with black starry flames, gently closed around the world-destroying black-gold meteor.

"Annihilate."

Boom----------------!!!

At that moment, the entire Sunset Forest seemed to have been erased.

There was no sound, no light.

There was only a pure nothingness that devoured everything.

Tang Potian only felt his vision go dark before he completely lost consciousness.

Who knew how much time passed.

When he finally struggled to open his eyes again, the sight before him left him standing there in stunned silence.

For a hundred miles around him, not a blade of grass remained!

A layer of earth had been forcibly shaved away, leaving behind a scorched black expanse of glass.

The sea of fire in the sky had long since dispersed, revealing cold moonlight.

Not far away, a huge, savage bear head as large as a mountain lay silently upon the vitrified ground. Those crimson eyes had long lost all vitality.

Beside that enormous bear head, the green-robed figure still stood with his back to Tang Potian, hands clasped behind him, his robes entirely spotless.

It was as though the world-ending battle just now had nothing to do with him.

Just then, Tang Potian's pupils abruptly contracted.

He saw nine Soul Rings slowly rise behind that person.

And the last one...

What a terrifying Soul Ring it was!

Its entire body was an eerie dark red, wrapped with no fewer than nine dazzling golden patterns!

Nine golden patterns!

He had succeeded!

He had truly slain a 530,000-year Malevolent Beast King and absorbed it as his... ninth Soul Ring!