Teleportation, Teleportation, and More Teleportation

To successfully capture this Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast, Bibi Dong had come fully prepared.

Besides herself and the two Title Douluo, Chrysanthemum and Ghost, five Soul Douluo and ten Soul Sages stood behind her.

With such a lineup, let alone hunting a Transformed Soul Beast whose cultivation was only at the Soul Sage level, they would have the strength to fight even an untransformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast head-on.

Even a lion used its full strength to hunt a rabbit.

Bibi Dong would never make the same mistake of underestimating an enemy as Qian Xunji had.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei moved the instant Bibi Dong finished speaking.

Chrysanthemum Douluo's body became a streak of golden light, moving so fast it left a chain of afterimages in the air.

His Martial Soul, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, had already bloomed. Countless golden petals spun around him, each one sharp as a blade.

Ghost Douluo, meanwhile, completely merged into a pitch-black Ghost Shadow. The dark mass sped along the ground like a silently slithering venomous snake. Wherever it passed, grass and trees withered, and even the sunlight seemed to dim.

The two Title Douluo attacked at once, one from the left and one from the right.

Ah Rou took a deep breath.

She didn't retreat.

She didn't dodge.

Instead, she held Nezha in one arm and charged toward Yue Guan and Gui Mei—

Head-on.

A flicker of surprise crossed Yue Guan's eyes.

Had this Transformed Soul Beast gone mad?

A mere Soul Sage, facing the pincer attack of two Title Douluo, not only refused to flee or dodge but actually charged straight at them?

What else could that be but courting death?

He sneered. "Courting death."

The golden petals abruptly accelerated, turning into a sky-filling torrent of gold that descended upon Ah Rou.

Gui Mei's shadow closed in from the other side as well. Countless jet-black arms stretched from the darkness like ghost claws reaching out from hell, seeking to drag Ah Rou into endless darkness.

However, at the instant their attacks were about to meet—

Ah Rou's third Soul Ring lit up.

Third Soul Skill.

Teleportation.

Whoosh—

Ah Rou and Nezha vanished from where they stood.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei's attacks crashed together. Golden petals collided with black ghost claws in a piercing explosion, blasting a pit several meters wide between them.

But Ah Rou and Nezha were no longer there.

They had directly crossed Yue Guan and Gui Mei's blockade and appeared behind them.

And they didn't stop.

At the end of that direction stood Bibi Dong.

Holding Nezha, Ah Rou charged straight at Bibi Dong!

Everyone froze.

Neither Yue Guan nor Gui Mei had ever imagined that this Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's Soul Skill included an extraordinarily rare spatial ability like Teleportation.

The Soul Douluo and Soul Sages behind Bibi Dong had not expected this Transformed Soul Beast to dare charge directly at the Pope.

Even Bibi Dong herself showed a flicker of surprise in her eyes.

But she quickly recovered her composure, and even a trace of contempt curled her lips.

"Overestimating yourself."

A massive phantom of the Death Spider Emperor emerged behind her. Eight black spider legs extended from her back, dark green venom dripping from their tips. Each drop burned a scorched pit into the ground.

Her Soul Rings lit up as well: nine in all—two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red.

Bibi Dong raised a hand. Dense dark-green spider spikes condensed out of thin air before her, each one steeped in venom potent enough to make even a Title Douluo wary.

Then she gave a light wave.

The spikes poured toward Ah Rou and Nezha like a torrential rain.

They filled the sky, leaving nowhere to hide.

However—

At the instant before those spider spikes could strike Ah Rou and Nezha.

Ah Rou's third Soul Ring lit up again.

Teleportation!

Whoosh—

The two vanished into thin air once more.

Every dark-green spider spike missed, embedding itself in the ground where they had just stood. The poison corroded a deep pit so horrifying it made one's scalp tingle.

And Ah Rou and Nezha—

Appeared behind Bibi Dong.

Behind Bibi Dong, there was no one.

Because no one had expected Ah Rou to charge at Bibi Dong. Much less had anyone expected a mere Soul Sage to possess the ability to teleport consecutively.

Just like that, Ah Rou broke free from Spirit Hall's encirclement.

Holding Nezha, she ran madly toward the depths of Star Dou Forest without looking back.

Yue Guan's expression darkened to the extreme.

"Cunning Soul Beast!"

He cursed, turning into a streak of golden light as he shot after Ah Rou.

Gui Mei said nothing, but his body had already merged back into the shadows. He swept along the ground at high speed, not the slightest bit slower than Yue Guan.

Bibi Dong stood where she was, watching Ah Rou flee into the distance.

Her fury made her laugh instead.

She swept her cold gaze over every Soul Master present, her voice terrifyingly calm.

"What are you standing around for? Chase her!"

Before her words had even faded, her entire body had become a streak of dark-green light, racing after Ah Rou.

The five Soul Douluo and nearly ten Soul Sages snapped back to their senses. They released their Martial Souls and gave chase at full speed.

Ah Rou's strategy had never been to meet force with force.

Her Martial Soul was the Soft Bone Rabbit, not the Titan Giant Ape or the Sky Azure Bull Python—not a powerful Martial Soul suited for fighting enemies head-on.

Her Soul Skill configuration hadn't been designed for combat, either. Teleportation, Invincible Golden Body, Void... without exception, every one of these Soul Skills centered on survival and escape.

Her plan had been clear from the very beginning: use her charge at Bibi Dong to confuse everyone, create the only gap in the encirclement, then use consecutive Teleportations to tear through the line and flee at full speed back into the depths of Star Dou Forest.

As long as she could reach Da Ming and Er Ming, there would still be a chance of survival.

Ah Rou drove Teleportation to its limit.

The light of her third Soul Skill flashed over her body again and again. Each flash made her reappear dozens of meters away.

Within a few breaths, she had already covered several hundred meters.

Behind her, Spirit Hall's pursuers remained relentlessly on her trail.

Watching Ah Rou dart away like a rabbit, Yue Guan's feminine face revealed a cold smile.

"Trying to run?"

He snorted, and the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum in his hand suddenly bloomed.

Third Soul Skill: Dancing Lights.

Countless golden petals surged from the flower's core, wrapping around Yue Guan's body like fireflies. His speed instantly soared, and he became a golden streak that tore through the forest's shadows in pursuit of Ah Rou.

At the same time, Gui Mei moved as well.

Third Soul Skill: Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

His body completely merged into the darkness, becoming an indistinct black Ghost Shadow.

The Ghost Shadow glided soundlessly along the ground, so fast that it left only a blurred trace in the air.

One gold, one black.

One bright, one dark.

The two streaks weaved rapidly through the forest, and the distance between them and Ah Rou shrank at a visible rate.

A Title Douluo was still a Title Douluo. No matter how fast Ah Rou's Teleportation was, it couldn't make up for the absolute gap in cultivation.

Whoosh—

Yue Guan and Gui Mei appeared ahead of Ah Rou at the same time, one to her left and one to her right, cutting off her path.