How Did You Learn Third Brother's Secret Technique?

How dare you! Duke Long immediately moved to attack, but Zhao Wuji instantly stopped him. Inside, he was groaning bitterly. He had just fought the Titan Giant Ape, and right now, he could not even defeat Chao Tianxiang, much less all three grandparents and granddaughter together.

"I already held back. Give this to her." Tang San spoke coldly as he tossed a pill toward Meng Yiran.

"This is an antidote pill. I fought the Man-Faced Demon Spider earlier, and its venom got on my hands. If I had competed with her in soul power, once her soul power started circulating, the poison would spread through her entire body. Her condition would certainly not have been pretty." Tang San gave a cold explanation. He truly had no favorable impression of these three.

He had never cared about female beauty, much less when these three had been throwing their weight around and bullying others.

Duke Long immediately stepped forward to examine his granddaughter. Seeing her clutching her stomach in agony after taking the antidote pill, he was about to lash out.

"To detoxify, the poison naturally has to be expelled. Just find her a place to relieve herself a couple of times, and she'll be fine." As Tang San spoke, he had already sat beside the Man-Faced Demon Spider's soul ring and begun absorbing it.

Seeing his granddaughter blush furiously, Duke Long could only let it go.

"Fine, very fine, Tang San. This old man will remember this!"

After leaving behind that threat, he fled at high speed with Snake Woman and his granddaughter.

Elsewhere, after switching places completely with Huo Yuhao, Zhu Zhuqing finally brought the horse under control following a chaotic struggle.

Looking at the boundary marker standing on the unfamiliar official road, Zhu Zhuqing was so shocked that she could not utter a word.

She hurriedly took out the map from her portable storage soul tool and examined it.

"This is practically a miracle. I wonder how he's doing." Zhu Zhuqing was overwhelmed with worry.

She was actually at the border of the Sylvester Kingdom now. Crossing the distance of nearly two provinces had taken no more than the blink of an eye.

Zhu Zhuqing could not help tightening her grip around the completely shattered necklace in her palm.

The sapphire-blue Light Goddess Butterfly wings had broken into pieces. Even their once-glimmering material had turned dull and gray, clearly having exhausted all their energy in the earlier teleportation.

Combined with her current situation, this skill was most likely one that swapped her position with the young man's.

Thinking of Xiao Wu's murderous gaze and the mountain-like Titan Giant Ape, Zhu Zhuqing wanted to rush back immediately. Yet when she looked at the dark official road, her steps could only come to a halt.

Reality was cruel. Never mind when she could return—even if she did return, what could she do? Her strength was too weak. Only a Title Douluo could contend with a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

And the young man was now deep within the Star Dou Great Forest. Zhu Zhuqing could only pray that he would create another miracle.

As for whether the young man would be buried in the jaws of soul beasts, Zhu Zhuqing did not dare think about it, nor did she want to.

When the Titan Giant Ape had suddenly attacked earlier, she had lost nearly all her luggage. It was the middle of the night, so Zhu Zhuqing could only untie the luggage hanging from the horse and wrap herself in a blanket.

Then, in an inner luggage pouch near the horse, she felt a simple, pure-gold waist token.

A bright character for Heaven was engraved on the token, and faint energy fluctuations emanated from it.

Zhu Zhuqing was startled again when she saw the token. The Dai and Zhu families had intermarried for generations. As daughters of the Zhu family were candidates to become imperial consorts, they naturally received much specialized education, including how to recognize all kinds of tokens.

She recognized this token. It was the personal token of the Heaven Dou Empire's crown prince. This crown prince was said to be the most capable member of the entire Heaven Dou imperial family, and only those who had earned his recognition could receive his personal token.

"He's actually on good terms with the Heaven Dou crown prince? Perhaps I can wait for him in Heaven Dou." Zhu Zhuqing's heart trembled uncontrollably.

Because of her previous martial soul fusion with the young man, she could no longer fuse with Dai Mubai. Moreover, the young man's martial soul was not the Evil-Eyed White Tiger. If things were handled properly, she could completely avoid participating in the Star Luo Imperial House's family struggle, just like her third sister.

The reason she had still gone to Shrek before was because she knew her strength was too weak. To the young man, she would only be a burden. Shrek had good teachers and was nearby, making it the perfect place for her to grow safely.

But she obviously could not return to Shrek now. Rather than that, she might as well use this opportunity to leave directly.

As she thought this, Zhu Zhuqing's heart grew increasingly heated, and her fingers unconsciously clenched tighter. Then a sharp pain in her palm reminded her that everything she was thinking was merely wishful thinking. That girl named "Qiu Xue" was the person the young man held closest to his heart. Even in his faintest sleep-murmurs, Zhu Zhuqing could sense the deep emotions within them.

She had previously thought that "Qiu Xue" was the owner of this necklace, but the young man's later attitude had made her reject that idea.

Zhu Zhuqing did not believe that the young man was unaware of this soul tool's function.

She had once thought that the fifteen seconds of Invincible Golden Body were this item's limit, but she had never expected its true life-saving measure to be the final teleportation.

Of course, Zhu Zhuqing had no way of knowing how much thought Huo Yuhao had put into crafting this soul tool. At that time, he had been filled with the most sincere feelings for Tang Wutong. Since it was a gift for her, it naturally had to be what he considered the very best.

It had been during the war between the Three Douluo Kingdoms and the Sun Moon Empire. To prevent another incident of nine cuts and eighteen wounds, Huo Yuhao had given this Red Dust Blessing its most formidable modification: Darknorth Substitution, capable of covering nearly half the continent. And the object exchanged was himself.

"Perhaps there's a corner of your heart that belongs to me." Zhu Zhuqing comforted herself this way. Though the young man seemed somewhat cold in his words, his actions had never been cold. They had entrusted their lives to one another; she should be more proactive too.

Time passed second by second. Huo Yuhao sat in meditation until the rosy clouds rose on the horizon. He opened his eyes just in time to absorb the first wisp of purple qi between heaven and earth.

Xiao Wu had long since awakened. Looking at Huo Yuhao, who seemed like a demon god before her, she was filled with terror.

"How did you learn Third Brother's secret technique?" The earlier battle remained vivid in her mind. That had clearly been Third Brother's Grasping the Crane, Seizing the Dragon. Even the way he had absorbed the purple qi from the horizon just now was exactly like what Third Brother did every morning.

"Since you're awake, condense your third soul ring." Huo Yuhao ordered.

Xiao Wu instinctively wanted to resist, but the small blade hanging before her eyes forced her to resign herself to it.

She had not forgotten how decisively that blade had sliced open Er Ming's finger earlier. The defenses of a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape could not be broken by just any weapon, much less her current self.

"If you don't untie me, I can't condense a soul ring at all." Xiao Wu twisted her body, doing her best to appear weak and vulnerable.

Huo Yuhao remained unmoved. He had never seen how soul beasts condensed soul rings by themselves.

Xiao Wu was a precious specimen. He could not give up on her.

"If you're lying, I wouldn't mind killing the rabbit and taking its bones directly." As he spoke, Huo Yuhao reached out toward Xiao Wu.