The threads Brother Sky Dream spat out had remained undamaged even within the Temporal Turbulence. How could Xiao Wu possibly break free from them?
Yet Huo Yuhao merely undid a simple slipknot, and Xiao Wu twisted her body free from within. Seeing how utterly unguarded Huo Yuhao appeared, her pink eyes lit up as she raised a hand to grab the small knife flashing with an eerie blue glow.
"You don't even have a single soul ring. You're only throwing your weight around because of that little knife. Once I get hold of it, you're finished," Xiao Wu said excitedly.
But how could the Ghost Sculpture let a little rabbit catch it so easily?
The eerie blue blade immediately began gliding along Xiao Wu's body at incredible speed, making it impossible for her to catch.
"Don't make me say it a second time. Condense your soul ring." Huo Yuhao's eyes flashed as Divine Slaughter's Domain condensed into a single beam and enveloped Xiao Wu, instantly stiffening her entire body.
Bone-piercing cold rose from the soles of her feet, and her soul seemed to freeze. The last time she had felt such killing intent was when that woman had hunted her mother. Was she now going to follow in her mother's footsteps?
At that moment, the Ghost Sculpture swept across her cheek, its sharp edge leaving a streak of blood beside it. Her beautiful large eyes nearly brimmed with tears, and Huo Yuhao's body stiffened as he looked into them.
The mother and daughter resembled each other most in those eyes...
"Three strikes and you're out. At least before you reach maturity, I won't kill you." Huo Yuhao withdrew his killing intent and spoke with his gaze lowered slightly.
Hearing that, Xiao Wu shuddered again, and the atmosphere fell into a deadlock.
After a long while, once she had confirmed that he truly would not kill her for the time being, Xiao Wu barely managed to calm herself. Tang San must be searching everywhere for her in the Star Dou Great Forest. Thinking of the dangers Tang San might encounter made her panic.
She had no choice. Since she could not escape anyway, she might as well strengthen herself first. Perhaps there was still a sliver of hope.
With that thought, Xiao Wu sat cross-legged and adjusted her breathing. Her hands formed orchid-finger seals, like Guanyin seated upon a lotus, while a string of strange sounds came from her mouth.
Huo Yuhao listened carefully. They sounded like rabbit cries, yet also like some ancient sacrificial chant.
As Xiao Wu chanted, her eyes completely turned red. A massive phantom of a Soft Bone Rabbit formed behind her, while two yellow soul rings appeared around her body and slowly revolved.
Then a faint red glow spread out from her body. Rather than dispersing, the red light gradually took on a purple hue, and before long, a purple soul ring slowly took shape.
"Before transformed soul beasts reach their sixth soul ring, they can grant their own soul rings. You've already wasted the first two. Spread your hundred-thousand-year cultivation as evenly as possible among the soul rings that follow," Huo Yuhao ordered.
The energy in soul rings produced by a transformed soul beast had belonged to the soul beast in the first place, so this should not have been difficult.
After that, Huo Yuhao said nothing more and simply waited quietly.
Xiao Wu remained seated without moving, but her face gradually turned pale. The purple soul ring that had already formed also began to deepen in color.
Second by second, time passed. At last, once its color had deepened to a certain point, the soul ring completely settled around Xiao Wu. Then the three soul rings revolving around her, the Soft Bone Rabbit phantom, and the red glow were all drawn back into her body.
Xiao Wu slumped weakly to the ground, pale-faced and clearly suffering from excessive mental exhaustion.
"Your third soul ring is two thousand three hundred years. If you'd started challenging the limit from your first ring, it might have been even higher," Huo Yuhao commented.
"You!" Xiao Wu's chest heaved violently with anger. This man truly did not have a single nice thing to say.
Her figure, which had looked somewhat underdeveloped before, became fuller after she condensed her soul ring, and her body grew more slender. The fitted pink outfit she had been wearing now seemed a little tight.
Xiao Wu lay there, breathing softly, her gaze fixed on Huo Yuhao. When she saw him casually playing with the strange little knife in his hand, joy rose in her heart. Her third soul skill, Teleportation, activated abruptly.
But in the next instant, a scorching warmth appeared on her shoulder.
A magnificent seven-colored soul ring shone against her own three soul rings, two yellow and one purple.
"You can't escape."
"I don't believe it!" Xiao Wu refused to believe it and activated Teleportation several more times in succession. But no matter where she teleported, the young man's hand remained on her shoulder. Even after her Soul Power was completely exhausted, she still could not shake off his hand.
"How is this possible?" Xiao Wu could not understand. With her Soul Power depleted, she could only let herself be slaughtered.
Huo Yuhao did not answer. When he had broken through to Limit Douluo and condensed his third spatial Soul Core, he had already been able to wield a portion of the laws of space. After becoming a god and studying magic under Rong Nianbing, his command of the laws of space had naturally risen to another level.
A direct spatial fluctuation like Teleportation naturally could not escape his notice.
The seven-colored soul ring flashed, and a dazzling cyan pattern formed in the air. A gentle breeze soon carried the two of them back to the tree where they had started.
"Tell me. Why did you want to kill Zhu Zhuqing?" Huo Yuhao asked, looking at Xiao Wu sprawled on the ground.
Although Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing had not been as close in his previous life as Xiao Wu had been with Ning Rongrong.
The Seven Monsters being one body was no joke. How could such an enormous change have happened? Zhu Zhuqing had only just joined Shrek, so why had Xiao Wu wanted to kill her?
"Why can't I kill her? Soul masters can kill soul beasts, so soul beasts can naturally kill soul masters too." The moment Xiao Wu heard Huo Yuhao's question, she bristled and retorted.
"Then why did you only try to kill Zhu Zhuqing and not the others? With the Titan Giant Ape's ability, it could have easily killed all of you," Huo Yuhao countered. Of course, he knew that was impossible. If the Titan Giant Ape had dared to act, Tang Hao definitely would not have minded gaining another hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape soul bone.
"It's all her fault. Ever since she appeared, Little San's gaze has often fallen on her. Only if she disappears can everything return to how it was. Besides, she has a Soft Bone Rabbit soul bone on her. Of course I had to kill her to avenge that Soft Bone Rabbit." Xiao Wu's eyes reddened with rage, filled with fear that Tang San might change his heart, as well as hatred for the slaughter of her kind.
Soft Bone Rabbits had a hard time surviving. Because of their soul skills, high-year Soft Bone Rabbits were prime targets for powerful soul masters, and even her mother had been no exception. Judging by the quality of the soul skill attached to that soul bone, it had definitely been infinitely close to the hundred-thousand-year threshold. Its death had been such a terrible waste.
"You're saying Tang San has been paying attention to Zhu Zhuqing?" Huo Yuhao's expression instantly darkened. Killing intent began spilling out uncontrollably, and his silver hair stirred without wind.
Within only a few breaths, a layer of Ice Crystal had formed over the plants within a dozen meters of them.
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