Soul Clan's Desperate Gambit, Killing Nine Soul Clan Dou Zuns

After Soul Tian Di left, Gu Yuan could not help coughing up another mouthful of blood.

Lin Yang had no chance of catching up to Soul Tian Di. He hurriedly flashed to Gu Yuan's side. "Patriarch Gu, how are you? Can you hold on?"

"Gah..." Gu Yuan's body twitched slightly as he hurriedly said, "Lin Yang, quickly, take the others back to the Xiao Family. Be careful—the Soul Clan may try a desperate gambit."

Lin Yang's heart jolted. He immediately tore open a spatial rift and said anxiously, "Patriarch Gu, have the three puppets and the three immortals come back with me. More than twenty Soul Clan members were seriously injured. They probably will not all descend upon the Xiao Family. The nine of us can handle the rest."

"Mm. Elder Gu Dao, take the others and accompany Lin Yang back." Gu Yuan looked toward the Ancient Clan's Three Immortals.

"Yes."

Without further delay, the group entered the spatial rift and swiftly returned to the Xiao Family.

One day later.

Above the Xiao Family.

Nine spatial rifts suddenly appeared, and Lin Yang's group stepped out from them.

After sensing the area below, Lin Yang found that the Soul Clan had not come and let out a small sigh of relief.

"Three Immortal Seniors, why not stay at the Xiao Family for a few more days? Let me show you some hospitality," Lin Yang said with a smile.

"Alright, we'll stay another three or four days. If the Soul Clan still does not come, we'll head back first. The puppets can remain with you for now," Elder Gu Dao said.

"Alright, thank you."

"Come on, let's go down. I have not seen the young lady in a long time either. I should go see her."

"Mm, alright."

Half an hour later, Lin Yang had arranged accommodations for Gu Dao and the other two. The three of them began chatting with Xun'er.

Lin Yang, meanwhile, went to Xiao Yan's room.

"Uncle, you're back. Who were those three old men just now?" Xiao Yan stood up and asked. He had spotted Gu Dao's group from afar earlier.

"They're Xun'er's relatives. Don't ask too much. Let your master come out. I have something good for him," Lin Yang said.

"Alright."

Upon hearing this, Yao Chen floated out of the ring. "Mr. Lin Yang, what good thing do you have?" he asked with a smile.

Lin Yang directly took out the ninth-grade medicinal herb Gu Yuan had given him earlier and slowly said, "This is a medicinal herb I asked the Ancient Clan Patriarch for. Yao Chen, take a look. How much can you recover if you refine it?"

Yao Chen's expression turned solemn. After carefully examining the herb for a few moments, he suddenly rejoiced and muttered, "This herb... judging by its appearance, could it be the legendary Seven Treasure Soul Heaven Fruit? This is a peerless medicinal herb rarely seen even once in a thousand years. If this old man consumes it, returning to my peak will be no problem at all. There may even be some medicinal power left over."

Lin Yang's eyes flickered. "Is that so? Yao Chen, once you recover your status as an eighth-grade alchemist, I have four Heavenly Flames. If we work together, can we restore your physical body?"

"That... should be possible." Yao Chen's gaze flickered as even deeper joy welled up in his heart.

"Then once I finish handling matters over the next few days, I'll prepare the pills for you. When the time comes, I'll help you revive. The Xiao Family will have a ninth-grade alchemist then," Lin Yang said.

"Alright. Thank you for your trouble, sir."

"It's nothing."

"Alright, then go restore your soul. I'll go recuperate first. I just fought a hard battle," Lin Yang said.

"Mm."

Elsewhere, an hour later.

Cloud Mist Sect.

Soul Tian Di first swept up a group of subordinates from the Soul Hall before the entire group descended upon the Cloud Mist Sect.

Yun Shan's heart shook. He had never seen so many powerful experts before and hurriedly fawned over them.

Soul Tian Di led more than twenty injured Soul Clan members into the Cloud Mist Sect's secret chamber to enter seclusion and heal their wounds.

He ordered the Soul Clan's Three Demon Saints to lead the remaining few Soul Clan Dou Zuns to scout out the Xiao Family. If the Xiao Family had no Dou Zuns on guard, they were to massacre the Xiao Family and capture its patriarch and important members.

Having received their orders, the Soul Clan's Three Demon Saints led the remaining Dou Zuns and Dou Zongs toward the Xiao Family.

Rather than directly tearing open a spatial rift and descending upon the Xiao Family, they arrived in a valley far from the Xiao Family and sent three Dou Zongs to probe the Xiao Family.

In other words, they were sending out a squad of suicide troops.

If the Xiao Family was undefended, those few Dou Zongs would directly take it down.

If it was defended, they would only lose three Dou Zongs and would not be drawn into danger.

Thus, the three Dou Zongs gritted their teeth, tore open space, and headed for Wutan City.

At this moment, at the Xiao Family.

Lin Yang had fully recovered his energy, and there were now another five jade bottles containing Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus in his hands.

Just as he was about to continue crafting them, the system suddenly issued a temporary mission.

Lin Yang opened the panel and swept his gaze over it. Soul Clan members had arrived near Wutan City.

System Prompt: Nine Soul Clan Dou Zuns are in Falling Star Valley, while three Dou Zongs are about to descend upon Wutan City.

Please kill all three Dou Zongs and the Soul Clan Dou Zuns in Falling Star Valley. Upon completing the mission, you will be rewarded with a peak nine-star Dou Zun expert and a map to an ancient cave dwelling containing the legacy of a peak nine-star Dou Zun expert.

Lin Yang's eyes moved. A treasure left behind by a peak Dou Zun expert... If there were something good inside, he might directly break through to the nine-star Dou Zun realm.

The system's other mission would be completed as well.

Thus, Lin Yang directly tore open space and headed for Falling Star Valley with five Dou Zun puppets, preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Soul Clan Dou Zuns. As for those Dou Zongs, he would leave them to the Ancient Clan's Three Immortals.

One of them could deal with each opponent easily.

Falling Star Valley.

The Soul Clan's Three Demon Saints quietly waited for the three Dou Zongs to return.

There were nine of them in total. Without saying a word, they all sat cross-legged where they were, restoring their energy.

Thirty thousand meters above Falling Star Valley, Lin Yang and the five puppets slowly appeared. They concealed their auras as Lin Yang casually glanced below and directly threw down three jade bottles containing Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.

At such a height, the Soul Clan Dou Zuns did not notice them at first. By the time they suddenly realized what was happening.

The three jade bottles, empowered by spatial force, had already fallen above their heads before violently exploding.

Three mushroom clouds instantly engulfed the nine Dou Zuns.

The nine Dou Zuns had been caught almost completely unprepared and were heavily injured by the violent Heavenly Flame energy.

Once the Heavenly Flames dispersed, all nine Dou Zuns spat out blood.

Lin Yang gave them no chance to catch their breath. He descended from the sky with a palm technique, bringing the five puppets crashing down with him.

The four eight-star puppets directly deployed the Soul Clan Sealing Spirit Locking Heaven Formation, sealing off the space within several kilometers and preventing the Soul Clan Dou Zuns from escaping.

The Soul Clan Dou Zuns all trembled inwardly and hurriedly deployed a combined attack formation, blasting a palm strike toward Lin Yang.

Then, gritting his teeth, one of the Three Demon Saints cursed, "Damn it, we're going all out." He decisively took out the Soul Clan's Heaven-tier artifact, the Myriad Souls Banner, and violently detonated every soul within it, intending to shatter the spatial seal and escape.

However, they had underestimated the strength of the four eight-star elders. Moreover, the souls within the Myriad Souls Banner were not of a high enough level, so they could not break the spatial seal at all.

The spatial seal merely cracked in several places and was not broken.

Lin Yang met their attack with a palm strike and was forcibly blocked by their combined power. Yet after a single midair roll, he directly unleashed the Sacred Sun Fire Emperor Finger and pointed downward.

In an instant, the finger force descended upon the Soul Clan Three Demon Saint holding the Myriad Souls Banner.

The Soul Clan Three Demon Saint hurriedly swung the Myriad Souls Banner to block it. However, with no souls left inside to empower it, its strength had greatly diminished. Though it blocked the Fire Emperor Finger, the Myriad Souls Banner was blasted with a massive hole, its spirituality greatly damaged.

At this moment, the four eight-star puppets stabilized the spatial seal.

They raised their palms and attacked the Soul Clan Dou Zuns.

The Soul Clan Dou Zuns hurriedly resisted, but they were only seven-star, six-star, and five-star Dou Zuns. How could they withstand the full-force attacks of eight-star Dou Zuns?

Before long, the Soul Clan had lost three five-star Dou Zuns.

The pressure on the remaining Dou Zuns instantly increased greatly.

At this moment, Lin Yang unleashed another Fire Emperor Finger, heavily injuring the Soul Clan Dou Zun holding the Myriad Souls Banner once more.

This finger force directly pierced through his shoulder, leaving his entire arm completely unable to move.

Lin Yang pressed his advantage and pursued him with a Heaven-tier low-grade palm technique.

After ten moves, he killed him.

By then, the five Dou Zun puppets had also killed the remaining Dou Zuns one after another.

Only the last Soul Clan Fourth Demon Saint remained. After holding on for two moves, he ultimately fell beneath the puppets' combined attack.

With that, Lin Yang's mission was successfully completed.

After receiving the system reward, Lin Yang opened the map for a glance before putting it away.

With a sweep of his hand, he pulled the souls of the Soul Clan's nine Dou Zuns from their bodies.

These souls had also been seriously injured, saving Lin Yang the effort of wearing them down further.

He directly activated the Soul Clan secret technique, Nine Forests Hundred Soul Devouring, and began devouring them.