Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Ambush, Qian Ni Breaks Through and Awakens-How Dare That Dead Monkey Touch My Lackey?

The Soul Beast horde did not deliberately target the Shrek group or Dragon Duke and Snake Granny.

But the chaotic scene of beasts scattering in all directions was even more dangerous than before.

"Yiran!" Seeing that their granddaughter had also been taken, Dragon Duke and Snake Granny could no longer care about anything else.

No matter how strong the Titan Giant Ape was, they had nothing to fear.

Their granddaughter's safety was what mattered most.

"Dragon-Snake Combined Strike!"

The couple immediately circulated their Soul Power. The Dragon Cane and Serpent Cane struck against each other, unleashing a blast of energy where dragon and serpent entwined. They scattered the beast horde and chased after the Titan Giant Ape.

The fact that Xiao Wu had been abducted left Tang San standing there in a daze.

"Xiao Wu!" He came back to his senses and immediately tried to chase after her, but Dai Mubai stopped him.

"Xiao San, calm down!" While dealing with the stray Soul Beasts alongside Ma Hongjun, he grabbed Tang San and tried to persuade her.

"Xiao Wu is gone! How can you tell me to calm down? Let go of me!"

Tang San struggled desperately, ignoring everything else.

Slap—

While protecting Ning Rongrong, Zhao Wuji swung a slap that thoroughly knocked Tang San awake.

"The Soul Beast horde is in chaos! Are you trying to get everyone killed?!

"Form up! Prepare for battle! Mubai and I will stay on the outside. Ning Rongrong and Oscar, provide support from the center! Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing, guard both sides. Tang San, use Blue Silver Grass for support whenever needed!"

Zhao Wuji rapidly issued his orders.

Everyone moved at once.

"Master..." Zhu Zhuqing suddenly called out.

"Master, master, master my ass! If we survive this, I'll roll Qian Ni into a ball and kick him around, or my name isn't Zhao Wuji!"

Without even turning around, Zhao Wuji snarled furiously.

Zhu Zhuqing was not angered. Instead, she quickly finished what she had wanted to say.

"It's safe around Master. The Soul Beasts don't dare approach him."

Everyone was startled and turned to look, only to discover a bizarre phenomenon.

No matter where the panicked Soul Beasts charged, they instinctively avoided the area where Qian Ni was.

Yet the Shrek group, not far from Qian Ni, was being rammed head-on by the Soul Beast horde without restraint, even with powerful Soul Masters like Zhao Wuji and Dragon Duke among them.

It was as if Qian Ni was the truly terrifying presence.

Hiss—

Zhao Wuji wanted nothing more than to slap himself for what he had just said. There was no time to hesitate any longer!

The Soul Beasts' charge became increasingly chaotic and unpredictable. Though only a little over ten meters separated the Shrek group from Qian Ni, countless Soul Beasts kept streaming through the gap between them.

He grabbed Ning Rongrong and Oscar and threw them toward Qian Ni.

No matter what strange secret Qian Ni possessed, he was the Shrek group's only path to survival right now.

He, Zhao Wuji, was a Soul Sage with the Mighty Vajra Bear martial soul. His ability to survive among the beast horde did not mean those children in their twenties or thirties could do the same.

Ning Rongrong traced an arc through the air, with the chaotic beast horde directly beneath her.

She screamed in terror, but suddenly remembered something. In a panic, she pulled out a Bamboo Copter from her Soul Tool and pressed it onto her head.

Buzz—

In an instant, her body stabilized in midair, and she slowly descended beside Qian Ni.

"Quick! Everyone, use the Bamboo Copters Qian Ni gave us!"

When they had previously been trapped by Soul Beasts, Ten-Thousand-Year bird-type Soul Beasts had been nearby, making the Bamboo Copters useless.

But now that the Soul Beast horde was in complete chaos, they became the group's lifeline.

The others quickly pressed the miraculous little devices onto their heads, narrowly avoiding the flood of Soul Beasts crashing beneath them as they slowly flew toward Qian Ni.

Oscar was one step too late. He trusted Zhao Wuji completely, so the moment he was thrown, he instinctively hugged his legs and curled into a ball. He fell faster than Ning Rongrong.

By the time Ning Rongrong shouted about the Bamboo Copter, Oscar had already landed hard on his backside beside Qian Ni, nearly coughing up blood from the impact.

Watching his companions steadily fly over, Oscar could not help but look somewhat resentful.

"You could've reminded me earlier..."

Though Zhao Wuji might not have been considered an upright Soul Master by others,

he was still a fairly decent teacher to the Shrek Seven Monsters.

Even now, he remained on the outermost edge, covering the Shrek Seven Monsters' retreat.

Just as he was about to enter the safe zone formed by Qian Ni's killing intent...

A sinister fox cry suddenly rang out.

"Not good! An ambush!"

"Teacher Zhao! Watch your back!"

The Shrek Seven Monsters shouted warnings, but Zhao Wuji could already feel the fierce wind rushing at him from behind, along with a cold, fishy stench.

At the critical moment, he turned his face sideways. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a pair of dark red beast eyes in the shadows behind him.

Jet-black fur, with an aura of lifeless Soul Power seeping from its entire body.

A Ten-Thousand-Year Whirling Burial Fox!

One of the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts that the Titan Giant Ape had driven over to surround the Shrek group earlier!

The other Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had fled when the Titan Giant Ape left.

Only it had remained, intending to seize an opportunity amid the beast horde's chaos.

The Whirling Burial Fox was a dark and venomous Soul Beast that loved the corpses of the strong.

Whether Soul Beast or Soul Master, it refused neither.

And Zhao Wuji, a Soul Sage, was precisely the prey the Whirling Burial Fox had chosen.

Zhao Wuji was in midair. Though the Bamboo Copter allowed him to fly freely, he had nowhere to brace himself, and the advantages of the Mighty Vajra Bear could not be brought into play at all.

He could only barely twist his body and raise his left arm before the Whirling Burial Fox's fangs.

He intended to trade injury for injury! He would use this to restrain the cunning Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then kill it once he reached the ground!

Why would he, Zhao Wuji, fear a mere Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?!

A fierce expression appeared on Zhao Wuji's face. The muscles across his body swelled as he prepared for everything.

Beast! Let's see whether your teeth are sharper, or my Mighty Vajra Bear is tougher!

The stench from the Whirling Burial Fox's mouth washed over him. Strings of saliva stretched between the fangs of its upper and lower jaws.

The two were nearly pressed together!

Screech—

A chilling, terrifying killing intent rose from nowhere and pierced straight through the Whirling Burial Fox's mind.

In an instant, its soul shattered into fragments. After its huge body stiffened for a moment, it lost control and crashed into Zhao Wuji, rolling into a heap with him.

Bang!

Man and fox hit the ground. Zhao Wuji raised his leg and kicked, sending the Whirling Burial Fox's body flying three meters away.

The remaining members of the Shrek Seven Monsters quickly gathered around Qian Ni, guarding against the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had launched the ambush.

Just as Zhao Wuji was about to pursue it and kill the Whirling Burial Fox with his palm, another voice stopped him.

"Move aside. Let me through."

A fair hand pressed down on Zhao Wuji's shoulder. Still in combat mode, he instinctively tried to shake it off.

But the hand was like the steel pillar of a hydraulic press, firmly planted on Zhao Wuji's shoulder. It even sent his force rebounding back at him.

"Who is it?!"

"Me!" Qian Ni emerged from behind Zhao Wuji.

He had actually finished meditating!

Qian Ni's appearance left Zhao Wuji stunned for a moment. He did not even notice when the hand on his shoulder disappeared.

Qian Ni took a step toward the Whirling Burial Fox. In the next instant, he appeared beside the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

"Be careful!" Zhao Wuji was about to warn him when he witnessed another unbelievable sight.

The Soul Beast horde around them, which had become a chaotic mass and fled in every direction after losing the Titan Giant Ape, seemed to have received some sort of mental shock.

Killing intent swept through the area!

The air trembled for an instant.

Every Soul Beast in sight went limp and tumbled over while running.

Birds fell from the sky, and beasts froze in place.

White, yellow, purple... countless Soul Rings rose from the Soul Beast horde.

It was as though their souls had been shattered at the same instant, killing them all completely.

The scene profoundly shocked the Shrek Seven Monsters and Zhao Wuji.

And among all those yellow and purple Soul Rings, the single black one beside Qian Ni was especially glaring.

"You... you..."

No matter how stupid Zhao Wuji was, he should have known who had caused the scene before him.

He pointed at Qian Ni, unable to speak.

Soul Power overflowed from Qian Ni's body. With a casual gesture, the black Soul Ring belonging to the Ten-Thousand-Year Whirling Burial Fox automatically settled around him.

He grabbed it! It was refined in an instant!

Ten-Thousand-Year fourth ring! Soul Ancestor!

Soul Power level forty-two! Days of uninterrupted full-force meditation had naturally brought Qian Ni to the level-forty threshold!

This Whirling Burial Fox possessed nearly sixty thousand years of cultivation. No one knew how it had ended up in the Titan Giant Ape's grasp, but now it had contributed two levels of Soul Power to Qian Ni!

Just as everyone's minds had completely shut down, Tang San suddenly rushed out. She held two Mushroom Sausages in her hand, quickly stuffed one into her mouth, kicked off a Soul Beast corpse, and flew in the direction the Titan Giant Ape had gone.

Oscar's Flying Mushroom Sausage allowed its user to fly at the speed of a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent for one minute.

"Xiao San! It's dangerous!" Dai Mubai and the others cried out in alarm, anxiously looking toward Oscar and Zhao Wuji.

Although a large number of Soul Beasts before them had died, many more chaotic Soul Beasts remained farther away.

Wasn't Tang San simply going to her death?

Oscar gave a bitter smile. "Xiao Wu was taken away. Xiao San asked me for it—how could I refuse her?"

Just as everyone was at a loss, Zhu Zhuqing came back to her senses and walked over to Qian Ni.

"Master, Yiran was also..."

Qian Ni raised his hand and cut her off.

"I know. Stay with the group. We'll bring her back.

"Dead monkey, if you wanted to catch a rabbit, then catch a rabbit. How dare you touch everyone else's people too!

"I think Wang Wei's red beans have made you lovesick!"

A blue-gold wing extended from his back. Four pitch-black Soul Rings circled around him as he turned into a streak of black and vanished from everyone's sight.