Swish, swish, swish!
Thirteen slashes wrapped in black evil energy and purple lightning flew from his palm, howling as they met the boulders.
Boom, boom, boom!
The stones were cleaved into fragments in midair.
Broken rocks rained down, but they had lost their lethality.
"Good kid!"
"Not bad power."
Seeing this, Li Feng's eyes flashed with delight.
However, the falling rocks were merely an appetizer.
"Awoo—!"
Another howl rang out, but this one was much closer.
Immediately afterward, countless dark figures sprang from the cliffs on both sides.
They leaped down from the cliff faces at incredible speed, landing with dull thuds.
Moonlight shone upon them.
When Lin Ye saw what they looked like, he was nearly startled out of his skin.
They were a pack of half-human, half-wolf monsters.
They could walk upright, and their bodies were covered in coarse gray fur.
Their heads were wolfish, with protruding muzzles and bared fangs, while their eyes gleamed an eerie green in the darkness.
"Wolf Raiders!"
"They're actually Wolf Raiders!"
Lin Ye blurted out.
Wolf Raiders were the offspring of humans and Gale Demon Wolves.
Records on Douluo Continent described them as extremely rare.
They possessed both human intelligence and some of the Gale Demon Wolf's innate gifts!
Moreover, their primary method of attack was wind blades, and they were incredibly fast.
It was said that
five hundred Wolf Raiders could confront a regular army of ten thousand head-on.
Lin Ye swiftly swept his gaze around.
More than thirty.
No, over forty!
More were still constantly leaping down from the mountain!
"Damn."
Lin Ye gritted his teeth.
"I never thought I'd run into these beasts in a dump like this."
"Awoo—!"
The Wolf Raiders did not waste words. The instant they landed, they charged.
Dozens of wind blades sliced toward the caravan from every direction at once.
"Everyone! Release your Martial Souls!"
Li Feng roared as the massive Brown Bear Martial Soul possessed him.
Six Soul Rings rose from beneath his feet—two yellow, two purple, and two black—projecting an imposing aura.
The other six Soul Ancestors released their Martial Souls as well, forming a semicircular defensive formation that protected the caravan members in the middle.
"Fifth Spirit Skill, Vajra Bear Barrier!"
Li Feng's palms slammed rapidly against the ground.
A thick golden barrier rose from the earth, blocking wave after wave of wind blades.
The wind blades struck the barrier with piercing metallic screeches.
"Damn, I didn't expect these beasts' attacks to be this powerful!"
Li Feng said through clenched teeth.
However, before his words had even faded,
"Awoo—!!!"
A deeper, more thunderous howl sounded from the mountaintop.
Upon hearing it,
all the Wolf Raiders grew excited at once, and their attacks became markedly more frequent.
The wind blades that followed grew increasingly dense.
Fine cracks began to appear across Li Feng's Vajra Bear Barrier.
"The Wolf King has arrived!"
Li Feng's expression darkened.
A massive dark figure slowly rose atop the mountain, an entire size larger than ordinary Wolf Raiders.
Its body was covered in dark silver fur, and a pair of blood-red eyes looked down upon its prey from above.
Li Feng's expression had become extremely grim.
"Judging by the scale, this should be a small Wolf Raider pack. The Wolf King shouldn't be too strong!"
Li Feng said in a low voice.
"We have to break out now and take them down one by one! If we huddle together and wait until our soul power runs out, there's only death!"
He abruptly turned and looked at Lin Ye.
"Brother Lin! Leave the Wolf King to me! I'll have to rely on you and the others for the rest!"
Lin Ye twisted his neck, his knuckles cracking crisply.
"Brother Li, go without worry! Leave this place to us!"
"Everyone, prepare to break through!"
Li Feng roared. The Vajra Bear Barrier shattered with a bang, exploding into countless golden motes of light.
"Beasts, take your lives!"
He charged like a crazed giant bear, smashing aside three Wolf Raiders blocking his path as he rushed toward the Wolf King atop the mountain.
The moment the formation scattered, more than forty Wolf Raiders pounced.
"Big kitty, same plan!"
"Understood!"
Zhu Zhuqing flashed and melted into the darkness.
Meanwhile, Lin Ye charged swiftly into the Wolf Raider pack. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed him, and one yellow and one purple Soul Ring slowly lit up.
Black lightning exploded around him as wild winds swept outward.
"First Spirit Skill, Evil God Thirteen Slashes!"
The first Wolf Raider lunged at him head-on, five wind blades howling toward him.
Lin Ye twisted aside to evade two of them, then transformed his right hand into a claw and tore apart the first slash.
Black evil energy wrapped in lightning struck the Wolf Raider's chest.
Its gray-black fur was instantly ripped apart, and the stench of scorched flesh filled the air.
The Wolf Raider let out a miserable howl and was blasted away.
Yet it was not dead! It rolled over and tried to rise.
"Damn, its health bar is that thick?"
Then the second and third Wolf Raiders lunged in after it.
Rather than retreat, Lin Ye advanced. The thirteen slashes came down in succession, each carrying greater force than the last.
By the seventh slash, one Wolf Raider's head was directly severed, and dark green blood sprayed through the air.
On the other side, Zhu Zhuqing was like a ghost drifting through the night.
"First Spirit Skill, Netherworld Thrust!"
She precisely cut into a Wolf Raider's blind spot from behind. Her claws pierced through its fur and drove into its spine.
The Wolf Raider howled and turned to counterattack, but Zhu Zhuqing had already flashed behind her next target.
"Second Spirit Skill, Netherworld Hundred Claws!"
In an instant, nearly a hundred claw shadows poured down upon the same spot. Even the Wolf Raiders' thick hides could not withstand such focused piercing attacks.
The two fought back-to-back with seamless coordination, slaughtering an unknown number of Wolf Raiders.
Before long, the ground was littered with Wolf Raider corpses.
But even more continued to swarm in.
Only ten minutes had passed.
Zhu Zhuqing was already breathing raggedly, her forehead drenched in sweat. The glow of her two Soul Rings flickered unstably.
"This is bad. My soul power is nearly depleted."
Lin Ye's situation was no better.
Continuously using Evil God Thirteen Slashes consumed too much. Less than twenty percent of his soul power remained.
Left with no choice, Lin Ye could only use that move!
"Big kitty, get back! I have a way."
"But..."
"Get back!"
Lin Ye's tone brooked no argument.
"Lin Ye, be careful!"
Zhu Zhuqing gritted her teeth and retreated behind Lin Ye.
Lin Ye swiftly turned around and slowly raised his right hand.
An intensely black light suddenly lit up in his palm.
It was the innate skill he had used only once in the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Hmph. Today, I'll show you beasts what a true innate skill is!"
"Devour, activate!"
The moment his words fell,
Buzz—!
A black hole containing a black vortex appeared out of thin air before Lin Ye's palm.
At first, it was only the size of a fist.
But in the next instant, the black hole in his hand abruptly expanded!
One meter, two meters, three meters!
A violent suction force instantly swept across the entire battlefield!
The Wolf Raider corpses scattered across the ground were instantly sucked into the black hole.
One corpse, two corpses, three corpses... more than a dozen corpses vanished into the pitch-black vortex in the blink of an eye.
Then, the Wolf Raiders still alive also sensed that powerful suction force.
"Awo!"
A Wolf Raider preparing to unleash a wind blade suddenly slipped.
Its entire body slid uncontrollably toward the black hole.
It frantically clawed at the ground, its nails scraping against the rocks with piercing screeches.
"Awoo! Awoo!"