The Snipe and the Clam Fight, the Fisherman Profits!

"A fifteen-thousand-year Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger, and a twelve-thousand-year Human-Faced Demon Spider."

A sharp glint flashed through Lin Ye's eyes.

"When the snipe and clam fight, the fisherman profits."

This opportunity was practically delivered to him on a silver platter by heaven itself.

"If I can't seize an opportunity that lands right in my lap, heaven would probably laugh itself to death."

Lin Ye did not act immediately.

He crouched on high ground, coldly watching the slaughter below.

Boom!

The Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger swung down a paw, instantly blasting a two-meter-deep crater into the ground.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider dodged sideways, its remaining five limbs shooting forward like five spears stabbing at the armored tiger's abdomen.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Three strikes bounced off its scales, but two pierced the wounds it had suffered earlier.

The Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger roared in fury, its bloody maw clamping down on one of the Human-Faced Demon Spider's limbs before violently jerking its head.

Crack!

Another limb was torn off by force.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider let out a piercing shriek. Its eerie human face twisted into a grotesque mess as it spat out a cloud of dark green poison mist.

The poisonous mist shrouded the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's head.

The giant tiger staggered, blood tears streaming from eyes irritated by the poison, yet it still refused to release the severed limb.

"The Human-Faced Demon Spider is almost done for."

Lin Ye made his assessment inwardly.

Sure enough.

Less than three minutes later, the Human-Faced Demon Spider's movements had visibly slowed.

From excessive blood loss and the loss of its limbs, its combat strength had fallen to rock bottom.

The Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger seized the opening.

Boom!

Its paw slammed into the Human-Faced Demon Spider's head, smashing that eerie human face to pieces.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider's body twitched a few times before becoming completely still.

At that moment, the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger stood beside the Human-Faced Demon Spider's corpse and let out a victorious roar toward the sky.

But the roar was clearly lacking in strength.

Its breathing was heavy and ragged, and its left foreleg could barely bear its weight.

The bloody hole in its abdomen was still seeping blood. Worse still,

the poison mist sprayed out by the Human-Faced Demon Spider before its death had already seeped into its body.

Lin Ye saw strands of dark green fluid beginning to ooze from the gaps between the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's scales.

It was poisoned.

"Perfect."

Lin Ye hesitated no longer.

"If not now, when?"

"Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, possess me!"

Buzz!

Black evil energy erupted around Lin Ye in an instant. Purple lightning exploded as a fierce wind swept up fallen leaves.

Two purple Thousand-Year Spirit Rings rose beneath Lin Ye's feet.

The instant the Supreme Evil Aura spread out, the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's fur stood on end.

It sharply turned its head, its scarlet eyes locking onto Lin Ye as he leaped down from the tree.

"Roar—!"

The Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger roared, its crimson pupils filled with wariness and savage intent.

Even gravely injured, the pressure of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast still crushed down like something tangible.

Yet Lin Ye did not even furrow his brow.

"A fifteen-thousand-year Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger."

Lin Ye stepped forward.

"Gravely injured, poisoned, and with more than half your stamina spent."

As he spoke, Lin Ye took another step forward.

"Your current fighting strength is, at most, thirty or forty percent of your peak."

"Dealing with you... is enough."

The Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger seemed to understand the contempt in his tone. It gave a vengeful roar and charged straight at him, dragging its injured leg behind it.

Even injured, a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was still astonishingly fast.

Its dark golden giant claw crashed down with earth-rending force, tearing a three-meter-long fissure straight across the ground.

Lin Ye sidestepped it directly.

"First Soul Skill, Evil God Thirteen Slashes!"

Boom!

The first slash shot forward, striking the bloody hole in the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's abdomen.

Bang!

The wound was forcibly widened.

The Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger roared in pain and swung its tail back at him. Lin Ye immediately used Evil God Guard to take the blow head-on.

A barrier woven from purple lightning and black evil energy blocked the tail sweep. Lin Ye slid back three steps, then sprang forward again.

The second slash.

The third.

Every strike landed precisely on the same spot,

all of them cutting into the wounds in the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's abdomen that the Human-Faced Demon Spider had pierced.

Lin Ye had never intended to clash with it head-on.

Even damaged, the scales of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast still possessed fearsome defensive power against frontal attacks.

But wounds were different.

Wounds were cracks, openings—the weakest link in its defenses.

Then,

the fourth slash.

The fifth.

In an instant, the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's abdominal wounds had been blasted into a blood hole the size of a bowl, blood pouring out in torrents.

"Roar!!!"

The giant tiger was completely enraged.

It abandoned all probing attacks. Its limbs kicked off fiercely, launching its entire body into the air as a layer of earthy yellow light surged over its dark golden scales.

That was the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's skill, Earthsplit Impact.

It intended to use all its weight and soul power to crush Lin Ye into pulp.

"Here it comes."

Rather than retreating, Lin Ye charged forward to meet it.

The sixth slash struck head-on along the giant tiger's descent path.

But it was useless.

The momentum behind a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's all-out attack was too immense. The sixth slash merely slowed its descent slightly.

Keep going!

The seventh slash.

The eighth.

The ninth!

Three stacked slashes struck the same point in rapid succession, finally bringing the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's charge to a forceful halt in midair.

During those fractions of a second while it hovered,

Lin Ye retreated two steps, gathered strength in his right leg, and launched himself forward like an arrow leaving its bowstring.

The tenth Evil God Slash, carrying every bit of accumulated power, pierced upward through the bowl-sized bloody hole in the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's abdomen.

Pfft!

The slash pierced through its abdominal armor and deep into the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger's body.

The Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger immediately released an incomparably miserable howl.

It crashed heavily back onto the ground, its limbs convulsing.

The glow over its dark golden scales flickered unsteadily. The savage intent in its scarlet eyes rapidly faded, replaced by the murkiness of impending death.

The poison accelerated its demise.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider's venom had already been corroding its internal organs, while Lin Ye's attacks had completely punched through its abdominal wounds. With both injuries compounded, the Earth-Rending Dark Armor Tiger could no longer hold on.

Its breathing grew weaker and weaker.

Thirty seconds later, it fell completely silent.

Then, an intensely dense black light, nearly solid in form, rose from the armored tiger's corpse.

It was a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring!

The ring slowly revolved in the air, radiating an energy fluctuation that made one's heart tremble.

Lin Ye looked at the Spirit Ring. His chest rose and fell twice before a faint smile appeared on his face.

"Fifteen thousand years..."

"The Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring is mine."

Just as he was about to step forward and absorb it,

a cold voice suddenly exploded from above.

"Kid! Have you lost your mind?!"

Lin Ye abruptly looked up.

A gaunt figure had appeared atop the tree canopy ten meters away at some point, those dark green pupils fixed firmly on him.

It was Dugu Bo.

"Senior Dugu Bo?"

Lin Ye froze for a moment.

He had not sensed Dugu Bo's presence at all.

No, it was not because his perception was insufficient.

It was because when a Titled Douluo deliberately concealed his aura, let alone a level-thirty soul master like him, even a Soul Douluo might not necessarily detect him.