Revenge from Dawn to Dusk

Faced with Zhao Wuji's dismissive attitude, Jiang Li was not upset at all. Instead, he felt relieved.

If Zhao Wuji had taken them seriously, their Soul Bone Fusion Skill might not necessarily have been able to harm a Soul Sage like him.

Since Zhao Wuji dared to be so careless, Jiang Li naturally would not let this opportunity slip away.

The enormous Twin Civet charged before Zhao Wuji, raised its massive black bear claw, and fiercely slammed it down toward him.

"Second Soul Skill, Great Strength Vajra Palm!"

"Hah!"

Zhao Wuji let out a low shout. Without dodging, he raised both arms. The muscles in his hands tensed, instantly transforming into two large earthen-yellow bear paws that met the massive beast claw descending before him.

Seeing that Zhao Wuji had merely chosen to defend himself with a hundred-year Soul Skill from his second Soul Ring, the smile in Jiang Li's eyes deepened.

The beast claw sweeping toward Zhao Wuji did not pause and continued crashing toward him.

Yet at the same time, Jiang Li released Zhu Zhuyun's hand from his right hand, switching to tightly embrace her with his left arm.

His right hand, meanwhile, shot out and decisively overlapped with the Twin Civet's right paw as it struck toward Zhao Wuji.

"Golden Supreme Claw!!!"

A flash of golden light streaked past, and one golden sharp claw after another suddenly extended from the Twin Civet's palm.

It was the Soul Skill attached to the External Soul Bone Jiang Li had obtained from the Golden Dreadclaw Bear—the Supreme Golden Right Dreadclaw.

At that moment, the External Soul Bone from the Golden Dreadclaw Bear seemed to undergo some wonderful chemical reaction with the Twin Civet Soul Bone Fusion Skill.

As the Soul Bone Skill was unleashed, a faint layer of pale golden radiance spread over the Twin Civet's body.

"Not good!"

Zhao Wuji's pupils shrank. The power displayed by Jiang Li and Zhu Zhuyun's Soul Bone Fusion Skill had greatly exceeded his expectations, and a sense of danger flashed through his heart.

A bead of cold sweat slid down his forehead. Despite his Soul Sage-level strength, he could actually feel a trace of threat from those golden claws.

But because he had underestimated them earlier, he had already used his second Soul Skill.

If he wanted to switch to another Soul Skill, he would have to forcibly disperse the second one first.

But that would take time, while the golden claws before him were already far too close.

So close that he could seemingly feel the breeze created by the flowing golden Soul Power surrounding them.

There was simply no time to switch to another Soul Skill now.

He could only take it head-on.

"Damn it!"

Zhao Wuji cursed inwardly as the earthen-yellow Soul Power radiance around his hands intensified even further.

Was this brat's Soul Bone Fusion Skill not a little too monstrous? It could actually make a Soul Sage like him feel threatened?

Boom!!

A violent burst of golden light erupted where the Twin Civet collided with Zhao Wuji.

The next second, Zhao Wuji, who possessed Soul Sage-level strength, was sent flying outright.

Whoosh~

His feet carved two deep tracks across the ground as he flew backward.

"Hmph."

Zhao Wuji raised his head and let out a muffled groan. A streak of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

His entire body felt as though it had been hammered all over. His right arm hung limply at his side, its bones clearly shattered by that fierce blow.

The last time he had suffered such serious injuries was ten years ago, when he had faced more than a dozen Soul Emperor-level bishops from Spirit Hall who had been hunting him down.

"Good brat, I'm angry now, you..."

Zhao Wuji roared furiously. As a Soul Sage-level Soul Master, he had actually been injured this badly by two Soul Venerables in their thirties using a Soul Bone Fusion Skill. He was truly enraged.

He immediately looked up in Jiang Li's direction, ready to deliver a threat, only to discover...

"Where are they?"

Zhao Wuji was instantly dumbfounded. Where were Jiang Li and the others? There was no trace of them left.

"I'll find you!" Zhao Wuji stomped his foot, wanting to curse Jiang Li aloud, but then he realized, "What was that brat's name again?"

Only then did he discover that he had never once asked for the other party's name from beginning to end.

Not only had he failed to bring them back, he had gotten himself badly injured, and in the end, he did not even know their names...

Whoosh~

A breeze drifted past~

Standing there in a daze, Zhao Wuji felt exactly like a clown.

Elsewhere, Jiang Li held Zhu Zhuyun in one arm and Zhu Zhuqing in the other.

Using the third Soul Skill of the Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, he flew away from Soto City at tremendous speed.

This confrontation with Zhao Wuji had given him some understanding of the strength of a Soul Sage.

If he used his currently strongest Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, he could only barely exchange a few moves with Zhao Wuji when Zhao Wuji used his first and second Soul Skills.

But if Zhao Wuji used stronger Soul Skills, even the Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul would be unable to contend with a Soul Sage who was neither careless nor dismissive.

After all, the gap between him and Zhao Wuji was simply too great—four entire major realms.

At that moment, Qian Renxue, floating behind Jiang Li, asked, "Little Jiang Li, Zhao Wuji bullied you like that. You're not really going to let that guy off so easily, are you?"

After all, even when the Titan Giant Ape had threatened Jiang Li before, he had found a way to teach it a lesson. She did not believe that Jiang Li, having been forced to flee Soto City in such a sorry state this time, would simply let Zhao Wuji go.

Jiang Li did not answer. Instead, he said to the Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing in his arms, "You two should enter the Summoning Space first. I need to hurry on my way now."

"Mm." Zhu Zhuqing nodded obediently without refusing. She merely said to Jiang Li with some concern, "Be careful."

After speaking, she paused, then looked at Jiang Li with determined eyes. "Next time, next time I'll definitely work hard enough to stand by your side and fight alongside you!"

She understood very clearly that staying by Jiang Li's side right now could not offer him any help at all. Instead, she would only hold him back.

So if she did not want to merely watch from behind Jiang Li in the future, she had to cultivate even harder until she could stand beside him and fight shoulder to shoulder with him.

"Good. Work hard." A doting smile appeared on Jiang Li's face as he reached out and stroked Zhu Zhuqing's head. "I'll wait for you."

Jiang Li did not doubt Zhu Zhuqing's diligence in the slightest, because not everyone could be like her. With only innate rank-seven Soul Power, talent insufficient even to make becoming a Soul Douluo easy, and a fairy herb that was not even top-tier—

She had ultimately managed, through her own efforts, to inherit the God of Speed's divine position and ascend to the Douluo God Realm.

Jiang Li then sent both women into the Summoning Space.

After seeing the two women enter the Summoning Space, Qian Renxue could not help asking again, "Now you should tell me what you're planning, right?"

"Didn't Zhao Wuji offend the Clan of Strength when he was young?" Jiang Li's lips curled into a strange smile.

"Letting the snipe and clam fight while watching from the shore?" Having once been the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, Qian Renxue quickly understood Jiang Li's plan. She praised, "Interesting."

"But how are you going to do it?" Qian Renxue asked curiously.

Jiang Li did not answer. He merely lowered his head and looked at Soto City, which was becoming smaller and smaller beneath him due to the distance.

As the saying went, a gentleman could take ten years to avenge himself.

But Jiang Li had never considered himself a gentleman, so he chose the latter half of that saying: a petty man took revenge from dawn to dusk.

Zhao Wuji had forced him to leave Soto City in such a sorry state this time. How could he possibly not retaliate?

But it was also true that he was weaker than Zhao Wuji. Besides, Shrek Academy in Soto City had Flender, another Soul Sage, as well as several Soul Emperor-level teachers.

If he insisted on facing them head-on, he would be the only one to suffer.

But no one had ever said revenge had to rely on brute strength. After all, there was a saying: gangsters who did not use their brains would be fools for life.

Had Zhao Wuji not injured Titan of the Clan of Strength's younger brother when he was young?

In the original story, the Clan of Strength had been Tang Hao's most loyal lackeys.

If nothing unexpected happened, there was still a year before Tang San graduated from Notting Academy and joined Shrek Academy.

If, before Tang San enrolled at Shrek Academy, Jiang Li informed the Clan of Strength of Zhao Wuji's whereabouts in Soto City and provoked a conflict between the Clan of Strength and Shrek Academy—

Perhaps he could even cause one or several among Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, or the Clan of Strength's young clan leader, Titan's grandson Tai Nuo, to die in the conflict.

Then, after Titan learned of Tang San in the future, could he still laugh away their past grudges with Zhao Wuji as he had in the original story?

And how would Tang San handle himself then?

Would he stand with the Clan of Strength? Or with Shrek Academy?

What if Tang Hao, who followed Tang San when he enrolled, also witnessed the conflict between the Clan of Strength and Shrek Academy? How would he react?

Jiang Li had not forgotten that in the original story, after Zhao Wuji had bullied Tang San with his superior strength, Tang Hao had returned the favor twofold that very same day.

At that thought, the six black wings behind Jiang Li beat powerfully, producing a sonic boom as his flying speed increased once more.

Next, he would travel at full speed and reach Heaven Dou City as quickly as possible.

Then he would put this plan into action!