Hunting the Poison Fiend Wyvern, Part 2

"My first Soul Ring had reached fifty thousand years, and my second had reached seventy thousand years."

"My third and fourth Soul Rings had both reached ninety thousand years before hitting a bottleneck and becoming impossible to improve further."

"Fortunately, my fifth and sixth Soul Rings had both broken through to a hundred thousand years!"

Dugu Feng looked at the six Soul Rings rising around him—four black and two red.

He could not hide his excitement.

"Still, it won't be easy for the earlier Soul Rings to reach a hundred thousand years."

Moreover, Dugu Feng had discovered a problem: although his fifth and sixth Soul Rings were Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings,

they had not produced an additional new soul skill.

This was probably their flaw. After all, they could not compare to genuine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, since their age had been raised afterward.

Although they did not possess two soul skills, the power of their skills truly matched that of hundred-thousand-year soul skills.

His sixth soul skill was called Ice Toad Poison Prison, capable of freezing everything within a certain range.

It could also fill the flowing air with Extreme Ice Poison.

Once inhaled, it would instantly freeze one's Soul Power and turn them into an ice sculpture.

At that moment, Dugu Feng suddenly realized something. Whether the seventh Soul Ring was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring or a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, it only had one skill: Martial Soul Avatar.

If that was the case, why hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring directly? He might as well find a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.

Then he could use his martial soul to raise the Soul Ring's age afterward.

With that in mind, Dugu Feng immediately set out for the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest. While collecting ownerless Soul Rings earlier, he had already discovered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.

That Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast was nearly a hundred thousand years old, estimated to be around ninety-five thousand years.

He only needed to absorb its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring before raising its age to a hundred thousand years.

The silent forest carried an eerie air.

Within the Star Dou Great Forest, the quieter a place was, the more dangerous it tended to be.

Like beneath a calm water surface, one never knew what murderous danger might lurk below.

Dugu Feng spread open his palm, and a plume of poisonous smoke flew from it.

He released all the poison within his body, filling the surrounding environment with deadly toxins.

Because the target he intended to hunt this time was no ordinary Soul Beast.

It was the Thorn Dragon, an exceptionally rare dragon-type Soul Beast.

This was a draconic Soul Beast with extremely rare spatial abilities.

Furthermore, a ninety-five-thousand-year Thorn Dragon could already possess its own Thorn Domain.

It could create its own spatial battlefield.

Opponents with spatial abilities gave Dugu Feng the greatest headache, because his Spirit Bone also possessed the ability to spatially jump.

Thus, he naturally knew that if they could not win,

they could simply escape.

That was where the poison a poison master excelled at came into play.

The wait for prey was long. After an unknown amount of time, a Soft Bone Rabbit ran into the hunting ground.

The Soft Bone Rabbit looked around, vigilantly standing upright. After observing for a while and finding no danger,

it lowered its head and began gnawing on the grass.

Dugu Feng watched quietly, silently blending the poison permeating the air into its body without taking the Soft Bone Rabbit's life.

Instead, he allowed the poison to lie dormant inside it.

After all, only living prey could attract the Thorn Dragon's attention. If it were dead, the Thorn Dragon would never eat it. As a high-level hunter in this forest,

it had extremely strict standards for food.

After an unknown period of waiting, a black shadow appeared without a sound.

It was so fast that the Soft Bone Rabbit could not even react before being swallowed whole.

That Soft Bone Rabbit had roughly a thousand years of cultivation and was exceptionally plump.

It looked to weigh nearly forty pounds.

Yet the Thorn Dragon swallowed it all in only a few bites.

After consuming the Soft Bone Rabbit, the Thorn Dragon was clearly somewhat full.

Just as it prepared to leave, its legs involuntarily dropped to the ground.

The Thorn Dragon sensed that something was wrong and tried to stand.

Unbeknownst to it, a figure within its shadow had already begun gathering power.

The instant Dugu Feng saw the Thorn Dragon appear, he activated his Spirit Bone skill, Nether Stealth.

He gathered all the Soul Power in his body into his palms.

The ultimate Ice-Fire Poison was ready to strike.

The Thorn Dragon let out an enraged roar and looked around.

But in the next instant, Dugu Feng sprang from its shadow.

His palms slammed forcefully into its spine.

That single strike sent the Thorn Dragon flying. Like an out-of-control kite, it repeatedly crashed into towering trees throughout the forest.

Only after knocking down several trees in succession did the Thorn Dragon scramble to its feet in a sorry state, intense pain shooting through its spine.

Before it could react, it felt a bone-piercing chill spread across its back.

Yet a burning sensation rose from its abdomen.

No matter how powerful a Soul Beast was, its internal organs would always be fragile.

From the moment it swallowed the toxin-filled Soft Bone Rabbit into its stomach,

its death countdown had already begun.

Its gastric acid could not destroy those poisons.

The Soul Power flowing through its body instead became a breeding ground for the venom.

The stronger its Soul Power, the stronger the poison.

At that moment, the ultimate Ice-Fire Poison had already begun eroding its flesh.

Those deadly toxins had begun corroding its Soul Power.

In merely a few dozen seconds, the Thorn Dragon felt severe discomfort throughout its body.

The Thorn Dragon began fleeing toward its lair.

As it ran, it tore open spatial rifts.

Dugu Feng did not give chase. Instead, he waited slowly, just as a venomous snake did not rush forward to kill its prey after biting it, but waited for the poison to take effect.

That Ice-Fire Toad Palm had consumed a full ninety percent of his Soul Power.

Moreover, all the Pill Poison he had stored for so long had been used this time.

He had truly played every card in his hand.

The Poison Fiend Wyvern possessed extremely powerful poison attributes itself, so poison might not have been especially effective against it.

Therefore, Dugu Feng simply used all his poison at once.

With the Thorn Dragon's power, he would raise his overall strength to another level.

Once Pill Poison entered the body, death was inevitable.

All that remained was to wait patiently.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Dugu Feng quickly sat cross-legged and restored his Soul Power.

Only when his Soul Power had recovered to roughly seventy percent

did he rise and begin pursuing it. Along the way, he saw many fallen trees.

It was already evident that the Thorn Dragon had begun to lose consciousness, staggering as it walked.

When he followed it all the way to the entrance of the Thorn Dragon's cave, he saw that the cave had collapsed.

There were also obvious claw marks nearby, with residual spatial power lingering in the air.

This showed just how fierce the Thorn Dragon's final struggle before death had been.

If he had rashly followed it then, with only around ten percent of his Soul Power remaining,

he likely would have faced grave danger.

Spatial skills happened to be the weakness of his Nether Stealth.

If not for the Thorn Dragon being poisoned from the start,

he would likely have been discovered the moment he used Nether Stealth to sneak over.

He would have had no chance to launch a sneak attack.

Dugu Feng found the Thorn Dragon's corpse beneath the collapsed rocks. Its back was covered in frost, while its abdomen burned with raging flames.

Without further hesitation, Dugu Feng directly began absorbing its Soul Ring.