Zhu Zhuqing: Tang Feng, You're Simply a Monster!

Tang Feng raised his hand and pointed toward the front side.

Zhu Zhuqing immediately softened her footsteps.

Using the shrubs and boulders for cover, the two quietly approached the battle zone.

Ahead lay a forest clearing that had been destroyed.

A giant black serpent over twenty meters long was coiled in the center.

Its body was covered in purple-black scales, and three curved horns grew from its head.

A twenty-thousand-year Nine Nether Mysterious Serpent!

In midair, a massive falcon covered in golden-red feathers circled continuously.

With its wings spread, it was nearly ten meters wide, and blazing flames burned between its feathers.

A fifteen-thousand-year Blazing Sun Golden Falcon!

The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon tucked in its wings and suddenly dived.

Its golden talons tore through the serpent's back scales, scattering a large amount of black blood across the ground.

The Nine Nether Mysterious Serpent abruptly turned around.

Its enormous jaws clamped down on the falcon's left wing.

Purple-black venom rapidly spread along the feathers.

The flames covering the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon's body began to dim.

Rather than breaking free from the serpent's jaws, it gathered all the Soul Power in its body into its head.

Boom!

Golden-red flames suddenly erupted.

The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon pecked straight through the Nine Nether Mysterious Serpent's skull.

The enormous serpent body crashed to the ground, crushing all the surrounding trees.

The Nine Nether Mysterious Serpent lost its breath.

The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon also fell from the sky.

Its left wing had been pierced by snake fangs, its chest and abdomen were covered in wounds, and the purple-black venom had already invaded its entire body.

Zhu Zhuqing lowered her body.

"That's a Ten Thousand Year soul beast."

"This is exactly what we were waiting for."

Tang Feng stepped out from behind the boulder.

Sensing his approach, the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon raised its blood-soaked head.

It spread its wings, trying to take flight again.

But the injured left wing had barely risen before it fell weakly back to the ground.

A frail screech echoed through the forest.

Tang Feng raised his left hand.

"Stop struggling."

Ruination Blue Silver Emperor!

Countless deep-blue vines burst from the ground.

The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon's wings, talons, and neck were bound by vines at the same time.

Dark purple patterns rapidly lit up.

[Attribute Stacking fully activated!]

[Strength increased by 40%!]

[Mental strength increased by 40%!]

[Soul Power quality increased by 25%!]

Tang Feng's spiritual power locked onto every wound on the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon's body.

The Destruction Vines avoided the hard feathers and continuously burrowed in through the wounds torn open by the Nine Nether Mysterious Serpent.

The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon's remaining Soul Power erupted completely.

Golden-red flames burned along the vines.

Dozens of Destruction Vines snapped one after another.

[Jeweled Gauntlet triggered!]

[Superior twentyfold soul skill critical hit!]

Boom!

The power of destruction exploded inside the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon.

Large patches of golden-red feathers were corroded by dark purple power.

The damage caused by the vines rapidly transformed into vitality, flowing endlessly back into Tang Feng's body.

[Vampiric Habit triggered!]

Tang Feng's depleted Soul Power began to recover.

Just as the golden flames burned through one layer of vines, three new layers surged up from underground to replace them.

The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon struggled to raise its head.

A beam of golden-red fire gathered in its mouth.

Tang Feng clenched his five fingers.

The Destruction Vines simultaneously wrapped around the falcon's neck.

Before the blazing fire could erupt, dark purple corrosive power surged through the wounds and into its meridians.

Its Soul Power circulation was immediately interrupted.

Tang Feng clenched one hand.

All the vines suddenly contracted.

Crack!

The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon's body completely lost its strength.

The golden-red flames went out with it.

Black motes drifted out from the corpse and gathered above it into a black Spirit Ring.

The Spirit Ring slowly rotated.

The pressure of a Ten Thousand Year soul beast spread in every direction.

Zhu Zhuqing stepped out from behind the boulder, staring at Tang Feng without blinking.

"He... really did it?"

Tang Feng sat cross-legged beside the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon's corpse.

"Guard me."

Zhu Zhuqing immediately moved behind him.

Martial Soul Possession!

Facing the forest, she vigilantly watched for any soul beasts that might appear nearby.

Tang Feng drew in the black Spirit Ring.

The Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring slowly descended and settled around the Ruination Blue Silver Emperor.

Boom!

Violent Soul Power surged into his body.

Every meridian in Tang Feng's body endured the impact of Ten Thousand Year Soul Power at once.

The improvements brought by physique forging were fully revealed.

His muscles, bones, and meridians firmly withstood the first wave of impact.

The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon's lingering spiritual power then surged into his consciousness.

The golden-red giant falcon spread its wings and launched a killing charge into Tang Feng's spiritual world.

Tang Feng gathered all his spiritual power.

Mental strength that had undergone four rounds of forging became an invisible barrier, blocking the falcon's lingering will head-on.

The Life Blue Silver Emperor appeared on its own.

Blue-gold life force continuously repaired his damaged meridians.

The soul bone in his right leg also emitted a gentle glow.

Every time he was injured, his body recovered even faster.

Meanwhile, the Ruination Blue Silver Emperor continuously devoured the violent power within the Spirit Ring, refining it into his own Soul Power.

Time passed little by little.

The sky shifted from bright to dark.

Zhu Zhuqing remained by Tang Feng's side the entire time.

Several hundred-year soul beasts were drawn over by the aura of the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, only to be driven away by her in advance.

Until the following morning.

The Soul Power fluctuations around Tang Feng finally stabilized.

The black Spirit Ring completely fused into the Ruination Blue Silver Emperor.

He abruptly opened his eyes.

Level twenty.

Level twenty-one.

Level twenty-two!

The immense energy brought by the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring allowed his Soul Power to break through three levels in succession.

[Rewards for three consecutive level-ups are being calculated!]

[Obtained three Forging Tools!]

[Silver, gold, silver!]

The first silver Forging Tool descended.

A warm current rapidly merged into his arms and torso.

[Silver Forging Tool, strength tempering!]

[Strength increased by 5%!]

The second golden Forging Tool turned into a stream of golden light and merged into his Soul Power meridians.

[Golden Forging Tool, Soul Power quality tempering!]

[Soul Power quality increased by 10%!]

The final silver Forging Tool entered the depths of his consciousness.

[Silver Forging Tool, mental tempering!]

[Mental strength increased by 5%!]

[Current total!]

[Strength increased by 45%!]

[Agility increased by 40%!]

[Mental strength increased by 45%!]

[Physique increased by 25%!]

[Soul Power quality increased by 35%!]

Tang Feng raised his left hand.

The Ruination Blue Silver Emperor grew from his palm.

A yellow Spirit Ring and a black Spirit Ring rose in sequence.

The pressure released by the Ten Thousand Year second Spirit Ring forced the surrounding grass and trees to bend outward.

Information about the new soul skill entered his consciousness.

Second soul skill!

[Star-Binding Annihilation!]

Dozens of meters away, an ancient tree that required several people to encircle was locked onto by black light.

The ground suddenly split open.

Nine thick vines burst forth from nine directions, instantly wrapping around the trunk.

Fine star patterns emerged across every vine.

Nine forces erupted inward at the same time.

Boom!

The ancient tree snapped in half.

Broken wood and branches scattered across the ground.

Zhu Zhuqing stood nearby, silent for a long time.

She first looked at the black Spirit Ring, then at Tang Feng's completely uninjured body.

"You're really a monster."

Tang Feng rose from the ground.

"A monster?"

He brushed the dust from the hem of his clothes.

"You said yesterday that a thousand-year Spirit Ring was the limit."

"The limit for normal people."

"Then what am I?"

"A monster."

Tang Feng glanced at her.

"You didn't say that when I saved you."

Zhu Zhuqing pressed her lips together, and her eyes relaxed somewhat.

"I'm making up for it now."

Tang Feng dismissed the Ruination Blue Silver Emperor.

"Repaying kindness with enmity."

Zhu Zhuqing froze for a moment.

Watching Tang Feng's retreating back as he walked ahead, a faint smile finally appeared on her lips.

"I kept watch over you all night."

"That's why I didn't leave you here."

"Tang Feng."

"Mm?"

"You're actually quite annoying."

"Likewise."