"Hahaha! The Beast God Di Tian was nothing special!"
Having noticed the faint expression of pain on his opponent's face, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff immediately burst into wild laughter.
Then he bent his hind legs, assuming a stance as though he were about to continue attacking.
This enraged the Beast God Di Tian standing opposite him.
"You damned Lion Dog, I..."
"Roar!"
It seemed Di Tian had truly been enraged.
Red-and-black Soul Power poured from his body, instantly forming a vast haze that enveloped him completely.
Vaguely...
This humanoid figure seemed to be transforming, as a massive black shadow slowly emerged.
This was Di Tian's true form.
It had not appeared in many years!
"Hehe, you couldn't hold back already?"
After assessing the situation and his own position,
the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff immediately came up with a response.
He was not afraid of facing them head-on.
But Myriad Demon King and several other high-level Soul Beasts were harassing him from the side.
And Gu Yuena in the rear was no pushover either.
It was unrealistic to think he could kill them all right now.
What was more, after Di Tian transformed, many Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts appeared behind him.
They were all Di Tian's underlings.
Though individually weak in combat,
there were a great many of them.
Once he got tangled up with them, it would be difficult to break free.
So the best tactic at this moment
was to roam, just like in Honor of Kings!
And compared to these Soul Beasts before him, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's speed was also one of his advantages.
"Come on, chase me if you can!"
Having made up his mind, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff twisted at the waist.
He swiftly shifted from charging forward to turning around.
Then he began weaving ceaselessly through the enemy's encirclement!
"You damned Lion Dog!"
"Get him together! Surround him!"
Di Tian naturally saw through the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's scheme at a glance.
But faced with this fellow darting about like a golden bolt of lightning,
even Di Tian felt dizzy from watching him.
So he could only order his underlings behind him to swarm forward.
Although these roughly Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were far weaker than Ferocious Beasts,
as long as they made contact with their opponent, they could quickly slow the Lion Dog's advance.
Then Myriad Demon King and the others could fill the gaps and surely capture him alive!
"Come on, come on! You run like snails—you can't catch me, can you?"
"Hahaha! Di Tian, your underlings look pretty plump and delicious!"
This was truly pushing things to the limit.
He clearly knew they were trying to surround him,
but the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff was considering how to counterkill them instead.
If he could not kill Di Tian, couldn't he at least wipe out a few of his underlings?
"Roar!"
"Awoo!"
Soon, the first target appeared.
It was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Six-Winged Dark Gold Tiger.
Driven by greed for merit, it had charged ahead of its companions.
On the surface, this seemed very brave.
But in truth, it was exceedingly foolish.
Though it was less than five hundred meters from its nearest companion, it had given the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff an opportunity to hunt it down!
"You're the one!"
"I've been running for so long that I'm getting hungry!"
"Black tiger blood should be quite nourishing, right?"
"Whoosh!"
The golden lightning bolt charging forward suddenly reversed direction without warning!
He kicked fiercely off a towering ancient tree.
"Boom!"
The massive tree exploded.
Using the recoil, he transformed into a golden god of death and pounced straight at the isolated Dark Gold Tiger.
The Six-Winged Dark Gold Tiger had its gaping maw wide open.
Suddenly, golden light blazed before its eyes.
A fatal sense of crisis instantly engulfed it!
"Too slow, big tabby!"
A mocking laugh exploded beside its ears.
There was no time for it to react at all.
There was no flashy clash of Soul Skills.
Only the purest speed and violence!
A faint glint of dark gold flashed!
It was the incomparably sharp Heaven-Rending Claw.
Golden afterimages crossed past one another.
The defense the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had been so proud of was like paper!
"Shk!"
A sharp blade pierced flesh.
The Six-Winged Dark Gold Tiger did not even manage to scream.
Its enormous body suddenly stiffened before crashing heavily toward the ground!
"Thanks for the meal!"
"Di Tian, your underling isn't very bright, is he?"
"Gulp!"
"Rip!"
With a forceful bite and tear,
a huge chunk of flesh was ripped from the tiger's body, and it instantly lost its life.
As its body fell, a red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring emerged.
The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff did not hesitate either, opening his mouth and biting down on it!
"You damned brat! Let him go!"
Watching his subordinate get hunted right before his eyes,
Di Tian was instantly consumed by rage.
He no longer cared about appearances.
The Black Dragon flapped his wings and charged over at top speed.
But the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff was even faster.
This time, he did not linger over the Six-Winged Dark Gold Tiger's flesh.
Instead, he swallowed that Soul Ring whole, made another sweeping turn,
and rapidly charged into the shrubbery in the opposite direction!
He once again escaped Di Tian's dragon claws without a scratch!
"Roar!"
"You damned brat, if you have the guts, stop dodging!"
Seeing his empty claws
and the tiger lying in a pool of blood nearby,
Di Tian let out a thunderous roar.
His heart was filled with indescribable frustration!
If Gu Yuena had not ordered him to capture the target alive,
Di Tian would never have endured such humiliation.
He would have unleashed his ultimate move long ago!
Just as the giant dragon wailed,
an electronic notification that had not appeared for some time rang out in the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's mind once more.
[ Ding, congratulations to the host for hunting a Soul Beast over one hundred thousand years old for the first time. Your cultivation has increased to 250,000 years, and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Tribulation may be triggered at any time. ] [ Please prepare to undergo the tribulation! ] [ Ding, the system has detected that the Six-Winged Dark Gold Tiger's bloodline has undergone a fusion mutation with your Lion Mastiff Bloodline. ] [ Congratulations, you have obtained a new skill: Tiger's Minion... ]
Interesting!
Wasn't that an idiom?
It originated from the mysterious Eastern world of that blue planet.
Legend had it that prey eaten by a tiger had a certain chance of becoming something like a ghost.
They retained part of their skills and memories from life, yet were utterly loyal to the tiger that had killed them.
Those tigers with some cultivation would release their ghostly underlings to help lure prey.
That was how the saying Tiger's Minion came about.
"Interesting!"
"Isn't this the Spirit Soul System Huo Yuhao established in Douluo Continent II?"
Upon hearing the system's notification,
the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff suddenly had an idea.
Vaguely, he felt as if he had grasped something!
Something that could change the entire Douluo system!
Huo Yuhao's Spirit Soul System originated from the gift of the undead holy mage Electrolux.
It could turn a Soul Beast's energy and soul into a Spirit Soul with independent consciousness and place it within one's sea of consciousness.
In the original story, Huo Yuhao obtained seven great Spirit Souls through this method.
He then had those seven Spirit Souls master seven emotions and inherit the God of Emotions' divine position.
Though Tiger's Minion might not necessarily allow one to become a god,
it could still achieve a similar effect!
"I like it!"
"If I can turn Di Tian into my servant, that would be perfect!"
"And that Gu Yuena wouldn't be bad either!"
But just as the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff was letting his imagination run wild,
his Heavenly Tribulation descended once again!
"Rumble!"
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
"What?"
"Where did this Lightning Tribulation come from?"
"Have we seen a ghost? Is another Soul Beast undergoing tribulation?"
The high-level Soul Beasts present were all terrified by the anomaly in the sky.
After all, every hundred thousand years, a Heavenly Tribulation brought terrifying death.
Especially for those whose strength had yet to reach one hundred thousand years.
At this moment, they were scared witless.
"This is bad—it's that Lion Dog! How did this brat's vitality break through two hundred thousand years?"
Very quickly, the high-level Ferocious Beasts present discovered in shock...
This was the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's Heavenly Tribulation?
"Didn't this brat just pass the Hundred-Thousand-Year Tribulation? Why is the two-hundred-thousand-year one coming so soon?"
"Even a woman's period doesn't come as fast as his!"
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