Green Liquid Slays the Enemy

"Third Soul Skill: Golden Shadow Formula!"

Lin Yuan had somehow appeared more than ten meters behind Meng Baichuan. His third soul ring lit up, and over a dozen sturdy golden bamboo stalks, each as thick as a bucket and two or three meters long, suddenly shot up from the ground before him.

He made the same motion Long Jian from Armor Hero had used when releasing Cold Shadow Formula.

The bamboo stalks shattered, turning into clusters of bamboo spikes and leaves wrapped in golden arcs of lightning.

This was Lin Yuan's third soul skill.

It could be used for both long-range and close-range combat.

In close combat, he could concentrate all its power in his palm and strike at close range with either his palm or fist.

Its power far exceeded Lone Bamboo Throw.

At range, it could achieve an area-of-effect similar to Cold Shadow Formula. Its destructive power was astonishing; every cluster of bamboo spikes and leaves possessed one-third the power of Lone Bamboo Throw, greatly making up for Lin Yuan's lack of crowd-killing ability.

But this alone was clearly not enough to kill Meng Baichuan.

He had another scheme in mind and deliberately scattered Golden Shadow Formula's attacks.

"If it's Thousand-Blade Leaf Dance, then call it Thousand-Blade Leaf Dance. Why call it Golden Shadow Formula? Do you really think I've never watched Armor Hero?"

As a transmigrator, Meng Baichuan naturally understood the importance of choosing soul rings. He had read countless books on soul beasts and recognized at a glance that Lin Yuan's soul skill was the group attack soul skill of the Golden Sword Bamboo.

Thinking Lin Yuan intended to knock him off the cliff with it, he naturally would not let him have his way.

After all, this Martial Soul Fusion Skill consumed a great deal of Soul Power.

Once he pursued Lin Yuan down the cliff, the Martial Soul Fusion Skill would surely be difficult to maintain. By then, he would not be a match for the man before him.

Meng Baichuan immediately lunged toward Lin Yuan again.

At the same time, Lin Yuan's "Golden Shadow Formula" had already been unleashed.

Faced with the sky-filling bamboo spikes and leaves wrapped in golden lightning arcs, Meng Baichuan naturally did not dare lower his guard in the slightest.

Relying on the fifty-percent enhancement to all attributes granted by the Imperial Scale Armor, especially its boost to his mental power, along with the Martial Soul Fusion Skill's enhancement,

he narrowly dodged the vast majority of the bamboo spikes and leaves, avoiding being blasted off the cliff.

As for those he truly could not evade,

he could only endure them with the Imperial Scale Armor on his body.

After all, he had withstood even Lone Bamboo Throw. Bamboo spikes and leaves possessing only one-third of its power could not hurt him.

In an instant, he had already rushed before Lin Yuan.

Facing this transmigrator who had grown powerful enough to rival those Flash experts from The Outcast's world,

he did not dare be careless in the slightest. Rather than trying to grab Lin Yuan directly, he knew he would not be able to catch him that way.

Instead, he imitated Jiang Mo Douluo's eighth soul skill, Demon-Subduing Coiling Dragon Ring, using his body to block all of Lin Yuan's escape routes.

The moment Lin Yuan jumped, he would bite down while Lin Yuan was suspended in midair.

And indeed, Lin Yuan did exactly that.

The instant Meng Baichuan trapped him with his body, Lin Yuan flashed, appearing in midair. Ever since he had cast "Golden Shadow Formula," his hands had remained tightly clenched.

"Without anything to push off from, let's see how you block this now."

Meng Baichuan clearly had not noticed this. Seeing Lin Yuan suspended in the air, he was overjoyed and impatiently opened his massive jaws to tear into him.

At that moment, Lin Yuan finally opened his tightly clenched hands.

In his left hand, he held the Hundred-Year Lone Bamboo left leg bone dropped by his first soul ring. With his right hand, he flicked a finger, silently firing a drop of green liquid wrapped in Soul Power straight into Meng Baichuan's dragon mouth.

The four-clawed monster dragon froze mid-motion, its pupils contracting violently as it crashed to the ground. The golden light faded, revealing Meng Baichuan's human form.

He dropped to one knee, clutching his chest with his right hand, looking as though he had eaten himself sick. "Bastard, what did you just make me eat?"

"Nothing much. I just gave you a drop of Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew." Lin Yuan landed atop one of the Lone Bamboos he had created earlier, turned around, and looked down at him.

As he spoke, he could not help letting out a long breath of relief inwardly.

Originally, this drop of Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew had been prepared as a precaution for the four-clawed monster dragon formed by Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan's Dragon Snake Combined Strike, in case he could not stop their Martial Soul Fusion.

As for the Soul Bone in his other hand, he had considered that if Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew failed to restrain the monster dragon immediately, he could throw it onto the dragon's body as a foothold, use it to Flash away, and avoid getting the monster dragon's poison on his feet.

Who would have thought that Meng Baichuan could complete the Martial Soul Fusion Skill alone? Worse still, he possessed an External Soul Bone with extremely powerful defenses.

He had truly caused Lin Yuan no small amount of trouble.

It had made him unable to break through his defenses!

Fortunately, this drop of green liquid had ultimately done its job.

And the reason Meng Baichuan had suffered such a crushing defeat was that he had abandoned Meng Yiran.

Otherwise, with Meng Yiran sharing the green liquid's effects with him, it truly might not have been possible to restrain him the instant the liquid entered his stomach.

"You... how could you have something like this... Aah..."

Meng Baichuan naturally knew what Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew was. It was the green liquid condensed by the Heavenly Vial. For plants, it truly was Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew.

But for animals, it was the deadliest poison in the world.

Let alone him—even if a god came, if they did not expel this thing from their body in time, they would be finished.

Clearly, he did not possess the means to expel Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew from his body.

After a miserable scream, Meng Baichuan's body began to swell violently.

Very soon, his life entered its final countdown.

Before dying, he recalled both his past and present lives.

In his past life, he had merely been an ordinary fan of Douluo fanfiction.

After reading too many brainless fanfics that bashed Tang San and tortured Yu Xiaogang, he had literally been angered to death.

After reincarnating, he became Meng Yiran's younger brother, a person who either had not existed in the original work or had existed without ever appearing.

Perhaps it was a transmigrator's privilege, but he awakened Twin Martial Souls—the Dragon-Headed Cane and Snake-Headed Cane—with Innate Full Soul Power. He also gained the ability to wield both Martial Souls simultaneously and perform a Self-Body Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

He even had Meng Yiran as his older sister, beautiful and obedient to his every word, yet utterly without any romantic feelings for him.

The first time they underwent Martial Soul Fusion, their compatibility had already reached one hundred percent.

This granted them both cultivation speeds far beyond ordinary people.

But because of their blood relation, Meng Yiran repeatedly rejected him.

At some point, Meng Baichuan's love for this sister had turned into hatred.

Especially whenever he saw people like Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun trying to pursue Meng Yiran, his teeth would itch with hatred.

Though Meng Yiran rejected them on the spot every time.

Meng Baichuan knew, however, that it was merely because those two were not outstanding enough.

If she encountered Tang San in the future, she would very likely fall for him just as she had in the original story.

Following the principle that if he could not have her, no one else could either, the instant Lin Yuan appeared, he had conceived the idea of killing with a borrowed knife.

Once he obtained Lin Yuan's cultivation method, he would blame Meng Yiran's death on Dugu Bo.

Then Dragon Duke and Serpent Matriarch would go cause trouble for Dugu Bo.

Meanwhile, he could take the opportunity to plunder the Immortal Herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

Who would have thought that even after using his Martial Soul Fusion Skill and External Soul Bone, when victory should have been certain, he would ultimately lose to the Heavenly Vial that his opponent had kept hidden.

These thoughts flashed through Meng Baichuan's mind in only a few seconds.

Not long after, countless cracks appeared across his skin, green light shooting out from within. Several seconds later, his entire body exploded into a cloud of bloody mist.

Only a suit of armor-like Soul Bone glowing with golden light remained, floating quietly in place.