Empty Strength, Yet No Combat Experience

"His four soul skills were powerful, but his battle awareness was abnormally weak. He blindly relied on soul skills and Evil-Exorcising Divine Thunder to pile on damage, completely ignoring how much using his soul skills drained him. Could it be that he had never experienced a proper battle before? Had he never even participated in a soul battle?"

Lin Yuan thought this to himself, while Zhu Zhuyun had already been scared witless.

Her pupils were stretched wide, her eyes filled with disbelief.

The attendants with two or three soul rings were one thing.

But it was hard to imagine that a Soul Emperor guard her father had assigned to her had actually been killed so easily by a Soul Ancestor.

He had crossed two soul rings and a gap of more than twenty Soul Power Levels to kill his enemy. What kind of joke was this?

"All right, this has nothing to do with you anymore. If you don't want to die, then get lost." Han Li held his sword in one hand and pointed it at Zhu Zhuyun. "Get lost, now. If you don't, I'll kill you."

He had no intention of killing Zhu Zhuyun. Otherwise, once Zhu Qing came to understand the situation and realized that Zhu Zhuyun had not only never intended to kill her, but had instead protected her indirectly, the two of them might develop a rift between them in the future.

"You..." Zhu Zhuyun's charming, beautiful face flushed red with anger. Her chest trembled from fury and fear, drawing breathtaking arcs through the air.

In the end, she glanced at Zhu Qing, who lay unconscious on the ground. After hesitating for a moment, she still left.

Zhu Zhuyun genuinely cared for her younger sister and was unwilling to kill her. That was beyond doubt.

But if Zhu Zhuyun truly had to choose between her own life and her younger sister's, she absolutely would not sacrifice herself for Zhu Qing.

At present, she could only hope that this murderous star who had appeared from who-knew-where had merely come out to play the hero and save the beauty.

Otherwise... Zhu Zhuyun did not think about what would happen next. She did not dare to.

Perhaps she did not want to see her younger sister humiliated, or perhaps she was worried that Han Li would change his mind.

Zhu Zhuyun fled at astonishing speed. After a few flashes, she disappeared into the depths of the forest.

Seeing Zhu Zhuyun make her move, Han Li did not hurry to treat the little kitty. Instead, he suddenly shouted, "Come out. You've been watching for so long. Are you still unwilling to show yourself?"

"He discovered me?" Lin Yuan frowned.

At that moment, he was circulating the two techniques within his body to conceal his aura. Not to mention this transmigrator who possessed the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords Martial Soul—even a Titled Douluo would be unable to detect him without deliberately releasing his mental power to search.

Previously, he had concealed himself in the bamboo forest behind Holy Soul Village. It was precisely through this method that he had watched Old Poison and the other four Titled Douluo pass overhead without being discovered.

The person before him did not seem to possess particularly strong mental power. How had he discovered Lin Yuan?

Could he be trying to trick him?

With that thought, Lin Yuan did not rashly reveal himself. He continued observing in silence while raising his guard.

"You're not coming out, are you? Then today, I'll drive you out myself."

His fourth and first soul rings lit up in succession. With the enhancement of the Giant Sword Technique, the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords in Han Li's hand instantly grew enormous, and he swung it down.

A thick sword aura more than ten meters long tore through the air, covering the bamboo forest where Lin Yuan was hiding.

Everywhere it passed, the bamboo forest created by Lin Yuan's Martial Soul was cut down.

In the end, it landed at the mouth of the cave, directly cleaving the entire cave and causing it to collapse.

"What terrifying power. Fortunately, I've already refined the Black Jade Divine Bamboo. Otherwise, dealing with him later would truly have taken quite some effort."

At some point, Lin Yuan had appeared in the open ground beneath the cave, less than a hundred meters from Han Li.

Just as the sword aura was about to strike him, Lin Yuan had used the Flash skill at the critical moment to evade its attack, swiftly arriving in the open ground more than ten zhang away from Han Li.

He was still dressed in black, his face covered, with a bamboo hat draped in gauze over his head. Looking at Han Li, he asked, "How did you discover me?"

"I presume you were secretly sent out by the Star Luo Imperial Family to monitor Zhu Qing, weren't you... What? Have you never heard of a domain? It doesn't matter if you haven't. In any case, after today, you'll be dead. Dead by Han's hand."

At that moment, Han Li seemed to have been possessed by Old Devil Han. He gripped his sword in his right hand as golden arcs of lightning flickered around it, making him somewhat resemble Han Li after he had just slain Tian Ku in the Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality anime.

Lin Yuan, however, wore an amused expression. If it was a domain, then everything made sense.

The Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords had been refined from Golden Lightning Bamboo. In the Douluo Continent, this thing was unquestionably the absolute king among all bamboos—or even among all plants.

Even the Blue Silver Emperor, upon cultivating to the Soul Sage realm and evolving the Blue Silver Domain to its third stage, could assimilate the plants within its domain. A domain related to Golden Lightning Bamboo naturally needed no explanation.

Yellow, purple, and purple soul rings rose from beneath his feet. For the first time, he did not conceal his soul rings before anyone. Looking at Han Li, he said,

"Just now, you recklessly threw out soul skills to kill that group of nobodies and that Soul Emperor, completely disregarding your own expenditure. So now, how much Soul Power do you have left?"

"A thousand-year second soul ring? Could it be that you're also..." Seeing the configuration of Lin Yuan's soul rings, Han Li seemed to realize something. His pupils abruptly contracted, and a trace of fear appeared in his eyes.

Lin Yuan did not waste any more words on him. His first soul ring lit up, and a bamboo staff shimmering with blue arcs of electricity appeared in his hand.

The first soul skill of the Lone Bamboo Martial Soul, Lone Bamboo Throw, could control the staff's length, with a maximum length of three meters.

The bamboo staff Lin Yuan created was not long, measuring only about a meter, making it suitable for surprise attacks.

He activated the Heaven-and-Earth Technique and the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula simultaneously. The arcs of electricity flickering across the staff's surface turned golden. At the same time, to be safe, Lin Yuan activated the Yellow Scale Armor for the first time, covering himself in golden scales resembling the black armor of Old Devil Han's Devouring Gold Insects.

With a fifty percent increase to all attributes and the enhancement of the two supreme techniques, Lin Yuan's speed was astonishingly fast.

With merely a flash of his figure, he appeared behind Han Li and thrust out with his staff.

Han Li had already expended a great deal of Soul Power trying to look impressive earlier. Now, faced with Lin Yuan's nearly teleportation-like speed, he could not react in time at all and could only hurriedly activate the Azure Essence Sword Shield to protect himself.

Two torrents of golden lightning intertwined. The golden lightning formed by the fusion of Lin Yuan's two techniques was actually no match for the Evil-Exorcising Divine Thunder and could only make up for its disadvantage through sheer quantity.

But that was merely in terms of lightning.

In every other aspect, Lin Yuan far surpassed Han Li in his current state.

The bamboo staff wrapped in golden lightning was incomparably sharp. The moment it collided with Han Li's Azure Essence Sword Shield, it sent the sword shield flying.

Under the force of the impact, the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords flew from Han Li's grasp. His body was hurled backward and crashed into a boulder, while the Azure Essence Sword Shield shattered with a resounding boom.

Han Li suffered a backlash from his Soul Power and suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood.