The three set out at once.
Kong Deming would protect them, while Ji Juechen would obtain his ninth Soul Ring.
As for Li Chen, his Computer Martial Soul could connect directly to satellites in space, making him the perfect person to record the data.
"That Gui Mei brat left more than half a month ago. Saves this old man the trouble of going around him."
Kong Deming took Li Chen and Ji Juechen straight toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
Heaven Dou City was in a peculiar position. Even Gui Mei had not dared stay there long.
They arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest once more.
Kong Deming headed straight for its core.
"Ji Juechen, I'd say your ninth Soul Ring ought to be a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring at the very least."
Ji Juechen nodded. "Thank you, Elder Kong."
Kong Deming nodded.
The three released several automated detectors. Working with the satellite overhead, they quickly began searching for Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
"This old man has a question, Li Chen. If we fire a Level 8 Fixed-Installed Soul Tool Shell here, won't it draw Beast God Di Tian?"
Kong Deming sounded worried.
That was his only concern.
Beast God Di Tian, the Emerald Swan Bi Ji, Xiong Jun, the Hell Demon Dragon King, the Scarlet King, and the Myriad Demon King—the six Ferocious Beasts were all here.
Every one of them was at least three hundred thousand years old. Even the weakest rivaled a human Super Douluo, if not a Limit Douluo.
If they stirred Di Tian into action,
Kong Deming knew he was no match for him.
"It'll be fine. I have a way."
Li Chen answered.
Kong Deming and Ji Juechen looked at him. "You brat, you have a way to deal with Beast God Di Tian?"
"I can't beat him in a fight yet, but the Emperor Auspicious Beast's Soul Spirit is inside me. Di Tian won't kill me. If he does, the Emperor Auspicious Beast will truly die. So there's no need to panic."
Kong Deming chuckled.
He did not really understand this talk of the Emperor Auspicious Beast and its fortune.
But since Li Chen had said so, he felt it was worth a try.
If it failed, they could always run—to Spirit Hall, for instance. Wasn't Qian Daoliu over there a Limit Douluo?
Qian Daoliu was no ordinary Limit Douluo, either. He possessed Angel Divine Power. With the boost he received around the Angel Sacred Hall, he could probably give Di Tian a fight.
Before long,
one of the detectors began beeping an alarm.
Li Chen opened his Computer and checked. The images the detector sent back showed the Sky Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
"Well, this must be fate. Old Ji, what do you think of those two?"
"The python's good. It has spatial and water attributes. Forget the big stupid ape."
Ji Juechen gave his answer.
"Good. Those two it is. We'll take them both."
Li Chen and the others landed.
They erected a launch rack.
Once they loaded a Level 8 Fixed-Installed Soul Tool High-Explosive Shell, positioning data from the Soul Tool Satellite let them automatically target Da Ming and Er Ming, more than ten thousand li away.
Through the Soul Tool Satellite's high-altitude camera, Li Chen could even see the pair bathing in a lake.
"Fire!"
Boom!
The launch rack erupted with a blast. The massive shell shot out, leaving a trail of smoke behind it.
In the core of the Star Dou Great Forest,
within a vast lake,
Er Ming chewed on a piece of fruit and grumbled, "Big brother, why did you make me let Sister Xiao Wu go? Humans are disgusting!"
Da Ming's immense serpentine body churned through the water, revealing an enormous horned bovine head.
"That was Sister Xiao Wu's choice. She likes that human named Tang San."
"But we don't even know where Tang San or that school of Sister Xiao Wu's has gone. And remember that old man from last time? He fought both of us by himself!"
Er Ming sounded uneasy.
Last time, he had brought Xiao Wu back, only for Kong Deming to follow him. If Da Ming had not noticed, Er Ming would never have known he had been followed the whole way.
Worse,
even with Da Ming at his side, he had only managed to fight that old man to a draw.
If the old Titled Douluo had not left halfway through the fight for some unknown reason, Er Ming had a feeling he and his big brother might not have beaten the old fellow at all.
"Humans..."
Da Ming sighed.
Humans lived such short lives, yet their talent was monstrous.
There was nothing they could do about that.
Just then,
Da Ming suddenly reared up. An intense warning of death struck between his brows, sending a chill through his entire body!
He raised his enormous horned head toward the sky. Within his field of vision, a huge shell was hurtling straight toward them!
"What... is that?!"
Er Ming sensed it too and immediately climbed a towering tree.
The shell startled birds into flight along its path as it bore down on them!
"Big brother, that's—"
"Run! Er Ming, run!"
Da Ming roared. He whipped his body around and fled in the opposite direction!
Er Ming had no idea what was happening, but he hurried after him.
The two giant beasts fled for their lives, smashing through countless trees along the way.
The Sky Azure Bull Python had no idea what the object was. But the threat of death told him that if it caught them, he and Er Ming were finished!
Yet
everything the two giant beasts did was futile.
The Level 8 Fixed-Installed Soul Tool High-Explosive Shell could track its targets, and it was far faster than they were.
The shell adjusted its course on its own. Flames blasted from its rear, accelerating it until it caught up with them in less than three seconds.
"No!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python had time only to tuck his head into his coils before the shell detonated between them, less than twenty meters away!
Bang!
Flames blossomed. A mushroom cloud rose, and a spherical shock wave spread outward from the blast.
The high-explosive shell set off the Soul Power of heaven and earth,
triggering a second, wider explosion within a hundred-meter radius!
Then
a third explosion erupted across a five-hundred-meter radius!
Boom! Boom! Boom!...
Wave upon wave of explosions piled onto the shock waves. Five blasts tore through the area in just seconds, vaporizing Da Ming and Er Ming on the spot!
Bang!
Tens of thousands of meters away,
the ground shook beneath Li Chen and the others.
A gale swept across their faces. Countless trees around the blast site had vaporized, the ground had melted into lava, and trees farther away had been ripped out by the roots.
A minute later,
Li Chen and the other two flew to the blast site.
A crater a hundred meters across had appeared. Beyond it, a wide stretch of ground was exposed lava.
Inside the crater,
Er Ming's body was gone. All that remained were his Soul Bone and Soul Ring.
Of Da Ming, only his horned head remained intact. His entire body had turned gray-white, and a gust of wind reduced it to ash and scattered it.
"You... you..."
Da Ming spoke faintly through the bovine head that remained.
He had no idea what had happened. Er Ming had been vaporized before he could even react.
Shnk!
Ji Juechen stepped forward and drove his sword through Da Ming's head. A red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring appeared.
Li Chen looked around. Several Soul Bones lay nearby, along with dozens of Soul Rings.
One Soul Tool Shell they had spent a month making could easily take the life of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
Ji Juechen sat down where he stood and began absorbing the Soul Ring.
Meanwhile,
the enormous disturbance soon caught the attention of Di Tian, deep in the forest's core.
In the Sunset Forest,
Dugu Bo was practicing his poison-purging method
when he suddenly sensed something. He took to the air at once and scanned his surroundings.
Soon,
he spotted a man missing an arm and a leg, frantically searching a cave.
Could that really be Tang Hao?
Dugu Bo was suspicious.
Before leaving, Li Chen had told him to keep an eye on this cave. Tang Hao might come here, he had said, and if he did, Dugu Bo had to capture him.
At the time, Dugu Bo had doubted it. Even if Tang Hao came, how was he supposed to capture the continent's youngest Titled Douluo?
But
the moment he saw Tang Hao,
Dugu Bo understood.
Tang Hao had lost an arm and a leg, and his aura was plainly feeble.
"Ah Yin... Where's Ah Yin?"
Tang Hao was stunned.
He turned the entire cave upside down in disbelief, searching so desperately he might have dug three feet into the ground.
But Ah Yin was gone.
"What?! What happened here?!"
Tang Hao was shocked!
After finally getting out of Spirit Hall,
he had planned to take Ah Yin away at once, then return to the Clear Sky Sect with Xiao San and hide there!
But Ah Yin had disappeared!
Just then,
Dugu Bo appeared behind Tang Hao with a cold laugh. "Clear Sky Douluo, forgive me!"
Tang Hao whirled around in shock.
Before he could see his attacker clearly, Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor true body coiled around him. A fierce surge of poison struck Tang Hao, whose strength had fallen drastically, and knocked him unconscious.
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