The Auspicious Beast Soul Spirit! Helping Huo Yuhao Form a Soul Spirit Contract!

Li Chen took the Skull of Destiny. It still carried the sacred aura of the Auspicious Beast's fire and light.

"You lucky brat!"

"You really hit the jackpot!"

Kong Deming stepped forward, laughing as he clapped Li Chen on the shoulder.

"You couldn't find an opportunity like this if you searched with a lantern, yet it landed right in your lap."

"Hurry up and absorb that Skull of Destiny."

"I've never seen a brilliant golden Soul Ring in my life. Can you even find a Soul Beast like that?"

Kong Deming had truly seen something new.

Huo Yuhao was dumbstruck too.

What kind of Soul Beast came running over, cried "Mom," and promptly sacrificed itself?

Li Chen nodded.

He immediately sat down to absorb the Skull of Destiny.

In the distance,

Gui Mei stared, mouth agape. "Who is this kid? He got himself a Soul Bone just like that?"

Gui Mei did not recognize the Emperor Auspicious Beast. He could only sense that this Soul Beast was different from the others.

What he really cared about was that golden Skull of Destiny.

Soul Bones were rare to begin with.

Skull Soul Bones were rarer still.

He knew Pope Bibi Dong had a sixty-thousand-year Spirit Wisdom Skull Soul Bone that she intended to offer as the championship prize at the Continental Soul Master Tournament.

That alone showed how rare a Skull Soul Bone was.

Gui Mei sighed.

He and Yue Guan had followed Bibi Dong for years without getting a single Soul Bone.

Yet this kid was only a Soul King,

and he already had one.

Comparing himself to Li Chen was enough to make him sick.

Li Chen sat cross-legged and began absorbing the Skull of Destiny at once.

Because the Emperor Auspicious Beast had willingly formed the contract, he encountered almost no resistance. He finished absorbing the Soul Bone in less than half an hour.

"The same Skull Soul Bone skills."

Li Chen examined its innate skills and found they were identical to the ones Huo Yuhao had obtained.

The Skull of Destiny had three skills.

Soul Burst could launch a spiritual attack against a target.

Next was Mental Immunity, which could block three mental attacks per day.

Finally, Fate Judgment caused a target it struck to suffer declining fortune. In battle, the target would expose openings of its own accord.

This Skull of Destiny also differed from other Skull Soul Bones: it would evolve as Li Chen grew stronger.

Besides gaining the Skull of Destiny,

Li Chen's Soul Power broke through the level-fifty barrier, climbing straight to level fifty-four.

The Soul Skill he gained

was Chip Splitting, which his supercomputer had simulated in advance.

"Good lad! Coming to the Star Dou Great Forest really paid off!"

Kong Deming clapped Li Chen on the shoulder and laughed.

Huo Yuhao watched from the side, full of envy.

Li Chen nearly lost his composure when he saw Huo Yuhao.

Making the Emperor Auspicious Beast sacrifice herself to me right in front of Huo Yuhao—does that count as cuckolding him to his face?

What a move!

"All right, Yuhao. Time to find you a suitable Soul Ring."

Kong Deming led the two of them onward.

They did not have to search long. Soon, Kong Deming sensed a pack of giant wolves with silver fur.

"Oh, Silver Moon Wolves. And there's a Silver Moon Wolf King among them, around fifty thousand years old."

"What do you think, Huo Yuhao?"

Kong Deming looked to him for an answer.

In truth, Kong Deming was surprised to see a pack of Silver Moon Wolves in the Star Dou Great Forest.

These Soul Beasts were native to the Sun Moon Continent.

In that case,

perhaps they had also existed on the Douluo Continent ten thousand years ago, only to go extinct there.

After all, Soul Beast extinctions were common. As the number of Soul Masters grew, so did their conflict with Soul Beasts.

Silver Moon Wolves were exceptionally rare Soul Beasts. They fed on mithril, and both their fur and bones were excellent materials for making Soul Tools.

The Silver Moon Wolf King's main attribute was mental, supported by the power of seven elements. Its strength was extraordinary.

But because it had so many uses,

even on the Sun Moon Continent,

it had been hunted nearly to extinction.

Kong Deming was delighted to find a fifty-thousand-year Silver Moon Wolf King. Even if Huo Yuhao did not want it as a Soul Ring, Kong Deming had no intention of letting the pack go.

Huo Yuhao studied it carefully. "I think it'll work. Its main attribute is mental, and its age suits me too."

"Good. You two stay hidden. I'll handle this!"

Kong Deming left the two of them behind

and flew above the wolf pack.

Gui Mei, hidden in the shadows, watched with eager anticipation. "Is he finally making his move? Let's see what this Titled Douluo from the Sun Moon Sect can do!"

"Awooo!"

One of the Silver Moon Wolves spotted the figure in the sky and immediately howled a warning.

The massive Silver Moon Wolf King bared its teeth and growled at Kong Deming overhead.

At the same time,

it roared to the wolves behind it, and the pack swiftly scattered in every direction.

It seemed

the Wolf King had sensed Kong Deming's strength and was preparing for the worst. It wanted at least some members of the pack to escape alive.

"Heh. Trying to run?"

Kong Deming hovered in midair, silver light gleaming around him. A huge silvery-white shield suddenly descended like an overturned bowl, covering the entire Silver Moon Wolf pack!

Spatial Imprisonment Field,

activated!

Terrifying spatial power erupted.

This was the power Kong Deming wielded best: Spatial Imprisonment!

With this move,

he could even bind Taotie Douluo Xuanzi and over a thousand Soul Masters at once. Its power was overwhelming.

What chance did a pack of Silver Moon Wolves, none older than fifty thousand years, have against it?

The panicked wolves rammed the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield again and again, only to find they could not break through. Worse, their bodies were rapidly restrained.

They lay helpless, like fish on a chopping block.

"Awooo!"

The Silver Moon Wolf King howled, its eyes blazing with fury.

Kong Deming meant to wipe them all out.

Desperate and enraged, the Wolf King unleashed a frenzy of elemental attacks at him!

Yet

as the dense barrage of elemental attacks reached Kong Deming,

they veered aside as if by magic. Every strike missed.

"What the hell? Is that a Domain Skill?"

Gui Mei was stunned.

A power that made an enemy's attacks miss outright was even stronger than his own ghostly intangibility.

After all,

Gui Mei's shift between tangible and intangible forms only worked against physical attacks.

Against energy attacks and mental attacks,

it was helpless.

Kong Deming's Spatial Distortion was plainly superior. It could even bend energy attacks away.

"Finished? My turn!"

Kong Deming chuckled and extended his right hand, curling his fingers as though gripping something.

Countless thread-thin rifts appeared in the air. They pierced the wolves' hearts, and the pack fell one after another.

Kong Deming

struck swiftly, precisely, and without mercy.

Not only did he kill the pack in an instant, he preserved the Silver Moon Wolves' bodies as intact as possible.

"Elder Kong, leave the pups and their mothers alive. Let them go," Li Chen suddenly said.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast had made the request from within his spiritual sea.

Kong Deming gave Li Chen a surprised look, then nodded. "All right. We'll do it your way."

He opened a small gap in the shield and released the Spatial Imprisonment on the mother wolves and pups, allowing them to leave.

The Silver Moon Wolf King turned to Li Chen, gratitude welling in its strangely human eyes.

Then,

resolved to die, it charged into battle with Kong Deming.

In less than half an hour,

Kong Deming landed a devastating blow on the Silver Moon Wolf King.

It collapsed, barely alive.

"Huo Yuhao, hurry and finish it off, then absorb its Soul Ring. Be careful not to damage its fur or bones."

Huo Yuhao nodded, stepped forward, and drew a dagger.

Ever since his mother had died and left him the White Tiger Dagger,

finishing enemies with a dagger had become his habit.

Of course, this was not the original White Tiger Dagger.

Just then,

Li Chen spoke. "Huo Yuhao, I have a way to make it willingly form a contract with you. Then you might not have to worry about the spiritual backlash when you absorb its Soul Ring."

"Huh? Seriously?"

Huo Yuhao was startled and hesitated.

"Let me try. If it doesn't work, you can absorb the Soul Ring yourself."

"Okay. Let's do it."

Huo Yuhao nodded.

A moment later,

Li Chen stepped forward and began chanting a Necromancy spell. The Soul Spirit Ritual had begun.