Everyone broke through in three days? The Soul Fighting Arena erupted

The raging winds in Dark Canyon gradually subsided. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, who had been watching anxiously from above the cliff, leaped down as soon as they sensed the pressure dissipate.

"Brother Su Chen!!" Ning Rongrong still wore Su Chen's white robe over her shoulders.

After the awakening of her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, her abundant soul power made her as light as a swallow.

When she saw Su Chen standing unharmed on the blue stone, the heart lodged in her throat finally settled back into her chest.

The girl's eyes grew warm. Forgetting all about restraint, she hurried forward and naturally wrapped both hands around Su Chen's other arm.

Zhu Zhuqing stopped just behind her. Her gaze swept over the surrounding forest, which had been razed to the ground, and the terrifying crater more than ten feet deep. Her shock was beyond measure.

Born into the nobility of the Star Luo Empire, she knew better than anyone how overwhelmingly powerful a Titled Douluo was.

Yet the man before her had emerged unscathed from the heart of such a terrifying maelstrom.

"Sister Xiao Wu, are you all right? That giant ape just now..." Ning Rongrong looked Xiao Wu up and down, her voice filled with lingering fear.

"Sorry to worry you! I'm fine." Xiao Wu playfully stuck out her tongue, released Su Chen's arm, and spun lightly in place, her pink-and-white skirt fluttering in the breeze.

The next second, three dazzling soul rings-two yellow and one purple-slowly rose from beneath her feet. Their brilliant halos were especially striking in the dim canyon.

"Look~ Not only am I fine, I even ran into a thousand-year Lightning Rabbit and absorbed my third soul ring!" Xiao Wu lifted her chin with an adorably smug air, her scorpion braid swaying merrily behind her.

"I'm a rank thirty-one Battle Soul Elder now!! Brother Su Chen, my first soul skill is Waist Bow, and my second is Charm. My third soul skill is the incredibly powerful Teleportation! Within a hundred meters, I can appear anywhere with a single thought, and I can use it over and over in a day!"

The moment she finished speaking, Xiao Wu's figure flickered, leaving a pink afterimage in midair. The next second, she appeared out of thin air beside Zhu Zhuqing and cheerfully wrapped an arm around her slender waist.

The corners of Zhu Zhuqing's lips lifted slightly. "An incredible agility-attack skill. In a head-on fight, teleporting a hundred meters is enough to completely disrupt any opponent's rhythm."

Ning Rongrong was equally delighted. She gazed brightly at Su Chen. "That means everyone in our Dragon God Team is now a genuine Soul Elder!"

Hearing the undisguised pride in Ning Rongrong's voice, Su Chen chuckled warmly.

He raised a hand to ruffle Xiao Wu's hair, his fingertips brushing her delicate cheek and prompting her to nuzzle obediently against his palm.

"Our initial goals for this trip to the Star Dou Great Forest have been fully achieved."

Su Chen turned to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing. "Let's rest here for a while and take stock of our gains before heading back to Suotuo City."

"Okay!!" the three girls answered in unison, their expressions full of trust in and reliance on Su Chen.

Zhu Zhuqing took the initiative to retreat to the top of the rock wall at the canyon's outer edge, keeping watch over their surroundings.

Ning Rongrong obediently took a clean cushion and fresh water from Xiao Wu's portable soul tool, then carefully wiped the dust from the hem of Su Chen's robe.

Su Chen then sat cross-legged on the blue stone again and closed his eyes.

His mind grew utterly still. Deep within his consciousness sea, the silent system interface quietly unfolded, clear text appearing in his perception:

[Fated suppression: Caused Child of Destiny Tang San's Dao heart to collapse completely, severed his meridians a second time, and drastically reduced his fortune; triggered Dark Devouring Mutation in his martial soul, cutting off the pivotal nexus of his righteous-path fortune!]

[Suppression of the guardian: Clashed head-on with Divine Slaughter's Domain, forcing Tang Hao's old injuries to flare up and driving him to flee to Slaughter City!]

[Overall assessment: Supreme divine-grade critical hit!]

[Critical-hit rewards issued:

1. Advanced chapter of "Ancestral Dragon Hegemony Body Art"-Dragon Bone Tempering (draws Pure Yang Dragon Aura into the bones, reforges the entire skeleton into divine bones, greatly enhances physical strength and defense, and grants absolute pressure);

2. Second-stage advancement of "Delusion-Breaking Divine Pupils"-Insight into All Things (sees through falsehoods and illusions, perceives the pathways of an opponent's soul power circulation and their weaknesses, and observes all flows of energy below the divine level from extreme distances)

3. Pure Yang Dragon Marrow body-tempering feedback: Your soul power capacity has expanded again, and the toxicity and penetrating power of the Dark-Gold Dragon Spider Spears have doubled!]

Boom! A vast torrent of heat, like the celestial river pouring down from the nine heavens, plunged straight into Su Chen's dantian sea of energy!!

The savage energy of the advanced chapter of "Ancestral Dragon Hegemony Body Art" transformed into blazing divine hammers, each scorching beyond measure, and crashed down!!

Crack!! Crack!!

Under the deep, boundless torrent of Pure Yang Dragon Aura, a dazzling dark-gold sheen rapidly spread across the surface of his bones.

At the same time, warmth gathered between Su Chen's brows, and the double pupils deep within his consciousness sea suddenly focused.

The second stage of [Delusion-Breaking Divine Pupils] fully awakened. When he opened his eyes again, the very structure of the world underwent an earth-shaking transformation in his sight.

The faint fluctuations of soul power drifting through the air and the venomous insects crawling beneath the canyon's crevices all became trails of flowing light, visible in the finest detail!

Although his soul power was still capped at rank forty, his Dragon Bone Hegemony Body and Pure Yang Dragon Aura alone now gave him enough explosive physical force to shatter an ordinary Soul King's defenses with a casual movement!!

If he deployed all eight Dark-Gold Dragon Spider Spears as well, he could hold his own even against a rank sixty Soul Emperor in a head-on confrontation!!

As for Tang San, who had fled to Slaughter City... Su Chen tapped his fingertips against his knee, a cold glint showing in his eyes.

With his meridians completely ruined and his martial soul fallen into darkness, even if he entered Slaughter City, he would be nothing more than a trapped beast struggling in blood-soaked mud.

"Brother Su Chen, have you finished recovering?" Ning Rongrong keenly sensed the immense pressure around Su Chen recede. She approached softly and offered him a warm, soft cloth.

Su Chen took the cloth and wiped his hands, his gaze passing over each of the three girls.

Xiao Wu was lively and eager, Zhu Zhuqing coolly beautiful and composed, and Ning Rongrong radiant and tender. All three carried imprints of Ancestral Dragon Blood Essence within them to varying degrees.

"Pack up. We're heading back to Suotuo City." Su Chen rose, his white robe snapping in the wind.

"Oh, yeah!" Xiao Wu excitedly waved her little fist. "We still haven't collected all our points and Gold Soul Coins from the Great Soul Arena!!"

One day later, at the southern gate of Suotuo City in the Balak Kingdom.

People streamed through the bustling streets like threads in a tapestry, while vendors' cries rang out without end.

The instant Su Chen stepped through the city gates with the three breathtaking girls, they drew the eyes of nearly every passerby along the way.

Such a stunning group, whether in bearing or appearance, utterly eclipsed every commonplace beauty in Suotuo City.

The four did not linger in the streets. They headed straight down the main thoroughfare and made their familiar way to the Soto Great Soul Arena.

Above the towering archway, a massive crystal relief gleamed in the midday sunlight.

"Is that... the Dragon God Team?!"

"It's them! The Dragon God Team that went undefeated in the Great Soul Arena a few days ago and toppled a veteran powerhouse team head-on!"

"Look at their badges! Wait... what's going on with their soul power fluctuations?!"

Many of the Battle Soul Masters and spectators who frequented the hall instantly recognized Su Chen's group. Yet when some keen-sensed, high-ranking Soul Masters tried to probe their soul power, their expressions all changed at once!

"That agility-attack girl in black... wasn't she only a Soul Grandmaster? How have her soul power fluctuations already reached the Soul Elder realm?"

"And that little girl with the scorpion braid has risen above rank thirty too!"

"Heavens, they were clearly only rank twenty-nine three days ago! How did they go away for one trip and all come back as Soul Elders?"