Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King

As Xiao Dong sped onward, the trees around him grew so thick that hundreds of people could barely have encircled a single trunk. The Soul Power of heaven and earth hung in the air, almost viscous. At the fringes of his Spiritual Detection, fearsome beings whose auras rivaled those of human Soul Douluo flickered in and out of view.

But Xiao Dong had no interest in brute beasts without the slightest Mental Attribute. He swept the area relentlessly with his Heavenly Eye of Penetration.

After roughly a dozen minutes of searching, Xiao Dong came to an abrupt halt above a dark poison marsh hidden beneath a towering cliff.

"What a dense wave of malevolent thoughts..."

Xiao Dong looked down at the roiling black miasma, so thick that sunlight could not pierce it. At last, keen interest rose in his eyes.

Through the penetrating light of his vision, he saw a terrifying colossus lurking deep in the putrid marsh, as though carved from purple crystal!

It was also a Purple Spirit Lynx, but more than twice the size of the others. It occupied the marsh like a small mountain, with three vertical eyes on its forehead that glowed with a sinister, bloody light.

With every breath it took, a violent mental storm swept through the dense black miasma, tearing apart the minds of any Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts unfortunate enough to stray nearby!

A top-tier mutated king with eighty thousand years of cultivation: the Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King!

"An eighty-thousand-year mutated Mental Attribute Soul Beast..."

Xiao Dong folded his arms and gazed down at the terrifying beast, which seemed to have crawled from an ancient abyss. A cold curve of satisfaction touched his lips, and his soft laugh echoed over the lifeless marsh.

"It hasn't crossed the hundred-thousand-year threshold, but as material for my Second Soul Ring, I suppose it just barely passes muster."

On the Douluo Continent, an ordinary Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was already troublesome for a Soul King or even a Soul Emperor. At the fearsome level of eighty thousand years, even an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo would have to give it a wide berth in a head-on encounter, let alone an ordinary Soul Saint.

What was more, the beast hidden in the Black Miasma Poison Marsh was a mutated ruler of the Mental Attribute!

Mental attacks had neither shape nor form and struck straight at the soul and the Sea of Consciousness. One careless moment could shatter a person's mind and leave them a walking corpse. Even a true nine-ring Titled Douluo would face this eighty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King with a grave expression, not daring to let down their guard.

Yet Xiao Dong hovered proudly above the marsh, looking at the savage colossus below. Not a trace of fear or caution crossed his dark eyes.

"An eighty-thousand-year Mental Attribute Soul Beast makes a fine whetstone. After refining the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's god-level source, I'd like to see just how deep my mental reserves run!"

A faintly cold, playful smile tugged at Xiao Dong's lips. He made no attempt to hide his aura. Instead, he descended lightly through the air and strolled toward the roiling, fetid marsh as though taking a leisurely walk.

"Roar!"

The instant Xiao Dong stepped into the air above the marsh, the deathly still black mire below began to churn violently.

A roar like the shrieks of ten thousand tormented souls tore through the air. Three dazzling crimson eyes snapped open within the black mist like demonic pupils from the nine netherworlds!

The Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King's crystal-hard purple fur stood on end. With the vicious instincts honed over eighty thousand years, it sensed the tiny human's brazen intrusion almost at once.

To its senses, the boy did not even show half a ring of Martial Soul radiance. How dared a human whelp, still wet behind the ears, stride so openly into its territory?

"Buzz!"

Without further testing, the enormous, abyss-like blood eye on the Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King's forehead flew wide open. A nearly tangible dark-purple mental storm, carrying a terrifying force that seemed capable of tearing heaven and earth apart, surged straight at Xiao Dong's face!

In its wake, even the hard rock walls of the marsh lost a thick layer of stone dust. Had it struck an ordinary Soul Saint squarely, their Sea of Consciousness would have been blasted into chaotic dust in an instant!

Yet faced with a blow capable of gravely wounding a high-level expert, Xiao Dong did not even consider raising a hand to summon the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

"Eighty thousand years' worth of jumbled thoughts, and you dare show off your soul attacks before me?!"

Xiao Dong gave a cold laugh. The vast Sea of Consciousness within him surged with towering waves, and brilliant platinum light burst from the depths of his pupils!

His boundless mental power became a gigantic blade that seemed to reach the heavens. He used no elaborate Soul Skill, relying only on the absolute dominance of his million-year source as he brought it crashing down upon the dark-purple mental storm!

"Boom!"

A deep mental detonation sounded in the air. Its piercing blast sent waves of mud surging dozens of meters high from the poison marsh below!

But the expected fierce struggle never came. The instant the Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King's strongest mental attack touched Xiao Dong's platinum divine sense, it was like a thin sheet of paper pressed against a red-hot brand. In less than half a second, that immense divine sense crushed it to pieces!

"Awooo!"

Its mental attack shattered head-on with such overwhelming force, the Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King's massive body convulsed. Black, bloody tears streamed from all three of its eyes as it let out a shrill cry of pain.

Amid the spray of mud and shattered stone, a slender figure in black emerged unhurriedly from the broken mental storm. Xiao Dong walked through the air with both hands in his pockets, unhindered, his expression utterly calm.

As the human boy drew closer, terror from the depths of its soul finally broke through the Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King's savage expression!

In all its eighty thousand years of memory, not even the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest had ever exerted such vast, suffocating pressure on it in a contest of pure mental power!

Within the soul and Sea of Consciousness of this seemingly teenage human boy dwelled a terrifying god looking down upon the mortal world!

"Roar!"

Sensing a mortal threat, the Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King flew into a hysterical frenzy. Its three crimson eyes rapidly filled with blood, then shriveled before the naked eye.

A dark-purple ray steeped in death and decay burst from the center of those three eyes like a beam of destruction!

Its innate lethal skill: Three-Eyed Soul-Exterminating Light!

This killing blow, into which it poured all its cultivation and soul power, could slay an ordinary Eight-Ring Soul Douluo in an instant. Even a Titled Douluo struck head-on would suffer grievous damage to their mind, though their body remained intact!

Yet as Xiao Dong watched the deadly light tear through the air toward him, the last trace of appraisal vanished from his eyes. They turned utterly cold, and he shook his head in disappointment.