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Because of his Reignbow Arbiter Martial Soul, he had been born with exceptionally keen senses.

So he had sensed long ago that the young man had been watching him in secret these past few days.

He simply hadn't paid it much mind at first.

His senses were so sharp that the moment anyone looked his way, he noticed.

It didn't matter who they were or how powerful they might be. He would catch them.

He had instinctively assumed the watcher was one of the four Ferocious Beasts—Xiong Jun, Di Tian, Zi JI, or Bi Ji—there to make sure he left before taking Na'er away.

That was why he hadn't paid the watcher any special attention.

Then he realized the watcher's concealment skills didn't seem particularly refined—or perhaps the watcher simply wasn't that powerful.

If they had been a Ferocious Beast or an expert above the Super Douluo level, he could never have detected them at his current strength, even if they hadn't tried to hide.

The fact that he had detected them meant something was wrong. Their strength was probably no higher than the fourth ring: not too strong, but certainly not weak either.

That, however, made the difference in strength between them even harder to explain.

Today, as soon as he stepped out of the building's entrance, that watchful gaze had vanished.

That told him a great deal.

It meant the watcher's attention had never truly been fixed on him.

If one of the four Ferocious Beasts had come to supervise him, someone would surely have kept an eye on his every move. No one had.

The instant that gaze disappeared, Li Qingyue made his decision and doubled back without hesitation.

It meant the watcher's targets were likely both him and Na'er, not just Na'er.

With him away for the moment, they had merely chosen to go after Na'er first because she was easier to bully.

Gentle sunlight fell quietly around him.

Li Qingyue's Second Soul Ring suddenly lit up.

He raised the longbow in his hand, a bow that looked as though it had been forged from a galaxy, and aimed straight at his target.

As a precaution, though, he had used his first Soul Skill, Stellar Hunt Mark, before he noticed he was being followed—or rather, even earlier.

He had used it to pinpoint the watcher's location.

He had marked many people then, but under his gaze now, only one person still bore a mark.

Li Qingyue was too far away to see the woman herself.

As his second Soul Skill lit up, he slowly drew an arrow against the string of his deep-blue bow.

A trace of pale silver shone through the shaft, as though the light of a galaxy had seeped into it. It was dazzlingly beautiful.

Li Qingyue had no time to admire it.

His fingers loosened, and the arrow burst forth in an instant.

The moment it left the string, one arrow became ten. Ten distinct streaks of light shot in entirely different directions.

They scattered in all directions, then suddenly curved back together along strange arcs.

In the end, ten arrows struck at the young man at once from ten different directions.

It happened so fast and so suddenly that he had almost no chance to defend himself.

The arrows had made scarcely a sound from the moment they were fired.

Only when the ten arrows, each carrying terrifying power to erase life, converged on him did the young man finally react.

Alarm surged into his eyes, shot through with a trace of utter terror.

Jet-black fur erupted across his body. Behind him, the phantom of a massive black gorilla threw back its head and roared loud enough to deafen.

At the same time, four Soul Rings—two yellow and two purple—descended around him. The fearsome aura of a Soul Ancestor erupted in full.

Powerful as that aura was, it still fell short against Li Qingyue's second Soul Skill, Shattered Star Flurry, when unleashed so suddenly.

After the briefest pause, all ten arrows pierced him from different directions.

They met almost no resistance as they entered his body and passed straight through.

Against a Soul Master like him, whose abilities strengthened his body and whose defenses relied entirely on it, Li Qingyue's arrows were particularly effective.

They were not only devastatingly destructive; they also severely hampered the body's ability to repair itself.

Worse, the wounds they left could not close and could not be healed by any known means.

That was a trait unique to the Reignbow Arbiter Martial Soul's power against the remnants of Abundance. In this world, it proved exceptionally useful.

The ten arrows pierced the man from different directions and finally merged within his body. With a thunderous boom, a mist of blood burst outward.

The woman stood frozen, a sticky layer of blood mist coating her face.

Terror filled her eyes, impossible to hide.

Three purple Soul Rings descended around her, and a pitch-black staff appeared in her hand.

A vast aura rapidly spread from the staff as she swept a wary gaze around her.

Sensing the sudden appearance of another Soul Master's aura and seeing that staff, Li Qingyue frowned.

If he wasn't mistaken, it was the Qiangu Family's Coiling Dragon Staff.

He truly hadn't expected remnants of the Qiangu Family to appear here.

He was also extremely far away, already standing at the entrance to the residential complex.

The straight-line distance between him and the woman was at least eight hundred meters.

With buildings blocking his view, he hadn't been able to pinpoint her position.

Only when the man died and the arrows' power stirred slightly did he see what she looked like through that power.

Once Li Qingyue detected the woman, he wasted no more time.

His first Soul Skill lit up again, shining alongside his second.

Another arrow formed as he slowly gathered its piercing, destructive energy into one point.

The next instant, Stellar Hunt Mark's range suddenly expanded, locking completely onto the woman.

Li Qingyue sensed the aura of a three-ring Soul Elder from her, but he did not underestimate her.

He had just killed a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, but she had inherited the Qiangu Family's power. She was no ordinary Soul Ancestor.

Of that, he was certain.

After all, this world's system of power was not as rigid as it seemed.

Ten thousand years ago, the siblings Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen had been dazzling talents, yet hadn't they ultimately lost to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er, who had only two and three rings?

Clearly, even among geniuses, a gap in Soul Power did not necessarily decide everything—much less when it came to the people before him.

Li Qingyue had no intention of wasting words on them.

He drew his bow again and fired another arrow—another Shattered Star Flurry.

The terrifying arrow tore through the air.

A second later, then a third, he drew and fired again. Four or five arrows flew out in such quick succession that they seemed almost simultaneous.

They spread in different directions, tracing eerie, brilliant arcs through the air.

Under the woman's terrified gaze, the first arrow arrived.

She swung her Coiling Dragon Staff across to block it, and her third Soul Skill lit up at once.

The staff swelled enormously and smashed into the ground with crushing force.

The arrow and the ground beneath it shattered together.

But the next instant, another arrow silently pierced the woman's abdomen from an impossibly sharp angle.

Agonizing pain tore a shriek from her throat.

The third arrow followed, punching straight through her chest.

Her heart pierced, she opened her mouth and spat a mouthful of blood.

Then the fourth and fifth arrows arrived together, piercing her head and Dantian respectively.

Only then did the arrows turn back into streaks of starlight and sink into the woman's body. They exploded, blasting her body to pieces.