Wiping Out the Wolf Bandits-While It's Still Warm!

With that, Lin Hao's figure flashed, and he appeared above the pack of Wolf Bandits.

Under three hundred bewildered gazes, Lin Hao gripped the Sea God Trident and drove his Soul Power to its limit. For the first time, the dazzling Sea God's Light shone across Douluo Continent.

Sea God's Light had an exceptionally powerful suppressive effect on evil and darkness.

The Wolf Bandits were naturally suppressed by it as well.

Every Wolf Bandit went limp in an instant. With Lin Hao's level forty-three Soul Power driving Sea God's Light, none of them could remain standing before him except the three Soul Emperor-level leaders.

"Roar!"

Seeing his companions collapse, and smelling an aura from Lin Hao that filled him with fear and revulsion, the leading Wolf Bandit roared and lunged at him.

A faint green glow wrapped around his burly body. This Wolf Bandit's command of the wind element was particularly strong.

Meanwhile, two other Wolf Bandits had circled behind Lin Hao and were quietly pouncing on him.

Four foreclaws swept upward. Their sharp black claws dragged green blades of light a full meter wide, forming enormous crescents that threatened to tear Lin Hao to pieces.

"Hmph!"

Lin Hao snorted. Four Soul Rings—two purple and two black, all beyond the norm—silently appeared around him. As the rings flashed, the Water Element in the air condensed into four huge water dragons that surrounded him.

First Soul Skill: Thousand-Layer Water Screen, Modified!

Under Lin Hao's control, three water dragons roared toward the three Wolf Bandits, while the fourth stayed at his side, ready to move at any moment.

Thousand-Layer Water Screen was a Soul Skill that combined offense and defense, displaying the Water Element's violence and gentleness to the fullest. The three Wolf Bandits now seemed trapped in the depths of the sea. Their swift movements slowed, and their fierce attacks lost their edge.

Entangled by the water dragons, they could barely move.

"Roar!"

Unable to break free of his water dragon, one Wolf Bandit bellowed and brought his foreclaws together above his head. Green light burst forth, turning into a two-meter blade that hacked straight down at the dragon.

The other two Wolf Bandits did not stand idle. They opened their mouths at the same time and spat out rings of green light that shot toward Lin Hao.

Cold light flashed across Lin Hao's face. His Second Soul Ring flared, and an instant before the attacks reached him, a colossal wave appeared out of thin air and crashed down ahead of him with the force of a surging sea.

Boom!

The wave's tremendous impact sent all three Wolf Bandits flying. Pressure closed in on them from every direction within the water, making their bodies convulse violently as blood poured from their eyes, ears, noses, and mouths.

Using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Lin Hao strode across the waves with the Sea God Trident in hand. He appeared directly above one green Wolf Bandit and raised the trident. Under the creature's terrified gaze, he drove it straight through his skull.

At the sight of their companion's death, the two remaining trapped Wolf Bandits flew into a rage. They pushed their Soul Power to its limit, and the green light around their bodies surged. Leaping clear of the wave, they slashed with their claws and unleashed dozens of green wind blades in an instant.

The wind blades of an ordinary thousand-year Gale Demon Wolf were only a little over a foot wide and less than three inches thick. The blades these two Wolf Bandits unleashed were each more than a foot thick, with fan-shaped edges over a meter wide.

Their power was in another league entirely.

Plants were shredded wherever the blades passed, and a string of piercing shrieks tore through the air.

"Unfixed Storm!"

Lin Hao swept up the Sea God Trident, sending a golden ring of light flying. The wind blades touched the ring and were eerily fixed in midair. The two Wolf Bandits' eyes widened, and even their movements faltered.

Lin Hao did not pause. Vast clouds of mist gathered as he swung the Sea God Trident, and terrifying waves of energy rippled through the air.

"Thousand Years of Emptiness!"

Mist engulfed the area. Explosions rang out one after another, followed by agonized screams from their center.

The two green Wolf Bandits were blasted into bloody wrecks. The weaker one had already lost all signs of life.

Only the Wolf Bandit leader remained, clinging to a sliver of strength.

The sight of his fallen companions and the smell of blood further inflamed his thirst for slaughter. He forgot his fear and activated his bloodlust ability.

Once he used it, he killed on instinct alone, with little need for conscious thought. Even grievously wounded, he believed he could defeat his enemy.

"These are the very Wolf Bandits from the original story?!"

Lin Hao was surprised when the Wolf Bandit leader activated his bloodlust Soul Skill. This was the same pack Tang San and the others had encountered in the original story.

That means the leader has a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, too.

"Now there's an unexpected windfall!"

Lin Hao chuckled. Under the leader's bloodthirsty stare, he charged—not at him, but straight toward the other Wolf Bandits, who had lost the ability to fight under Sea God's Light.

Wolf Bandit leader: ???

Once the leader entered his frenzy, his speed, attack, and defense doubled. But he also lost his reason, becoming a machine that knew only how to kill.

Naturally, Lin Hao could not be bothered to waste his strength. Why not wait until the leader ran out of Soul Power, then finish him off?

He was not like the Qian Family grandparents and grandchild. They knew their advantage lay in the sky and in speed, and that the Clear Sky Hammer excelled at explosive force, yet still insisted on meeting the hammers wielded by three generations of the Tang family head-on.

Was that not pitting their own weakness against their enemy's strength?

They had taken a God-Level Martial Soul and fought as though it were merely on the same level as the Clear Sky Hammer.

Did a fight only count if both sides clashed head-on? Had they never heard of fighting from a distance?

They had made a complete mess of it.

With Sea God's Light keeping them down, the ordinary Wolf Bandits were no match for Lin Hao. By the time he finished cutting them all down without so much as changing expression, their leader had exhausted his Soul Power and collapsed to the ground.

His depleted Soul Power and loss of blood had drained the last of his strength.

Lin Hao finished him off with an easy thrust of the trident.

He cut open the leader's thigh and extracted a right leg bone that shimmered with green light.

This Wolf Bandit had been no weaker than a Soul Emperor. By Soul Beast standards, that made him a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, so the bone was a genuine Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Its Soul Skill also granted a percentage-based boost. It was a fine Soul Bone.

"Senior Sea Horse!"

Holding the Soul Bone, Lin Hao called into the distance.

"Young master!"

Sea Horse Douluo, who had been standing by to support Lin Hao, approached. His eyelid twitched slightly as he looked at Lin Hao, who had slaughtered so many Wolf Bandits without a change in expression. A little more awe for the young man quietly took root in his heart.

"Senior Sea Horse, this Soul Bone is quite good. It's no worse than a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone. It's yours."

"Absorb it while it's still warm!"

Holding the Soul Bone, Sea Horse Douluo watched Lin Hao, who had already begun checking the "corpses" again. His expression turned complicated, and his breathing grew a little quicker.