She Was Taken Away! (1 / 2)

As a divine artifact, Windhowl sensed its master's faltering aura and trembled violently. It fed its own power back into her, healing her injuries so it could continue fighting alongside her and defeat their formidable enemy.

Unfortunately, Yun Yun's internal organs had been displaced, almost twisted into a single knot. Her injuries were devastatingly severe.

Never mind continuing to fight; even standing up was beyond her now.

Though she could fight a Dou Zong expert above her own realm, that only applied to low-level Dou Zong experts.

Soul Three was a genuine seven-star Dou Zong, while Yun Yun was merely a six-star Dou Emperor. The gap of more than one major realm stood glaringly between them.

She had been blindly arrogant, believing that with the Wind-Control Art and the divine artifact Windhowl empowering her, and the Misty Cloud Sect as her home ground, she could put up a fight against any Dou Zong expert.

Even so, Yun Yun did not give up.

She quietly replenished her strength, using the divine artifact Windhowl to heal her injuries as she prepared for one final, desperate fight to the death.

Yun Yun forced down a mouthful of blood. While secretly healing her injuries, she gathered all her Dou Qi into a single point.

Whoosh!

An azure gleam flashed, and Yun Yun's aura rose to its peak. A razor-sharp presence erupted from the divine artifact Windhowl.

Her Dou Qi formed wings. With a beat of those azure-white wings, Yun Yun soared into the air.

She raised her sword toward the sky. Four azure tornadoes spiraled upward in reverse, moving under her control.

"Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill!"

Drawing upon her profound understanding of the power of wind, she compressed the hurricane again and again until it finally condensed into a tiny azure point above her sword's tip.

From that azure point, a sword ray as fine as the eye of a needle shot out, hurtling toward Soul Three at tremendous speed.

Caught beneath this strike, Soul Three sensed an extraordinary danger within it.

Knowing that this woman's fighting prowess defied all reason, and with half his hand still crippled, Soul Three dared not be careless. He decisively brought out his Evil Soul Hook. Relying on the hook and his own seven-star Dou Zong cultivation, he barely managed to neutralize Yun Yun's desperate counterattack.

The azure sword ray shattered, and the Evil Soul Hook was destroyed. Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill cleaved away half of Soul Three's body and severed one of his arms.

With his Evil Soul Hook destroyed and half his body mutilated, Soul Three clenched his five fingers into a fist in a frenzy of rage and hurled an utterly vicious punch at Yun Yun's head.

Soul Three held nothing back. This punch could shatter Yun Yun's skull.

After unleashing Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill, Yun Yun had completely lost the ability to fight.

Facing Soul Three's ferocious punch, she no longer had the strength to dodge. As though resigned to her fate, she waited for it to blast her head apart.

Perhaps imagining how bloody the coming scene would be, Yun Yun closed her despair-filled eyes.

Bang! At the last possible moment, the divine artifact Windhowl sensed the mortal danger its master faced and moved to protect her on its own. Emerald light flowed across its blade as it intercepted Soul Three's descending fist, shielding Yun Yun from the fatal blow.

The force of the recoil rippled from the blade, shattering every bone in Soul Three's fist. Flung backward by the backlash, he let out a howl of agony, his eyes bloodshot with pain.

Yun Yun fared little better. The recoil knocked her unconscious.

Once she lost consciousness, she fell into Soul One and Soul Two's hands, and Soul One bound her with the Evil Soul Chain.

This was to prevent Yun Yun from suddenly dying of her severe injuries and thereby losing her value.

After binding her with the Evil Soul Chain, Soul One hesitated briefly, then took a fifth-rank Life-Saving Pill from his Storage Ring with a pained expression.

Holding the Life-Saving Pill, he forced her mouth open and made her swallow it.

As for the grievously wounded, half-dead Soul Three, Soul One casually tossed him a Healing Pill for the sake of their bond as blood brothers.

Enduring the agony of his many severe wounds, Soul Three moved the hand whose bones had already been completely shattered, caught the pill, and swallowed it in one gulp, hoping to recover quickly and return to the Dead Soul Mountain Range to report as soon as possible.

After binding Yun Yun, Soul One feared an unexpected turn of events. Before Chen Yang could return, he left the Misty Cloud Sect at top speed.

Soul Two stayed behind to cover his retreat and leave a message for Chen Yang, telling him that if he wanted his wife back, he would have to come alone to the Dead Soul Mountain Range in the Central Plains.

He would also make a little trouble for Chen Yang by annihilating the Misty Cloud Sect, wiping its name from the Dou Qi Continent forever.

Because Soul Three's injuries were too severe, he carved out a cave abode in the mountains near the Misty Cloud Sect with Soul Two's help, using it to recover from his injuries and restore his cultivation.

Soul One curled his large hand into a claw and seized Yun Yun. Holding the Evil Soul Chain in his other hand, he transformed into a streak of light and shot toward the heavens.

Yet he had barely flown half a kilometer when a middle-aged man blocked his path.

The man barring his way had golden wings of Dou Qi behind him, a square, unremarkable face, and a faint medicinal fragrance about him. Though only in his twenties, he had somehow grown to look like a middle-aged uncle, with a thick, jet-black tuft of beard on his chin like the Thunder God's.

Soul One grew wary. He fixed a sinister gaze on the man before him, narrowed his shadowy eyes, then gave a mocking chuckle.

"Tsk! A Dou Wang?"

"A mere Dou Wang dares block my path? Do you have a death wish?"

Gu He had not blocked Soul One's path to make an enemy of him. He knew exactly how much he was worth.

The chance of rescuing Yun Yun from Soul One's hands by himself was zero.

Besides, even if he rescued Yun Yun, she would not belong to him.

He gazed tenderly at the unconscious Yun Yun, then turned his eyes toward Soul One and got straight to the point. "I did come to save someone, but that isn't all I came for. I think we might be able to work together!"

"Work together?" Soul One gave a disdainful chuckle at those words and said with extreme impatience, "Let's hear it. What do you have that could possibly interest our Soul Hall?"

As a Dou Wang expert, Gu He held a place of some importance in the Jia Ma Empire, but in the Central Plains, he would amount to nothing.

To Soul One, Gu He had nothing worth cooperating over.

Gu He knew that the other man came from the Central Plains, where experts stood as thick as trees in a forest. Offering to cooperate on the strength of his Dou Wang cultivation would never catch his interest.

However, besides being a Dou Wang expert, he was also a Sixth-Rank Alchemist.

"I know that my Dou Wang cultivation naturally wouldn't catch the eye of a wise and mighty Protector such as yourself."

Gu He's opening words struck right at Soul One's heart.

Then, however, Gu He abruptly paused before steering his words around another bend. "But my other identity will certainly interest you, Lord Protector.

"I am also a peak Sixth-Rank Alchemist, the foremost figure in the Jia Ma Empire's alchemy circles, hailed as the most gifted genius alchemist in the Northwest Region.

"With that status, I imagine we should be able to sit down and discuss working together!"

This time, surprise appeared on Soul One's face. Gu He's status as a peak Sixth-Rank Alchemist stirred a trace of interest in him.

Alchemists were scarce to begin with and highly sought after wherever they went, especially talented, high-ranking alchemists like Gu He.

"Let's hear it!" Soul One stared at Gu He with his murky, shadowy eyes and relented, adopting a recruiting tone. "If it's within acceptable bounds, I'll give it careful consideration."

"I'll join your Soul Hall and become its alchemist. You give her to me!"

Gu He pointed at Yun Yun, his gaze burning with desire and obsession. "I only want her!"