The Star Dou Great Forest had no shortage of hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts, but most lived in the Core Area. Moreover, the places where hundred-thousand-year soul beasts lived were usually mysterious and well hidden, so Huo Yuhao had come up completely empty-handed these past few days.
"Yuhao, I told you your luck would take a turn for the worse these days. Luck may be elusive and intangible, but sometimes it really does prove its worth," Electrolux said with a smile, stroking his beard.
"I refuse to believe it. I'll search the Mixed Area for another few days. If that still doesn't work, I'll head to the Core Area. Anyway, the Divine Sense Orb and the seven-colored Plane Dragon are almost finished merging. Once they're done, I'll be able to enter and leave the Bright Half-Plane whenever I please. Even if Di Tian himself comes, he won't be able to do anything to me."
Huo Yuhao was thoroughly frustrated, but just then, he suddenly froze.
First, Huo Yuhao heard a tiger's roar, then felt the ground shaking. He was instantly overjoyed, because his senses detected no powerful tiger-type soul beasts within several miles.
That meant the owner of that voice was likely even farther away. Anything capable of producing such a disturbance could very well be a Ten Thousand Year Beast King. He had truly worn out iron shoes searching in vain, only to find it without lifting a finger.
With that thought, Huo Yuhao immediately sprinted toward the roar.
On the devastated battlefield, not a single person could stand after one strike from the White Tiger King. The beast snorted disdainfully, then lifted a paw armed with razor-sharp claws and brought it down toward the three gravely wounded, unconscious people on the ground.
Zhang Lexuan's eyes nearly split with anguish. Although her soul power was depleted, a bright moon hung overhead. By drawing on the power of moonlight, she could still barely move.
She could not bear to watch her companions die before her eyes. Her powerful will unleashed astonishing potential, and in an instant, she actually dashed in front of the three of them, defiantly using her fragile body to block the fatal attack.
Bang...!
The gruesome scene she had imagined never came. She only felt herself suddenly enveloped in a warm embrace, a large, burning-hot hand holding her delicate body and filling her with a sense of safety.
Zhang Lexuan slowly opened her tightly shut eyes. When she saw the imposing figure before her, she went completely still. Beneath the moonlight, this tall, black-clad figure held the hundred-thousand-year White Tiger King's claw with one hand, preventing it from advancing even an inch.
Held in his arms, she could not make out his face clearly. All she could see was a somewhat familiar profile.
"If you don't want to die, take them and get far away. I'm under no obligation to divide my attention protecting you," Huo Yuhao said gravely.
Zhang Lexuan had not expected someone with such a warm embrace to speak so coldly. His voice sounded familiar, too, as did the way he pushed her away. Only when she clearly saw Huo Yuhao's face did she freeze on the spot, as though struck by a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
The person before me is actually the evil soul master who nearly ruined my chastity a few days ago?
Has he been following me all along?
But why would he save me?
His strength...?
How can he withstand an attack from a hundred-thousand-year soul beast?
"You idiot! You dare let your mind wander at a time like this?"
Huo Yuhao's rebuke snapped Zhang Lexuan back to her senses. Silently acknowledging her foolishness, she immediately took the three survivors and the bodies of the eight dead away from the battlefield. After settling everyone, she turned her gaze back toward the fight.
She did not believe that young evil soul master possessed enough strength to rival a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, but he was undoubtedly the last straw she could clutch at to save her life.
She did not have even a trace of strength left. Either a miracle would happen and Huo Yuhao would kill the hundred-thousand-year white tiger, or they would all die here together.
Under Zhang Lexuan's stunned gaze, Huo Yuhao moved.
Battle Blade in hand, he looked like a War God descending upon the world, lightning raging around his body and golden light blazing from his eyes.
Although he had something to fall back on, Huo Yuhao's expression remained grave. Hundred-thousand-year soul beasts represented the Douluo Continent's highest fighting power. Apart from those ferocious beasts that could be counted on two hands, hundred-thousand-year soul beasts already stood at the pinnacle of the Soul Beast Realm.
The hundred-thousand-year white tiger before him was only a little over twenty meters long and over ten meters tall, much smaller than the hundred-thousand-year Tai Tan and Sky Azure Bull Python in Douluo I, whose bodies exceeded thirty meters. Huo Yuhao was therefore certain this tiger king had something special about it. He certainly could not defeat it within three minutes. The tiger king's full-power burst was no weaker than his own, and his Divine Sense Orb martial soul was currently unusable. Thus, Huo Yuhao had to inflict the greatest possible damage in the shortest possible time, then use his speed to keep it occupied.
Use one's strengths to strike the enemy's weaknesses.
The White Tiger King's enormous size naturally limited its speed-at least compared to Huo Yuhao.
Holding the White Tiger King's paw in one hand, Huo Yuhao used the momentum of its strike to yank the paw forward, then leaped onto its head. Gripping the hilt with both hands, he plunged toward its enormous skull like a falling meteor.
The White Tiger King was also quite wary of the human who had suddenly appeared. After all, Huo Yuhao could match it head-on, so he was certainly far stronger than those little rats on the ground.
Seeing Huo Yuhao leap onto its head, however, it did not panic in the slightest. As the mighty White Tiger King, why would it fear a sneak attack from such a little rat?
It simply shook its head wildly and bounded up and down, springing a hundred meters into the air with each leap in an attempt to throw Huo Yuhao off.
But in the next instant, Huo Yuhao showed it the meaning of cruelty through his actions.
Huo Yuhao tightly gripped the White Tiger King's stiff fur to steady himself. At the same time, he kept using that fur as handholds, inching his way toward its face.
Huo Yuhao's target was its vulnerable eyes.
The White Tiger King continued leaping, making the entire ground tremble without pause. As time passed, it grew increasingly irritable.
Huo Yuhao snorted coldly. The White Tiger King's eye was now only a meter away. At that moment, he suddenly exerted force through his blade-wielding arm, driving a thrust backed by hundreds of thousands of kilograms of force into its eye.
Sensing danger, the White Tiger King instantly shut its eye. Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao's thrust had even precisely accounted for the location of the seam between its eyelids.
Its tough eyelids clamped around the Battle Blade, but apart from producing a teeth-grating scrape against the blade and its terrifying force, they accomplished nothing. Huo Yuhao's thrust drove straight in, and under his control, the entire blade sank into its eye.
Pain in the eye pierced straight to the heart, and the White Tiger King was instantly wracked with agony. Before, it had controlled its leaps; now, the excruciating pain sent it into a thunderous frenzy.
Seeing his strike succeed, Huo Yuhao held the hilt and performed a twisting flip in front of the White Tiger King's eye, turning the entire hilt through a full rotation. Only after completely churning its left eye to pieces did he pull out the Battle Blade.
"Aooo! Aooo! Aah!"
In an instant, blood mixed with translucent fragments poured from the White Tiger King's left eye, accompanied by its piercing screams.
Huo Yuhao did not pause for even a moment. He immediately set his sights on the White Tiger King's right eye.
Huo Yuhao had already tightened his grip, because the White Tiger King, its left eye destroyed, had fallen into a complete frenzy. It had even begun smashing itself against the ground, injuring itself in an attempt to throw that hateful human, Huo Yuhao, off its body.
At the same time, it kept its right eye tightly shut, guarding against the despicable Huo Yuhao.
But how could its vulnerable eye withstand Huo Yuhao's peerless thrust?
The outcome had long since been decided.
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