Huo Yuhao repeated the same maneuver, driving his vicious blade into the White Tiger King's right eye. After twisting it to shred the eye, he pulled the blade free and leaped away, landing steadily on the ground.
"Rooooar! Damn human! My eyes! I'll eat you!"
With both eyes destroyed, the White Tiger King had lost its sight completely. It could only rely on the powerful senses and keen nose of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to roughly pinpoint Huo Yuhao's location. Though its ferocity remained undiminished, its head was a gruesome sight.
With only a little time left, Huo Yuhao hurriedly mustered all his strength, gripped the Battle Blade in both hands, and stabbed viciously at the White Tiger King's right paw, the closest one to him. That paw alone stood half as tall as he did. His sudden thrust pierced straight through it, leaving two holes with one strike.
By then, he had exhausted all the genetic origin energy in his body, but the results were immensely gratifying.
The hundred-thousand-year-old White Tiger King had lost both eyes and the use of one paw.
Crippled.
Wracked with pain, the White Tiger King let out a shrill roar that rivaled its earlier sonic attack. Unfortunately for it, Huo Yuhao had already sealed his ears, so the attack had no effect on him.
"Human, your methods are too vicious!" the White Tiger King roared furiously.
Huo Yuhao snorted coldly.
"In a fight to the death, you still expect fair play? Today, either you die, or I live."
"Roar! I'll make you pay!"
With that, the White Tiger King immediately lunged toward Huo Yuhao. He did not dodge, instead taking its blow head-on before slashing at its neck.
Although those three minutes of pushing himself to the limit had exhausted his genetic origin energy, his soul power level remained unchanged. His slash still carried considerable force. It only opened a small cut, but that was precisely what he wanted.
The blow sent him flying, but despite taking that heavy hit squarely, Huo Yuhao was uninjured. After getting up, he met the White Tiger King's next ferocious attack, again refusing to dodge as he slashed the exact same spot.
After this repeated more than a dozen times, the White Tiger King finally realized something was wrong. Its neck had begun to bleed, and it was panting heavily. Yet Huo Yuhao, aside from also being slightly out of breath, had not even been injured beneath its storm of attacks.
"What exactly are you?"
The White Tiger King roared in fury!
Unfortunately, angry though it was, it could not see that Huo Yuhao's outer clothes had been torn apart, revealing the glossy black combat armor underneath.
The armor encased Huo Yuhao's entire body perfectly, leaving no gaps. Even more astonishingly, despite taking so many attacks from the White Tiger King head-on, its black surface bore not even a single mark.
The SS-Rank Full Combat Suit from the Swallowed Star World.
This was Huo Yuhao's trump card.
Luo Feng had already obtained the Meteorite Starship, and Babata had given him the Black God Suit aboard it. However, Luo Feng already had a Black God Suit at that point, so he gave this one to Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao was quite interested in the Black God Suit, but unfortunately, withdrawing it required thirty thousand withdrawal points. He gave up on it and instead spent one thousand points to withdraw an SS-Rank Full Combat Suit.
Although the SS-Rank Full Combat Suit from Swallowed Star was inferior to the Black God Suit in every respect, it could still block most attacks from king-class monsters. Withstanding the attacks of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was more than within its capabilities.
Moreover, since it was made on Earth, the SS-Rank Full Combat Suit cost very few withdrawal points.
Huo Yuhao had calculated everything from the start.
He would unleash his full power to half-cripple the White Tiger King, then slowly whittle away its health.
I've got a defensive cheat that locks my health. As long as the enemy dares to show a health bar, I can grind it to death. After sensing that something was wrong, the blinded White Tiger King stopped attacking and instead gathered all its soul power inward. The next instant, a savage, terrifying force erupted from within its body, accompanied by the ceaseless crackle of lightning.
Before Huo Yuhao's eyes, terrifying lightning power suddenly surged from the White Tiger King. Purple lightning crackled across the sky, and even the air carried a hint of annihilation. The rampaging bolts spread outward like silver snakes, quickly engulfing the entire battlefield.
Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes.
Seeing how small this hundred-thousand-year-old tiger king was, Huo Yuhao had suspected it might possess some special trick and had remained on guard the whole time. After all, tiger-type Soul Beasts in Douluo were rather bizarre. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, for example, had an innate skill so outrageously powerful that anyone without a cheat who encountered it would certainly die.
Thus, Huo Yuhao had been extremely careful, and his suspicions proved correct. This White Tiger King, which specialized in sonic attacks, was actually a Thunder Tiger as well. Its trump card was lightning power imbued with an aura of annihilation.
Within the lightning domain, Huo Yuhao felt a tingling numbness spread over his body. However, with his SS-Rank Full Combat Suit neutralizing nearly eighty percent of the lightning, he remained largely unaffected. Only the high temperatures generated by the lightning made him feel a little hot.
The White Tiger King's speed had clearly increased considerably with lightning enveloping its body, but Huo Yuhao, whose stamina was gradually recovering, was faster still.
Surrounded by lightning, he charged straight against its current.
His blade struck the wound on the White Tiger King's neck, which had been scorched by lightning and was about to scab over, deepening it. After all, this was an advantage he had worked hard to establish.
Strike one spot, pierce one point, and break the whole through that single opening.
On the battlefield, man and tiger launched into a frenzied struggle. Within the domain of rampaging lightning snakes, sand and stones flew, heaven seemed to collapse and earth to cave in. The ground was strewn with scorched black clods and charcoal, a scene of utter devastation.
Huo Yuhao was visibly at a disadvantage throughout, yet it was the dominant hundred-thousand-year-old white tiger whose condition kept worsening.
Watching from afar, Zhang Lexuan was dumbfounded. As Huo Yuhao's strength left her shaken, a bitter smile also appeared on her face.
Huo Yuhao's strength far surpassed hers. He could have captured her effortlessly that day, yet he had chosen to toy with her instead. Looking back now, she realized she could neither beat him in a fight nor win an argument against him. How truly pathetic.
Watching Huo Yuhao's valiant figure, she unwittingly sank into thought.
As a child, she had suffered the massacre of her entire family and been rescued by Mu En. Mu En had forced her to swear that she would protect Shrek Academy forever and marry his great-grandson. She had agreed to both and had faithfully upheld her vows ever since.
Back then, she had not understood what love was. Looking after a little boy more than ten years younger than her, she had even dreamed that one day, the man of her heart would ride seven-colored auspicious clouds to come and marry her.
But she was a grateful person. As she watched the little boy grow day by day, her heart gradually settled, and she slowly began to see herself as Bei Bei's wife.
Yet when she had finally let her little husband fill her heart, leaving no room for anyone else, Mu En told her she no longer needed to honor that ridiculous agreement. It had all merely been a momentary lapse in his judgment.
Only later did Zhang Lexuan learn that Mu En had never told Bei Bei about it at all. Bei Bei had always seen her only as an older sister, and he even already had a girlfriend.
Heaven seemed to be playing one cruel joke after another on her. She felt that her very existence in this world was a tragedy.
Yet stubborn as she was, even if she had to grow old alone, she would uphold her vows and spend her entire life protecting Shrek Academy and Bei Bei, without complaint or regret.
Until she met Huo Yuhao, this young Evil Soul Master. Something seemed to have stirred in her heart, but it was not affection.
Rather, this young, handsome fellow had barged into her heart in an utterly domineering, utterly overbearing manner, making it impossible for her to forget him.
"Why did you have to be an Evil Soul Master?"
I added an item from Swallowed Star: the SS-Rank Full Combat Suit.
Those of you who haven't read Swallowed Star don't need to worry. Just think of it as a defensive treasure, one that can defend against every attack from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
(End of chapter)
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