First Soul Skill! Hundred Slashes Across the Prairie!

"Hiss! Little Brother Li Zha really is terrifying beyond belief!"

Big Bai and Xiao Bai were utterly astonished,

and borrowed one of Li Zha's everyday memes.

"Your Eminence Heavenly Phoenix, how do you think Li Zha discovered that Mandala Snake?"

Big Bai asked.

As a top predator, the Mandala Snake slithered without a sound. Yet Li Zha, a One-Ring Soul Master, had detected it and recognized the danger without even turning around. Other than calling him absurdly overpowered, the two of them had nothing to say.

Leng Yaozhu pondered for a moment.

"It was probably his first martial soul, the lotus body."

Leng Yaozhu had figured it out.

While Li Zha had been looking around, he had actually already activated his first martial soul.

They had all assumed that activating [lotus body] as a martial soul would inevitably produce some unusual manifestation. Apparently, that was not the case.

As long as Li Zha wished, [Lotus body] could activate without any outward sign.

Otherwise, having to fight with a giant version of himself looming overhead every time he switched martial souls would have been far too conspicuous.

The lotus body's superego possessed Li Zha's most perfect form, surveying its surroundings with an illusory body.

Although it could not grow eyes in the back of its head to see behind him, human skin could actually sense someone's gaze.

For example, many people quickly noticed when someone secretly watched them.

Humans were animals too, possessing an inherited sense of danger from the ancient days of the Primordial World. It had merely become gradually buried in recent years.

But being buried did not mean it had disappeared.

The superego of Li Zha's lotus dharma body could elevate that perception to its utmost limit, allowing him to discover danger in time.

"Hiss~"

Inside the Star Dou Great Forest,

the Mandala Snake flicked its forked tongue, coiled high around a tree trunk, and prepared its next attack.

It had already seen that the child before it had only rank fourteen soul power, while it was about to become a thousand-year soul beast. Killing this little brat would be child's play, wouldn't it?

Yes, the advantage is mine!

Whoosh~

The nearly ten-meter-long Mandala Snake drew its head back, then shot straight out like a spring!

A sharp whistle tore through the air. Its strength and speed far surpassed its previous attack, as though this were the thousand-year soul beast's first serious strike.

"So fast!"

Li Zha's heart tightened as he was targeted as prey, and the superego's phantom appeared.

The next instant, he felt the Mandala Snake's body slow down, and his surroundings grew quiet.

Energy rippled through Li Zha's hand, and the Fire-Tipped Spear appeared in his grasp.

He immediately raised the spear and thrust forward.

There was no wasted movement. He was cold as a god seated high above the clouds, manipulating a puppet.

Bang!

Sparks erupted in midair.

The Mandala Snake's tough scales struck the Fire-Tipped Spear's point. The crushing rout it had expected, like smashing rotten wood, never came. Instead, both Li Zha and the Mandala Snake recoiled, as though their clash had ended in a draw.

Li Zha retreated two steps and steadied himself, opening and closing the hand gripping the Fire-Tipped Spear.

"This stupid snake has quite a bit of strength."

Opposite him, the Mandala Snake flew backward and only stopped after crashing into a tree. A patch of its scales had been pierced away, and white flames clung to the wound.

Watching from outside the fight, Big Bai and Xiao Bai rolled their eyes speechlessly.

He had only just obtained his first soul ring, yet he could already fight a thousand-year soul beast to a standstill.

Brother, you were only six!

Which one of you was supposed to be strong?

"Hiss!"

The Mandala Snake charged again. It was a vindictive creature by nature, as well as the ruler of this area. After suffering two heavy setbacks in succession at the hands of this human brat, it had grown furious.

The Mandala Snake failed to notice that white flames were rapidly spreading from the wound inflicted by the Fire-Tipped Spear.

"Master, shall I handle it?"

With a fawning expression, the Blazing Dragon Spirit volunteered to fight.

"This vile beast really doesn't know who's king around here! Master, let me, Haji Dragon, fight and teach it a proper lesson!"

Li Zha waved his hand. "I can handle this myself. You can have the next one."

Li Zha swung the Fire-Tipped Spear, then thrust it out like a dragon!

Sparks flashed continuously in the air. Like a volley of arrows, the Mandala Snake launched one attack after another at Li Zha,

But Li Zha wielded the Fire-Tipped Spear in seamless circles, forming a defense so tight not even a breath of wind could slip through.

In just a few minutes, the Mandala Snake attacked dozens of times. The collisions left its head spinning, forcing it to stop and rest.

Meanwhile, Li Zha's spear movements grew increasingly fluid, approaching the unity of man and spear.

Leng Yaozhu nodded. "Not bad. Li Zha actually intends to use this fight to practice his spearwork. Clever boy!"

Within the battlefield, Li Zha held his spear upright.

"Done fighting?"

He was just getting into the swing of things.

The Mandala Snake felt utterly stifled.

Even after giving everything it had, it could not break through this human brat's defense. Instead, its repeated head-on clashes with his weapon had knocked scales loose all over its body.

Its wounds were especially troublesome. Every touch of that spear left white flames behind.

Dozens of patches, large and small, now covered the Mandala Snake's ten-meter-long body. Enough ants could bite an elephant to death. If this continued, it felt as though it would capsize in this little gutter today.

Of the thirty-six stratagems, retreat is best!

The Mandala Snake feinted, turned around, and actually fled!

Li Zha reacted at once and swiftly gave chase.

At the same time, the Mandala Snake tried to extinguish the white flames on its body. It rammed into trees, sand, and rocks, only to discover in horror that none of it worked!

Unaffected by physical matter, the white flames clung to it like maggots burrowing into bone, burning its flesh and blood.

Hiss?!

The Mandala Snake truly panicked.

It realized these flames could not be extinguished at all!

Meanwhile, its attempts to put out the fire delayed it long enough for Li Zha to catch up.

"What a coward. Fine, I'm done playing too."

"First soul skill: Hundred Slashes Across the Prairie!"

The three clusters of white fire at the Fire-Tipped Spear's point instantly swelled. Li Zha drew back into a throwing stance and hurled the spear from his hand!

The Fire-Tipped Spear streaked like a meteor. This strike seemed to have gathered power for ages, determined to pierce the very stars!

Still tormented by the Three-Flavored Divine Fire on its body, the Mandala Snake had never imagined Li Zha possessed such an astonishing attack. Before it could react, the Fire-Tipped Spear crossed more than a hundred meters and pierced through it.

The tremendous momentum pinned the giant snake to an ancient, towering tree. Samadhi True Fire erupted in full, white flames engulfing its entire body.

The Mandala Snake's massive body thrashed wildly amid the white fire.

Li Zha approached and watched in silence.

He knew this scene well. It was just like the human firewood back in his village, except this time, the fire was under his control.

Before long,

the thousand-year Mandala Snake burned to ash. A vast amount of soul power flooded into Li Zha's soul ring, increasing its age by a full hundred years.

Outside the battlefield,

Leng Yaozhu's beautiful eyes widened. "What kind of soul skill is that? It actually killed a thousand-year soul beast in a single strike?"

Leng Yaozhu considered it for a moment and finally understood.

"So that's it. While Zha'er was fighting the Mandala Snake just now, he must have already been using this soul skill."

"Every strike of the Fire-Tipped Spear accumulated power, until it all erupted in that final throw."

As expected of a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo, Leng Yaozhu quickly pieced it together.

Apparently,

the first soul skill Li Zha had obtained after taming the Blazing Dragon Spirit was a sustained-burst soul skill.

Even someone as knowledgeable and experienced as Leng Yaozhu found it downright underhanded.

A sustained skill was a sustained skill, and a burst skill was a burst skill.

What the hell was a sustained-burst skill?!

Li Zha's strength already far surpassed that of soul masters his age, and the Fire-Tipped Spear was a top-tier martial soul. Neither his physical body nor his soul power had anything to fear from a battle of attrition.

Moreover, Li Zha could continuously accumulate power while fighting that battle of attrition.

On top of that, his Samadhi True Fire continuously weakened his enemy.

Its only flaw was that it was too perfect.

After finishing his absorption of the thousand-year Mandala Snake, Li Zha pulled out the Fire-Tipped Spear and continued deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Killing a thousand-year beast only adds a hundred years. The Blazing Dragon Spirit has over four thousand years of cultivation. If I want to raise it to ten thousand, this looks like a long-term project."

Just as Li Zha was calculating,

the sounds of fierce fighting came from ahead, accompanied by beast roars and tiger howls.

Li Zha hurried forward to investigate and discovered a Man Faced Demon Spider locked in battle with a Light Tiger.

"What a great opportunity!"

Li Zha raised the Fire-Tipped Spear, immediately preparing to swoop in and reap the spoils.