Tai Tan Gets Put in His Place

Still, even a brief half minute was enough to handle most situations.

"Senior Tai Tan, I think you can raise your strength to the Titled Douluo level now."

Lin Xuanchen grinned at Tai Tan and beckoned with a finger, the provocation plain to see.

"You little rascal. So you were keeping a trick like this up your sleeve."

After a moment of stunned silence, Tai Tan quickly accepted the fact that Lin Xuanchen's strength had skyrocketed, though he still could not help feeling astonished. Was this what someone chosen by the God King was like?

It was not just Tai Tan who was astonished. Niu Tian and even Wang Dong'er, who had spent the most time with Lin Xuanchen, were equally shocked.

As far as Wang Dong'er could remember, Lin Xuanchen had never used this move in front of her. In fact, he had never even mentioned it to her.

"Senior Tai Tan, watch out."

Lin Xuanchen's gaze sharpened. With a thought, the enormous pair of wings behind him beat fiercely, carrying him high into the sky.

Then Lin Xuanchen slowly raised his right hand, which was covered in emerald-green crystals, and aimed it at Tai Tan.

"Flame-Congealing Finger!"

Lin Xuanchen held two fingers together. At his thought, wisps of Life Spirit Flame swept out of his body, gathering and compressing around those fingers.

Finally, the Life Spirit Flame condensed into a tiny emerald-green sphere of light at his fingertips.

Whoosh!

The next instant, the tiny emerald-green sphere at Lin Xuanchen's fingertips became a slender emerald-green ray that seemed capable of piercing all things, shooting fiercely toward Tai Tan below.

Watching the slender emerald-green ray shoot from Lin Xuanchen's fingertips, Tai Tan could feel that this attack might genuinely injure him.

Tai Tan no longer held anything back. With a thought, he activated his Martial Soul. Black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, red! Nine Soul Rings rose from beneath his feet, radiating heart-pounding fluctuations of Soul Power.

"Seventh Soul Skill, Tai Tan True Body!"

Tai Tan gave a forceful shout, and his seventh Soul Ring suddenly blazed with light.

"Roar!"

Tai Tan's eyes instantly turned scarlet. He let out a low roar at Lin Xuanchen, his body transforming in the blink of an eye into a Titan Giant Ape several dozen feet tall.

"Tai Tan Mountain-Shaking Fist!"

Having transformed into a Titan Giant Ape, Tai Tan abruptly raised his cannonball-sized fist.

At that very instant, torrents of dense Soul Power swept out of Tai Tan's body, forming a layer of earthen-yellow rock over his fist.

An aura of solidity and weight immediately spread from the reinforced fist. Then he hurled a mighty punch at the slender emerald-green ray Lin Xuanchen had fired!

The expected evenly matched clash never came. There was not even a fierce collision of Soul Power.

Crack!

The slender emerald-green ray Lin Xuanchen had fired pierced effortlessly into the bones of Tai Tan's fist, producing the sharp crack of breaking bone.

Looking at the tiny wound on his fist, Tai Tan froze for a moment. His attack was neutralized just like that? And it looked like I was injured, too.

"Roar!"

Before long, however, a heart-piercing pain spread from inside his fist and swept through his entire arm, forcing a low roar from his mouth.

"Brat! Now you've really angered me!"

Tai Tan shook his fist, trying to shake off the heart-piercing pain. Then his enormous brownish-yellow eyes fixed on Lin Xuanchen flying overhead, his expression dark.

"Oh? Have I?" Lin Xuanchen showed not the slightest concern. A mocking smile slowly curled his lips as he said, "Senior Tai Tan, my attack isn't over yet."

"Oh no!" Seeing the mocking curve of Lin Xuanchen's lips, Niu Tian felt an ominous premonition rise in his heart. He moved, instantly vanishing from where he stood.

The instant Niu Tian's words fell, Lin Xuanchen's still relatively mild expression turned cold and severe. He snapped his fingers and said flatly, "Flame Explosion!"

Boom!

Immediately afterward, emerald-green flames began burning inside the tiny wound on Tai Tan's fist. They burned ever more fiercely before exploding outright!

A storm of emerald-green flames swept outward from Tai Tan's right fist. Its terrifying heat instantly burned the white snow within several hundred yards into vapor.

"Rooar!"

Before the explosion could spread any farther, a resounding dragon cry rang out above Tai Tan.

At that moment, Niu Tian's figure descended swiftly from above Tai Tan, turning into a barrier of light that enveloped him.

The moment the barrier appeared, it suppressed the terrifying explosion. The barrier itself looked extraordinary, with nine azure dragons coiling across its surface in dazzling brilliance.

"You damned brat! I'm going to teach you a proper lesson today!"

Only after a long while did Tai Tan recover from the explosion. By then, he had quietly returned to human form, and his immediate instinct was to attack again.

"Enough! Stop right there!" Seeing Tai Tan about to make another move, Niu Tian angrily pressed down on his shoulder, forcibly suppressing his aura.

"How can you be so useless? A Level 50 brat who hasn't even obtained his fifth Soul Ring left you in this state! If I hadn't intervened just now, that arm of yours would have been blown clean off!"

Niu Tian mercilessly lifted his foot and kicked Tai Tan in the backside as he snapped at him.

"Big Brother, does that brat look like he's only at Level 50? With the power he just unleashed, even an ordinary level ninety-five Super Douluo would come off badly!"

Tai Tan lowered his head to look at his arm, a wave of lingering fear instantly rising in his heart. Then he retorted, still somewhat unconvinced.

"You fool! You can't even deal with a child who still smells of milk! Absolutely useless!" Niu Tian had no intention of listening to Tai Tan's explanation and berated him in a low voice.

"Hmph!" Tai Tan snorted in defiance at those words, but he was not a sore loser. He immediately said coldly to Lin Xuanchen, "Brat, you won!"

"Heh." Lin Xuanchen cupped his hands toward Niu Tian and Tai Tan from the air and said, "Just a lucky break."

As Lin Xuanchen cupped his hands, two bloody wounds, each over ten centimeters long, quietly tore open along his arms, and blood flowed steadily from them.