It had to be said that this Blood Trial was also a catastrophe for the soul beasts of Three Abyss Peak.
The Holy Spirit Cult was a pack of evil soul masters without scruples. Quite apart from the fact that many of them needed soul beasts' blood, corpses, and souls to cultivate, even those merely competing for tokens would show no mercy to any soul beasts they encountered.
Roar.
A tiger's roar shook the mountain forest. An entirely black tiger, 1.8 meters tall and five or six meters long, roared before Jiang Hai, its swordlike fangs gleaming coldly.
A ten-thousand-year soul beast-the Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger.
This was a top-tier soul beast with a trace of ancient bloodline, a powerful physique, and an age of roughly thirty thousand years.
At that moment, the Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger's aura was somewhat diminished. Scorched patches and ice fragments covered its black fur, and a trace of fear lingered in its bloodred eyes. Yet it refused to retreat a single step. Behind it, a deep, dark cave was faintly visible.
"Move aside, and I'll spare your life," Jiang Hai said coldly.
"Roar!" An unwilling roar was its answer.
"Then don't blame me!" Jiang Hai lunged again, pale blue ice flames streaming from his seven facial orifices. Golden light flashed over his body, as though it were indestructible, as he fought the Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger at close quarters.
The Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger suffered miserably. It had never imagined that a frail human could fight it with his bare body, much less utterly suppress it.
The swordlike fangs and claws the Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger prided itself on scraped against Jiang Hai's golden body. Even after piercing the transparent ice crystals formed from Ultimate Ice on his skin, they could only leave shallow wounds on his golden flesh.