Scaring Off a Five-Ring Soul King

Seeing the astonishment on her sister's face, Zhu Zhuqing was speechless.

I already had innate full level 10 soul power, okay? With a miraculous cultivation technique like yoga on top of that, who knows how much further my soul power has risen?

If she hadn't needed to hide it, she probably would have long since become a Soul Grandmaster with two soul rings.

"Sis, did you forget? Didn't I teach you yoga before? The Twelve Yoga Forms can speed up soul power cultivation. Haven't you been practicing them all this time?"

Zhu Zhuqing giggled. Her third sister had only learned a few forms and flatly refused to learn the rest, saying those poses were far too embarrassing.

"Do I have to learn the whole set to speed up my soul power cultivation? How about I try now?" Zhu Zhulin immediately remembered. Now that she had realized how inadequate her strength was, she was eager to give it a try.

Seeing that her sister actually wanted to try it in this dangerous patch of grass, Zhu Zhuqing was speechless. She hurriedly stopped her. Was this a joke? Someone-or a soul beast-could come along at any moment.

Practicing yoga required wearing very little, and thin clothing at that. Surely she wasn't going to do it here?

"Roooar!"

A soul beast's roar rang out in the distance.

"After it! It ran this way! Hurry!"

A man's shout followed, along with the sounds of several people giving chase. Judging by the noise, there were probably four or five of them.

"Psychic Sense!" Zhu Zhuqing unleashed her Spiritual Power, sending it out through the Blue Silver Grass to sense her surroundings.

A dozen or so meters away, a man who looked like a teacher was leading three students in pursuit of a tiger-type soul beast. The tiger seemed to be on its last legs.

Information about the tiger-type soul beast immediately appeared in Zhu Zhuqing's mind.

Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger: Its ability is to summon others of its kind one rank below itself from the void. Extremely fast, with average defense, but exceptionally cunning. It possesses a life-saving technique: Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell.

Its fur is white at ten years, gold at a hundred years, purple at a thousand years, black at ten thousand years, and red at a hundred thousand years.

The Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger ahead had gold and purple fur. Most of it was gold, with only a tiny patch of purple on its forehead.

That meant this Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger was less than eight hundred years old, because once it passed eight hundred years, its coloring would change dramatically.

Zhu Zhuqing's eyes shone. Who wouldn't love a soul beast that could summon others? Even if she didn't inherit its summoning skill, Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell would still be a fine option.

"Sis, I want that soul beast for my second soul ring!" Zhu Zhuqing said solemnly.

"What? Have you lost your mind? That's someone else's prey!" Zhu Zhulin froze. Her little sister was planning to snatch it by force! What should she do? Try to talk her out of it?

"Little sister, I know this Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger is incredibly rare, but our lives come first. Look, their teacher is a Five-Ring Soul King. The other students are Two-Ring Soul Grandmasters, except for one girl who's a One-Ring Soul Master. That means they're helping that girl get her soul ring."

"And of the two of us, you're a One-Ring Soul Master, while I'm a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster. The gap between us and them is far too big."

Hiding in the Blue Silver Grass, Zhu Zhulin tried to reason with her little sister, breaking down the difference in their strength point by point.

But Zhu Zhuqing merely smiled. "Sis, look. What's this?"

She displayed a blue sphere before Zhu Zhulin's eyes. It gave off a foul smell, and Zhu Zhulin immediately understood from its feel and odor.

"That's something belonging to that bitch Zhu Zhuyun. Did you ask her for it?" Zhu Zhulin asked incredulously.

Zhu Zhuqing smiled without answering. She had exchanged destiny points for these. How could she possibly have asked that bitch for them? One destiny point could buy a hundred.

Just now, she had silently wished for the maximum amount, and received a hundred. They had already been automatically stored in her soul tool bracelet.

Zhu Zhuqing offered an excuse. "I picked it up off the ground earlier. That bitch dropped it. Maybe she was panicking."

"Let's try it. We just need to throw them from farther away. If it doesn't work, we'll retreat!"

With such a potent weapon in hand, Zhu Zhulin reluctantly agreed to her little sister's bad idea.

Beneath several large trees, the group from the Wind Sword Academy had surrounded the Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger.

The Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger was already gravely wounded. It howled as it kept backing toward the trees, terrified of death. There was nothing it could do. It was only a hundred-year soul beast, utterly incapable of defeating the Five-Ring Soul King before it.

Even if it summoned others of its kind one rank below itself, they would be no match for these people. It would only be sacrificing their lives.

"Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger, be good and die!"

The Five-Ring Soul King teacher laughed wildly. This soul beast was doomed, and his daughter would become the first powerful Soul Master to possess a spirit-summoning soul beast.

As long as his daughter could grow into a Titled Douluo, she would have a powerful companion.

"Die! Fifth soul skill: Demon Cloud Heavy Sword Slash!"

The Five-Ring Soul King raised a massive black sword high overhead. Carrying terrifying power, it slashed down at the already trembling Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger.

If the strike landed, the Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger would be hanging by a thread. A casual finishing blow would be enough to obtain its soul ring.

Bam!

The massive black sword struck the Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger, and blood sprayed wildly.

Joy surged through the Five-Ring Soul King's heart. The little girl behind him had already rushed forward, looking extremely anxious.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Just then, a dozen or so blue beads shot toward them from every direction. They had been fired from bows formed of soul power and didn't pack much force.

The blue beads struck the ground, and clouds of smoke immediately spread.

A sense of danger closed in from all sides.

The Five-Ring Soul King lunged forward and shielded his daughter in his arms. He hurriedly shouted to the other students, "Defend yourselves!"

In the Star Dou Great Forest, rules meant nothing. The strong reigned supreme. If someone killed you, no one would come to seek justice on your behalf.

Even as a Five-Ring Soul King, Feng Zailong dared not be careless. The way things worked at school was useless here. Nobody cared whether you were a teacher or who your father was.

Precisely because he only had five rings, Feng Zailong only dared help his students obtain soul rings in the outer reaches.

But he had never imagined someone would actually ambush them.

Anyone who dared attack despite seeing that he was a Five-Ring Soul King had to be at least stronger than a five-ring expert, or have several five-ring experts on their side.

For his students' safety, Feng Zailong immediately moved away from the Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger.

After all, anyone launching an ambush was usually after the soul beast first, and their valuables second.

The students quickly gathered around their teacher and took up defensive positions.

"Cough, cough! What the hell? It burns! I can't see!"

"Teacher, help! I'm going to throw up!"

"Dad, I'm dizzy."

As the blue beads fell, more and more smoke appeared. These people had clearly never suffered society's brutal beatings. Like a bunch of clueless hotheads, they desperately gulped down air, and every last one fell victim.

The Five-Ring Soul King Feng Zailong was no exception. In an instant, tears and snot streamed down his face.

At the same time, another dozen or so objects were thrown toward the Five-Ring Soul King Feng Zailong.