In the distance.
Dugu Yan stood rooted to the spot, her mind utterly blank.
What had she just seen?
Tang Tian's Martial Soul had used her own body to block a time-stop attack?
And Tang Tian had actually killed the twenty-three-thousand-year-old Time Tree?
That was a being that controlled the power of time!
"Is... is he even human?"
She murmured.
In the shadows.
Dugu Bo slowly lowered his hand.
He watched the youth absorbing the Soul Ring, his eyes filled with complex emotions.
He had seen that scene perfectly clearly.
Just then, something unexpected happened.
A low roar sounded in the distance, and a vicious aura rapidly approached.
Dugu Yan's expression changed.
"A Soul Beast was drawn here by the commotion of the battle!"
She looked at Tang Tian. His eyes were closed as he absorbed the Soul Ring, oblivious to the outside world.
"Damn it!"
Gritting her teeth, she stepped in front of Tang Tian, poison powder held ready in her hand, prepared to fight for her life.
But just as she was about to act-
An elderly figure darted out of the shadows.
Dugu Bo.
He stood with his hands behind his back, shielding Tang Tian and Dugu Yan as he looked at the enormous beast charging toward them.
It was a pitch-black giant wolf, its eyes gleaming with an eerie green light, radiating the oppressive aura of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
"A Gale Demon Wolf King," Dugu Bo said indifferently. "A mere thirty thousand years old, and you dare come join the fun?"
He raised his right hand, and a streak of green light shot out.
The Gale Demon Wolf did not even have time to scream before its body crumpled limply to the ground.
An instant kill.
Dugu Yan froze.
She looked at her grandfather's