Douluo Dalu: Fragment Collector
Chapter 25

I Picked Up Fragments in Douluo Continent

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"Eh, this little rabbit seems to have heatstroke. Let me save it." Lu Feng picked up the rabbit and let out a triumphant laugh.

A plume of cooking smoke rose, breaking the forest's tranquility.

Lu Feng skillfully turned the rabbit meat over. It was golden and tempting, its fragrance filling the air. Unable to resist, Lu Feng took a bite. The delicious flavor instantly spread through his mouth, and he chewed with satisfaction.

"Thanks for nature's bounty!"

Starting a fire in the forest was not a wise choice. Many soul beasts instinctively feared open flames, but some powerful creatures were not afraid of fire at all and might even be drawn to the light.

Roasting meat as openly as Lu Feng did would attract plenty of unexpected guests.

"Luo luo!"

Cannon Five ran over from afar and tugged at Lu Feng's pant leg.

"They're here? Run!"

Lu Feng flashed and Teleported onto a nearby tree.

Searching for suitable soul beasts in the forest was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

So Lu Feng came up with a method: use the scent of roasted meat to lure soul beasts over and wait for the prey to come to him.

If he could provoke a few soul beasts into fighting, he could sit back and watch the tigers fight, then reap the rewards!

The forest outskirts were filled with only low-level soul beasts anyway. Even if he attracted thousand-year soul beasts, Lu Feng was confident he could handle them.

Before long, a massive Giant Tooth Tiger appeared nearby.

This soul beast was over three meters long, with a huge, muscular body covered in black-and-yellow stripes. Its limbs were thick and powerful, its claw tips protruding beyond its toes. A pair of enormous saber fangs resembled two sharp swords, fierce and terrifying.

It lifted its head, sniffed the scent of meat in the air, and stared in Lu Feng's direction with vicious light in its eyes.

"About eight hundred years old. Hm? It spotted me?" Lu Feng assessed the Giant Tooth Tiger while taking out the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.

He had no intention of making a move just yet.

"Whoosh!" A black shadow flashed past Lu Feng.

"So fast!"

Soul Power surged through Lu Feng as a faint purple glow covered his eyes. Under the Purple Demon Eye, he finally caught sight of a gray leopard.

"Gray fur all over, more than three meters long, with four white stripes on its tail. A Shadow Leopard, four hundred years old!"

Lu Feng looked at the gray leopard lurking atop a distant tree canopy and frowned slightly.

"Little brother, can you handle it?"

"Whoosh!"

At that moment, the Shadow Leopard launched its attack.

Its position was perfect, directly behind the Giant Tooth Tiger.

"Roar!"

The Giant Tooth Tiger suddenly spun around and let out a deep growl.

Caught off guard, the Shadow Leopard's body trembled violently. Its pupils turned dark and dull, and it fell straight from the air.

"Roar!"

The Giant Tooth Tiger pinned the gray leopard to the ground and bit through its throat.

"Spiritual Attribute!"

Lu Feng looked thoughtfully at the blood spilling from the leopard's eyes.

The most common Spiritual Attribute attacks were intimidation and charm. Once used, especially against weaker opponents, they were simply crushing.

However, cultivating Spiritual Power was no easy matter, whether for soul beasts or humans.

Normally, Giant Tooth Tigers possessed either the metal or wind attribute. Yet this Giant Tooth Tiger had actually evolved a second attribute. It was truly unbelievable.

"Metal generates water, water generates wood."

"If I were to kill this soul beast myself..."

"Oink!" Just as the Giant Tooth Tiger was about to enjoy its meal, an uninvited guest appeared.

Sacred White Tiger

Lu Feng looked into the distance and saw a red wild boar over five meters long swaggering over.

This was a Flame Pig herd, with around a dozen members.

The leader was an eight-hundred-year soul beast, noticeably larger than the other Flame Pigs. Its fur was fiery red, its snout turned upward, and its tusks protruded outward, giving it a savage appearance.

Although Flame Pigs had pig in their name, they were far from vegetarians. On the contrary, as jungle overlords, many smaller soul beasts were on their menu.

"One eight hundred years old, one five hundred-year fire type, one two hundred years old..."

Lu Feng narrowed his eyes and silently calculated his chances of dealing with the entire herd.

"Roar!"

The Giant Tooth Tiger let out a low roar, attempting to drive off the Flame Pig herd.

Its roar did not contain a Spiritual Power attack. Either the skill was on cooldown, or its Spiritual Power had already been depleted.

The herd was not frightened off.

"Oink!"

The leading Flame Pig let out a low growl, and the herd charged wildly toward the Giant Tooth Tiger.

Flame Pig innate skill: Charge.

In the jungle, there had always been a saying: first boars, second bears, third tigers.

Of course, this was not a ranking of the three soul beasts' combat strength, but their threat level to soul masters. Wild boars ranked first because they always acted in groups.

Flame Pigs had thick hides and tough flesh, with powerful fire attributes in their bloodlines, making them exceptionally hot-tempered. When more than a dozen hundred-year Flame Pigs charged together, even powerful Soul Ancestors had to give way.

"Roar!"

The Giant Tooth Tiger roared.

It first leaped onto a large tree beside it. Then, using the rebound force from the trunk, it leaped again, its body tracing an arc through the air as it pounced toward the five-hundred-year Flame Pig.

The Giant Tooth Tiger opened its bloody maw and bit through the Flame Pig's cervical spine in one bite.

The Flame Pig collapsed to the ground, howling in agony. Its legs kicked desperately at the dirt, but it could not get back up.

"Wind attribute?"

Lu Feng narrowed his eyes as he watched the wind barrier covering the Giant Tooth Tiger's body.

"No, it's the metal attribute!"

Lu Feng stared at the Giant Tooth Tiger's fangs. In that brief instant, a faint glint had flashed across them.

"Probably a skill like piercing or Armor Break."

"Rip!" The sound of flesh tearing rang out.

A Flame Pig's tusk pierced through the Giant Tooth Tiger's hind leg. Blood gushed from the wound, instantly staining a large patch of grass red.

"Roar!"

The pain did not make the Giant Tooth Tiger retreat. Instead, it stirred up its ferocity.

It lowered its body and opened its bloody maw. Its bell-sized eyes fixed viciously on the leading Flame Pig, as if it intended to kill it in a single strike.

"Oink!"

The Flame Pig let out a low growl and charged at the Giant Tooth Tiger.

As it ran, flames began to emerge from its skin. Its entire body was enveloped in crimson fire, like a blazing fireball.

The herd followed close behind, charging with tremendous momentum.

"Roar!"

The Giant Tooth Tiger swung its massive claw and met the charge head-on, slamming it into the Flame Pig's head.

The two collided face-to-face. A violent Soul Power shockwave spread outward, air currents churned, and dust flew everywhere.

With a wet squelch, a Flame Pig's tusk pierced into the Giant Tooth Tiger's abdomen, nearly disemboweling it.

"Oink!" The Flame Pig leader growled as the skin across its body began to turn black and harden.

This was another innate soul skill of the Flame Pig: Harden.

Flame Pigs had dominated the jungle for countless years. Aside from ganging up on their enemies, their other greatest strength was their ability to take a beating!

However, the Flame Pigs seemed to have miscalculated this time.

Just as another Flame Pig was about to strike the Giant Tooth Tiger, another change occurred in the tiger's body.

A dense white light emerged from within it. Its muscles bulged exaggeratedly, hard as granite. A layer of energy barrier burst forth. Though it lasted only an instant, it sent all the smaller pigs around it flying.

Picked up Black Attribute Holy Attribute Fragment ×1 (2/10)

"Holy shit!"

"Holy Attribute!"

"Three attributes!"

Lu Feng's pupils suddenly contracted, then his eyes filled with wild delight.

The second Holy Attribute fragment!

The previous fragment had only dropped from that important figure from Spirit Hall.

He was taking this Giant Tooth Tiger no matter what!

"Click, click, click!"

A series of explosive mechanism sounds rang out from Lu Feng's right hand as streaks of pitch-black shadows shot forth.

Lu Feng's wrist moved in small arcs, both to improve his aim and to offset the recoil from the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.

Lu Feng had chosen the timing perfectly.

The Giant Tooth Tiger had just unleashed its ultimate move, and its aura was extremely weak.

And the Flame Pig?

Under the Giant Tooth Tiger's intimidation, its Harden skill had been forcibly broken. Its skull had already been split open by the tiger's claw, and it was barely clinging to its last breath.

There were sixteen flying shadows in total. Under Lu Feng's instant, precise control, the sixteen shadows completely covered both soul beasts. Two of the arrows even anticipated the Giant Tooth Tiger's escape route.

But in the next moment, a sudden change occurred!

"Roar!"

A heaven-shaking roar erupted from the Giant Tooth Tiger's mouth. The soundwave struck Lu Feng with tangible force.

Lu Feng felt as though his head had been hit by a massive hammer, his ears buzzing violently.

At the same time, a fierce gale burst from the giant tiger's body. Swept up by the hurricane, the Giant Tooth Tiger seemed to grow wings and vanished into the forest in a flash.

Lu Feng shook his head hard and finally regained clarity. But when he opened his eyes, the Giant Tooth Tiger was nowhere to be seen.

"A fourth attribute, wind!"

A trace of gravity flashed through Lu Feng's eyes. Where had this anomaly come from? It had not been mentioned in the original work at all.

"In the original work, there was a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Star Dou Great Forest that was over sixty thousand years old. If this White Tiger mutated, transformed into a dark attribute, and kept devouring and evolving..."

"No, Tang San killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger when he was around twenty-four. That's only fifteen or sixteen years from now."

"Fifteen years, from eight hundred years of cultivation to over sixty thousand years..."

Lu Feng shook his head and stopped dwelling on the matter. He walked over to the Flame Pig leader and looked at its bright yellow soul ring, nodding slightly.

"Fortunately, the Flame Pig was killed by my crossbow bolts, so this trip wasn't for nothing."

"Fire attribute, strength type, and the age is just right!"

As for that White Tiger?

Lu Feng turned and looked toward the depths of the forest, a flash of viciousness passing through his eyes. "I'll save it for my third soul ring."

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