Picking Up Fragments on Douluo Continent Chapter 43

"Chase!"

A thick surge of Soul Power rose from Scarface's body. His Barbarian Bull Martial Soul possessed him, and his already burly body swelled again, his thighs thickening by a full circle.

"Whoosh!" Scarface kicked off the ground fiercely and shot forward, leaving behind only a sunken footprint.

"Awooo!" The tall Soul Master let out a roar.

His Martial Soul was a hunting hound. After Martial Soul Possession, his entire aura instantly turned sharp and fierce.

"Whoosh!"

The tall Soul Master launched himself forward and overtook Scarface within a few breaths.

The two quickly arrived beside the rock where Lu Feng had stayed.

"Boss, that kid was staying here earlier. He's already run two li away now." As he spoke, the tall Soul Master pointed deeper into the forest.

"No rush," Scarface said slowly.

He walked up to the rock and fell into deep thought as he looked at the gourd growing on the vine.

"Boss, if we delay the Third Prince's mission, we'll all be in deep trouble," the tall Soul Master said gravely.

In that brief moment, he sensed that Lu Feng had run another half li farther away.

"Second Brother, we serve the First Prince. We only need to go through the motions for the Third Prince's orders. Didn't he ask us to investigate that kid's background? We can just tell him the kid is a core disciple of Spirit Hall."

As he spoke, Scarface pointed at the fruit on the rock, his face filled with excitement. "Do you know what this is? A Thousand Night Fruit! And judging by it, it'll ripen in the next couple of days."

At that moment, the tall Soul Master also walked up to the rock and asked doubtfully, "Boss, what's this fruit good for?"

"Hmph, nothing much. It's only worth ten years of your salary," Scarface snorted.

"What? This thing is that valuable?"

Upon hearing that, the tall Soul Master moved to pick the fruit.

"Don't touch it!" Scarface shouted coldly. "This fruit needs moonlight to grow. Before it fully ripens, it isn't worth a single coin."

"It's that particular? It's even more precious than those noble young ladies."

After saying that, the tall Soul Master subconsciously craned his neck toward the rock and sniffed the Thousand Night Fruit.

"What smell is that? Strange. It smells like saltpeter."

"Boss, there's something under the rock." The tall Soul Master pointed beneath it.

"Oh? I'll take a look." As he spoke, Scarface walked toward the base of the vine.

By a pond, Lu Feng rolled around in the watery mud, trying to cover his scent with dirt.

"Boom!"

A violent explosion sounded in the distance, followed by a fierce blast wave that sent ripples crashing across the water's surface.

"Awooo!"

"Caw, caw, caw!"

"Splash!"

The next moment, the roars of countless Soul Beasts rang out. Some weaker Soul Beasts began fleeing the area at top speed.

"Hmph!" Lu Feng snorted as he looked at the mushroom cloud rising nearby.

"Trying to cause trouble for me? You're just courting death!"

However, just as Lu Feng stepped ashore, he heard a sharp whistle of something slicing through the air behind him.

Lu Feng took two steps, his body shifting three or four meters to the right like a ghost, narrowly avoiding the attack.

"Clang!"

A dagger struck a large rock on the shore, its entire blade buried inside.

Lu Feng turned back and saw a hulking man nearly two meters tall staring at him with vicious eyes.

Clear Sky Hammer

"Kid, what method did you use beneath that rock?" the tall Soul Master asked viciously.

Just as the scarred Soul Master walked up beside the vine, a violent explosion suddenly erupted beneath the rock.

Scarface's legs were blown directly into pieces. He did not even have time to use a defensive soul skill.

One had to know that he was a level forty-eight Defense System Soul Ancestor.

Even with only simple Martial Soul Possession, the attacks of an ordinary Soul Grandmaster could not break his defense.

Although Scarface had not died on the spot, he only had his last breath left.

The tall Soul Master had been standing farther away. Moreover, as an Agility Attack System Soul Master, his reactions were swift, so his injuries were not too severe.

But he could tell that the blast wave from the explosion was definitely no weaker than the fourth soul skill of an ordinary Soul Ancestor.

"Kid, before he died, Boss told me to run. But Big Brother treated me like a real brother. If I don't avenge him, I, Chen Ergou, swear I'm not human!"

After saying that, a powerful surge of Soul Power rose from within the tall Soul Master's body.

A faint blue light emerged from the center of his brow, then spread to envelop his entire body.

His body rapidly expanded, becoming packed with muscles. His brown hair quickly grew longer, and fur of the same color appeared over his exposed hands. Sharp claws extended from his fingers, glinting with a cold, sinister light.

The most obvious change was his face, which jutted forward as his canine teeth protruded, making him look like he had a dog's face.

At the same time, two yellow and two purple soul rings slowly rose from beneath his feet.

"Kid, prepare to die." The tall Soul Master licked his claws and spoke in a rough voice.

A faint purple glow surfaced in Lu Feng's eyes. In his view, this Soul Master's Soul Power fluctuations were absolutely no weaker than Yellow Big's had been.

Lu Feng calculated rapidly in his mind, considering how to fight.

Run?

The other party's Martial Soul was a hunting hound. There was no way Lu Feng could outrun him.

The first thing Lu Feng thought of was the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.

However—

He managed to escape the gunpowder explosion. His reaction speed is definitely far beyond what I imagined.

If I use Teleportation to Assault right in front of him, activate Invincible Golden Body, then use the Zhuge Crossbow, he might still be able to react.

Lu Feng narrowed his eyes as a trace of pale green slipped from his fingertips.

This poison could slow a Soul Master's reaction speed and make them more prone to irritability. Most importantly, it was colorless and odorless.

Against a Soul Master with a dog's nose, most of the poisons Lu Feng had prepared had lost their effectiveness.

Next, he could only fight with everything he had.

Lu Feng smiled calmly and said mockingly, "Your big brother merely lost his life, but what about me? I lost three fruits!"

Upon hearing that, the tall Soul Master immediately felt a rush of heat shoot into his head. His eyes instantly turned bloodshot as he glared at Lu Feng.

If looks could kill, he would have loved to tear the kid before him to pieces.

"Awooo!"

The tall Soul Master could not help throwing back his head and howling. His piercing cry tore through the sky, sounding especially chilling in the forest.

His third soul ring lit up, and a blue glow instantly covered his entire body. His eyes abruptly took on a bloody hue, his fangs bared, and his body continuously expanded until it burst through his clothes.

At the same time, fur all over his body grew wildly without end, until he transformed into a werewolf.

No, into a dog-man.

The dog-man stared stiffly at Lu Feng with blood-red eyes, his gaze revealing an intense bloodthirsty urge.

"Hmph!"

Lu Feng snorted coldly, his expression grave to the extreme.

What he had said just now was only meant to provoke the other party, make him lose his mind, make him gnash his teeth in hatred and want to devour Lu Feng alive.

If a Soul Ancestor in his forties from the Agility Attack System chose to fight by kiting him, Lu Feng could not imagine any way to win.

But now, a new problem had arisen.

How was he supposed to withstand the fierce attacks of a crazed Soul Ancestor?

Looking at the approaching dog-headed man, Lu Feng took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled.

A small black hammer appeared in his right hand.

The hammer was covered in a dense black glow. The moment it appeared, the surrounding atmosphere became several degrees heavier.

"C-Clear Sky Hammer!" the dog-man's hoarse voice rang out.

Although the Clear Sky Sect had gone into seclusion, the prestige of the "number one Tool Martial Soul in the world" remained deeply engraved in every Soul Master's heart.

"Kid, are you from the Clear Sky Sect?" the dog-man asked uncertainly.

The next instant, a vicious gleam flashed in his eyes. "Then I absolutely cannot let you live!"

If the Clear Sky Sect learned that he had joined in killing one of their disciples, he would definitely die without even a burial place.

"Fourth Soul Skill: Sky Wolf Transformation!"

The dog-man's body expanded once more, his height now nearing three meters.

His dog paws grew another size, and the blades extending from them turned bright silver.

Most strangely, his entire body was shrouded in a powerful golden glow, as though he had been gilded. His blood-red eyes shone with bloodlust, and his entire body radiated the domineering aura of a king among dogs.

As Dai Weisi's confidant, the dog-man's soul rings had naturally been hunted for him by the Dai Family.

The tall Soul Master had used the White Tiger Martial Soul's soul ring configuration as a reference, though his was even more extreme. His third and fourth soul skills were both enhancement-type soul skills.

Though he lacked an offensive skill, this soul ring configuration maximized the strengths of a balanced-type Soul Master.

Attack, defense, and speed—all were enhanced.

Even a Soul King would have to spend some effort to defeat him.

If he were crushing weaker opponents, especially a weakling Soul Grandmaster, then even if the other party was a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect, the tall Soul Master believed he could crush him to death in three moves.

Lu Feng was not intimidated by the tall Soul Master's aura. Instead, it stirred his fighting spirit.

His body spun instantly on the ground. His feet gripped the earth tightly, strength traveling from his calves to his waist, then finally through his arms and into the Clear Sky Hammer.

A black gleam flashed as the Clear Sky Hammer erupted with powerful Soul Power fluctuations.

It was the opening stance of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

The gap in strength between the two sides was simply too great. So great that Lu Feng's many "secret weapons" could not be used at all.

But for Lu Feng, who had once killed without blinking an eye, the man before him was not enough to affect his state of mind.

The black light on the Clear Sky Hammer gradually intensified. Though he had only swung once, Lu Feng immediately felt his aura grow several degrees stronger.

"Bang!"

The Clear Sky Hammer collided with the dog claw, and Lu Feng's body immediately flew away like a kite with its string cut.

The difference in their strength was so vast that Lu Feng could not even withstand a single strike from his opponent.

In midair, Lu Feng endured the discomfort in his chest and took a deep breath.

"Teleportation!"

Lu Feng's body flipped instantly. Borrowing the rebounding force, his arm swung again, sending out the second hammer strike.

The power of the first strike had not yet fully dissipated, and the dog-man's rebounding force merged with it. Lu Feng's aura strengthened once more, and at the same time, a fierce killing intent burst from his body.

"Huh? Is that the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer?"

A trace of gravity flashed through the dog-man's eyes before turning into disdain.

The Star Luo Empire had researched all the major forces across the continent, and the Clear Sky Sect was naturally no exception.

Besides, the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer was not some closely guarded secret. Even ordinary blacksmiths knew of it.

According to their research, the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer was undoubtedly a powerful skill, but it was also rather impractical. It had to continuously build up power before it could unleash its true might.