After several hours of torment, Li Ye finally made it through.
Fortunately, this mutant Three-Eyed Demon Fox was bloodthirsty by nature, so no other Soul Beasts dared approach and disturb Li Ye while he absorbed the Soul Ring.
Feeling his Soul Power, which had already reached level 33, Li Ye couldn't help feeling pleased with himself again.
"Hm? What's that?"
Li Ye had intended to leave this trouble-ridden place immediately, but the already-dead Three-Eyed Demon Fox behind him suddenly released a strange energy, bringing him to a stop.
"Wait, that's a Soul Bone!" Seeing the source of the energy, Li Ye was instantly overjoyed.
He truly hadn't expected his luck to be so good that even hunting for his third Soul Ring would yield a Head Soul Bone.
"Alas, it's fairly intact, but unfortunately, this Soul Bone's age is too low, and it doesn't really suit me."
Li Ye finished his appraisal: a trash Soul Bone!
Although Soul Bones could only be found by chance, not sought, Li Ye could only toss this one into his Soul Tool to gather dust, for the sake of his future.
After lamenting, Li Ye didn't forget to get a feel for his third Soul Skill.
However, the Soul Ring he obtained from hunting this mutant Three-Eyed Demon Fox hadn't given him the clone-type skill he had anticipated.
As for this third Soul Skill, Li Ye called it the "Six Harmonies Dao Spear." Its effect allowed him to split off six copies of the Demonic Flame Spear to attack from multiple directions. After creating the copies, he could also merge them with the original spear and control it with his spiritual power to strike a single target.
Call this skill strong, and it was only so-so; a single split-off spear wasn't even as powerful as Li Ye's second Soul Skill.
Call it weak, though, and it could launch long-range attacks, while its combined power far surpassed even Li Ye's second Soul Skill enhanced by his first.
In short: I lost out on this one.
And so, with a little regret, Li Ye left this place that had saddened him.
"Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, oh, Yin Yang Well, where on earth are you? If you don't show up soon, Tang San's mother is going to wither to death." After searching for over ten days straight, Li Ye hadn't seen even a trace of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"Where on earth did Dugu Bo hide the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? I've clearly reached the depths of Sunset Forest, so why still can't I find it?" Li Ye gazed forlornly at the sky, considering whether he should give up.
Yet in that brief moment when Li Ye looked up, a fire dragon wreathed in blue flames flew right over his head.
"Holy crap, a divine dragon!" Despite his shock, Li Ye didn't forget to chase after the fire dragon.
When Li Ye reached the spot where the fire dragon had just fallen, all he saw was a woman with a voluptuous figure and an exceptionally beautiful, captivating face desperately resisting the attacks of a Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast with roughly fifty thousand years of cultivation.
Seeing the six Soul Rings appearing around the woman, Li Ye more or less guessed what had happened.
However, he had no intention of saving her. After all, he was only a Soul Elder right now. How could he possibly rescue a level-seventy Soul Emperor from the claws of a fifty-thousand-year-old subdragon Soul Beast?
If Li Ye could hide in the distance and recite a Rebirth Mantra over her corpse after she was swatted to death, that would already be doing right by her.
"Ah, forget it. Crossing paths means we're fated to meet. I'll lend you a hand." In the end, Li Ye couldn't bear to watch such a beautiful, strong girl die before his eyes.
"Third Soul Skill, Six Harmonies Dao Spear!" Li Ye immediately unleashed his Soul Skill, hoping to divert the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast's attention.
However, after taking several attacks from Li Ye, the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast didn't look toward him. Instead, it attacked the woman with the Fire Dragon Martial Soul even more ferociously.
"This is bad!" Seeing this, Li Ye realized his good intentions had only made things worse.
But before he could rush over, the woman was sent flying by a direct lash from the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast's blade-and-axe-like tail.
After knocking the woman with the Fire Dragon Martial Soul away, the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast turned its gaze toward Li Ye.
"You beast! Come at me if you've got the guts! Don't touch that child!"
Liu Erlong had naturally noticed someone trying to help her just now, but she had never imagined it would be a half-grown child.
So even though she was now badly injured, she couldn't let the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast kill Li Ye.
"Unbelievable. Lady, at a time like this, why aren't you looking after yourself instead of standing up to draw its ire?"
Seeing the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast, whose attention he had finally managed to draw away, turn and charge toward Liu Erlong again, Li Ye nearly fainted with anger.
I'm risking my neck coming over to save you, and you're still running off to throw your life away. I'm speechless.
"Spear Old Demon, come out and save her!" With no other choice, Li Ye could only summon Spear Old Demon again.
"Me again! Hahahaha!" Looking at Sword Old Ghost, who was beside himself with impatience, Spear Old Demon laughed without restraint.
"Hey, beast. You want to kill her? Have you asked my permission?" After possessing Li Ye's body, Spear Old Demon leaped straight in front of Liu Erlong without another word.
"Kree!" Seeing Li Ye dare to provoke it, the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast flew into a rage and roared loudly at him.
"Hmph. A beast is a beast. Not a single decent word out of its mouth."
The Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast's roar riled Spear Old Demon up as well. He turned and lashed out with his spear, sending it flying dozens of meters.
But because Li Ye's current strength was too weak, this strike merely drove the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast back.
Even so, Spear Old Demon's blow made the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast feel humiliated, and it lunged at Li Ye as though it had gone mad.
At this, Spear Old Demon didn't flinch in the slightest. He charged forward with his spear.
After a brief, fierce battle, both Spear Old Demon and the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast realized how powerful and difficult the other was to handle, and both began thinking of retreating.
"Spear Old Demon, get ready to leave! That woman isn't going to last much longer. If we don't leave now, won't I have come for nothing?"
While Spear Old Demon had been using his body to fight the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast, Li Ye had kept an eye on Liu Erlong's condition.
Seeing Liu Erlong's deathly pale face and purplish wounds, Li Ye immediately alerted Spear Old Demon.
"Got it. I just didn't expect you to be such a hopeless romantic." After teasing Li Ye, Spear Old Demon put on a show of preparing to fight the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast to the death.
Then, the instant the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast retreated, he turned, hoisted Liu Erlong onto his shoulder, and fled.
"Kid Ye, the danger's passed, so it's time for me to leave. The rest is up to you." After carrying Liu Erlong somewhere safe, Spear Old Demon returned to the mental space.
"Hey, don't go yet! I don't know how to treat injuries!" Li Ye said anxiously, but Spear Old Demon had already gone back.
"The backlash will hit before long. I have to hurry."
At that thought, Li Ye could no longer worry about anything else.
He tore off all the clothes Liu Erlong was wearing, then circulated what little Soul Power he had left to quickly force the poison out of her body.
Then he hurriedly took out the universal antidote pills Tang San had given him, poured out a handful, and stuffed them into Liu Erlong's mouth.
Because Liu Erlong had fallen unconscious, Li Ye had no choice but to give her water mouth-to-mouth so she could swallow the antidote pills.
But before Li Ye could apply medicine to Liu Erlong's wounds, the backlash from borrowing power struck.
Endless loneliness, terror, and desolation flooded Li Ye's soul, instantly blurring his consciousness.
However, to save her, Li Ye could only force himself to hold on, using his last shred of awareness to pour medicinal powder all over Liu Erlong's body.
Then Li Ye could no longer hold out and collapsed straight into Liu Erlong's arms.
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