It Seems You Can No Longer Entertain Me; The First Signs of Blood-Red Eyes

"Ah, do you think a few toys in your hands let you control everything here?"

"A mere Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster. Why seek your own destruction?"

The instant Jiang Huai finished speaking, a presence even purer and more terrifying than the White Tiger around Dai Mubai earlier erupted from him!

Immediately afterward,

four Soul Rings-purple, purple, black, black-circled beneath his feet in orderly succession!

Even Dai Mubai froze.

Compared to the White Tiger Martial Soul behind Jiang Huai, why did his own White Tiger look so much like a cute little kitty?

And that terrifying Soul Ring configuration!

A thousand-year first ring, a ten-thousand-year third ring?

Why should such power belong to a lowly bastard?

If he possessed the same Martial Soul and Soul Rings, what could that foolish elder brother of his possibly use to compete with him?

At that moment, Dai Mubai's envy truly reached its peak!

Outstanding talent aside, he even had Dai Mubai's sister-in-law, whose charms still lingered, by his side!

It simply made him green with envy!

As for Tang San, his brief astonishment gave way to boundless elation!

A secret method for absorbing Soul Rings beyond one's level really did exist!

But since the other party had belittled his Tang Sect Hidden Weapons, he would let this move serve as a little lesson!

Amid a series of sounds as crossbow bolts shot forth, Tang San emptied the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, then swiftly pulled countless Bone-Piercing Nails, poisoned needles, and other Hidden Weapons from the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges, aiming them at Jiang Huai's vital points with special throwing techniques!

Third Brother believed his movements were extremely well concealed.

After all, on both trips to the Soul Hunting Forest with his somewhat bizarre, flat-topped teacher to hunt souls, he had used these Hidden Weapons plenty of times.

Yet Gangzi had never noticed even once.

But the weakest member of Jiang Huai's squad was a peak Soul Ancestor.

None of Third Brother's little movements could escape their scrutiny.

"Pah! How despicable!"

"A spar is a spar, yet you actually use such underhanded things!"

Hu Liena cursed.

"Exactly, exactly. Things gather by kind, and people flock with their own."

"This Tang San actually considers scum like Dai Mubai his future companion. It seems he's an evil person too."

Zhu Zhuyun nodded in wholehearted agreement.

At those words, the joy on Third Brother's face abruptly faded, though he had felt victory was already in his grasp.

He, Tang San, had lived two lives, remaining as pure as ice and jade in both.

Yet in the eyes of these evil Spirit Hall people, he was the evil one instead. They had simply turned heaven and earth upside down!

However, the instant those Hidden Weapons approached Jiang Huai,

a special protective barrier slowly emerged around him.

A series of metallic clinks and clangs rang out.

Not a single one of the Hidden Weapons Third Brother took such pride in managed to injure Jiang Huai.

"If these are your only tricks, you're destined to be unable to entertain me."

"In that case, I'll be taking the training method for that bizarre footwork of yours."

The instant his words fell, the Second Soul Ring beneath Jiang Huai's feet flashed. Immediately afterward, his entire body seemed to turn into countless particles of light. No matter how Third Brother swept his Purple Demon Eye around, he could not catch the slightest trace of him.

The next moment,

Jiang Huai's figure rapidly re-formed in a blind spot in Third Brother's field of vision.

Immediately afterward, the light elements in the air seemed to spring fully to life, condensing into a cross-shaped blade of slashing light before his chest!

"Third Soul Skill, Holy Radiance Heavenly God Slash!"

What?!!!

If I take this blow head-on, won't I end up black and blue?

This is bad. I've probably taken things too far this time!

At this point, I'm afraid I'll have to use my great hammer Martial Soul to secure a sliver of hope for survival!

But...

The earlier teachings of his flat-topped teacher and Haozi seemed to echo in his ears...

At that critical instant, a streak of pink light suddenly leaped in front of Tang San!

"Xiao Wu, what are you doing?"

Xiao Wu had originally intended to use her Invincible Golden Body, or perhaps Teleportation, to get Tang San out of danger!

But at that moment, she abruptly realized a problem.

She was only a level-29 Soul Grandmaster right now!

She had not yet learned either of those two lifesaving Soul Skills!

Damn human brat! If your Sister Xiao Wu were still a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, a single rabbit-kicks-the-eagle move would be enough to take your miserable life!

But now.

I'm cooked!!!

Pshh-

The sound of the Soul Skill piercing flesh echoed through the Rose Hotel's lobby.

Immediately afterward, a mouthful of blood sprayed from Xiao Wu's mouth!

"No! Xiao Wu!!!"

Seeing his little sister Xiao Wu gravely injured while protecting him, Tang San's eyes instantly turned blood-red, and he panted like an ox!

He would not spare a single person who hurt Xiao Wu!

"Oh? That look in your eyes?"

"Interesting."

As everyone knew, only gentlemen obeyed the unwritten rule of one-on-one combat on the Douluo Continent.

Unfortunately, he, Jiang Huai, was no gentleman.

Besides, this Little Scumbag had ambushed him with Hidden Weapons first. What did he have left to worry about?

At a glance from Jiang Huai, the squad's remaining six members, who had long been rubbing their fists and flexing their palms, rushed forward and delivered a round of righteous elbow strikes to Third Brother.

Even Dai Mubai, who had been pretending to be invisible on the sidelines, was dragged in by a swipe of Tianyao's claw and subjected to more elbow strikes.

"Have mercy, great lady!"

At the last moment before the elbow strikes knocked him unconscious, Dai Mubai seized his chance.

After dropping to his knees, he slapped himself twice without the slightest hesitation.

Then he respectfully kowtowed to Jiang Huai and the others with a resounding thud.

"Young ancestor, great ladies, please just treat me, Dai Mubai, as a fart and let me go."

The whole process was as silky smooth as eating Dove chocolate.

As Dai Mubai saw it, a gentleman did not stand beneath a crumbling wall.

A true man could bend or stand tall without getting caught up in trifles. Right now, preserving his life was what mattered most.

The weakest of this group was actually a peak Soul Ancestor.

Not to mention that his younger imperial brother and Zhu Zhuyun were among them.

With Spirit Hall's formidable backing, Dai Mubai did not believe the Pope had failed to investigate exactly how Jiang Huai's mother had died.

If this young ancestor became displeased and slaughtered him, what would the Star Luo Imperial Family dare say?

So if he still refused to kneel and beg for mercy, wouldn't he simply be courting death?

Even with his mind muddled by the elbow strikes, Tang San was stunned by Dai Mubai's behavior.

Setting the facts aside, wasn't this man the fundamental reason he had suffered such a calamity in the first place?

What kind of person are you? You're chickening out already?

Dai Mubai, grow a spine!