Qian Renxue emerged through the Shadow Doll Puppet again and immediately sensed that the Angel Martial Soul had gained its first Soul Ring.
"I... grew stronger?"
This did not merely mean that the Angel Martial Soul had grown stronger, but that her remnant consciousness had too!
Supposing she could have left Jing Shanshan's Angel Martial Soul before, her remnant consciousness would have vanished into thin air instantly without anything to anchor it. Now, lasting a second or two would be no problem at all.
She had never imagined the changes that the Angel Martial Soul's absorption of a Soul Ring would bring her.
Her connection to the Angel Martial Soul within Jing Shanshan was far deeper than she had expected!
At that thought, Qian Renxue suppressed her desire to investigate the Angel Martial Soul and examined their surroundings. They felt familiar at first glance.
Something immediately occurred to her, and she looked toward Jing Shanshan in disbelief.
"My king, are you... going back to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's territory? Don't you know that Soul Beast is targeting you? If the battle over there has already been decided, going now will probably be very dangerous!"
"This king knows! That is precisely why I must go and see the situation."
In a battle between a sixty-thousand-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and a Titled Douluo, neither side could possibly win easily.
If the Titled Douluo lost, that Dark Demon Evil God Tiger would certainly have sustained plenty of injuries and be in poor condition.
Now that he had absorbed Soul Rings three times and reached rank 16 Soul Power, he could use quite a few Martial Souls in the Gate of Babylon. With a little luck, he might even tame this exceptionally rare Soul Beast and pocket it for himself.
Just imagining himself sitting on his throne with an exceptionally rare, pitch-black tiger beside him felt overwhelmingly imposing, brimming with the presence of a king!
If the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger lost, he could only say that this Soul Beast had gone out today without consulting the almanac.
!!!
Qian Renxue and Jing Shanshan turned their heads at the same time. What had they just seen?!
A giant ape standing over seven meters tall at the shoulder, covered in jet-black fur, every part of its body packed with powerful muscles more fearsome than granite,
and behind that giant ape, a Soul Beast with an enormous blackish-blue serpent's body and a bull's head!
Even from far away, they could feel the terrifying pressure of these two Soul Beasts' strength.
The two Soul Beasts were actually moving in much the same direction as them-toward the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
"A hundred-thousand-year-old Titan Giant Ape and a hundred-thousand-year-old Sky Azure Bull Python? Don't they live near the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest year-round? Why have they come to the outskirts?"
Shocked and puzzled, Qian Renxue soon understood what was happening.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was a creature loathed by everyone. These two overlords of the Star Dou Great Forest must have been searching for it all along, intending to kill it.
Vimana gradually slowed. Every word Qian Renxue said reached Jing Shanshan's ears, and his pupils trembled slightly as he stared at the passing Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
"Does... does the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger really make other creatures hate it this much?"
These two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were clearly going after the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
He had to consider whether to keep going and take a look.
Against a single Titled Douluo, as long as his opponent did not play dirty, he was confident he could hold his own for a short while. Escaping from them would not be much of a problem.
But up ahead, there were effectively four beings with the strength of Titled Douluo fighting in a free-for-all.
If he was unlucky enough to become the target of four Titled Douluo...
The outcome went without saying.
While Jing Shanshan was still thinking, Qian Renxue's cautious words reached his ears.
"My king, are you still going?"
Normally, this would be the time to avoid their sharp edges and wait for the final outcome of the free-for-all.
Qian Renxue could already picture Jing Shanshan slowly retreating, but when she looked at him, she saw the corners of his mouth spread into an almost arrogant smile.
On the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, above a clearing where the black hole's pull sent branches and leaves into disarray, a distorted sphere of light with unstable red-and-yellow edges hurtled toward it.
The moment the distorted sphere touched the black hole, there was no earth-shaking explosion. It was as though, before any sound could escape, the gravity of the two had swallowed it directly.
The black edge and the red-and-yellow edge tugged at one another. Chaotic gravity tore against the black hole's pull, and clear cracks appeared in both the black hole and the distorted sphere of light.
In the end, the distorted sphere was slowly swallowed by the black hole, while the black hole itself became precariously unstable, as though it would disintegrate and disappear the very next second.
"Big Brother, look! Even without using my full strength, my Titan Sky Shatter isn't something any small fry can block. And with the presence that black hole is giving off, it has to be that little black kitty!"
The Titan Giant Ape's topaz eyes fixed on the black hole. The hill-like muscles all over his body bulged, ready to strike at any moment.
An enormous blackish-blue serpent's body coiled among the trees, and a faint gleam shone in the Sky Azure Bull Python's two lantern-like eyes.
"Er Ming, don't rush. This is a move neither of us has ever seen, which means it's that Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's hidden trump card. If I charge in rashly and get caught by it, even we might suffer!"
The Titan Giant Ape snorted a breath of foul air in displeasure. He raised his thick left arm and spread all five fingers. The surrounding air gradually gathered toward his palm, and a distorted sphere of intertwined red-and-yellow light slowly appeared, its edges constantly crumbling and reforming.
The Titan Giant Ape did not unleash Titan Sky Shatter again. Instead, he intended to wait until the black hole dissipated, then launch Titan Sky Shatter at full strength and catch whoever was inside completely off guard!
The Sky Azure Bull Python's pupils shifted slightly as he looked behind them.
Within his field of vision, a ship that could only be described as glittering gold flew toward them.
He had glimpsed this conspicuous thing on their way here.
A trace of confusion appeared on his enormous bull's head. He truly could not understand what this fellow with only rank 16 Soul Power wanted by coming here.
Was he joining the excitement without any fear of death?
The Sky Azure Bull Python soon lost his curiosity about the mosquito approaching them, and his bull's eyes returned to the black hole created by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
Jing Shanshan saw the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts lying in wait like hunters waiting by a stump for a hare. The corners of his mouth spread, and golden ripples spread behind him.
Dozens of support-type Martial Souls that were no longer in use flew out of the ripples. Then an even larger golden ripple appeared above Jing Shanshan's head.
An entirely pitch-black sword of absurdly enormous dimensions emerged from the golden ripple.
Martial Soul, Divine Construct, the Jade Horizon That Cleaves a Thousand Mountains.
Also known as the Mountain-Cleaving Sword.
The Mountain-Cleaving Sword hovered for a brief instant before cleaving straight down toward the black hole.
A low hum sounded through the air. Before the blade even touched the black hole, its gravitational pull began to distort it. Tiny cracks appeared on the sword's surface and began spreading outward.
Because of the earlier Titan Sky Shatter, the black hole could not swiftly chew apart this enormous sword bearing dozens of buffs.
Soon, the blade struck the black hole.
The Titan Giant Ape's and the Sky Azure Bull Python's lantern-sized eyes widened even further.
The sword had actually avoided being sucked into the black hole and even cut an opening in it?!
"What the hell is that?!"
How could the sight before them not shock these two rather worldly Soul Beasts?!
After all, the one responsible for all this was a little fellow with rank 16 Soul Power!
Jing Shanshan frowned. The word "dissatisfied" might as well have been written across his face.
Cracks spread rapidly through the black hole, and then it collapsed.
The stones and branches sucked inside earlier shot out in every direction, stirring up great clouds of dust.
An enormous chrysanthemum broke free of the dust and shot into the sky. The person inside was wounded in quite a few places, and one look made it clear that he was in very poor condition.
Chrysanthemum Douluo gulped down air, his heart filled with regret over why he had accepted this mission!
His eyes were filled with wariness as he looked down, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of that absurdly enormous sword.