"Huh? Weren't you unwilling?"
Xu Jiawei raised an eyebrow.
"Imperial brother!"
"Stop teasing me and tell me what he looks like!"
"What's his name?"
Xu Jiujiu's face was bright red as she asked in mock annoyance.
She had originally been very averse to the idea,
but after learning that Dai Lingfeng had Twin Martial Souls, the White Tiger and the Nether Civet,
somehow, she had taken a liking to him.
She thought he seemed pretty good and was worth getting to know.
"Uh..."
Now it was Xu Jiawei's turn to be dumbfounded,
because he had no idea what Dai Hao's third son was called or what he looked like.
Dai Hao had never told him.
"It's a secret!"
"Your engagement banquet with him is in half a month. You can discover the surprise for yourself then."
But how could a mighty emperor admit he didn't know?
Xu Jiawei glossed over the matter, fobbing her off like a child.
Xu Jiujiu began to look forward to it as well.
Twin Martial Souls.
He could use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill all by himself. The fiancé her imperial brother had found for her was truly wonderful.
The next day.
Early in the morning, the White Tiger patriarch brought Dai Lingfeng to the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Lingfeng."
"There's a thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit five hundred meters ahead. We can't get any closer, or it'll notice us."
"Get ready."
"Once you hunt it down on your own, your divine trial will be complete."
The White Tiger patriarch stopped behind a tree.
Soul Beasts were extremely vigilant,
especially Soul Beasts like the Soft Bone Rabbit, which sat at the bottom of the food chain.
Five hundred meters was already the limit. Any closer, and even the White Tiger patriarch would frighten the rabbit away.
If that happened, he would have to find another way to give Dai Lingfeng a chance to fight a thousand-year Soul Beast one-on-one.
"That's close enough."
"First Soul Skill, Shadow Stealth!"
Dai Lingfeng summoned his Nether Civet Martial Soul, and his thousand-year first ring activated. His whole body seemed to turn into a pool of ink,
melting into the shadows on the ground.
He moved forward through the shade of the trees.
The target the White Tiger patriarch had chosen for him was perfect.
A thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit!
Its attack power was approximately zero, and its escape mechanism was T0. The Nether Civet, however, excelled at hunting down this kind of cunning small prey.
What was more, Dai Lingfeng was a Nether Civet that could turn invisible. This was right up his alley.
"Oh?"
"He's actually merged completely with the shadows, without the slightest trace of life leaking out. Even I, a Soul Douluo, can't spot a flaw."
"This first Soul Skill is worthy of a God-Given Soul Ring!"
The White Tiger patriarch narrowed his eyes.
Dai Lingfeng's first Soul Skill was downright uncanny.
It wasn't simple visual deception. He had turned into shadow and merged his whole body into it. Its concealment was far too powerful!
If he hadn't been watching Dai Lingfeng activate the skill, he probably wouldn't have realized it was him.
Especially in a place like the Star Dou Great Forest, where vegetation flourished and tree shadows covered the ground, it was practically no different from invisibility.
Dai Lingfeng lurked in the shadows, sneaking along,
and soon reached the spot beneath the Soft Bone Rabbit.
The Soft Bone Rabbit's two ears stood alert,
listening for the slightest stir in the air or on the ground, but it was utterly unguarded against anything beneath it.
"Hehe!"
"Sorry about this, little rabbit."
"Demon Tiger King Right Arm Soul Bone Skill, Tiger Roars Through the Mountain Forest!"
Dai Lingfeng found the right spot and leaped out of the shadows like a crocodile bursting from the water,
activating his Soul Bone Skill right next to the Soft Bone Rabbit's ears.
Tiger Roars Through the Mountain Forest.
ROAR!!!!
A thunderous tiger's roar rang out through the tranquil forest, sudden and piercing.
"Squeak!!!"
The thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit toppled over and went to sleep quite peacefully.
The roar had come far too unexpectedly.
A person could scare another person to death,
let alone a Soft Bone Rabbit, a timid creature by nature.
Dai Lingfeng's tiger king roar was also immensely intimidating. Even under normal circumstances, it could have scared the Soft Bone Rabbit's legs weak!
Never mind a surprise attack.
And he had roared right in its face. The Soft Bone Rabbit's hearing was extremely acute, and he had bellowed at the top of his lungs right into its ear.
The Soft Bone Rabbit's body went stiff on the spot.
Under the double blow of auditory devastation and a mental attack, the thousand-year Soul Beast was actually scared to death on the spot.
Buzz!
A Thousand-Year Soul Ring emerged from the Soft Bone Rabbit.
Mission accomplished!
"Hiss..."
The White Tiger patriarch, who had watched the whole thing, sucked in a cold breath.
Wasn't Dai Lingfeng a little too sneaky?
He had slipped over through the shadows, then let out a frightening yell and scared the Soft Bone Rabbit straight to death.
Good grief...
If he had been caught off guard by a yell like that, he probably would have wet his pants.
[God of War's Nine Trials, First Trial complete!] [Reward: White-Eyed Demon Tiger King Right Arm Soul Bone's age increased to 100,000 years!] [God of War's Nine Trials, Second Trial activated:] [Defeat a Soul Emperor!] [Reward: Soul Power Level increased by 3]
After he scared the thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit to death with one yell, the God of War's trial given by Dai Mubai also issued its reward and updated.
Dai Lingfeng's Demon Tiger King Right Arm Soul Bone had been upgraded into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, granting him a second Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skill in addition to Tiger Roars Through the Mountain Forest,
Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain!
Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain: a Power Attack System Soul Skill that called upon the Right Arm Soul Bone to transform the user into a fierce tiger, pouncing forward to tear the target apart.
"Pouncing?"
"Damn, now this is good stuff!"
"Although the White Tiger Martial Soul's Soul Skills are well-rounded, there isn't a single pouncing Soul Skill among them from beginning to end..."
Dai Lingfeng hardly knew what to say about that.
The White Tiger Martial Soul had long-range attack Soul Skills like Intense Light Wave and Meteor Shower,
yet it couldn't even perform a tiger's most basic pounce...
The White Tiger Martial Soul's Soul Skills seemed well-rounded,
yet astonishingly, it didn't even have a movement skill.
The arrival of Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain had really saved his life.
"As for the Second Trial's reward of three Soul Power levels..."
"Forget it..."
Dai Mubai probably wasn't exactly well-off himself, so Dai Lingfeng wouldn't blame him for being stingy.
Getting Soul Power directly was fine too.
"Huh?"
Dai Lingfeng suddenly had a peculiar feeling. Sensing something, he looked at the Soft Bone Rabbit's corpse.
More precisely,
he looked at the Thousand-Year Soul Ring above the Soft Bone Rabbit's corpse.
Through his yin-yang eyes,
the Thousand-Year Soul Ring was not an inanimate object.
Within it was a little rabbit in spirit form, identical to the thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit, though it was shrouded in baleful Qi and somewhat sluggish.
"This should be a Chang Ghost, right?"
Dai Lingfeng was thoughtful.
After his White Tiger Martial Soul devoured the Chang Ghost Martial Soul, it had gained the ability to Act as a Chang Ghost for the Tiger, allowing him to control Chang Ghosts.
Chang Ghosts were vengeful spirits born when living people were killed by a White Tiger.
As for the Soft Bone Rabbit,
it lacked intelligence, so after becoming a Chang Ghost, it was rather stupid, not much different from a mosquito or a fly.
Dai Lingfeng could sense that his White Tiger Martial Soul could control this Chang Ghost,
but the Soft Bone Rabbit really was useless to him, though it seemed a pity to discard it.
"Forget it. I'd better lay it to rest."
Dai Lingfeng summoned his White Tiger Martial Soul and waved his hand, dispersing the Soft Bone Rabbit's Soul Ring
and the Soft Bone Rabbit's Chang Ghost along with it.
There was a limit to how many Chang Ghosts his White Tiger Martial Soul could control, and they also placed a burden on his mental power. There was no need to make a contract with a Soft Bone Rabbit.
"Patriarch, we can go home now."
His goal accomplished, Dai Lingfeng was ready to head back.
But just as the White Tiger patriarch was about to take flight with him,
a stirring BGM suddenly rang out:
If I open my eyes in a nightmare~
Facing the cruel world head-on~