"Shut up!"
Dai Yueheng's face flushed red as he snarled the rebuke, his breath coming in furious snorts.
There was no helping it. As far as Dai Yueheng was concerned, this really had become a stain he could never erase.
An Evil Soul Master was his own younger brother, with the same blood flowing through his veins.
Worse still, Huo Yuhao, whom he had regarded as trash, had brought the Evil Soul Master with him and personally slaughtered everyone in the Duke's Mansion.
Only he and Dai Hao remained of the Dai Family.
Dai Yueheng had limited affection for his idiot younger brother, Dai Huabin.
But he couldn't possibly have felt nothing for his own mother.
So now, with Huo Yuhao deliberately bringing it up, he was not only branding this black mark into him, but also seemingly reminding him at every moment that the once-lofty Dai Family had been reduced to two lone surviving shoots, and that his mother had died at Huo Yuhao's hands.
And Huo Yuhao? He merely raised an eyebrow and looked at him with the ghost of a smile.
"What's wrong? I only paid you back for what you did. Can't you take it?"
At those words, Ma Xiaotao and the others all turned to look.
They knew something of that final communication. The Evil Soul Master had seemed to be provoking them, and Huo Yuhao, who stood before them now, had even seemed to say something about a good father.
At first, they had all thought it was false, but judging by Dai Yueheng's reaction now...
Was there more to this than met the eye?
Could it be that Huo Yuhao, this Evil Soul Master, really was Dai Hao's blood and Dai Yueheng's younger brother?
"Shut your mouth! A bastard like you should never have been born!"
Dai Yueheng, who had always been adept at hiding his feelings, finally couldn't hold back.
There was no helping it. Every word Huo Yuhao said struck straight through his defenses.
And that word, "bastard," made Huo Yuhao's gaze darken.
Heh. Sure enough, for all his apparent cunning, he was essentially just an upgraded Dai Huabin whose defenses were easily broken.
Dai Yueheng let out a thunderous tiger roar and shot forward like an arrow. In midair, his first, third, and fifth Soul Rings flashed in turn. He completed his transformation as quickly as he could.
Golden fur, golden claws. The White Tiger Protection Barrier, White Tiger Vajra Transformation, and White Tiger Demon God Transformation-three enhancement skills brought his strength to its peak in just a few breaths.
He was so fast that he was almost upon Huo Yuhao in the blink of an eye, intent on tearing him to pieces.
He wanted to silence that shameful, bloodstained past.
And Huo Yuhao? A flash passed through his purple pupils.
Facing Dai Yueheng's incoming claws, he merely opened the distance with casual ease.
Time's Eye Second activated.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao's Second Soul Ring flashed.
The moment Spirit Restoration Technique activated,
Huo Yuhao's form suddenly began to change as well.
His body swelled, a purple-gold character for "king" gradually appeared on his forehead, and purple fur covered him from head to toe.
Rather than a White Tiger, he looked more like someone who had invoked Martial Soul Possession with the legendary Soul Beast, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
"How is this possible?!"
Dai Yueheng stared at Huo Yuhao's transformation in a daze, even forgetting to attack for a moment.
"That's my Soul Skill!"
Feeling the boost in his own strength, Huo Yuhao shook his head and spoke teasingly.
"Brother, your Soul Skill really is useful. But this move shouldn't be called White Tiger Demon God Transformation anymore. It's mine now: Dark Tiger War God Transformation!"
After this pure conquest-type Soul Skill had been copied through Huo Yuhao's Spirit Restoration Technique,
The biggest change was that its original enhancement had been 150 percent.
Its enhancement had been forcibly increased to one-third, making it 230 percent.
An enhancement of that magnitude was undeniably terrifying.
"Just a crude imitation. Someone like you isn't worthy of using the White Tiger clan's Soul Skills!"
Seeing Huo Yuhao using his own Soul Skill broke through Dai Yueheng's defenses even further.
Was this some kind of joke? An Evil Soul Master, a piece of trash he looked down on and loathed from the bottom of his heart.
After turning evil, he was actually using his family's ancestral Soul Skill.
His fourth Soul Ring blazed with purple light. With a tiger's roar, Dai Yueheng unleashed scorching, gold-white tiger-attribute Soul Power all around him. Countless fist-sized golden orbs, wrapped in White Tiger markings, erupted from his body and swept out like a sky full of meteors, blotting out heaven and earth.
White Tiger Meteor Shower activated!
Behind that formidable attack, Dai Yueheng himself came hurtling in like a spiraling sword.
A flash passed through Huo Yuhao's purple double pupils, and a ray of dark purple-black light shot from his eyes.
The moment it emerged, it warped and tore through space.
Beneath that spatial rift, the White Tiger Meteor Shower was swallowed up in an instant.
Dai Yueheng went blank for a moment. How was that possible? A spatial attribute? Wasn't this bastard Evil Soul Master's Martial Soul of the spiritual attribute?
But the dark purple-black light of destruction did not stop.
Boom!
Seeing that it was only an attack from a Soul Elder, Dai Yueheng tried to tear it apart with the White Tiger Claws on his hands.
But the attack was not torn apart. It struck Dai Yueheng head-on, making him skid several meters backward.
The blackened wound on his arm was not the worst of it. More importantly, Dai Yueheng felt faint.
That was Huo Yuhao's dark light of destruction: an attack with both spiritual and physical attributes!
Seizing the opening, Huo Yuhao used his second Soul Skill once more.
Scorching dark-purple tiger-attribute Soul Power erupted from his body. Countless fist-sized black forms, wrapped in Dark Tiger markings, burst from around him and swept out like a sky full of meteors, blotting out heaven and earth.
Still dizzy, Dai Yueheng took the full force of his own White Tiger Meteor Shower.
He stumbled back several more steps, looking thoroughly battered.
The sight left Ma Xiaotao and the others dumbfounded.
Was this some kind of joke? Dai Yueheng was an inner-court Soul King. How could he be in such a sorry state fighting a Soul Elder?
They all found it hard to believe. When Dai Yueheng recovered from his daze, his face had turned utterly dark.
The bastard trash he looked down on had actually taken the initiative to attack him?
What an unspeakable humiliation!
And then there were his injuries. That was right: against a Soul Elder, he had actually been pressed hard enough to get hurt!
"Roar!"
With a tiger's roar, Dai Yueheng abruptly unleashed White Tiger Fierce Light Wave.
But Huo Yuhao once again opened the distance with ease. With Illusion Breaking and Time's Eye Second both active,
All of Dai Yueheng's attacks seemed riddled with openings.
"Damn it, this little beast definitely has some other Soul Skill! There's something strange about his Soul Ring. He definitely has more than one Soul Skill!"
No matter how stupid Dai Yueheng might have been, he had realized by now that something was strange about Huo Yuhao.
As a Soul King, he had disgraced himself so badly in front of his teammates.
And after realizing there was something strange about Huo Yuhao, Dai Yueheng understood that even if they competed in total Soul Power, every attack he launched was intended to kill his opponent, while Huo Yuhao only needed to dodge each time. Their Soul Power consumption was completely unequal. Huo Yuhao only needed to keep up this damned game of keeping his distance.
Even then, Dai Yueheng wouldn't win. Being two ranks ahead and still unable to win was unacceptable to him.
Having made up his mind, Dai Yueheng took out a black medicinal pill...