Scarlet Flame Lion vs. Titan Giant Ape!

"Dai Mubai, how are you so useless? You can't even keep your fiancée in line?!"

Under a large tree, the rest of the Shrek group had gathered together. Unlike the lively scene before, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Tianyu, and Zhu Zhuqing were nowhere to be seen.

Zhao Wuji was beside himself with worry. Leaving Tianyu and the other two girls aside, the mere thought of Tang San's disappearance made his scalp tingle.

Unlike the panicked Zhao Wuji, Ning Rongrong had recovered. When she recalled Tianyu stroking her head, and the promise and comfort he had given her, her little face flushed.

Even the corners of her mouth curled up slightly as she began imagining stories from romance books. Then she turned her head and saw that Tianyu had left with Zhu Zhuqing...

Ning Rongrong could hardly bring herself to blame Tianyu, but whenever she thought of the women around him, a fire burned inside her. Once her young-miss temper flared up, she lashed out at whoever happened to be there.

Dai Mubai gritted his teeth in fury at her words. This had already been the thorn buried deepest in his heart.

Every word Ning Rongrong said felt as though she were taking a chainsaw to his heart!

"Ning Rongrong, what do you mean by that?"

"I mean, please be a little braver from now on and keep your fiancée in line. If you can..."

"Do everything you can to win your fiancée back, instead of acting like a coward, the way you are now!"

After saying her piece, Ning Rongrong felt refreshed and considerably more relaxed. But just as Dai Mubai shot to his feet, his eyes red, ready to berate her...

In an instant, a brilliant radiance shot into the sky in the distance, so dazzling that no one could look directly at it!

Rumble-

Zhao Wuji's pupils contracted sharply. Forcing himself to bear his injuries, he stood in front of everyone, while the others trembled with fear and exchanged looks.

"You've got to be kidding me!"

"Even a Titled Douluo would face endless difficulties trying to see a single Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in their lifetime..."

"And we've been so unlucky that I've already seen two of them here on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest. Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts!"

Zhao Wuji's pupils shrank, his voice filled with shock. He had faced more danger in this one night than in his entire life.

Even back when he had made a name for himself as the Immovable Wisdom King and was hunted down, he had never faced such danger!

"A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and golden light? That golden light looks so familiar..."

Dai Mubai suddenly spoke up. That brilliant golden light seemed to be something he had faced before.

Roar-

In an instant, a lion's roar rang out across dozens of miles and pierced the sky. Sensing the powerful presence of a Soul Beast, even Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape were dumbfounded.

"Sister Xiao Wu, how could an unfamiliar Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast appear in the Star Dou Great Forest?"

The Titan Giant Ape was startled. Without a moment's hesitation, he ran toward the Lake of Life, because Da Ming, the Sky Azure Bull Python, was there too!

Unfortunately...

The Titan Giant Ape was too heavy and too slow. A streak of golden light shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow, arriving before him in the blink of an eye, seething with battle intent.

And what came into view next was a creature likewise over ten meters tall, its entire body a lustrous gold and blazing with golden light.

Not only was a crimson-gold Heaven-Breaking Stone embedded in its forehead, but its fiery red mane was fluffy as flames and billowed in the wind.

Its mighty body was clad in angular, silvery-white armor. Its limbs were thick and strong, tipped with crimson claws. Faint golden flames wreathed its body, and its gaze was sharp and proud.

It possessed the domineering air of a lion king, with a wild and majestic bearing.

This was none other than the battle form of an evolved Divine Soul-

The Scarlet Flame Lion!

"Goldie?" That was the Titan Giant Ape's first impression of the Scarlet Flame Lion. He simply couldn't figure out where the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast before him had sprung from.

"No wonder you wanted to fight so badly. You really can beat him!"

Elsewhere, Tianyu, sensing this through his mental link with the Divine Soul, was wide-eyed with shock and utterly dumbfounded.

With a Heaven-Breaking Stone condensed using only two Soul Rings, the Scarlet Flame Lion's combat power was already comparable to that of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!

Tianyu had originally estimated that the Scarlet Flame Lion's combat power would only have a chance of breaking through to the hundred-thousand-year level once he became a Soul King and had five Soul Rings!

But he had never expected this.

The Scarlet Flame Lion, a Golden Divine Soul and one of the Three Divine Souls of the Soul World, stopped pretending and laid its cards on the table~

Using only a Heaven-Breaking Stone powered by three Soul Rings, one yellow and two purple, the presence it released was already comparable to that of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. How it would actually perform in battle remained to be seen.

"Was that a meteor? What on earth was that?!"

In a dark corner of the forest, Tang San panted heavily as he frantically circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill to recover his strength. He planned to rest for a moment before going to look for Xiao Wu.

But in the blink of an eye, a streak of golden light suddenly shot across the dark night, which had held only scattered starlight, like a skyrocket, catching him completely off guard.

Leaving everyone's shock aside, Tianyu was now stroking Little Kitty's cat ears downward with one hand while taking out a Heaven-Breaking Stone to protect himself with the other.

At the same time, he had immediately become one in mind with the Scarlet Flame Lion!

"Where did you come from? This is my, the Titan Giant Ape's, territory! Get lost, now!"

The Titan Giant Ape roared, pounding his chest. He had originally wanted to show goodwill; after all, they were both Soul Beasts.

And they were both at the hundred-thousand-year level. If they could avoid fighting, it was better not to fight, lest those humans take advantage of them!

But for some reason, the Titan Giant Ape could clearly sense that the Goldie before him was after Sister Xiao Wu, who was on his shoulder. For the safety of the one he secretly loved...

He, the Titan Giant Ape, had to protect Sister Xiao Wu no matter what.

Little did he know that Xiao Wu was now moved to tears, because from her perspective, her master, for her sake...

Was even prepared to risk his life to fight the Titan Giant Ape, who held the title of King of the Forest!

"Xiao Wu, come here. I'll take you home!" Tianyu communicated mentally through the Soul Contract.

She didn't hesitate for even an instant, because any hesitation would have been disrespectful to the Soul Contract!

The Titan Giant Ape was still dumbfounded. How had Sister Xiao Wu gone off with someone else? I was prepared to fight to the death, Your Majesty, so why did you surrender first?

Xiao Wu: "Because surrendering means you only lose half~ Besides, this is Master's order!"

"Sister Xiao Wu, what's wrong with you...? Damn it, you must have used some method to bewitch Sister Xiao Wu!"

"Die, Gravity Crush!!!"

Bam, bam, bam-

The Titan Giant Ape clenched his fists and hammered his chest. In an instant, even the surrounding air seemed to freeze, and an invisible pressure spread in all directions.

At the sight, the Scarlet Flame Lion could no longer contain its eagerness. It swallowed Xiao Wu to keep her safe, then charged straight at the furious Titan Giant Ape.

In an instant, a true battle began. The Titan Giant Ape was a strength-type Soul Beast, but if it came down to explosive power, the Scarlet Flame Lion would never concede defeat.

A flash of golden light followed, and it charged and crashed through everything in its path like a massive golden truck, unstoppable!

"I was just short of a punching bag to test the Scarlet Flame Lion's combat power."

"Go, Scarlet Flame Lion!!!"