Douluo Continent: Simulating Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, Exclusively Screwing Over Tang San

Gong Yu's eyes lit up. "Quick, show us! But don't attack us. Aim at that tree three meters away!"

"Okay." Gong Qianqian nodded. With a thought, she turned the cold Qi within her domain into a multitude of frost blades. They flew and danced wildly, bombarding the tree three meters away.

In the blink of an eye, the frenzied frost blades had slashed the entire tree to pieces, reducing it to splinters.

"Hiss..." Beside them, Gong Xue suddenly sucked in a cold breath. Then she put on a pitiful expression. "Fourth Sister, you mustn't use that move against me in the future."

But Gong Qianqian replied with complete seriousness, "I don't have any Soul Skills, though. This is the only move I know. If I don't use it against you, am I supposed to stand there and let you hit me?"

Gong Xue pouted and said unreasonably, "I don't care. Anyway, Fourth Sister isn't allowed to use something so powerful to attack her own people."

Gong Yu also said, "Xiao Xue is right. Qianqian, your Innate Domain is too powerful. Try to use it as little as possible from now on, and preferably keep it as a trump card. Even when you do use it, only use its support abilities. Save its offensive abilities for critical moments."

"Understood." Gong Qianqian nodded. "Young Master, you mean I should use my offensive abilities to ambush people."

Hearing that, Na'er, who had been silent off to the side, suddenly burst out laughing, leaving Gong Yu embarrassed all over again.

He chuckled. "You can understand it that way, but it would be better to use a different word. We call it catching them off guard, catching them off guard!"

"Don't explain, Big Brother. That's exactly what you meant." Gong Xue chimed in, then smugly tilted up the corners of her mouth.

At once, everyone was amused by Gong Xue again.

Gong Yu said helplessly, "All right, all right, interpret it however you like! But there's still quite a while before dawn, so everyone should get some more rest while you can. I still have to find a Soul Beast for Niuniu tomorrow. She's the only one left."

As he spoke, Gong Yu also reminded himself, I need to think carefully about what kind of Soul Beast to find for Niuniu.

At Gong Yu's suggestion, everyone returned to their original campsite five hundred meters away.

Everyone settled down to rest, while Gong Yu kept watch and thought about finding a Soul Beast for Gong Niuniu.

Chapter 34: Niuniu: I Want a Thousand-Year First Soul Ring Too

Early in the morning, the sun had yet to rise, but the sky was already bright.

Gong Yu hadn't slept all night, but he was still in good spirits.

He looked back at the girls. Some were sleeping in each other's arms, while others had spent the night sitting back to back. Everyone had been kept busy for quite some time by that Soul Beast the previous night, so none of them had woken up yet.

While keeping watch the previous night, Gong Yu had also spent a long time reviewing what he knew. In the end, he discovered that the Soul Hunting Forest seemed to have no Soul Beasts suitable for Gong Niuniu, which left him in a difficult position.

Gong Niuniu's Nine-Colored Amethyst Lamp was not a support-type Martial Soul, but a Power Attack System one. It possessed both Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire attributes, and also belonged to the Spirit System. That was equivalent to cultivating three systems at once.

But why she hadn't had even the slightest bit of Innate Soul Power when she awakened her Martial Soul had always puzzled Gong Yu.

Even someone like Yu Xiaogang, whose Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul had degenerated into Luo Sanpao upon awakening because of an innate deficiency, had at least possessed half a level of Innate Soul Power. But Gong Niuniu truly hadn't had the slightest bit.

Realizing his thoughts had wandered, Gong Yu came back to his senses and glanced at the girls again. He found that Gong Lan was already awake.

As the eldest sister, Gong Lan had always been thorough when it came to taking care of everyone. Even out in the wilderness, she was the first to rise.

After getting up, she gathered some firewood nearby and started a fire to cook congee. Although she couldn't bring much cookware into the wilderness, she had secretly tucked a pot for cooking congee into her Soul Tool, along with several days' worth of rice.

Gong Yu came over and said softly in Gong Lan's ear, "I'm going to hunt some game nearby. Lan'er, keep an eye on them."

"All right, Young Master." Gong Lan nodded. "I'll look after my sisters."

Gong Lan was sensible, so there was no need to say much more.

Gong Yu turned and left. About ten minutes later, he returned with a wild boar weighing over two hundred jin and four Soft Bone Rabbits weighing over ten jin each.

After cleaning out the game, Gong Yu set up a rack and started roasting it.

Once the wild boar's innards were removed, its weight of over two hundred jin came down to only about a hundred and forty or fifty jin of meat.

Naturally, roasting such a large boar wasn't for the girls. It was mainly because Gong Yu and Na'er both had enormous appetites, all thanks to their bloodlines. A boar that size was barely enough to fill the two of them halfway.

As time passed, the aroma of roasting meat gradually spread. The other girls caught the scent and slowly awoke from their dreams.

When they saw the big wild boar roasted golden and crisp, looking wonderfully appetizing, everyone could hardly wait to run over. Na'er in particular was still a long way off when Gong Yu heard her stomach rumbling.

But the girls had only run a few steps before Gong Lan stopped them.

"You lot, wash up first. You all have toiletries in your Soul Tools, and you've stored water too, so don't think you can let yourselves go just because we're out in the wilderness."

After Gong Lan's scolding, each of them obediently took toiletries out of her Soul Tool and began washing up.

A few minutes later, they had all finished and came over to Gong Yu.

Gong Yu had already sliced the roast meat into pieces, so the girls could dig right in.

After a good breakfast, Gong Yu led everyone around the Soul Hunting Forest.

They searched for half the day but didn't encounter a single suitable one.

Gong Yu had already made plans. If they couldn't find a Soul Beast suitable for Gong Niuniu today, he would take them to the Sunset Forest tomorrow.

Before long, noon passed. Everyone ate lunch and continued searching for Soul Beasts.

After searching for about an hour, they finally encountered a Light White Tiger that was around five hundred years old.

Gong Yu said to Gong Niuniu, "This Light White Tiger's age is a little low. We'll keep it as a backup for now. If we really can't find anything else, we'll come back for its Soul Ring."

But Gong Niuniu said, "Young Master, I want a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as my First Soul Ring too. Can I?"

"Well... I suppose so, but we'd have to encounter a Thousand-Year Soul Beast that's suitable for you first." Gong Yu felt somewhat conflicted.

If he said yes, there was Gong Qianqian's example. She had struggled so much while absorbing her Soul Ring that he was a little worried Gong Niuniu wouldn't be able to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. After all, not everyone would be as lucky as Gong Qianqian.

But if he said no, there was still Gong Qianqian's example. After all, he had agreed to let Gong Qianqian absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, so he couldn't very well refuse Gong Niuniu. If he really did that, Niuniu might think she was being treated differently.

So Gong Yu felt that if she wanted to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, they had to find one first. If they couldn't, there was no point saying anything.

The group wandered around the Soul Hunting Forest for more than two hours without finding anything. With only a few hours left in the day, Gong Yu had already prepared to take the girls to the Soul Hunting Forest.

Just then, the ground rumbled, and they soon saw hundreds upon thousands of Soul Beasts charging in their direction.

"Is this a beast tide?" Gong Yu looked questioningly at the beasts rushing toward them, then said to the girls, "Let's go to the high ground ahead and stay out of their way. This is a small beast tide, and while it won't have much impact, it's not something a few of us can withstand."

The girls quickly followed Gong Yu to another spot, easily avoiding the herd.

Gong Yu watched closely, hoping to see what had panicked the Soul Beasts and sent them fleeing for their lives, causing a beast tide that was neither large nor powerful.

Before long, Gong Yu found the reason: a few Soul Beasts were fighting.

The Soul Beasts fought as they came, leaving everything in their path scorched beyond recognition by the flames they spewed. The flames were so powerful that the smaller Soul Beasts nearby couldn't withstand them at all and could only flee for their lives.

The Soul Beasts kept fighting their way toward the group. When they were two or three hundred meters away, everyone finally saw what kind of Soul Beasts were fighting.

"So they're three dogs. No wonder I thought I heard barking earlier." Gong Yu watched the three canine Soul Beasts, which looked like Tibetan mastiffs and were as black as ink. His eyes darted around a few times, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Let's watch these three dogs a little longer. Something will probably happen." As Gong Yu spoke, he told everyone to crouch down and hide while they secretly observed the three mastiffs.

The three mastiffs alternated between facing off and fighting. After nearly half an hour, one of them was finally so badly injured that it was about to lose.

Seeing this, the other two mastiffs seemed to share a single thought. Their bodies flickered, and they rapidly came together as though shifting through shadows. Their two forms overlapped, then completely fused into a two-headed mastiff.

After the two-headed mastiff appeared, its presence rapidly swelled, reaching the eight-hundred-year level.

Gong Yu's eyes lit up, and he asked Gong Niuniu, "Niuniu, how about taking this Soul Beast's Soul Ring for you to absorb?"

Chapter 35: The Mutated Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff

"But Young Master, this two-headed dog's cultivation hasn't reached the thousand-year level!" Gong Niuniu replied. She still couldn't stop thinking about absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as her First Soul Ring.

Gong Yu said, "Just keep watching. It'll reach the thousand-year level soon."

As soon as Gong Yu finished speaking, the two-headed dog pounced straight at the severely wounded mastiff. Its two enormous heads opened their bloody maws and bit down on the injured mastiff's neck and belly.

The injured mastiff whimpered for a while before drawing its last breath.

The two-headed dog then began devouring the dead mastiff's corpse. As it ate more and more, its presence began to surge.

Once it had devoured the entire corpse, the two-headed dog's body suddenly went into spasms and began to convulse.

After about ten minutes, the two-headed dog stopped convulsing, but its body began flickering with afterimages. The afterimages split into three and crossed over one another, making it impossible to tell which was the real body.

About a minute later, the three afterimages overlapped once more and became solid.

At that moment, something suddenly began bulging beneath the skin at the fork between the two-headed dog's necks. It rapidly swelled and grew, finally taking the shape of a dog's head.

The head quickly grew until it was the same size as the other two, becoming the two-headed dog's third head. Now it should no longer have been called a two-headed dog, but a three-headed dog.

The three-headed dog raised its heads and let out a long howl at the red sun in the sky, seemingly bursting forth with the power in its heart. After that howl, its presence surged, and it successfully broke through the barrier, advancing into a thousand-year Soul Beast.

Only then did Gong Yu speak again. "See? It evolved to the thousand-year level."

All the girls except Na'er swallowed hard, then nodded vigorously.

Gong Niuniu asked, "Young Master, what kind of Soul Beast is this three-headed dog? Why haven't I seen it in the Soul Beast compendium?"

Gong Yu said, "Judging by their original appearance, they should have been Scarlet Fire Mastiffs. But their current appearance is somewhat like a Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff's, so I guess they each had a trace of Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff bloodline. After mutating, they began devouring one another, hoping to advance their bloodline."

Although it was a guess, Gong Yu had gotten part of it right.

The three Scarlet Fire Mastiffs were brothers born of the same mother, in the same litter. They had always depended on one another and advanced and retreated together. But after their cultivation reached four hundred years, one day they somehow came into contact with a bit of strange flame.

Not long after returning, they awakened their Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff bloodline. After that, the three brothers began fighting from time to time. Their fighting had gone on for several years and grown increasingly intense, eventually developing into a situation where each wanted to devour the others.

Over the years, one of them devoured another and became a two-headed dog, and its bloodline gradually grew stronger. It then set its sights on the remaining one, wanting to devour it too.

The two-headed dog fought the remaining Scarlet Fire Mastiff for several more years. Only today did it finally devour the last Scarlet Fire Mastiff and evolve into a Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff.

"Young Master, does this Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff have any powerful abilities?" Gong Niuniu asked. Everyone else also looked at Gong Yu, eagerly awaiting his answer.

Gong Yu said, "The Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff's greatest strength is naturally its flames. It's said that the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff has a flame called Hellfire inside it. Hellfire itself is a kind of flame found only in hell, and it's highly destructive."

Gong Yu looked at Gong Niuniu and continued, "Niuniu, one of your Nine-Colored Amethyst Lamp's attributes is Ultimate Fire. If you absorb this Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff's Soul Ring, it may take the power of your flames to another level."

Hearing Gong Yu say that, Gong Niuniu's eyes immediately shone. She nodded excitedly. "Young Master, I want this one. This one is good, really good."

But Gong Yu frowned. "I'd really like to agree to let you absorb this Soul Ring, but after what happened with Qianqian, I'm honestly still a little shaken. I'm truly afraid something might happen to you while you're absorbing that Soul Ring."

Gong Niuniu immediately replied, "You don't have to worry, Young Master. I'll succeed. Have you forgotten? My Nine-Colored Amethyst Lamp can protect its master. I believe that if there's real danger, it will definitely come out and protect me."

Gong Yu's eyes lit up at that. He thought it was entirely possible, but it was still a gamble. Absorbing a Soul Ring was a gamble in itself, though; there was no guarantee of success.

So he nodded in agreement. "All right, I support you. But I'll say it again: if anything goes wrong while you're absorbing the Soul Ring, I'll interrupt you immediately."

Having obtained his agreement, Gong Niuniu smiled happily. "I understand, Young Master. I'll definitely succeed."

Gong Yu immediately stood up, ready to personally take down the thousand-year Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff.

But he had only just stood when Na'er beat him to it. She ran out, saying, "Brother Yu, my hands are itching a little. Let me do it this time. There's no need for you to deal with such a little thing."

Watching Na'er charge out with the Silver Dragon Spear in hand, Gong Yu couldn't help finding it funny. The contrast between her tiny figure and the long spear she held was striking, making for the cutest height difference.

After approaching the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff, Na'er launched a fierce attack. At first, the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff could exchange blows with her, but it slowly began to falter.

The Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff was no pushover, though. Once it realized it couldn't beat Na'er, it immediately used a splitting skill, dividing itself into three figures that attacked her from three directions.

Na'er unleashed swift, sharp footwork. Her figure flickered several times, and she sent the three mastiff figures flying one by one. The three mastiffs crashed together when they landed, finally fusing back into the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff.

Na'er walked over and severed all four of the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff's legs with the Silver Dragon Spear. The spear also absorbed part of its life force, leaving it with only a breath of life.

At that point, Gong Yu led the girls over.

When they reached Na'er, Gong Yu handed Gong Niuniu a dagger and told her to deliver the final blow to the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff.

Gong Niuniu took the dagger and walked over without the slightest hesitation. With a single thrust, she finished off the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff.

A pale purple Soul Ring then formed. Gong Niuniu immediately sat down cross-legged, drew the Soul Ring over herself, and began circulating the Quanzhen Great Dao Song to absorb the Soul Ring's energy.

Chapter 36: Taking Stock of the Gains

Clearly, Gong Yu's concern for Gong Niuniu had been a little unnecessary. He had thought Niuniu would struggle as Gong Qianqian had while absorbing the Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but the situation turned out very differently from what he had expected.

At first, the Soul Power in the purple Soul Ring did affect Niuniu somewhat. But just as she began to feel pain, her Nine-Colored Amethyst Lamp Martial Soul emitted a violet-gold light that enveloped her. In the blink of an eye, she stabilized.

Bathed in the violet-gold light, she successfully absorbed the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff's Soul Ring in less than half an hour.

As Niuniu slowly opened her eyes, everyone gathered around her.

"Sixth Sister, how do you feel?" Gong Xue, the liveliest of them all, was the first to ask. Everyone else also looked at Niuniu with concern.

"I... I'm fine." Niuniu's eyes reddened. No one had shown her such concern in a long time.

Niuniu sniffled, stood up, and added, "I gained a Soul Skill, but I don't know how powerful it is. I'll have to try it out."

Niuniu walked forward a few steps, and an amethyst lamp radiating nine-colored light appeared in her hand. A pale purple Soul Ring materialized beneath her feet.

The pale purple Soul Ring flashed, and Niuniu called softly, "First Soul Skill, Netherfire Illuminates the World."