Trying to Escape? Did You Ask Me First?

No one had expected that Ye Yang, who had just burrowed into the ground,

would not only stay instead of fleeing, but would launch a counterattack in an instant without even resting.

Ye Yang had learned to strike back from beneath a tree from the thirty-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider he had encountered earlier.

It had used a dead hundred-year Demon Eye Demon Tree to ambush two Man Faced Demon Spiders that were clapping for love.

This time, it worked.

The two Agility Attack System Soul Saints had never expected the treetop beneath their feet to suddenly sink.

They quickly steadied themselves and channeled their Soul Power with all their might, trying to fly again.

But Soul Saints could only fly for short periods, after all.

Caught off guard, they still had downward momentum and continued to fall several meters.

The sinking tree suddenly crackled, its branches snapping rapidly.

Slender Blue Silver Grass leaves shot out from the roots and raced up the trunk, severing the branches as they coiled toward the two Agility Attack System Soul Saints.

Ye Yang had changed tactics. He planned to deal with these Soul Saint lackeys first.

Yes, in his eyes, even Soul Saints above level seventy were lackeys, trash Soul Masters.

"Save them, quickly!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo cried out.

He could naturally tell that, given Ye Yang's attack speed and the strength of the two Agility Attack System Soul Masters, they could not escape.

Yet the three flying Soul Saints and the level 87 Soul Douluo closest to the two Agility Attack System Soul Masters all hesitated.

Damn it, save them?

How?

That Blue Silver Grass's close-combat attacks were absurdly powerful. Even the level 94 Power Attack System Bear Douluo had fallen. Were they supposed to go to their deaths?

However, all Titled Douluo were elders, and their orders could not be disobeyed, including Chrysanthemum Douluo's.

The Soul Masters put on a show of flying over, but at half their usual speed.

In the blink of an eye, several of Ye Yang's leaves had stretched upward for dozens of meters, slicing off every branch on the tree.

They also sliced the treetop at an angle, leaving a sharp point.

Several leaves rose above the treetop and continued winding toward the two Agility Attack System Soul Masters' feet.

But that blink of an eye was also enough for the two Agility Attack System Soul Saints to react.

Powerful Soul Power burst from the soles of their feet as they stepped on the air, like ordinary people treading through mud.

Though moving was difficult, they could at least dodge a little.

But the next instant, their bodies shuddered, and blood poured from all seven orifices!

Group Weakness!

It affected not only the two Soul Saints, but also the other three Soul Saints with flying Martial Souls and the level 87 Soul Douluo.

At such close range, with the attack directed at them, the Soul Saints' spirits and souls suffered heavy damage.

In truth, the Silver Moon Wolf King's "Soul Shock" was the most overbearing and terrifying of the true spiritual attacks.

If Ye Yang possessed that skill, he could directly shake the souls out of anyone below the Titled Douluo level, and even Titled Douluo whose Spiritual Power was below 1,000!

At the very least, they would become idiots.

But over the past month or so, he had hunted only one Silver Moon Wolf over three thousand years old. It had merely increased his Spiritual Power somewhat; he had not gained a soul skill.

"This is bad! Save them-"

Qian Xunji had also noticed that something was wrong.

Even he, who cared nothing for the lives of his subordinates, understood the gravity of the situation.

He had already lost his strongest assistant, Bear Douluo. If he lost five Soul Saints and a Soul Douluo as well,

how could he, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Gui Mei, and the other level 85 Soul Douluo stand against this strange Blue Silver Grass with just the four of them?

Let alone pursue and kill the three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

He went forward himself, beating his six wings as he rushed over at incredible speed.

But Ye Yang was faster.

Before every attack, he calculated precisely.

After the Group Weakness spiritual Soul Skill was unleashed, the two Agility Attack System Soul Saints, who had just steadied themselves, suddenly dropped.

With Ye Yang's Spiritual Power and a Soul Skill directed specifically at them, the damage to their spirits and souls was simply too great.

The leaves, which had already reached their limit, instantly wrapped around both of them.

The terrifying pressure made the two Agility Attack System Soul Masters feel as though they were being constricted by a giant python. Their bones cracked.

The excruciating pain and fear of death briefly brought their agonized minds back to clarity.

"No..."

They managed only that one final word before their faces flushed crimson and their internal organs ruptured, killing them.

At the same time, the tree, stripped bare and sharpened to a point, changed direction and stabbed fiercely at a flying Soul Saint!

The bodies of flying Soul Saints were frailer than those of almost anyone except healing and other Auxiliary System Soul Masters.

With a wet pfft, the treetop pierced straight through the body of the Soul Saint who had transformed into his Black Lark Martial Soul Avatar.

Then the enormous tree spear swept viciously toward another flying Soul Saint!

Bang!

The trunk struck the Soul Saint's Fox-Faced Bat Martial Soul Avatar, snapping tendons and breaking bones as it sent the Soul Saint crashing into the distance.

One dead and one gravely injured!

Boom!

The trunk then exploded apart, sending jagged splinters, bark, and wood chips flying everywhere.

They enveloped the other two flying Soul Saints and the Soul Douluo.

Their minds, which had only just begun to recover, were affected again.

Their sight and hearing were also temporarily disrupted.

A twelve-meter-long Soul Bone spear appeared from its hiding place inside the trunk and stabbed toward the two flying Soul Saints!

Blue Silver Overlord Spear!

The Soul Bone spear pierced straight through both Soul Saints in a single thrust!

This time, however, no Soul Rings appeared.

Ye Yang did not care. He aimed the Soul Bone spear at the level 87 Soul Douluo, who was a little farther away.

He used Blue Silver Overlord Spear again, sending a blue-silver spear shooting from the Soul Bone spear.

This was a Soul Skill.

Chrysanthemum Douluo knew its power all too well. A Soul Douluo could neither withstand it nor evade it.

This Soul Douluo's Martial Soul was a Striped Poison Python, somewhat like a Mandala Snake, but thicker and more muscular.

He transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and lashed his enormous snake tail viciously at the Blue Silver Overlord Spear.

With a wet pfft, the Blue Silver Overlord Spear easily pierced the tail and blasted it apart.

It continued straight up along the tail, intent on killing him outright!

But just as the Blue Silver Overlord Spear was about to pierce the Soul Douluo's abdomen, Qian Xunji finally arrived.

He grabbed the Soul Douluo's shoulder with one hand and poured immense Soul Power into his body to resist the Blue Silver Overlord Spear's erosion.

With his other hand, he thrust the Angel Holy Sword at Ye Yang.

Chrysanthemum Douluo arrived as well and struck the rear of the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, joining forces with Qian Xunji to shatter it.

But when the Soul Douluo returned to his original form, both his legs below the knees were gone, and blood streamed from the wounds.

Even if he recovered from his injuries, he would be crippled.

And with incomplete limbs, he could not become a Titled Douluo.

His cultivation might even regress because of insufficient Qi and blood.

In another two or three seconds, Ye Yang had killed three Soul Saints, gravely injured two, and crippled a level 87 Titled Douluo.

Now, only the level 85 Soul Douluo with the Black Flood Dragon Martial Soul, the level 89 Gui Mei, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Qian Xunji remained.

Of the four, Gui Mei had taken a direct Soul Impact from Ye Yang earlier and had yet to recover.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Qian Xunji had expended considerable Soul Power.

Only the Soul Douluo with the Black Flood Dragon Martial Soul remained at essentially full strength.

As Qian Xunji looked at Ye Yang, veins bulged on his forehead, his expression turned savage, and his bloodshot eyes nearly spewed flames.

But he forcibly suppressed his rage.

There would be plenty of time in the future!

Although he had failed to catch the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts this time, he had obtained more important information.

Next time, he would lead the entire Elder Hall, and even summon the Enshrinement Group, to sweep through the Star Dou Great Forest and hunt down these four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts!

If all went smoothly, after they absorbed the Soul Rings and Soul Bones and greatly increased their strength,

they could even go hunt the two kings of the forest in its core!

"Go!"

Qian Xunji said through gritted teeth.

Hearing his words, Chrysanthemum Douluo and the other three Soul Douluo all let out long breaths.

They were finally leaving. They would no longer have to face this terrifying, bizarre Blue Silver Grass.

"Heh, leaving?"

"Did you ask me first?"

Ye Yang's indifferent voice rang out, filled with chilling killing intent!

Things had come to this, and the two sides were bound to fight until one or the other was dead.

Now, he no longer needed to resort to schemes and dance on the edge of a blade.

He could openly meet these Spirit Hall experts head-on!