Clash

Wang Xingyu looked around. It was indeed a space similar to a basement, with several glowing Soul Tool embedded in the walls, making the light dim.

Iron chains hung from the wall, with rusty shackles at the ends. The floor was paved with dark stone slabs, and old stains accumulated in the crevices.

"Xiao Wu, stop being so vain. We're going to pretend we're locked up with chains."

"What's with the vainness?" Xiao Wu said as she walked over. The two of them loosely fastened the chains to their wrists, the shackles resting on their wrist bones. It looked like they were locked, but in reality, they could be easily broken.

After a while, footsteps could be heard outside.

"Hehe, Lord Gu, the Soul Master we captured this time absolutely meets your requirements!" It was the captain's voice.

Upon hearing the sound, Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu simultaneously lowered their heads, feigning weakness.

As the footsteps grew closer, two people entered. The one in front was the captain from before.

The other one was more than a head taller than the soldier next to him, but his limbs were as thin as twigs, his cheeks were sunken, and his eye sockets were deep. Only his belly was bulging and round, stretching his robe tightly.

It should be Gu Kesi, the city lord of Longxing City.

Seeing the real person was even stranger than Li Yunzheng had described; just that figure alone made one instinctively uncomfortable.

A word popped into Wang Xingyu's mind—a starving ghost, the kind of thing in horror movies that can never get enough to eat.

Gu Kesi glanced at the two men, but his gaze didn't linger. He then turned to the five private soldiers standing in a row against the wall.

He said in a hoarse, unpleasant voice, "Yes, you can go out now."

The captain repeatedly replied "Okay, okay," and was about to leave when he noticed that the five private soldiers remained motionless.

He was about to urge them on when one of the private soldiers suddenly turned around and stabbed him in the abdomen. At the same time, the other four private soldiers pounced on Gu Kesi.

Gu Kesi watched the actions of the private soldiers and gave a strange "hmm".

Before he could even speak, several whooshing sounds came from behind— the Godly Zhuge Crossbow were firing.

Wang Xingyu knew the art of stealth; in situations without a script, he would always resort to a sneak attack rather than engage in direct confrontation.

However, the crossbow bolt was not aimed at Gu Kesi's vital parts; he still needed to interrogate him for clues about the Goddess of Life.

After several volleys of fire, all six private soldiers fell to the ground.

Gu Kesi knelt on one knee, half of his body embedded with arrows from the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, the crossbow's butt sticking out of his robe and trembling slightly.

He raised his head, his eyes filled with resentment, his voice even hoarser. "Who are you?"

Xiao Wu snorted coldly, "Of course I'm here to rid the people of this scourge." Then she turned to Wang Xingyu and said, "Xingyu, quickly restrain him, he's too ugly, uglier than the ugliest Soul Beast I've ever seen."

Wang Xingyu nodded, and a Blue Silver vine shot out from his palm, wrapping straight around Gu Kesi's neck.

Just as the vines touched his neck, a gash suddenly split open on Gu Kesi's neck, and a mouth grew out.

The mouth opened, revealing two rows of fine, sharp teeth, and bit off the Blue Silver vine in one bite, then began to chew. Fragments of the vine fell from the corner of its mouth, which smacked twice before retracting back into its skin.

Xiao Wu's eyes widened in surprise. "You can do that?"

Wang Xingyu had no idea what this thing was.

Then something even more unexpected happened. Gu Kesi made a move.

With several crossbow bolts embedded in half of his body, he actually stood up, bent down, grabbed the corpse of a private soldier next to him, and lifted him up completely.

His swollen belly began to writhe, the fabric creaking under the strain. Then, his abdomen suddenly split open in the center, and a mouth several times larger than the one on his neck emerged from the rift, its two rows of sharp teeth gleaming a ghastly white in the dim light of the Soul Guidance Lamp.

Gu Kesi pushed the entire corpse into the gaping mouth on its stomach. The mouth began to chew, and dull, rhythmic cracking sounds of bones breaking came from the abdominal cavity.

The whole process was extremely fast, so fast that Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu didn't even have time to stop it.

Xiao Wu's expression changed. She had seen Soul Beast eat people, but she had never seen Soul Master eat people, let alone in this way. A mouth growing out of its stomach to eat people—who had ever seen anything like it?

Wang Xingyu did not answer.

He raised the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, this time aiming it at the heart. The Godly Zhuge Crossbow could instantly kill a Level 40 Soul Ancestor who was unprepared, but it was hard to say what would happen if a level 50 or higher Soul Master was prepared.

The previous surprise attack caught Gu Kesi off guard, and now they no longer have the advantage of ambushes.

Gu Kesi made no attempt to defend himself. The crossbow bolt pierced his body as if it had hit water, without causing a ripple or even drawing a drop of blood.

Gu Kesi spoke in a sinister tone, "Heh, since you're here, you're not leaving." Before he finished speaking, his stomach had already swallowed its last bite, the private soldier's corpse disappearing into his swollen abdomen, not even a bone fragment escaping.

Five Soul Ring rose from beneath his feet—purple-purple-purple-black. An abnormal configuration; the first four Soul Ring were all thousand-year-old.

He seemed quite proud of this setup, his voice hoarse yet filled with undisguised arrogance. "You two mortals should feel honored to see my achievements before you die."

The phantom of a Black Dragon appeared behind him. His originally thin, withered limbs bulged out at a visible speed, and muscle lines rose under his skin, transforming his entire body from a bamboo pole into a wall of bulging muscles.

Dragon-type Beast Martial Soul.

Xiao Wu ignored his excuses and snorted coldly, "Tch, try my legwork."

The next instant, she appeared directly above Gu Kesi — Teleportation combined with Moonfall, and she crashed down like a meteor.

With a loud bang, it struck him squarely on the head, and cracks appeared in the ground beneath Gu Kesi's feet, sending debris flying everywhere.

Gu Kesi tilted his head slightly, a nasty smile tugging at the corners of his mouth, "Heh, not bad. Can be used as nourishment for me."

Xiao Wu did not use the momentum to bounce away.

He maintained his kicking stance, pressing down on him from above, and his Fourth Soul Ring lit up immediately. Invincible Golden Body, 100% power amplification.

A golden-red light exploded from her body, and the foot that was pressing down on Gu Kesi's head suddenly increased its force.

The crack beneath Gu Kesi's feet instantly widened.

He frowned slightly, and his black Soul Ring lit up. His body grew even stronger, and one arm was covered with black scales. His five fingers transformed into dragon claws, which grabbed Xiao Wu's ankle with a stench.

Wang Xingyu had already wrapped the Blue Silver Grass around Xiao Wu's waist and pulled her back forcefully.

Xiao Wu used the momentum to do a backflip and landed steadily back beside him.

"This is a bit difficult," Xiao Wu said in a low voice.

Wang Xingyu nodded. Having transmigrated for so long and crushed his way through, this was the first time he had encountered such a truly unexpected event.

A level 55 Evil Soul Master with a dragon-type Beast Martial Soul martial soul, whose first four Soul Ring are all thousand years old, has a configuration that is completely beyond the norm, and also has a devouring effect.