The Flame Martial Beast King stared blankly at its leg that had turned to ice shards, not understanding what had happened for a moment. Even now, it still felt no pain whatsoever.
The blue-white flames continued to spread upward, constantly burning the Flame Martial Beast King's body.
The Flame Martial Beast King roared angrily, trying to struggle out of the swamp. A large amount of lava erupted from its body, igniting everything around it, including burning dry the swamp beneath its feet.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Flame Martial Beast King had hope of escaping.
However, the Soul Douluo with the earth martial soul pushed with both hands, using a soul skill. The ground immediately collapsed again into a large pit, and the dried swamp was restored once more.
The other Soul Douluo fired several arrows carrying lightning power into the swamp. The powerful electric shock paralyzed the Flame Martial Beast King's body.
The Flame Martial Beast King struggled within, but having lost one leg, it couldn't climb up this time no matter what.
The blue-white flames burned, turning the Flame Martial Beast King's body inch by inch into ice shards.
Finally, in the Flame Martial Beast King's last moment, Liu Erlong activated her Fire Dragon martial soul and delivered a fatal heavy blow to the beast king.
In the end, Liu Erlong absorbed the 70,000-year Flame Martial Beast King's soul ring and successfully advanced to become a Soul Douluo.
With this, the soul hunting finally ended.
Ma Hongjun broke through to Soul Elder, level 31. Zhu Zhuqing broke through to Soul Elder, level 31. Ning Rongrong broke through to Soul Elder, level 36. Xiao Wu broke through to Soul Ancestor, level 42. Dugu Yan broke through to Soul Ancestor, level 48. Liu Erlong broke through to Soul Douluo, level 83.
After their breakthroughs, everyone returned together to Dugu Bo's secluded residence.
Flender and the others originally had no excuse to continue staying, but they still wanted to wait for Tang San's return to ask for those miraculous herbs, so they shamelessly remained.
Meng Bei had no intention of driving them away either.
Having them around made things more lively anyway.
Especially whenever he saw the Grandmaster and Flender sitting outside together looking melancholy, it filled him with energy when bullying Liu Erlong.
For several days, Meng Bei's life was extremely pleasant.
Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan, these two little weaklings, were really too fragile and couldn't stir up any waves at all.
On the contrary, Xiao Wu and Liu Erlong—after their breakthroughs, their physiques had visibly become much stronger.
Sometimes Meng Bei wondered whether he should introduce Xiao Wu and Liu Erlong to each other, since in the original story, Liu Erlong had taken Xiao Wu as her goddaughter...
The Shrek members waited with longing eyes, but Tang San, whom they eagerly anticipated, never returned.
Even Meng Bei wasn't clear on where Tang San had gone.
Dai Mubai even pessimistically believed that Tang San had betrayed these brothers of his and run away alone with the herbs.
In fact, Meng Bei and the others were too isolated from outside news in these deep mountains. If they had gone outside, they would have learned that recently, an evil soul master had appeared in several small towns around the outskirts of Sunset Forest.
Several soul master families had already been exterminated, including even a Soul King level expert who had died miserably in his own home, reportedly with his body shot full of holes by some kind of arrow-type weapon.
After another two days like this, on this day, the sound of breaking air came from outside.
Sword Douluo was seen arriving with Ning Fengzhi, riding on flying swords.
Dugu Bo, his entire body wrapped in green light, followed closely behind.
The two flew at extreme speed through the sky, as if competing with each other.
In the end, Sword Douluo arrived at the destination first.
"Hahaha, old poison thing, you lost! Even carrying Fengzhi, you're still not as fast as me!"
Dugu Bo curled his lips and threw down a large sack from his arms, saying:
"This old man isn't good at flying, and I was carrying dead weight besides. Without this burden, who knows who would win or lose!"
Just then, Meng Bei and the others came running after hearing the news.
"Father-in-law, Grandfather-in-law!"
Meng Bei obediently greeted the two men.
Although his current strength was no longer afraid of Titled Douluo, he wasn't the type to become arrogant upon gaining power. Moreover, Ning Fengzhi and Dugu Bo had treated him very well, entrusting their only daughter and granddaughter to him, so he naturally couldn't be disrespectful to them.
Flender, the Grandmaster, and the others also bowed to Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo.
On the Douluo Continent, lower-level soul masters had to bow when meeting higher-level soul masters, especially when facing Titled Douluo—they had to be respectful and address them as "Your Majesty."
Only Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo came this time; Bone Douluo didn't come.
Ning Fengzhi explained to Meng Bei that Bone Douluo was still staying at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, responsible for handling follow-up affairs.
After returning to the sect this time, Ning Fengzhi had first handled various accumulated affairs, then completed the procedures for Dugu Bo joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as quickly as possible.
This move naturally caused a sensation across the entire continent. Even though Ning Fengzhi wanted to keep everything simple, such a major event couldn't be completed in just a day or two. Various major powers came to offer congratulations upon hearing the news, which took quite a bit of time.
Next came preparing for Meng Bei and Ning Rongrong's wedding, which was equally troublesome.
Because given the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's position, Ning Rongrong's wedding couldn't possibly be held within the family. The Upper Three Sects, Lower Four Sects, both great empires, and even Spirit Hall—all major powers had to be notified, not one could be missed.
They even needed to notify Meng Bei's relatives in the Extreme North, although Meng Bei himself said his birth parents were dead and he had little relationship with most family members, so notification wasn't necessary. But saying was one thing—Ning Fengzhi naturally couldn't be ignorant of proper etiquette, and the appropriate invitations still had to be sent.
This way, Ning Fengzhi was truly exhausted for a while. Only today did he find time to hand affairs over to Bone Douluo, then bring Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo to find Meng Bei.
The purpose, naturally, was to go to Holy Soul Village to find Meng Bei's sworn brother, Tang Hao.
While they were talking, the sack on the ground kept struggling.
Everyone's attention was drawn to the sack.
Meng Bei asked curiously: "Grandfather-in-law, what did you bring? It seems to be alive?"
Dugu Bo said with a dark expression:
"This isn't a thing, it's a person, and a familiar one at that!"
Saying this, Dugu Bo opened the sack and threw out the person inside.
"Third Brother?"
Meng Bei was shocked.
He saw Tang San bound hand and foot, with cloth stuffed in his mouth, curled up and struggling.
"What... what's going on?"
Meng Bei inquired.
The others also gathered around with concern.
They quickly untied the ropes binding Tang San.
As for whether they were concerned about Tang San himself or the immortal herbs on Tang San, Meng Bei couldn't know.
Meng Bei puzzledly asked Dugu Bo why he had tied up Tang San and put him in a sack like this.
Dugu Bo answered with a dark expression:
"You don't know—this boy became an evil soul master outside. He completely destroyed six small towns outside Sunset Forest, a total of eight soul master families, killing hundreds of people."
After hearing this, everyone looked incredulous and dumbstruck.
The Grandmaster couldn't help but step forward and question:
"Poison Douluo Your Majesty, did you make a mistake? I understand Tang San—he's a good child and couldn't possibly do such things!"
Upon hearing this, Dugu Bo's expression immediately became ugly. He glanced coldly at the Grandmaster, and his powerful aura pressed the Grandmaster down until he sat on the ground.
"Are you doubting that this old man is slandering him!"
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