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Sunset Forest.
Today, Liu Erlong, Xu Yunhan, and Xiao Wu brought Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing here to hunt soul beasts for their fifth soul rings.
Boom!
Xu Yunhan was currently dealing with a twenty-thousand-year-old Iron Horned Ram soul beast. Despite looking like a sheep, it possessed formidable attack power, especially its pair of iron horns, which were both hard and sharp.
This was the soul beast found for Ning Rongrong. Her fifth soul skill was an attack amplification, and this Iron Horned Ram soul beast was perfectly suited.
Xu Yunhan didn't quickly dispatch the Iron Horned Ram, choosing to use it to hone his combat awareness first.
Although he regularly practiced sparring with Zhao Wuji and Liu Erlong, it wasn't a hostile engagement, so some aspects of combat awareness couldn't be cultivated.
Only in a life-and-death battle could one truly experience and develop certain combat methods.
However, just as the Iron Horned Ram soul beast despaired and tried to commit suicide, Xu Yunhan directly knocked it unconscious.
Then, Ning Rongrong came over and swiftly finished it off.
A black soul ring was acquired.
After absorbing the soul ring, Ning Rongrong's soul power level reached Level 52.
"Next, we need to find a soul beast for Zhuqing."
Liu Erlong led them to continue their search.
Zhu Zhuqing currently had four soul skills: Netherworld Thrust, Netherworld Hundred Claws, Netherworld Slash, and Netherworld Clone. All were offensive soul skills, and all were very fast.
For her fifth soul skill, everyone brainstormed and decided she should have a defensive soul skill to increase her self-preservation ability.
Therefore, they needed to find a soul ring from a soul beast with strong defense that wouldn't conflict with Zhu Zhuqing's Netherworld Civet martial spirit.
Preferably a feline soul beast.
"What kind of soul beast is that?"
"I can feel a strong dark energy from it."
"Zhuqing's Netherworld Civet martial spirit has some dark energy, so it might be suitable. Its cultivation year is over twenty thousand years, but I don't know about its defense."
After searching for a long time, at dusk, they encountered a strange soul beast. It was small, like a cat or a lion, and entirely black.
"The dark energy on its body is causing a significant reaction in my martial spirit. It should be suitable for me. It doesn't matter if its defense isn't strong."
Her intuition and the abnormal reaction of her martial spirit told Zhu Zhuqing that she needed this soul beast's soul ring.
"Let me do it."
Xu Yunhan stepped forward, instantly activating his "White Tiger Clone" soul skill, and a clone appeared.
The clone used the soul bone skill "Ghost Flash" to disappear, then, after several consecutive flashes, it approached the cat-lion soul beast and used the "Gravity Field" soul skill.
"Whoosh!"
The cat-lion soul beast suddenly felt immense gravity pressing down on it, its cry sounding like a sob.
Then, its body transformed into a ball of black mist. The black mist diffused around, and its figure disappeared.
"It's gone!"
Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Liu Erlong all failed to detect it. The black mist possessed mental interference capabilities; those with insufficient mental power would be interfered with and blocked.
But how could it escape Xu Yunhan's powerful mental perception? "Interesting."
"Fifth Soul Skill, Hundred Ghosts Night Parade!"
The clone cast its soul skill. Instantly, the black mist grew even denser, and many skeletons crawled out from the darkness, then surrounded a single direction.
That was the location of the cat-lion, hiding in the darkness.
But, suddenly, the cat-lion changed its position again. Each time it was the same; it was like a shadow in the darkness, forever uncatchable. As long as it remained in the darkness, it could switch positions at will.
However, its mistake was thinking it could ambush Xu Yunhan, causing it to deliver itself directly to Xu Yunhan.
Xu Yunhan's clone delivered a heavy punch, smashing the cat-lion out of the black mist.
The cat-lion crashed to the ground, crying out and spitting blood, but quickly vanished again, as there were many shadowy places around for it to hide.
This time, it learned its lesson and hid, refusing to come out.
"Godslayer!"
Xu Yunhan didn't control his soul skill, making it difficult to control the cat-lion. He could only use brute force to incapacitate it.
As his sixth soul skill was unleashed, a colossal purple palm appeared in the sky, then in a blink, it struck the location where the cat-lion was hiding.
The cat-lion reacted quickly, and its speed was also fast, changing places to dodge, but it couldn't evade because this was a soul skill lock; there was no escaping.
Thud!
"Whoosh~"
The cat-lion was struck. Its body and mind were simultaneously severely damaged, almost dying on the spot.
Fortunately, Xu Yunhan held back, otherwise, it would have easily been killed.
"Done!"
Xu Yunhan lifted the dying cat-lion in his hand and walked towards Zhu Zhuqing. "Its dark power isn't weak, its speed is fast, and its defense is decent. Primarily, its dark power and ability to use darkness are very good. I hope you can acquire these abilities."
Zhu Zhuqing directly used Netherworld Slash to kill the cat-lion, and then a black soul ring appeared.
They tacitly didn't rush Zhu Zhuqing to absorb the soul ring, waiting to see if a soul bone would appear.
"A soul bone!"
A miracle actually occurred; a soul bone appeared.
Xu Yunhan and the others were thrilled.
Zhu Zhuqing took the soul bone and temporarily handed it to Xu Yunhan for safekeeping. Then she proceeded to absorb the soul ring.
Just then, a voice suddenly broke the silence.
"A ten-thousand-year soul bone, you're quite lucky."
It was an aged voice, but very robust.
"Sleeping? Sneaky!"
Liu Erlong scanned her surroundings, simultaneously probing with her mental power.
Xu Yunhan had already detected the newcomer but didn't recognize him. He simply felt that the person was very strong, likely a Titled Douluo. He was already prepared to use his mental power and third eye to launch a full-power attack at any moment.
Even if it was a Titled Douluo, they would likely suffer severe mental damage, if not death.
"Hmph!"
The newcomer let out a shout, then flew out from the air. "This old man merely happened to pass by. How dare you call me sneaky! You make this old man unhappy. Have you considered the consequences?"
With his appearance, a powerful pressure descended, causing Liu Erlong and the others' expressions to change.
"Poison Douluo, Dugu Bo, it's you!"
Liu Erlong had seen Dugu Bo before, and she guessed he was either heading to or coming from his territory deep within the Sunset Forest, and happened to hear the commotion here and came to investigate.
However, now that Dugu Bo had discovered the ten-thousand-year soul bone, there was no guarantee he wouldn't kill them for it.
"He's Dugu Bo?" By now, Xu Yunhan had some understanding of the famous Titled Douluo on the Douluo Continent, though he had seen very few.
Of course, having also taken immortal herbs from Dugu Bo's territory, he was even more wary of Dugu Bo.
"He's actually a Titled Douluo."
Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing were both quite nervous.
Ning Rongrong comforted them. "Don't be afraid. With me here, Dugu Bo wouldn't dare to attack us."
She believed Dugu Bo wouldn't dare to make an enemy of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan.
"You seem to be Liu Erlong of Blue Tyrant Academy. I think I've seen you before."
Dugu Bo recalled Liu Erlong. "You're bringing students to hunt soul beasts and obtain soul rings, aren't you? Heh heh, calling this old man sneaky, you're quite bold!"
As he spoke, his expression turned serious, as if this matter could not be resolved amicably.
"A dignified Poison Douluo, does he intend to kill us and steal our soul bone?"
Liu Erlong displayed her eight soul rings, preparing for battle.
"Oh? A few years ago, you were just a Soul Saint, I believe? Now you've actually become a Soul Douluo."
Dugu Bo was surprised, then laughed. "Heh heh, just a Soul Douluo. How dare you contend with a Titled Douluo? You've got courage. Why don't you give it a try?"
He had heard that Dugu Bo had a strange temperament and was known as the Old Poison.
Liu Erlong couldn't quite ascertain his intentions.
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