The moment before, when Cao Jinxuan had released the aura of his hundred-thousand-year soul ring, the Body Sect experts had surely known it was his signal. They had accelerated and rushed over, just happening to run into this Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
The Body Sect had always been fearless. Otherwise, many years ago, they wouldn't have gone deep into Star Dou and successively slaughtered several hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, causing the beast tide that had shocked the entire continent.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion had just caught up to the fleeing Twin Cyclops. Before it could even exert its force, a group of Body Sect experts, under their charged-up state, their big moves had landed. This was also the important reason why Yan Shaozhe had heard the howling and the shaking of the mountain. Those who had made a move this time were all level ninety-plus Titled Douluos, only a line away from Super Douluo. The Body Sect, as one of the top-ranking sects on the continent, their full-power outbreak was how terrifying.
The Twin Cyclops had instantly turned to dust. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion, seeing this, hurriedly drew back and retreated, but was also blasted away by the long-planned shockwave, suffering heavy injuries. Let alone that it was not yet a true hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Even a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, in front of a group of Titled Douluos, how could it gain any advantage?
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion had suffered heavy injuries and had fallen into a pool of blood. A thick green light was as viscous as a liquid. A cage formed from a strange aura suddenly rose, firmly locking the Three-Eyed Golden Lion within.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion's expression was dejected as it was shrouded in the green cage. It understood that if these humans were willing, the tyrannical, strange aura squeezing inwards could take its life.
At this time, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion finally reacted. It looked at this group of Body Sect experts coldly, and actually spoke human words, and it was a clear and moving female voice at that. "Detestable humans! You dare to harm me. I will have you die a terrible death, and be plagued by bad luck."
The leading level ninety-four Titled Douluo laughed, and with one slap, he hit the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's head, pressing its head to the ground. He even forcefully rubbed it, making it have intimate contact with the mud.
The next thing they had to do was very simple. The Young Master had said he wanted it alive. They naturally would not harm this Auspicious Beast, so they would not be afraid of the so-called retaliation from the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Mmph mmph mmph! Humans—" How could the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's pride possibly tolerate suffering such a humiliation? Its body immediately bloomed with a dazzling golden light.
"Alright, stop playing. While there are no ferocious beasts guarding it now, hurry up and capture it," a Titled Douluo spoke up and dissuaded.
Generally speaking, an Auspicious Beast would surely be accompanied and guarded by one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts. But for some reason, under the situation where the members of the Body Sect had prepared to fight a ferocious beast, not a single ferocious beast had appeared.
Of course, for them, this would only be a good thing. Their operation this time could be described as effortless.
They had received two orders. One was to capture the living Imperial Auspicious Beast at the fastest speed. The second was to stay far away from Tang Wutong.
So when they had sensed another Soul King's aura appear beside Cao Jinxuan, they had impatiently made a move first.
"No! How dare you!" The Three-Eyed Golden Lion was furious, roaring repeatedly, struggling desperately. The serious internal injuries it had suffered before even caused golden-red blood to overflow from the corners of its mouth.
If it were to be taken away by this group of humans of unknown origin, the Imperial Auspicious Beast would rather die on the spot than to allow itself to fall into their hands.
A sharp whistle sounded in the next instant. An ice-blue figure arrived boldly, stopping the Body Sect experts' move to prepare to arrest the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
It was a white-haired youth. A pair of ice-crystal wings flapped behind his back. The slender straight saber in his hand directly cut a small gash on the chest and abdomen of a Body Sect expert.
The Body Sect experts thought it was a ferocious beast that had descended. The attacks that had been charged up long ago all landed on his body one after another, but were blocked by the numerous trees that had welled up from the great earth.
"A quick battle!" the leading Body Sect expert roared angrily. His ninth soul ring shone greatly. A furious bombardment smashed towards the wooden shield in front of Huo Yuhao.
Facing these Body Sect experts, Huo Yuhao did not dare to be negligent in the slightest. At the very beginning, it was the ultimate skill of his liberated Soul-Slaying Blade state, clashing head-on with this one strike.
But the attack power of a Body Sect expert, how could it be compared to an ordinary Titled Douluo expert? Huo Yuhao only felt a great force. While in mid-air, he had already frantically sprayed out blood.
"Huo! Yu! Hao!"
From far away, Cao Jinxuan had seen the pair of beautiful, ice-blue wings. In an instant, his eyes were about to split. Why? Why does this fellow always jump out at the most critical moment to ruin my good things!
"It's that boy?" Yan Shaozhe had also detected the battle circle in the distance. However, his urgent task now was to protect these few children. Naturally, it was impossible for him to pull himself away to join in.
No! I absolutely cannot let Huo Yuhao ruin my good things! Cao Jinxuan roared angrily and actually, without any regard, rushed madly towards the battle circle in the distance.
"Dean Yan, quickly stop him!" Xiao Xiao was greatly shocked. A battle circle of such experts, how could they, these outer court students, possibly intervene?
Unexpectedly, Tang Wutong also rushed over. Since Cao Jinxuan was rushing over there so desperately, something important must be about to happen.
"You few, who don't let people be at ease!" Yan Shaozhe was filled with uncontrollable anger. He immediately made a move to grab at Tang Wutong and Cao Jinxuan.
And just at this time, an irresistible force suddenly burst out from Tang Wutong's body, transforming into several light circles that landed at Yan Shaozhe's feet. His Super Douluo cultivation at this moment was actually unable to move. He could only watch with wide eyes as the two went far away.
At this time, Mu En's instruction suddenly came to his mind: No matter what Tang Wutong wants to do, do not stop her!
"Sigh..." Ten seconds later, Yan Shaozhe had finally broken free from Tang Wutong's restraint. With one hand for each, he grabbed Xiao Xiao and Ye Linlin and approached the battle circle in the distance...
At a critical moment, the Crimson King was the first to arrive. Although he was very curious how a four-ring human, Huo Yuhao, could reach that degree of speed, the urgent task now was to save the Auspicious Beast first.
He sent the three Titled Douluos who were attacking Huo Yuhao flying. His body was over five meters long and was extremely majestic. He also looked a bit like a lion, but he had three identical large heads. Each head had a diameter of over one meter. Terrifying canine teeth released a reddish-gold luster. The three large heads simultaneously let out an angry roar. Within a radius of ten li, all the soul beasts all prostrated on the ground, not daring to move in the slightest.
"Crimson King?" Seeing the roaring soul beast, the faces of the group of Body Sect experts also became grave. The movements in their hands, however, still did not stop and continued to launch an attack on the two of them.
"You are those fellows who cultivate a body martial soul!" the lion-shaped, three-headed soul beast spoke human words, its voice full of venom.
"Crimson King, you block them!" Huo Yuhao's mouth and nose were overflowing with blood. It was clear that he couldn't hold on any longer. He could indeed, with his powerful spiritual power, contend with a Titled Douluo, but in the end, it was only temporary.
Huo Yuhao was clear that in the original world line, it was precisely this time that Huo Gua, Tang Wutong, and Xiao Xiao had come to the Star Dou Great Forest under Xuan Zi's protection to obtain a soul ring, had run into the hunting Auspicious Beast, had been discovered by the Tang Buddha, and thus had a part of his daughter's soul torn off and stuffed into the Auspicious Beast's body, gradually turning the Auspicious Beast into a sacrificial soul beast for his future son-in-law.
How could Huo Yuhao tolerate the Buddha's selfish act? The Auspicious Beast, for the Star Dou Great Forest, was where its fortune lay. Even if the original Huo Gua had in the end ascended to godhood and had returned the power of fate, the rebirth of the Auspicious Beast would still require time.
It was precisely because the newly born Auspicious Beast needed tens of thousands of years to grow and take shape again that the soul beast lineage had, in the ten thousand years after Huo Gua's ascension, been so down and out that it was imprisoned in the Star Dou core circle by the Spirit Pagoda during the Dragon King period, not seeing the light of day.
Although Huo Yuhao was also a human, now that he had chosen to cooperate with the soul beast lineage, he naturally could not sit by and do nothing about the Auspicious Beast, let alone let the Auspicious Beast fall into the Buddha's venomous hands.
As described in the original novel, the Auspicious Beast had only grown to a cultivation of over ten thousand years. Naturally, it did not have much wisdom. It, which had not experienced the prosperity of the human world, its heart was as pure as a blank sheet of paper.
If it hadn't seen Huo Gua's memory, the Auspicious Beast naturally would not have used its one and only chance to transform, to go to the human world alone, and to be hurt by love.
As for the Body Sect that had appeared here, Huo Yuhao had quickly guessed their intention. What a good transmigrator, Cao Jinxuan!
Having received Huo Yuhao's command, the Crimson King did not have time to be particular about their two statuses. He immediately blocked in front of Huo Yuhao and the Auspicious Beast, using his huge body to try and buy some time for Huo Yuhao as much as possible.
Huo Yuhao quickly used his Ice Wheel Moon to break open the cage, picked up the Auspicious Beast on the ground in one go, and leaped up, rushing towards the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest.
But the Crimson King was, after all, just a ferocious beast with a cultivation of three hundred thousand years. He only ranked eighth. It was simply impossible for him to block the joint attack of more than ten Titled Douluos. After one wave of exchanges, he also showed a look of decline, blood dripping from the corners of his mouth as he retreated repeatedly.
"Pursue immediately! We absolutely cannot let that boy escape with the Auspicious Beast!" a Body Sect Titled Douluo shouted loudly.
"Damn it!" Huo Yuhao looked at the several figures that were pursuing him and couldn't help but speed up again.
Just at this time, a terrifying aura came from Huo Yuhao's side. He couldn't help but use his peripheral vision to look towards the source of the aura. He saw a person shouldering a rocket-launcher-like soul tool, aiming at him.
And when Huo Yuhao had completely seen the person's face clearly, he finally couldn't help but roar in anger.
"Cao Jinxuan—"
"Die, Huo Yuhao! Hahaha..." Cao Jinxuan pulled the trigger. The fixed-guidance soul tool cannonball that had been charged up for a long time, with a golden tail flame, flew towards Huo Yuhao's path of advance, just happening to be consistent with the direction Huo Yuhao was advancing in.
"Bastard!"
Huo Yuhao didn't know what level of a fixed-guidance soul tool cannonball Cao Jinxuan had launched. But he was holding the heavily injured Auspicious Beast and already could not avoid it.
On the other side, Tang Wutong's beautiful figure had also appeared at the same time. A hexagram array was directly applied to Huo Yuhao's feet. Its absolute-formation characteristic had slowed Huo Yuhao's evasion speed by half a beat.
However, did they think that with just this kind of attack, they could truly harm Huo Yuhao?
Huo Yuhao's third soul ring lit up. Just as he was preparing to take the Auspicious Beast and drill into his Kamui space, with a great flash of silver light from the silver dragon pendant on Huo Yuhao's chest, a peerlessly beautiful figure finally appeared in front of Huo Yuhao.
The Silver Dragon Spear sent the soul tool cannonball flying through the air. Her voice carried a trace of displeasure.
"His life is mine."