Chapter 54: Six-Armed Demon Ape, the [Loan King]
The moment the words fell, Lin Xuan released the tail of the arrow with his right hand.
A blinding dark-red line tore through space, arriving in an instant!
Mysterious Bone was scared out of his wits; his second and fourth Soul Rings simultaneously erupted with piercing light!
The mangled remains of Extreme Yin Elder, who had already rushed to within a few meters of Lin Xuan, suddenly had the hideous Parasitic Demon Spine on its back explode!
Countless sharp black bone spurs, like a hell of thorns growing in reverse, proliferated and intertwined wildly, instantly forming a dense, massive bone sphere that firmly protected Mysterious Bone behind it!
Almost at the exact moment the bone sphere formed, the dark-red fire arrow hit it silently.
Time seemed to freeze for a split second.
And then...
"BOOM—!!!!!"
An earth-shattering explosion erupted!
Centered on the point of impact, a dark-red fireball over ten meters in diameter expanded, instantly swallowing the bone sphere, Extreme Yin Elder, and the nearby Lin Xuan!
Extreme heat and a violent shockwave spread wildly in all directions in a spherical shape!
What was even more terrifying was that during the previous battle between Lin Xuan and Extreme Yin Elder, many trees had been sliced apart, leaving the air thick with wood chips and dust.
Ignited instantly by this sudden extreme heat and flame, there could be only one consequence.
A Dust Explosion!
"BANG—!!!!"
An even more violent and widespread explosion followed immediately!
The color of the flames shifted from dark red to a blinding bright white, and the shockwaves overlapped, turning into a destructive tide that incinerated everything within a hundred-meter radius!
After a long while, the dust and flames finally began to subside.
What met the eye was a patch of charred black earth over fifty meters in diameter.
Extreme Yin Elder was nowhere to be seen, leaving only a strange, completely carbonized human-shaped outline in the center of the scorched earth; with a light breeze, it turned into flying ash and scattered.
At the edge of the ruins dozens of meters away, a pile of charred broken wood and earth suddenly bulged upward.
Lin Xuan stood up from within it, looking somewhat disheveled.
The clothing on his upper body was almost entirely incinerated, revealing a lean physique covered in burns and bloodstains; his face was also somewhat pale.
Enduring the explosion and dust secondary blast he had triggered at such close range, even with preparation, he had still sustained significant injuries.
Lin Xuan did not hesitate; his hands quickly formed a strange hand seal as he barked out,
"Round Deer!"
In the next moment, the shadow behind him surged violently, rose, and solidified; in an instant, a strange creature manifested.
It resembled a moose but was more majestic and tall, nearly the height of an adult; most peculiar of all was its face, which possessed four eyes as warm as jade.
Shikigami: Round Deer!
It had no offensive skills, but in Lin Xuan's eyes—especially after coming to the Douluo Continent—its value was second only to the strongest Mahoraga.
For no other reason than the fact that the ability Round Deer mastered was the top-tier divine healing technique of the Jujutsu World.
Reverse Cursed Technique!
The power of the Reverse Cursed Technique needed no explanation.
Regenerating limbs, reconstructing internal organs—as long as there was a breath left, even if one foot was in the grave, it could forcibly pull them back!
Round Deer stepped forward gracefully, gently touching its nose, which emitted a soft glow, to Lin Xuan's scarred back.
Then, the hideous burns and bloodstains on his back and chest were seen healing and smoothing over at a speed visible to the naked eye, like pencil marks being erased.
In just three seconds, all his injuries had completely healed as if they were never there.
Within the Spiritual Sea, witnessing all this, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm almost had its eyes pop out.
"Holy crap! Lin Xuan! Since when were you hiding such a heaven-defying treasure? This healing effect... it feels like it could almost rival Brigitte's! Why didn't you bring it out earlier?"
Lin Xuan ignored Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's shouting.
He slightly moved his perfectly restored shoulder, his gaze solemnly locking onto the dust that had not yet fully dissipated on the other side of the explosion's center.
"Huff... Huff..."
Heavy breathing, like the pulling of a bellows, accompanied an even more violent and sinister aura coming from deep within the dust.
And then...
"BANG!!!"
A massive palm covered in charred stiff fur and shattered bone armor suddenly reached out from the dust, slamming hard onto the ground and completely dispersing the remaining haze!
What was revealed was a heart-stopping monster.
It was over five meters tall, shaped like a giant ape, with muscles bulging like rocks, yet covered in scorch marks and cracks left by the explosion.
Most terrifyingly, its back was abnormally swollen, and it had grown a total of six thick, powerful arms!
Each arm was as thick as a child's waist, and the sharp claws on its fingertips flickered with an eerie light.
A dense evil aura and violent Soul Power fluctuations radiated from it like a physical tide.
At the back of this Six-Armed Giant Ape's neck and spine, an even thicker, darker Parasitic Demon Spine, like a living centipede, was deeply embedded into its flesh.
Lin Xuan's pupils constricted, while Tianmeng Ice Silkworm instantly recognized this hideous giant beast.
"It's actually a Six-Armed Demon Ape!" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm exclaimed. "This kind of Soul Beast isn't common. In terms of strength, it's a top-tier calamity beast that's second only to a few existences like the Titan Giant Ape among the ape-type Soul Beasts!"
"Born with six arms and possessing dual attributes of Earth and Darkness, its attack power is astonishing. Judging by the size of this one, it's probably not far from fifty thousand years!"
Lin Xuan didn't speak upon hearing this; he cast his gaze toward the feet of the Six-Armed Demon Ape, where Mysterious Bone was kneeling on one knee, in a wretched state.
His gray clothes were shredded, and his left arm from the shoulder down was now a charred, twisted wreck, hanging limply.
Mysterious Bone looked up at the unscathed Lin Xuan not far away, then at the terrifying Six-Armed Giant Ape guarding him.
His eyes were filled with boundless shock, fury, and malice.
"Good, good, good! Brat, I didn't expect you to have this trick up your sleeve!"
Mysterious Bone stood up unsteadily by leaning on the body of the Six-Armed Demon Ape, his expression distorted and his tone frantic.
"But so what?! Why do you think I'm still just a Spirit King after all these years, despite having the ability to extract Soul Power from those I parasitize for my own use?"
He looked at the terrifying Six-Armed Demon Ape beside him with a sinister grin, speaking rapidly.
"It's all because of it! Ten years! A full ten years! Do you know how I've spent these ten years? I've been hiding in the Sunset Forest, killing countless Soul Beasts and Soul Masters, extracting their Soul Power and giving it all without reservation to this Six-Armed Demon Ape!"
"Now its age is infinitely close to fifty thousand years! Since you killed Ji Yin, you will take his place from now on!"
Hearing Mysterious Bone's words, a look of realization appeared in Lin Xuan's eyes.
No wonder he was an Evil Soul Master yet still a Spirit King at this age; it turned out he had supplied all the Soul Power and nutrients he obtained to this Six-Armed Demon Ape.
He's quite a clever person... Lin Xuan thought to himself. Knowing that his combat power relied entirely on the Soul Masters and Soul Beasts parasitized by his Martial Soul, the best choice was only one.
—To fully nurture one single, most powerful puppet.
As he was thinking, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm in the Spiritual Sea couldn't sit still.
"Lin Xuan, what do we do next? That's a nearly fifty-thousand-year Six-Armed Demon Ape! Even a top-tier Spirit King would die. How can we beat it?"
"You can't be planning to release that Mahoraga to fight again, right? But your explosives are all used up. How would you deal with Mahoraga then?"
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said anxiously, "How about we just run! They don't have flight capabilities; we can just leave on that Shikigami of yours!"
"No." Lin Xuan directly rejected Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's suggestion.
"No? Wait, Lin Xuan, are you really going to release Mahoraga to fight them?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was dumbfounded; it was truly afraid of Lin Xuan facing that unkillable monster Mahoraga again.
"Who said Mahoraga is my only trump card? I couldn't beat the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, but can I really not beat this Six-Armed Demon Ape?"
Lin Xuan said in a flat tone, then asked a question, "Tianmeng, do you know what a 'loan' means?"
"Loan?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was a bit confused. "I don't know. It sounds like something of you humans."
"It doesn't matter if you don't know. You just need to know that there was once a person who relied on a 'loan' to eventually kill the strongest of the modern era."
After saying that, Lin Xuan stopped paying attention to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and turned to look at the grinning Mysterious Bone, who already felt victory was certain.
"A nearly fifty-thousand-year Six-Armed Demon Ape... It is indeed quite troublesome."
Hearing this, Mysterious Bone thought Lin Xuan was afraid, and the grin on his face became even more obvious. "Knowing fear now?"
"Too late! Next, I will beat you half to death and then turn you into my puppet! Then I'll let you watch with your own eyes as you commit countless sins with your own hands under my control!"
"Villains really do die from talking too much..."
Lin Xuan looked at the incessantly talking Mysterious Bone, shook his head, and spoke softly. Then he raised his hands again, forming a brand-new hand seal in front of him.
At the same time, that ten-thousand-year Soul Ring from the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger slowly rose from beneath his feet!
"If this Soul skills doesn't kill you, then I'll release Mahoraga."
The grin on Mysterious Bone's face suddenly froze, and the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring beneath Lin Xuan's feet lit up. Meanwhile, he whispered a chant.
"Thousand Needles · Avici · Burial Wind..."
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