"Little girl, since you were able to directly severely injure that old geezer Xie Bi Yan, I have to admit, you have some skill."
Dugu Jian looked at Xiao Xue and said, "However, this is fine too; it will save me time in the future."
"As long as I take care of you, the Myriad Scorpion Gate will naturally be renamed to the Poison Sect."
Dugu Jian's turbid eyes swept over Xiao Xue, his face revealing a sinister expression:
"A generation's Prodigy disappearing just like this, I imagine quite a few people would feel pity for you, right?"
The next moment, purple-gray poison Dou Qi erupted from Dugu Jian's body.
"Poison Filling the Heavens!"
People of the Poison Sect are naturally more adept at using poison.
At the same time, to prevent overturning in the gutter, Dugu Jian naturally chose to provide support from a distance.
After all, the visual impact of Xiao Xue severely injuring Xie Bi Yan with a single punch was simply too great for Dugu Jian.
Iron Protector had no objections to this; when it came to dealing with a Soul, he was a hundred times more skilled than Dugu Jian.
Furthermore, in order to quickly recover his strength, he had sacrificed quite a few collected Souls.
Forcibly increasing his strength like this not only meant losing the achievements he had accumulated, but it also carried significant side effects.
No one wanted to slice Xiao Xue into a thousand pieces more than Iron Protector.
Xiao Xue wrapped her entire body in the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire; she did not dare to ignore the poison of a Peak Dou Huang.
However, with the Heavenly Flame protecting her body, as long as she did not let the poison enter her system, there would not be any major problems.
The next moment, a strange, chilly wind drifted by silently, and Xiao Xue, whose entire body was wrapped in pink flames, suddenly constricted her pupils.
Immediately, she turned and threw a fierce punch toward the empty Void Realm behind her.
As her fist moved, the surging Soul Power permeating her body also moved with it.
Xiao Xue's fist seemed to cause the surrounding space to vibrate, and with a mix of overwhelming force, it smashed out.
"Boom!"
Where her fist landed, a black shadow appeared strangely.
Their fists collided, and ripples of energy, as if tangible, spread out in all directions.
These energy ripples finally caused muffled sounds like thunder in the sky, and both of them retreated rapidly under the impact.
While retreating rapidly in the air, Iron Protector did not forget to flick his hand, and pitch-black chains flew toward Xiao Xue.
In Xiao Xue's palm, pink flames churned, and then suddenly transformed into a rocket that shot out, finally colliding fiercely with the black chain.
"Bang!"
When the two collided, a low sound rang out, but this time, there was no overly violent explosion of energy.
There was only a circle of energy ripples, black mixed with pink, spreading out silently.
And where the energy ripples spread, even space itself showed slight tremors.
The result of this attack had a huge gap compared to Iron Protector's expectation of breaking it in one strike.
Iron Protector's current strength had already recovered to Peak Dou Huang, and with the power of the chains, he had originally thought he could directly severely injure Xiao Xue.
At the very least, he could make her suffer some minor injuries.
But Iron Protector did not expect that his attack would be blocked so easily.
Even vaguely, the scorching temperature quickly transmitted from the chain caused his Dou Qi to fluctuate.
Iron Protector's weapons were all specially made and had the effect of specifically suppressing Souls.
However, this suppression lost most of its effect against Souls that possessed Heavenly Flames and other spiritual objects of heaven and earth.
"The Hall of Souls' suppression effect on Souls does not have much effect on me."
Xiao Xue looked at Iron Protector with burning eyes, the pink Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire dancing within her pupils.
"Hmph, your words are quite arrogant. Even without the suppression effect, you, a mere junior, want to kill this Protector? Are you dreaming!"
Hearing this, Iron Protector sneered, then suddenly shook his arm.
Three black shadows, accompanied by a clattering sound, burst out from behind him, finally circling incessantly above his head like three venomous snakes.
"Three-Stage Soul Chains!"
Iron Protector reached out his palm, which was flickering with black mist, and then changed his hand seals.
The three chains circling above his head suddenly shot out with a whistling sound, cutting through the wind.
The three chains turned into black lines, and as they crossed, they perfectly sealed off all of Xiao Xue's escape routes.
Obviously, Iron Protector had reached a very proficient level with such a strange weapon like the chains.
Coldly watching the three black lines rapidly enlarging in her pupils, six long pink flame tails suddenly appeared behind Xiao Xue, coiling around her body like long snakes.
Xiao Xue swung her Heavenly Flame fox tails, colliding head-on with the three chains.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
When the chains collided with the fox tails, a series of crisp sounds like gold and iron erupted, and sparks even shot out.
However, no matter how strange and unpredictable the chain attacks were, Xiao Xue's Heavenly Flame fox tails were able to block them all.
Ah Li's seasoned combat experience was evident.
After using such means but still failing to achieve any substantial results, Iron Protector was clearly quite shocked.
"What level of remnant soul is this to be so powerful?!"
As the attacks from both sides intensified, Iron Protector's heart grew increasingly grave.
The strength of Ah Li's Soul and the troublesome nature of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire far exceeded his expectations.
"Wait, fox tails..."
Iron Protector was shocked, then shook his head, "No, impossible, that race was wiped out long ago!"
Ah Li was Xiao Xue's biggest secret right now; under normal circumstances, she could not tell anyone.
After all, given the special nature of the Heavenly Fox race, Xiao Xue did not believe it was an unknown, minor race in the past.
Those major forces probably all had records of it.
And Ah Li was now very likely one of the few remaining Heavenly Fox remnant souls; once exposed, it would cause huge trouble.
And now, Iron Protector had forced Ah Li to use the fox tails, so these two people present absolutely could not be left alive.
As for others, there were no other witnesses to this battle.
After all, in the Izumo Empire, ordinary people still accounted for the majority.
Even other so-called "experts" were not enough to be seen in front of a Peak Dou Huang and a Dou Zong.
Perhaps a single shockwave could take their lives.
Therefore, when a Dou Huang and Dou Zong fought, they would only worry about being caught in the crossfire; no meddlesome people would come over.
"Dugu Jian, stop watching and lend a hand!" Iron Protector shouted.
Seeing that the large-scale poison clearly could not cause effective damage to Xiao Xue, Dugu Jian gritted his teeth and rushed into the battlefield.
To want to use the Hall of Souls' help to achieve a Breakthrough to Dou Zong, he had to do something practical.
A Peak Dou Huang was also a significant threat to Xiao Xue.
But Dugu Jian was worried that Xiao Xue would suddenly use a big move, and Xiao Xue was also wary of Dugu Jian's poison, so neither of them used their full strength.
With Ah Li's Soul Power, when fighting two, she could fully manage the overall situation.
The six fox tails behind Xiao Xue danced airtightly, blocking all attacks.
Seeing that Xiao Xue did not reveal the slightest flaw, Iron Protector also became a bit anxious.
After taking a Fire Lotus with his face, his strength had already greatly decreased, and now he was only able to fight Xiao Xue by using a Secret Technique.
Once the time for the Secret Technique passed, he would inevitably fall into a disadvantage.
"Looking at the current situation, I cannot continue to delay. This remnant soul's strength is extremely strong, and that pink flame is also quite strange."
"If any trouble arises, not only will I not get the Soul today, but I might even bury myself here."
What Iron Protector did not know was that Xiao Xue was also thinking about a quick battle; Ah Li's state could not be maintained for too long.
"It seems I can only use that move. What a pity; in this Northwest Continent, a Peak Dou Huang's Soul cannot be found just anywhere..."
Sighing with a bit of reluctance in his heart, Iron Protector's eyes suddenly surged with a strange red light, and his hand seals changed abruptly.
Following the change in Iron Protector's hand seals, a somewhat illusory Soul on the ground below was forcibly pulled out.
That aged Soul was actually Xie Bi Yan, who had been severely injured by Xiao Xue's strike and was lying on the ground, life or death unknown!
Iron Protector's hands suddenly changed into a series of strange and complicated hand seals, and a moment later, a shrill shout suddenly resounded through the sky!
"Nine Forest Hundred Soul Devouring!"
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