Chapter 62 The Poison of Wrath Never Dies! Tell me, who do you want to kill?
Liu Yuan, holding Vina, pushed the Qilin Step to its limit.
After crossing the oppressive boundary of the Star Dou Great Forest, the soil beneath our feet gradually dried, and the suffocating deathly aura in the air thinned as we moved further away.
They officially entered the territory of the Star Luo Empire.
This was not Vina's first visit to the Star Luo Empire. As a princess of the Heavenly Soul Empire, she had accompanied delegations on numerous trips before and had a deep memory of the terrain and city layout along the border.
She nestled in Liu Yuan's arms, quickly identified the coordinates, and then pointed to the northwest, saying, "Go that way. About thirty miles from here, there is a border town called Dingbei City of the Star Luo Empire. The city lord and my father had met several times."
Without hesitation, Liu Yuan transformed into a blue afterimage and arrived at the city gate of Dingbei City a quarter of an hour later.
When the city lord of Dingbei saw the royal token presented by Vina, he was so shocked that he almost fell off his throne.
He dared not be negligent in the slightest, immediately sealed off the city lord's mansion, and took out the high-end long-distance communication soul tool specially supplied by the empire.
Through the light screen of the soul tool, Vina quickly contacted Princess Xu Jiujiu of the Star Luo Empire, who was patrolling nearby, and Emperor Tianhun, who was far away in Tianhun Imperial City.
In the communication, Vina did not go into the specific details of how Liu Yuan used a borrowed knife to kill the Soul Saint. She only briefly explained that they had been ambushed by a Title Douluo-level evil Soul Master, that the Giant Hammer Douluo was fighting desperately on the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, and that they had temporarily escaped safely.
Upon hearing the news, Emperor Tianhun abruptly stood up on the other side of the light screen, his face ashen.
Xu Jiujiu of the Star Luo Empire, after confirming the location, immediately stated that he would mobilize his strongest forces to rush over at full speed.
The wait for rescue was agonizing, but thanks to the powerful imperial machinery at work, it didn't last long.
Just half an hour later, a loud whooshing sound came from the sky above Dingbei City.
Princess Xu Jiujiu of the Star Luo Empire arrived at the City Lord's Mansion with a team of elite guards.
Following closely behind her was an overwhelming and terrifying pressure—that was the top expert of the Star Luo Empire, a level 95 titled Douluo, the Sky-Supporting Douluo.
Xu Jiujiu looked extremely nervous. As soon as she entered the room, she grabbed Vina's hand, glanced at Vina, and only breathed a slight sigh of relief after confirming that Vina was not injured.
The situation was critical, and Xu Jiujiu and Qingtian Douluo obviously had no time to pay attention to Liu Yuan, who was standing aside and appeared to be only a three-ring Soul Venerable.
The Sky-Piercing Douluo, with a stern expression, nodded slightly to Vina and asked in a low voice, "Princess Vina, where is the location? How much longer can that old man with the giant hammer hold out?"
Vina quickly marked the core coordinates of the battle between Giant Hammer Douluo and Tree Infant Old Ghost on the map.
"Elder Luo has held off the opponent for a long time, but the opponent is an evil soul master with extremely strange methods. Please, senior, you must rescue him!"
Without uttering a word, the Sky-Supporting Douluo suddenly unleashed a wave of energy beneath his feet, transforming into a golden streak of light that vanished into the sky in an instant.
The Title Douluo's speed was so fast that it was difficult to see with the naked eye; he had to get to the battlefield before the Giant Hammer Douluo fell.
Xu Jiujiu, due to her low soul power level, was unable to participate in that level of battle and could only prepare to board a specially made carriage to the border to provide support, escorted by the city lord's guards.
And when getting on the bus...
She had long assumed that Liu Yuan would stay outside like the other guards, but a scene that surprised her occurred.
As Vina boarded the car, she naturally took Liu Yuan's hand.
She didn't ask Liu Yuan to avoid suspicion, but instead let him sit next to her in the carriage.
This extremely intimate and undifferentiated attitude finally stirred Xu Jiujiu's keen political intuition.
Inside the carriage, he gazed for a long time at the young man before him, whose expression remained calm.
"Vina, who is this?" Xu Jiujiu finally couldn't help but ask.
Vina turned to look at Liu Yuan, a gentle glint in her beautiful eyes, and then introduced him with grace and poise: "This is Liu Yuan. He is the personal disciple of the Sect Master of the Body Sect, and also my... good friend."
When Vina spoke of "good friend," her tone was calm, but the cunning in her eyes could not be hidden from Xu Jiujiu, who was equally meticulous.
Xu Jiujiu raised an eyebrow slightly, thinking to herself: What good friend? That look in her eyes clearly means she's decided on the other person.
The direct disciple of the Sect Master of the Body Sect, coupled with the princess of the Heavenly Soul Empire, it seems that this is indeed a political marriage that is set in stone.
However, Xu Jiujiu is, after all, one of the most outstanding successors of the Xingluo royal family.
Even though she was unaware of Liu Yuan's feat of indirectly killing a Soul Saint with his level 39 cultivation, the mere fact that he was a "personal disciple of the Body Sect" was enough for her to offer him the highest honors.
Xu Jiujiu extended her hand and gave Liu Yuan an elegant smile: "So you are a talented person from the Body Sect. I have long admired your name. The situation was urgent earlier, and I treated you poorly. Please forgive me, Young Master Liu Yuan."
Liu Yuan extended his hand and gently shook hers, politely replying, "Princess Jiu Jiu, you're too kind."
His attitude was neither humble nor arrogant; even when facing the princess who ruled another great empire, his heart remained completely undisturbed.
This composed demeanor further increased Xu Jiujiu's opinion of him.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Heavenly Soul Empire...
After ending the communication, Emperor Tianhun immediately issued two top-level orders.
First, the Empire dispatched another Title Douluo stationed on the border—Shadow Douluo—to provide full-speed assistance.
Second, use the highest-level communication channels to deliver the news of Liu Yuan's attack to the Body Sect as quickly as possible.
When Emperor Tianhun's secret letter arrived at the Body Sect's mountain gate, the entire sect trembled violently.
The instant Du Bu Si finished reading the letter in the study, a terrifying emerald green poisonous fire instantly reduced the solid desk to nothingness.
"Damn evil spirit masters, how dare you touch my personal disciple! You're all tired of living!"
The roar of the Undying Poison echoed across almost the entire mountain.
Without even summoning any followers, he tore through the space outside the Sea God Pavilion, transforming into a streak of green light that stretched across the sky, and charged toward the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest at an almost insane speed.
This time, he was truly determined to kill.
Liu Yuan is not only his disciple, but also his chosen successor. Anyone who touches Liu Yuan is tantamount to severing the very foundation of the Body Sect!
Meanwhile, on a desolate plain outside the Star Dou Great Forest.
The battle has entered a fierce stage, or rather, it has entered the final life-or-death moment.
Giant Hammer Douluo was covered in blood. His once jet-black and shiny giant hammer was now covered in dark red bloodstains. Due to overexertion of his soul power, his tiger's mouth had even cracked, and blood kept sliding down the hammer handle.
It has to be said that this Tree Infant Old Ghost is indeed ridiculously powerful.
In terms of absolute offensive and defensive power, she is actually much inferior to the Giant Hammer Douluo, who has been immersed in this art for decades.
However, as a titled evil soul master, her martial soul "Infant-Devouring Mother Tree" possesses an almost abnormal regenerative ability.
Among those countless black tree roots, Giant Hammer Douluo had already smashed them countless times with his domineering power.
But each time, those tree roots would regrow and heal amidst the mournful cries, seemingly endless.
In contrast, the Giant Hammer Douluo could not recover from each injury during battle.
With this ebb and flow, even the foundation of a Title Douluo cannot withstand such depletion.
At this moment, the Giant Hammer Douluo was kneeling on one knee, panting heavily.
"Am I really going to die here today?"
Giant Hammer Douluo looked at the twisted and crazed black mother tree in front of him, his heart filled with resentment.
"Damn it! Am I, the mighty Hammer Douluo, with the reputation of the Luo family for generations, really going to die at the hands of such a dark and evil Soul Master?"
The Giant Hammer Douluo let out a bitter laugh, forcing himself to his feet while supporting himself with his heavy hammer. A death wish was already showing in his eyes: "So be it, the victor is king, the loser is villain. Even if I die in battle today, I will take you, you old ghost, with me!"
His only regret was that he hadn't been able to confirm whether Vina and Liu Yuan were truly out of danger.
The old ghost tree spirit stood atop the canopy of the strange tree, its old face contorted in a frenzied glee of revenge.
She looked down at the Giant Hammer Douluo, her voice chilling as she mocked:
"Old dog Luo, don't be in such a hurry."
"Once I've dismembered your old bones and fed them to the trees, I'll soon send that little princess and that double-pupiled brat down to reunite with you."
"I will make your Heavenly Soul Empire's bloodline drain away drop by drop in this wasteland!"
However, just as the old tree spirit let out that piercing, cackling laugh, the entire sky suddenly and eerily darkened.
The air, which was originally shrouded in deathly aura, was forcibly torn apart in an instant by a more domineering, more vicious, and world-destroying emerald green mist.
A green afterimage moved so fast it was beyond the reach of conscious perception.
Just as the old ghost of the tree infant was about to launch her final attack, her laughter abruptly stopped.
A huge hand, like an iron clamp, suddenly appeared from the void and grabbed her throat tightly.
That terrifying power even shattered her protective soul force in an instant.
Poison Undying's murderous face appeared close to Tree Infant Old Ghost's vision. Every hair on his head seemed to be burning with a green flame called rage.
Poison Undying's gaze was as cold and sinister as hellfire. He stared at the evil spirit master in his hand, who was trembling violently with fear, and said, word by word:
"Tell me...who do you want to kill?"
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