Chapter 71: Deep in the Star Dou, the Bull Python is Slain
In the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, towering trees and entangled ancient vines filled the air with a chilling, primitive, and wild Aura.
As they went deeper, the light grew dimmer, and countless dangers lurked within the silence.
A group of over ten from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, under the protection of the powerful Auras of the two Super Douluo, Yu Boxuan and Yu Qingtian, restrained their Soul Power and moved silently through the forest like ghosts.
Yu Yuanchen's thunder god mark between his brows grew slightly warm, and his Spiritual Power was highly focused, perceiving everything around him.
He knew well what terrifying existences were hidden deep in this forest; even with a clear goal, one had to be extremely cautious to avoid disturbing those sleeping taboos.
Tang Chen followed closely behind, his expression cold and his eyes sharp as an eagle, constantly alert to his surroundings, the Clear Sky Hammer gripped tightly in his hand as if ready to unleash a heaven-shaking blow at any moment.
He held deep-seated memories and hatred for this forest.
The team moved stealthily in a specific direction according to the records in the Sect's ancient books and Tang Chen's account.
A few days later, a unique area appeared before them.
The trees here were taller and greener, and the Life energy contained in the air was significantly richer, even carrying a faint, refreshing fragrance.
Passing through a dense ancient forest, the view suddenly opened up.
A lake, not huge but crystal clear, lay quietly there like an emerald embedded in the depths of the forest.
The surface of the lake was shrouded in faint milky-white mist, emitting a refreshing Life Aura.
On the shore, the grass was lush, and exotic flowers and herbs were everywhere, completely out of place with the primitive and sinister environment around, like a paradise.
"This is... the Lake of Life... no, it should be a tributary?" Yu Yuanchen's gaze tightened, feeling the Life energy contained in the lake water, and he understood.
This was by no means an ordinary lake; it must have a connection to the legendary Lake of Life in the core of the Star Dou Great Forest.
His gaze instantly locked onto the center of the lake.
A huge green figure was half-submerged in the lake water.
It had a bull head and a python body, its entire body covered in palm-sized green scales, shimmering with a metallic luster.
A single horn stood proudly on its head, entwined with wisps of green lightning.
A pair of huge bull eyes were closed, seemingly asleep, but even from a distance, one could feel the terrifying pressure and majestic Aura like a prehistoric beast! The energy fluctuations it emitted had actually reached the 97th rank!
The hundred thousand year Soul Beast—the Azure Bull Python! Da Ming!
However, Yu Yuanchen's gaze did not linger on Da Ming for long and immediately turned to the shore.
Right next to the huge head of the Azure Bull Python, on the green grass of the shore, two snow-white, pink-eyed Soft Bones Rabbits that looked almost identical were snuggling together!
They only differed slightly in size; one was slightly larger, with a steady and profound Aura that had reached the hundred thousand year level; the other was slightly smaller, agile and lively, and its Aura had also reached the Peak of the 99,000-year level, seemingly only one step away from the hundred thousand year level!
"As expected..." A glimmer of realization flashed in Yu Yuanchen's eyes, and he thought to himself, "Xiao Wu and her mother... the timeline really matches."
He had long speculated about the existence of this pair of rabbit mother and daughter from the coexistence of the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python, so he was not surprised to see them now.
As for the beauty after they transformed? In his eyes, they were no different from wild rabbits on the roadside, all just Materials for Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
Moreover, to put it bluntly, given the way rabbits reproduce, when they were weak... just thinking about it was a bit disgusting.
And because the race was weak, even with hundred thousand years of cultivation, their combat power was limited.
"Two Soft Bones Rabbits... one hundred thousand years, one 99,000 years." Yu Boxuan's Spiritual Power swept over them, and he immediately perceived them clearly, transmitting his voice, "The Aura is pure, but the aggression is not strong. They are good at stealth and speed, so they are not a big threat. But we must guard against them interfering with the main battle."
"Follow the plan." Yu Yuanchen transmitted calmly, "Eight Elders, set up the 'Thunder Domain Dragon Locking Formation' to trap the Azure Bull Python and isolate interference! Grandfather, you take the front attack! Brother Tang and I will contain the flanks! Qingtian Grandpa, Boyu Grandpa, those two rabbits are yours. You must keep a close eye on them to prevent them from disrupting the Formation with strange Spirit Abilities!"
"Understood!" Everyone responded in unison, their eyes instantly becoming sharp.
"Attack!"
Yu Boxuan was the first to erupt! The terrifying Aura of a 97th-rank Super Douluo was released without reservation!
His figure instantly expanded, transforming into a giant Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body, dozens of meters long, covered in blue-purple dragon scales and entwined with lightning!
With a heaven-shaking dragon roar, he tore through the silence of the forest, bringing unparalleled pressure, and charged directly at the Azure Bull Python in the lake!
"Roar!!!"
The Azure Bull Python, Da Ming, was instantly awakened. His huge bull eyes opened wide, and seeing the terrifying thunder dragon rushing over, he let out a roar mixed with shock and anger!
The lake water exploded, his huge body stood upright, and green lightning flashed on his horn. A thick, destructive thunder mixed with powerful energy breath slammed into Yu Boxuan!
Almost at the same time, the eight Soul Douluo Elders moved like lightning, scattering in eight directions, their Soul Power erupting without reservation! "Seventh Soul skills, Martial Soul True Body!" Eight slightly smaller but equally imposing Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragons appeared, and dragon roars echoed!
"Form the Formation! Thunder Domain Dragon Locking!"
The eight of them stepped in mysterious patterns, their Soul Power intertwined, drawing upon the thunder elements of heaven and earth! A huge blue-purple lightning light shield instantly took shape, covering the entire lake area!
Inside the light shield, countless lightning snakes slithered, forming a powerful thunder force field, which not only greatly limited the movement speed of the Azure Bull Python but also constantly bombarded its protective green light, making sizzling collision sounds!
The power of the Formation even subtly isolated the influx of external energy, weakening its recovery ability!
Yu Yuanchen and Tang Chen also moved at the same time!
"Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body!" Yu Yuanchen transformed into a purple-gold thunder dragon. Although his size was not as huge as Yu Boxuan's, his Aura was more condensed and sacred.
With a flap of his dragon wings, he pounced on the Azure Bull Python from the flank. Destructive thunder condensed on his dragon claws, tearing directly at the seven-inch spot of the python's body!
At the same time, his dragon might, containing a trace of the Thunder God Bloodline, pressed down on the Azure Bull Python without reservation!
The Azure Bull Python's body suddenly stalled, and its movements showed a slight, imperceptible delay and stiffness, and a flash of panic crossed its eyes!
Its Bloodline was also top-tier in ancient times, but facing Yu Yuanchen's dragon might, which was fused with the Thunder God Bloodline and had a higher essence, it was still suppressed!
Although it was not enough to decide the outcome, it was enough to affect the battle situation at a critical moment!
"Clear Sky Avatar! One of the eighth spirit abilities, Tai Tan Attachment!" Tang Chen roared, his body expanded, muscles knotted, and the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand became as huge as a mountain, surrounded by black light, and that bright red hundred thousand year spirit ring shone brilliantly!
He stepped on the void like a god of war descending, and from the other side, he slammed down, the giant hammer carrying the Concept of destroying everything, smashing fiercely towards the waist of the Azure Bull Python! "Kill!"
The three powerhouses launched a wild attack on the Azure Bull Python from three directions simultaneously!
"Domain, open!" Yu Boxuan, Yu Yuanchen, and Tang Chen shouted almost at the same time!
"Thunder Dragon Domain!" Yu Boxuan's Domain was vast and majestic, like a thunder prison descending, suppressing everything!
"Heavenly Tribulation Holy Dragon Domain!" Yu Yuanchen's Domain carried a trace of the Heavenly Tribulation's destructive will, eroding and purifying!
"Clear Sky Domain!" Tang Chen's Domain was filled with an invisible force field, and because it was blessed with one of the Titan Giant Ape right arm bone spirit abilities, gravity control, the gravity power increased explosively!
The three Domains overlapped, plus the imprisonment of the Thunder Domain Dragon Locking Formation, instantly suppressing the Azure Bull Python's "Slow Domain", which was originally enough to make a Super Douluo have difficulty moving, back to within three zhang of its body, greatly reducing its effect!
"Roar!!!" The Azure Bull Python fell into an unprecedented crisis and went completely crazy!
It roared at the sky with its bull head, green light flashing all over its body, resisting the suppression of the three major Domains and the Formation, its python body swinging and whipping crazily, and the lightning and energy breath from its horn shot out wildly as if they were free, clashing head-on with Yu Boxuan's Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body, while also having to resist the tricky and vicious flank attacks of Yu Yuanchen and Tang Chen!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The terrifying explosions were endless! The lake water evaporated, the earth cracked, and the ancient trees around were destroyed in pieces like straw!
The energy shockwaves spread outward like a tsunami, but they were barely blocked by the Thunder Domain Dragon Locking Formation.
The battle entered a white-hot stage from the beginning!
Although the Azure Bull Python was powerful, facing a 97th-rank Super Douluo, a quasi-Soul Douluo with the Thunder God Bloodline (whose real combat power was only slightly weaker than a Super Douluo), a Soul Douluo with a hundred thousand year spirit ring (whose combat power was only slightly worse than the protagonist, after all, he had absorbed one more Soul Ring), and eight Soul Douluo forming a Formation to suppress it, it instantly fell into an absolute disadvantage!
Its scales were constantly cracking, green blood splattered, and it let out painful hisses.
On the other side, the battle was equally fierce.
The moment Yu Boxuan made his move, the two Soft Bones Rabbits were also alarmed.
"Mom!" The 90,000-year-old little rabbit screamed in fear, her pink eyes filled with terror.
"Xiao Wu, don't be afraid!" The hundred thousand year Soft Bones Rabbit mother instantly protected her daughter behind her, a flash of determination in her eyes.
She knew that the incoming enemies were powerful and not something she and her daughter could contend with.
Yu Qingtian and Yu Boyu had already arrived!
"Where are you going!" Yu Qingtian snorted coldly, the Aura of a 95th-rank Super Douluo locked onto the two, and he directly displayed his Martial Soul True Body, transforming into a thunder dragon and pouncing over, his dragon claws tearing through the air, grabbing at the rabbit mother!
A pink light flashed in the rabbit mother's eyes, "Teleportation!" Her figure instantly disappeared and appeared dozens of meters away, barely dodging the attack.
"Paragon Golden Body!" She simultaneously activated another Life-saving divine skill, a faint golden halo appearing around her body, protecting Xiao Wu behind her as well.
"Hmph! Petty tricks!" Yu Qingtian didn't care, his dragon tail swung, and the violent thunder swept over like a storm, forcing the rabbit mother to teleport and dodge repeatedly, not daring to resist for a long time.
Her attacks were like scratching an itch to Yu Qingtian, and she could only barely cope by relying on the two major divine skills.
Yu Boyu flanked from the other side, the strength of a 91st-rank Titled Douluo fully erupted, his dragon claws swung, and streaks of thunder and lightning sealed the rabbit mother's retreat, not giving her any chance to interfere with the main battle.
The two rabbits were tightly entangled by the two Titled Douluo, and could only rely on Teleportation to constantly dodge, in precarious situations, and were unable to look after anything else.
Just as Yu Yuanchen expected, they were fine at saving their lives, but in terms of frontal combat power, the gap with the Super Douluo was too large.
In the main battlefield, the Azure Bull Python, in its crazy counterattack, seized a gap, and its python tail whipped out like a steel whip, carrying terrifying power and green light, sweeping directly at Tang Chen!
A flash of harshness appeared in Tang Chen's eyes, and he did not dodge or evade, the blood-colored light on the Clear Sky Hammer rising sharply, "The second of the eighth spirit abilities, Tai Tan Sky Shatter!" He slammed it down with a hammer!
Boom! The giant hammer collided with the python tail, Tang Chen was shaken so that his blood and Qi surged, and he stumbled back, but the Azure Bull Python's python tail was also smashed until its scales shattered, and it was in great pain.
Just at the moment when its old strength was exhausted and new strength had not yet been born, thunder light shot out of Yu Yuanchen's eyes, "Thunder God Annihilation Tribulation Spear!" The thunder dragon spear condensed, turning into an extremely condensed purple-gold lightning bolt, instantly piercing through the weak point of the Azure Bull Python's protective green light, and fiercely piercing into its python body!
"Puchi!" The dragon spear passed through its body, bringing out a spray of green blood!
"Roar!!!" The Azure Bull Python let out a shrill scream, thunder light raged at the wound, crazily destroying its vitality!
Yu Boxuan seized the opportunity, his Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body roared, and his huge dragon claws, entwined with destructive thunder, slammed fiercely onto the Azure Bull Python's head!
"Bang!!!"
With a muffled loud noise, the Azure Bull Python's huge bull head was smashed into the lake water, even its horn showed cracks, green blood overflowed from its eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and its Aura instantly withered by more than half!
"It's over." Yu Yuanchen's voice was cold, his dragon mouth opened, and endless thunder energy began to gather, the Five Thunders Orthodox Method operated, all amplification spirit abilities were fully activated, preparing to deliver the final blow.
"Mom! Da Ming..." In the distance, Xiao Wu, who was being suppressed to death by Yu Qingtian and Yu Boyu, saw this scene and let out a heart-rending cry, desperately wanting to rush over, but was held back tightly by the rabbit mother.
A flash of despair and madness crossed the rabbit mother's eyes. She looked at the dying Azure Bull Python, then looked at her crying daughter in her arms, gritted her teeth, and a flash of determined pink light flashed in her eyes!
She actually burned her own hundred thousand year Soul Beast Origin! A huge amount of energy instantly erupted, temporarily shaking off the blockade of Yu Qingtian and Yu Boyu!
"Xiao Wu! Run!" She used her last strength to push her daughter fiercely toward the depths of the forest, while she herself turned into a stream of light, rushing toward Yu Boxuan who was preparing to give the Azure Bull Python the final blow, without any hesitation!
She wanted to self-destruct! To win a last glimmer of survival for her daughter and the Azure Bull Python!
"Court death!" Yu Qingtian snorted coldly, his right arm dragon claw waved, exerting full force, and a terrifying thunder light arrived first (Yu Qingtian's right arm Soul Bone skill was preemptive, which could increase the speed of the next attack by three times), instantly penetrating the rabbit mother's burning body!
Obviously, she no longer had the number of times to use the Paragon Golden Body.
"No—!" Xiao Wu let out a desperate scream, watching her mother explode into a brilliant pink halo in the air, dissipating into nothingness, leaving only a bright red Soul Ring and a crystal-clear Soul Bone slowly falling.
Her heart was broken.
"Roar..." The Azure Bull Python saw this scene and let out a low, sorrowful whine, green tears flowing from its huge bull eyes, struggling to get up, but it was already too late.
Yu Yuanchen did not hesitate anymore, the long-condensed Ultimate Thunderstorm fell, completely swallowing the Azure Bull Python's head!
Booming—!!!
After the terrifying explosion, the lake surface was dyed green, the Azure Bull Python's huge body slowly sank into the lake, and its Aura was completely extinguished.
A blood-red Soul Ring, more profound and huge than the rabbit mother's, slowly emerged.
One of the hegemons of the Star Dou Great Forest, the hundred thousand year Azure Bull Python, was slain!
The battlefield fell into silence for a while.
Yu Yuanchen landed slowly, looking at the floating blood-colored Soul Ring, his eyes calm and waveless.
His gaze swept across the depths of the forest, and that 90,000-year-old Soft Bones Rabbit had already disappeared without a trace.
"Decisive, indeed... It's a pity, the law of the jungle has been like this since ancient times." He said to himself lightly, without any pity.
Soul Beasts and Soul Masters were originally in a relationship of hunting and being hunted, not to mention that the other party was a friend of an enemy.
Tang Chen walked up, looking at the body of the Azure Bull Python, the pleasure of revenge and a trace of complex emotions intertwined in his eyes, eventually turning into deeper firmness.
His great revenge was avenged, and his state of mind seemed to be more transparent.
"Chener, hurry up and absorb the Soul Ring." Yu Boxuan returned to human form, his Aura consumption was not small, and he was not lightly injured due to taking most of the damage, but it was no big deal, and he commanded in a deep voice.
At the same time, he signaled everyone to be alert to the surroundings, although this place was a tributary of the Lake of Life, the movement of the battle just now was too big, and it was hard to guarantee that it would not attract other terrifying existences.
Yu Yuanchen nodded, sat cross-legged, and his Spiritual Power led toward the hundred thousand year Azure Bull Python Soul Ring that emitted vast energy and a faint Aura of sorrow.
His eighth Soul Ring was about to be obtained.
And in the depths of the forest, a little rabbit who had lost everything was running away crazily, carrying endless sorrow and hatred.
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