novelraw Chapter 117 Jun 1 Hair
Chapter 117 Jun 1 Hair
Chapter 117 A Close Call
"roar!"
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger let out a deafening roar. Its terrifying aura was like rolling thunder, enough to make any soul beast under ten thousand years old lose its ability to resist, collapsing to the ground and trembling.
Yu Tianyun did not participate in the battle. With his current strength, he was not qualified to confront the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger head-on, but he was by no means idle.
He raised his right hand, forming a sword-like finger, and pressed it against his forehead. His four spirit rings simultaneously lit up, their light swirling rapidly around him. Yu Tianyun's eyes blazed with dazzling red and blue light, clearly indicating he was pushing his spiritual power to its limit. Then, the lightning power coiling around his body continuously converged towards his sword-like finger, compressed, and then continued to gather. It was obvious he was concentrating all his strength, preparing to deliver a fatal blow to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger at the crucial moment.
But concentrating such powerful energy was not easy for Yu Tianyun. His fingers trembled slightly, clearly because the extremely concentrated lightning energy was too powerful and explosive, to the point that his fingers could hardly withstand the violent force.
Immediately, a blue-gold light spread from his right leg, rippling across his fingers like water, which made him feel slightly better. Even so, he gritted his teeth, focused intently, and continued to concentrate on gathering energy.
On the other side, a fierce battle has already begun.
Dugu Bo made the first move. As a control-type Soul Master, he could turn the tide of battle in an instant if he could successfully control his opponent.
Dugu Bo shouted, "Seventh Soul Skill, Azure Phosphorous True Form!"
A surge of immense energy rapidly coalesced, radiating a vibrant emerald light that completely enveloped Dugu Bo. Soon, a colossal python over thirty meters long appeared in the spot. The python's scales shimmered with an eerie light, emanating a chilling aura. Without hesitation, he unleashed his Martial Soul True Body, charging towards the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger at astonishing speed, his movements as swift as a green lightning bolt, instantly slicing through the sky.
"Eighth Soul Level, Time Freezes!"
Immediately, faint ripples emanated from Dugu Bo's snake head, spreading towards the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Wherever it passed, everything froze, as if time itself had been frozen. Soon, this power enveloped the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
Dugu Bo, that old man, truly lives up to his reputation as a lone wolf. His actions are ruthless and decisive, without the slightest intention of testing the waters, just like Yu Tianyun. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why he admires Yu Tianyun.
A hint of surprise flashed in the blood-red eyes of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. It was clear that it hadn't expected this human to unleash a powerful attack right from the start, especially a rare time-based soul skill.
However, it didn't panic. It possessed time-related soul skills as well, and even more powerful ones. Suddenly, a faint glow emanated from the barbs on its tail, and a gray light instantly spread out, enveloping its entire body and preventing it from being affected by the freezing of time. This was its domain soul skill—Evil God Domain! Within this domain, the aura of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger became even more malevolent and powerful, like a demon god from hell, inspiring awe and fear.
However, the Dark Demon God Tiger's enemies are not only Dugu Bo, but also Yu Yuanzhen and Chen Xin.
"Seventh Soul Skill, Thunderous True Form!"
"Seventh Soul Skill, Seven Killing True Form!"
Yu Yuanzhen's body began to swell, and a pair of enormous wings spread out from his back. Soon, he transformed into a giant dragon, over fifteen meters long, its entire body crackling with blue-purple lightning. The lightning on the dragon's body crackled and popped, as if it were about to tear the void apart.
Behind Sword Douluo, a ten-meter-tall phantom appeared, wielding a giant sword, its body surrounded by surging sword energy. That sword energy was incomparably sharp, as if it could cut through everything in the world, filled with endless killing intent.
Immediately, Yu Yuanzhen roared from his dragon mouth, "Sixth Soul Skill, Thunderous Dragon Breath!"
Countless bolts of lightning rapidly gathered in his dragon mouth and then spewed towards the Dark Demon God Tiger. Each bolt of lightning contained terrifying destructive power, not to mention the Thunder Dragon Breath composed of lightning, which absolutely possessed the destructive power to destroy everything.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was immediately alarmed. The threat posed by Yu Yuanzhen's soul skill was clearly much greater than that of Dugu Bo. It hurriedly activated "Evil God's Protection," and a layer of gray light instantly enveloped its body, desperately resisting the impact of the lightning.
As soon as the Thunder Dragon Breath collided with the protective light shield formed by the evil god, the shield trembled and rippled, as if it might break at any moment.
Seeing this, Chen Xin swung his giant sword, unleashing a series of incredibly powerful sword energies that slashed straight at the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. This was his sixth soul skill, "Ten Thousand Swords Return to One," where countless sword energies converged into a torrent, its momentum overwhelming, and wherever it passed, space seemed to be shattered by the sword energy.
The Dark Demon God Tiger exerted force with all four limbs at the same time, suddenly shifting sideways and narrowly avoiding the powerful torrent of sword energy. However, the spot where it landed was blasted into a large crater by the sword energy, and dust flew everywhere.
It dodged the sword energy, but not Yu Yuanzhen's thunderous dragon breath. The thunderous dragon breath swept towards it, and a red light flashed in the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's eyes. Its wings suddenly spread out and flapped forcefully. Instantly, countless black lights surged out, transforming into dozens of sharp blades over a foot in size that soared into the air and clashed with Yu Yuanzhen's thunderous dragon breath.
Surprisingly, the seemingly unremarkable black light blade of the Dark Demon God Tiger completely blocked Yu Yuanzhen's thunderous dragon breath.
The Dark Demon Tiger seemed to be completely enraged. It slammed its right forepaw into the ground, and a black beam of light shot straight towards Chen Xin, skimming the ground. Wherever the black beam passed, the surrounding plants withered and disappeared, reaching Chen Xin's feet in almost an instant.
"Hmph!" Chen Xin snorted coldly, brandishing the Seven Kill Sword in his hand. Instantly, a huge "kill" character composed of black sword energy condensed in front of him, and he slashed fiercely towards the direction from which the black light was attacking.
With a loud "boom!", dust billowed up from the ground, creating a hazy atmosphere.
Just then, the giant python that the sixth brother, Dugu Bo, had transformed into had already circled around to within fifty meters of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. A dazzling light emanated from its snake head, and then two pale white beams of light shot out from its eyes, aimed directly at the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
The white light shone on the Dark Demon God Tiger, causing its body to stiffen instantly, and its fur began to petrify rapidly, covering its entire body in an instant.
Seizing this rare opportunity, Yu Yuanzhen unleashed a barrage of Thunder Dragon Claws with his two front paws, dozens of times in the blink of an eye, while simultaneously spewing forth Thunder Dragon Breath from his mouth once more. Sword Douluo also seized the opportunity, his sixth spirit ring gleaming once more, as a torrent of sword energy surged towards the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's body.
It wasn't that Yu Yuanzhen and Chen Xin didn't want to unleash their eighth and ninth soul skills, but rather that they feared killing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in one fell swoop, thus causing Yu Tianyun to miss out on this precious soul ring.
Just like when the Peerless Dragon and Snake couple were hunting Meng Yiran's third soul ring, even thousand-year-old soul beasts escaped from their hands several times, simply because they were afraid of losing control of the damage and accidentally killing the soul beasts.
"Aow!" Having withstood the powerful attacks of two top-tier Title Douluos, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger let out a shrill scream. Its body was covered with deep, bone-revealing, charred wounds, and large mouthfuls of gray liquid gushed from its mouths. Its blood-red eyes seemed to have dimmed slightly, and it could only lie prostrate in the distance, panting heavily. With each breath, gray liquid flowed from its seven orifices.
As the saying goes, even a lion must go all out to hunt a rabbit. Although the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger appeared to be severely injured, Yu Yuanzhen and his two companions did not relax their vigilance in the slightest.
At this moment, the Dark Demon God Tiger was filled with regret. The three people before it—the green-haired old man was best left unsaid, as he was utterly despicable and treacherous—posed a far greater threat than the person who had transformed into a true dragon and the one wielding the giant sword. They were simply beyond the capabilities of a mere tiger.
No matter how tempting the Jade Cloud is, you still need to be alive to eat it!
But it was too late for it to leave. In Yu Tianyun's eyes, it was just as tempting.
Such a powerful soul beast has made Yu Tianyun's three grandfathers very much looking forward to it. If Yu Tianyun absorbs its soul ring, how powerful a soul skill will he get?
They naturally wouldn't let the Dark Demon God Tiger go so easily.
Dugu Bo remained composed, showing no intention of approaching, and remained coiled in place. At this moment, the sixth spirit ring coiled around the snake's body lit up, signaling the activation of the sixth spirit skill—Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's Poison!
A green light flashed from his body, and dense poisonous gas instantly surged forth, transforming into a dark green poisonous mist that swept towards the Dark Demon God Tiger like a surging tide. Wherever the poisonous mist passed, vegetation withered instantly, exuding a chilling aura of death.
As expected, upon sensing the aura of the Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's poison, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's previously dim eyes brightened again. With a roar, it endured its pain and charged towards Dugu Bo in an instant. Activating its dash skill, it appeared before Dugu Bo like a phantom in a flash.
It harbored deep hatred for Dugu Bo; if it weren't for this green-haired old man, it wouldn't have been so quickly and severely injured.
Its previous fatigue vanished instantly, the gray aura turned completely black, propelling its body like a dark cloud as it lunged towards Dugu Bo. Its speed didn't seem particularly fast. However, the instant it lunged, the long tail known as the Evil God Hook lashed out, and a point of black light instantly appeared between it and Dugu Bo.
A burst of intense black light erupted instantly, transforming into a massive black hole three meters in diameter, which seemed to connect to another world.
Dugu Bo was shocked and quickly used his fifth soul skill—the Serpent Heavenly Shield—which instantly formed a solid barrier in front of him with a layer of emerald light.
Even with such a barrier erected, it didn't bring Dugu Bo any sense of security. He could clearly feel intense spacetime fluctuations within the suddenly appearing black hole. He himself possessed a time-related soul skill, making him extremely sensitive to time fluctuations. He knew the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had unleashed its strongest skill—the Arena of Life and Death!
His body was involuntarily drawn to the black hole. Yu Tianyun's previous instructions were still vivid in his mind. He didn't think he could come out of it alive.
He was already quite cautious, and he was standing at the furthest distance, yet this damned Dark Demon Evil God Tiger still launched a surprise attack on him. In an instant, Dugu Bo thought of his granddaughter's voice and smile. If he died, what would happen to Dugu Yan? Would Yu Tianyun bully her? His heart was filled with despair.
What he didn't know was that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's hatred for him was only one aspect. Another aspect was that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was extremely cunning. Dugu Bo was standing the furthest away, but he was still within the range of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's dash skill. Moreover, Dugu Bo was the weakest of the three. Who else would he choose if not him?
But just as Dugu Bo was filled with despair and about to be sucked into the black hole, at the critical moment...
A dazzling blue-purple beam of light suddenly shot out, entering the mouth of the Dark Demon God Tiger, piercing its brain, and exiting from the top of its head.
With its brain shattered, the Dark Demon Evil Tiger was utterly lifeless, and the evil hook at its tail drooped limply. The three-meter-diameter black hole shrank instantly and then disappeared. Dugu Bo's body was finally no longer drawn by the black hole and fell back to the ground.
This attack was unleashed by Yu Tianyun, who had been gathering power since the start of the battle. The beam of light contained his thunderous power and powerful spiritual energy, and having been gathered for so long, its power was naturally terrifying. It killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in one strike.
Yu Tianyun breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was extremely intelligent and cunning, which was why he had been on guard all along. Sure enough, his efforts had not been in vain.
He flashed to Dugu Bo's side and asked with concern, "Grandpa Poison, are you alright?"
Dugu Bo's face was still a little pale, and he said with lingering fear, "Thanks to you, kid, otherwise this old body of mine would have been finished here."
Yu Yuanzhen and Chen Xin also came over, their eyes filled with astonishment as they looked at the corpse of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger on the ground. If they had suddenly encountered that situation, they probably wouldn't have fared much better than Dugu Bo.
Composing himself, Yu Yuanzhen turned to look at Yu Tianyun and said approvingly, "Tianyun, you did very well this time."
Chen Xin nodded slightly: "It is truly remarkable that we were able to successfully hunt down such a powerful soul beast."
Yu Tianyun smiled and said, "It's all thanks to the three great grandfathers that I was able to find the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow."
(End of this chapter)