Chapter 138 Sky-Splitting Wind.
Two days later!
The Star Dou Great Forest was shrouded in mist at dawn. After two days of absorbing soul rings, a towering hurricane suddenly swept out from Wu Xuan's body, its force directly dispersing the mist within a radius of nearly a thousand meters. Even Huo Yuhao and the other two, who were dozing nearby, were blown into the air.
"Ahhh~!!" A piercing scream echoed through the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest at dawn, instantly merging with the distant roars of beasts.
Elder Xuan caught the three who had fallen, then looked at Wu Xuan, who had opened his eyes and stood up.
"You little brat, we've been protecting you for almost two days, and this is how you treat us first thing in the morning?" Elder Xuan glared at them, his beard bristling.
"Sorry! Sorry! I really didn't expect it to be so powerful." Looking at the resentful faces of Xiao Xiao and the other two, Wu Xuan quickly raised his hands in surrender, looking embarrassed.
"Oh! Then tell me about your newly acquired fifth soul skill." Elder Xuan took a swig of wine from his gourd and glanced at Wu Xuan indifferently.
"My fifth soul skill, I call it, Sky-Splitting Wind!!"
"As for the effect! It allows the wind I release to have a slightly stronger destructive power than the Hurricane Eagle's innate soul skill, Hurricane Strangulation. Furthermore, if you don't pursue destructive power, it's similar to Senior Sister Ling Luochen's fifth soul skill, which can condense wind elements on a large scale. The soul skill effect can last for at least two quarters of an hour, during which time it consumes very little of my own soul power."
"Hiss! Stronger destructive power than that silly bird's Hurricane Strangulation? That's a powerful soul skill that can break my 70,000-year soul bone skill!" Elder Xuan looked at Wu Xuan with surprise.
"Of course, I am the first person on the continent to master the ultimate wind." Wu Xuan said with considerable pride.
"Alright! Stop showing off, you'll be busy later." Elder Xuan put down his wine gourd.
"Huh?" Wu Xuan looked at the group in surprise.
Elder Xuan pointed to the iceberg-like corpses not far away and said, "You killed so many raging fire bulls before, and those three little guys over five thousand years old were hard to deal with, so we could only wait for you to come."
Wu Xuan looked at the several raging fire bulls frozen into ice sculptures, then looked at Elder Xuan.
"What? You don't expect me, an old man, to deal with them for you, do you?" Elder Xuan asked, seeing the implication in Wu Xuan's eyes.
"How could I! I can easily handle such a small matter." Wu Xuan waved his hand.
"Hmm! That's more like it. I checked this silly bird on the ground before, and it didn't drop any soul bones this time. This silly bird is mine."
Wu Xuan didn't care when he heard this, clapped his hands, summoned the Soul-Breaking Spear, and with one arm, lifted up a fire bull weighing more than two tons and skillfully began to dissect it.
The four of them worked for almost the entire morning, and the beef filled more than a dozen storage soul tools before they finished.
After the four of them ate some dried meat and drank some spring water, they resumed their horizontal search of the mixed zone. Once inside, Wu Xuan curbed his arrogance, no longer daring to demand that Huo Yuhao start a fire and cook.
They had already planned what kind of spirit beast Huo Yuhao would choose for his next spirit ring.
The several mental-type spirit beasts they envisioned wouldn't be particularly rare. However, contrary to their expectations, they hadn't found a suitable spirit beast for Huo Yuhao for two whole days. In the perilous Star Dou Great Forest mixed zone, even with Wu Xuan's aura sensing, the group was still overwhelmed by the frequent nighttime attacks from spirit beasts, their minds on high alert.
But it was precisely because of this crisis that Wu Xuan's previously inflated strength became increasingly solidified, and he fought with increasing ease.
"Roar—" A deafening roar echoed through the sky, followed by a charred figure stumbling and fleeing towards Wu Xuan and the others.
Wu Xuan stopped abruptly. "Two auras are rapidly approaching us. Head east and avoid them."
Huo Yuhao and the others nodded and followed Wu Xuan quickly away.
The four of them ran nearly five kilometers in one go, but Wu Xuan's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
He waved for them to stop.
Before they could ask anything, Wu Xuan turned around and stared at them, his voice low and menacing. "Is this never going to end? Still daring to follow us? I think they don't want to live."
Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong's expressions changed; they knew trouble was brewing.
Soon after, a lion-like spirit beast, over seven meters long and over four meters tall at the shoulder, came into their view.
The lion's distinctive mane spread out, its fiery red fur appearing even more majestic and powerful under the illumination of the flames surrounding its body. Its brownish-yellow eyes radiated a cold aura.
With a roar, the Flame Lion King pounced straight at the charred black figure in front of it. The charred black figure flashed with a dark light, narrowly dodging the Flame Lion King's attack.
The Flame Lion King roared, its flames surging ever higher. The intense heat ignited the surrounding bushes.
Only then did Xiao Xiao and the others realize that what had first appeared in their sight wasn't the Flame Lion King, but a human figure.
The charred figure finally saw Wu Xuan and the others and began to run for its life, shouting, "Three young friends! Please save me! I don't want to die!"
The man's identity was unknown, but he possessed at least the cultivation of a Soul King. Judging from the Flame Lion King's size, its cultivation was at least 30,000 years. Wu Xuan narrowed his eyes, quickly drawing a conclusion.
"What should we do? Should we save him?" Huo Yuhao asked nervously.
"Yes! We're all human, let's help him," Wang Dong said, a hint of sympathy in his voice.
"Save my ass! Use your pig brains! That scoundrel has been chasing us ever since he discovered our trail. Now that he's seen us, at our age, does he still dare to lure a 30,000-year-old soul beast here so we can save him? If I weren't here, would you even be a match for that soul beast?" Wu Xuan coldly rebuked.
Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's faces flushed red upon hearing this, unable to utter a single word in rebuttal. In the short time it took to say a few words, the charred man had already covered nearly 300 meters, leaving him only a hundred meters away from Wu Xuan and the others.
"Old man! Get lost! No one here can save you, get out of here and die!" Wu Xuan shouted angrily.
"You little brat! You've lost your conscience! Let me tell you, whether I live or die isn't up to you, but you're all doomed, hahaha."
"If you want to die, so be it." As soon as Wu Xuan finished speaking, his fifth soul ring lit up, and nearly a hundred wind blades appeared out of thin air, covering the man and the Flame Lion King.
"Zheng zheng zheng!" A series of booming sounds erupted, and the shouting man died instantly. The Flame Lion King's charging body also fled in terror, and more than a dozen towering trees collapsed.
In the blink of an eye, the area within a radius of seventy or eighty meters was a scene of utter devastation. At this moment, the terrifying power of Wu Xuan's ultimate wind finally revealed its fangs to the world.
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