"Roar..."
An angry roar echoed all around as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger slammed its paw heavily onto the ground.
Boom boom boom, the earth trembled and dust flew.
After venting its fury, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was extremely unwilling but now that the tracking line was lost, it could only turn away with a heart full of resentment.
After all, once it attracted the attention of the countless soul beasts, it wouldn't be good for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger at all.
…
On the other side, Xiao Yan ran for an hour before stopping, casually throwing the jade-wrapped Yu Xiaogang—wrapped up like a sticky rice dumpling—in his hand onto the ground.
With a swipe at the storage jade belt on his waist, he pulled out a brand new black outer robe and put it on.
Even though he had escaped the danger, Xiao Yan still felt a bit nervous: "Luckily, I have a soul skill almost like a clone; otherwise, it would have been really hard to escape today."
As soon as he sensed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger soul beast, his sharp senses told him how powerful it was.
Xiao Yan clearly understood that a simple escape was absolutely impossible.
Therefore, his first step was to attack the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's eyes, obstructing its vision.
The second step was to dress the vine man in his robe to attract the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to chase by scent.
The only flaw in the whole plan was that the vine man could only keep its form within a certain range around him; beyond a certain distance, it would dissipate.
So it couldn't attract the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for too long.
Yu Xiaogang pushed aside the vines and crawled out.
Held in Xiao Yan's hand, wobbling all the way, Yu Xiaogang felt dizzy, with his internal organs churning painfully.
At this moment, he didn't care about appearances, clumsily crawling under a nearby tree and leaning against it, panting hard.
After a while, Yu Xiaogang finally caught his breath.
"Xiao Yan, I really didn't expect that we could survive after encountering a soul beast of the level of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!"
Pulling his gaze from the surroundings, Xiao Yan asked calmly, "Da Shi, do you understand this kind of soul beast, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger?"
Yu Xiaogang arrogantly said, "I know over ninety percent of the continent's soul beasts. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is extremely unfamiliar to most people, but it's no challenge for me."
Xiao Yan scratched his nose — just relying on being born into the Blue Electric Tyrannosaurus family, knowing more than average. With your so-so strength, Da Shi, if you meet a hundred-year-old soul beast, you'd run away instead of pretending to be tough...
This was where Xiao Yan was wrong.
Though the Blue Electric Tyrannosaurus family was powerful, it still wasn't enough to know about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
The reason Yu Xiaogang knew about this rare soul beast was entirely due to the continent's top martial soul organization—the Martial Soul Hall!
Recalling the information about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, Yu Xiaogang slowly explained:
"The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is an extremely rare soul beast. I only saw it in an ancient book. Legend has it that an evil god descended onto a white tiger, causing mutation that changed the white tiger's original light attribute to darkness, and also grew black wings representing corruption, along with an evil god's hook tail like a scorpion's sting.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is incredibly powerful. Generally, soul beasts can also be human martial souls, but this one is an exception—no one has ever had it as their martial soul.
It is not truly a dark attribute but an evil attribute left by the evil god, something human bodies cannot withstand. Judging by the martial soul rankings, it is definitely on par with the Six-Winged Angel martial soul."
Though Xiao Yan was listening, his attention wasn't fully on Yu Xiaogang, but more on the tree behind him.
The surrounding trees were all thick enough to be embraced by two adults, but the one Yu Xiaogang was leaning on was only half as thick.
This peculiar tree had seemed strange to Xiao Yan since arriving.
Even after half a month, Xiao Yan still remembered the Blue Silver King telling him about the Golden Silk Vine soul beast.
This plant-type soul beast, the Golden Silk Vine, is skilled at disguising itself as a tree and launching sudden attacks. However, since it grows slowly, the tree it disguises itself as is thinner than the surrounding big trees.
Sensing potential danger, Xiao Yan quietly stepped back a few paces: "Da Shi, what level is the Six-Winged Angel martial soul? It sounds really powerful."
"Divine level!" Yu Xiaogang replied decisively.
"Divine level?" Xiao Yan murmured, could there really be gods in this world?
Grandpa Jack said the strongest level on the continent is the titled Douluo, but how much difference is there from this "divine"?
Or maybe Grandpa Jack, as a remote village chief, didn't know much, and this "divine" is a realm beyond the titled Douluo?
Xiao Yan calculated that the titled Douluo level was only about level 90 soul power. Continuing higher, there should be level 100 soul power.
Unable to guess the answer, Xiao Yan silently noted the Six-Winged Angel martial soul to avoid misjudgment in the future.
"The Six-Winged Angel martial soul is an extremely special and powerful existence. I don't know much about it either. Let me continue telling you about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger."
Yu Xiaogang returned to the previous topic:
"The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger has an extremely domineering nature. Its growth is not from self-cultivation. It's very difficult for it to cultivate by itself; only by devouring other soul beasts or human soul masters' soul power can it quickly increase its strength.
Therefore, wherever it appears, other soul beasts immediately gang up to attack it, aiming to completely destroy it before it grows strong."
Generally, even a thousand-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is rare. Unexpectedly, we encountered one over ten thousand years old. Even more surprising, we still survived."
There was no hiding the joy in his words after escaping death.
Casually lifting his eyes, Xiao Yan said lightly, "Just luck."
Yu Xiaogang wiped the soul guide device on his wrist and took out a large pancake: "Since we escaped, it's almost impossible to meet that Dark Demon Evil God Tiger again. Xiao Yan, let's eat some..."
Before he finished, several golden-threaded vines suddenly appeared from the big tree behind Yu Xiaogang, quickly wrapping around him and pulling him into the air.
Alerted, Xiao Yan immediately retreated as soon as he sensed the plant soul beast behind Yu Xiaogang attacking, flicking his right pinky finger to shoot out a Shao Chong Sword.
The Shao Chong Sword is light and fast, the quickest of the six swords.
The invisible sword qi struck the golden-thread-thick vine with a sharp ding, sounding like metal striking gold.
(End of chapter)