Arthur could naturally understand her words; there was a Super Douluo Evil Soul Master in Heaven Dou City who had been in contact with these people.
"Just one Super Douluo? How boring." Arthur felt there was no challenge.
Guang teased cheerfully, "Little puppy, can you handle it? Your ancestor wasn't this weak."
"Each generation is truly worse than the last."
"Awoo!" Xia Xi grew angry, her entire beastly form radiating endless rosy light.
She continued her search.
Provoked by Guang, the vertical pupil on Xia Xi's forehead burst forth with an unprecedentedly brilliant golden light, as if a small sun had been lit on her brow.
Under the shine of this intense Light of Destiny, the drifting ashes no longer just rotated slowly but seemed to be endowed with life.
They danced rapidly, collided, and recombined, outlining fragments of blurred and distorted images.
Chaos... kneeling worship within a grim hall... a brief contact with a figure shrouded in black robes, whose aura was as obscure as an abyss.
Finally, there was a dark scene of lurking deep underground in an old neighborhood in the south of Heaven Dou City after infiltrating it.
"Awoo—!"
Xia Xi let out a clear, angry long cry. Her illusory figure flew out of the mine and floated in the night sky.
Arthur followed closely behind and saw the golden light from Xia Xi's vertical pupil converge, turning into a golden thread as thin as a hair yet incredibly solid, shooting straight into the distance.
"Hmph hmph." Xia Xi grunted and panted, meaning she had locked onto an Evil Soul Master far stronger than a Super Douluo.
Strangely, however, that Evil Soul Master carried the aura of one of her own kind.
"One of your kind?" Arthur thought for a moment and asked, "Do you mean a Spirit Beast?"
Xia Xi nodded.
A Spirit Beast... could it be the Demon Empress?
...In a certain city extremely far away from Arthur and the others.
Unlike the night where they were, it was still daylight here.
A woman with a clean and pretty appearance walked through the crowd.
The crowd was bustling, and the mundane atmosphere of the marketplace rose up, mixed with the oily aroma of snacks and the scent of cosmetics from the stalls.
There was also the smell of fine dust rising from the ground under the sun.
Cries of vendors, sounds of bargaining, and the playful noises of children intertwined into a lively, noisy movement.
The woman walked among them, her pace neither fast nor slow.
She wore a plain indigo cotton skirt, and her hair was loosely tied up with a wooden hairpin.
A few stray hairs hung by her cheeks; her face was clean and gentle, looking like an ordinary wife out shopping for daily necessities.
Just then, a golden silk thread shot into her body.
The woman frowned and vanished instantly.
In the blink of an eye, she arrived at a deserted corner.
She stood in the shadows; that plain indigo cotton skirt remained, and her loosely tied bun hadn't changed, but the aura around her was now completely different.
The tranquility was broken, and a trace of extremely cold light flashed in her eyes.
She looked down at the inside of her pale wrist. There was no mark there, but in the unseen world, an extremely fine yet incredibly tough golden silk thread was extending from the Void Realm, firmly tied to her.
She had been locked on.
"A mark... of destiny?" she whispered to herself, her voice cold and devoid of any of the market woman's gentleness. "Somewhat familiar... so it's the Emperor Auspicious Beast."
A hazy glow rose from her finger as she lightly tapped the void near her wrist.
The moment the glow touched that invisible golden thread, the thread suddenly brightened for an instant and then snapped.
The woman withdrew her hand, and the glow on her fingertip silently faded away.
There was no look of relief on her face; instead, a trace of solemnity flickered in her cold eyes.
"The power of the Emperor Auspicious Beast... if I weren't a Spirit Beast, I really wouldn't know how to deal with it." She whispered to herself, lost in thought for a long time... Outside the mine, under the night sky.
"Oyee!" Xia Xi sensed that the mark she had worked so hard to strike had been erased, and she immediately flew into a rage.
That Spirit Beast was truly ungrateful, actually daring to defy her, the Emperor of Spirit Beasts.
Tugging at Arthur's sleeve, Xia Xi made whimpering noises, wanting him to go and kill the other party with her.
"No, no, no."
Arthur, guessing that it was likely the Demon Empress, waved his hands hurriedly. "I admit I was a bit arrogant just now. Let's still go find that Super Douluo."
Sorry, but as for the Demon Empress or whatever, he couldn't beat her right now.
Rejected by Arthur, Xia Xi was so angry she stomped her feet, the rosy light on her body flickering. Just a moment ago he said a single Super Douluo was boring, but now that she had finally found a strong one, he changed his mind and wouldn't go.
"Calm down, calm down." Arthur reached out to stroke her bristling little head, coaxing her, "It's not that we won't fight, but we'll fight later, fight slowly, fight with a rhythm."
"No need to rush."
At this moment, a fiery red figure appeared; Leng Yaozhu had returned, followed by Agravaine.
All the Evil Soul Masters had been dealt with, so there was no need for Agravaine to guard the outside anymore.
Leng Yaozhu looked at Arthur. "I didn't get anything out of them. Are there any other places? Let's catch a few more and continue questioning."
"What a coincidence," Arthur said casually. "I just happened to find out a Super Douluo is hiding in the city. Shall we go for it?"
Leng Yaozhu's true fire retracted, and the cold light in her eyes intensified. She turned to leave. "Lead the way quickly."
"You got it!"
Under Arthur's lead, the three of them headed straight for an old neighborhood in the south of Heaven Dou City.
Spreading out her Spiritual Power and knowing in advance, Leng Yaozhu easily found the Evil Soul Master hiding there.
The Phoenix fixed its gaze on its prey.
The moment she perceived that the opponent was indeed a Super Douluo, she dove down.
The Evil Soul Master also reacted the instant he was swept by the Spiritual Power. His Soul Power erupted, and a dark red blood-light shot into the sky.
A pair of huge bat wings made of viscous blood-shadows snapped open behind him. His eighth and ninth spirit rings lit up simultaneously, and the power of his Domain, mixed with a pungent blood stench and Soul shrieks, attempted to resist.
"Boom!"
The massive collision startled the entire city.
Especially Zhen Hua inside the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association; his heart skipped a beat, fearing that someone had come to assassinate him again.
The Evil Soul Master was wearing three-word battle armor, yet he was still no match for Leng Yaozhu, who wasn't wearing any battle armor.
The three-word battle armor only allowed him to approach the level of a Limit Douluo, while Leng Yaozhu herself was at the Peak of Rank 98.
Who was stronger and who was weaker was clear at a glance.
Arthur and Agravaine, this grandfather and grandson duo, were watching the show from the side. They were the ones who said they would attack the Evil Soul Master fiercely, but in the end, it was always Leng Yaozhu who put in the effort.
The battle grew increasingly fierce.
Leng Yaozhu gradually lost her patience. With a frown, her powerful four-word battle armor covered her entire body.
A dazzling Phoenix lit up the night.
That Evil Soul Master was instantly scared to tears. If you had four-word battle armor, you should have said so earlier!
Suddenly, a similarly fierce light lit up in the distance. It was far more dazzling than this place; a even more powerful battle was taking place there.
Leng Yaozhu, who was prepared to strike, had a change in expression. Looking into the distance, she could sense who was involved from the battle aura coming from afar.
Chen Xinjie and... Yun Ming!
"Brother Yun Ming?" Leng Yaozhu was first confused, then she could no longer care about the Blood Bat Evil Soul Master before her, who was already a frightened bird awaiting the final blow.
Her figure turned into a fierce line of fire that tore through the night sky, instantly shooting toward the collision of terrifying energy in the distance that would make any Soul Master's heart tremble.
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