Peerless Tang Sect: Hurricane Infinite Wind

Chapter 441 Dragon Shadow Douluo, Wang Hong

Wu Xuan and Wang Qiu'er were both taken aback. They had originally intended to use threats and inducements to extract information, but they hadn't expected these soldiers to be so knowledgeable about things.

“We are not from Dragon Shadow City. Stand up and speak.” Wu Xuan said calmly.

"Soul Master, please forgive us! Soul Master, please forgive us! We truly did not mean to offend you." Upon hearing this, the group of third-class Beast Soul Knights kowtowed repeatedly, begging for mercy.

Wu Xuan was speechless. The fact that these people were so afraid of Soul Masters only showed that the social hierarchy on the Fallen Dragon Continent was too rigid. Soul Masters possessed supreme power.

One can imagine that these third-class beast soul knights are not even allowed to stand up and talk to soul masters.

"Shut up, I'll ask you a question and you answer it." Wu Xuan's cold shout immediately silenced the dozen or so people.

"My lord, please ask!" the leader said, his voice trembling.

"I'm asking you, why are there so many powerful figures near Dragon Centipede Territory?" Wu Xuan asked.

"This! I didn't know either!" The squad leader was on the verge of tears, and then kowtowed repeatedly, begging for mercy.

"Then what do you know?" Wu Xuan sighed helplessly, rubbing his forehead.

"Soul Master, my orders are to drive away the nearby refugees and prevent them from getting too close to the Dragon Centipede Territory," the squad leader said hurriedly.

"That's it?" Wu Xuan nodded and looked at the squad leader again.

"Please spare me, sir! I'm just a nobody, I really don't know anything else," the squad leader pleaded again.

Wu Xuan curled his lips. There was no point in threatening them since they knew nothing. Just as Wu Xuan was thinking of leaving, a series of screams suddenly came from the direction from which Wu Xuan and his companion had come.

Wang Qiu'er instantly drew her Golden Dragon Spear, and the Beast Soul Knight squad beside her trembled like leaves in fear.

"Dragon Centipede, it's a Dragon Centipede! Someone must have killed the Dragon Centipede!" the squad leader exclaimed in fear.

"What would happen if I killed him?" Seeing the other party's attitude, Wu Xuan became interested.

The squad leader's voice trembled as he said, "The blood of the dragon centipede has the effect of attracting its own kind. Once a dragon centipede dies, the entire clan within a radius of a thousand meters will be attracted to one place in a short period of time. At that time, the invaders will surely die."

Wu Xuan nodded slightly, feeling a little guilty. Perhaps they were the ones who caused this dragon centipede scare. The two of them had killed at least eighty or a hundred dragon centipedes earlier. Such a large-scale death would undoubtedly attract countless other clans.

As if in response to Wu Xuan's idea, the entire outer perimeter of the Dragon Centipede Territory seemed to boil over, with countless dragon centipedes bursting forth from the ground, causing a series of chaotic events.

A series of angry curses and roars came from afar. Wu Xuan witnessed the power of this swarm of dragon centipedes at this moment; even powerful soul masters would probably not kill them if they encountered them.

Faced with the dramatic changes around them, the aura of the small squad of beast soul knights also shifted abruptly. Amidst the rising blood energy, crimson beast souls of ten-year-old soul beasts such as mantises, beetles, and scorpions emerged from the squad members. However, the squad leader's beast soul was not an insect-type soul beast, but a wild boar, which even possessed some dark scales. This crimson beast soul originated from their own bloodline power.

Chainblade mantises, heavy beetles, and giant scorpions are the most common and ordinary ten-year soul beasts on the Meteor Dragon Continent, which are at the bottom of the food chain. They have only a 10% chance of being promoted to hundred-year soul beasts, and most of them die of old age.

The Scaled Boar is indeed a soul beast possessing rare dragon blood. However, its upper limit is only around a thousand years. Third-tier beast soul knights can hardly withstand soul beasts with dragon blood, so these lower-tier beast souls become their best choice. Even so, these are still stronger than their own martial souls.

"Crack, crack!" A series of breaking sounds rang out from the surroundings, followed by several centipedes with a body width of more than one meter bursting out of the ground, their sharp silver-edged serrated teeth buzzing like chainsaws.

In an instant, these previously wary Beast Soul Knights collapsed, their eyes filled with terror, and their aura vanished, because they witnessed a terrifying scene: a ten-thousand-year-old dragon centipede.

Led by the Ten Thousand Year Dragon Centipede, these centipedes circled twice before turning their attacks on Wang Qiu'er.

"Here it comes again!" Wu Xuan sighed, this dragon centipede was really obsessed with the golden bloodline. It charged forward without a care in the world.

Wang Qiu'er snorted coldly, naturally showing no mercy. She thrust her golden dragon spear forward, and amidst the cracking sound of carapaces and flesh shattering, the five or six dragon centipedes that had sprung out perished on the spot once again.

The team of beast soul knights were stunned. They had never seen such a horrifying scene before. A ten-thousand-year-old dragon centipede was instantly killed.

The squad leader also came to his senses at this moment. He realized that the matter at hand was no longer something he could get involved in, so he quickly took out a crystal from the armor in his arms and crushed it.

Wu Xuan naturally noticed the squad leader's actions, but he wouldn't stop him. He needed a high-ranking person with some status and influence to bring him some new information.

The squad leader waited anxiously for his master's arrival. It was a dark figure, radiating an incredibly dense black light; two yellow, two purple, and two black spirit rings—six in total, signifying his status as a Soul Emperor. Wu Xuan slightly curled the corners of his lips. Dragon Shadow Martial Soul—the newcomer was a direct descendant of the Wang family.

"Wang Qishisan, you dog, you better be in trouble, or I'll skin you alive!" the man roared angrily.

This was a thin, middle-aged man. While not exactly handsome, he was still quite good-looking. He had a calm demeanor and exuded the air of someone in a superior position.

Clearly, the sudden riot by the dragon centipede swarm had greatly angered this direct descendant of the Wang family.

"Master, Master! These two young heroes just happened to be passing by in the direction where the dragon centipede suddenly went berserk. They must know the reason." The squad leader named Wang Qishisan hurriedly knelt down and explained.

The man leaned down to look at Wu Xuan and Wang Qiu'er, clearly momentarily stunned by Wang Qiu'er's beauty, but then said coldly, "Boy, you killed the first dragon centipede?"

"Not bad! What can I do for you?" Wu Xuan said calmly. He was either right or wrong; he wouldn't lie and deny it.

"What do you want to say? Don't you know that hunting dragon centipedes is forbidden in Dragon Centipede Territory? You almost ruined our important plans." The man was furious and wished he could beat Wu Xuan to death.

"What's the big deal? Tell me." Wu Xuan appeared in front of the man in an instant with a light step.

"You're courting death!" The man's eyes turned cold, and in his anger, he ignored Wu Xuan's airborne stance and his illusory claws slashed directly at Wu Xuan.

Wu Xuan's expression turned cold, and his left leg flashed past like a blur, sweeping across the man's chest with a whip kick. Wu Xuan's kick was so fast that it even produced a piercing sonic boom in the air.

The man let out a muffled groan and screamed as he plummeted from the sky, crashing into the ground and creating a large crater.

The middle-aged man lay on his back on the ground, his face contorted, and said through gritted teeth, "Kid, you're finished. My grandfather is Wang Hong, one of the top three strongest people on the continent, the Dragon Shadow Douluo. My Wang family will not let you get away with this."

(End of this chapter)