Douluo Continent: Huo Yuhao obtains the Flame Emperor template

Chapter 145 Xuanzi Receives the Death List

Xuanzi was filled with grief, clutching a severed arm that belonged to someone unknown in his hand. His gaze, piercing through the hazy blood mist mixed with poisonous gas, swept across the entire cave with an empty and blank expression.

As for the severed arm in his hand, Xuanzi desperately hoped it belonged to a bandit; however, there was also a situation he feared to face.

"Disciples! How are the disciples? Are they alright...?"

While muttering to himself in a daze, his tone even bordering on insanity, Xuanzi used his mental power to perceive the scene inside the cave, which resembled a scene of shocking bloodshed.

When his gaze fell on Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan, Xuanzi's pupils widened suddenly. He saw the incredibly tragic state of Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan.

"How come Yao Haoxuan only has half a body left?"

"He's... he's not breathing?"

Xuanzi felt a jolt of mental feedback, gasping for breath as if he were suffocating, his lips trembling.

From the very beginning, when they entered the Death Hand bandit group's cave to wipe out the group of evil soul masters, Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan charged in the fiercest, wreaking havoc among the evil soul masters.

Now, Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan are indiscriminately killing people in the crowd. After the pile of corpses explodes, it's almost impossible for the two of them to survive.

"Beast! Beast!!" Xuanzi cursed angrily in despair.

Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan were in the center of the explosion amidst a pile of corpses; both of their limbs had disappeared.

Yao Haoxuan suffered the most severe damage. After using his martial soul, his body grew larger and the area affected by the explosion increased several times... He was directly blown up and died on the spot, leaving behind an enormous half of his body.

Chen Zifeng wasn't completely dead; he seemed to be clinging to life. However, having lost his limbs in the explosion, he couldn't find any foothold, and his body would occasionally twitch and scream in pain. He was already in dire straits, a living hell.

Xuanzi was heartbroken.

"We must save Zifeng immediately!"

Fearing he might miss this slim chance of saving him, Xuanzi struggled to get up, but his disciple's extremely dire condition, like a heart attack, caused the old man to stumble and collapse to the ground again.

Xuanzi, known for his speed, including his reaction speed, quickly released the soul power unique to the Taotie Divine Ox to prevent the residual toxins from the corpse explosion from continuing to harm his disciples.

As a layer of yellowish-brown air swept across the entire cave, all the blood mist and poisonous fog were dispelled.

The view inside the cave became clearer.

At the same time, Xuanzi felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her heart, as if cut by a knife. She pounded her chest, wanting to vomit but couldn't. She lost the courage to continue watching, and a few tears streamed down her face.

"That's... Dai, Dai Yueheng?! How could a six-ring Soul Emperor be like this?!"

The severed arm in Xuanzi's hand belonged to Dai Yueheng. Seeing Dai Yueheng's condition, Xuanzi felt dizzy and lightheaded, as if his eyes were about to be torn apart.

Dai Yueheng's entire left arm was blown off in the corpse explosion, and his upper body was a bloody mess, corroded by the deadly poison, with blood and mud mixed together.

Before the corpse explosion, Dai Yueheng had torn a five-ring Soul King in half.

Who could have predicted that the evil soul master's method would be corpse explosion? The disciples hadn't even considered the possibility of a corpse exploding. So, the corpse of the five-ring soul king that Dai Yueheng had torn apart by hand was casually thrown to the sides.

The side and front don't have much of an impact; he's pushed forward enough that no teammate will be in front of him.

However, to the side and behind, his younger brother Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu were still cleaning up the remaining bandits. The two were even discussing how to use the Netherworld White Tiger to kill a large number of evil soul masters when the next wave of bandits attacked.

However, the corpse explosion prepared by the Grim Reaper arrived.

Dai Yueheng watched as the half of the Soul King's corpse he had thrown to his side was about to explode. The other half was fine, having been thrown further away, but this half was essentially delivered to Dai Huabin's doorstep.

Although the shockwave from the explosion had a buffer distance of several meters.

But this is the corpse of a Soul King. The power generated by the corpse explosion is something that Dai Huabin, a three-ring Soul Venerable, cannot withstand.

Therefore, Dai Yueheng decisively activated the White Tiger Vajra Transformation, lunged to the side, and stretched out his left arm to grab Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, using his body to block most of the impact of the Soul King's corpse.

This is why Dai Yueheng, whose injuries were not serious in the original story and who even fought against Meng Hongchen, who was wearing level six full armor, and ultimately won, lost his left arm while shielding Dai Huabin from the corpse explosion.

When Dai Huabin saw his elder brother Dai Yueheng's gruesome state—his left arm gone and his upper body a bloody mess—he quickly got up, ran forward, and hugged him. His eyes immediately welled up with tears, and he cried out in anguish.

"Big brother! I've always looked up to you as my role model. Without you, what's the point of my cultivation? You must hold on!!"

Dai Huabin's face was filled with sorrow and grief. When the corpse exploded just now, he had sensed the aura of his elder brother, the six-ring Soul Emperor level Evil Eye White Tiger, rushing over like a blinding white light. It was Dai Yueheng who protected him.

In order to protect Zhu Lu, Dai Huabin tackled her to the ground to shield her. The shockwave from the exploding corpse swept past, tearing his back open.

Zhu Lu's face was slightly pale, and she was at a loss when she saw Dai Yueheng's miserable state.

She couldn't even imagine what kind of blow Dai Yueheng's loss of an arm, such an irreversible lifelong disability, would bring to a power-attack type Soul Master.

Dai Yueheng, a sixth-ring Soul Emperor, had a fairly strong physique. Thanks to the White Tiger Protective Shield and the comprehensive enhancement provided by the White Tiger Vajra Transformation, he did not die on the spot, even though he was at the center of the explosion of half of the Soul King's corpse.

Fortunately, after Dai Yueheng tore apart a Soul King, he didn't repeatedly jump around in the pile of evil Soul Master corpses, otherwise he would have suffered the same fate as the two powerful attack-type Soul Kings that Elder Xuan had specifically praised.

"Why? This time we didn't get separated, so why did this happen again when I was leading the team...?"

When Xuanzi saw Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan, who had lost their limbs in the explosion, and Dai Yueheng, who had lost his left arm, he was overcome with grief and began to sob softly and hoarsely.

At this moment, the disciples in the regular team and the reserve team who were still able-bodied were all lying on the ground, extremely weak and in pain.

The disciples, missing limbs, arched their bodies on the ground, struggling violently and emitting heart-wrenching, agonizing screams.

"And...and Ma Xiaotao too!"

While Xuanzi was feeling lost and disoriented, he suddenly raised his head, released his mental energy to sense Ma Xiaotao's location.

"Xiao Tao, are you alright?"

Ma Xiaotao, supporting herself against the rock wall, staggered to her feet. With her other hand, she gently touched the red collar of her dress and coughed a few times, sounding unwell. "I'm fine."

There were relatively few corpses around Ma Xiaotao. Most of the low-level evil soul masters, such as the two- or three-ring cultivators of the Death Hand bandit group, were burned into gas by her powerful phoenix flames, leaving no corpses behind.

Therefore, the area where Ma Xiaotao was just now was relatively safe.

Xuanzi breathed a slight sigh of relief. This time, he was finally spared another knife to the heart. Ma Xiaotao was in good health and seemed to be fine, with no danger to her life.

The corpse explosion on Ma Xiaotao's side wasn't very strong; she was just blasted away by the shockwave from the other corpse explosion and crashed into the rock wall, suffering some internal injuries from the shock.

Moreover, her phoenix flames effectively countered the toxins produced by the corpse explosion.

Ma Xiaotao was the least injured of the seven inner courtyard disciples. Her internal injuries were almost completely healed after a period of simple rest.

"Luo Chen, can you still stand up?"

Ma Xiaotao flapped her phoenix wings on her back and quickly flew to Ling Luochen's side, gently helping her up and asking about her injuries with concern.

During the battle, Ling Luochen was controlling Ma Xiaotao by waving his staff behind her. Ma Xiaotao's phoenix flames basically burned the corpses to vaporization, and there weren't many corpses around Ling Luochen either.

Although she was blasted away by the shockwave of the corpse explosion, she managed to defend herself in time, using ice element to condense a layer of ice on her body. Overall, her condition wasn't too bad, but she needed to recuperate for a while.

Wang Yan, who was at the back of the main team, was less affected by the corpse explosion. He was blown away and crashed into the rock wall, breaking several of his ribs.

Wang Yan barely opened his eyes. Covered in dust and dirt, he immediately checked on his disciples' injuries. Seeing the terrible state of his disciples, especially Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan, Wang Yan trembled and felt short of breath.

"Where is Elder Xuan?"

Wang Yan turned around in shock and found Xuan Zi sitting on the ground, his face blank and his spirit broken. A nameless resentment rose in his heart.

The current tragic state is largely due to the efforts of this level 98 Taotie Douluo, after all, it was a task specifically chosen by Elder Xuan.

As the team leader, he was naturally responsible, but Wang Yan's cultivation was only at the fifth-ring Soul King level, which was lower than some of the inner court disciples. Faced with the sudden situation of the corpses exploding, Wang Yan was powerless.

Seeing Elder Xuan's tears streaming down his face, Wang Yan's pent-up emotions exploded instantly, and he shouted in a voice as if weeping blood, "Elder Xuan, what are you looking at! Go and kill him! Kill him!"

Upon hearing Wang Yan's scream, Xuanzi abruptly snapped out of his grief and released a powerful aura of five-horsepower soul energy, locking onto the Death Messenger who had already turned into a wisp of gray smoke and was preparing to escape.

"Damn it!" Elder Xuan roared in fury, his surging soul power causing the entire cave to tremble violently, and some gravel fell down.

Xuanzi raised his right hand and made a pulling motion towards the deepest passageway in the cave.

Instantly, his palm generated an extremely terrifying suction force, and a black figure was instantly pulled out from the depths of the cave passage, about to be grabbed by Xuanzi.

The Grim Reaper's expression was pained by Xuanzi's grasp, but his fierce gaze towards Xuanzi held a hint of mockery.

Unable to resist being captured, the Grim Reaper made a gesture from afar.

Wang Yan's expression suddenly turned horrified, and a sense of foreboding welled up in his heart.

The next instant, Yao Haoxuan's enormous half-body swelled up again, radiating a dangerous red light.

The Grim Reaper triggered a second corpse explosion.

"Beast! Beast!!"

Upon seeing this, Xuanzi's eyes turned red. He quickly used his level 98 soul power to envelop half of Yao Haoxuan's enormous body and placed it in a corner of the cave.

Death will not let go of this fleeting chance to escape.

His fifth spirit ring shone brightly, and he instantly turned into a wisp of smoke. However, instead of fleeing immediately, he rushed towards the reserve team like lightning.

Upon seeing this, Wang Yan's expression changed drastically, and he cried out in a voice as if weeping blood, "Elder Xuan, aren't you a level 98 Super Douluo? How could you let a five-ring Soul King escape from your grasp? Quickly, go after him!"

Xuanzi was furious. As a level 98 Super Douluo, this was the greatest humiliation he had ever suffered in his life.

The fact that a soul beast less than 100,000 years old almost escaped from his grasp was already a great insult to Xuanzi. Now, a mere five-ring soul king could be crushed at will, yet he still dared to dream of escaping from the clutches of Taotie Douluo.

This is tantamount to throwing his dignity to the ground, trampling it ruthlessly, and then pointing at him and cursing him as a spineless loser.

"Roar!" With a deafening roar, Xuanzi, whose rage level had once again reached its maximum, released his Martial Soul True Form.

The Gluttonous Divine Ox!

Xuanzi's incomparably powerful aura spread out, causing the cave to shake violently once again, and boulders from the ceiling walls fell one after another.

Wang Yan sensed Xuanzi's terrifying and unparalleled soul power aura, knowing that the other party was serious. He cursed under his breath, not knowing who he was cursing. However, the next second, his wide eyes suddenly froze.

Because of the powerful aura of Xuanzi's Taotie Divine Ox, the boulder continued to fall, and the pressure caused it to descend at an extremely fast speed, comparable to Xuanzi's own speed.

Chen Zifeng, whose limbs were severed and who was on the verge of death, still had a breath left, but a boulder shaken down by the "power of the Gluttonous Divine Ox" struck him precisely in the chest, killing him completely.

After the corpse explosion, Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan died in battle, and the remaining disciples of Shrek Academy's inner court all suffered varying degrees of severe injuries.

Wang Yan witnessed this scene and was immediately stunned, his mind reeling. He held his head in his hands and felt the world spinning around him.

He simply couldn't imagine why, even in such a dire situation, Elder Xuan could still create a crisis of casualties for the team.

The entire cave was already badly damaged by the bombing and couldn't withstand any more intense damage.

However, Xuanzi put in even more effort.

This caused the boulders at the top of the cave to keep falling. Not far away, Dai Yueheng, whose left arm had been blown off, was about to suffer a second blow from the boulders that Xuanzi had shaken down.

Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen quickly unleashed their soul skills, Phoenix Meteor Shower, shattering all the falling boulders in the cave. They silently looked at Elder Xuan, their lips trembling, unsure of what to say.

"I'm sorry, children, I'm so sorry..."

Thick, hot tears streamed down Elder Xuan's face as he was overwhelmed with intense regret and hatred.

Seeing that the boulder crisis was over, he breathed a sigh of relief, looked sharply at the tunnel, and then unleashed the terrifying speed of a "Level 98 Super Douluo".

They chased after him deeper into the cave, determined to completely annihilate the messenger of death.

The Grim Reaper's shriek, laced with mockery, rang out once more: "Heh heh, your actions are perfectly suited to my temperament. Why not join me..."

(End of this chapter)