Douluo Continent: Huo Yuhao obtains the Flame Emperor template

Chapter 146 A member of a cult, Xuanzi

"Old bastard, your shaking of the boulder caused your dying teammate to lose all his life force. This is exactly the usual practice of an evil spirit master."

The wisp of gray smoke that was the messenger of death quickly rushed past the reserve team, activated dozens of soul-guided boosters on its back, and ran frantically through the tunnel.

During this time, the Grim Reaper continued his taunts, attempting to disrupt Xuanzi's mind: "How about..."

"After you join me, I hereby bestow upon you the title of Apostle of Death. Let us, together, grow stronger and create a magnificent legacy, hehehe..."

Xuanzi was furious. He thought to himself that he was a highly respected elder of the Sea God Pavilion at Shrek Academy, and he had never been insulted like this before.

Moreover, the one who toyed with him was merely a fifth-ring Soul King evil Soul Master. Xuan Zi's veins bulged: "Beast! I will tear you to pieces!"

Wang Yan's face was deathly pale. After witnessing Elder Xuan shake down the giant rock, his mind was in chaos, and he felt completely dazed.

Chen Zifeng was already on the verge of death, but... he was finished off by his own people, a truly unjust death.

The reserve team was behind the main team, so the power of the zombie explosion they received from the front was not very severe; they mainly only absorbed part of the shockwave from the zombie explosion.

Tang Ya and Xu Sanshi's girlfriend Meng Miao's cultivation levels are not as high as Bei Bei and He Caitou's.

When the powerful shockwave from the corpse explosion swept over.

He Caitou and Xu Sanshi used their defensive techniques, standing not far in front of the two girls, trying to shield them from the shockwave generated by the corpse explosion.

It was quite effective, especially He Caitou's level four soul guide shield, which had a pretty good blocking effect. In addition, the reserve team was mainly facing not the explosion, but the aftershocks of the corpse explosion.

The aftershocks of the explosions from the corpses of these bandits in the second and third rings were unlikely to break through He Caitou's level four soul-guided shield.

Xu Sanshi, on the other hand, relied on his own defensive abilities to withstand the shockwave, so his condition was worse than He Caitou's. He was thrown to the ground by the shockwave and was quite disoriented, but he did not suffer any serious internal injuries.

As the captain, Bei Bei didn't have it so easy. He had the highest cultivation level in the reserve team and was also a powerful attack-type Soul Master. From the moment he entered the cave, he was at the forefront of the reserve team.

The aftershocks of the corpse explosion he experienced were stronger than those experienced by the rest of the reserve team.

Fortunately, the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex's lightning quality was not bad, and its overall defense was quite high when using lightning protection. In addition, Tang Ya's emerald green vines around her waist pulled him down to a relatively safe position in time.

This lessened the damage from the zombie explosion shockwave that Beibei suffered, causing her to cough up several mouthfuls of blood and sustain some internal injuries.

"Xiaoya, Sanshi Mengmiao, are you alright—"

With blue-purple electricity coursing through his body, Bei Bei stood up and helped Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu dispel the toxins from the aftershocks. He turned around to ask about the injuries of the other team members, but his words suddenly stopped.

Looking at the devastated cave, Wang Yan felt a surge of sorrow. Just as he was in a daze, he suddenly heard Bei Bei's frightened words.

He suddenly looked intently at the reserve team. Was someone missing?

Wang Yan was shocked, instantly snapping out of her daze. Looking more closely, a flicker of fear crossed her eyes: "Where's San Shi? Where did Xu San Shi go?"

Tang Ya raised her hand, her voice trembling slightly: "Teacher Wang Yan, the vines I was wrapping around the team members were snapped off, and then it seemed like a wisp of gray smoke flew towards me..."

Wang Yan understood. Just now, a wisp of gray mist flashed by, and Xu Sanshi subconsciously used Xuanming Displacement to protect his brother's girlfriend and switch places with Tang Ya.

The person the Grim Reaper really wanted to take away was Tang Ya.

After sacrificing the bandits' henchmen, the Grim Reaper subconsciously felt that Tang Ya was a very good prospect and very suitable to be refined into a corpse slave with a certain level of consciousness.

However, after Xu Sanshi used Xuanming to switch places with Tang Ya, the Grim Reaper's messenger did not completely succeed.

The Grim Reaper and Xuanzi were already racing against time, and taking advantage of the old fool's moment of confusion, he didn't have time to snatch Tang Ya back, so he decided to kidnap Xu Sanshi directly.

Wang Yan looked towards the passageway with eyes full of terror, shouting hoarsely, "Old drunkard, is your Martial Soul True Body just for show? Xu Sanshi has been captured by that evil soul master, you must rescue him!"

Elder Xuan was still chasing after him. At this moment, he felt extremely regretful and ashamed, and he had no face to dwell on Wang Yan's rude words.

"You beast! If you dare harm my students again, I, the Gluttonous Douluo, swear to skin you alive and tear your tendons apart!"

In his rage, Xuanzi's terrifying aura surged even higher, his formidable power emerging like a raging torrent.

Suddenly, his back arched, his tattered clothes, stained with oil, burst open, and his back muscles bulged at an astonishing speed.

Most strangely, a spiral-shaped horn grew from each side of Xuanzi's head, emanating an unparalleled aura of terror.

However, just a few seconds after Elder Xuan rushed in, he delivered another wave of merit to the messenger of death.

"You old fool, go back and protect your disciples! The five-ring Soul King you just killed is about to explode, hehehehe..."

The messenger of death sprinted frantically through the passageway, sneering and making a mocking gesture, then casually clenched his fist.

The boulder that had been shaken down by the power of Xuanzi's Taotie Divine Ox... crushed Chen Zifeng to death—his corpse rapidly swelled and grew larger, enveloped in a dangerous red light.

Chen Zifeng's corpse, a Five-Ring Soul King, exploded three times!

Inside the cave, Gongyang Mo saw Ma Xiaotao use Phoenix Meteor Shower to shatter the boulder. Although Ma Xiaotao was constantly on guard against the corpse, she was still the closest to Chen Zifeng's body.

A deafening explosion rang out, mingling with Gongyang Mo's terrified cry of "Xiao Tao, watch out!"

At the same time, Ling Luochen quickly waved his staff and used Ice Cage to cover the space where Chen Zifeng's corpse exploded, reducing the power of the explosion as much as possible.

As Gongyang Mo lunged to the side, after the explosion, all four of his limbs were severed, and he let out an extremely painful wail. As a support-type Soul Master, he was practically half dead.

Ma Xiaotao's clothes were stained red with blood. She sat up halfway with a dazed expression. When she saw the body beside her with no limbs, her eyes instantly turned red and she couldn't stop crying.

"I'm sorry... You shouldn't have gone to such lengths for me. My Soul Emperor physique is clearly stronger; I should be the one protecting you..."

Gongyang Mo's lips moved with difficulty, but the pain of impending death prevented him from uttering a single word. His head tilted to the side, and he slowly closed his eyes, completely extinguishing all hope of life.

"Quick, quick, collect his body first."

Seeing such a tragic scene, Wang Yan was filled with immense grief, but he knew that the Grim Reaper might cause another corpse explosion. He had no time to grieve and quickly instructed Ling Luochen to use ice elements.

Tears streamed down Ma Xiaotao's face uncontrollably, but she quickly suppressed her immense grief upon hearing this. Ling Luochen waved his staff, swiftly conjuring ice elements that froze Gongyang Mo's entire body.

Inside the passageway, Xuanzi heard the explosion, his face contorted in even more rage, and he charged forward furiously, his disheveled hair flying wildly, as if a madman had returned.

Just moments before Chen Zifeng's body exploded.

Xuanzi's mind was filled with a raging, endless fire of anger and hatred; in this state, he was incapable of thinking.

"Should we continue the pursuit, or return to the cave to protect our disciples?"

Xuanzi finally made a decision: he only wanted to catch up with the Grim Reaper and make him suffer a terrible death.

"You beast! I've caught you, and I'll make sure you're reduced to ashes and reduced to nothingness."

Xuanzi roared furiously, his voice echoing throughout the entire passageway.

By increasing the power of his Martial Soul True Body, the speed of a level 98 Title Douluo was fully displayed at this moment.

"Boom, boom, boom..." As the Grim Reaper frantically fled for his life in the passageway, he continuously channeled his soul power, desperately pounding on the buttons on both sides of the passageway walls.

He then channeled his soul power into the buttons on both sides of the passageway, activating the activation device and detonating the soul-guided cannons he had previously set up.

Xuanzi, who was furiously chasing after him, was completely unafraid of the explosions of these soul-guided cannonballs. With the physical strength of the Taotie Douluo, he didn't need to dodge at all, and Xuanzi let the explosive power hit his face directly.

Huge boulders in the passageway were blasted down one after another, almost burying Xuanzi.

Xuanzi snorted angrily and used a little of his energy to turn all the boulders that had been blasted down into dust.

Completely disregarding the buried tunnel, he used his incredibly strong body to break through the dust and debris, forcibly creating a passageway.

The deafening explosions of these soul-guided cannonballs caused Xuanzi, whose anger was already rising, to feel a touch of disdain.

This evil spirit master, whose hatred I cannot quell even by being torn to pieces, not only killed three of my school's genius disciples, but also dared to try to kill me, an elder with a cultivation level of ninety-eight?

Xuanzi glared angrily, as if a fierce light was emanating from him. The dust that was forcibly dispersed splashed onto his messy, flying hair, making him look even more ferocious.

This shows how much he hated and resented the messenger of the dead.

"Heh heh... You old fool, guess how many of them I killed this time?"

The messenger of death let out a triumphant yet sinister shriek, attempting to influence Xuanzi's emotions, making his mind more chaotic, and causing him to hesitate about whether to go back to save people, in order to slow down the pursuer's speed.

The third corpse explosion by Chen Zifeng has ended, and Gongyang Mo died in this explosion.

If Xuanzi had returned at this moment, not only would he have failed to save Xu Sanshi, who had been captured by the messenger of death, but he would also have failed to prevent the third corpse explosion.

The Grim Reaper chuckled coldly: "I suppose this is a heinous crime for the teacher in charge of the Shrek Academy team..."

This corpse explosion created another Soul King corpse for him, that of Gongyang Mo.

The Grim Reaper revealed a cruel smile, about to detonate the Soul King's corpse as well, when he suddenly felt a strong mental interference that prevented him from detonating it.

Moreover, he could clearly sense that there seemed to be some kind of barrier outside the Soul King's corpse.

In addition, he had been frantically fleeing for his life in the tunnel for so long that he was quite far from the original cave.

The intense mental interference that the Death Messenger was experiencing at this moment came from Xuanzi, who was chasing him.

Xuanzi roared angrily from behind, "Damn beast! Don't think you can fool me twice with your little tricks!"

Knowing he couldn't detonate Gongyang Mo's corpse, the Death Messenger gave up and looked at the unconscious Xu Sanshi in his hand, grinning with a sinister smile.

"Although it's not as good as the one who used Blue Silver Grass, it's still a Shrek Academy student with good talent. Refining it into a corpse slave will still greatly enhance my abilities."

It must be said that this evil soul master who calls himself the messenger of death has already earned the title of the strongest soul king by managing to avoid being caught by Xuanzi in the passageway for a while. Even if Xuanzi catches up with him and kills him later, the messenger of death can rest in peace.

Most importantly, in the original story, after the Grim Reaper escaped from the tunnel, he was about to kill Huo Gua, but Xuanzi still failed to catch up.

Xuanzi arrived only after Yi Lao possessed him and killed the messenger of death.

With only the cultivation level of a five-ring Soul King, and under the leadership of a level ninety-eight Super Douluo.

The bandits' henchmen, half of Yao Haoxuan's body, and Chen Zifeng's entire body caused a total of three rounds of corpse explosions—killing three people, seriously injuring several others, and capturing one person alive. During their escape, they were able to keep Xuanzi from catching up for a while.

If the messenger of death's actions were to reach the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters, even the cult leader would likely not believe it.

The Grim Reaper couldn't help but laugh: "Hahaha, I had foreseen that my destiny was about to arrive, but I never expected it to be such a great one."

"This messenger is simply the lucky one among evil soul masters, a beacon in the world of evil soul masters."

Before long, the messenger of death emerged from the tunnel entrance.

The passageway behind seemed to have collapsed, but there was the Taotie Douluo Xuanzi inside. He was so crazy and inflexible that he used himself as a tool to forcefully create a passageway in this direction.

In front of the platform outside the passageway is a bottomless cliff. Once the messenger of death flies to the opposite half of the mountainous area and passes through the passageway there, he will reach the territory under the jurisdiction of the Sun and Moon Empire.

"Arise, my corpse slaves."

The Grim Reaper raised his hand, and twelve figures appeared on a small platform outside the passageway. Upon seeing the Grim Reaper, these figures immediately knelt on one knee and respectfully bowed to him.

"You stayed behind to cover my retreat. It's surprising that there's a Title Douluo among you. Otherwise, we could have created even more powerful corpse slaves."

Someone of Xu Sanshi's caliber, if the Grim Reaper can successfully refine him into a corpse slave, would be far stronger than his twelve corpse slaves.

The Grim Reaper gazed at the mountains opposite and deployed his flying soul tool, preparing to fly over.

Xuanzi finally burst from the ground and sprang out of the tunnel, his furious roar echoing once more: "Beast, where do you think you're going? Die!"

Just now in the passageway, Xuanzi was worried that the cave where his disciples were located would collapse and increase casualties, so he held back his soul skills and did not dare to use them.

The Grim Reaper glanced at Xu Sanshi, whom he was holding, and sneered sinisterly, "A Title Douluo is indeed powerful; he actually caught up with us."

"I was originally planning to turn you into a corpse slave, but I guess I'll have to sacrifice you. Blame your useless elder."

The Grim Reaper was about to throw Xu Sanshi off the cliff, inwardly resentful: "If this old bastard weren't slightly more powerful than me, I would have turned him into a corpse slave along with me!"

(End of this chapter)