Douluo Continent: Becoming a God of Magic Starting with Your Martial Soul

The area around the camp was completely silent.

In the extinguished campfire, even the glowing charcoal had lost its last glimmer of light.

Even the sliver of moonlight that shone through the dense canopy of trees quietly disappeared.

Huo Yuhao, who was busy grilling meat by the campfire at the campsite, noticed something was wrong and stopped what he was doing.

In his spiritual sea, Tianmeng, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly shivered, her drowsiness vanished, and she was reminded of Huo Yuhao.

"Yuhao, use your mental energy to check."

Huo Yuhao did as he was told.

Just as his bright eyes began to light up and his mental probe reached into the darkness to try and find out what was going on, a terrifying stinging pain shot through his eyes.

He quickly withdrew his mental energy and covered his aching eyes.

"There's something in the darkness!"

However, when Huo Yuhao spoke, he found that his shouts were so faint they were barely audible.

Not only the light, but even the sound was weakened.

Almost the next second, a breeze swept past him, splashing warm liquid onto his face.

I instinctively reached out and touched it, then gently sniffed it.

As the smell of rust entered my nostrils, a sense of fear welled up inside me.

He felt someone die in front of him, but he couldn't see or hear it.

Not only him, but everyone around him panicked as well.

"Enemy attack! Activate your Martial Soul!"

The shout reached my ears, though the voice carried with it a kind of soul power, it was barely audible, like people shouting to each other across two banks of a river.

Even so, it did reassure everyone.

Yellow and purple spirit rings rose from all sides, their light dim like a lighthouse on a stormy night, yet they provided each other with coordinates.

As elite students of the inner academy, they all knew what to do when the situation was unclear.

The spirit rings began to gather in twos and threes, protecting each other from blind spots in their companions' vision.

Tianmeng began to denounce the injustice of fate in the sea of ​​consciousness, but a hand grabbed Huo Yuhao.

Judging from the fact that the other party only possesses a purple spirit ring, this is Tang Ya.

Huo Yuhao was pulled along, heading towards the area with the densest concentration of spirit rings...

Darkness spread rapidly, as if it were a tangible substance, neither smoke nor fog, yet it blocked the light, instantly engulfing the scenery around Lu Yi, as if he were immersed in ink.

"What kind of ability is this?"

However, he himself barely heard this sentence, let alone Beibei who was next to him.

The two stopped in their tracks; even with their arms around each other, they couldn't see each other's faces.

Immediately afterwards, a hand slapped their shoulders, making them both shudder.

Fortunately, in the next moment, seven spirit rings, yellow, purple, black, and black in total, appeared from behind. The black spirit rings were almost completely integrated with the surroundings and were extremely inconspicuous.

It's Zhang Lexuan!

"Stay close to me!"

Zhang Lexuan's words seemed to have a magical power, and Bei Bei's violently beating heart calmed down slightly.

Lu Yi knew that danger was still lurking, but with Zhang Lexuan, the strongest person in the inner courtyard, by his side, he was already in the safest situation.

Even though the light from the spirit rings made it impossible to see Zhang Lexuan's face clearly, the hand gripping his clothes tightly on her shoulder indicated that Zhang Lexuan was not at peace.

As she moved, a group of three slowly appeared ahead. The yellow-purple light emanating from the first four spirit rings on their bodies provided Zhang Lexuan with direction.

In fact, even with her level 80 near-Soul Douluo perception, she couldn't ignore this black barrier.

This darkness was different from the night; what she could see and perceive was actually not much different from what Lu Yi and the others could.

This situation indicates that the creature that created this anomaly is far more powerful than her.

Just as they approached the three-person team, a dark shadow obscured the light emitted by the spirit rings and swept up one of them at an extremely fast speed.

The four spirit rings were lifted into the air, and after a few flashes, they fell to the ground and disappeared.

There were no screams or cries of alarm; it was like a silent play unfolding before my eyes.

Just as her two companions were about to make a move, Zhang Lexuan rushed out first.

"The True Form of the Silver Moon!"

Zhang Lexuan immediately activated her Martial Soul True Form Pursuit, unleashing a powerful aura that slightly dispersed the black barrier several meters around her body.

But the attackers were nowhere to be seen; only the fallen students remained.

A strange feeling rose in Zhang Lexuan's heart; the attacker didn't seem to want to confront her directly.

"Hehe—"

A blood-stained hand grabbed Zhang Lexuan's trouser leg. She quickly squatted down to check, but the other person seemed to be choking on the blood and couldn't speak.

Zhang Lexuan hurriedly took out the healing pills from her storage bracelet, but when she put the pills to the student's lips, the hand that was holding her trouser leg fell limply to the side.

Unable to sense any vital signs from the injured, Zhang Lexuan's hand, which was feeding the medicine, froze in mid-air.

Several people quickly followed behind, unaware of what had happened.

"Sister Lexuan—"

"Send a signal flare for help!" Zhang Lexuan's voice was icy cold.

The death of a trainee has taken an uncontrollable turn, and she has to take responsibility for the team.

One of the trainees did as instructed, but her current situation prevented her from distinguishing the types of ammunition.

But the situation left her no time to worry about that. She quickly loaded a bullet into the barrel and pointed the gun into the air.

"call out--"

A green flame shot out from the gun barrel, quickly dimmed as the altitude increased rapidly, and disappeared from the two people's sight in the blink of an eye!

"Did it work?"

A voice came from behind me asking a question.

"have no idea!"

"Send it again!"

"call out--"

This time it was a dark red signal flare, but unfortunately, when it reached a height of ten meters, it seemed to hit something and bounced back.

Before their eyes, the red flame extinguished as quickly as a candle flickering in the wind.

When the two wanted to try again, Zhang Lexuan stopped them, saying, "There's no need to try anymore. The signal flare can't break through this blackout."

"Sister Lexuan, what should we do?" a team member asked anxiously.

"First, I'll try to regroup with the others, then I'll attempt to fly out of this darkness and send a signal to Elder Xuan for help!"

Zhang Lexuan could tell that this beast possessed abilities similar to those in the field, and must have been at the level of 100,000 years old.

But the other party, relying on this strange domain, seemed to be in no hurry to defeat them, and even seemed to be enjoying the process.

This is clearly torturing them, like a hunter toying with his prey.

Although she could fly out of this dark barrier to call for help, the beast here was capable of slaughtering most of the team members, and Beibei was among them, so she couldn't gamble.

If the students scattered within a hundred meters are not gathered together, everyone will be exhausted sooner or later.

Lu Yi understood Zhang Lexuan's arrangement and guessed her intention.

Only when everyone is gathered together to look after each other can Zhang Lexuan feel safe to ask for help.

Lu Yi glanced at Bei Bei's location and made a decision.

He summoned his wand, his lips barely moving.

"Lumos! (Flashing lights)"

The magic wand lit up, drawing everyone's attention, but they immediately looked back at the wounded man on the ground.

With the help of the dim light, one could see that the team member's chest had collapsed, and several horrifying claw marks were piercing his lungs, leaving him a bloody mess.

Some people couldn't bear it and turned their heads away, but Zhang Lexuan stared intently at the wound.

Judging from the appearance of the wound, it belongs to a feline spirit beast.

Lu Yi waved his wand forward, and the white light flew straight ahead.

The light spot drifted out a few meters before quickly dimming until it attached itself to an obstacle.

Unlike the light produced by an open flame, this tiny white glow, though unable to dispel the darkness, lingered for a long time.

"Lumos!"

Lu Yi released another beam, but this time in a different direction. The light drifted further away and disappeared into the darkness in an instant.

Lu Yi repeated this process over and over again, with light spots constantly attaching to the obstacles and drifting away into the distance.

In his vision, as long as someone discovers the trajectory of the light spot, they can find them by following the direction from which the light spot flew, which is much faster than them searching for them themselves.

Soon, there was movement ahead.

Team members summoning their spirit rings appeared, followed by a steady stream of more team members.

As they approached the area where Zhang Lexuan had dispelled the darkness, the crowd finally saw the terror on their faces.

"That thing is behind us—" A student lunged at Zhang Lexuan, his lips trembling, "Xiao Jie, he's already—"

After he finished speaking, his body finally gave way and he collapsed to the ground, and the state of being possessed by the Martial Soul was dispelled.

Looking down, one could see several long claw marks on the student's back, and blood was dripping from his empty sleeve.

Suddenly, two more people rushed toward the group at lightning speed.

Beibei recognized the spirit rings on the two people as belonging to Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao.

"Xiaoya! Junior brother!"

Beibei rushed forward first, as these two were his biggest worry.

But behind Tang Ya, a figure blocked the spot of light that had previously landed on the obstacle.

A surge of anxiety welled up in Beibei's chest. She shouted anxiously and quickened her pace.

But at that moment, a surge of power came from behind him, and in an instant it swept past him and rushed behind Tang Ya.

It's Zhang Lexuan.

A loud crash resounded, and the impact forced Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao back to Bei Bei's side.

The darkness lessened somewhat, and with the help of the light spots that Lu Yi had released earlier and the light from the soul rings on Zhang Lexuan's body, a long, slender black shadow, five meters in length, was revealed.

The hunter has appeared!