Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 23—The Purple Shadow Lion and the Ghost Shadow Leopard

Suddenly, it stopped what it was doing and raised its head alertly to look around. Even its nostrils were trembling slightly, clearly indicating that it had smelled the human scent in the air.

After a slight pause, the purple lion turned its head toward Qian Lingyun and her companion, who were flying low, revealing its mouthful of sharp teeth. Then, it slowly turned its body toward Qian Renxue and her companion, and in a flash, it disappeared.

Its speed was incredibly fast, leaving a long trail of afterimages in its wake. In almost the blink of an eye, it had already covered a kilometer.

The purple lion clearly sensed that the soul power emanating from Qian Renxue was not particularly strong, and thus underestimated Qian Lingyun as well.

According to the logic of the spirit beast, since it is weak, it can be used as food. After all... it is not full yet, and these two delicate-skinned humans look delicious...

"Lucky you, it's a Purple Shadow Lion!" The knowledgeable Qian Renxue immediately recognized the species of this soul beast.

The Purple Shadow Lion is one of the most terrifying speed-type spirit beasts. Not only is it incredibly fast, but it also has a particular fondness for the hearts of fresh corpses. Furthermore, it possesses a potent poison and several extremely powerful innate spirit skills.

Upon hearing the words "Purple Shadow Lion," Qian Lingyun's eyes lit up. A ten-thousand-year-old Purple Shadow Lion was a rare treasure!

Whether it's attack, speed, or poison, it's all perfectly suited to me.

Since a suitable opponent has come to them, there's no reason to let them go. Given the level of understanding that Qian Renxue and Qian Lingyun have developed, there's no need for further words; they can just get right to it.

The Purple Shadow Lion was incredibly fast. As soon as Qian Renxue landed, it leaped high into the air and impatiently opened its blood-red maw, biting down on Qian Renxue's smooth neck.

"Huh!?"

Qian Renxue let out a soft exclamation, her delicate brows furrowing slightly. She raised her hand and held the Angelic Holy Sword horizontally, using its sharp blade to block the Purple Shadow Lion's mouthful of fangs.

Click, click!

The Purple Shadow Lion's sharp teeth rubbed violently against the Angelic Holy Sword, producing a teeth-grinding cracking sound. But the Angelic Holy Sword was, after all, a divine weapon. Even though the Purple Shadow Lion tried its best to bite, it only broke its own teeth.

As several broken beast teeth fell to the ground, the Purple Shadow Lion sensed something was wrong. It loosened its grip on the Angelic Holy Sword and quickly dodged to the left, only to see Qian Lingyun standing in its path, playing with her scythe.

That arrogant and disdainful demeanor instantly aroused the ferocity of the Purple Shadow Lion. After a few low growls, the Purple Shadow Lion's figure became increasingly hazy and actually disappeared into a cloud of black mist that its true form had transformed into!

This must be the Phantom Transformation, one of the Purple Shadow Lion's innate soul skills!

It is said that when the Purple Shadow Lion releases this soul skill, it can be immune to 100% physical damage and half of energy damage.

What's even more bizarre is that even in this form, the Purple Shadow Lion can still attack its opponents with its sharp teeth and claws at will, and the black mist surrounding it is also highly poisonous.

"First Soul Skill, Dark Flame!"

Having understood the advantages and disadvantages involved, Qian Lingyun naturally wouldn't use her own weaknesses to attack the enemy's factory.

After a brief moment of thought, she crossed her arms, leaned back slightly, and with a powerful shake of her black wings, flew backwards directly behind her.

This maneuver truly baffled the battle-hungry Purple Shadow Lion.

You look like you're going to fight head-on, but... I was about to hit you, and you just ran away! Is that right? No, that's not right!

"roar."

Its not-so-bright brain worked for a moment and finally realized what was happening. The Purple Shadow Lion roared and chased after Qian Lingyun, who was retreating rapidly, leaving a trail of afterimages. But it saw a look of regret on Qian Lingyun's face.

Sure enough, whenever it was only a few inches away from Qian Lingyun, the woman would use her flying ability to fly vertically upwards and unleash several crescent-shaped soul power blades at it from a distance she couldn't reach, in order to restrict its movement.

Finally, realizing it had been tricked, the Purple Shadow Lion, panting heavily, looked at the humans in the sky with longing and despair. Behind it, a brilliant light, like the rising sun, shone forth.

"First Soul Skill, Enlightenment!"

Qian Renxue gripped her sword with her left hand and pointed her right hand into the air. A golden light shot into the sky, transforming into a golden halo that fell from the sky.

The next instant, a brilliant golden halo suddenly erupted. The power of this golden halo was not very great, but its control was very strong. The Purple Shadow Lion's every move within the halo slowed down considerably.

Here, all non-light-attribute creatures are surrounded by dense light energy, reducing their speed by 40%. If they are dark-attribute, this effect is doubled...

Under Qian Renxue's soul skill, which is specifically designed to target the dark attribute, no matter how much the Purple Shadow Lion struggled, it was only wasting its soul power in vain, and there was no other possibility but to sink deeper and deeper.

Similarly, this soul skill consumes a great deal of soul power, and Qian Renxue's current total soul power cannot sustain it for long. However... she is not alone.

The instant before the Enlightenment Soul Skill ended, a black figure seized the opportunity when the Purple Shadow Lion's body had not yet recovered, slashing at its throat with one strike and then at its abdomen with another.

After several exchanges, the Purple Shadow Lion's body was completely frozen in place. With a soft "poof," black flames roared and burned the Purple Shadow Lion's already meager life force on more than ten crisscrossing wounds.

After the Dark Flame slowly died out due to lack of suitable fuel, the Purple Shadow Lion's broken body collapsed to the ground, and a black soul ring emerged from its head and slowly floated towards the extremely excited Qian Lingyun.

"Hurry up and absorb it!" Qian Renxue nodded to Qian Lingyun, took out a handkerchief and began to wipe away the drool that the Purple Shadow Lion had just left on the Angelic Holy Sword.

She rubbed her hands together habitually, then deftly slipped the spirit ring onto her head and closed her eyes to begin absorbing it.

For her, with the Rakshasa Demon Scythe devouring the resentment of the soul beasts within the soul rings, she only needed to consider her own body's ability to withstand the absorption of soul rings.

After fusing with the divine equipment, her physical attributes were no less than those of Soul Emperors and Soul Saints. Soul rings no older than 50,000 years were easily within her grasp.

This Purple Shadow Lion, with a cultivation level of just over ten thousand years, was far below Qian Lingyun's absorption limit, which indirectly led to Qian Lingyun absorbing its soul ring in just one hour.

Seeing that it was still early, Qian Renxue thought it would be a good time to take Qian Lingyun away from the grassland and go for a walk in the forest.

The dense forest was dark, but not the kind of darkness where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Moonlight filtered through the dappled shadows of the trees, mingling with the glow of small insects. Though dim, it was still barely enough to see.

They walked along the dense forest for an unknown amount of time, only knowing that they hadn't gained anything that night.

As dawn broke and a pale light appeared on the distant horizon, the two finally showed signs of weariness.

"There seems to be a cave ahead, should we go in and deal with it?" Qian Lingyun said softly, rubbing her sleepy eyes.

"Look what that is?" Qian Renxue gently patted Qian Lingyun's shoulder and pointed to a toad-shaped boulder two hundred meters away, on which lay a spirit beast that looked like it was not to be trifled with.

Following the direction Qian Renxue pointed, Qian Lingyun saw a soul beast emitting a gray light, with gray-green skin covered in coin-shaped golden spots, lazily lying on a rock yawning.

(End of this chapter)