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

Chapter 308.309.5. Resurrect! Ugh... oops, ugh, my Stand user!

In fact, just a few minutes ago, during the aerial reconnaissance, the girl was not seen in this area, and our Great Saintess Yun did not sense anything amiss.

But if a Soul Master can arrive here silently under the detection of Qian Lingyun's Super Douluo-level mental power, then what's the point of Qian Lingyun being the leader of the Holy Spirit Cult in the future? She might as well just hang herself from a tree.

Snake hair appeared, and the black snake hissed. Qian Lingyun used Medusa's special ability to detect soul power to look at the girl's body.

An interesting thing happened: at first glance, the girl's body had no meridians, and she seemed to be a simple condensation of soul power.

Beneath her feet was a soul power transmission pipe that was difficult for ordinary people to detect, extending underground and leading directly to the quicksand.

Looking down into the quicksand through the delivery pipe, a huge creature was hidden there. Judging from the strength of its soul power, it seemed to be much stronger than an ordinary 100,000-year-old soul beast, but weaker than the Titan Snow Demon King.

It's estimated to be a powerful soul beast that's over 200,000 years old.

Or rather, a super soul beast, after all... over 200,000 years old, which, according to classification, would qualify it as a ferocious beast.

That's huge! It even uses bait to lure its prey. That thing is really something!

With a self-deprecating laugh, Qian Lingyun took a half step back, conjured a short blue spear a little over a meter long with her right hand, and, with a lunge, pierced the heart of the girl-like unidentified creature with the blue spear like a javelin.

puff!

The ice spear pierced its body, and the unknown creature lowered its head, staring at the short spear embedded in its chest, lost in thought.

What's going on? Are all people like this these days?

Looking at the fake girl who stood expressionless on the ground despite having her heart pierced, Qian Lingyun smiled slightly and couldn't help but speak sarcastically:

"We're both thousand-year-old foxes, what are you trying to pull with me?! Aren't you tired of hiding such a huge form?! Why don't you come out and let me see what you really look like!"

"Tsk! Human, you would have been fine if you had just left obediently! But why did you have to provoke me!"

"Fine! Since you've found out, I guess I'll just have to kill you!"

In an instant, countless dark green veins bulged on the girl's calm face, and her originally calm appearance turned ferocious and ugly in that instant!

She uttered some strange words in a clear and distinct voice, as if she were cursing something.

Qian Lingyun didn't seem to care, but simply lowered her head, gazing at the slightly trembling ground and admiring it:

"To be able to move underground at this speed while still having roots attached, you really are an interesting plant-type spirit beast!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the flat ground beneath Qian Lingyun's feet seemed to have been bombed by a bunker-buster bomb, with shattered chunks of earth and rocks flying up.

A huge black bud, about fifteen meters in diameter, emerged from it and bloomed in mid-air with a slender stamen.

The heel of that 'girl' just now was connected to the stamen of its flower.

"Using flower stamens as bait, then devouring the prey that falls into the trap? Interesting!"

Ignoring the black flower at my feet, its petals unfurled with countless sharp barbs, the serrated edges between the petals seemingly able to be seamlessly sewn together.

Qian Lingyun, however, continued to watch with great interest the 'girl' who was being tossed around by the flower stamens in mid-air.

"Hey, this girl seems to have a slight mental fluctuation. She's a person, but we didn't find any veins or blood vessels before... Is it because her body was completely devoured and then she became a parasite, acting as bait?"

Lost in thought, Qian Lingyun simply didn't dodge, letting herself be swallowed whole by the flower beneath her.

With a creak.

The blooming petals quickly closed, and a teeth-grinding crunching sound came from inside. A raised, unidentified object slid down from the junction of the flower and the branch.

Everything just fell silent...

"What? I thought he was going to be some tough opponent, but he's just an appetizer!"

The 'girl' on the flower stamen laughed coldly, seemingly mocking her own inexplicable caution and sixth sense.

Just as the giant plant thought everything had settled and was about to disappear back into the quicksand, the 'girl' turned around and saw an astonishing scene.

Qian Lingyun, who had just been swallowed whole, was standing not far away, wiping the digestive juices stuck to her hair with a disgusted expression!

"How could that be?! Didn't I eat you?"

The girl couldn't help but gasp, and the enormous flower opened its massive, serrated mouth once more.

"So, you plant-type spirit beasts don't feel pain? Or is it that only your monster species lacks the ability to feel pain?!"

Kicking at the pile of strange fragments at her feet, Qian Lingyun lazily stretched and yawned, as if to loosen her muscles.

"You...you're really human, not some humanoid monster?!"

At this moment, the 'girl's' voice was somewhat weak. She had noticed that the monstrous woman had torn a large gash in the center of the root she used to digest her prey.

Green, highly corrosive digestive fluid was overflowing from the opening, and large patches of poor grass were turning yellow and charred from the corrosion, emitting wisps of white smoke.

How could it not know the structure of its own body?!

Because it lacks the molars used by mammals for chewing, it typically uses the barbs in its petals to cut its prey, and then sends the prey into the rootstock where it is further divided by the sharp thorns inside its body.

But this time, all those barbs inside its body were actually bent by brute force...

What the hell? Monster! Your swearing is pretty filthy!

Qian Lingyun's lips twitched, and her brows furrowed involuntarily. Being compared to a monster really made her unhappy... but she would just take it as a compliment to her strength!

Thinking this, Qian Lingyun slapped her forehead, as if she had been frightened, and looked back and forth at the open space behind her, exclaiming repeatedly, "Monster? Where's the monster!"

"..."

Under the blank stare of the plant-type soul beast, Qian Lingyun suddenly realized and touched her smooth face, exclaiming, "What! You were talking about me!"

"By the way... do you have any other members of your kind? Your endoskeletal structure is very unique; I'd like to study it carefully!"

"If not, I'll have to go through the trouble of dismembering you and dissecting you for research!"

"Human, you seem to enjoy boasting! Fine, I'll be blunt then, I'm going to break your limbs and hollow out your abdomen to make new bait!" A hint of human emotion flashed in the 'girl's' eyes, seemingly anger…

"Oh! You're trying to ambush me now!" A row of ferocious veins bulged on Qian Lingyun's cheeks as she watched helplessly as countless finger-thick roots wrapped around her limbs and neck, suspending her in mid-air.

"If you were crying and begging for mercy right now, I might consider letting you go!"

Guided by the flower stamen, the girl came to Qian Lingyun and looked at her. It was clear that she was very confident in the resilience of her roots.

In its eyes, Qian Lingyun, who was bound, was already a caged bird, her life and death hanging in the balance.

"You dare to say that?" Qian Lingyun smiled wickedly and spat at the girl in front of her with a look of disgust.

Splat!

The spit landed precisely on the 'girl's' face.

"What a tasteless answer!"

The girl wasn't annoyed. She simply raised her hand to wipe the saliva off her face, and all her roots suddenly exerted force, twisting Qian Lingyun's neck and limbs in the opposite direction by more than half a circle.

"roar!"

Another mournful howl of an earth dragon echoed from afar. The plant-type soul beast trembled in fright, casually tossing Qian Lingyun to the ground and looking towards the direction from which the rumbling sound came: "What the hell! There are actually several ridiculously strong people..."

Before the words were finished, a long sword in blue and purple, accompanied by a whistling sound, spun and severed the 'girl's head' from the top of the flower stamen.

The sudden change caused the severed head of the mutated plant-type soul beast to display an expression of disbelief. The 'girl' said, "How is this possible? Weren't you already...?"

"Hey hey hey! You've got some nerve! My modified body isn't that fragile!"

Qian Lingyun stood facing backwards, but her body was directly in front of the soul beast. Suddenly, she laughed again: "Isn't facing backwards a bit disrespectful? Sorry!"

As she spoke, Qian Lingyun used the strength of her neck to twist her head back into place.

Kaba Kaba stretched his neck, and Qian Lingyun looked at the soul beast with a sly smile, coldly sneering, "Friendly reminder, if you want to completely kill me, you need to completely destroy my soul and body! But, you don't have that chance now!"

"!"

At this moment, a powerful and terrifying killing intent emanated from Qian Lingyun, and eight soul rings, four black and four red, emerged from beneath her feet.

Looking at the seven golden patterns on Qian Lingyun's sixth soul ring and the six golden patterns on her eighth soul ring, this plant-type soul beast with a cultivation of 210,000 years finally realized what terror truly meant.

Having one ferocious beast spirit ring might be luck, but if it's two... then it means the other party must have relied on strength.

It doesn't consider itself stronger than either of these two super ferocious beasts.

"Speaking of which... you just said... you were going to break my limbs and gut me to use as bait, right...?"

Without waiting for an explanation, Qian Lingyun had already arrived in front of the girl in a flash, her feet planted on the head, and the Frost Annihilation in her hand emitted a dazzling blue light.

Whoosh!

With a flash of sword light, Qian Lingyun easily sliced ​​off large pieces of petals and roots using the sharpness of Frost Annihilation!

Amidst the shrill whistle, the plant-type soul beast let out an angry roar:

"Foolish human, don't you know that the vital points of plant-type spirit beasts can be hidden anywhere on their bodies, not just in their flowers? You can't kill me like this!"

"I know! So, I'll just use a little more force and cut you into pieces!"

After verbally humiliating the plant-type spirit beast, Qian Lingyun raised Frost Annihilation high, and the Snow Emperor's phantom beside her raised its right hand as well, together unleashing a blue sword light that reached the heavens and the earth.

Indeed, this sword strike was the Peerless Ice Blade. The semi-circular sword light carried an extreme cold that could silence all things. In an instant, it sliced ​​through half of the plant-type soul beast's root, almost splitting it vertically in two.

Even highly corrosive digestive fluids were frozen into crystal-clear green crystals at the neat and smooth cut.

The next instant, Ice Blast was activated!

The ice seal from the Ice Extreme Unparalleled technique can directly reach the soul power stored inside the soul beast's root, and then be further processed by the Ice Explosion technique!

How could it possibly withstand such an explosion from the inside out?

The shockwave raged and the powerful explosion directly destroyed most of the plant-type soul beast's body. Even with its best efforts, it could only retain two or three meters of roots and a small part of its flowers!

"Please don't kill me!"

The tattered, headless girl among the flowers pleaded humbly with Qian Lingyun before her. She was now filled with regret; why hadn't she run away after gaining the upper hand? Fighting this female monster was the worst decision she had ever made in tens of thousands of years!

Qian Lingyun bent down, ripped off a petal, then another…: “It’s what you just said… that you seem to be able to automatically transfer your consciousness within your body!?”

"Yes! That's right!" the plant spirit beast replied in fear. It was truly speechless. She started tearing off petals right away. Did she think it was a cabbage torn apart by hand?

"I see! I understand!" Qian Lingyun's eyes lit up, she nodded slightly, and hurriedly commanded, "Open the petals and focus your consciousness on the stamen!"

"Oh, this..."

The plant-type soul beast fell silent! If its consciousness core were completely destroyed, it would truly be dead. However, given Qian Lingyun's progress, finding its consciousness core was only a matter of time.

"You have no choice. I don't mind wasting some time slicing you up. I'm sure you won't be able to escape after that! At that point, hehehe, you'll be in real trouble!"

After speaking, Qian Lingyun swung her sword and cut off a section of the root, using absolute violence to force the soul beast to submit!

And so, under the threat of violence, this plant spirit beast reluctantly opened the petals of its center!

"Excellent!" Qian Lingyun gently patted the headless body in the petals, the light of several spirit rings on her body flashing alternately, only the fourth spirit ring remained still.

A few seconds later, a clone containing a portion of Qian Lingyun's soul lay flat on the ground.

With a swift sword stroke, Qian Lingyun severed the head of her clone and attached it to the headless body nestled among the flower petals.

The purplish-red light poured back into the plant-like soul beast's body from the clone's head, relentlessly attacking the soul beast's spiritual sea.

The plant-like spirit beasts, whose consciousness was forcibly assimilated and invaded by external forces, let out painful howls of unbearable suffering, but Qian Lingyun remained unmoved.

She chuckled and instead began to weaken the spirit beast's mental resistance by inflicting physical pain—using the high temperature of the dark fire to burn the remaining petals of the plant spirit beast.

After a long while, Qian Lingyun revealed a rather mischievous expression. She took a deep breath, pointed at the plant tendrils on the ground, and shouted hysterically:

"Rise again! My love~, oh wait, I shouted the wrong line!"

"At this point, we should say..."

"Rise, my clone!"

Amidst the shouts, the fluorescent light on the plant's stamens was completely erased by the hazy purple, and the reborn creature looked at Qian Lingyun and let out a chilling laugh.

"Come, come, my clone, have some to replenish your soul power!"

She chopped up the excess parts of her clone and threw them into the charred petals. Soon, Qian Lingyun heard a tooth-grinding chewing sound.

With the intake of a large amount of soul power, the soul beast's life, which was rapidly slipping away, finally stabilized with great difficulty.

The closed petals bloomed again, and standing on the flower was no longer a pieced-together body, but a beautiful body exactly like Qian Lingyun's.

Yes, she used her own clone and soul as a medium to forcibly possess a 200,000-year-old soul beast.

"Hello! My half-body! You are so beautiful!" Qian Lingyun raised her hand and touched the human face in the center of the flower, seemingly quite pleased with her masterpiece.

"Hello! My true form!" The human face in the petal obediently responded to Qian Lingyun's caress, giving her a full account of its condition.

"It has inherited the Rakshasa's devouring ability... which means that as long as you are given enough blood and food, you can grow rapidly!"

"Yes, preferably with soul power, soul beasts or soul masters are both fine!" The clone clicked its tongue in dissatisfaction, and spat out a few thin roots that wrapped up several bird soul beasts that were resting on a tree not far away.

She took a few bites, then spat out a few blood-stained feathers, complaining with a gloomy expression, "It feels weird being squeezed inside a soul beast's body; nothing tastes good..."

"Don't worry, once you've fully grown, you'll become my spirit ring, and then we'll finally be one again!"

And so, under the soothing touch of Qian Lingyun's true form, the part of her self-split consciousness nodded, and like pulling up her trousers, she hopped and skipped into the newly opened gate to the dead.

"Does it require a lot of blood food... from soul beasts or soul masters?" Qian Lingyun paced back and forth for a while, then sighed, "It seems we can only suffer the sea soul beasts, Shrek Academy, and the Clear Sky Sect."

With the battle over here, Darren's rampage on his side also came to its final curtain call.

With a flash of light, the muscles and fascia on the earth dragon's limbs were sliced ​​off in pieces. Without the support of its strong limbs, the earth dragon could only fall to the ground with a thud, becoming a pitiful creature that could barely move.

Having done this much, Darren seemed to think she hadn't done enough, so she pulled out the earth dragon's fangs one by one and nailed them to the dragon's body.

Once everything was ready, she carried the pitiful creature, which could only barely survive by relying on its strong vitality, slowly moving towards the Holy Spirit Cult.

(End of this chapter)