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

Chapter 64 - Yin-Yang Twin Flowers

"Alright, alright, I'm just teasing you. It's already daylight, let's keep going!"

After speaking, Qian Renxue, with a bright smile, patted the dry grass off her clothes and extended her finger to Qian Lingyun.

"Tch." Qian Lingyun pouted and reached out to grasp Qian Renxue's arm. The smooth, warm touch made Qian Lingyun's heart skip a beat.

Not wanting Qian Renxue to see her expression, Qian Lingyun deliberately tilted her head and arrogantly shouted at the undead creatures.

The last remaining Death Knight obediently followed behind Qian Lingyun, alertly shaking its dry, skeletal head as it helped Qian Lingyun and Qian Renxue search for suitable soul beasts nearby.

The two advanced for about half an hour when the skeleton cavalry at the front issued a danger signal. Qian Lingyun raised her hand to cover her right eye, sharing her vision with the skeleton cavalry that issued the alarm.

In the distance, a series of agile figures appeared in the distance.

These shadows moved incredibly fast, almost skimming the ground, and somehow managed to surround the leading skeleton cavalry as if in an organized manner.

"What's going on?" Qian Renxue asked in a low voice.

"It's a pack of Gale Wolves, not much of a threat. I think they were attracted by the skeletons." Qian Lingyun shook her head helplessly. It was clear that the skeleton rider at the front had been torn to pieces by the pack of wolves.

The Gale Wolf, a wind-attribute, is an agile attack-type soul beast. It is a carnivorous soul beast that excels at ranged attacks, possesses strong physical attributes, lives in packs, and is difficult to deal with.

"These guys hold grudges, let's take a detour! After all... the Gale Wolf isn't suitable as our spirit ring."

On the skeleton horse, Qian Renxue turned to look at Qian Lingyun and said with a smile.

"Okay, let's change direction." Qian Lingyun nodded, spurred the skeleton horse, and rode off in another direction. In just a few minutes, they were far away from the movement route of the Gale Wolf pack.

Along the way, the two chatted about this and that. Suddenly, Qian Lingyun's smile froze. She turned her head to the right and carefully examined the land shrouded in a thin mist.

"Something's not right!" Qian Lingyun whispered, "Three of my skeleton cavalrymen over there suddenly disappeared without any warning."

"That means we have the goods!" Qian Renxue smiled, the Angelic Holy Sword already in her hand.

"No rush, I'll send a few more to scout ahead."

As she spoke, Qian Lingyun waved her forearm, and four or five skeleton cavalrymen rode from her side and behind towards the misty area.

As the last skeleton cavalryman disappeared into the mist, Qian Lingyun heard several explosions in the distance, and the connection between her and the skeleton cavalryman was severed.

"I see it. It's a large white flower with black stamens and many vines. The vines are thornless, but have many small bumps. If I'm not mistaken, it should be a Yin-Yang Twin Flower. Judging from its size... it's at least a giant that's over 30,000 years old," Qian Lingyun made a simple judgment and gave her answer.

"Yin-Yang Twin Flowers! What a treasure! You're in luck!" Qian Renxue's expression froze for a moment, then she smiled. She patted Qian Lingyun's shoulder and said, "Yin-Yang Twin Flowers are an anomaly among soul beasts. Although they are difficult to kill, once they are completely killed, the soul rings they produce will be twice as old as the ones you see."

"You mean, this 30,000-year-old soul beast can give me a 60,000-year-old soul ring?" Qian Lingyun pondered for a moment, then said incredulously.

"Yes, provided that you can destroy the second core in its root system as well; otherwise, you will only get a mediocre 30,000-year soul ring."

The Yin-Yang Twin Flower possesses a robust root system and extremely tenacious vitality. It can release poisonous mist to hunt small soul beasts. It has wood-attribute abilities and can even manipulate plants within a small area, and excels at using poison and vine attacks. It is a very troublesome plant-type soul beast.

"Then what are we waiting for? I'll go and send it away right now." Qian Lingyun rubbed her hands together, looking at the mist with anticipation, and couldn't help but lick her rosy lips.

After speaking, Qian Lingyun's dark red eyes automatically turned into a lifeless gray. A gray door appeared out of thin air and slowly opened. Hordes of skeleton soldiers, armed with their weapons, charged fearlessly toward the fog.

Before long, powerful fluctuations of soul power emanated from the mist. As soon as the fluctuations subsided, another group of skeleton soldiers would take their place, only to be eliminated and then replaced again. This process repeated itself more than a dozen times before Qian Lingyun finally became a little more serious.

What emerged from the gates of the dead were no longer the lowest-ranking skeletons, but hordes of liches wielding crude staffs.

These lich witches split into two groups. One group stood in front of the gate of the dead to summon skeleton soldiers on behalf of Qian Lingyun. Although the number of skeleton soldiers was not large, they were endless. The other group threw fireballs at the mist.

An hour later, the mist gradually dissipated under the fireball attack, revealing the current tragic state of the land.

The ground was stained white by the countless white bones, which covered the ground in thick layers. The Yin-Yang Twin Flower drooped listlessly on the ground, emitting black smoke.

"You, go and dig it up by the roots."

Gazing at the listless plant-type soul beast from afar, Qian Lingyun nodded in satisfaction. She made a gesture to the Death Knight behind her, who responded immediately, directing a group of skeleton soldiers to surround the Yin-Yang Twin Flower with weapons and begin digging along its complex root system.

"You really know how to play with undead creatures!"

Seeing the group of diligent undead creatures, Qian Renxue was filled with emotion and spurred her horse toward the Yin-Yang Twin Flowers. Qian Lingyun, not to be outdone, followed in her footsteps.

Click!

The skeletal horse's hooves crushed the scattered skulls on the ground. Qian Renxue frowned, slowly dismounted from the skeletal horse's back, and carefully stepped on the skulls to walk deeper into the ground. She stopped where the earth had fallen and waited until the skeleton soldiers stopped what they were doing before continuing forward.

"Wow! This flower's root system is really extensive!" Qian Lingyun exclaimed in amazement as she looked at the vines that were more than ten meters long and the plant's root system that was more than fifty meters long.

Of course, talk is cheap, and action is another matter. Her sighs didn't stop her from using the Rakshasa Scythe to send the big flower to its death.

Qian Lingyun didn't have time to slowly search through so many vines and roots; the corrosive power of the Rakshasa Scythe could quickly dissipate into the body of a living being while breaking through its skin.

With a soft "plop," the demonic scythe pierced the body, and the enormous, slender form of the Yin-Yang Twin Flowers stiffened abruptly. A few of the still-moving vines twitched a few times, then turned from green to black, finally dissolving into a pool of black pus. Once the Twin Flowers had completely melted, two jet-black soul rings floated up from above the pus, merging into one in mid-air.

"Hehehe, my spirit ring." Qian Lingyun threw the Rakshasa Demon Scythe aside, sat cross-legged on a pile of bones, and then guided the spirit ring toward her.

Original text of Chapter 173 of Douluo Continent III:

Ice-Fire Demon Tiger? Tang Wulin recalled seeing this rare soul beast in ancient texts. Although the Ice-Fire Demon Tiger wasn't as powerful as the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, it was still on par with the Human-Faced Demon Spider.

It excels in both ranged and melee attacks, and controls both ice and fire elemental powers. It has wings on its back, allowing for short-range flight, and is extremely powerful in combat. Even more peculiar is the legend that if this spirit beast dies in battle, it will generate two spirit rings, one of ice and one of fire, a truly unique phenomenon.

Since there are bizarre soul beasts that can drop two soul rings at once, it's reasonable for there to be similar soul beasts like the Yin-Yang Twin Flowers.

(End of this chapter)