The Glory of the Sun and Moon in the Peerless Tang Sect

Golden light flashed in Xu Zihuang's eyes. Although the soul beast was fast, he was still able to capture its appearance thanks to the powerful dynamic vision brought by his golden eyes.

It was a fierce tiger, a tiger with a dark green sheen on its body.

“Senior Sister, it’s the Netherworld Ghost Tiger. Its cultivation level is around 15,000 years.” As Xu Zihuang spoke, three purple thousand-year soul rings rose up one after another.

"A Netherworld Tiger?" Zhang Lexuan raised an eyebrow, and a crescent moon suddenly appeared behind her. The crescent moon seemed to hang on the treetops. As soon as it appeared, it illuminated everything around it.

Her skin glowed a translucent white under the moonlight. Two yellow, two purple, three black, and one red spirit rings rapidly rose from beneath her feet. When the alluring red 100,000-year spirit ring appeared on her body, the eerie green figure in the distant forest noticeably paused for a moment.

Zhang Lexuan pointed forward with her right hand, and a beam of moonlight shot out from the crescent moon. The eerie green figure was completely exposed to everyone.

What she just used wasn't a soul skill, but her martial soul instinct. This is the true manifestation of a top-tier martial soul.

Although the eerie green figure vanished into thin air in the next moment, everyone had still managed to get a general idea of ​​what the soul beast looked like.

They certainly couldn't see as clearly as Xu Zihuang, who possessed the Golden Eye Martial Soul.

However, by combining Xu Zihuang's earlier statement with the appearance of the soul beast that everyone is seeing now, a judgment can be made.

Zhang Lexuan didn't disbelieve what Xu Zihuang said, but as the team leader, she had to be cautious.

After all, she needs to be responsible for everyone's safety.

"As expected, it's the Netherworld Tiger." Wu Mingjiao shouted, and a pair of golden-red wings unfurled from behind her. Compared to Ye Liu's white wings, they were more ethereal, but also more domineering.

Two yellow, two purple, and two black—the six rhythmic soul rings were exceptionally dazzling under the glow of the golden-red flames.

The Netherworld Ghost Tiger is essentially an advanced version of the Ghost Tiger, a soul beast. The relationship between the two is analogous to that between the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the Scorpion Tiger; they are not comparable.

On the other side, Chu Qingtian, who had released his martial spirit and whose body was crackling with electricity, was full of excitement.

The Netherworld Ghost Tiger is undoubtedly a perfect match for his martial soul. If he can absorb the soul ring of such a top-tier soul beast, it will greatly enhance his speed, and he might even gain one of the Netherworld Ghost Tiger's powerful innate soul skills, allowing his strength to leap forward qualitatively.

Sensing the aura emanating from Zhang Lexuan, which was unique to Soul Douluo and possessed 100,000 Soul Rings, the Netherworld Ghost Tiger showed no sign of backing down.

Everyone suddenly realized what was happening.

It's not that there aren't powerful soul beasts that have turned this place into their territory, but rather that the Netherworld Ghost Tiger that had turned this place into its territory just happened to leave.

The group encountered a considerable number of spirit beasts, but most of them kept their distance. Even the more hostile ones merely threatened them and didn't approach.

But this Netherworld Tiger was different. After spotting Xu Zihuang and his group, it didn't retreat but instead quickly approached, its powerful killing intent immediately emanating from it.

There are generally a few scenarios when encountering such a soul beast. The first is encountering a highly aggressive soul beast that will attack regardless of the opponent. The second is naturally a soul beast that is hungry and searching for food, and also has a considerable 'liking' for humans.

For them, humans are the perfect food, and of course they can't miss out. It's important to know that for spirit beasts, spirit masters are also a great source of nourishment. The muscles and blood of a spirit master, constantly refined by spirit power, are far more nutritious than those of ordinary spirit beasts. The higher the level of the spirit beast, the more interested it is in high-level spirit masters. Some spirit beasts can even directly absorb the spirit power of spirit masters to strengthen themselves.

The last scenario involves territory. Some powerful spirit beasts will carve out territories for reasons such as their food needs. These territories are not only for spirit beasts, but humans who enter will also face attacks. After all, spirit beasts that can carve out territories are generally quite powerful.

Unfortunately, the ghostly tiger in front of us almost perfectly met all the requirements.

Therefore, this is already a situation where it is destined to be a fight to the death.

Chapter 129 The Target Appears

The Netherworld Tiger is also one of the top-tier soul beasts.

Just like its name suggests, its advantage over the Ghost Tiger lies in the word 'Netherworld'. Its body appears more ethereal than that of ordinary soul beasts, enveloped in a ghostly green light.

This is the ability of the Netherworld Tiger called "Voidification".

Strictly speaking, this cannot be considered a soul skill; it is more like a martial soul instinct that only top-tier human martial souls can possess.

Its ability to become ethereal does not require active triggering; it will remain effective as long as the soul power is not depleted.

This alone is enough to demonstrate the power of the Netherworld Tiger.

The Netherworld Tiger before them was only three meters long and about 1.2 meters tall at the shoulder. Among ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, it was considered relatively small, but at this moment it brought a great sense of oppression to everyone.

This Netherworld Tiger is not only extremely fast, but its several innate soul skills are also impossible to defend against.

Even Zhang Lexuan frowned slightly.

In a direct confrontation, this ancient Netherworld Tiger would definitely be no match for her.

However, this Netherworld Tiger was extremely patient, maintaining a distance of nearly a thousand meters from the group. At such a distance, even with her cultivation level, the power of her soul skills would be greatly reduced.

Especially under the cover of giant trees and dense bushes at night, it is extremely difficult for people to catch a glimpse of it.

However, Xu Zihuang was an exception. Relying on the martial soul instinct of his Golden Eyes, he could detect the movement trajectory of the Netherworld Ghost Tiger as soon as it appeared in his sight.

However, if the Netherworld Tiger doesn't get close, he won't be able to activate his second and third powerful crowd control soul skills.

The third soul skill, Time Distortion, goes without saying; it can only cover a distance of 100 meters in diameter.

His second soul skill, Mirror Annihilation, requires mental power to lock onto. Although his mental power is about to touch the realm of tangible yet intangible, the distance he can project his mental power is only five hundred meters.

He could indeed concentrate his mental energy on a straight line to extend the distance, but that would consume too much of his mental energy, and the Netherworld Tiger wouldn't just sit and wait to die.

Therefore, doing so would be counterproductive.

Bathed in the silvery moonlight, Zhang Lexuan calmly surveyed her surroundings.

"This Netherworld Tiger is cunning and is deliberately testing our patience. Everyone, be prepared for a long battle."

"Yes," Ye Liu and Chu Qingtian replied simultaneously.

Although Wu Ming felt extremely aggrieved, she didn't intend to disobey Zhang Lexuan. They were both disciples of Shrek Academy's inner court; how could they possibly be incompetent fools?

She has a fiery temper, but she's not brainless. Rushing in rashly will only make her more vulnerable.

Time ticked by, and the atmosphere grew tense. Maintaining a high level of concentration for an extended period not only tested everyone's patience but also easily led to mental exhaustion.

Although Xu Zihuang's soul power cultivation was the lowest among them, he possessed the strongest mental power. In this respect, he actually held an advantage.

The first one to lose her temper was not the hot-tempered Wu Ming, but Ye Liu.

Although Ye Liu's swan martial soul is a beast martial soul, relatively speaking, its enhancement to physical attributes is not as significant as others. Prolonged concentration involves more than just visual observation; the body must also be in the optimal counter-attacking posture.

A bead of cold sweat trickled down his forehead, causing him to instinctively take a deep breath. In that instant of relaxation, a ghostly green light flashed and converged behind him, forming a crack.

The Netherworld Tiger seemed to emerge from the eerie green light, its dark claws also pulsating with a chilling green glow, as it slapped directly at Ye Liu's neck.

At this moment, Xu Zihuang and Zhang Lexuan, who were able to project their mental energy outwards, instantly realized what was happening. Both of them wore extremely serious expressions.

That eerie green light must have been a special skill of the Netherworld Tiger, which somehow managed to shield them from mental perception and appear here silently.

The Netherworld Ghost Tiger is a unique soul beast, and its numbers in the Star Dou Great Forest are even fewer than those of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear.

Not only Xu Zihuang, but even Zhang Lexuan was facing the Netherworld Ghost Tiger with a cultivation level of over ten thousand years for the first time.

The Netherworld Tiger in front of them was indeed using its innate soul skill, which it had acquired after breaking through to the level of ten thousand years.

This skill is called Netherworld, which allows one to infiltrate the Netherworld and travel back and forth through two dark green light rifts according to one's own wishes.

It's essentially teleportation, but you can choose the teleportation location yourself.

This Netherworld can even make it conceal its aura, and can even shield its spiritual power.

It almost completely crushed similar instant teleportation soul skills.

However, the fact that this Netherworld Tiger has broken free of its Netherworld state means that it can be locked onto by mental energy.

Almost the instant it emerged from the emerald green light, a layer of dark red crystal had already enveloped its body.

It was Xu Zihuang's second soul skill, Mirror Annihilation.

No matter how fast the Netherworld Tiger is, it can't outrun a mental lock.

However, as a top-tier soul beast, this Netherworld Tiger naturally cannot only possess the powerful innate soul skill Netherworld.

Its body, which had been slightly curled up in mid-air, suddenly stretched out. Then, a huge, dark green light separated from its body, forcefully breaking through the seal of Xu Zihuang's Mirror of Destruction.

The dark red crystal was completely empty.

Shadow Clone is the innate soul skill of the Ghost Tiger, but as a mutated and enhanced version of the Ghost Tiger, the Shadow Clone skill of the Netherworld Ghost Tiger is even more powerful.

This Netherworld Ghost Tiger was the second soul beast that caused Xu Zihuang's second soul skill, Mirror's Destruction, to fail. The first was the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which became his third soul ring.

However, this Netherworld Tiger has never faced just Xu Zihuang.

Just as it reappeared ten meters away, Zhang Lexuan's first and third spirit rings simultaneously shone. First, a beam of moonlight fell upon her, enveloping her in radiance. Then, another beam of moonlight shone upon the ten-thousand-year-old Netherworld Tiger.

Amidst the deafening roar, the Netherworld Tiger paused for a moment, blood spilling from its mouth and nose.

Zhang Lexuan's cultivation was still too powerful, and the Moon Martial Soul itself possessed some light attributes, making it its nemesis. Although it only withstood Zhang Lexuan's first and third soul skills, it was still injured.

A hint of human-like resentment flashed in the eyes of the Netherworld Tiger, and a dark green crack of light appeared once again in the space in front of it, about to dive into it again.

In an instant, a strange, golden halo suddenly enveloped the space within a radius of a hundred meters.

The ghostly tiger's form froze in mid-air in an eerie way.

Zhang Lexuan's mind stirred, and her fifth spirit ring shone brightly. The crescent moon in the sky turned golden without warning. In an instant, another crescent moon of the same size separated from the first one and fell from the sky.

Fifth Soul Skill, Moonfall!

The golden crescent moon had now become the Grim Reaper's scythe. In a flash of moonlight, the Netherworld Tiger, whose cultivation was nearly 15,000 years old, was cut in half before it could even react.

Bright red blood and some internal organs slid out of the abdominal cavity, carrying a strong, pungent smell of blood.

The Netherworld Tiger that had been cut in half at the waist became extremely weak, and the eerie green light on its body dimmed at a visible speed.

Its ethereal skill can actually avoid most physical attacks, but Zhang Lexuan's fifth soul skill is a completely energy body, and in terms of attributes, it completely counters it.

Its so-called "virtualization" is completely useless.

Now that the crisis was over, everyone's attention turned to Xu Zihuang in the center of the group, who was panting heavily due to excessive consumption of soul power.

Perfect control—that's the true essence of a control-type Soul Master.

All of this happened in an instant; Wu Ming hadn't even released his soul skill before it was all over.

She turned to look at Xu Zihuang in disbelief.

"You did it?"

She asked herself honestly, even if she and her senior sister Zhang Lexuan worked together, they couldn't possibly defeat this ten-thousand-year-old Netherworld Tiger so easily.

This is a top-tier soul beast comparable to the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

Zhang Lexuan gave Xu Zihuang a deep look.

"A soul skill that controls time."

This junior student was even more talented than she had imagined.