Chapter 211: Terrifying Strength

Ning Feiliu sighed. Honestly, if he had to choose between the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and the Hell Demon Dragon,

then anyone who frequently reads Douluo Continent fanfiction would know that one must choose the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

The combat power and quality of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear are not only the highest and best among these three types of Soul Beasts, but there is also one more point...

In fanfiction, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear has a nickname: the Dark Gold Explosive Claw Bear.

This type of Soul Beast has almost a ninety percent chance of dropping a pair of Dark Gold Terrorclaw External Soul Bones.

And there is no need to elaborate on what an External Soul Bone represents.

The original work states that it is the most precious type of soul bone, second only to those from Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts.

Because this thing can evolve along with the Spirit Master's cultivation; the higher your cultivation, the higher the quality of this External Soul Bone.

Furthermore, it does not belong to the standard category of the six soul bones.

Can such a "piece of equipment" that can grow be anything but precious? You don't need to worry about the External Soul Bone's initial level being too low to be useful later, nor do you need to worry about it wasting an "equipment slot" later on.

Theoretically, even if you initially absorbed an External Soul Bone from a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear that was only about ten years old, by the time you break through to level ninety-nine, this External Soul Bone—which started at only ten years—would be at the same level as a soul bone dropped from killing Xiong Jun himself.

The only way it falls short of a Ten-thousand-year Soul Bone is its extremely long "development" time.

A Ten-thousand-year Soul Bone can be absorbed on the spot and exert a huge effect immediately; the two powerful soul bone skills it carries can instantly enhance one's immediate combat power.

However, an External Soul Bone still needs to grow.

It is like comparing a "Mejai's Soulstealer" with zero stacks in a game to a complete, finished item; a stacked Mejai's is even more powerful than many mage items, but the key is that your Mejai's hasn't been stacked yet, so of course it is not as good as a complete, finished item like a Ten-thousand-year Soul Bone.

But the perverted thing about an External Soul Bone is that it does not occupy one of the six main equipment slots, which means if Ning Feiliu were to truly obtain an External Soul Bone, he would have absolutely no burden in absorbing it.

Therefore, if he really had a choice among the three aforementioned Soul Beasts, he would choose the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, which has a high probability of dropping an External Soul Bone, without any hesitation.

The premise is... that there is a choice.

Reality is not a game; it is not the case that just because you say there is a choice, there is one.

It is not as if Ning Feiliu could choose the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and have one jump out on the spot for him to kill.

This probability... one can only say that only a child of destiny like Huo Gua could possibly encounter such a situation.

After all, the area of the Star Dou Great Forest is truly vast. One can tell just by the fact that those few Beasts in the Peerless Tang Sect were not discovered by the Spirit Hall during this period; the Star Dou Great Forest is truly very large, and there are many hidden places that humans have yet to explore.

If these few Beasts were not guarding the most conspicuous and core Star Lake in the Star Dou Great Forest like the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, no one would really be able to discover them.

Unless Ning Feiliu intended to stay in the Star Dou Great Forest for a very long time without leaving, just like the "Bie San" in the original work did after resurrecting Xiao Wu to re-acquire his missing Soul Rings and fill the Soul Rings for his Clear Sky Hammer.

Then he could still find a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

But he does not intend to waste too much time. He will have opportunities to find a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in the future, or even find Xiong Jun himself once his own strength reaches its peak; that would not be a problem.

Right now... there is no need to waste too much time.

Thus, Ning Feiliu said, "Since that is the case, then I will choose the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound."

Although Chi Wang's tribe is also very powerful, it is not considered very rare, and there have been quite a few records of them being captured and hunted by people.

"Good, then let us head in the southwest direction." Ning Fengzhi nodded, not saying much more, and ordered the team to set off toward the location on the map.

Just like that, they advanced at full speed for three days.

They finally arrived at a region where the soil and water were exceptionally rich but unusually warm, while in the distance, there were also some patches of barren desert.

"Everyone, be careful. This should be the outer perimeter of the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound's habitat," Ning Fengzhi ordered loudly.

"Yes! Sect Master!" The members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect shouted in unison.

However, just at this moment...

Ning Feiliu seemed to sense something.

"Black Night Silent Illumination, Moonlight Fills the Sky!"

Two rays of moonlight transformed into a unique Crescent Moon Divine Weapon—a pale double-wheeled blade and a crimson short sickle—which instantly landed in his hands.

The next moment, the fourth black Soul Ring on his body, which had not appeared for long, lit up.

"Folding Mirror! Fourth soul skill! Boundary Mirror Discrimination and Annihilation!"

Instantly, with his body as the center, the Folding Mirror refracted rays of light, slicing through space to form a unique mirror space.

Before the others in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could react to what Ning Feiliu was doing,

behind a disciple not far from Ning Feiliu, a powerful Soul Beast with a huge body and a height of over three meters suddenly rushed out. This powerful Soul Beast was extremely robust and somewhat resembled a lion, but it had three identical large heads.

Each head had a diameter of over half a meter, and its terrifying canine teeth released a reddish-gold luster.

It lunged directly at that disciple. The disciple had not reacted at all, but the outer sect Elder in the team reacted and hurriedly rushed toward the disciple.

But just at this moment...

The huge Soul Beast that had lunged out... with a boom, its bloody maw did not bite the disciple, but instead bit into a huge tree!

At the same time, Ning Feiliu's peculiar mirror space shattered.

And the direction of the huge Soul Beast's charge was not, as everyone had thought just now, coming straight at them, but... it had turned fifty degrees and lunged into the woods!

This is the brilliance of Ning Feiliu's Folding Mirror fourth soul skill, Boundary Mirror Discrimination and Annihilation: it directly refracts attacks, or even misleads the enemy's judgment to launch a close-quarters attack!

"Feiliu, not bad." Bone Douluo clapped his hands with a smile at this moment.

In fact, he had noticed it when the Soul Beast approached and prepared to launch its attack, but just as he intended to speak up and warn them, Ning Feiliu had already taken action first.

This made him stop immediately to see Ning Feiliu's subsequent performance.

"Gu Yeye, this is the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound. Father, can you tell the age of this Three-Headed Red Demon Hound?" Ning Feiliu asked, looking at the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound in the distance that seemed somewhat dazed and confused about the current situation.

At this time, the many disciples and Elders of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had already surrounded this Three-Headed Red Demon Hound.

"A Three-Headed Red Demon Hound's body length exceeding six meters means it has broken through the ten-thousand-year mark, and breaking through eight meters means it is over fifty thousand years old. Judging from its body length, this one is about thirty thousand to fifty thousand years old. Then, looking at the stripes on the middle head, looking at it this way... it should be a Three-Headed Red Demon Hound of nearly forty thousand years." Ning Fengzhi carefully observed the surrounded Three-Headed Red Demon Hound and then made his judgment. He frowned and said, "Feiliu, this is a Three-Headed Red Demon Hound of about forty thousand years. Are you confident?"

What he meant was that because Ning Feiliu had been somewhat conservative this time, saying he would absorb a Soul Ring of over thirty thousand years, while the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound before them was about forty thousand years old.

That was why he asked if Ning Feiliu was confident.

However... Ning Feiliu had started absorbing Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings when he re-absorbed his third Soul Ring, and his fourth Soul Ring was a twenty-thousand-year Demon Eye Demon Tree; what was there to be concerned about now in absorbing a forty-thousand-year Soul Ring for his fifth Soul Ring?

He could even, to be exaggerated, absorb a Three-Headed Red Demon Hound that reached the fifty-thousand-year age limit.

But now that we have encountered this Three-Headed Red Demon Hound of about forty thousand years, then let it be this one! "No problem." Ning Feiliu nodded and said with a smile.

"Good!" Ning Fengzhi did not say much more, as he also knew that Ning Feiliu was currently very extraordinary.

Unless Ning Feiliu made a particularly outrageous choice, such as forcibly absorbing a Soul Ring of over eighty thousand years right now... he would only hesitate slightly, but he would still choose to listen to what Ning Feiliu had to say.

Perhaps only when Ning Feiliu said he would forcibly absorb a one hundred thousand year Soul Ring would he stop him without hesitation.

"Get ready! Everyone." Ning Feiliu held Severing Soul and Folding Mirror directly, walked forward slowly, and said to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Elders and disciples beside him.

"Yes!" Those Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Elders and disciples also had no objections to Ning Feiliu's order and said in unison.

The current Ning Feiliu was no longer who he used to be; he was now a figure with a voice in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

This was also earned by the talent he displayed and his actual contributions.

The Three-Headed Red Demon Hound was surrounded by many Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Elders and disciples. Although it began its savage charging and biting attacks, under the concerted efforts of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members, it could not break through this encirclement at all.

"The Nine Treasures turn out a glazed tile..." Ning Feiliu said in a low voice, and suddenly a nine-story pagoda emerged behind him amidst misty precious light.

"The Nine Treasures have a name! The second is... Speed!"

The second Soul Ring landed on the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and then it emitted light while merging with the misty precious light! Then it shot out a beam of precious light that landed on him, a fifty percent speed Enhancement!

Ning Feiliu was as fast as a bolt of lightning, leaving behind trails of afterimages as he rushed toward the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound! "Roar!" However, the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound was no slouch either; the bloody maw of its left head bit fiercely toward Ning Feiliu.

Yet the next moment, Ning Feiliu's body twisted to the limit in mid-air, dodging the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound's bite, while the Zhejing flying wheel blade in his hand spun out and landed on the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound.

"Rip—!" The outermost fur was instantly torn open.

While feeling the pain, the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound felt somewhat surprised.

This human whose soul power aura was not particularly strong could actually... break through its hide, which was so tough that even Soul Beasts of ten or twenty thousand years could not break it?!

As a forty thousand year Soul Beast, it had already developed intelligence not inferior to a human child, and now, feeling the pain, it was even somewhat panicked and wanted to flee.

"Severing Soul! First soul skill! Phosphorus Covering Shadow!"

But the next moment, Ning Feiliu had already activated the first soul skill of the Severing Soul-stacked flying wheels, and a storm-like barrage of Folding Mirror flying wheels, accompanied by the blood-colored sickle shadows of Severing Soul, bombarded the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound wildly.

With every impact, the Folding Mirror flying wheel would split and refract another flying wheel blade in the air; one became two, two became four, four became eight, and eight became sixteen! The upper limit of the flying wheels that could be replicated by the first soul skill Phosphorus Covering Shadow of Severing Soul would increase with the quality of the first Soul Ring. After the first Soul Ring became a seven-thousand-year-level Soul Ring, the number of flying wheels that Phosphorus Covering Shadow could replicate reached a maximum of sixteen.

Just like this, the terrifying sixteen flying wheels, accompanied by Ning Feiliu's continuous waving, tore through the powerful and tough giant body of the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound.

"Roar—!" Therefore, at this moment, three huge fireballs gathered within the bloody maws of the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound's three heads, and then... they blasted directly at Ning Feiliu, who was dancing in the air accompanied by the flying wheel attacks! "Careful!"

"Pavilion Master!"

"Young Master Feiliu!"

At this time, the others of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were all anxious, and even the sixth Soul Ring behind one Soul Saint Elder lit up.

However...

"Do not worry." Ning Fengzhi stopped them from acting at this time, because he saw...

Ning Feiliu's currently quite calm eyes; he even ignored the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound's attack entirely, because the fourth soul skill behind him lit up again...

"Zhejing! Fourth soul skill! Boundary Mirror Discrimination Destruction!"

A mirror space that looked like a cleavage was instantly outlined in front of him, and immediately after, the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound's fireball attack actually disappeared just as it was about to blast onto Ning Feiliu...

The next moment, the sound of fireball impacts erupted from the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound's own body! That fireball attack had actually landed on itself! The huge explosion blasted onto the back of the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound, erupting with sounds of burning and explosions that made one's flesh ache.

"Roar!!! —" It wailed, and just at this moment, the fourth Soul Ring behind Ning Feiliu lit up again!! But this time it was—

"Severing Soul! Fourth soul skill! Fierce Madness Absolute Transformation!"

Instantly, blood-colored moonlight suddenly shrouded Ning Feiliu. He immediately seemed to transform into a blood-colored demon; the muscles on his body swelled violently, his skin suddenly turned a shade darker, and at the same time, his eyes turned red, just like a Slaughter God! Fierce Madness Absolute Transformation put Ning Feiliu into a berserk state, increasing his current strength, speed, attack, and spirit by three hundred percent, while also making him partially immune to the effects of spiritual illusion control and the soul power gap with his opponent, and his subsequent attacks would carry spiritual and blood toxin attacks.

After Ning Feiliu received the enhancement of Fierce Madness Absolute Transformation, he turned into a streak of blood light. The sixteen Zhejing flying wheels in his hand directly tore through the exposed chest of the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound, shredding skin and flesh, turning bones into powder, and then wildly pulverizing the fatal heart, lungs, liver, and other internal organs into viscous blood plasma! Immediately after, even the huge, hard spine behind the internal organs was pulverized into bone powder, merging with the blood plasma.

"Boom—!" The Three-Headed Red Demon Hound, whose entire chest had been shattered into meat paste and blood plasma, collapsed with a crash. The parts above its chest and below its waist were only thinly connected by the skin and flesh on both sides of its body.

And Ning Feiliu transformed into blood light, passed through its body, and landed behind the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound. Looking at its head, which was still painfully alive due to the strong vitality of a ten thousand year Soul Beast, he took one look and threw the sea of flying wheels again. The violent group of flying wheels darted into its eyes, stirring its brain into a mess.

This could be considered easing its pain and letting it die directly.

The Three-Headed Red Demon Hound did not know if it felt this "hypocritical final mercy" of Ning Feiliu, and it died completely. Then, peculiar power continuously dissipated from its body, gradually turning into a huge black ring that appeared above its giant body.

Perhaps Douluo fanfiction needs to be written a bit more brainlessly; maybe I, brother, am writing it too rationally.

I actually don't really want to write that kind of story where one goes from weak to strong but becomes overwhelmingly powerful all of a sudden, without any upgrade process.

At the beginning, writing the protagonist's transformation, I only wrote about the combat power of being "invincible at the same level" using the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon, which means if the soul power level was exactly the same as the protagonist's, they couldn't beat the protagonist.

Later on, as combat experience increased, the protagonist began to cross a few levels of soul power without pressure.

Then later, the path to true invincibility at the same level began. That time of Exploding Ring against Yu Tianheng was just to change the Soul Ring and show off; in that match, I didn't even suppress the combat power to write the protagonist and Yu Tianheng fighting to a stalemate before using Exploding Ring to barely blast Yu Tianheng.

Later, true Exploding Ring began to challenge across major levels.

Until now, with a bunch of BUFFs and cheats added, I have written the protagonist beating a Soul King Fallen One without needing Exploding Ring, and crossing two major levels to fight a Soul Emperor without opening the Explosive Ring Soul Skill, he can still manage a three-seven split.

Isn't this strong enough? I can only say that perhaps I should have written an invincible protagonist from the beginning, where the martial soul mutation at the start was the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon, and then being even more pampered than Ning Rongrong, a heaven-favored child's growth route, directly a Great Soul Master fighting a Soul Ancestor, a Soul Elder fighting a Soul King, and a Soul Emperor being able to fight a Title Douluo; that might have been more popular instead? Especially the readers on Q-Reading, um... I know that Douluo fanfiction over there is all like that, and there are also more readers who just want to be purely satisfied, so I don't want to argue about anything. When I encounter extreme people who directly curse, I don't argue with them and just ban them. I won't do that kind of operation here on Qidian (won't say more, not enough word count to say it).

(End of this chapter)