Chapter 359: Citun Douluo

"Your Excellency, may I ask who you are?" the Grandmaster asked respectfully.

If possible, he truly did not want to make an enemy of a Title Douluo. If Flender were still alive, the three of them might have had a sliver of hope by relying on the Golden Sacred Dragon, but now that only he and Liu Erlong remained, they had no chance of winning against a Title Douluo.

"Heh, Yu Xiaogang, you are not qualified to know who I am, because you are going to die here today. I will not let you pass on any intelligence," Citun Douluo said coldly.

The Grandmaster was stunned. "Intelligence? You are from the Spirit Hall."

He was not stupid; he quickly figured it out. He was indeed currently passing on intelligence, and that intelligence concerned the Spirit Hall's Soul Hunting Operation against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family.

If a Title Douluo appeared here to stop him, then there was no doubt that it was a Title Douluo from the Spirit Hall. To ensure the smooth completion of their plan, they would never let him send word so easily.

"May I ask, which of the Nine Great Elders of the Spirit Hall are you?" the Grandmaster asked.

In fact, the Grandmaster knew of a person named Citun Douluo; Bibi Dong had mentioned him once.

She had not even hidden the great secret of the Angel Six Soul Bones from the Grandmaster, so how could she have hidden the names of the mere Nine Great Elders?

It was just that the Grandmaster had never met Ci Xue, so naturally, he could not recognize him before he revealed his martial soul.

"I said, you are not qualified to know. Go to hell." Ci Xue could not be bothered to waste any more breath on the Grandmaster; without even manifesting his martial soul, he struck out with his palm toward him.

"Xiao Gang, run! Fifth Spirit Ability: Sky-Piercing Flame!" As a Spirit Saint, Liu Erlong naturally had to protect the weak Grandmaster.

And the Grandmaster stood behind her with peace of mind; when they traveled the continent together back then, they had always been like this.

The Red Dragon Spirit spewed scorching flames, directly swallowing Ci Xue in a sea of fire.

The Spirit Saint's soul power erupted fully, and in this jungle, it instantly caused a massive fire.

"Seventh Spirit Ability: Red Dragon True Body, Fourth Spirit Ability: Soul-Devouring Blazing Flame!"

Liu Erlong pressed her advantage; after activating her True Body, she transformed into a giant, winged fire dragon to fight, with her strength, speed, attack power, defense, resistance to abnormalities, and fire attribute all receiving a massive boost.

The fierce firelight illuminated the sky in a fiery red.

"Good!" the Grandmaster praised. Liu Erlong's fighting style was excellent; when facing a Title Douluo, one should use their full strength from the start to have even a sliver of a chance.

Under the Red Dragon True Body, such intense flame power could not leave even a Title Douluo unscathed.

Moreover, Erlong's Fourth Spirit Ability could also add the ability to devour soul power into her flames.

Those struck would not only have their bodies burned by the flames, but even their soul power would be burned away completely.

This was Liu Erlong's most powerful fighting style.

"Heh, as expected of a variant of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Spirit, very impressive. Among Spirit Saint experts, your attack power can be considered outstanding. Unfortunately, your opponent today is a Title Douluo!" Ci Xue's deep voice rang out from the sea of fire.

A surging torrent of water suddenly emerged from the center of the sea of fire, extinguishing all the flames in an instant.

And the water flow did not lose its momentum, evolving into a scene similar to a tsunami, pouncing fiercely toward the two.

The pufferfish is a species that lives on the bottom of the ocean. When it becomes a spiky ball, its erect hard spines can stab natural enemies or serve as a warning, and its increased volume also makes it impossible for some small natural enemies to bite. Therefore, besides poison, the Puffer Spirit has two other very powerful points: one is the spines, and the other is its formidable water attribute.

Although Citun Douluo mainly cultivated the poison attribute of the Puffer Spirit, it did not mean his spines and water attribute were weak. Even if they were only secondary, the skills unleashed by his strength as a Title Douluo could still easily crush the fire that Liu Erlong had cultivated for a lifetime.

Liu Erlong and the Grandmaster were covered by the water flow, feeling a sense of suffocation.

The Grandmaster could not even surface, and he had no strength left in his entire body.

"Xiao Gang, give me your hand!" Liu Erlong gripped the Grandmaster's hand with difficulty, channeled her soul power, and charged upward, finally breaking out of the water flow with great effort.

The two gasped for air, breathing heavily.

She had not expected that even after going all out to unleash her strongest combo, it would be broken so easily by her opponent. The gap between a Spirit Saint and a Title Douluo was truly unimaginably large.

After all, Liu Erlong was not Nan Feihuang, who could reverse the situation and defeat a Super Douluo. Even if Ci Xue was relatively weak among Title Douluos, he was not someone she could challenge.

"You run really fast. But let's see how you dodge this move. Fifth Spirit Ability: Jingji Duxi!" Behind Ci Xue, a giant red pufferfish appeared.

On the back of that pufferfish, countless sharp spines bulged, and then, the poisonous spines flew out like a machine gun, covering such a large area that it almost blocked all the paths Liu Erlong could use to dodge.

"This martial soul is... a pufferfish!" The Grandmaster was shocked. "Oh no, Erlong, you absolutely cannot be hit by these spines, or you will be poisoned."

As an expert in martial soul research, perhaps his innovative ability was average, but his ability to memorize by rote was quite good. As long as it was a martial soul recorded by the Spirit Hall, he knew it.

He clearly remembered that the three development directions for this martial soul were poison, spines, and water!

Generally speaking, among the three attributes of this martial soul, poison was the strongest, spines were second, and water was the weakest.

Just now, Ci Xue had used the weakest water to completely crush Liu Erlong's strongest fire, let alone the fact that he was now using the spines after his martial soul had possessed him.

And the Grandmaster did not believe that this Citun Douluo would not have developed his poison.

If he had even gotten his cultivation direction wrong, he could not have reached the realm of a Title Douluo.

"First Spirit Ability: Tyrant Dragon Possession, Sixth Spirit Ability: Explosive Fire Dragon Strike!" Liu Erlong stacked the strengthened First Spirit Ability onto her Spirit Avatar, entering the strongest state she could achieve.

Then, she once again unleashed her strongest attack spirit skill, attempting to use it to block Citun Douluo's attack.

The red flames burned the flying spines filling the sky with all their might; for a moment, they actually managed to block Citun Douluo's spirit skill.

But the Grandmaster still dared not be careless. Looking at both their expressions, Liu Erlong's expression was ferocious, clearly having used all her strength, while Citun Douluo's expression was relaxed and at ease; it was obvious he had not truly gotten serious at all.

"Want to compete with me on spirit skill power and depth of soul power? How truly overestimating your own capabilities. A mere Spirit Saint—even if I don't use my Spirit Avatar, you are no match for me!" Ci Xue laughed.

He raised his other arm, and with both hands attacking at once, he instantly doubled the number of flying spines.

Liu Erlong's Explosive Fire Dragon Strike became precarious under the massive gap in strength.

(End of chapter)