Chapter 443

Tang Wulin was bound, unable to move, only able to watch helplessly as Liao Mengkai stabbed toward himself.

In response, he merely sighed helplessly.

Hearing his sigh, Liao Mengkai instinctively shuddered, thinking he was about to counterattack.

However, there was none; Tang Wulin made no evasive movement, merely coldly staring at him, a look of contempt appearing in his eyes.

Is he looking down on him?

Liao Mengkai instantly felt a surge of qi and blood; he gritted his teeth and infused more power into the knife in his hand.

As the top close-combat soul engineer of the Ri Yue Di Guo, Liao Mengkai followed an extremely rare path; rather than cultivating soul power to enhance his ability to use soul devices, he preferred to train his qi and blood, thereby tempering his martial soul.

As the wealthiest of the four Douluo nations, the Ri Yue Di Guo naturally would not stint on its top nine-level soul engineers; various medicines beneficial to qi and blood were never interrupted.

With the aid of these medicines, Liao Mengkai's qi and blood strength could be called the best in the Ri Yue Di Guo; even compared to Limit Douluo, it would not be far inferior.

His martial soul is a peculiar martial soul called Blade Soul; it has no physical form, yet it can attach to any metal and fuse with it.

One of the knives in his hand is an eight-level soul guide device, the other a nine-level soul guide device; the one stabbing Tang Wulin is the nine-level one, named Demon God Blade, whose sole characteristic is sharpness—this is also the basis of his confidence in breaking Tang Wulin's defense.

He now burned most of his qi and blood, channeling all the generated energy into the knife in his hand, further amplifying the power of what was already a near-certain killing strike.

He simply could not believe that Tang Wulin would survive this blade and still dare to show him such a contemptuous gaze.

Liao Mengkai did not notice that he had committed a grave mistake.

Defeating Ye Xi Shui was not Tang Wulin alone, but him and Huo Yutong joining forces; focusing solely on Tang Wulin is an extremely dangerous thing.

In the distance, Huo Yutong, continuously releasing a spirit vortex, had her eyes flash as her first and fifth soul rings lit up simultaneously.

Liao Mengkai only felt his mind suddenly become dazed; immediately after, the knife in his hand strangely veered off, stabbing toward the space beside Tang Wulin.

"……Ah?"

In an instant, Liao Mengkai was completely dumbfounded.

How could this be? At such close range, even if he had just suddenly fallen into a mental daze due to an unknown soul skill, logically he should not have missed.

Before Liao Mengkai could even process what was happening, he heard a cracking sound; Tang Wulin broke free of the Linked Soul Conductor's restraints, grabbed Liao Mengkai's hand, and gave him a smile.

"Let me show you the true use of qi and blood."

Immediately thereafter, not giving Liao Mengkai a chance to flee into another dimension, a terrifying golden torrent appeared; a huge golden dragon head flashed across the scene, swallowing Liao Mengkai, and as the golden light dissipated, his figure vanished as well.

Leader of the Claw Terror Soul Engineer Corps, Liao Mengkai, has fallen!

Tang Wulin withdrew the hand he had just gripped Liao Mengkai's with, his eyes somewhat solemn. Indeed, as one of the Ri Yue Di Guo's top nine-level soul engineers, his hidden ace even exerted a bit of pressure on him.

Perhaps, relying on his formidable self-healing ability, he could quickly suppress his injuries and restore combat power, but this gap might give the Claw Terror Soul Engineer Corps a chance to regroup, possibly leading to complications, which would be bad.

Therefore, Tang Wulin directly had Huo Yutong use her fifth soul skill to help him avoid this injury, then with a single burst took down Liao Mengkai.

Huo Yutong's new fifth soul skill is named Fate Rehearsal; like several other fate-system soul skills, it is also a soul skill of astonishing power, almost unbelievable.

The effect of Fate Rehearsal is to alter the future; when using the soul skill, she can influence the future within one second inside the range of her mental power, limited to three uses per day.

Besides the limit of three uses per day and the extremely short duration, this soul skill also cannot create an impossible future.

For example, she can cause someone's next attack to miss, but she cannot make the opponent commit suicide or ignore the power gap to slay a Limit Douluo.

In other words, the principle of her soul skill is actually "altering probability"; no matter how small the possibility, as long as it is not zero, she can turn it into reality.

The reason Liao Mengkai's strike just now missed lies herein: after the Linked Soul Conductor successfully locked onto Tang Wulin, he did not add any tracking ability to the blade, but instead poured all his effort into increasing the strike's power.

This gave Huo Yutong an opportunity; taking advantage of Liao Mengkai's inattention, she imposed mental interference, creating a slight possibility that he would fail to hit Tang Wulin in that instant, then she immediately used Fate Rehearsal to turn that possibility into an actual certainty, successfully helping Tang Wulin avoid this lethal attack.

This is a miracle only Huo Yutong can achieve; falling under this combo, Liao Mengkai's death is not unjust.

And Liao Mengkai's defeat also signifies the utter defeat of the Claw Terror Soul Engineer Corps.

After all, their opponents are not just Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong; there are also more than a dozen Honored Douluo eyeing them covetously.

At the moment the Claw Terror Soul Engineer Corps' Linked Soul Conductor shield was shattered by the Blade of Guardian Spirits, they were actually rushing desperately toward this side, but because their speed could not compare to Tang Wulin's, they failed to provide support in time when Tang Wulin and Liao Mengkai clashed.

And now, they have all arrived.

As various soul skills flared, the Claw Terror Soul Engineer Corps was instantly routed by the Honored Douluo.

The sight of these Honored Douluo slaughtering low-level soul engineers can only be described as a tiger among sheep.

Even if a few eight- or nine-level soul engineers tried to resist, they would be swiftly dealt with by Huo Yutong together with Tang Wulin, unable to raise even a ripple.

The yellow lights in the sky blinked out one by one; when the last yellow light faded, they turned their gaze to the ordinary soul engineer corps on the ground.

Earlier, they had refrained from acting because they feared the Claw Terror Soul Engineer Corps, needing to keep it fully engaged in the air, so they did not deploy Honored Douluo against those ground-based soul engineer corps; now that the Claw Terror Soul Engineer Corps has been annihilated, they no longer need to worry.

As everyone descended from the sky, the soul engineer corps stationed at Ming Dou Shanmai thus met their destruction.

The first battle of the war provoked by the Ri Yue Di Guo thus ended in a sweeping victory for the Star Net Empire.

(End of chapter)