It was night, and the sky was full of stars.
In the deep, dark night, mountains rose and fell, winding and coiling across the land like a giant, black dragon.
Deep within the forest, a bonfire crackled.
Hundreds of figures gathered around the fire, roasting something in their hands.
The clear moonlight fell from the night sky, faintly illuminating the faces of these figures.
The figures resembled wild men, all powerfully built, with heights exceeding two meters.
In the dim moonlight, their hair was gray, and their bodies were covered in extremely dense fur.
Their lips protruded, revealing canines several times larger than those of ordinary people, and their faces were smeared with thick paint.
These figures were the so-called Wolf Bandits.
Beside the largest bonfire sat three Wolf Bandits with gray fur.
Among them, the largest Wolf Bandit gazed up at the night sky.
For some reason, he felt that the moon and stars tonight were exceptionally bright.
Three hundred meters above the ground.
The night sky here was unusually dark, with countless stars twinkling within it.
If one looked up from the ground, in the pitch-black night, they couldn't tell the difference between these stars and those in the real night sky.
And it was within this abnormal night sky that Lin Rong and the old butler, standing on a green giant dragon, hid.
Looking down at the more than three hundred Wolf Bandits below, Lin Rong murmured softly, "So you were hiding here, it took me quite a while to find you!"
He had thought that with the life-sensing ability granted by the Nine Bend Vine Dragon, finding the group of Wolf Bandits before him would be a very easy task.
But Lin Rong had miscalculated one thing: he hadn't seen any Wolf Bandits before, so he didn't know what their life signatures were like.
Lin Rong had also tried using the aura of a Gale Wolf to search for the Wolf Bandits.
As a result, he didn't find any Wolf Bandits, but instead found a pack of Gale Wolves.
Finally, after searching the deep mountains and old forests for a full seven days, he found this place.
Upon arriving here, Lin Rong instructed the old butler to activate his Martial Soul's True Body.
The Star Body transformed into a patch of dark night sky, perfectly blending into the already dark night.
Especially with the twinkling stars tonight, the myriad stars within the night sky formed by the Star Body's True Body didn't seem out of place at all.
Looking down at the unsuspecting Wolf Bandits below, Lin Rong waved his hand, signaling the old butler to make his move.
Upon receiving the order, the old butler, hidden within the nine Spirit Rings beneath his feet, activated his third and fourth Spirit Rings simultaneously.
Third Spirit Skill: Cold Moon Starlight!
Fourth Spirit Skill: Blazing Sun Starlight!
Two purple Spirit Rings flashed more than ten times in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, blurred phantoms of the sun and moon appeared simultaneously in the night sky.
Dozens of moon-white and fiery red lights burst forth from top to bottom, like brilliant fireworks falling to the earth.
On the ground, the gray-furred Wolf Bandit looked up at the night sky, trying to get a clear view of the suddenly appearing sun and moon phantoms.
But before he could get a clear look, he was struck by a moon-white beam of light and frozen in a massive block of ice.
The moon-white beam of light and the fiery red radiance raged across the land.
On the ground, half of the more than three hundred Wolf Bandits were frozen in ice, while the other half, after staring directly at the radiance, suffered temporary blindness and dizziness, frozen in place.
"Explode!"
Amidst the cries of agony, the old butler silently uttered a word.
As the old butler spoke the word, More than a hundred and fifty blocks of ice on the ground exploded from the inside out.
At the same time, another more than a hundred and fifty Wolf Bandits, emitting a fiery red glow, burst into fiery red flames after the word "explode" was uttered.
The ice crystals produced by the exploding ice and the fiery red flames mingled, the moon-white and fiery red colors blending, brilliant and beautiful.
Looking down at the beautiful yet bloody scene below, he exclaimed, "Truly magnificent, the spirit skills of Star-type Martial Souls are so cool!"
The old butler's third spirit skill, Cold Moon Starlight, had already been used when capturing the Ten Thousand Year Nine-Rank Ginseng King.
As for the old butler's fourth spirit skill, Blazing Sun Starlight, Lin Rong was seeing it used for the first time.
Blazing Sun Starlight, like Cold Moon Starlight, was a single-target instant-cast spirit skill.
Upon activation, it instantly locked onto a target and emitted a fiery red radiance, guaranteed to hit the locked target.
Upon hitting, it inflicted both dizziness and blindness. Simultaneously, Star Power flowed into the target, capable of igniting solar flames to inflict damage.
Both Cold Moon Starlight and Blazing Sun Starlight were considered top-tier spirit skills in terms of their effects.
The sun and the moon could both be classified as stars.
The old butler's third Spirit Ring was obtained from a fifteen-hundred-year-old Cold Moon Flower, granting him the Spirit Ability Cold Moon Starlight.
His fourth Spirit Ring came from a five-thousand-two-hundred-year-old Sun Flower, granting him the Spirit Ability Blazing Sun Starlight.
One day and one moon, one yin and one yang.
When these two Spirit Abilities are used together, the conflict between ice and fire during the secondary explosion of the Spirit Ability will greatly increase its power.
Earlier, when the old butler's Soul Power cultivation wasn't as high.
Because both Cold Moon Starlight and Blazing Sun Starlight were single-target instant-cast Spirit Abilities.
Although they could be used multiple times in succession within a short period to act as area-of-effect instant-cast Spirit Abilities, it was quite taxing on his Soul Power.
He would run out of Soul Power after only a few uses.
But now, the old butler's Soul Power cultivation had reached rank ninety-six.
The Soul Power consumption of the mere third and fourth thousand-year Spirit Abilities was no longer a significant issue for him.
It made no difference whether Cold Moon Starlight and Blazing Sun Starlight were single-target or area-of-effect instant-cast Spirit Abilities.
Furthermore, the power of single-target Spirit Abilities was usually greater than area-of-effect Spirit Abilities.
Therefore, single-target Spirit Abilities from thousand-year Spirit Rings were definitely more practical for Titled Douluo than thousand-year area-of-effect Spirit Abilities.
This was because for Titled Douluo, thousand-year area-of-effect Spirit Abilities were overkill for dealing with weaker opponents and completely useless against enemies of similar level.
They were utterly redundant.
On the ground, a long time passed before the brilliant light caused by Cold Moon Starlight and Blazing Sun Starlight slowly dissipated.
The vegetation and rocks that had been there before were now gone, replaced by numerous deep pits.
The figures of over three hundred Wolf Bandits had vanished without a trace. The ground was nothing but scorched earth, with no remnants of flesh or bone to be found.
Only in the largest deep pit at the center.
Buried beneath the soil was a crystal-clear leg bone emitting a faint blue glow.
In the night sky, Lin Rong saw the Spirit Bone below, but he had no intention of descending to retrieve it. Instead, he gazed at the bone, mentally willing it to fly towards him.
The Spirit Bone then flew directly into Lin Rong's hand.
To this day, the Mind Mirror cultivated by Lin Rong through the second major realm of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, Perfect Wisdom and Self-Awareness, had its coverage range expanded from an initial ten zhang to thirty zhang.
Simultaneously, the Mind Mirror's coverage could shift from an area-of-effect to a linear projection.
The linear coverage distance of the Mind Mirror was a hundred zhang, exceeding three hundred meters.
Therefore, Lin Rong simply enveloped the Spirit Bone within the Mind Mirror's range and used the power of his mental force to intervene with reality, telekinetically retrieving the bone.
"Got the item. Grandpa Yu, we've been out for quite a while, it's time to head back."
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