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Lin Jie, standing not far from Tang Hao and the Slaughter King on the field, had already readied his three super-electromagnetic railguns when he saw Tang Hao's Soul Ring explode.
The moment Tang Hao sent the Slaughter King flying, Lin Jie attacked without hesitation. Fearing he'd missed the target, Lin Jie deliberately delivered two strikes, one to Tang Hao as well. Just
as he was about to slay the Slaughter King, Tang Hao suddenly felt an incredibly powerful attack coming his way. His expression suddenly changed. Already weakened from his Soul Ring explosion, and with the added injury of a broken arm, his eyes blazed at the onslaught.
However, at the time of the Soul Ring explosion, some of the surging Soul Power within him remained. He reacted instantly, casting a massive Clear Sky Hammer phantom to block the red light.
Boom boom boom boom.
Simultaneously, a massive explosion echoed.
The Slaughter King was struck down by Tang Hao's ultimate move, then struck by two of Lin Jie's super-electromagnetic railguns. His body was pierced through and slammed heavily into the killing field.
Tang Hao used his Clear Sky Hammer to block the Super Electromagnetic Railgun's attack. Long depleted of soul power, the Clear Sky Hammer shattered, sending him flying.
"Dad,"
the wounded Tang San didn't care where the attack came from. Seeing Tang Hao being sent flying, he desperately ran after him.
"Cough cough..."
A few mouthfuls of blood suddenly spurted out of his mouth, but Tang Hao held on. After glancing at Lin Jie, without a second thought, he pulled Tang San along.
"Let's go."
The next second, Tang San and Tang Hao vanished from the killing field.
Seeing that Tang Hao hadn't been killed by the single blow, Lin Jie sighed in regret. But now, Tang Hao had lost his arm and was critically injured. Who knew if this would kill him?
"Lin Jie." Hu Liena stared at the weapon hovering beside him in amazement. What had she just witnessed? Lin Jie's attack had directly shattered Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao had simply fled.
Lin Jie ignored Hu Liena's startled expression and walked over to her. "Senior Sister, please keep watch here for a while. Don't let anyone get in." Without
a second thought, Lin Jie leaped directly into the large pit beneath the slaughter field.
Lin Jie knew that beneath the slaughter field was the road to Hell.
Hu Liena regained composure upon hearing Lin Jie's words.
She glanced around, seeing no one besides her.
She had initially considered going down with Lin Jie, but after a moment's reflection, she decided to follow his lead and help him keep watch. However, if Lin Jie didn't come up soon, she would go down and find him directly.
Puff!
Elsewhere, Tang Hao, who had escaped with Tang San, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Dad, are you okay?" Tang San's eyes pierced at the sight of his father's injuries.
"It's okay, it's just a broken arm," Tang Hao consoled him.
"Dad, I need to heal you now. Don't move."
Knowing his son's abilities, Tang Hao glanced around, seeing no threat, and nodded.
At that moment, beneath the Hell Road, the Slaughter King lay on the ground, his face a deathly pale. Tang Hao's attack had already severely wounded him, and two red beams, seemingly out of nowhere, had pierced his heart and other organs. Blood still flowed from the two large holes in his chest. He was now breathing his last. Unwilling to die, he moved to a strange altar, reaching out with one arm to cling to it. Then, a stream of soul power slowly flowed into his body, healing his injuries.
When Lin Jie arrived below, he used his mind network to explore and immediately located the Slaughter King's location.
He then sprinted towards him. Arriving at the Slaughter King's location, he saw the soul power slowly flowing towards him and instantly understood.
"So the soul power of all the soul masters killed on the killing field flowed here!"
Upon hearing this, the Slaughter King's expression changed drastically, and he turned to look at Lin Jie. With a cold gaze, he declared, "This isn't the place for you. Get out of here.
Otherwise..." "What else? You're going to kill me?"
"I..."
Bang, bang, bang!
The King of Slaughter hadn't finished yet, his eyes bulging as he stared blankly at Lin Jie's smoking gun.
"Whoa," he blew on the muzzle of his gun and said disdainfully, "Tsk, a low-health babbler? Don't you know villains die from talking too much?" Lin Jie
didn't give him a moment to breathe and finished him off.
Bang, bang, bang!
Fearing he might still be alive, Lin Jie shot him several more times. After confirming he was dead, Lin Jie curiously walked over to the altar.
He wondered what Qian Daoliu and Poseidon would think if they knew Tang Chen had died here in such an inexplicable way.
As soon as Lin Jie stepped onto the altar, a surge of soul power instantly surged towards him.
Lin Jie froze and instinctively tried to avoid it, but the soul power, like glue, stuck to him, leaving him with no way to retreat.
Feeling the soul power continuously pouring into his body, Lin Jie reacted immediately and sat down cross-legged, refining and absorbing it.
The soul power here was simply too vast. Lin Jie continued to absorb this soul power, and his strength continued to increase. After a moment, his soul power directly broke through to level 60.
However, this soul power continued to flow into his body even after Lin Jie broke through to level 60.
Lin Jie felt the soul power still pouring into his body and cried out inwardly, "Oh no!" He knew full well that, given the rules of this world, without a soul ring breakthrough, he couldn't possibly break through the sixtieth level barrier. He had tried before, but his strength wasn't enough, and the world's rules restricted him, making it impossible to find one.
If the soul power pouring into his body didn't break through, he might soon be suffocated by it.
"Soul rings, soul rings. I must have soul rings, or I'll be shattered. But where can I find one now? Oh, isn't the blood-red nine-headed bat king that's parasitizing Tang Chen a soul beast?" At this thought, Lin Jie's eyes lit up.
He glanced at the corpse of the Slaughter King. Sure enough, a soul ring had emerged from the corpse, and six or seven bone-like objects had fallen to the ground. But Lin Jie had no interest in looking at those things at the moment. Instead, he focused on the soul ring itself.
Red, the soul ring was actually red. This meant it was at least a hundred thousand years old.
What Lin Jie hadn't noticed was that the red was tinged with a hint of gold.
After a moment's reflection, Lin Jie understood. To be able to parasitize a Level 99 Ultimate Douluo like Tang Chen, his strength couldn't be weak.
Lin Jie wasn't confident he could absorb the 100,000-year spirit ring. If he wasn't careful, he might explode and die.
But the soul power now pouring into his body told him that if he didn't absorb it, he would explode too.
A determined look shone in Lin Jie's eyes. "I'm going to explode anyway. Let's go all out. I don't believe I, Lin Jie, can't capture the spirit ring of a dead spirit beast." He
extended his hand, and the dark red spirit ring enveloped Lin Jie. The next second, it disappeared into Lin Jie's body. The
remaining soul energy of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King continuously assaulted Lin Jie's soul. "Ah! Ah!" Lin Jie gritted his teeth, channeling his mental strength to protect his own soul while simultaneously charging the remnant of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King with his powerful mental force. For years, Lin Jie had been cultivating the Purple Demon Eye almost constantly, and his mental strength was now comparable to that of ordinary Titled Douluo. Furthermore, his physique was incomparably formidable. In the original novel, Tang San, with his Soul Emperor strength, was able to withstand a 100,000-year spirit ring; there was no way Lin Jie couldn't withstand it. Although Tang San's spirit ring was obtained through sacrifice, it demonstrated that any spirit master who reached Soul Emperor strength could withstand a 100,000-year spirit ring. Lin Jie's strength had not only reached level 60, but his mental power was also immensely potent, and his physique was even more astonishing. Soon after, Lin Jie's overwhelming mental power annihilated the remaining soul of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, sending a powerful surge of spirit power into Lin Jie's body. A restriction imposed by a principle was instantly broken. The limits on Lin Jie's spirit power were also shattered at this moment. Buzz...buzz...buzz. The spirit power contained in a spirit ring over 100,000 years old was so immense that Lin Jie's spirit power level rose continuously in an instant. 60, 61, 62, and finally, after reaching the peak of level 62, his spirit power level was constantly suppressed by Lin Jie. Only then was the spirit power contained in the spirit ring completely consumed and absorbed by him. But after the soul rings were absorbed, the surging soul power from the altar below began to surge into Lin Jie's body again, reaching sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-five, and the level continued to climb. "No, I can't let this soul power flow in anymore. Otherwise, my foundation will be unstable." Lin Jie suppressed it. The next moment, after breaking through to level sixty-five, he could feel himself moving. He forcibly tore free the soul power restraints under the altar. "Huh!" After breaking free, Lin Jie secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "This is truly terrifying! How much soul power is here? Fortunately, my mental strength is strong, otherwise I would have been nearly killed by the remnant soul of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King." A moment later, Lin Jie felt his condition, somewhat incredulous. "I've actually reached level sixty-five soul power. I'm only seventeen. And my sixth soul ring is over a hundred thousand years old." "Oh right, soul skills." Thinking of this, Lin Jie felt the soul skills absorbed from the soul rings of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, which were over a hundred thousand years old. It was actually a spiritual, sonic soul skill, ultrasonic. It had powerful effects like positioning, attacking, shattering, and stunning. A powerful attack could even cause brain death. And that was not all. Thinking of sound waves, Lin Jie thought of his own heart network. While his heart network had a wide range, it could only roughly detect a person's location, not pinpoint it. Now with ultrasonic waves, if the two could be combined to pinpoint and attack, wouldn't it be possible to take a person's head from thousands of miles away? Then, relying on this positioning, a thunderbolt of punishment could be delivered. Thinking of this, Lin Jie thought of an anime character from his previous life, Enel. He was getting closer and closer to him. "Uh." Just then, Lin Jie suddenly felt something coming out from behind him. A faint sting made his brow furrow. The next second, a pair of blood-red bone spurs over two meters long suddenly emerged from behind Lin Jie. With a swish, they suddenly opened, transforming into a pair of blood-red wings over four meters long. (End of Chapter)