Chapter 225: Tang Chuan's Sixth 100,000-Year Soul Ring!
Gazing at the sudden crimson light emanating from Xiao Wu, Tang Hao's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and his face lit up with barely suppressed elation!
"Is she preparing for the sacrifice?!"
"Excellent! This is the day I've been waiting for!"
He knew all too well what the sacrifice of a 100,000-year-old soul beast meant.
It would create a perfect 100,000-year-old soul ring and soul bone, and the sacrifice process was virtually uninterrupted! What an incredible opportunity this would be for his son, Tang San! It would be more than enough to make up for all his previous losses, and even allow his strength to leap forward qualitatively!
However, somewhat overwhelmed by this sudden joy, Tang Hao hadn't yet noticed a crucial detail.
At the center of that crimson light, Xiao Wu's affectionate, resolute, and all-consuming gaze was fixed not on the Tang San lying on the ground, but on the blood-soaked, dying "Tang San" transformed from Tang Chuan!
The next second, the soul bridge linked by the sacrificial crimson light steadily and slowly constructed and spread towards Tang Chuan's location!
It seemed that Xiao Wu's sacrifice target was never Tang San from the very beginning!
This fatal misjudgment stemmed from Tang Chuan's exquisite and disruptive simulated soul skill!
It successfully deceived almost everyone present, including Tang Hao, whose senses were clouded by concern and blinded by immense joy!
While he was still ecstatic about his youngest son's impending great opportunity, he was unaware that the ultimate beneficiary of the sacrifice would be his eldest son, whom he hated to the core!
The next second, an incredibly dazzling red light, seemingly condensed from the purest life and soul energy, suddenly erupted from between Xiao Wu's brows!
This red light wasn't scorching hot, yet it carried a boundless energy that moved heaven and earth and altered the laws of nature!
The red light was like ink dripping into clear water, or like the rising sun instantly dispelling darkness, then swept and spread wildly in all directions at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye!
Where the crimson light passed, everything around was stained with a poignant crimson hue.
The sky, the earth, the rocks, the corpses, even the dust floating in the air…
and even more eerily, everything enveloped by this crimson light—humans, soul beasts, even the flying pebbles and dissipating soul energy—all froze in that instant! The once noisy, chaotic, and murderous canyon fell into a deathly silence!
Xiao Wu's body, within the crimson light, transformed into a translucent dark red, as if sculpted from the purest ruby, radiating a poignant and sacred glow.
Looking up, in the void between her and Tang Chuan, a bridge entirely constructed of crimson energy appeared out of thin air, connecting the two.
Immediately afterward, Xiao Wu, already in a sacrificial state, her consciousness and soul burning, relied on her last instinct and that unforgettable "love" to run towards Tang Chuan's location, and then tightly, with all her remaining strength, embraced him!
In an instant, crimson light completely enveloped the two embracing figures, and the sacrificial energy surged into Tang Chuan's body like a torrent!
Staring at this scene, Tang San and Tang Hao were utterly dumbfounded!
Their minds went blank, as if struck by a hammer, completely unable to comprehend what was happening before them! Who was Xiao Wu embracing? And to whom was she offering a sacrifice?!
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Tang San and Tang Hao instinctively exchanged a glance!
This glance struck them like a thunderbolt!
Only now did they realize that the person they saw was none other than the hideous faces of Ghost Leopard Douluo and Demon Bear Douluo!
"What's going on?! My face?"
An absurd and horrified thought simultaneously arose in their minds.
Immediately, they abruptly turned their gaze back to where Xiao Wu was, focusing on the "Tang San" being tightly embraced by her.
Only then did Tang Hao and Tang San realize that there was another "Tang San" present?
Then, thinking about how they saw the other person and the misplaced figures around them, they realized that... A terrifying truth struck them like lightning!
It was an illusion!
It was that damned Tang Chuan's doing!
He used his soul skill to distort space, deceiving everyone's perception and vision!
"Damn it! Bastard! Beast!"
Thinking this, Tang Hao's eyes widened in fury, all the elation on his face instantly turning into boundless rage and extreme humiliation! He felt like a monkey being toyed with! The 100,000-year-old soul beast sacrifice he had longed for, the immense opportunity for his youngest son, had actually been snatched away by Tang Chuan right under his nose using such despicable means?!
"You unfilial son! You unfilial son! I'll kill you!" With a furious roar, Tang Hao was panting heavily, wishing he could rush forward and tear Tang Chuan to pieces!
Tang San stood there blankly, staring at the figure enveloped in blood-red light, especially Xiao Wu's strange state. At this moment, he didn't know that Xiao Wu was a 100,000-year-old soul beast; he only sensed a vast and sorrowful energy surging within her.
"Father, Xiao Wu... what happened to her?"
The next second, an incredibly sharp cry, filled with extreme pain, reluctance, and love, suddenly erupted from Xiao Wu's mouth, which had turned a crystalline blood-red color!
"Ah—"
This sound seemed to pierce the soul, causing the entire still blood-red canyon to tremble violently!
Bathed in the blood-red flames rising from Xiao Wu's body, burning with her life and soul, Tang Chuan felt waves of tingling sensation throughout his body, as if countless tiny life energies were drilling into his limbs and bones, cleansing his meridians.
His consciousness seemed to detach from his body, drifting in a mysterious state.
The soul power within Tang Chuan, which had been somewhat weakened due to his severe injuries, began to surge and overflow wildly like a flood bursting its banks under the infusion of this vast energy!
Level 53, Level 54, Level 56…
His soul power level soared at an unprecedented speed!
Level 58, Level 59, Level 60!
In almost a few breaths, his soul power broke through the bottleneck of level 60!
Just as Tang Chuan's soul power level reached level 60, a dazzling red soul ring, radiating a heart-pounding, boundless energy, naturally and with the approval of the laws of heaven and earth, slowly coiled and took shape around him!
It was a red 100,000-year soul ring?!
Xiao Wu was speechless at this moment, because all her life force and soul had been transformed into fuel for burning this sacrificial blood flame.
But her beautiful eyes, now completely blood-red, still gazed deeply and plaintively at the person she thought was "Tang San," silently expressing with her last gaze the burning, desperate love in her heart that transcended life and death.
She died without ever knowing that the person she had given her everything to, even her soul, was not Tang San, whom she cherished, but Tang Chuan, whom she had almost never paid attention to!
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