"Who!" Dai Mubai's expression suddenly changed.
"Shi Quan!" Tang San's figure abruptly stopped, his dark eyes instantly turning blood-red as he stared intently at the tall, familiar figure in the distance.
"May I ask, esteemed sir, why have you stopped my brother and me?" Dai Mubai quickly pressed down on Tang San's shoulder and asked in a low voice.
"There's no need to pretend in front of me," Shi Quan said with a faint smile.
It had to be said that Tang San and Dai Mubai were very clever; they must have used some special method to Seal their spirit power within their bodies. If he hadn't been constantly observing the unusual movements within the military camp, they might have successfully stolen those corpses.
"Tang San, what's the difference between you now and a rat in the sewer?" Shi Quan's face was full of mocking amusement. "You've stooped to stealing corpses. Have I fallen to this extent?"
"Shi Quan!" Tang San, seeing that Shi Quan had recognized his identity, no longer intended and roared, "I've been forced into this situation by you all!"
Shi Quan smiled faintly, "Indeed, you've become much more composed. In the past, you would have charged at me without a second thought."
Upon hearing this, the blood-red light in Tang San's eyes intensified to the extreme. He had always firmly remembered the saying that only by living could there be hope for revenge, a lesson learned from years of experience.
The Heaven Dou army was only a few thousand meters away. Shi Quan's sudden appearance here made him wary of whether other powerful individuals were hidden nearby.
"Mubai, the old spot!" Tang San shouted, and Dai Mubai immediately understood.
Evil aura mixed with a bloody scent erupted from both of them.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black—both of them had eight spirit rings floating around them!
Their movements showed no hesitation; they immediately split, one to the left and one to the right, and fled in two directions.
Both of them understood their predicament. Shi Quan was powerful, and ending the battle quickly was impossible. Furthermore, there might be powerful individuals hidden in the shadows, so they naturally couldn't waste time here. Fleeing was their best option now.
Being together made them too big a target. Fleeing separately also allowed them to ascertain if there were hidden powerful individuals in the shadows, making it undoubtedly the best choice at the moment.
"This is too different from the Tang San I remember," Shi Quan chuckled and shook his head. With a thought, the space behind him seemed to twist for a moment before quickly returning to normal. Then, he turned and pursued Dai Mubai.
"Is he alone?" As Tang San fled, he constantly paid attention to the changes behind him. Aside from Shi Quan at the beginning, he didn't find anyone else.
"With Boss Dai's strength, he should be able to protect himself," a sharp glint flashed in Tang San's eyes, and his footsteps didn't falter as he continued to flee quickly forward.
"For a good White Tiger to become like this, who knows how much slaughter it has caused," Shi Quan's cold voice came from the other side.
"Shi Quan, are your hands clean of the souls of the dead?" Dai Mubai's cold voice came, but his speed did not slow down in the slightest.
"I don't mind adding you to the list," Shi Quan said with a faint smile. His right hand revealed the Blue Silver Emperor Tree Martial Spirit, and the Blue Silver Domain instantly spread out, enveloping Dai Mubai within it.
Their current location was a forest, and a forest was undoubtedly the World of Blue Silver Grass. Countless Blue Silver vines rose from the ground, directly blocking Dai Mubai's retreat and rapidly wrapping around him.
"Domain!?" Dai Mubai's expression turned somewhat ugly, and his seventh spirit ring beneath him suddenly lit up.
Dark Devil Tiger True Form!
An evil, foul-smelling aura erupted, directly sweeping away the entwining vines.
"You want to trap me! It won't be that easy!" Dai Mubai roared furiously!
"Trap you?" Shi Quan chuckled, the mockery in his eyes evident. "With your chaotic spirit power, it's nothing but a single sword strike..."
Shi Quan's blood-red fourth spirit ring quietly lit up. His left hand was behind his back, and his right hand formed a sword-finger, pointing at Dai Mubai.
The next second, the entire forest instantly erupted with brilliant blue-gold light. The light rapidly gathered and formed the Blue Silver Devouring Emperor Sword, condensing before Shi Quan, radiating a surging brilliance. It carried an extreme Life aura and shot out fiercely.
"Roar!"
A huge Dark Devil Tiger phantom appeared behind Dai Mubai. Its ink-black and blood-red colors merged, all integrating into the Dark Devil Tiger's body, then enveloping him entirely, transforming into a dark energy pillar that charged towards the Blue Silver Devouring Emperor Sword.
The ink-black energy pillar came and went quickly. Almost at the instant it touched the Blue Silver Devouring Emperor Sword, Dai Mubai, who was inside the ink-black energy, flew backward like a cannonball, breaking all the plants along the way.
"Why... why... I devoured so much energy, yet I can't even withstand one of your attacks." Blood gushed from Dai Mubai's mouth. The blue-gold Blue Silver Devouring Emperor Sword had directly pierced his chest, pinning him to the ground. His blood-stained face was filled with madness.
Shi Quan's figure slowly descended in front of Dai Mubai. "Strength like yours, obtained by devouring the Life energy of others, is ultimately superficial. With such chaotic spirit power, how much of your strength can you truly unleash? Why do you think the spirit power you gain through devouring would be stronger than spirit power gained through Cultivation?"
Furthermore, Dai Mubai was only level 81. In this forest battlefield, Shi Quan's sword strike would force even a Titled Douluo to temporarily avoid its edge.
As a core spirit ring, the fourth spirit ring initially had only one Spirit Ability, the Blue Silver Devouring Emperor Sword. Even after it evolved into a 100,000-year spirit ring, the fourth spirit ring still retained only that single Spirit Ability.
A 100,000-year spirit ring only granting one Spirit Ability meant that the power of this single Spirit Ability had to surpass that of ordinary 100,000-year Spirit Abilities, equivalent to two Spirit Abilities in Fusion.
"So that's how it is!" Dai Mubai continuously spat out fresh blood. He could feel his Life slowly dissipating, but how could he die so easily? "So what! If I hadn't devoured, I would have died long ago! Xiao San gave me new Life! I'm not wrong! This World is wrong!"
"Die! Make me die!" Dai Mubai's crazed voice came. Pffft—Dai Mubai directly pulled out the Blue Silver Devouring Emperor Sword from his chest, then violently spat out a large mouthful of heart's blood. He grabbed Shi Quan's ankle, "You all die for me!"
Dai Mubai unleashed his final madness, and the chaotic energy within his body instantly gushed out.
Self-detonation!
In this final moment, Dai Mubai wanted to drag someone down with him before he died.
"Die if you're going to die, stop barking."
The imagined scene of spirit power igniting and exploding did not occur. Instead, Dai Mubai was directly kicked away by Shi Quan, slamming heavily onto the ground and spitting out another mouthful of blood.