Chapter 312: Bibi Dong: "Come, my hundred-thousand-year spirit ring!"
Blue light shrouded Dugu Feng's body, hiding his presence without a trace.
Only then did he release the twin Scorpion Claws and begin to dig.
With practiced ease, he burrowed deep and angled toward the underground beneath Death Canyon.
On the surface, his Emerald Dragon-Serpent awaited, its dan bead link guiding his direction.
Gradually, the soil grew damper. Dugu Feng moved beneath an oasis.
But as he pressed forward, a steel wall rose before him.
It was broad, blocking his path.
He had a guess and quickly changed direction, only to encounter steel again.
Circling beneath the oasis, he finally confirmed it was man-made.
A massive oasis enclosed in an iron cage.
Within lived a giant soul beast: the Nether Venom Crocodile.
It was that very crocodile that had fallen into slumber, about to advance to one hundred thousand years.
"Bibi Dong, Bibi Dong—you're guarding against me!"
From the first time he struck at Tang San, to later at Hu Liena, and the last time he snatched the One-Horned Eel—
There had been one commonality: he emerged from underground.
Bibi Dong assumed he was an earth-attribute soul master and naturally sealed the underground against that evil soul master.
Dugu Feng cursed. Crafty Bibi Dong.
Suddenly, he sensed motion and hid utterly.
He felt a Contra-level expert delving underground as well.
But the man did not dig; he used an earth-escape.
Clad in Spirit Hall garb, he circled the iron cage below and then withdrew.
"It seems Bibi Dong's protection of this soul beast is all-encompassing—sky and earth. But that won't stump me. I am a poison soul master, not an earth-attribute one!"
Dugu Feng erased all trace of his entry.
Then he resumed digging deep below.
First, he prepared his retreat.
This time, he dug with vigor, wanting to punch clear through the Douluo Continent.
Depth and breadth both—he made the tunnels as complex as any warren.
He extended them far from Death Canyon.
If she thought he was an earth-attribute soul master, then he would play the part.
Dugu Feng labored for half a month, completing the entire underground network.
He then sent his Tyrant Poison to the surface through the Emerald Dragon-Serpent.
The Tyrant Poison drifted toward the Nether Venom Crocodile, turning into a subtle glimmer and seeping in, breath after breath.
Dugu Feng would ensure he could kill the crocodile at any moment.
At last, with everything prepared, he cultivated quietly below.
He waited for the Nether Venom Crocodile to complete its evolution.
Thinking of it, he grew excited. He would snatch yet another hundred-thousand-year soul beast from Bibi Dong's grasp.
She might go mad.
Outside Death Canyon—
Bibi Dong arrived.
Last time, because she had not kept constant watch on the One-Horned Eel, she had lost a precious hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
This time, she meant to guard this future spirit ring personally from start to finish.
She had paid too high a price for it.
Even her loyal subordinates, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, balked at her methods.
But for power and wealth, under her iron pressure, they had engaged in massacres and kidnappings.
Bibi Dong's smile was cold. "It is all worth it.
This world is evil by nature. All will die by evil!"
Through the oasis's waters and sludge, her gaze had already fixed on the Nether Venom Crocodile below, its aura growing stronger.
Bibi Dong hovered in the air, releasing her second martial soul, the Soul-Eating Spider Emperor, then entering spirit possession.
Countless soul-eating spiderlings fell like rain.
Forged of soul power and deathly qi, they were her third soul skill, Demon Summon.
This place was rife with the dead—humans and soul beasts both.
The spiderlings spawned in abundance, scattering everywhere and keenly checking for any unfamiliar aura.
Even so, Bibi Dong remained uneasy. Purple light flashed at her brow as spiritual power surged into the depths below.
Unfortunately, Dugu Feng had anticipated such a sweep.
His tunnels stretched beyond the reach of her spiritual probe.
Finding nothing, Bibi Dong relaxed somewhat.
She did not blink, watching the Nether Venom Crocodile.
Dugu Feng also monitored it from below through his Tyrant Poison.
The poor, powerful soul beast had become prey to the two of them.
Another month passed in a blink, and Dugu Feng broke through to level seventy, awaiting his ring.
In his senses, the Nether Venom Crocodile could break through at any moment.
Sea God's Heart in hand, Dugu Feng was poised.
After three more days, the crocodile's aura surged within the oasis.
Like the advent of a king, it made all surrounding soul beasts prostrate themselves. This was fear from the depths of their blood.
Bibi Dong sprang to her feet in the sky, five spirit rings rippling around her.
All black ten-thousand-year rings, their pressure surged over the Nether Venom Crocodile without mercy.
She streaked down like a meteor.
The first ring flared, launching a crescent blade of light.
At the same time, her forearms became two enormous black scythes, sweeping with the momentum to reap all, cutting at the crocodile.
Bibi Dong unleashed her strongest soul skills and soul-bone skill at once.
She meant to kill the crocodile immediately and absorb its ring.
A terrifying roar shook the air.
The entire oasis split apart.
The Nether Venom Crocodile was blasted out of the ground by her strike.
The oasis's waters vaporized in the violent impact, and the earth caved into a massive pit.
The steel cage within was laid bare.
Bibi Dong's attacks did not relent, all five rings blazing in turn.
For this second martial soul, all her rings came from beasts over fifty thousand years, and the fifth from a ninety-thousand-year Burrow Demon Orb.
Such strength was something the crocodile could not withstand.
After another of her strikes—
The crocodile's head was nearly severed. Its powerful tail swept the surroundings, thrashed a few times, and then fell still.
Bibi Dong's eyes shone with excitement.
At last—no accidents. A hundred-thousand-year spirit ring!
I will absorb another hundred-thousand-year ring.
Above the Nether Venom Crocodile, scarlet energy condensed.
That was the energy of a spirit ring left by a hundred-thousand-year soul beast's death!
Bibi Dong could no longer hold back. She thrust out her right hand, released her soul power, and called the spirit ring to her.
But the energy did not respond in the slightest, hovering motionless in the sky.
Bibi Dong drew closer and intensified her summons.
"Come, my hundred-thousand-year spirit ring!"
(END CHAPTER)
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