Hearing Gu Xuan's words, Gu Rong raised an eyebrow slightly. "Xuan'er, although this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger has a 60,000-year cultivation, its true combat power can likely rival a 100,000-year soul beast. Are you sure?"
Gu Xuan nodded. "Grandpa, don't worry. It won't be a problem."
Seeing this, Gu Rong said no more. With a flicker of his body, he appeared a hundred meters directly in front of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. The beast glared at him, looking as if it were facing a great enemy.
Gu Xuan's fourth soul ring lit up as he opened a Spatial Portal, leading Dugu Yan to a high branch deep in the forest to watch. Gu Xuan wasn't reckless enough to fight the tiger himself, but he wanted to observe its combat style closely.
As Gu Rong approached within thirty meters of the beast, he felt the surrounding light dim. Though the sky was cloudless and the sun was shining brightly, a hundred-meter radius around the tiger had fallen into murky darkness.
"Hmm?" Gu Rong paused, realizing the situation as the air became heavy and saturated with dark energy. This Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed a domain!
In the world of soul beasts, a domain was usually a guaranteed trait only for 100,000-year-old soul beasts. This proved that the tiger's talent was truly transcendent. However, against a Rank 97 powerhouse like Gu Rong, its chances of escape were slim, let alone harming him.
Gu Xuan watched from afar, reflecting that this was likely the same beast Tang San would encounter years later in the original story. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed a tyrannical nature: it didn't cultivate normally but grew by devouring the soul power of other beasts and humans. This made it a pariah in the forest, often hunted down before it could reach maturity. A 60,000-year specimen was an extreme rarity.
"Roar!"
The tiger's crimson eyes glowed. Instead of fleeing, it stepped forward with an air of excitement. Gu Rong smiled thinly. "Foolish."
In the original story, this beast escaped from both the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape. But the current Gu Rong was far beyond his past self. At Rank 97, his mastery over spatial power was absolute.
The giant tiger raised its massive Evil God Hook. Every sway of the tail caused ripples of gray, sinister energy in the air. As it advanced, the temperature dropped sharply, filled with a chill that was evil to the core.
Gu Rong walked forward calmly, his nine soul rings manifesting one by one: Yellow, Yellow, Purple, Purple, Black, Black, Black, Black, Black. Despite the rhythmic pulsing of the rings, his soul power was perfectly restrained.
The tiger grew cautious as it recognized the human's rank. It stopped thirty meters away, its cold eyes watching Gu Rong with a terrifying, human-like intelligence. Gu Rong noticed its gaze and smiled. "Looking for a flaw?"
He didn't relax his guard. His fourth purple ring flared. "Fourth Soul Skill: Bone Prison!"
Massive, tyrannical spinal bones erupted from the ground, surging with dragon-like majesty. This strike was at least a hundred times more powerful than Gu Xuan's version. The tiger instantly realized the human's strength and leaped into the air without even flapping its wings.
"Wind?" Gu Rong noted.
The tiger opened its maw, unleashing a torrent of violent thunder. The lightning shattered the rising bone spikes, allowing it to evade the cage.
"Thunder?" Gu Rong said, genuinely impressed. "This beast is indeed special, a super-mutant comparable to a god-level Martial Soul."
His third ring lit up. "Third Soul Skill: Bone Dragon Deterrence!"
A powerful dragon-like pressure radiated outward. The tiger stiffened in mid-air, its eyes bulging as it crashed to the ground. Even for a beast like this, a mental strike from a peak Super Douluo was devastating.
As it fell, more bone spikes rose to skewer it. The tiger snapped awake, its body erupting with gray-black mist that formed a spherical shield. This was its ultimate defense: Evil God Protection!
The bone spikes slammed into the shield with a deafening boom. The tiger wasn't hurt, but the impact sent it flying back into the sky. Its shield dimmed significantly; it could likely only take two more hits of that caliber—a feat that proved its power, as that strike was equivalent to a full attack from a Rank 95 Super Douluo.
Roaring in fury, the tiger flapped its wings, unleashing dozens of black light blades made of wind and evil energy. They were instantaneous—a mark of absolute control.
Gu Rong raised his hand, summoning more bone spikes that met the blades head-on, neutralizing them. He noted that the "evil" attribute was an evolved form of darkness, far more potent. "Heh, enough play. This beast is perfect for Xuan'er."
Suddenly, Gu Rong's soul power surged to a terrifying level. The tiger, sensing an aura far more frightening than the lords of the forest it had faced before, immediately turned to flee.
"Thinking of leaving now? Too late."
Gu Rong's eighth black ring shone. A three-meter Spatial Portal appeared before him, and he stepped through.
The tiger was incredibly fast, covering ten thousand meters in seconds. But the space in front of it began to ripple like water. It tried to turn, but it was too late.
A massive Spatial Portal, fifty meters in diameter, opened. A thirty-meter-long, terrifying Bone Dragon soared out, its claws—each ten meters wide—clamping down on the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
The beast panicked, unleashing its six attributes: Space, Thunder, Wind, Evil, Time, and Darkness.
"Trying to show off your meager skills before me?" the Bone Dragon snorted. "Spatial Imprisonment!"
Silver-white light enveloped the tiger, cutting it off from the world. No matter how it struggled, it couldn't break the thin film of light. This was Gu Rong's self-created skill—an absolute isolation.
In a last-ditch effort, the tiger's tail hook glowed with gray-black light. This was its life-saving god-skill: Life-and-Death Arena.
This skill typically pulls both parties into a special dimension where the opponent is regressed to childhood, while the tiger remains unchanged. In the original story, Tang San only won by reflecting the light back at the tiger.
However, the tiger was stunned. Its Evil God Light couldn't even penetrate the Spatial Imprisonment; it merely caused a ripple on the surface.
"Oh?" Gu Rong said with surprise. "Spatial power? I didn't expect you to have such mastery over it. If I were just a new Titled Douluo, you might have escaped. But now? Even a Rank 98 Super Douluo would need time to break this, let alone a soul beast with less than 100,000 years of cultivation."
The imprisonment cut off all sound, leaving the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to struggle uselessly in its silver cage.
(End of Chapter)
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