Chapter 19: The 100,000-Year Soul Ring Revealed, Yu Tianfei Dies!
"Pretending to be something you're not!"
Yu Tianfei suppressed his growing unease and roared angrily.
"Attack together! Take him down!"
The five servants exchanged glances, forcibly suppressing their panic, and simultaneously activated their soul skills.
Flames, lightning, stone spikes... all sorts of soul skills attacked Ye Tianchen from different angles. They looked chaotic, but in fact they blocked all his escape routes. Although they were only Great Soul Masters, their well-coordinated attacks forced even a four-ring Soul Ancestor to temporarily retreat!
But Ye Tianchen did not dodge. He didn't even look at the five people's attack. He simply raised his hand, palm up.
"Azure Slowing Domain!"
A sky-blue light burst forth from Ye Tianchen's right arm. The next second, it detached from Ye Tianchen's arm, intertwined and expanded in the air, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a phantom that rose from the ground.
The giant python coiled behind Ye Tianchen. Its head alone was the size of a house. Its body was bluish-black, and it had bull horns on its head. It looked down at Yu Tianfei and the others with a cold gaze as if they were ants.
"Heavens... Azure Bull Python..."
An elderly servant collapsed to the ground, screaming incoherently.
"The overlord of the Star Dou Forest... the 100,000-year-old soul beast, the Azure Bull... Python!!"
An invisible wave swept over the five people's soul skills and their bodies. The shooting soul skills, the five people's bodies, and even their souls all slowed down in an instant, like insects wrapped in pine resin.
"Second Soul Skill, Raging Thunder and Scorching Flames!"
As Ye Tianchen paced, a crimson and a purple light rose from beneath his feet. The second purple soul ring was clearly visible, but what immediately caught Yu Tianfei's attention was that undeniable crimson glow!
The red was so deep, so pure, like congealed blood, or like a burning flame.
It spreads from a single point into a perfect circle, with countless mysterious patterns flowing around its body, resembling a giant python with its tail constantly coiling.
The crimson spirit ring slowly rotated, hovering at Ye Tianchen's toes.
There was no burst of oppressive force, no impact of soul power.
But the sinister smile on Yu Tianfei's face froze completely in that instant.
His mouth was still open, his eyes were still wide open, but all his expressions were frozen on his face, as if someone had pressed the pause button.
The five servants were even worse off. Although their bodies and souls were slowed down by the Slowing Domain, the expressions on their faces still turned into a look of utter terror as if they had seen a ghost.
"This...this is impossible..."
Yu Tianfei's voice was dry and hoarse, his throat feeling like it was being rubbed with sandpaper.
"Red...red...hundred thousand years...spirit ring...."
He shook his head violently, as if trying to shake away the nightmare before him.
"Illusion! It must be an illusion! How could you possibly have a 100,000-year spirit ring! Even the clan leader, a titled Douluo, doesn't have a 100,000-year spirit ring. You're just a piece of trash with a spirit power level of ten! How could you possibly possess one..."
In response to Yu Tianfei was Luo Sanpao's swollen figure, the cracking ground spewing forth flames, and the thunderbolts crashing down from the dark clouds.
Under the terrifying power of Ye Tianchen's second soul skill, the five servants shrouded in the Azure Slowing Domain didn't even have time to scream before their soul skills were instantly annihilated.
At the same time, Ye Tianchen, who was wearing red and purple soul rings, walked right in front of Yu Tianfei.
Yu Tianfei finally broke down.
He stumbled backward, tripped over a tree root, and fell hard onto the dead leaves.
But he didn't care about his disheveled appearance; he just stared intently at the scarlet soul ring and at Ye Tianchen's calm face.
"Impossible...impossible...how could you absorb a 100,000-year-old soul ring...you'll explode and die...this is impossible...you're nothing but trash! Trash..."
He repeated himself incoherently, his reason crumbling.
"Under normal circumstances, it is indeed impossible."
Ye Tianchen nodded, as if they were having an academic discussion.
"But what if it's a sacrifice?"
"Sacrifice...?"
"A 100,000-year-old soul beast voluntarily sacrificed itself, giving away its soul, soul ring, and soul bone without reservation."
Ye Tianchen spoke slowly.
"In this way, even a level 10 Soul Warrior can withstand it."
At the same time, Ye Tianchen looked at Luo Sanpao, whose shrunken form was hovering on his shoulder, and his gaze softened for a moment.
"Similarly, with the sacrifice of the Azure Bull Python, Sanpao's bloodline was enhanced."
Luo Sanpao nuzzled Ye Tianchen's cheek, his vertical pupils filled with affection.
Yu Tianfei's brain had stopped functioning.
A 100,000-year-old soul beast sacrifice? How could something that only exists in legends happen to this good-for-nothing? And that little green snake that he feared was actually evolved from Luo Sanpao?!
Shocked, Yu Tianfei felt a strange pang of jealousy. He never imagined that one day he would be jealous of that lowly good-for-nothing!
"Now....."
Ye Tianchen looked at him again, his eyes returning to their icy coldness.
"You just said you wanted to break every single one of my bones?"
He took a step forward, a simple movement, but Yu Tianfei felt as if the entire world was pressing down on him.
He wanted to escape, to run, to shout, but his body wouldn't obey him.
The crimson soul ring didn't exude pressure, but rather a suppression originating from the soul, just as a rabbit cannot resist a tiger, and an insect cannot defy a dragon.
"No...no..."
Under extreme pressure, Yu Tianfei finally regained his voice, but it was already choked with sobs.
"Ye Tianchen... no, Tianchen... I was wrong... I shouldn't have come... please let me go... I promise I'll never do it again..."
"It's too late."
Ye Tianchen stopped three steps in front of him, looking down at this once arrogant and invincible number one genius of the family.
"You're too late."
He repeated his initial words.
"If you had come a month and a half ago, I might have been completely at your mercy."
He paused, his voice so soft it sounded like a sigh.
"But now, I am not the same person I used to be. Moreover... a 100,000-year soul ring and a 100,000-year soul bone have been exposed before your eyes. Tell me yourself, is there any chance of survival? Even if I spare you, the Titan brothers will not."
The other name Ye Tianchen uttered caused Yu Tianfei to momentarily freeze. As if responding to Ye Tianchen's call, the small black mountain that had always stood to the side in the darkness suddenly moved. In Yu Tianfei's eyes, which were wide with rage, a pair of golden, round pupils opened and locked onto him.
"Titan... Titan Ape... yet another 100,000-year-old soul beast..."
Yu Tianfei felt his worldview collapsing. His words from not long ago had come true: there really was a Title Douluo-level being by Ye Tianchen's side!
"Is the meat soup still not ready, Brother Tianchen? I've already taken a nap."
The Titan Ape yawned, not even glancing at Yu Tianfei.
"It will be ready soon."
Ye Tianchen responded to the Titan Ape, and then looked at Yu Tianfei kneeling in front of him.
"You heard that too, stop disturbing our meal."
"Don't kill me...don't kill me..."
Yu Tianfei wept uncontrollably and kowtowed repeatedly.
"I know I was wrong… I really know I was wrong… I'll tell you a secret… your father… your father is Yu Zhantian…"
The response to Yu Tianfei was a bolt of azure lightning that struck down from the clear sky.
[end of the chapter]