Chapter 24 The Ten-Thousand-Year Thunderwing Tiger, with a Mutated Third Soul Ring and Two Soul Skills?!
"Roar!!"
Another tiger's roar rang out. This time, the roar was almost within reach. Ye Tianchen only saw a flash of golden light in the corner of his eye. The next second, a golden figure broke through the obstruction of the surrounding charred trees and appeared in the open space in front of Ye Tianchen.
It was a giant tiger over five meters long, covered in purple-gold fur, with a pair of wings on its back formed from pure lightning.
When its wingspan was extended, it exceeded eight meters, and each flap of its wings brought forth a sky full of arcs of lightning.
It had a clear "king" character pattern on its forehead, but the pattern was golden, as if it were drawn by lightning.
A ten-thousand-year Thunderwing Tiger! And it was a ten-thousand-year Thunderwing Tiger with a cultivation level of nearly twenty thousand years!
These soul beasts lived by devouring lightning and had an almost fanatical obsession with rare and precious materials of the lightning attribute.
Clearly, it had sensed the energy belonging to that golden bead and regarded Ye Tianchen, who had devoured the golden bead, as a human-shaped tonic.
The Thunderwing Tiger's golden vertical pupils stared intently at Ye Tianchen, its eyes filled with undisguised greed and appetite.
It crouched low, emitting a threatening growl from its throat, and its thunder wings blazed with intense lightning.
"You've taken me for prey, haven't you? Interesting..."
Ye Tianchen smiled, but his smile was icy.
"Then we'll see if you have the ability."
Instead of retreating, he took a step forward.
His level 36 soul power erupted, and a scarlet 100,000-year soul ring, a noble purple soul ring, and a jet-black 10,000-year soul ring appeared simultaneously.
The Azure Dragon, evolved from the Azure Python, coiled itself around Ye Tianchen's shoulder, its golden-green dragon eyes blazing with fighting spirit.
Enraged by the almost defiant look, the Thunderwing Tiger let out a deafening roar and flapped its thunder wings violently!
"BOOM—!!"
Dozens of purple lightning bolts, each as thick as a water bucket, descended from the sky, sealing off all of Ye Tianchen's escape routes.
This was the Thunderwing Tiger's innate ability—Heavenly Thunder Strike, powerful enough to instantly kill an ordinary ten-thousand-year soul beast!
But Ye Tianchen didn't dodge or evade at all. He simply raised his right hand slowly, and the third pitch-black ten-thousand-year soul ring under his feet lit up.
"Third Soul Skill, Thunder Seal - Protection!"
A layer of pale golden lightning armor instantly covered his entire body, with countless tiny lightning patterns flowing across its surface.
The purple lightning bolts slammed into the armor, unleashing deafening roars, scattering lightning in all directions, and blasting deep craters into the ground.
But Ye Tianchen, inside the armor, was completely unharmed.
He could even feel the lightning armor on his body actively absorbing the lightning energy and converting it into his own defense!
"This seems to be more than just a defensive skill. If I change how it operates, and release the absorbed lightning back out..."
A thought flashed through Ye Tianchen's mind, and then he actually tried it.
Golden lightning armor flashed on his body. Stimulated by the lightning, the cells in Ye Tianchen's body were activated in an instant, and his strength and speed increased instantly.
With a powerful stomp, he transformed into a golden bolt of lightning, instantly traversing fifty meters to appear beside the Thunderwing Tiger.
With his right fist clenched, Ye Tianchen channeled all the lightning power he had just absorbed into his right fist. Without the slightest hesitation, he punched the Thunderwing Tiger in the waist and abdomen.
This punch was simple and unadorned, but wherever the fist passed, the air was compressed, creating visible ripples.
Golden electric snakes surged on the surface of his fist, and even the air smelled slightly burnt.
The Thunderwing Tiger reacted extremely quickly, raising its front paws to meet the attack.
Purple lightning crackled around the tiger's claws, powerful enough to tear steel apart.
Fists and claws collided.
"BOOM!!!"
The explosion roared, and Ye Tianchen and the Thunderwing Tiger both staggered backward. Ye Tianchen retreated six steps, while the Thunderwing Tiger only retreated five. It seemed that Ye Tianchen was at a disadvantage, but in reality, Ye Tianchen was using his human body to directly confront the body of a ten-thousand-year soul beast. Not to mention that he was only a three-ring Great Soul Master, even a six-ring Soul Emperor would not dare to choose to confront a ten-thousand-year soul beast head-on with his physical body!
"Such a tough body, no wonder it's a ten-thousand-year soul beast."
Ye Tianchen rubbed his sore arms, and then, a sky-blue light burst forth.
"Soul Bone Technique, Azure Slowing Domain!"
As Ye Tianchen's voice fell, the illusory image of the Azure Bull Python coiling around him appeared behind him. In the slightly frightened eyes of the Thunderwing Tiger, a wave of bluish-gray light instantly enveloped its body.
In an instant, the speed of the Thunderwing Tiger's body, soul, and even soul power flow slowed down tenfold!
"Sanpao, third soul skill, Thunder Seal - Attack!"
As Ye Tianchen's voice fell, the jet-black ten-thousand-year soul ring beneath his feet lit up on Luo Sanpao's slender dragon body. With a majestic dragon roar, something surprising happened to Ye Tianchen.
A yellowish-brown light emanated from Luo Sanpao's body. As his soul power flowed, a suit of yellowish-brown armor covered in sharp spikes quickly condensed on his body. Then, Luo Sanpao aimed at the Thunderwing Tiger, which was shrouded in the Slowing Domain, and charged out like an arrow.
Another explosion rang out, and Luo Sanpao slammed into the Thunderwing Tiger. A slowed scream came from the Thunderwing Tiger's mouth, its waist and abdomen caved in, clearly indicating that Luo Sanpao had broken countless ribs.
"...Different soul skills?!"
To verify his conjecture, the ten-thousand-year soul ring that had been on Luo Sanpao returned to Ye Tianchen's feet once again.
A jet-black light burst forth from the ten-thousand-year soul ring, and golden electricity instantly enveloped Ye Tianchen's body, forming a glittering golden thunder armor.
"It's definitely different! What's going on?!"
Sensing the distinctly different attributes, Ye Tianchen realized that his ten-thousand-year soul ring seemed to have mutated as well.
"Roar—!!"
The sluggish domain that had enveloped its body finally disappeared, and the Thunderwing Tiger struggled to its feet, but the greed in its eyes was gone.
Although the opposing Soul Master seemed weak, the opponent's methods were so powerful that it questioned its very existence.
After being brutally beaten, it finally realized that the human in front of it was not prey, but hunter!
It tried to escape, its thunder wings flapping wildly as it attempted to take off.
"Trying to run?"
Ye Tianchen snorted coldly, and activated his Soul Bone Technique once again, enveloping the Thunderwing Tiger in the gray, sluggish domain.
"I'll tear off your wings, then let's see how you run!"
"Third Soul Skill, Thunder Seal - Attack!"
As Ye Tianchen's voice fell, golden lightning transformed into a golden fist imprint that burst forth from the air, precisely striking the base of the Thunderwing Tiger's lightning wings.
"BOOM!!!"
The pair of lightning wings snapped off instantly, dissipating into the air as pure lightning energy.
Having lost its ability to fly, the Thunderwing Tiger crashed heavily to the ground.
It tried to struggle, but Ye Tianchen's second purple soul ring had already lit up on the Azure Dragon Luo Sanpao. Purple light flashed, and crimson and purple light flickered in Luo Sanpao's mouth. Thunder and flames surged out, instantly enveloping the entire body of the Thunderwing Tiger.
[end of the chapter]