Chapter 185: Meng Shu, Dead!
Boom! The mighty Sky Hammer shattered Su Yun's Blue Silver Forest like decayed wood, turning it into thousands of splinters. The surrounding thousand-year soul beasts were also smashed into blood mist by Tang Hao's hammer, with only their soul rings floating above their corpses.
The moment the hammer touched Su Yun, a soul device in his left hand suddenly emitted a bright light, once again protecting him. This was a protective soul device given to Su Yun by Bibi Dong.
It could perfectly block a full-strength hit from a Soul Saint-level powerhouse. However, even against Tang Hao's formidable strike, the soul device could only hold for a moment before also dissipating into light.
Yet, it was this device's buffer that helped Su Yun withstand Tang Hao's most powerful onslaught. When the protective light shield disappeared, Su Yun was sent flying hundreds of meters by the aftermath of the Sky Hammer, his internal organs nearly shattered by the force.
If it weren't for the Taiyi Green Wood Technique he had practiced before, Su Yun would have been flattened by Tang Hao's hammer. Even so, Su Yun was struck unconscious by the hammer.
Blood spurted from his mouth as he flew like a kite without a string for hundreds of meters, scraping a long mark on the ground before finally coming to a stop.
"We did it!" Seeing Su Yun knocked unconscious by his strike, a joyous expression immediately appeared on Tang Hao's face! Meng Shu, having dodged the aftermath of Tang Hao's hammer, was equally delighted to see Su Yun finally taken down.
At the same time, seeing the many soul beast corpses and soul rings around, Dragon Lord Meng Shu felt a slight regret.
If his granddaughter were here, perhaps she could have found a suitable soul ring among them. Tang Hao's hammer was so powerful that even ten-thousand-year soul beasts could hardly resist it.
The ground was littered not only with thousand-year soul rings but also with many ten-thousand-year soul rings.
"Well done! Hard work pays off, Haotian Douluo." The next second, Meng Shu came to Tang Hao's side, supporting the excessively overburdened Tang Hao, giving him support to lean on.
Now, Tang Hao's right leg was practically half-crippled. Already weakened, his body became extremely frail after releasing such a powerful attack all at once.
"The center of the Star Dou Great Forest is said to harbor hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, including many ninety-thousand-year level ones. My attack just now was too loud and might have attracted their attention."
Tang Hao advised, "Before they arrive here, we should take Su Yun and leave this place as soon as possible."
Dragon Lord Meng Shu nodded slightly, naturally agreeing with Tang Hao's suggestion: "Let's follow your plan."
"You wait here, I'll go get that kid."
Dragon Lord Meng Shu helped Tang Hao sit on a rock, then moved swiftly, reaching the severely injured and unconscious Su Yun in a few breaths.
At this moment, Su Yun was covered in blood, and anyone could feel the severity of his injuries.
However, as soon as Meng Shu approached Su Yun, he saw a faint blue and golden aura, like mist, appearing around Su Yun's body, and even green patterns intertwined on his skin. The two combined incredibly fast, miraculously healing his body and helping him through the brink of death.
"Incredible!" Feeling the supreme life force emanating from Su Yun and seeing his condition stabilize, Meng Shu couldn't help but gasp in amazement at the unbelievable recovery speed, which even some proficient healing soul masters might not achieve.
"If Ye Zhiqiu with his Nine-Heart Begonia saw this, he would probably feel inferior," Meng Shu thought to himself, his eyelids twitching.
Meng Shu's gaze then got attracted by a force and settled on Su Yun's right leg, where a vigorous blue-golden light, seemingly alive and breathing, shone brightly.
The life force emanating from there flowed through Su Yun's limbs along the meridians like water, frantically providing continuous healing resources for Su Yun's injuries.
"Hiss—this is… a soul bone!" Meng Shu, sensing the extreme soul force fluctuation from Su Yun's right leg, couldn't help but gasp again. "Such a powerful soul bone not only possesses life-healing power but also grants this kid the extreme speed and flying ability only Title Douluos possess!"
"Such a soul bone must remain with my Meng family!" Meng Shu's eyes flickered, and glancing back at Tang Hao, who had just lost his right leg, his mind became conflicted.
Tang Hao had told him that to restore his right leg, he needed a right leg bone soul bone within a month.
And the older the soul bone, the better!
Given the value of the soul bone Su Yun possessed, it was definitely not inferior to any top-tier soul bone treasure!
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Meng Shu truly did not wish from the bottom of his heart to give the soul bone to Tang Hao.
Just as doubts and plans on how to embezzle Su Yun's soul bone started surfacing in Meng Shu's heart, suddenly, Tang Hao's furious shout abruptly resounded behind him! "Elder Meng! Run!"
Run? Meng Shu did not immediately grasp the meaning behind Tang Hao's words.
But in the next second, Meng Shu noticed the area around him suddenly became pitch dark. He quickly raised his head, only to see two eyes resembling golden moonlight gazing down at him from above, while below those golden eyes, two white streams were being exhaled from the nostrils.
An aura akin to a mountain god instantly enveloped the center of the Star Dou Great Forest! "A... A Titan Giant Ape?!" Meng Shu immediately recognized the being before him not as some small hill, but the true ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest— the Titan Giant Ape! "Human, was it you who laid hands on my kind just now?" the Titan Giant Ape spoke human language, swinging its big hand covered in black fur, intending to grasp Meng Shu within.
Speaking human language?! A hundred thousand-year soul beast?!
Only a true hundred thousand-year soul beast could speak! Meng Shu had always thought that the Titan Giant Ape within the Star Dou Great Forest was merely a powerful ten thousand-year soul beast.
It seems he had underestimated the terror of the Star Dou Great Forest! Realizing the terror of the Titan Giant Ape, Meng Shu immediately attempted to escape its grasp.
However, just as Meng Shu tried to flee the area, a tremendously powerful force instantly pinned him in place.
No matter how Meng Shu tried to use his movement techniques, he was as slow as a snail! "A domain?!"
"This is the power of a domain?!" Meng Shu discovered that the Titan Giant Ape could even exert the power of a domain, which shocked him to the point of turning pale.
He immediately summoned his martial soul to fight against the Titan Giant Ape in front of him, but before he could summon his martial soul, he was already brutally grasped in its hand, rendered unable to move.
The Titan Giant Ape lifted Meng Shu up, holding him before its eyes.
Meng Shu, despite being an extremely powerful Soul Douluo, found himself utterly powerless against the hundred thousand-year soul beast, the Titan Giant Ape, leading him to despair.
"Human, did you kill these soul beasts?" Suddenly, a voice, utterly different from that of the Titan Giant Ape, rang out before Meng Shu.
Meng Shu was startled and then shifted his gaze, only to find a human girl in a white dress standing on the shoulder of the Titan Giant Ape! "You are a human... No! Are you a hundred thousand-year soul beast in human form?!" As a Soul Douluo, Meng Shu quickly recognized the identity of the girl in the white dress after only a brief moment of surprise and doubt.
The girl in the white dress did not reply to Meng Shu's question, simply repeating her previous question: "Human, I ask you again, did you kill these soul beasts?"
Xiao Wu's gaze fell on the feet of the Titan Giant Ape.
At this moment, a few hundred meters radius of the forest in the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest had been destroyed.
Many thousand-year soul beasts lost their lives due to Tang Hao's hammer strike.
Not to mention, some ten thousand-year soul beasts also died under Tang Hao's fatal hammer strike.
Although Xiao Wu was not from the same group as those soul beasts, she was now considered the queen of the soul beasts within the Star Dou Great Forest and naturally needed to look after the weaker soul beasts in the forest.
After all, they were the main force in the confrontation against humans.
Meng Shu, held in the hand of the Titan Giant Ape, with his arms tightly clamped, could not make any resistive movements, only his legs and head flailing wildly.
He never expected that he, almost the most powerful among humans except for the Title Douluos, was now completely helpless, held in the hand of a soul beast.
No! I cannot die! I still have a wife and granddaughter waiting for me to return! The faces of Meng Shu's wife and granddaughter flashed through his mind, and he immediately said, "If I tell you who did it, will you let me go?"
Faced with Meng Shu's ridiculous question, Xiao Wu showed a disdainful smile on her face, not bothering to respond to him, for she had already identified the true perpetrator of this tragedy.
"Erming, do it." Xiao Wu's voice, like a decree from the heavens, sentencing life and death, rang out in Meng Shu's ears.
Meng Shu, hearing her voice, immediately widened his eyes, wanting to resist and escape.
However, before he could make any move, the Titan Giant Ape had already exerted tremendous force with its right hand and, like crushing a piece of tofu, directly squished the human Soul Douluo in its hand into pieces.
A cloud of blood mist exploded in its palm, accompanied by Meng Shu's desperate scream.
Standing on the shoulder of the Titan Giant Ape, Xiao Wu looked at the bloody scene before her, her eyes showing no fluctuation.
For at that moment, her gaze had already fallen on Tang Hao, who was surrounded by a group of soul beasts in the distance.
(End of chapter)
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