NOVEL WEB Chapter 28 Emergency Situation
Chapter 28 Emergency Situation
As the son of the plane of Douluo Continent, the time traveler also inherited the fate and luck that originally came with Huo Yuhao.
For those chosen by destiny, there is no such thing as smooth sailing. For them, the so-called no accidents are often the most unexpected thing.
According to the original plan, Huo Yuhao had already brought the soul hunting team to the territory that was supposed to be occupied by the group of big-headed spirit apes.
What Huo Yuhao was targeting this time was none other than the soul ring of the leader of this big-headed spirit ape, a big-headed spirit ape whose cultivation had just surpassed a thousand years old.
With Huo Yuhao's current physical condition, although it is a bit difficult, but with the help of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and his current physical condition, it is more than enough for him to absorb the Millennium Soul Ring.
It was just that after this jungle and the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had been covered and detected by his spiritual power, the information shared with Huo Yuhao had undergone some subtle changes.
At this time, the jungle was unusually quiet and it was difficult to find any traces of other soul beasts' activities. Only Huo Yuhao could use his Eye of Truth to keenly perceive those hidden tracks.
"What's going on? Although the big-headed spirit ape is one of the smartest spirit beasts, it is not in their nature to cover up their movements in their own territory."
"Have there been any other changes?" While thinking, Huo Yuhao also made a cautious gesture to the others.
At this time, Lie Yong narrowed his eyes and said, "Something is not right. We should have entered the territory of some soul beast, and it should be a more troublesome kind. You should be careful."
Afterwards, the Soul Saint's soul power aura rose, and the pressure like a raging fire spread to the surroundings. Even though Huo Yuhao and others were not targeted by Lie Yong, they also felt a sense of suffocation due to the huge gap in soul power.
As Lie Yong's soul power spread outward, the originally quiet jungle began to become restless. Some weak soul beasts in the distance fled away from here, while powerful soul beasts farther away showed their auras to counter Lie Yong's soul power.
It was just because of the soul beasts' territorial awareness that although those ten thousand year old soul beasts in the deeper depths began to become restless, they did not easily cross their own territories to come and deal with Lie Yong.
Huo Yuhao and his companions also entered a state of martial spirit possession and observed their surroundings vigilantly. Under the pressure of Lie Yong's spirit power, the soul beasts that were originally hiding in this territory revealed their auras one after another.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" Above the treetops, monkeys let out loud cries. At the same time, the surrounding woods began to sway without wind, and the movement gradually approached Huo Yuhao and the others.
Then, in the dark forest, glowing eyes stared closely at Huo Yuhao and the others.
Among them, there are a few with strong auras, and the size of their heads are much larger than those of other big-headed spirit apes. It is obvious that they are close to, or have almost reached the thousand-year-old level of big-headed spirit apes.
Lie Yong's face looked a little ugly. He had now entered the state of being possessed by a martial spirit. His entire body had transformed into a humanoid lion. His flaming hair had turned into long mane that spread and burned behind him.
At the same time, his body was covered with armor that resembled molten flames. This was the complete form of his martial soul, the Molten Lion.
Through the tree canopy, large-headed spirit apes with a strength of about a hundred years old were watching Huo Yuhao and his group.
There are about thirty soul beasts, which are nothing to a Soul Sage like Lie Yong who graduated from Shrek Academy. But you have to know that apart from himself, there are four other students with weaker strength in the entire team.
The attacks of spirit beasts have always been known to be unpredictable, impossible to guard against, treacherous and insidious.
Although the big-headed spirit ape is regarded as an auxiliary beast martial spirit in soul masters, it is not the case in the natural environment.
Due to their gregarious nature, the big-headed ape tribe is inherently able to temporarily bless other members of the tribe with a portion of their own mental power, or to amplify the mental power of other members of the tribe.
With this and the extremely powerful innate mental power of the big-headed ape, and with the help of the strength of the entire tribe, the big-headed ape can often defeat enemies whose individual strength far exceeds the average strength of the tribe.
The big-headed spirit ape is a vegetarian and will not actively attack other soul beasts, so there are almost no ordinary soul beasts below the level of ten thousand years that would choose to seek trouble with the big-headed spirit ape.
Most of the natural enemies of the big-headed spirit apes are other soul beasts with the same spiritual attributes. This is because except for some leader soul beasts that are born as a result of mutations within some tribes, soul beasts with spiritual attributes generally act alone.
The brain of the big-headed spirit ape can make up for the lost spiritual power of those solitary spiritual beasts, and even has the effect of increasing the spiritual power foundation, which is very beneficial for spiritual beasts.
Therefore, some powerful spiritual soul beasts will specifically invade the population of big-headed spirit apes through sneak attacks. Before the big-headed spirit apes can react and enter a full combat state, they will kidnap the big-headed spirit apes that act alone and hunt them.
Therefore, soul beasts such as the big-headed spirit ape, which have the ability to protect themselves but are also popular in the eyes of solitary spiritual beasts, have a certain population size but rarely have particularly strong ones or tribes.
However, this group of big-headed spirit apes seemed to be a little different. In Huo Yuhao's eyes, the soul power structure and mental power of one of the soul beasts hidden deep in the shadows of the jungle were very different from those of the other big-headed spirit apes, and were much stronger.
Its soul power level is probably around a thousand years, but its mental power is far beyond that of ordinary thousand-year soul beasts, and it can even fight against some ten-thousand-year soul beasts that are not good at mental power.
"Eh? Three-eyed demon ape, that's strange. I didn't find any of these guys in the outer area of the Star Dou Great Forest when I used my mental power to detect them before."
"And normally, the three-eyed demon ape and the big-headed spirit ape are not from the same tribe. Why is this guy here?"
The voice of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm echoed in Huo Yuhao’s sea of consciousness. When Huo Yuhao felt that something was wrong, he awakened the sleeping Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm through spiritual sharing.
"Could it be that it was attracted by your previous mental fluctuations?" Huo Yuhao talked to the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm through mental sharing.
"Well, that's possible. No, this three-eyed demon ape is not an ordinary three-eyed demon ape. It may be some kind of mutant soul beast, so it was exiled from the mixed zone."
"The three-eyed demon ape is good at creating fear and mental control. I can feel that its mental frequency is very different from that of ordinary three-eyed apes. The direction of its mutation should be to enhance its mental ability of command."
"And I can feel that compared to the normal three-eyed demon ape, this guy's aura is colder and darker, and he must have mutated into an evil soul beast."
"This is probably why there are only about thirty of the original sixty members of this group of big-headed apes left now."
'It's no wonder that it can become the leader of this group of big-headed spirit apes. After all, the three-eyed demon ape's own racial bloodline level plus the bonus of mutant individuals are much stronger than ordinary big-headed spirit apes.'
"Tsk tsk tsk, it looks like you guys are in big trouble this time. The mutant three-eyed demon ape plus this group of thirty big-headed spirit apes are not easy to deal with."
Since the mutated three-eyed demon ape's aura had been blocked by its mental power, Lie Yong, whose attention was focused on the big-headed spirit ape around him, did not notice the other party's hiding place.
At this moment, his eyes were filled with deep fear. Soul beasts that live in groups are already difficult to deal with, let alone soul beasts with spiritual attributes.
Originally, they only used the power of Soul Saint to temporarily force back the soul beast tribes in this area, but they didn't expect that these big-headed spirit apes would actually dare to attack them. Are they courting death?
However, Lie Yong glanced at Huo Yuhao who was standing beside him and said, "Big-headed Spirit Ape, how do you feel about this soul beast? Is it suitable as your second soul ring?"
Huo Yuhao nodded: "Yes, it is indeed one of my target soul beasts, but I can feel that the several big-headed spirit apes with strong auras that have appeared now do not seem to be the real leaders of the big-headed spirit apes."
Huo Yuhao then cast his gaze towards an inconspicuous patch of grass in the distance: “I can sense that there seems to be a very subtle spiritual fluctuation in that place, but it is not very noticeable among the spiritual powers emitted by the big-headed spirit apes.”
Hearing this, Lie Yong raised his eyebrows. Although he was also a Soul Sage, he was not proficient in the use of mental power. It was just that the soul power brought by his strength and the increased mental power made him less susceptible to the influence of spiritual soul skills.
However, due to the interference of the mental power frequencies emitted by a large number of big-headed spirit apes, he was unable to distinguish the existence of the three-eyed demon ape. He only saw Lie Yong roaring angrily and directly transformed into the form of his martial soul's true body, and then the sixth soul ring under his feet flashed.
From behind him, a red lion covered in molten flame armor and made of soul power attacked directly in the direction where Huo Yuhao was looking.
Along with this, the light of Lie Yong's fifth soul skill lit up. A red sound wave was seen under Lie Yong's conscious control, hitting the strongest big-headed spirit apes.
The big-headed apes had no time to dodge or resist. After being hit by the sound waves, they fell directly off the tree, seriously injured and fainted.
Seeing this, all the big-headed spirit apes squeaked anxiously, and then several big-headed spirit apes that were hundreds of years old had fear in their eyes, but they rushed towards the molten flame lion that was transformed by Lie Yong's sixth soul skill without hesitation.
However, how can the big-headed spirit ape, who has cultivated for a hundred years, rely on its physical strength, which is not its strong point, to hinder the sixth soul skill of a soul saint who has activated the amplification of his martial soul true body?
Even before being hit by the spirit skill, these big-headed spirit apes used their own spirit power and mental strength to prop up a protective shield from the outside world, but this shield was like a burst bubble and did not play any blocking role at all.
This can be described as attacking the enemy while rescuing the enemy first, and capturing the leader first. Although Lie Yong was restrained by the presence of the students, he also chose to believe that these students could protect themselves at the first moment.
Then he prepared to deal with the leader of these big-headed apes as quickly as possible, because although the big-headed apes were organized and disciplined.
But it is precisely because of this that their greatest weakness is exposed. As I said before, although soul beasts like the big-headed spirit ape are quite intelligent, they are still soul beasts after all.
They could never enforce discipline and unify their behavior by themselves. There must be other soul beasts directing and commanding them from behind.
However, this kind of control also has its drawbacks. Although it can maximize the power of the big-headed apes, once the ruler himself is threatened, the big-headed apes who are controlled and affected will definitely give priority to the ruler.
In this case, Lie Yong made the quickest decision possible, attacking Wei to save Zhao, forcing the big-headed apes to give up attacking the weaker students and instead go to support their leader.
In this way, the rhythm of the battle was back in his own hands. In this way, although there were a lot of big-headed spirit apes, it would not be difficult for an elite Soul Sage to kill or repel them.
Under Lie Yong's intentional control, he slowed down the attack of the Molten Flame Lion, giving the soul beast leader who was manipulating it behind the scenes enough time to react, and took this opportunity to reduce the number of big-headed spirit apes as much as possible.
With just one strike, more than a dozen big-headed spirit apes were killed or injured, but at the same time, the power of Lie Yong's sixth soul skill was greatly reduced, and then it was broken by a purple dark soul power in the shadow.
Afterwards, Huo Yuhao felt a sudden tiny ripple in his sea of spirituality, and then he heard Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm snort coldly.
"Hmph, little monkey, you still want to touch my people? Yuhao is it. Although it is only about 1,100 years old, it should be very suitable for you. With me here, you can absorb its spirit ring boldly without worry."
"As for the lack of age of its spirit rings, I will use my spiritual power to help you upgrade them again in the future. I promise that all your spirit rings will be at the level of 100,000 years!"
Huo Yuhao responded, "Yes, but the most important thing right now is not this." He moved as fast as lightning, and dozens of silver needles flew out and pierced the acupuncture points of the other three students.
Before these students could react, they fell straight to the ground. They were still mumbling something incoherently and their eyes became dull.
It was obvious that their limbs could no longer obey the commands of their brains. Huo Yuhao then said, “Teacher Lie, the guy in hiding wants to use his mental power to influence us. I can’t resist him for long. Please make a quick decision.”
Huo Yuhao then activated the pre-prepared third-level soul power circuit, Refraction. The surrounding big-headed spirit apes screamed when they saw that their boss’s mental control method had failed, and they had no other effective means of attack for a while.
(End of this chapter)