In Douluo, there is a way to die.

Chapter 145 I, Xiao Wu, will not let any of those who hurt Third Brother get away with it!

As is well known, the royal family of the Star Luo Empire consists of two powerful families: the Dai family, which inherits the White Tiger Martial Soul, and the Zhu family, which possesses the Netherworld Cat Martial Soul.

What binds these two families of Soul Masters together and gives them the confidence to maintain their long-standing rule is the Soul Fusion Skill that the two families might combine to create—the Netherworld White Tiger.

As a standard template, a martial soul fusion skill without any special mechanisms, in the era of Dou Yi where the cultivation system was scarce, it was indeed enough to be called a "weapon of mass destruction". Against ordinary soul masters, the Netherworld White Tiger even had the ability to kill those above its level.

Throughout the countless years of the Xingluo royal family's existence, the Zhu family married their daughters to the Dai family's emperor, and the Dai family married their princesses to the Zhu family. The two families have a long history of intermarriage, and their bloodlines have become so mixed that it's hard to imagine how far apart they have become.

Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing's mother, Zhu Lanfeng's wife, was indeed Dai Mubai's aunt and the current Xingluo Emperor's sister.

In other words, Zhu Zhuqing must have the bloodline of the Dai family within her. What Yinlan needs to do is to awaken the bloodline of the Dai family within Zhu Zhuqing, just as he awakened the bloodline of Bibi Dong within Qian Renxue, and guide it to merge with Zhu Zhuqing's own power, transforming it into her own power.

Thus, the Netherworld White Tiger Martial Soul was born. Compared to developing Qian Renxue's bloodline back then, developing Zhu Zhuqing's bloodline was indeed much easier, taking only one day and one night to fully develop.

Such a drastic change was entirely within Yin Lan's expectations. Twenty thousand years later, in the era of Douluo Continent III, it is unknown whether the Netherworld Cat Martial Soul has become stronger or the White Tiger Martial Soul has become weaker. In any case, Wu Siduo, who possesses the twin Martial Souls "White Tiger" and "Netherworld Cat", will be able to perform the "Self-Martial Soul Fusion Technique" Netherworld White Tiger, just like Yin Lan.

However, Yinlan's assessment was that the self-fusion skill Netherworld White Tiger was not as good as the single Netherworld White Tiger... Wu Siduo's fighting style was very difficult to counter. If she couldn't beat the Netherworld Cat, she would switch to the White Tiger skill. If she still couldn't beat the White Tiger skill, she would use the Netherworld White Tiger. In the end, she didn't know what happened to the opponent, but she was definitely out of mana. It was quite humorous.

The main reason for this outcome is that spirit fusion skills are always extremely energy-intensive and mana-consuming. Normal spirit fusion skills are usually performed by two or more people who share the pressure of energy consumption. However, "self-spirit fusion skills" are performed by a spirit master with twin spirits who has to expend a large amount of energy to maintain them.

Even Yinlan can no longer maintain the "Flower of Creation" state for long. Her strength has indeed increased a lot compared to before, but correspondingly, the things that her "creative power" can do have become more numerous and refined, which in turn has increased the energy required to maintain this state.

When not fighting, she can maintain the "Flower of Creation" state in a balanced way, with the speed of soul power recovery and consumption barely keeping up, and she can always maintain that white-haired, red-eyed appearance. However, once she enters a battle, the soul power required to maintain this state will increase exponentially. But in all these years, apart from the two times she met Gu Yuena for the first time, no one has ever been able to force her to use this trump card in battle.

If Yinlan was in such a predicament, Wu Siduo's situation would only be more awkward. In addition, the Netherworld White Tiger itself was not a particularly outstanding martial soul fusion skill, which led to the comical situation where she often ran out of mana before she could even defeat her opponent.

Therefore, Yin Lan's evaluation was that it would be better to just give her a single spirit, the Netherworld White Tiger, which would be stronger. The strength of the spirit is that of the Netherworld White Tiger, but the spirit power consumption is only that of a normal single spirit. In addition, in the Douluo Continent III era, there is the "Spirit Ascension Platform" that can increase the age of spirit rings, so there is no need to worry about the spirit ring matching problem.

Regardless, a case that had never occurred in Douluo Star's history for 30,000 years was now brought to life in Zhu Zhuqing thanks to Yin Lan's intervention.

Fortunately, Zhu Zhuqing's original Netherworld Cat Martial Soul's first soul skill was quite good, and her second soul skill was barely passable. After transforming into the current Netherworld White Tiger Martial Soul, it also underwent some changes in a positive direction... In fact, even if her first and second soul skills were the kind of "negative examples" that Yin Lan had mentioned several times, it wouldn't matter. It's only two soul skills, and there's still time to correct them. However, there are still some minor flaws, which make Yin Lan, a perfectionist, somewhat uncomfortable.

The original effect of the first soul skill, Netherworld Thrust, was to increase Zhu Zhuqing's speed by 100%. Now, it also increases her attack and strength by 100%.

The second soul skill, Netherworld Hundred Claws, was pulled but not fully pulled. Its original effect was to allow Zhu Zhuqing to launch hundreds of attacks in a very short time. Although it could be barely regarded as "greatly increasing Zhu Zhuqing's attack speed in a very short time", it was actually a "direct attack" type soul skill with no mechanism, which was the kind that Yin Lan despised the most.

However, this soul skill, just like Qian Renxue's fifth soul skill "Divine Sword" in the original history, actually has a second half effect: it can increase Zhu Zhuqing's attack penetration ability by 10% for a certain period of time. It can be considered a self-amplification. It's better to have it than not to have it. So Yinlan complained that this soul skill was weak but not completely weak.

After Zhu Zhuqing's martial soul changed to the Netherworld White Tiger, her second soul skill still had the original effect, except that the self-amplification of penetration ability changed from +10% to +20%.

The group headed towards the Star Dou Great Forest. As time passed, they ventured deeper into the forest. Compared to the others who were starting to get nervous, Yin Lan and Yin Luo were noticeably more relaxed.

Along the way, Yinlan imparted her philosophy to Bai Chenxiang and Zhu Zhuqing, and also learned about what happened yesterday from Yinluo, which made Yinlan laugh.

How could the small actions of a 100,000-year-old transformed Soft Bone Rabbit with only the strength of a Quasi-Soul Venerable not be noticed by a Title Douluo? What's more, it's an emotion like "resentment," and since she was already on Yin Lan and the others' "special attention" list, any slight reaction would be noticed by Yin Lan and the others.

...Thinking about it carefully, this rabbit was originally quite brave. As a 100,000-year-old transformed soul beast, it still dared to participate in the "All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament," which gathered forces from all over the continent. Facing various academies, it was still outspoken and ruthless, and deliberately showed off its power, being extremely arrogant.

...Even at the very end of the competition, she still dared to glare at Bibi Dong with a face full of resentment.

Yin Lan: ???
No, are you skilled enough or can your gaze kill? A 100,000-year-old transformed soul beast deliberately ran into Wuhun City, where the most powerful humans gathered (conservatively estimated to have had 21 Title Douluos in Wuhun City at the time). What a joke! Isn't that just courting death?
"Son, did Mom handle it well?" Yinluo put her hands on her hips, her face full of pride. "Praise me!" "You really are my mom." Yinlan naturally took the opportunity to flatter her, and casually picked up Yinluo and lifted her up high. What's wrong with her own mother praising her?
At the same time, she fell into thought. If the conflict between Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy happened yesterday, then today would be the day they ran into Meng Yiran while they were obtaining a spirit ring for Oscar.

Speaking of which, Meng Yiran's choice of spirit rings was quite peculiar. Her initial target was the "Millennium Phoenix Tail Crested Serpent." To be frank, Yin Lan really couldn't understand what outstanding spirit skills this snake, which only excelled in flight speed and had no poison whatsoever and only sprayed mist to scare people, could bring to Meng Yiran's "Snake Staff" spirit, or what kind of enhancement it could bring to the spirit.

Meng Yiran's second target was actually the Human-Faced Demon Spider. Putting aside whether she could absorb that two-thousand-year-old Human-Faced Demon Spider, the range of her preferred soul beasts for choosing a soul ring was just too wide!
Finally, let's take another jab at "Master" Yu Xiaogang. One of the events that convinced Tang San was his claim in "The Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls" that "Soul Rings can be absorbed across different types, even weapon-type martial souls can absorb animal soul rings." What a load of nonsense! Look at Meng Yiran, who also has a weapon-type martial soul, and the two soul rings she chose were both animal soul beasts. What a load of rubbish he's spouting.

Yinlan put Yinluo down. In her memory, the day after Oscar obtained his spirit ring, which was tomorrow, was the day when the 100,000-year-old spirit beast Titan Giant Ape Erming sensed Xiaowu's aura. That idiot rushed directly from the core circle of the Star Dou Great Forest to the outer circle where the hundred-year and thousand-year-old spirit beasts lived and kidnapped Xiaowu.

The dates just happened to be different from theirs, so she estimated that she would not encounter the Shrek Academy group again in the Star Dou Great Forest. With Yin Lan's abilities, she could find all the suitable spirit rings for Bai Chenxiang and Zhu Zhuqing today and then leave without catching up with the ferocious beasts.

As for the external soul bone "Eight Spider Lances", Tang San's Eight Spider Lances were generated when he absorbed the soul ring of the Human-Faced Demon Spider. It was similar to her "Dark Gold Terror Claw Right Palm Bone". Before the specific Human-Faced Demon Spider was confirmed to be killed, it was impossible to identify which Human-Faced Demon Spider produced it. There were so many Human-Faced Demon Spiders in the Star Dou Great Forest, and their intelligence was not very high. It was impossible for her to spend time searching for that Human-Faced Demon Spider one by one.

Therefore, they had no choice but to give up. In any case, whether or not Tang San had the "Eight Spider Spears," he would never be able to catch up with her. This thing was not worthy of Yin Lan's attention and time. What value could this thing possibly have?

In the original history, once Tang San used this thing, it ended up broken. Its biggest use was as a ready-made hidden weapon that Tang San threw out. In the end, it became some kind of incongruous "Sea God Eight Wings", which was deliberately designed to be contrasted with Qian Renxue's "Six-Winged Angel" and Bibi Dong's "Six-Winged Purple Light Wings". It was intentionally designed to have two more wings than them, as if it were more advanced.

If it weren't for the fact that Poseidon, the sea god, enhanced it in the original history, this thing would be considered the worst external soul bone in history. Its only value is that it was Tang San's external soul bone, and it became divine equipment along with Tang San when he became a god.

Yinlan stretched out her finger and poked the silver diamond-shaped scale pendant hanging around her neck. An invisible wave emanated from it, and through the communication of mental power, she made a series of calls that were transmitted into the interior of the Star Dou Great Forest. Soon, the sounds of tiger roars and birdsong came from the depths of the forest.

“This peculiar ability always feels fresh no matter how many times I see it,” Dugu Yan’s tense expression gradually relaxed as she looked at Bai Chenxiang and Zhu Zhuqing, who were puzzled, and explained, “Lanlan can even specify a certain soul beast to come. Even if it’s a soul master with a healing plant martial soul like Lingling, Lanlan can find a plant soul beast that is good at healing.”

"Isn't that incredible?" Ye Lingling nodded slightly and said a long sentence, which was rare for her. "Over the years, the soul rings of Yanzi, that Holy Maiden, and I have all been prepared by Lanlan."

Soon, to everyone's astonishment, a cyan afterimage sped past, circled around them a few times, and finally landed on Yinlan's shoulder.

The Thousand-Year Jade Bird arrived first, and shortly after, a muscular tiger with silvery-white fur emerged from the forest—the Thousand-Year Shadow Silver Tiger.

Before Yin Lan could explain the characteristics of the two soul beasts, or speculate on what kind of soul skills they could bring to Bai Chenxiang and Zhu Zhuqing, a sudden change occurred.

Suddenly, the Shadow Tiger stopped moving forward, lowered its body slightly, and let its long tail hang down to the ground. A low, hoarse roar came from its throat, as if it were warning something. The Jade Bird, meanwhile, flapped its wings and took flight with unease.

A huge shadow, like a ghost, suddenly appeared behind everyone, blotting out the sky.

Yinlan turned around in astonishment and saw a giant ape with jet-black fur and muscles as big as two small mountains, standing over seven meters tall, silently emerge from the forest. Its lantern-sized eyes were filled with murderous intent as it looked at the group.

In an instant, Bai Chenxiang and Zhu Zhuqing's faces turned deathly pale. Overwhelmed by fear, they were rooted to the spot and unable to move an inch. Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were also horrified and quickly pulled the two women behind them.

At the Titan Ape's neck, a smug glint flashed in Xiao Wu's eyes.

Just as she expected, this group of people had indeed come to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain spirit rings, since this was her territory!

She is indeed a rabbit, but she is no ordinary rabbit. The two strongest soul beast kings in the Star Dou Great Forest are her brothers!

Now that they're here, aren't the lives of these people at her mercy?
As long as this group of people is left here, regardless of whether the Title Douluo discovers his identity or not, he will no longer be at risk of his identity being exposed. Moreover, given the spirit ring configuration of that Title Douluo, who has harmed so many of his kin, letting them die here can be considered a consolation to the spirits of those kin in heaven!
I, Xiao Wu, will not let any of those who have harmed Third Brother get away with it!

"Humans," the Titan Ape spoke in human language, "how dare you lay a hand on the princess of the Star Dou Great Forest!"

(End of this chapter)