Douluo: From Rusted Spear to Emperor-Slaying Spear

Chapter 26: Sacrifice, Escape from Life and Death
As expected, when Ji Wuming was desperately running forward, he looked back briefly.
The soul beast that was being hunted by the group of beasts was covered in wounds, and blood was frequently flowing from its body, especially its dragon-headed fish body, which was also filled with blue electric currents.
"Could this be an Ichthyosaur?"

But Ji Wuming thought about it, frowned, and felt something was wrong. Top soul beasts like Ichthyosaurs were not likely to produce mutants, not to mention that this place was too far away from the Nine Star Sea.

Even if the ichthyosaur population is almost extinct, there is no way he can encounter one.

At this moment, the wounded Thunder Dragon Fish was suddenly hit from below by a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast. The fleeing Thunder Dragon Fish was directly knocked out of the sea, and several fish bones in its abdomen were directly broken.
“Goohoo—”

It let out a strange cry, and then looked at the many ten-thousand-year soul beasts coming from all directions. Its eyes turned scarlet, and the already dim electric current around its body immediately began to shine, gradually becoming violent.

At the same time, the two fierce sharks swung their tails, and when two extremely powerful water blades came towards it, lightning and thunder quickly erupted around it. With the help of the momentum of the water flow, the power of its strongest move was amplified several times, forming a huge electric net covering five or six hundred meters.

The water blade attack was directly dispersed by the powerful electric current. The two fierce sharks that had no time to escape were killed by the electric current piercing their skulls, floating on the water with their bellies facing up.

When the other ten thousand year old soul beasts saw this, they all slowed down. In their eyes, the Thunder Dragon Fish was using its skills as a final struggle.

At this moment, Ji Wuming was less than 300 meters away from the Thunder Dragon Fish. In order to avoid being affected by its lightning net, Ji Wuming instantly used his first and second soul skills. With the help of his increased speed, defense and his own lightning resistance, he quickly avoided its violent lightning attacks.

However, Ji Wuming, who had just dodged several lightning attacks, seemed to be restrained by some force and could not move, while the Thunder Fish Dragon's skills slowly dissipated.
It took advantage of the fact that the other ten thousand year soul beasts had not yet launched an attack on it, and quickly swam towards Ji Wuming, then jumped up. Ji Wuming was surrounded by black light, and an extremely powerful soul power wave shook the soul beasts that pounced on him away.
Ji Wuming floated in the air as the Thunder Dragon Fish spiraled upwards.
"What does it want to do?"

Before Ji Wuming could react, the Blood Thunder Spear Martial Spirit in his right hand naturally floated in front of him. The entire body of the Thunder Dragon Fish exploded directly, turning into countless pure energies that flowed into the Blood Thunder Spear and Ji Wuming's body.
The blood thunder and blood mist around the Blood Thunder Spear became more violent and dense. It was not until now that Ji Wuming came back to his senses, with a look of shock on his face.

"Oh my god, this, this is a soul beast sacrifice!"

But when he turned around, Ji Wuming's face was filled with worry. Although this soul beast was very suitable for him, its age was 1 years. Even if he absorbed his third soul ring beyond its level, it could only withstand a soul ring of 3 to years at most.
Even if it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sacrifice a soul beast, he would not be able to withstand it with his current physical strength. If he forcibly interrupted the sacrifice, his spiritual consciousness would be severely damaged at best, and at worst he would become an idiot or even risk death.

The pure energy flowing into his body at this time was not violent, but instead transformed Ji Wuming's body very gently, and there was almost no pain at all.

The sacrificial process was still going on, and a black soul ring slowly appeared, and then it was put on Ji Wuming's head.
At this moment, he was immediately pulled into the spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, and saw a shadow of a thunder dragon beast appear in front of him, flying around his body, without causing any sense of soul shock.

Although the Thunder Dragon Fish is less than 100,000 years old and cannot speak, we can get some information from the reflection of its memory in its spiritual sea of ​​consciousness.
This Thunder Dragon Fish is a member of the Ichthyosaur Beast clan, or in other words, it is evolving towards an Ichthyosaur Soul Beast. It was originally a Thunder Eel that had cultivated for a thousand years. It accidentally swallowed a piece of dragon marrow from an Ichthyosaur Beast skeleton and completed its transformation after practicing for hundreds of years.

Unexpectedly, it attracted the pursuit and surveillance of several thousand-year-old soul beasts, which would absorb the so-called thunder dragon blood from it and eat its flesh and blood every few years.
Just recently, many soul beasts in the ocean rioted, and it finally escaped with great difficulty.

Seeing this, Ji Wuming lowered his head and looked at the Thunder Dragon Fish Soul flying inside his spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, and couldn't help but smile happily.
"Ha, no wonder it offered itself to a stranger like me. Could it be that I can also have the opportunity to create a soul?" However, in the next second, the Blood Thunder Spear directly unleashed its power. A deep red vortex suddenly appeared, and an extremely powerful suction force raged in Ji Wuming's spiritual sea of ​​consciousness. However, at this moment, Ji Wuming did not feel the slightest bit.
“Goohoo—”

The soul of the Thunder Dragon Fish once again cried out in pain and immediately rushed towards Ji Wuming's soul body. Ji Wuming immediately took a defensive stance.

However, at the moment before contact, the soul of the Thunder Dragon Fish was directly sucked into the spear, completely destroying its soul.

"My martial spirit is indeed extremely domineering!"

Ji Wuming, floating in the air, slowly opened his eyes. Three soul rings, one yellow, one purple, and one black, appeared one after another under his feet. His aura was terrifying. However, more than 20 thousand-year-old soul beasts were floating on the water below, revealing their heads. Countless pairs of beast eyes stared angrily at Ji Wuming, who had intercepted their things.

"I actually forgot about this!"

At this moment, Ji Wuming looked at the twenty or so thousand-year-old soul beasts below, and felt a chill on his back and sweat on his forehead.
This sacrificial brontosaurus misled me!!!

The reason they did not launch an attack was because the sacrifice had not yet been completed, otherwise they would have died in their mouths.

Just when Ji Wuming didn't know what to do, he felt an itch on his back. He quickly mobilized the soul power in his body and sent it to his head. A blue-gold crown appeared on his head.

"External soul bone!"

Ji Wuming said in a calm tone.

Ji Wuming was not surprised that he had a soul bone, even if it was an external soul bone. Instead, he wondered why he didn't get a pair of wings that could fly, so that he would have a chance to escape, or even a soul bone that could completely conceal his breath!

Although he had a soul guide that could conceal his aura, its core component was a hundred-year-old soul bone. In front of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, the degree to which it could conceal his aura was limited.

As the sacrifice process came to an end, Ji Wuming became even more panicked.
"Run, run! Run as far as you can. If there's an island nearby, that would be even better."

At this moment, Ji Wuming, who was in a state of full soul power, immediately activated the secret soul guide device, madly circulated his soul power and ran quickly towards the direction of a ten thousand year old soul beast.

(End of this chapter)