Douluo Sharingan, I really didn't coerce Xiao Wu!

Chapter 172 Contra

A large black bird carried Chen Xuan and Xiao Wu, soaring through the night sky, flapping its wings as it flew towards the exit of the Soul Beast Forest.

Two hours later, the giant bird flew out of the Soul Beast Forest. The end of the land was no longer a forest, but a rocky area.

At night, the moonlight was like water, and the stars twinkled. The pure white light shone on the desolate rocky area, eerily quiet, without a single reptile appearing.

Chen Xuan withdrew his gaze, patted the bird's back to make it land, and flew down into the woods below.

"Chen Xuan, there's an ambush there." Xiao Wu's expression was grave, and a hint of worry appeared on her pretty face.

She transformed into a human, losing 100,000 years of cultivation, but her spiritual power remained, making her exceptionally sensitive to dangerous auras—a quality she was born with.

"Um."

Chen Xuan nodded, suddenly feeling a sense of unease, and said, "I didn't expect them to have even gotten involved in this place."

This exit is extremely remote and far away, nearly a hundred miles away from Wuhun City. Ordinary people would never take this route.

Chen Xuan underestimated them. The fact that those people from the Spirit Hall could think of this place means that this entire Spirit Beast Forest is probably already surrounded.

However, he didn't believe those people really had such a large budget. The manpower they had stationed here was definitely not much; most of their resources should have been concentrated on the only route back to the Star Dou Great Forest.

"We'll know once we test it out." Chen Xuan pondered and decided to send his shadow clone ahead to probe the situation.

"Shadow Clone Technique".

Without hesitation, he quickly formed hand seals, and with a bang, white mist rose, and a clone appeared out of thin air, looking exactly like him.

Xiao Wu had seen it before, but seeing this soul skill again still shocked her. Even with 100,000 years of spiritual power, she couldn't see through the illusion of this clone. There was no flaw at all, just like a real body.

"Come on, let's follow behind," Chen Xuan said, patting the large bird and gesturing for him to follow.

A giant black bird flapped its wings and flew low, carrying the two of them through the forest.

The shadow clone took away fifty percent of the chakra, meaning its strength was no different from the original.

Chen Xuan's shadow clone rushed out of the exit, stepped into new territory, and left the forest behind.

His body was crackling with electric arcs, and the Thunder Magic White Insect was activated again, its speed and power more than tripling.

Even at the Soul King level, most Soul Emperors might not be able to catch up.

Chen Xuan's shadow clone was crackling with electricity, flashing like a human-shaped lightning bolt, and shot hundreds of meters away, so fast that it became indistinct.

Chi!

Just then, a strange change occurred on the horizon. A giant sword fell down, its blade as wide as a rainbow and as green and lustrous as jade.

The cyan sword descended from the sky and crashed to the ground with a deafening boom. The earth trembled, beams of light shot up from where the shadow clone was, followed by a massive explosion. Rocks turned to dust, stones melted, and a small area was razed to the ground.

Hundreds of meters away in the Soul Beast Forest, the ground trembled slightly, and old trees and flowers swayed, affected by the aftershocks.

Chen Xuan's face was grim. Standing on the back of the giant bird, he could clearly see the explosion in the distance. The true form of that wind sword was enormous, like a small mountain. With a single strike, it leveled a hundred-meter area.

That level of attack was devastating, capable of easily eradicating a forest, and its strength was definitely above that of a Soul Saint.

Xiao Wu trembled violently, beads of sweat sliding down her pretty face, and she couldn't help but clutch Chen Xuan's clothes tightly.

Her sense of danger far surpassed Chen Xuan's; she could clearly feel an extremely powerful aura in that spot among the rocks, as terrifying as a ferocious beast.

"It's...it's Contra." Xiao Wu's lips trembled as she spoke.

Chen Xuan's expression froze, and his body suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

He didn't doubt Xiao Wu's judgment; on the contrary, he trusted her completely, knowing the immense power of a hundred thousand years of spiritual strength.

Chen Xuan found it hard to believe, and upon closer reflection, it became even more chilling. Even in such a remote place, Soul Douluos had come to ambush people; how many powerful individuals had been mobilized?

Things have become extremely dangerous. He dared not imagine whether a Title Douluo had been stationed along the only route back to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Chen Xuan couldn't draw a conclusion. Every Title Douluo in the Spirit Hall had their own duties and couldn't easily leave Spirit City. But Bibi Dong, that crazy woman, didn't play by the rules and was capable of anything. Without Qian Daoliu around, she would only be more insane than she is now.

"The rabbit is indeed here. Go and inform them immediately. The rest of you, follow me to surround this place."

A deep, majestic voice echoed from afar, seemingly intentionally penetrating the Soul Beast Forest.

brush!

Immediately afterwards, many figures rushed out from the rocky area at great speed, dashing towards the forest and quickly closing in.

There were eight of them, their strength unknown. Five of them were dressed in light blue Taoist robes, their eyes blindfolded with a ribbon, and they approached with long swords in hand.

Others, dressed in purple robes and with their hands behind their backs, came and joined the five others in sealing off the exit, leaving no gap untouched.

This is the only exit from here, a ten-meter-wide gate. The rest of the area is blocked by a wall, fifty meters high, covered with iron netting, which is impossible for ordinary people to climb over.

"Sect Master Feng is truly valiant! His foresight is uncanny; that rabbit did indeed come here." The three men in purple robes laughed, their faces covered by cloaks, revealing only their eyes.

The entire forest was enclosed by walls, with only this one exit. Now, the eight of them had blocked the way out, so no matter how skilled the people inside were, they would have no chance of escaping.

"Those inside, hand over the rabbit, and I'll spare your lives," Feng Bailong said, his voice deep and authoritative.

He held a long sword, its blade broad and jade-like, with clear, lustrous lines, as if it were cast from the finest jade.

Chen Xuan's face darkened as he recognized the sword as belonging to the person who had attacked the shadow clone earlier. At the same time, he thought of many things: someone who served the Spirit Hall and possessed a sword-type spirit could only be from the Wind Sword Sect.

However, he never expected that even Feng Baichen, the sect leader of the Wind Sword Sect, would make a move. Bibi Dong was really going to great lengths.

"I'll say it again, hand over that rabbit and I'll spare your lives. Don't be ungrateful!" Feng Bailong said in a deep voice, his brows furrowed into a deep frown.

His decades of caution had allowed him to weather one crisis after another. Since those people could take away a 100,000-year-old soul beast, their strength must be extraordinary, and he needed to be careful.

The three men in purple robes laughed loudly and said, "Sect Leader Feng, why waste your breath? Just wait for me and we'll charge in. What are you afraid of? An ambush?"

The three men's eyes were full of contempt, and their faces were brimming with confidence. They really didn't know what they had to be afraid of. With their hands behind their backs, they stepped through the gate and entered the Soul Beast Forest.

"Find the right opportunity, and take Xiao Wu with you later." Chen Xuan said to the large bird beside him from a hundred meters away.

The giant black bird nodded, took off, and carried Xiao Wu away from the spot.

"Chen Xuan, be careful!" At this point, Xiao Wu could only give this advice. Compared to those pursuers, she was too weak to do anything.

She couldn't bear it and was in great pain. She didn't want Chen Xuan to stay behind to cover their retreat, just to create an opportunity for her to leave.

"Chen Xuan, you must survive." Xiao Wu hesitated for a moment, then finally said only this one sentence, her eyes filled with tears, before being taken away by the large black bird.

After seeing Xiao Wu off, Chen Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. No longer feeling constrained, he now faced a tough battle that seemed impossible to win.

(End of this chapter)