Douluo Continent: I, Long Aotian, will not be a supporting character.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

A sickening corrosive sound rang out, and a support-type soul tool on Jing Hongchen's body emitted wisps of white smoke under the black poison, its surface quickly darkening.

While the members of the Body Sect were engaged in a fierce battle with the Soul Masters of the Mingde Hall, Long Yuanba was protecting his wife and son on one side of the battlefield.

Ao Yumou had already connected her spiritual power with that of her son, Long Aotian, just like when they were searching for the golden hawksbill turtle in the Star Dou Great Forest several years ago. At this moment, Ao Yumou was also assisting Long Aotian in using his Yin-Yang Eyes to sense the location of the "100,000-year-old soul beast embryo".

"Aotian, concentrate and speed up!" Ao Yumou whispered. Long Aotian nodded, his eyes shimmering with a mysterious aura. His power of destiny and the perception of his Yin-Yang Eyes reached their peak at this moment. His consciousness penetrated through layers of walls and soul-guided shields, frantically traversing the vast underground labyrinth of Mingde Hall. His powerful mental energy, like an invisible net, began a carpet search within Mingde Hall.

Since Long Aotian and his group were located in the core area of ​​Mingde Hall, Long Aotian had already obtained a clue in just a few minutes.

"Dad, Mom, come with me."

Long Yuanba protected Ao Yumou and Long Aotian, and they walked in one direction. With the distraction provided by Du Bisi and the others, and thanks to the effect of the simulated soul skill, the three of them went unnoticed and moved silently through the Mingde Hall as if it were empty.

The three moved quickly forward, their mental detection fully activated, searching ahead.

Suddenly, Long Aotian's heart stirred, and he darted into a passage on the left. Long Yuanba and Ao Yumou followed closely behind. A large, black metal door opened silently, revealing a spacious interior—a laboratory.

At this moment, the laboratory was deserted. Judging from the lingering aura, many of the Mingde Hall experts who rushed outside must have left from here.

The three members of the Long family entered the spacious laboratory. Before them stood a colossal object.

It was a huge humanoid metal body, a full fifteen meters tall. The massive body was entirely cast from metal. Although it looked somewhat rudimentary, the overall structure was complete. The chest area was open, and there seemed to be a chair or something similar inside.

Looking at this mecha-like thing, Long Aotian naturally knew it was a good thing. With a wave of his hand, he put it into his storage soul tool.

On the platform surrounding the metal mecha were numerous soul-guiding materials, rare metals, and soul-guiding device blueprints, even a palm-sized starlight sapphire. Starlight sapphires are magical gemstones containing immense energy. These gems possess mysterious spatial power and are the best medium for crafting spatial soul-guiding devices. If a piece the size of a fingernail were added to a storage soul-guiding device, its storage capacity would immediately increase by more than one cubic meter.

Long Aotian put all these things into his storage soul tool. Then, Long Aotian led his parents away from the laboratory and headed off to other places.

A moment later, they found another soul tool storage room, which contained many valuable high-level soul tools, including even strategic-level soul tools of the eighth and ninth rank. Long Aotian naturally accepted them all and stored them in his soul weapon.

Long Aotian had already reaped considerable rewards, but the most crucial "Soul Beast Transformation Embryo" was still missing. He intensified his mental focus, carefully sensing his surroundings. A moment later, Long Aotian suddenly pointed to a seemingly ordinary metal wall to his right rear. There it was! There was an extremely well-hidden spatial folding array; the embryo was inside!

"Good son!" Long Yuanba's eyes flashed with a sharp light.

His skin instantly shimmered with a bronze metallic sheen, a powerful form resulting from the second awakening of his original martial soul, "Skin." He took a step forward, transforming into an indestructible torrent of steel, crashing fiercely into the metal wall.

"Bang!"

With a muffled thud, the spatial folding array shattered before Long Yuanba's overwhelming power. A platform radiating a soft light appeared in everyone's sight—the ninth-level soul tool, the Conferred God Platform.

Above the Conferred God Platform, an embryo roughly the size of a human head, radiating a rich life force, floated silently. A single glance was enough to send shivers down one's spine and instill a deep longing. A 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo! The intelligence was indeed accurate!

"Got it!" Long Yuanba grabbed the Conferred God Platform in his hand. Almost at the same moment, a piercing alarm sounded throughout the underground space of Mingde Hall. It was clear that the Conferred God Platform had been forcibly taken away, triggering the highest level of linkage alarm device.

Jing Hongchen, who was locked in a fierce battle with Du Bisi, suddenly changed his expression. The piercing alarm blared like a death knell echoing through the underground space. He instantly realized what was happening and roared through gritted teeth, "Damn it, you really came for the 'Soul Beast Embryo'!"

He was extremely anxious and immediately wanted to get away to retrieve the treasure, but how could he easily escape from a super Douluo like Du Bisi?

Now that Long Aotian and his group have clearly obtained the "100,000-year-old transformed soul beast embryo", as long as they can hold off Jing Hongchen and the other five level-nine soul masters for a little longer, they can retreat once Long Aotian and the others come out.

Therefore, Du Bisi relentlessly suppressed Jing Hongchen, preventing him from leaving the battlefield.

Knowing he couldn't escape, a glint of madness flashed in Jing Hongchen's eyes. He knew he was no match for this mysterious enemy in a protracted battle; he had to finish the fight quickly. He abruptly gathered all the remaining energy from his soul tools into a single point, and the core array on his chest erupted with a dazzling red light.

"Spiral Soul-Guiding Killing Domain!" With a roar, a huge red sphere of light suddenly formed above his head, spinning and expanding wildly. This destructive energy fluctuation even caused the surrounding space to visibly distort.

Faced with this terrifying power, Poison Must Die became even more cautious, daring not to be careless in the slightest.

He formed hand seals, unleashing his primordial soul power without reservation, and his innate poison erupted in full force. A towering, emerald-green phantom of a poison god rose from the ground, colliding violently with the red sphere of destruction in mid-air.

"boom--!!!"

A terrifying explosion, comparable to a magnitude 10 earthquake, erupted in the core area of ​​Mingde Hall. A violent energy storm raged outwards, tearing apart even the most sophisticated soul-guided cannons and sturdy alloy walls as if they were made of paper, plunging the entire underground world into an apocalyptic tremor.