Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Emperor, Unifying the Continent!

Zhang Lexuan knew that Xu Tianming was very talented and strong, but this was not in the academy, but in the border mountains between the two great empires!

The opponents were not the twelve or thirteen-year-old first-year students in the academy, but vicious robbers and evil spirit masters!

This is completely different!

Environment and psychological state can both affect combat effectiveness.

Shrek Academy has a history of people with great talent and combat power who died at the hands of weaker opponents.

Ultimately, a competition or sparring session is a competition or sparring session, and it has rules. But in this mountain range, there are no rules! Only life and death!

"Yes, I'll be careful."

Xu Tianming began to explore the surrounding mountains.

The Heavenly Soul Empire's military provided a lot of information, but it was mostly outdated.

The last information about the Bloodclaw was almost a week ago.

If Bloodclaw had been more mobile, the entire organization might have escaped from this mountain range within a week.

However, according to intelligence, the Blood Claw seems to be very persistent about this mountain range. The Heavenly Soul Empire has carried out several cleanup operations here, each time severely damaging the organization, but the organization always reappears not long afterward.

The reason for this is that they failed to capture the most crucial evil soul master with the cultivation level of a Soul King!

"This mountain range is too large. Fortunately, the Heavenly Soul Empire provided some general information about the area where these bandits were active. Otherwise, it would have taken a lot of time just to find them."

Xu Tianming glanced at the map in his hand and searched in the directions marked in red.

These red-marked areas are the strongholds of the Blood Slaughter Hand that were destroyed by the Heavenly Soul Empire.

This only includes the strongholds destroyed by the Heavenly Soul Empire; information from the Sun Moon Empire has not yet been included.

Soon, Xu Tianming located one of the destroyed strongholds according to the map.

The place has long since become a ruin. The collapsed walls are covered with mottled, charred bloodstains, and every now and then small animals emerge from the broken bricks and tiles and quickly run into another hole.

There wasn't much of a bloody smell in the air, which means it must have been a long time since it was destroyed.

"The fight must have been very intense..."

With the Ultimate Light Martial Soul, Xu Tianming is able to detect the remaining malevolent energy in the ruins with extreme sensitivity. This malevolent energy usually lingers for a long time after a fierce battle.

Xu Tianming was not in a hurry, but instead carefully searched the ruins.

The stronghold was indeed completely destroyed, but some clues could still be gleaned from it.

After looking around for a while, having thoroughly explored the area, Xu Tianming continued on to the next destroyed stronghold.

In less than three days, Xu Tianming had visited all the stronghold maps provided by the Heavenly Soul Empire.

"From here, to here... and then to here... it's all so chaotic, there's no pattern..."

Xu Tianming tried to connect the destroyed strongholds in his mind to find out where the Blood Butcher's Hand's current stronghold was.

But it's very chaotic, very chaotic.

These outposts are scattered, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, and they don't seem to follow any pattern. Even a normal search and investigation would easily miss one or two of them.

While Xu Tianming was staring at the map in thought, Zhang Lexuan was watching him the whole time.

As an examiner, she cannot provide any assistance to Xu Tianming during the task; she will only intervene to stop him if he encounters mortal danger.

"No, no! There seems to be a pattern!"

Instead of connecting the destroyed strongholds and making linear inferences, Xu Tianming started drawing circles.

Draw a large circle around the outermost outpost, encompassing all the outposts, and then gradually shrink it...

He soon noticed a pattern.

The destroyed strongholds of the Blood Hand all seem to be clustered around a single area...

"Found you!"

Xu Tianming's eyes lit up, and he circled the area on the map.

If you were to search for the entire mountain range, you'd be exhausted and still not finish. But if it's just a small area, it's much easier to find!

"Sister Lexuan, if I go to the Heavenly Soul Empire's military to call for help now, will it affect my assessment score?"

He looked at Zhang Lexuan and asked in a deep voice.

Zhang Lexuan frowned.

Xu Tianming said, "I'll kill that evil soul master and the other soul masters who aided and abetted evil. But there are many people in this organization. I can kill them, but they might run away. If they run away, it will be troublesome."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Lexuan's brows relaxed, and she nodded slightly.

The ringleader must be executed, and the other robbers must not be let off the hook either!

Although she's here, she needs to supervise Xu Tianming's assessment and ensure his safety, which inevitably means she can't keep an eye on everyone. In that case, one or two robbers might take advantage of the chaos and escape.

Xu Tianming quickly put away the map in his hand, informed the Tianhun Empire's military, and then led a scout from the Tianhun Empire's military toward the area that might be the Blood Slaughter Hand's stronghold.

Two hours later, Xu Tianming and his companion quietly appeared near a mountain cave. Zhang Lexuan did not appear during this process to avoid affecting Xu Tianming's performance, but she kept observing from nearby.

The mountain cave is located in a very secluded place. Not only is there no road, but there are also several ferocious soul beasts blocking the way. Under normal circumstances, no one would come this way.

But when Xu Tianming saw the two robbers standing at the entrance of the cave, he knew he had come to the right place!

"I'll go back and report to the general immediately!"

The scouts from the Heavenly Soul Empire's military narrowed their eyes and immediately went back to report to the general, instructing Xu Tianming to continue monitoring the situation in the cave.

"We can't just wait around; we need to find an opportunity to sneak in and check things out."

Xu Tianming looked in the direction of the cave, his eyes narrowing slightly.

He was confident he could kill that evil Soul Master, but if there were too many people under the Blood Slaughter Hand, or if there were any powerful Soul Masters he didn't know about, then things would get complicated.

Moreover, this Bloodthirsty Hand Soul King evil soul master always manages to escape safely...

Xu Tianming's mind raced, and he quietly disappeared into the dense forest.

Whoosh whoosh~

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from the woods in front of the cave. One of the bandits guarding the cave entrance cautiously went over to investigate and found that it was just a small wild animal gnawing on a few pieces of meat.

His tense nerves relaxed, and he was about to turn around and say he was fine when a cold glint of light slashed his throat.

The last thing he saw was his companion, who had already fallen at the cave entrance.

A few minutes later, the corpses disappeared, and a figure dressed similarly to the robbers, but with blood and dust smeared on his face, making his features unrecognizable, and carrying a dripping beast carcass, walked into the cave.