Douluo Phoenix

Chapter 96 The Fire Lizard King

As the flames drew closer, Xiao Fei and his group of seven grew increasingly tense.

A normal 100,000-year-old soul beast is comparable to a level 95 Title Douluo, and only a strong Title Douluo can achieve this.

In order to deal with the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python, Bibi Dong brought not only herself, a peerless Douluo, but also six other Title Douluos. She also had to prevent the 100,000-year-old soul beasts from self-destructing.

When Xiao Fei and his group of seven emerged from the cave, the surrounding environment astonished them. The underground cavern was enormous, spanning half a mile in length and width. At its lowest point on the left was a pool of scorching lava, filled with boiling magma. In the center of the lava pool was a small clearing with a tree bearing only a few fruits. Clearly, this tree was no ordinary creature.

To the right, there was a small underground river, with only a small flow of water. At the very end of the river was a pool of milky white liquid.

In the middle of the hollow was a large patch of thorns, somewhat resembling the martial soul of a female soul master from the Botanical Academy—the Crimson Flame Thorns.

On a high platform in the center of the cave, a gigantic soul beast slept. The beast was about 20 meters long; upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be a massive fire lizard. Based on its age and length, this fire lizard was estimated to be over two hundred thousand years old. It should be called the Fire Lizard King.

Compared to ordinary fire lizards, this fire lizard was covered in tiny, fiery red scales, had two horns on its head, and its limbs resembled sharp claws. It emitted bursts of red light, and an immense pressure seemed to emanate from its body.

Suddenly, the Fire Lizard King opened its eyes and spoke in human language: "Humans, you actually came here to die."

The seven instantly activated their Martial Soul True Forms and launched a direct attack on the Earth Fire Lizard King.

Seeing that the seven dared to attack him, the Earth Fire Lizard King roared, its roar carrying a powerful mental attack. With a sweep of its right hand, Yang Pojun and Feng Xiaotian were sent flying. Then, with a flick of its tail, Niu Meng's defenses crumbled like paper, and even a plate-armored giant rhinoceros was sent flying. Next, it spat out a fiery red light; although Shui Bing'er was flying in the air, her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul showed signs of melting.

In the blink of an eye, four of the seven people had been attacked and were clearly injured.

Huo Wushuang, in his unicorn form, directly confronted the Earth Fire Lizard King, clearly intending to fight the Earth Fire Lizard King head-on and buy everyone time.

Xiao Fei activated one of his left arm's soul bone skills: Netherworld Flood Dragon King Entanglement. Instantly, he transformed into a giant, fiery red Netherworld Flood Dragon King that entangled the Earth Fire Lizard King, inflicting extremely powerful hellfire damage. The entire space seemed to be engulfed in a sea of ​​fire.

Huo Wu then unleashed the 100,000-year-old soul technique she used against the Seven Sacred Pillars: Fire Shadows Fill the Sky. Countless fire shadows attacked the Earth Fire Lizard King in the space, accompanied by explosions.

The Fire Lizard King roared again, and a red light appeared around it, causing the three's fire attacks to show signs of melting. Clearly, this was the Fire Lizard King's domain: the Fire Lizard Domain, which allowed it to control all the flames within its domain.

The three understood that this Fire Lizard King, having lived around magma for a long time, possessed extremely high fire resistance and exceptional control over flames. All three were fire-type soul masters, putting them at a disadvantage.

Meanwhile, Feng Xiaotian and his companions re-entered the battlefield. Feng Xiaotian and Shui Bing'er engaged in close combat in the air, flying swiftly and occasionally launching attacks when the Fire Lizard King was off guard. Niu Meng and Yang Pojun assisted Huo Wushuang, sharing the pressure of the direct confrontation.

The battle between the seven and the Earth Fire Lizard King was extremely fierce, and the entire ground seemed to be shaking, with cracks even appearing on the surface.

This time, Xiao Fei used every trick in the book, employing almost all his soul skills and soul bone abilities, including several 100,000-year soul bone abilities.

The Earth Fire Lizard King has reached 200,000 years of age, making it one of the strongest soul beasts on the Douluo Continent, even stronger than the Azure Bull Python. It has reached the level of a 97th-level Title Douluo among human soul masters. Moreover, its body is extremely powerful.

The battle lasted a full hour. Even with Xiao Fei's current soul power, he was struggling to keep up, while the others were even more exhausted, their soul power almost depleted. Moreover, they all had various wounds on their bodies.

The fire lizard, on the other hand, was even more overwhelmed and could only rely on its powerful body to withstand the attacks.

The Fire Lizard King lived up to its reputation as a ferocious beast, showing no sign of retreat even at the very end.

The Fire Lizard King roared one last time, "Human, I would rather die than become your spirit ring!" Then its whole body emitted a red light, clearly intending to self-destruct.

Xiao Fei unleashed the full potential of his head-bone skill, sending a mental shockwave towards the Fire Lizard King's head. Then, his left leg transformed into an axe, emitting a straight beam of light that cleaved the Fire Lizard King's head in two, much like a giant axe striking forward.

It was the left leg's soul bone skill: Demonic Orca Axe. This was also Xiao Fei's most effective counter to the Fire Lizard King's attacks, since the Demonic Orca King was a water-type soul beast, and its soul bone skill was also biased towards water-type attacks.

As the Fire Lizard King's head was split open, a huge red spirit ring appeared above its corpse.

Xiao Fei quickly took out medicines for healing and restoring soul power from his arm guard and gave them to everyone to take, while Xiao Fei himself activated the soul bone skill in his right leg to heal himself.

Half an hour later, Xiao Fei and the other six had only recovered a small portion of their strength, but there was no time to wait.

Xiao Fei immediately instructed Feng Xiaotian to bury the cave in the crater to prevent others from disturbing them. Feng Xiaotian had been engaged in aerial combat, so his energy expenditure and injuries were relatively minor.

Feng Xiaotian nodded and flashed out, while the others guarded the cave entrance to prevent anyone from breaking in. After all, the battle just now was on a very large scale, and the entire underground space was almost cracked everywhere.

Xiao Fei walked to the corpse of the Fire Lizard King, first collecting the soul bone it had produced—a fiery red right arm soul bone. Then, he sat down in front of the red soul ring and began absorbing the Fire Phoenix's ninth soul ring.

With Xiao Fei's current physical condition and mental strength, absorbing a 200,000-year soul ring is no problem at all.

It took Xiao Fei three whole days to absorb this 200,000-year-old soul ring.

Feng Xiaotian blocked the opening of the volcano's crater with a giant rock and, with Niu Meng, created an earthquake-like situation around them. The others focused on healing their soul power injuries and paying close attention to the changes in the surrounding space.

Three days later, Xiao Fei had finished absorbing the spirit ring. He took out the spirit bone, intending to absorb it all at once. This spirit bone was the most suitable for Xiao Fei at this stage, and it was also the most powerful spirit bone on his body.

It took Xiao Fei another day to absorb the soul bone.

After Xiao Fei absorbed the spirit rings and spirit bones, his spirit power reached the peak of level 93, and he was expected to reach level 94 soon. Moreover, there was no repulsion between the different spirit bones, which was clearly due to the effect of the Sea God's power in the Sea God's Light and Tide Body Refinement.

Seeing the worried looks on everyone's faces, Xiao Fei smiled and said, "I'm doing very well now, and I feel stronger than ever before. I should be able to defeat the Fire Lizard King on my own now."

(End of this chapter)