Soul Land V: Rebirth of Tang San

By the time the tenth wind blade struck, its spinal nerves had been destroyed, and its majestic body quickly collapsed like a deflated rubber ball.

When the fifteenth wind blade fell, its cervical vertebrae were already severed.

Glittering light flickered in Tang San\'s eyes as he dispersed the last three wind blades. By now, Feng Xiong was on the verge of death, barely clinging to its last breath. He couldn\'t let its head be severed, as that would affect the absorption of its bloodline power.

The normal battle from start to finish took only ten breaths of time. It seemed simple, but in fact, Tang San had already exerted all his strength.

All four Bloodline Brand Skills were used, along with his Tang Sect techniques.

Though it appeared to happen in even less time, the outcome was directly related to Feng Xiong\'s response.

While releasing the wind blades, Tang San could have remained hidden in the shadows, but he chose to appear in front of Feng Xiong to paralyze the latter.

He was just a nine-year-old human child, hardly noticeable, which any monster tribe wouldn\'t take seriously, let alone one so young. His slender figure was completely disproportionate to Feng Xiong\'s, which naturally led Feng Xiong to underestimate him.

When Feng Xiong was driven away earlier, Tang San had been observing nearby all along, watching its condition through the Spirit Rhinoceros Eye. The timing of his strike was naturally most appropriate.

Feng Xiong\'s first thought must have been to accelerate its escape, but it could never have anticipated facing such a formidable opponent.

Tang San did not hold back at all, unleashing his full power, drawing on the combat experience of a first-generation God King, his psychological control, and the devouring ability of the Mysterious Heaven Skill. Only with these multiple factors did he manage to take down the injured and weakened Feng Xiong in such a short time.

The Mysterious Heaven Skill was fully activated, devouring the bloodline power within Feng Xiong, as well as the last bit of its vitality.

The light in Feng Xiong\'s eyes gradually dimmed, and its body shriveled up. Tang San, however, felt a torrent of bloodline power flooding into his body.

Suddenly, his whole body\'s aura skyrocketed, and his bones emitted a series of "crack" sounds.

He\'d broken through!

Yes, by devouring Feng Xiong\'s bloodline power, he had broken through the Peak of Fourth Stage and entered the Fifth Stage!

Not only had the Mysterious Heaven Skill broken through, but the Wind Blade Mark within him also had a breakthrough, changing from its original cyan color to a deep green, with the light intensifying continuously.

It was different, Feng Xiong\'s bloodline wasn\'t the same as ordinary Wind Wolves! Tang San realized immediately.

Could it be because it was the lord?

Although it was his first time devouring the bloodline power of a Fifth Stage Wind Wolf, based on his previous experiences with Third Stage and Fourth Stage Wind Wolves, even if a Fifth Stage was much stronger, it shouldn\'t result in such a drastic quality change.

Simply put, in the bloodline power of ordinary Wind Wolves, there were still impurities, and the Mysterious Heaven Skill needed to transform and filter during the devouring process. Meanwhile, Feng Xiong\'s bloodline power could almost be directly absorbed by the Wind Blade Mark, without needing the filtering process. Its bloodline power was extremely pure.

It was like the difference between pure water and sewage. And there was plenty to go around.

Devouring a Feng Xiong, he even exceeded the total amount of Wind Wolf Bloodline Brands he had absorbed before. He had thought that breaking through the fifth level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill would not be possible with just one Fifth Stage powerhouse, but now he had succeeded in one fell swoop. This showed how extraordinary Feng Xiong\'s bloodline was.

But no matter what, it was a success in the end.

In fact, that day, when he and the Tiger-faced Man were formulating a plan and he obtained three hundred breaths of time, Tang San had his own plan in mind.

The reason he came out ahead of time was to fish in troubled waters and take this opportunity to enhance his own strength.

Initially, he didn\'t actually covet the Wind Wolf Town Lord Feng Xiong. He wasn\'t entirely confident that he could take down Feng Xiong, who was at the Fifth Stage, as he was one stage behind and didn\'t have the abilities from his previous life, making it difficult to bring down someone with such a robust physique like Feng Xiong. Not to mention, the High Priest of Wind Wolf Town was also there.

So, he just wanted to take advantage of the chaos to absorb some of the bloodline power from the Wind Wolves and Flash Leopards.

That\'s what he had been doing previously.

However, when Feng Xiong was expelled and his aura continued to fall due to the prior bloodline activation, Tang San immediately sensed that his opportunity had arrived—and it was extremely rare.

Sooner or later, he would have to face the peril of challenging a Fifth Stage while being at the Fourth Stage peak because only by devouring the Fifth Stage bloodline power could he break through to the Mysterious Heaven Skill\'s fifth level. What better opportunity could there be than the one before him now? There was still time, so he went with the flow.

As it turned out, he succeeded.

He couldn\'t bother with digesting and absorbing the energy from Feng Xiong. Fortunately, when the Mysterious Heaven Skill broke through to the fifth level, the process itself had already absorbed a vast amount of energy. Even so, it caused his body to be enveloped in a green light, and the Fifth Stage Wind Blade Mark within him advanced considerably at the fifth level, despite him not having completely digested and absorbed it.

Devouring everything he could from Feng Xiong, Tang San searched through his clothes and quickly found a small pouch, which likely contained coins. He didn\'t bother to check and quickly stashed the pouch inside his clothing. He ran the Mysterious Heaven Method to suppress the Wind Blade Mark. At the same time, he triggered the Leopard Flash Mark, and his figure turned into a yellow flash rapidly flickering on the spot.

The yellow light flitted around Feng Xiong\'s corpse in rapid circles over a dozen times, consuming some of the Mysterious Heaven Method\'s cultivation. Finally, Tang San identified a direction and used the luxurious boost of Leopard Flash to sprint away from the area.

Just as he had left for less than ten breaths, two figures descended from the sky.

The yellow light flickered, and Flash Spirit had already landed beside Feng Xiong\'s corpse, and this powerful Seven-stage Lightning Leopard also looked surprised.

Following closely behind, Wind Wolf Town\'s High Priest arrived on the scene, supported by a swirling wind.

Upon seeing Feng Xiong\'s fallen corpse on the ground, he couldn\'t help but let out a piercing howl of grief and immediately pounced on it, with the Heart of Wind Wolf in his hand fluctuating uncontrollably and violently.

"Who, who killed him, who! Awooo—" the anguished howl of the High Priest of Wind Wolf Town echoed, as clear as could be even ten li away.

"It wasn\'t me!" Flash Spirit said without hesitation.

Seeing Feng Xiong dead, its first reaction was pleasure, then confusion. While the strength of the Lord of Wind Wolf Town had not yet broken through to the Sixth Stage, it should be at the peak of the Fifth Stage. How could he be dead so soon, here?

Before this, it was still confronting the High Priest in Wind Wolf Town, but before the hundred breaths of time had passed, the High Priest\'s expression suddenly changed dramatically, and he sped toward this place.

Although Flash Spirit didn\'t know what had happened, it followed, and with its perception of Feng Xiong\'s aura, it arrived first. It didn\'t expect to see Feng Xiong\'s body immediately upon arrival.

When the High Priest of Wind Wolf Town looked up again, his eyes were filled with a gleam of hatred.

"Flash Leopard, it was your Flash Leopard tribe. Do you know what you\'ve done? Do you realize that his bloodline is that of the King of the Wind Wolves!" the High Priest of Wind Wolf Town roared almost maniacally.

"I told you, it wasn\'t me! I don\'t know who did it," Flash Spirit said with an outward ferocity but inwardly startled, wondering to itself. The bloodline of the King of the Wind Wolves? Why would someone with the bloodline of the King of the Wind Wolves be a mere Young Lord here?

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Three updates today, with one more to come.