The Charm of Soul Pets

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Tang Zhuo was thoroughly angered. His Ash Blood Wing transformed into a ghastly blood imprint that flew over from far away. Its imposing wing slash seemed like it was going to split the sky and earth into two halves. 

The Ash Blood Wings when unfurled reached 100 meters in length, transforming into angry blades! 

Night had preemptively dodged, and the Ash Blood Wing had attacked where Night was dodging! 

Despite his angry state, Tang Zhuo had made a rather accurate judgment. Night had no choice but to change locations again. While he changed locations, his body was brushed by the bloody wings, peeling off a piece of skin. 

Fresh blood spilled out as a striking red color suddenly appeared on Night’s black body. 

When it saw the enemy demon suffer a wound, Tang Zhuo’s Ash Blood Wing’s attacks grew even fiercer! 

Night wouldn’t fight head-on against a wing type creature. It agilely moved in between the blood-colored techniques. 

However, Tang Zhuo’s Ash Blood Wing had evidently taken out its entire strength. No matter how strong Night’s dodging abilities were, it would ultimately suffer a few wounds. 

The life force of a demon was very weak, and Tang Zhuo saw that the opponent’s wounds were growing in number. He originally planned on recovering a bit, but now he didn’t hesitate to continue ordering the Ash Blood Wing to attack. 

The Ash Blood Wing released techniques without pause. The entire sky was lit up by bloody flowers that frightened the spectators on edge. 

Night maintained its cool as it dodged. Occasionally, it would counterattack and leave a wound on the Ash Blood Wing’s body. 

Tang Zhuo relied on the Ash Blood Wing’s life force being stronger than Night’s. There were times when he was willing to even exchange blows with Night. 

“The situation isn’t too good. The moment Night is suppressed, it will be difficult to find an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow,” said Ye Wansheng. 

“That’s not necessarily the case. Can’t you see that Night has maintained its orderly steps?” said Chao Lengchuan. 

Chao Lengchuan had personally experienced Night’s strength. He believed that the Second Demonic Burial Mound’s strongest demon would not be defeated by an Ash Blood Wing.

“Big Brother and Night really are deceivers.” Ning Maner giggled and didn’t look worried at all. 

The adjacent Ye Qingzi was confused by this, and quietly asked Ning Maner about it. 

Ning Maner moved next to Ye Qingzi’s ear and explained it before Ye Qingzi finally understood. A smile appeared in her eyes. 

As the wounds on its body grew increasingly many, Night grew slower and slower. 

The more Tang Zhuo’s Ash Blood Wing fought, the braver it became. It didn’t give Night any chance to breathe. 

“Imprison it!” Tang Zhuo’s eyes lit up and he grasped a perfect opportunity. 

The Ash Blood Wing had yet to use a wing type imprison technique. This was due to Tang Zhuo intentionally holding back all his cards. He wanted his opponent to have the misunderstanding that his wing type soul pet was solely a close-combat type! 

Indeed, the sudden wing type imprisonment not only caught Night off guard, but also greatly surprised the spectators in the stand. 

Blood-colored wings revolved around Night. They quickly assembled to form a blood-colored cage that trapped Night within. 

Once Night was imprisoned, a dream pulse immediately rippled out from its dream horn. 

Demons were imprisoning experts, so undoing an imprisonment wouldn’t be too difficult. Once the dream pulse rippled out from the dream horn, it quickly destroyed the blood-colored imprisoning cage. 

A smile appeared on Tang Zhuo’s face. He didn’t think that his wing type imprisonment would genuinely be able to lock up a demon. He only wanted to buy enough time for his Ash Blood Wing to gather energy! 

The Ash Blood Wing’s wings abruptly expanded, and the blood light that covered its body transformed into sharp, soaring swords that would pierce the black cloud sky. 

The enormous energy caused the Hovering Mountain Battlefield, that was originally restless and in a commotion, to suddenly quiet. However, this was an indication of a terrifying destructive storm that was about to descend! 

“Yi!!!!!!”

The Ash Blood Wing lifted its head towards the sky and gave a cry. The blood-colored energy on its body morphed into a pair of enormous Punishment Wings. It was so large that it covered half the sky! 

The Punishment Wings descended one from the left and one from the right, appearing on the imprisoned Night on either side, slowly closing in! 

Nobody knew what the outcome would be after being covered up by the blood-colored Punishment Wings. 

“Given the weak life force of demons, the moment its covered by the wings, there’s no way it doesn’t die.” Tang Zhuo finally cracked a smile. 

This fight had forced Tang Zhuo to raise his mental awareness to 100%. He was incomparably confident in the start and suffered from the opponent’s dream realm deceptions; thus, he was extremely afraid he was going to lose to Chu Mu. 

Fortunately, what subsequently happened was that the Ash Blood Wing displayed its bravery in the fights and turned the situation around. 

Now, the Ash Blood Wing had used its most powerful technique, meaning that the fight was about to end. A single demon would not be able to survive the Punishment Wings. 

The enormous Punishment Wings slowly closed in, leaving less and less space to dodge. 

At this moment, Night freed itself from the imprisonment. It apathetically glanced at the Punishment Wings closing in and it abruptly sped up. 

Night transformed into a dark star that flew towards the crack between the wings. Its speed was continuously increasing! 

“This… isn’t it wounded? How can it be so fast!” when Tang Zhuo saw Night fly forwards, the smile on his face instantly disappeared. 

Tang Zhuo had calculated that after the enemy had been imprisoned, it wouldn’t be able to escape with its wounded speed. 

However, the Night Thunder Dream Beast’s current speed didn’t seem like it was wounded at all. Even more shocking was that Tang Zhuo thought its speed was even faster than at the start! 

In the sky, the Punishment Wings were like two enormous hands covered in blood that were slowly coming together. 

However, a dark shooting star seemed to fly out in between the crack in the wings. Relying on its absolute speed, it left the wings behind it. It looked confident and calm after running out of the gates of hell, causing the spectators to let out exclamations of astonishment. 

“What happened? Why are there now fewer wounds on its body?” suddenly, an attentive person discovered something. 

“There really are may fewer wounds. Could it have healed itself that quickly? That should be impossible. What demon possesses self-healing techniques?” the spectators were all puzzled. 

In the competitor seats, Lu Fenxue looked at Night. Her head was full of confusion. 

Why was the Dream Beast full of wounds before being imprisoned, but much more healed after escaping the Ash Blood Wing’s strongest technique? Its wounds were not even a third of before. 

“Big Sister Lin, what happened?” Lu Fenxue asked the adjacent Lin Mengling.

Lin Mengling’s eyes contained a bit of interest as she explained to Lu Fenxue: “It’s a Reality Dream technique.” 

“Reality Dream? How can a Reality Dream have healing effects… oh, you’re saying…” as Lu Fenxue spoke, she suddenly came to an understanding. 

Lin Mengling faintly smiled as she said: “He used a Reality Dream to create wounds for himself, misleading his opponent to a fortuitous opportunity. Such a method is truly special.” 

Reality Dreams were used to confuse others. But who would use a Reality Dream to add wounds to themselves? 

Although there were immortal rank experts on the main floating mountains, very few of them saw through Chu Mu’s technique, let alone Tang Zhuo, who was himself in the battle.  

The Ash Blood Wing had indeed launched imposing attacks and left a few wounds on Night. However, the number of wounds were far from being as many as Tang Zhuo saw, because two-thirds of the wounds had been created by Night’s Reality Dream. 

Of course, Night also wouldn’t forget to slow down its speed in correspondence to the number of fake wounds it added to itself. 

Tang Zhuo had fallen for another dream deception! 

Using the Punishment Wing technique left the Ash Blood Wing in a temporary state of weakness. What was a more fitting opportunity than this to launch a fatal attack? 

Night didn't slow down at all. As it escaped the Punishment Wings, it flew straight toward the Ash Blood Wing. 

The opportunity in the fight was extremely short. If the Ash Blood Wing was able to recover, the fight would have to persist. But Chu Mu didn’t want to have to keep duking it out with Tang Zhuo. 

At the beginning of the fight, Night conserved a certain amount of its strength, and it wasn’t until this charge that Night released its fastest speed! 

In the black clouds, cold light - like a dark star without any dazzling or superfluous splendor, nor without any imposing or majestic energy - pierced through the Ash Blood Wing’s body! 

A long set of tracks was left on the floating battlefield. It seemed as if the shadow couldn’t keep up with the main body’s speed. 

The tracks passed through the Ash Blood Wing’s body. This time, a hole didn’t appear in the Ash Blood Wing’s wings, but instead its heart! 

Since this was a fatal burst, Night’s attack point had to be its opponent’s heart! 

Pu chi~~~~~~~~~”

Fresh blood spilled out of its blood-colored body. Against the sky’s black background, it seemed particularly striking. 

Tang Zhuo, who was standing on the Ash Blood Wing, was stunned. His entire body was dripping with Ash Blood Wing blood. 

His face lacked the disappointment that came with defeat. All it contained was disbelief. 

He refused to believe he had lost. He had lost, just when he was about to win!

The spilling blood stunned the entire audience. When were these people ever able to appreciate a genuine immortal rank soul pet have its heart pierced?! 

The Hovering Mountain Battlefield instantly fell into silence. The only thing that could be heard was the blowing wind. 

Suddenly, a figure flew into the sky and, at a rapid speed, assisted the Ash Blood Wing down to the ground. 

Although this person was extremely fast, people knew it was Tang Zhuo’s teacher, Tang Ang. 

Tang Ang couldn’t just watch as his disciple’s soul pet lost its life. Only, everyone had great doubts whether a wing type soul pet, after having its heart pierced, would have much of a chance of surviving. 

Since the main adjudicator, Tang Ang, was saving the Ash Blood Wing, he obviously couldn’t announce the final champion of the competition. 

However, he didn’t need to announce it. Everyone already knew who the champion of the Outstanding Experts Competition was! 

He was dressed in white clothing, and his steed was black. Both soul pet and soul pet trainer exuded a grim and apathetic aura. Everyone could see that New Moon Land’s king wasn’t too friendly. However, he had used the most straightforward form of battle to distinguish his strength and spirit from the numerous large factions, in addition to convincing countless people! 

He was New Moon Land’s king, and there was a chance he could be Zhengming Continent’s future king! 

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