SOUL LAND: Star Dou Forest part(2/?)

HYAH!!!

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

'Shit!! this one is really tough'

Xiang Chen was fighting a creature who looked like an enormous lizard covered in dark green scales. It was over seven meters and had a disproportionately large head. 'CROCODILE DRAGON'.

It was giving Xiang Chen a hard time when fighting only by the sword, blood can be seen from the left side of his mouth but he was smiling for some reason he couldn't understand himself. 'Am I turning into a battle maniac'

*SLASH*

'I know I can beat this easily when I use my Martial Soul but yet I can't seem to bring myself to activate it'

BOOM!

Ugh!

'This one hurt'

Even though Xiang Chen was having a hard time fighting against the *CROCODILE DRAGON* his condition was not much better than him. Multiple wounds can be seen on his back and even one of his eyes was pierced through.

"Looks like this will be enough for today" he went up in the tree to avoid getting attacked by the beast again although he was injured he didn't want to kill such an excellent training partner right now.

In the past 1 year, Xiang Chen has condensed his 2nd ring of 10,000-year it was really astonishing to see that he survived that pain he went through while condensing his ring maybe that was because he was condensing rings beyond what beasts are capable of and while his body may be able to handle it doesn't mean he wouldn't feel the pain from it. His growth is also enormous he is now at rank 30.

"This past year was very productive I don't really think there is anyone in the entire Douluo continent who can match me in terms of cultivation or pure strength"

While looking at his sword which was now at this point is practically useless to him as the sword has many chipped edges and become dull in last year he was feeling pretty very nice that the sword lasted this long. But after considering the fact that the sword was made by one of the three divine Blacksmith for a 6-year kid and after what the sword has been used for it was truly fortunate that this sword survived this much.

After thinking about Uncle Hao and the story he already knew about him one of his quotes crossed his mind

"Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to yourself. None of the people capable of leaving this place have walked a road without death. Including you, including me. Kill them, leave none alive."

I knew the direction in which everything was going even though there are some changes from the original one the core of the story Tang san's mother's death and Spirit Hall's involvement was there. Tang Hao wouldn't let this slide I can see the resentment in his eyes he hated himself for not being strong to fulfill his promise to Ah Yin, even as a kid. But how much I should involve myself in this all the memories of the story flooded my brain I was seeing the whole story in the third person.

"Aaaaaa! it Hurts!!" while grabbing his head with both of his hands he screamed.

"Why are these memories coming in my head"

He was in a state that looked completely different from the dominating presence he had against the countless beasts even without using his Martial Soul. He was truly in pitiful sight.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Opening his eyes slowly not knowing how much time has passed he looked left and right.

'My hands! did someone tied them'

He looked at his hand and legs which has been tied. 'The fuck this is'

"Do these people want to die that they had the guts to go against me"

Four-person can be seen to the left side of Xiang Chen they were having muscular build and rouge cloths well Xiang Chen can't complain about that as he lived in the forest for the past year and his clothes were no better than them. It looks like they were out here to hunt Spirit Beast and after finding me unconscious and seeing I wasn't dead, they must be thinking of making me lure the Spirit Beast. This was the conclusion of Xiang Chen after observing them.

'I think I should play unconscious for a little while longer'

"Boss the brat is up"

'FU*K You can't just ignore me'

"Huh! hey you brat open your eyes or we will kill you"

"Daam! the fuck you can even with all of you together you can't even leave a scratch"

"Puhahahaha Hey boss did you hear that. Hey, listen here you little shit. You don't look dumb enough to misjudge the situation so why are you acting so tough"

"Oh! did I misjudged tell me I want to know your reason to tie me up if I found it reasonable enough I might just spare your life"

"hahahahaha Boss the kid is more arrogant than we thought what about we discipline him a little before using him as bait for CROCODILE DRAGON"

"hahahahahahaha man and here I thought you were hunting some very strong Beast to use a bait turns out you were hunting that giant Lizard. hilarious truly hilarious you are all weak as fuck if you can't beat that thing with yourself"

As if responding to Xiang Chen's provocation one of the guys took out his Martial Spirit Sword he was a Spirit Elder with ring composition white, yellow, yellow, and attacked horizontally while keeping his sword perpendicular to his body. At the moment Xiang Chen stood up while his legs and hand-tied and jumped upwards. The sword did cut something but it was the rope that tied his legs.

*ripping the rope which tied his hand*

"Hahahaha is this the level you are at pathetic truly pathetic" their jaw touched the ground they knew that the ropes can be broken but no one under Spirit Elder who is at the bottleneck of breakthrough can rip that easily.

"You dare to mock us" as if the first one hasn't seen what happened he tried to attack again

*PHANTOM STEP*

"DIE!!"

before he can react to his word by turning around his head rolled on the ground and reached the boss of the team.

'We can't beat that person'

'He is too strong'

'No, I want to live'

After watching what happened to their comrade their survival instinct kicked in.

'SURVIVE'

kneeling down

"Sir, we are ignorant that we could see your might beforehand please spare us we will do as you say"

Xiang Chen didn't listen to what they were saying but was looking at his sword covered with the blood of a human but no remorse from killing him kicked in.

'Was it due to the fact I watched so many deaths in that dream or my body is no more human'

The train of thought in his head was to much for him to process at the time so he put his thought aside and seen that the three of the remaining were kneeling in front of him.

'Should I kill them or leave them be'

'Maybe I should kill them'

'Hey what is wrong with your brain killing someone on a whim is not right'

"Remove all the treasure you have on you if anyone of you will try to hide anything you all will die" I ordered them with a terrifying gaze.

"Yes Yes right away" they started taking off their herbs and elixir but the most eye-catching was a dimension bracelet from the Boss.

"Hey how much do you know about Spirit Hall"

"Nothing we are just some wandering Spirit warrior we don't know about anything" the Boss answered without hesitation he thought that if his answer was even a second late he would have been dead.

"Don't you even know the name of the Supreme Pontiff"

"No sir I know that I thought you would ask for internal matters of Spirit Hall. He is the father of the previous Supreme Pontiff"

"What??" *Shocked to his very core* according to his memories about the story the current supreme pontiff should be Bibi Dong then what happened to her is she dead? No, that cant be?

Just how much my presence messed the timeline, well I can see the key elements but Qian Daoliu I never expected this if this was the case then I need to become strong, strong than anyone in the past, present, or future.

"You can leave but if anyone hears about this you know what will come for you" I disappeared after saying that.

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Author's section

Xiang Chen: Boss just how much my presence has affected the timeline?

A/N: you will find out soon enough just how much you fuck*d

Xiang Chen: I don't care about that now just tell me when I will get my girl.

A/N: Get out of here and train in the forest.

Xiang Chen: Yeah yeah! would it kill you to tell me that?