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Chapter 27: Not Sure, Maybe Someone With a Hard Life
🕑 Added 2025-07-22 09:41:38 +0000 UTCThe twenty-plus ten-thousand-year soul beasts that had been lying in wait wouldn’t allow Ignaz to escape their jaws. Several of the closest ten-thousand-year soul beasts immediately charged forward to attack.
These ten-thousand-year soul beasts didn’t treat Ignaz the same way they had treated the Thunder Dragon Fish—now they just wanted to quickly kill the human who had caused the Thunder Dragon Fish to sacrifice itself, then devour him.
Countless blood blades, water blades, and powerful sonic attacks all hurtled toward Ignaz.
"Third Soul Skill: Blood Thunder Transforms into Three Thousand!"
In an instant, the previously clear sky was suddenly covered with blood-red clouds. In the heavens, numerous crimson lightning bolts transformed into blood thunder spears, one after another.
Since Ignaz needed to conserve his soul force, the blood thunder spears he conjured weren’t quite three thousand, but still numbered five to six hundred. These countless blood thunder spears shot down like violent arrows toward the ten-thousand-year soul beasts below.
The overwhelming rain of blood thunder spears covered a range of over 100 meters. Several ten-thousand-year soul beasts charging at the front unleashed their strongest techniques, knocking down blood thunder spear after blood thunder spear. The spears that fell into the water directly created 25-meter-wide blood thunder radiation zones.
Any hundred- or thousand-year soul beasts that came into contact with these blood thunder radiation zones either fell unconscious or were directly shattered to death by the violent thunder power.
But since this was a ten-thousand-year third soul skill, enhanced by his first soul skill, the ten-thousand-year soul beasts with weaker defenses were directly wounded by the blood thunder war spears. The violent thunder power rampaged through their bodies.
Many wounded ten-thousand-year soul beasts had no choice but to slow their pursuit. As blood seeped from their wounds, the dozen or so ten-thousand-year soul beasts behind them, along with the thousand-year soul beasts 300 meters away, swarmed together and completely devoured the bleeding ones.
"Perfect chance!"
Seeing the ten-thousand-year soul beasts behind him fighting each other, Ignaz quickly fled forward.
But in less than a minute, the infighting among the rear soul beasts had ended. Ten ten-thousand-year soul beasts were still hot on Ignaz’s heels, continuously releasing water blades and leaping from the water, trying to swallow him whole.
At that moment, 400 meters ahead of Ignaz, even more thousand- and ten-thousand-year soul beasts were heading in his direction.
"Here they come again! Are they even going to let me live?"
Ignaz’s heart sank into deeper despair. He immediately used his second soul skill, utilizing its second and third-stage attacks to quickly run across the waves.
Having used his ten-thousand-year soul skill once, Ignaz’s soul force was already running low. After repeatedly using his second soul skill, he now had less than one-tenth of his soul force remaining, barely maintaining his wave-stepping pace.
Suddenly, a Fierce Bite Frenzied Shark leaped directly from beneath Ignaz, opening its massive jaws to bite him to pieces and swallow him whole.
Ignaz reacted quickly, using the water’s momentum and his remaining soul force to leap high, swiftly dodging the Fierce Bite Frenzied Shark’s attack. He firmly grasped its dorsal fin as his soul guide ring cut his right hand, his blood merging with the Blood Thunder War Spear.
He struggled to raise the Blood Thunder War Spear in his right hand, piercing the Fierce Bite Frenzied Shark’s skin under the tremendous water pressure from the ten-thousand-year soul beast’s high-speed movement.
"Roar—"
The Fierce Bite Frenzied Shark, speeding forward and trying to shake off Ignaz, let out a series of mournful cries. It's struggling and tail thrashing became even more violent.
"Hahaha, looks like I, Ignaz, am not destined to die—"
Ignaz was overjoyed, forcibly enduring the damage from the water pressure. His right hand pressed harder, driving the Blood Thunder War Spear several inches deeper.
Countless streams of beast blood poured into the Blood Thunder War Spear at tremendous speed, converting into soul force to replenish Ignaz. Although the soul force conversion effect only improved slightly, at least he was absorbing it from a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
As Ignaz’s soul force recovered to half, and the Fierce Bite Frenzied Shark beneath his feet weakened its struggling, leaving only a skin sack with bits of flesh and blood, he pulled out the Blood Thunder War Spear and kicked off. The Fierce Bite Frenzied Shark fell into the deep sea like debris in the wind. Just as the other soul beasts were about to close in, Ignaz leaped from the water.
"Third Soul Skill: Blood Thunder Transforms into Three Thousand!"
Ignaz once again unleashed the ten-thousand-year third soul skill that consumed enormous amounts of his soul force, using this technique to continuously break through toward areas with fewer soul beasts.
Countless sea soul beasts immediately pounced toward Ignaz.
"Damn it, it’s bad enough that ten-thousand-year soul beasts are chasing me, but now even a measly thousand-year soul beast wants to kill me."
Seeing that the thousand-year soul beast was constantly leaping from the water to attack, Ignaz seized the right moment and immediately activated his second soul skill, forcibly killing it, then quickly drained its essence and blood to replenish his consumed soul force.
As time gradually passed, Ignaz didn’t know how long he’d been running or how many sea regions he’d crossed. He only knew that the thousand- and ten-thousand-year soul beasts behind him were steadily increasing—he couldn’t shake them off.
"I hope a hundred-thousand-year soul beast shows up to scare off these persistent sea soul beasts, so I’d only have to deal with one hundred-thousand-year soul beast."
His wishful thinking was nice, but reality was cruel. If a hundred-thousand-year soul beast really appeared, the two to three hundred ten-thousand-year soul beasts behind him would definitely stop, but he absolutely couldn’t survive against a hundred-thousand-year soul beast either.
Due to prolonged, continuous use of soul skills and the loss of blood from his body, Ignaz’s face was now deathly pale. Physically and mentally exhausted, his body was severely overtaxed.
"Could it be... could it be that I’m really going to die here?"
His mind gradually became foggy. With a splash, he fell into the seawater.
The ten-thousand-year soul beasts that had been following for so long without gaining any advantage saw that the detestable human had finally collapsed. They swarmed like madmen toward Ignaz underwater.
However, just at that moment, a silver sword directly cut the nearest ten-thousand-year soul beast in half at the waist. Two tall men wearing animal skins and very simple clothing jumped into the water and rescued him.
"Village Chief, this outsider’s clothing is pretty similar to Boss Chen’s. Could he be a spy from Spirit Hall?"
The man asked suspiciously as soon as he brought Ignaz onto the bamboo raft.
"Not sure, maybe someone with a hard life."
The Village Chief replied to Xiao Li, then looked at the large number of ten-thousand-year soul beasts ahead and all around.
"Carve the house!"
The silver sword slashed directly toward the seawater ahead. The ocean, hundreds of meters deep, was split in half by the sword energy, the scorched stones on the seabed clearly visible.
Several ten-thousand-year soul beasts in the direct path ahead were cut clean in half, blood mist pervading the air and seawater. In less than two seconds, the path through the sea closed again.
"Those soul beasts cut in half are all excellent food. Xiao Li, you guys, hurry up and bring all that meat back. The children in the village will be so happy to see this much meat!"
"Yes, Village Chief!"
Xiao Li immediately took four sturdy young men to retrieve all that meat, while the many ten-thousand-year soul beasts who witnessed this scene glared viciously at the Village Chief, then immediately scattered and fled.
