Douluo Continent: My Days in the Tang Sect.

Chapter 4: On the Stealth Skills of Berserker Players

Chapter 4: On the Stealth Skills of Berserker Players

The human group soon came into Ye Nanxiao's sight. Each of them was injured, and some wounds were still bleeding. The leader was a middle-aged man with a fierce look on his face, carrying a small cage in his left hand.

Inside the cage were three blocks of blue ice arranged in a triangle, and a small animal could be vaguely seen in the center.

"It looks like they're here to capture soul beasts. What kind of soul beast is this?" Ye Nanxiao transmitted his voice in his spiritual sea.

"Azure Mirror Spirit Beasts are a very rare species. They possess a very special soul skill that can completely reflect other soul skills," said the Snow Emperor.

"However, the Azure Mirror Spirit Beasts are social spirit beasts. It seems that these humans have broken into the Azure Mirror Spirit Beast's tribe and forcibly captured one of them." The Snow Empress's voice was icy, and her killing intent was rising.

"This group of people must have paid a heavy price; they're all injured. Xue'er, what do you think?" Ye Nanxiao made a telescope shape with his hands.

"Kill them," Xue Di said coldly.

"My years of playing the assassin are finally coming in handy. I'll sneak over here, Lao Bai, wait for my signal." Ye Nanxiao crawled forward and disappeared into the snow.

"Use the various objects in the environment, and press the space bar to enter stealth mode when you get close." Ye Nanxiao was just about to hide under several huge blocks of ice.

A sharp-eyed Soul Master spotted Ye Nanxiao acting suspiciously and immediately shouted, "Who's there! Be on guard!"

"? No? You discovered my master-level stealth?" Ye Nanxiao looked bewildered.

"Make your move!" Xue Di said.

"Old Bai! Charge at them!" Ye Nanxiao suddenly swung out an ice disc, giving the command to the Snow Wolf King.

"Woo!" The Snow Wolf King suddenly leaped up, its fur covered in icicles, making it look like an ice hedgehog.

"Damn it, where did this kid come from, trying to ambush your grandpa?" The middle-aged man put down the cage, holding a large, earthen-yellow knife in his hand. He was covered in black hair, had a sharp mouth, and made strange noises.

Ye Nanxiao instantly erupted and rushed into the crowd. "I sensed the energy of ten people with my Mind Eye. Judging from the soul rings on these people, most of them are around three rings, and only one is a four-ring soul ring. All of them are injured."

With his martial spirit infused, he punched one of the men's shields, sending a three-ring Soul Master staggering backward and crashing into his comrade.

Old Bai, after disrupting the formation, approached the Soul Master, opened his beastly mouth wide, his wolf fangs turning deep blue, and bit down on the Soul Master with frost.

"Borrow your shield." After Ye Nanxiao pushed back the Soul Venerable, he quickly followed up and swept out a leg, hitting the Soul Venerable in the head. The Soul Venerable was already in a rush of blood from the punch, and before he could react, he was kicked in the head. The Soul Venerable fell to the ground and fell into a coma.

After taking the shield, Ye Nanxiao turned around and swung it forcefully, hitting a Soul Master who was trying to sneak up on him from behind while holding two short sticks.

"You little rascal, you've got guts!" The Soul Master with the Iron Bucket Martial Soul closest to Ye Nanxiao grabbed his Martial Soul and slammed it onto Ye Nanxiao.

"Hey buddy, buckets aren't for hitting people, they're for learning geometry!" Ye Nanxiao turned around to dodge and kicked the man's wrist.

The Soul Master of the Iron Bucket Martial Soul felt pain and released his grip on the iron bucket.

Taking advantage of the iron bucket, Ye Nanxiao leaped into the air, his blood-red soul ring appearing on his body, and huge ice pillars rapidly condensing behind him.

"Blood, blood-red soul rings, this kid is not human!" Soul Master Iron Bucket exclaimed, stunning all the Soul Masters who were besieging Ye Nanxiao.

"Happy holidays everyone." Ye Nanxiao smiled broadly, and his soul skill erupted behind him.

The Snow Empress intervened to help Ye Nanxiao unleash his soul skill, boosting its power by several levels, but also depleting two-thirds of Ye Nanxiao's soul power.

Like a flock of birds taking flight, a dense swarm of ice cones fell, leaving the group of Soul Venerables with only Ye Nanxiao's last words in their minds before their vision was plunged into darkness.

Ye Nanxiao landed face-first on the snowdrift, his little head struggling to peek out of the snow, spitting out a mouthful of snow he'd swallowed, and cursing, "Such a cool scene and I just collapsed on the ground?"

After climbing out of the snow pit, Ye Nanxiao assessed the situation of the group of Soul Masters. They were all already injured, and were further shocked by the blood-red soul ring on Ye Nanxiao's body. No one was able to withstand Ye Nanxiao's full-force soul skill in a defensive posture, so naturally, no one survived.

"Where's Lao Bai?" Ye Nanxiao quickly searched for traces of the Snow Wolf King.

"Damn it!" The Soul Master of the Roaring Rat Martial Soul dodged the Snow Wolf King's claws in a sorry state. He saw his subordinates being wiped out from afar and spat out a mouthful of blood in anger.

"I never imagined that after all my scheming and plotting to kill two Soul Saints and a large force, and finally capturing the Azure Mirror Spirit Beast, I would be able to sell it for a good price and retire from this life of crime. But alas, I have encountered a humanoid beast. Heaven is against me!" The Roaring Rat Soul Sect tore open his clothes, revealing his scarred body.

"That's because you were unlucky. You ran into me while you were keeping the spoils." Ye Nanxiao jumped to the side of the Snow Wolf King.

"Old Bai, use Frost Breath! Spray it on him!" Ye Nanxiao pointed at the Roaring Rat Soul Sect and gave the command to the Snow Wolf King.

The Snow Wolf King howled and lay down on the snow, covering its head with its two large paws.

"I forgot you don't have this skill," Ye Nanxiao sighed.

"You brat, prepare to die!" The Roaring Rat Soul Sect placed its claws between its mouths, emitting a visible sonic spike.

"Stop dawdling!" Xue Di appeared beside Ye Nanxiao and waved her hand to disperse the sonic spikes.

"What? What kind of monster are you?!" The Roaring Rat Soul Sect reacted quickly, pulling out several small spheres from its waist, which exploded on the ground in a cloud of smoke. It then turned and fled at its fastest speed ever, abandoning even the cage containing the Azure Mirror Spirit Beast.

"Don't dawdle!" Xue Di stretched out her hand and pointed in the direction where the Roaring Sound Rat Soul Sect had fled. A blue soul force mixed with snowflakes caught up with the Roaring Sound Rat Soul Sect and swept it into the air to kill it.

The soft, cotton-candy-like snowflakes transformed into sharp blades, ending the life of the Roaring Sound Rat Soul Sect in an instant.

"Time to collect the boxes!" Ye Nanxiao happily cleaned up the battlefield.

Ye Nanxiao first picked up the cage containing the Azure Mirror Spirit Beast. The little guy looked a bit like a cat, with three small squeals on its head and two big eyes looking at Ye Nanxiao.

Ye Nanxiao opened the cage, grabbed the Azure Mirror Spirit Beast, and threw it onto the Snow Wolf King's back.

"Deliver the package, Old Bai." After instructing the Snow Wolf King, Ye Nanxiao headed towards the battlefield.

Upon seeing the gruesome state of the corpse, Ye Nanxiao immediately covered his mouth and ran to the side to vomit. After vomiting, he bent down, picked up a piece of clean snow to wipe his mouth, and continued licking the bag.

"Ugh!" Ye Nanxiao lost count of how many times he had vomited. He excitedly pulled out a storage bracelet, which he had found on the Soul Master. The other Soul Venerables basically only carried dry rations.

Ye Nanxiao happily licked the box and obtained a low-level bracelet-shaped storage soul tool, which only had a volume of about ten cubic meters, but was almost entirely filled with gold soul coins. Ye Nanxiao rolled around on the small mountain of gold soul coins for a long time, until Xue Di couldn't stand it anymore and woke Ye Nanxiao up to prevent him from embarrassing himself.

Ye Nanxiao finally found some high-end-looking clothes in the Soul Guidance Bracelet, but then he discovered a problem.

"Um, these clothes are all so big." Ye Nanxiao stared thoughtfully at the men's clothing in his hands. A man should never admit he's small!

Dividing line

After receiving the supplies and preparing for three days, Ye Nanxiao stood on the outskirts of the far north, breathing in the cold air, and took a big bite of the frozen jerky in his hand.

"This stuff isn't as good as the Geldono that Lao Bai caught. Isn't grilled rabbit head better?" Ye Nanxiao finished eating the jerky and grabbed a handful of snow to wipe his hands.

"I hope that when I come back, Old Bai won't have been killed and used as a spirit ring."

Ye Nanxiao glanced back at the far north behind him and said, "Snow Empress, we're leaving." He greeted the Snow Empress, but she did not respond.

Ye Nanxiao continued walking towards the outermost edge of the far north. After all, it was the Snow Emperor's home, and leaving the Snow Emperor like this would inevitably make him feel sad.

Ignoring the fierce blizzard, Ye Nanxiao walked rhythmically on the snow. Each time Ye Nanxiao stepped on the snow, there would only be a shallow, almost invisible footprint. This was a method Ye Nanxiao had devised to train his soul power control: attaching soul power to his feet and bursting forth to cover up the footprints.

After traveling for a day, Ye Nanxiao sat cross-legged and cultivated in a sheltered snow valley. A few days ago, when the Snow Emperor was combing through Ye Nanxiao's body, he finally saw something from Ye Nanxiao's world.

Ye Nanxiao's consciousness sank into the sea of ​​spirit. The Snow Emperor was standing on a snow mountain in the sea of ​​spirit and beckoned to Ye Nanxiao. Ye Nanxiao floated over and saw a blood-red ball of light floating at the bottom of the snow mountain. Its appearance did not reveal what was inside.

Ye Nanxiao moved closer to take a look. The ball of light seemed to sense Ye Nanxiao's approach and did not resist. Instead, it emitted a beam of light. The faint light passed through the Snow Emperor's seal and connected to Ye Nanxiao, making Ye Nanxiao feel the intimacy of being connected by blood.

Seeing Ye Nanxiao resonate with the ball of light, Xue Di asked, "I vaguely sense that this thing is you."

"This is part of me? Could it be part of the big gift package?" Ye Nanxiao said.

As he spoke, Ye Nanxiao's face was full of excitement. He already had two Golden Legends, could he possibly get another one?

"Xiao'er, this orb of light is hidden within your other half of your bloodline. I only found it after I had sorted through the power within you. See if you can open it," said the Snow Empress.

The Snow Empress released the seal, allowing Ye Nanxiao to approach the sphere of light.

Upon hearing this, Ye Nanxiao slowly approached and placed his hand on the ball of light.

When Ye Nanxiao's hand touched the ball of light, it began to ripple, then slowly dimmed and finally disappeared, leaving only a golden scroll in Ye Nanxiao's hand.

"It's gold! It's gold! It's gold!" Ye Nanxiao shouted excitedly.

Ye Nanxiao unrolled the scroll and squeezed it slightly with his fingers. He couldn't tell what material it was made of. The words on it were strange, but Ye Nanxiao knew what they meant. They were demonic characters from Qingqiu, a bloodline contract. The content meant that a blood contract could be signed between a demon and a person they recognized. Once signed, if one party betrayed the other, both parties would suffer the backlash of the blood contract.

Ye Nanxiao stared at the blood pact in his hand in astonishment. After a long while, he sighed and said, "Has my master really turned into a fox demon? And can he even find a master?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the scroll in his hand emitted a bright light, which quickly turned into specks of golden-red light and entered Ye Nanxiao's body.

When the golden light entered Ye Nanxiao's body, Ye Nanxiao felt an unusual heat throughout his body, especially his heart, which was pounding violently.

The sudden heat was unbearable for Ye Nanxiao, and his consciousness was about to withdraw from the sea of ​​his mind.

Outside, pale blue light emanated from all parts of Ye Nanxiao's body, enveloping him in a sphere of light. Once formed, the sphere began to change color, gradually matching the color of the surrounding snow.

The ball of light pulsated slightly in sync with Ye Nanxiao's breathing, barely noticeable in the vast snowfield.

"The power in all parts of his body is being filtered, leaving behind very pure soul power. Has his bloodline awakened?" Xue Di sensed the changes in Ye Nanxiao's body and quietly waited for the process to end.

The ball of light lasted for a long time before disappearing. Ye Nanxiao felt that the other half of his bloodline had been activated, and his blood flowed. The comfortable feeling made Ye Nanxiao subconsciously stretch his back.

However, the sensations coming from various parts of his body made Ye Nanxiao feel somewhat uncomfortable, especially his hands. He looked at his hands in front of his eyes.

(End of this chapter)