A new plan?
Hu Liena was confused. She didn't know what Yin Zhang was planning, but she still followed closely behind him.
After they left Nuoding Academy, Yin Zhang finally spoke.
"I've made a new discovery. One of the two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts that transformed into humans is a Scarlet Flame Roaring Tiger Emperor. It's that eight-year-old boy with short crimson hair. You should've noticed him just now."
Hu Liena nodded lightly. "Yes. He looks like an ordinary eight-year-old genius. If we didn't already know the truth, we probably wouldn't suspect anything."
"Besides," she continued, "a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast that transforms into a human must retain its original spirit form. That child's Spirit can only be the Scarlet Flame Roaring Tiger Emperor."
Yin Zhang nodded and went on.
"I won't hide it from you anymore, Nana. I possess a treasure that can detect whether there are any hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts within a hundred-mile radius. That's why I could be certain there were two such transformed Spirit Beasts inside Nuoding Academy."
"After all, true hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts have enormous bodies. If they appeared in the academy in their original forms, it would cause a massive disturbance. Since nothing like that happened, they could only be Spirit Beasts that had taken human form."
Yin Zhang continued calmly,
"The reason I changed my plan just now is because I learned that in a Spirit Beast forest only a thousand meters away from Nuoding Academy, there is an eighty-thousand-year Crimson Flame Roaring Tiger."
Hu Liena's eyes widened slightly.
"That's right," Yin Zhang said. "It's the son of that Scarlet Flame Roaring Tiger Emperor. When the emperor first transformed into human form, it fled Hurricane Forest together with this eighty-thousand-year Crimson Flame Roaring Tiger."
"You've probably heard of Hurricane Forest," he added. "It was the one Spirit Hall previously surrounded and suppressed. That was around the time of the Elite Tournament. Because of your teacher, you were confined in Spirit Hall back then, but you should have heard about it afterward."
Hu Liena nodded. Now she understood why the name sounded familiar.
"In that case," Yin Zhang said with a smile, "there's no need to wait any longer. Nana, I'll take you there. You'll act as my Protector."
Hu Liena smiled brightly. "Mm! Don't worry, Brother Zhang. Acting as a Protector is easy for me."
In truth, if anyone really needed protection, it wouldn't be Yin Zhang. Hu Liena was only a Spirit Elder, after all.
Once Yin Zhang killed an eighty-thousand-year Crimson Flame Roaring Tiger, no other Spirit Beasts would dare approach that territory for quite some time. Even in the Star Dou Great Forest, an eighty-thousand-year Spirit Beast was among the strongest existence beneath the hundred-thousand-year level.
In a small forest like this one, thousand-year Spirit Beasts were already rare—ten-thousand-year ones were almost unheard of.
Yin Zhang summoned his Spirit, Charizard, to possess him. With a powerful flap of the broad wings on his back, he rose into the air.
Holding Hu Liena, he flew straight toward the Spirit Beast forest outside the city.
"We're here," Yin Zhang said. "That Crimson Flame Roaring Tiger is right below us. Let's go down."
He aimed at the location and dove.
Hu Liena let out a joyful cry, her face full of excitement. Every time Yin Zhang carried her into the sky and descended like this, she found it thrilling.
Although she herself had gained a flight Spirit Ability from absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone, she still preferred being held by Yin Zhang and flying together with him.
As time passed, they would eventually have to return to Spirit Hall.
And when they did, Yin Zhang would be with Qiangu Yunying.
Hu Liena also knew that her teacher would likely restrict her from contacting Yin Zhang.
But she had already made up her mind.
Even if her teacher opposed it, she would resist.
What Hu Liena didn't know was that after this return, it wouldn't be long before Bibi Dong would no longer be the Supreme Pontiff.
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At this moment, Scarlet Tiger—the eighty-thousand-year Crimson Flame Roaring Tiger—was resting with its eyes closed inside a massive valley.
In this small forest, it could enjoy being the undisputed king, but the novelty had long since worn off. If not for its father, it would have already gone to another Spirit Beast forest.
Yin Zhang and Hu Liena stopped on the cliff wall.
Yin Zhang withdrew his Spirit and looked down at the enormous Crimson Flame Roaring Tiger, whose body resembled a small mountain. A sense of familiarity rose within him.
In his memory, the three-thousand-year Crimson Flame Roaring Tiger he once killed—only slightly larger than an ordinary tiger—seemed to overlap with the one below.
"Nana," Yin Zhang said calmly, "you retreat first. You can fly. Watch from above. If anything goes wrong, retreat immediately. Don't get caught in the battle between me and it, understand?"
An eighty-thousand-year Crimson Flame Roaring Tiger was powerful enough to serve as a ninth spirit ring for many Titled Douluo who couldn't find a ninety-thousand-year Spirit Beast.
Its strength was not something to underestimate.
Yin Zhang smiled faintly.
He decided to give this big fellow a simple greeting.
He summoned his Spirit to possess him once more and flew directly above Scarlet Tiger.
"Third Spirit Ability—Crimson Flame Roar!"
One flaming tiger head after another descended from the sky, accompanied by earth-shaking roars.
For an instant, the sky above the valley was dyed crimson, as if the world itself were burning.
By the time Scarlet Tiger reacted, it was already too late.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
One Crimson Flame Roar after another slammed violently into its head, producing heavy, deafening impacts.
Scarlet Tiger was furious.
It didn't bother wondering why Yin Zhang had appeared, nor why he dared to attack so confidently.
"ROAR—!!!"
Scarlet Tiger leaped up, its enormous paw swiping straight toward Yin Zhang.
Yin Zhang laughed loudly, unafraid.
"It's rare to meet one with such a powerful body. I won't kill you right away."
"Bloodline Spirit Ability—Dragon God Transformation!"
In Scarlet Tiger's horrified gaze, Yin Zhang's body rapidly expanded.
In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a gigantic crimson dragon.
"ROAR!!"
"Die!"
Yin Zhang roared as his massive dragon claw—larger than a roof, joints clearly defined—collided head-on with Scarlet Tiger's paw.
BOOM!
Scarlet Tiger was suppressed instantly.
The overwhelming power from Yin Zhang's dragon wings—now more than ten times larger—crashed down, forcibly pressing Scarlet Tiger back toward the ground.
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