34: A divine arrow, and he's on the verge of death!

"This..."

A trace of hesitation flashed through Su Ling's eyes.

He could guess that Yun Qingluan definitely had other trump cards she hadn't used yet.

But that was a third-tier Core Formation Yao Beast.

If things continued like this, Yun Qingluan would most likely survive.

But with the slightest slip-up, he himself would perish, his Dao reaching its end.

Rather than that, it was better to expose a thing or two.

Having made up his mind, Su Ling immediately withdrew his golden bone sword and flew back about ten zhang.

Under Yun Qingluan's puzzled gaze, he took the Low Grade white bone bow out of his Storage Pouch and slowly pulled back the bowstring.

Su Ling said solemnly in an unquestionable tone, "Senior Sister, I need you to perform the Soul Capturing Art to help me pin it down!"

Previously, Yun Qingluan had used the Soul Capturing Art with her Early Foundation Establishment Stage strength to pull out the soul of the Peak second-tier Crystal Cave Demon Spider.

Although it looked extremely strenuous, she had indeed accomplished it.

She must have cultivated the Xuanming Sect's direct lineage technique, the Profound Nether Soul Refining Treasure Canon.

Otherwise, it couldn't possibly be so powerful.

Facing an Early Third-tier demon tiger, even if she couldn't pull out its soul, she could at least trap it for three breaths.

Three breaths of time was enough for Su Ling to accumulate the power of the Ghost Soul Arrow to its maximum.

"Alright."

Yun Qingluan looked surprised, but she followed his command as if possessed.

Ignoring the three-edged thorn that had been swatted away, she changed her hand seal and began to perform the Soul Capturing Art.

The Netherworld Ghost Hand, surrounded by black mist, reappeared and made a grasping motion toward the third-tier demon tiger from a distance.

The demon tiger's movements instantly became sluggish, and a phantom soul image, struggling madly, slowly emerged from its body.

Su Ling took a deep breath, circulating his entire body's magic power and Divine Soul.

An arrow radiating a ghostly light rapidly coalesced.

Points of ghostly light appeared out of thin air within a hundred zhang radius, as the power of countless Wandering Souls gathered toward the arrow's body.

What Su Ling and Yun Qingluan didn't expect was that the souls madly attacking the demon tiger were actually affected by the Ghost Soul Arrow as well.

Amidst a chorus of shrill wails, wisps of black mist containing soul power continuously dissipated.

They all flew toward the Ghost Soul Arrow on the white bone bow's string.

As a result, dozens of souls that were only at the Qi Refinement Stage or Early Foundation Establishment Stage actually vanished completely.

The Core Formation stage main soul and the other stronger souls let out shrill screams filled with fear, and actually defied Yun Qingluan's will, turning together to flee back into the beast soul banner.

It was as if that Ghost Soul Arrow was even more terrifying than suffering Soul Refining for betraying their Revered Master!

Seeing this scene, Yun Qingluan couldn't help but be astonished, and the Netherworld Ghost Hand gripping the demon tiger's soul almost slipped away.

Su Ling's face rapidly turned pale, and his forehead was covered in beads of sweat.

Facing the Early Third-tier demon tiger, he had already burned his bridges.

Soul power comparable to the Late Foundation Establishment Stage was poured into it without reservation.

After three breaths, an extremely terrifying amount of Wandering Soul power had accumulated on the Ghost Soul Arrow.

The Low Grade white bone bow made a slight cracking sound, as if it would explode from being overburdened in the next moment.

"Roar!"

The demon tiger seemed to sense a fatal threat, and its soul, which was only three inches out of its body, struggled madly.

In less than a breath's time, it actually broke free from the restraint of the Netherworld Ghost Hand and regained control of its body.

In the next moment, its blood-red maw spat out a wind cannon, blasting the human puppet right in the face.

Hit by this strike, the human puppet could no longer hold on, and was sent flying as flesh and blood splattered.

The demon tiger turned around and pounced toward Su Ling, who was dozens of zhang away.

"Pfft!"

The Soul Capturing Art was broken, and Yun Qingluan once again suffered a magical backlash.

Her face instantly turned deathly pale, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.

But she didn't have time to care about her own injuries and blurted out, "Watch out!"

Facing the pouncing third-tier demon tiger, life and death hung by a single thread.

Yet Su Ling seemed to fall into a state of selflessness, a trace of indifference in his crazed eyes.

His fingers loosened slightly, and the bowstring snapped back.

"Swoosh!"

The white bone bow shattered upon the sound.

The Ghost Soul Arrow, carrying the shrill howls of Wandering Souls, turned into a ghostly light and went straight into the brow of the mid-air demon tiger.

"Boom!"

In the next moment, the third-tier demon tiger slammed into the crocodile scale armor like a giant log.

Su Ling's figure flew backward dozens of zhang, snapping a dozen towering trees in succession until he crashed heavily into a giant rock and stopped.

Immediately, a mouthful of blood sprayed out, his head tilted to the side, and his life or death was unknown.

As for that third-tier demon tiger, after sliding a dozen zhang on the ground, it never moved again.

"Su Ling!"

Seeing this scene, Yun Qingluan cried out in alarm and stood frozen in place.

How... how is this possible?!

He actually killed a third-tier Core Formation demon tiger with a single arrow?!

What kind of Spell was that arrow radiating ghostly light?!

A series of questions instantly surfaced in Yun Qingluan's mind.

She had originally planned that if Su Ling's Spell didn't work, she would force out her Revered Master's soul imprint to resolve the situation, even at the cost of being severely injured herself.

But Su Ling had given her such a shock.

Yes, a shock!

Killing a third-tier Core Formation Yao Beast with one arrow.

Even the Sect Head's personal disciple, Li Xinghe, who was at Peak Foundation Establishment, couldn't do that.

What's more, Su Ling was only at the Early Foundation Establishment Stage.

Before they left, her Revered Master Mo Jinghun's words surfaced in her mind once again.

This caused Yun Qingluan's level of regard for Su Ling to skyrocket.

As soon as this thought occurred, she realized that the other party's life or death was currently unknown!

With a cry of alarm, Yun Qingluan hurriedly flashed forward and pulled Su Ling up.

"Su Ling, Su Ling, wake up!"

As she patted his cheek, the cold touch gave Yun Qingluan a bad feeling.

She hastily used her Divine Sense to carefully inspect Su Ling's entire body.

The result of the inspection gave her a fright.

At this moment, Su Ling's bones and tendons were shattered throughout his body, and his internal organs were ruptured.

Even more troublesome was that his soul power was nearly exhausted, like a candle about to go out.

It seemed as if he would run out of oil and the lamp would go dry in the next moment.

Yun Qingluan didn't have time to think and hurriedly pulled two bottles of Medicinal Pills from her storage bracelet.

Regardless of how precious these two bottles of pills were in the Underground World, she pried open Su Ling's tightly closed lips and poured all ten or so pills inside.

She then circulated her magic power to help him quickly dissolve the medicinal strength.

A quarter of an hour later, Yun Qingluan finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

Su Ling's internal organs, which were like tattered cloth, slowly healed, and his nearly withered soul also began to slowly grow stronger.

The dozen or so pills meant for Core Formation Cultivators to recover from injuries and restore their souls finally pulled Su Ling back from the brink of death... In a cave dozens of miles away from where they encountered the Early Third-tier demon tiger.

Su Ling leaned against a soft tiger skin, lying on a stone bed and quietly reading a book.

As an Early Third-tier, that tiger demon named Wind Roar Tiger was the overlord of the surrounding hundred miles.

The area around this cave was all its territory.

The residual aura meant that no other Yao Beasts existed within a dozen miles.

The two of them staying here was relatively safe.

"You're awake, have something to eat!"

After an unknown amount of time, Yun Qingluan walked in from outside, took out several freshly picked spirit fruits, and placed them before Su Ling.

Half a month ago, Su Ling killed the demon tiger with that earth-shattering arrow.

Although even without that arrow, Yun Qingluan, who had powerful trump cards, would not have been in mortal danger.

But it was undeniable that Su Ling had indeed helped her out of a predicament and saved her life-saving trump card.

Therefore, Yun Qingluan, who already placed great importance on Su Ling due to Mo Jinghun's instructions, had to acknowledge this favor.

Over the past half month, Su Ling's physical injuries had long since healed.

But the loss of soul power was truly too immense, to the point that he still couldn't control his body very well even now.

During this time, Yun Qingluan had been taking meticulous care of him without the slightest neglect.

"I'm not hungry, just a bit tired."

Su Ling shook his head; he indeed had no appetite for those spirit fruits.

After immortal cultivators promoted to Foundation Establishment, they could achieve complete fasting.

If not for being seriously injured this time, he would have almost no desire for food.